Every year, over 2 lakh candidates write exams and nearly 20 thousand students get called for the coveted interviews, all hoping to be to capture one of the 4500 seats IIMs have to offer. Many give their best to bell the CAT but that's only the beginning of the race. What follows is preparing for a crisply written Written Ability Test (WAT) and the challenging interview which every candidate needs to ace.
Exide launched its first edition of the Innovation Challenge in September 2017. Exide is a key player in the battery market and is a regular recruiter from top b-schools in India. The aim of the competition was to give 2nd-year students of a top b-school a platform to apply their knowledge to come up with solutions for live business problems of Exide. I had paired up with 3 others from my class, namely Ratnakar Patra, Mukul Jha and Tiwary Sudhanshu Ranjan to take part in this competition. With the first submission due the night before summer placements at IIM Lucknow in October, we were a little strapped for time. The question at hand was to design a 5-year business plan for Exide. However, we submitted the solution in the stipulated time to the best of our abilities.
Merry Christmas, here comes the festival of candles, cakes, gifts, and joy-giving of immense happiness and hopes.
Statutory Warning: This article is meant to inspire you to undertake the student exchange from your b-school. All experiences narrated in the article will be over the top and mind-boggling. At times exaggeration will be used as a tool to entice your imagination and make you swoon!
Even while graduating from one of India's top b-schools, IIFT, Gautham Sethuraman pursued his deep-rooted dream of becoming an entrepreneur by rolling out Knappily, a knowledge-based App in Jan, 2016.
Do you believe that the choices you make determine how you feel? Would you agree if I say that the satisfaction we derive from the things we own reduces as the number of options continues to grow?
Once the Common Admission Test (CAT) scores are out, the final race to secure a place in the premier MBA institutions begins.
Waiting for something becomes a whole lot easier if we know how long we must wait. But if the wait is not determined with a deadline, it becomes mind-boggling! We end up spending sleepless nights, biting off nails and what not. But here is how you can keep yourselves occupied in a productive way. Below is a list of things that I wish that I had done to utilize my time better, both before waiting for CAT/XAT etc. score and my final conversion results.
