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How To Prepare For CAT And XAT While Working - Aroon's Journey To XLRI Jamshedpur

How To Prepare For CAT And XAT While Working - Aroon's Journey To XLRI Jamshedpur

Is this your last attempt at CAT/XAT or other management exams? If yes, I was in a similar position a year ago. After having failed twice, convincingly, at all the management exams, I decided to make one last attempt. Surprisingly, in my first attempt at CAT in 2013, I scored a decent 96.2 percentile. I still don’t know how. I did not appear for the XAT in 2014 because I was sure I was going to fail miserably if I decided to take it. I was scared partly because of all the puffery around it as being the toughest management entrance exam.

Aroon Koshy
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Is It A Right Career Choice To Leave A PSU Bank Job And Go For MBA? - Sasikanth Akhilesh's Journey To DoMS IIT Roorkee

Is It A Right Career Choice To Leave A PSU Bank Job And Go For MBA? - Sasikanth Akhilesh's Journey To DoMS IIT Roorkee

It finally came down to doing a well-settled bank job against an MBA from the prestigious DoMS, IIT Roorkee. And that too during these turbulent times for the Indian market after GST and Demonetisation. However, MBA was a dream in the backburner and I felt it was the time I go for it after having worked for three and a half years in IT and Finance industries. I belong to a middle-class family. My father who worked as a Marketing Manager was the only breadwinner. He was my role-model and had inspired me for so long. The way he established himself in the corporate world while having a rural background had created an everlasting image in my mind and planted seeds for pursuing the MBA.

DoMS, IIT Roorkee
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How To Crack The CAT In 60 Days

How To Crack The CAT In 60 Days

The MBA entrance exam season is on the brink of getting started. A number of candidates will be fine-tuning their preparation right now, whilst there will be others who would be struggling to kick the inertia out of their systems and start their preparation. Those who fall in the latter group do not let the lazy voice within u tell you, “Be Practical, It’s Too Late”.  Run away from those who spread negativity. You may come across acquaintances who may say, “I’m preparing for last one year and it’s not working for me” or “These exams are really difficult to crack, it’s not our cup of tea”. Remember these are the people who don’t plan realistically or have laid-back attitude. The basic syllabus for these exams is roughly the same as Mathematics and English taught in the class VII-X. So, ideally, if your fundamentals are in place then it should take roughly 250 hours of preparation which means just 5 hours for 50 days or 3 hours for some 85 odd days i.e. max 3 months. But you need to be very focused in these 3 months and practice religiously. Also, you need not run after solving more and more questions but rather focus on solving different varieties of questions and remember the method used to solve these questions. There is a need to master the art of solving questions using shortcut techniques.

Jaimin Shah
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How To Ace The Reading Comprehension Section

How To Ace The Reading Comprehension Section

Reading comprehension (RC) is an important component of CAT. What is even more interesting is that it is the only part of the exam for which you don’t need to mug any formula, memorise any data or learn any rules. Everything is right in front of you and all you have to do is to extract the answers from the passage itself! Hence RC is a weapon that is a must-have in your arsenal for cracking CAT.

karan kakkar
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The Urban Legends Of MBA Preparation

The Urban Legends Of MBA Preparation

MBA. The three letters that instantly compel you to imagine a polished personality donning a classy suit, crunching numbers on a spreadsheet and taking strategic decisions. Although it might be a convincingly accurate picture of what MBA graduates usually end up doing, there are many myths around MBA and its preparation that are prevalent among the aspirants. I will try to debunk the three most common myths, and I hope that by the end of this article, you will have a holistic view of MBA and the right picture of the preparation for its entrance examinations.

Nikhil Nayak
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7 Steps To Get A Call From 7 Old IIMs For Working CAT Aspirants

7 Steps To Get A Call From 7 Old IIMs For Working CAT Aspirants

CAT is very difficult to handle with 9 to 6 job, but it has to be done. I started my CAT preparation after I completed 2 years at work and finally nailed it with 1.5 years of preparation. I have experienced how difficult it is to maintain work-life balance. Thus, preparing CAT along with work is next to impossible for many. It leads to two extreme steps. Either the aspirant leaves his job or he leaves his dream of an IIM tag.

NIKHIL KUMAR
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