General Knowledge and Current Affair are integral parts of entrance exams like XAT and TISSNET. There are hundreds of sources in different forms to gain knowledge about the world. Many of you might feel lost as to where to begin with and which source to rely on. So we have compiled a list of some of the reliable sources you can count on to prepare for GK section of your entrance exams -
There are some days which have the potential to turn our lives for the better or the worst. Upon one such day, I found myself sitting in a room along with several others waiting for the same purpose as mine - The VGSoM MBA Interview. We watched in silence as the screen in front of us displayed the room allotment for our interviews. While waiting for our turns, some of us got together and glanced once again through the WAT/PI kit, which was generously shared by the Admission Committee to help us prepare for the interview. We were, soon, called for the interview. I was greeted with a smile by the interview panel, and this somehow helped me calm down my nerves. The interview went on smoothly and was done in about half an hour. On the whole, the entire process was thoroughly streamlined and concluded without any hassle.
Getting to the point directly, a lot of aspirants keep asking why their marks aren’t increasing in Mocks even after they have covered the syllabus. Now check this graph.
If thousands of miles separate you and your spouse, life is not a bed of roses!
The DI LR section has always been playing the role of a second fiddle to the other two sections of CAT i.e. VA and QA, well at least in the test takers’ minds and subsequently their test-taking strategies. Till CAT 2014, one could actually confer lesser importance on the DI LR questions since they were split into half and stuffed into the then CAT’s 2 sections namely VA & LR and QA & DI. But times have changed.
General Engineer Male (GEM) with over 2 years of IT experience dreaming to get into one of the country’s finest b-schools is nothing short of a Herculean task. Below is the depiction of a GEM’s plight through this journey.
From last 2 years, the pattern of CAT has remained consistent. There are three sections QA, DILR, VARC; each one of them with 34, 32, 64 questions each. To do well in CAT, one needs to score consistently in all three section or to say minimum 90%ile in each section would be favourable for getting calls from Top IIMs.
I’ll lay down the objective of writing this piece right at the outset to save you the effort of going through all of it before you ascertain its utility for you. From the way I look at it, this piece should be quite useful to those grappling with bad grades in their undergraduate/postgraduate life and aiming to get an MBA degree sooner or later, fairly useful to those who look at CAT as something potentially exciting and worth acing, and probably just about worthwhile to those who are simply curious to know what another aspirant’s journey was like. The others too are, most welcome to read this even if not from a purely utilitarian perspective. That said, I’ll now proceed to narrate my story.
General Knowledge and Current Affair are integral parts of entrance exams like XAT and TISSNET. There are hundreds of sources in different forms to gain knowledge about the world. Many of you might feel lost as to where to begin with and which source to rely on. So we have compiled a list of some of the reliable sources you can count on to prepare for GK section of your entrance exams -
There are some days which have the potential to turn our lives for the better or the worst. Upon one such day, I found myself sitting in a room along with several others waiting for the same purpose as mine - The VGSoM MBA Interview. We watched in silence as the screen in front of us displayed the room allotment for our interviews. While waiting for our turns, some of us got together and glanced once again through the WAT/PI kit, which was generously shared by the Admission Committee to help us prepare for the interview. We were, soon, called for the interview. I was greeted with a smile by the interview panel, and this somehow helped me calm down my nerves. The interview went on smoothly and was done in about half an hour. On the whole, the entire process was thoroughly streamlined and concluded without any hassle.
Getting to the point directly, a lot of aspirants keep asking why their marks aren’t increasing in Mocks even after they have covered the syllabus. Now check this graph.
If thousands of miles separate you and your spouse, life is not a bed of roses!
The DI LR section has always been playing the role of a second fiddle to the other two sections of CAT i.e. VA and QA, well at least in the test takers’ minds and subsequently their test-taking strategies. Till CAT 2014, one could actually confer lesser importance on the DI LR questions since they were split into half and stuffed into the then CAT’s 2 sections namely VA & LR and QA & DI. But times have changed.
General Engineer Male (GEM) with over 2 years of IT experience dreaming to get into one of the country’s finest b-schools is nothing short of a Herculean task. Below is the depiction of a GEM’s plight through this journey.
From last 2 years, the pattern of CAT has remained consistent. There are three sections QA, DILR, VARC; each one of them with 34, 32, 64 questions each. To do well in CAT, one needs to score consistently in all three section or to say minimum 90%ile in each section would be favourable for getting calls from Top IIMs.
I’ll lay down the objective of writing this piece right at the outset to save you the effort of going through all of it before you ascertain its utility for you. From the way I look at it, this piece should be quite useful to those grappling with bad grades in their undergraduate/postgraduate life and aiming to get an MBA degree sooner or later, fairly useful to those who look at CAT as something potentially exciting and worth acing, and probably just about worthwhile to those who are simply curious to know what another aspirant’s journey was like. The others too are, most welcome to read this even if not from a purely utilitarian perspective. That said, I’ll now proceed to narrate my story.
