This is an open letter from an MBA student to a CAT aspirant. This isn’t a letter to an unknown person. But the words a senior friend of mine passed onto me and which I am passing down to you all.
One of the major questions MBA aspirants have is how to prepare for CAT. Many go to coaching institutions but are still not able to crack the exam with good percentile, while some people do manage to get into top IIMs in the very first attempt with self-study, like me ;)
What does it mean to you to know that there's one last month left to take an MBA entrance exam that is occupying a fair part of your mind space for quite a while now? I know that the countdown brought me anxiety and focus in equal measure. But let's face it, we all prepare for CAT quite differently, some of us started later and some of us just want to get a feel of the exam so we seriously re-attempt CAT the following year. My point is, don't let the ticking clock lessen your motivation to finish what you started well. To be very honest, when I was preparing for CAT 16, I used to avoid reading stories about the number of days left to write CAT because those articles used to be by people who had reached heights I didn't dream of or the fact that they set the bar high in terms of the things to do (I was a BBA student back then). So I did what felt right to me to stay motivated to see this to its end and I've listed some of these down.
The first step towards FMS was cracking the dreaded CAT examination. Here's my journey of scoring 99.47 percentile (OA)
“If You Are Working On Something That You Really Care About, You Don’t Have To Be Pushed. The Vision Pulls You” - STEVE JOBS
Life sometimes takes us through a roller coaster ride. Sometimes we are dancing above the seventh cloud, and sometimes we are buried down a ten feet thick layer of concrete. Today, I’m going to tell you such a story which entails such a dramatic shift of fortune again and again. My goal for writing this article is to make aware many Civill Services candidates who are in a dilemma about how to proceed ahead after unsuccessful attempts in Civil Services Examination (CSE).
April 24 2019, 11:29 PM. My phone buzzed : FMS Converted!
XAT is an exam taken by all serious MBA aspirants. As soon as CAT is over, aspirants willing to get into XLRI Jamshedpur, XIMB, SPJIMR etc. set their eyes on XAT which takes place on 1st Sunday of January every year. XAT also gives the aspirant a chance to redeem oneself after doing silly mistakes in CAT. I was one of those aspirants and gave it all to XAT. What was the result? I ended up with 99+ in XAT along with 98+ in VARC and 99+ in Decision Making. Here are a few of my learnings from my XAT journey.
This is an open letter from an MBA student to a CAT aspirant. This isn’t a letter to an unknown person. But the words a senior friend of mine passed onto me and which I am passing down to you all.
One of the major questions MBA aspirants have is how to prepare for CAT. Many go to coaching institutions but are still not able to crack the exam with good percentile, while some people do manage to get into top IIMs in the very first attempt with self-study, like me ;)
What does it mean to you to know that there's one last month left to take an MBA entrance exam that is occupying a fair part of your mind space for quite a while now? I know that the countdown brought me anxiety and focus in equal measure. But let's face it, we all prepare for CAT quite differently, some of us started later and some of us just want to get a feel of the exam so we seriously re-attempt CAT the following year. My point is, don't let the ticking clock lessen your motivation to finish what you started well. To be very honest, when I was preparing for CAT 16, I used to avoid reading stories about the number of days left to write CAT because those articles used to be by people who had reached heights I didn't dream of or the fact that they set the bar high in terms of the things to do (I was a BBA student back then). So I did what felt right to me to stay motivated to see this to its end and I've listed some of these down.
The first step towards FMS was cracking the dreaded CAT examination. Here's my journey of scoring 99.47 percentile (OA)
“If You Are Working On Something That You Really Care About, You Don’t Have To Be Pushed. The Vision Pulls You” - STEVE JOBS
Life sometimes takes us through a roller coaster ride. Sometimes we are dancing above the seventh cloud, and sometimes we are buried down a ten feet thick layer of concrete. Today, I’m going to tell you such a story which entails such a dramatic shift of fortune again and again. My goal for writing this article is to make aware many Civill Services candidates who are in a dilemma about how to proceed ahead after unsuccessful attempts in Civil Services Examination (CSE).
April 24 2019, 11:29 PM. My phone buzzed : FMS Converted!
XAT is an exam taken by all serious MBA aspirants. As soon as CAT is over, aspirants willing to get into XLRI Jamshedpur, XIMB, SPJIMR etc. set their eyes on XAT which takes place on 1st Sunday of January every year. XAT also gives the aspirant a chance to redeem oneself after doing silly mistakes in CAT. I was one of those aspirants and gave it all to XAT. What was the result? I ended up with 99+ in XAT along with 98+ in VARC and 99+ in Decision Making. Here are a few of my learnings from my XAT journey.
