What If You Don't Get Your Dream B-School?
"Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead." - Jim Valvano
"Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead." - Jim Valvano
It is that time of the year again. Laden with late-night coffee and armed with a mountain-load of study material, aspiring students everywhere are preparing for SNAP 2018. Being a gateway to various MBA programmes offered by Symbiosis International University (SIU), SNAP is an exam which gives importance to time-management and quick-thinking skills. In a bid to offer guidance regarding the gruelling exam, the toppers of SNAP 2017 from SIBM Bengaluru have put forth their insights.
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood..." - Robert Frost
The Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) is a pioneering institution that trains graduates to become rural managers with a deep understanding of society and empathy for mankind. Established in 1979 by Dr. Verghese Kurien, who was popularly known as the Milkman of India, it focuses on imparting quality education to students through its flagship Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management (PGDRM).
Have you appeared for CAT this year? What percentile will you fetch? Is this your first attempt? Have you analyzed your score?
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) conducted the Admission Test 2019-2021 for admission into its two-year program in International Business, on Sunday, December 02, 2018. The test was conducted across various centers in the country between 10 am and 12 noon. Differential marking continued to be there and the penalty for every incorrect answer was 1/3rd of the total marks assigned to the question. The terror of the ‘traumatic’ IIFT continued for the second consecutive year. In fact, the paper this year managed to become even more difficult than that of last year. The paper was excruciatingly lengthy and some of the questions were agonizingly tricky. Reading Comprehension became extremely tedious and the number of passages increased from 4 to 5. Overall, the entire paper became difficult. Hence, the overall difficulty level of the paper went a few notches higher. The total number of questions continued to be 114.
Joining an MBA is only a step towards your dream career. What we may not give as much thought to is what to choose within and after an MBA. While most reports in the media or society see an MBA as an end goal, students know that it is just a start. We have to make 2 major choices. Firstly, we choose which stream of MBA to specialise in. My college does not have any streams to choose from. But most do. These include marketing, HR, operations, finance etc. Let’s first address how to figure this out:
Born and bought up in West Delhi, Parth brings on a serene demeanor to the table. He graduated as a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering in the year 2016 from Delhi Technological University (erstwhile Delhi College of Engineering). He also worked as an Associate with Axtria India Pvt. Ltd. in the field of data analytics for one of the top 20 U.S. based pharmaceutical clients in Incentive Compensation domain.