Aditya Birla Group Leadership Programs is a great initiative to groom individuals to be the future leaders of Aditya Group. They have created different programs for different groups and ages of people. Example, they have a leap program for the experienced people, group internship program and many other programs.
I'm a kid from a small town having big dreams. I was always bring in studies. Studying smart rather than studying hard was my Moto and it reflected in my 10th and 12th board scores (93 & 95). After cracking the common entrance tests, I got myself into one of the best colleges in the state to study mechanical engineering.
Engineering was a piece of cake. Semesters floated by effortlessly. All was fine until I passed my 6th semester, i was constantly asking myself the same question again and again, "what after engineering?". As much as I enjoyed studying engineering, I didn't see myself working in that field. I dreamt of something bigger. MBA was the only option I knew where I would do well. But I had to overcome the biggest hurdle of my life, the task of cracking CAT and other entrance exams.
I immediately signed up for a coaching classes and tried to make up for the lost time in preparing for the years exam.
Arrogance and ignorance got the better of me when I thought I could crack the exam without any effort at all. I didn't attend classes regularly, I missed my mocks, I didn't even care to open the books until the last month until the exam.
Obviously I was devastated after the results arrived. I had expected 95+ but fell into the 81 percentile bracket. I felt so broken that I didn't know where to restart my preparation. I had neither taken good interest in placements hence the only company I got was Accenture but like a fool I had rejected the offer.
After a lot of self introspection, I finally came to the conclusion that my attitude got the better of me. I promised myself to study hard and put efforts if I really wanted a good college to study. That's what I did, for a year, I sat at home and prepared constantly for upto 12hrs a day.
My second attempt at CAT was pretty good. I was confident in my performance.
It was D-Day finally. I got 91 in my second attempt. Although it was short of my goal, I was happy because I knew how much effort I had put to get there. It felt great.
I ended up getting NM-Bangalore and stuck to it as it was the best college I converted in the whole lot I applied to.
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