Everyone who has cleared an entrance exam knows the effort it takes to get past that huge stumbling block, the hours of preparation to cross the sectional cut-offs, the Mock entrances and finally the actual test, where we have to maintain a balance between several interests to do our best. It is no mean feat to get into one of the top b-schools in India, and why do we put this effort? The answer could be different for different people but the question is are we all on the same page once we cross the finish line.
Humans like to categorise people based on race, religion, and in case of a b-school based on your academic performance in life until now and the college, you come from. I live in a place where everyone is different, it is meant to be so, diversity makes you question your past learnings and compare it to the learnings of the people who are different from you. In my case the diversity came in the form of academic over-achievers, up until the point I came to a b-school I realised I had never came in close contact with this lot, always maintaining my distance until then, but in a b-school I was surrounded by them, while some had topped the board, some were rank-holders throughout their lives, I missed the lightness of being amongst friends who didn’t care, but it was exciting to meet these new people. Soon I realised that there were two kinds of people, the ones who believed they landed in a b-school by some stroke of luck (Me) and the ones who felt they were born to be here. Soon we were bombarded with assignments and quizzes and the latter lot thrived in it while the former group was in various stages of Shock, fear and disinterest.
The term C.Q.P.I in a b-school can be considered similar to wealth in the real world, and a few friends and I were close to touching the Poverty line. A few companies which come to hire follow the Rich get richer principle (Read Consult). So I rejected consulting companies before they could reject me.
So do those who are not academic overachievers fail to stand a good chance in the recruitment process?, the answer to that is NO, while it is true that the Major consulting companies do prefer people with strong academic achievements (This is viewed as a dip-stick test to consistency) most of the companies thankfully look at the overall profile, so I think my interest in writing and sports saved me, they were my talking points in several interviews.
So why the emphasis on past academics in b-school recruitments by a few companies, and for selection of candidates by b-schools for that matter, it all follows a circle, whether it is virtuous or viscous is for us to interpret, it helps in categorisation of people it transforms the unknown to known, if I had to place my bets on a horse I would look at its past performance, same is the case with b-schools, everyone is looking for the priced winning horse and they want to eliminate as much ambiguity as possible, academic performance is one such ambiguity eliminator. So what do you do if your past academic performance is poor and want to start afresh? Sadly, the Indian MBA education system doesn’t have an answer yet.
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Palash Shinde
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What if the student perform very well in b-school, does it make any difference?
9 Nov 2017, 06.00 PM
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Nitya Muralidharan
Nitya Muralidharan is a Second year student at XLRI Jamshedpur, she is passionate about writing , marketing and new ideas.
Yes, it sure does, but again there are some companies who wish to look at past academics as a filtering criteria. Along with improving academic scores, one way to overcome poor academic performance in the past is to gain valuable P.O.Rs on campus. This can help shift the focus for the recruiter
11 Nov 2017, 03.26 PM |
Mark Mridul Tirkey Jaiswal
What is P.O.R?
28 Jan 2018, 09.15 PM |
akash shukla
Can you please tell your 10th and 12 percentage and graduation percentage
12 Nov 2017, 08.32 PM
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Nitya Muralidharan
Nitya Muralidharan is a Second year student at XLRI Jamshedpur, she is passionate about writing , marketing and new ideas.
10th-89.6 ( S.S.C-Andhra Pradesh) 12th-96.3 ( A.P. Board) Graduation-83.1% ( Osmania University )
14 Nov 2017, 07.42 PM |
akash shukla
Thanks for replying in the general process of
14 Nov 2017, 09.34 PM |
akash shukla
In the general process of selection in IIMs they allocated each 10 ,12 and graduation 10 marks each so you would have got 26 marks in that I just wanted to know the rest 60 marks they assign for cat percentile in that how do they give marks like 100 percentiler would surely get 60 and what would 99.50 percentiler get in 60 do you get to know that or not?
14 Nov 2017, 09.38 PM |