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
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 |