The X-Factors You Need To Have Before Joining The B-School Of Your Dreams

Karthik Balakrishna

I had an ambition to become a Doctor after my plus two. But could not come in Merit. I do not want to do medicine spending lacs of rupees in Management Quota. Hence joined Engineering to have a professional degree as every normal Indian does. Life was tough in PSG college of Technology in the early years as I could not concentrate on Engineering since I felt it was tough. Though I had arrears and so, I cleared all and now I have landed in 4th year of Engineering. I have one more year to go to complete it. These three years of study have made me a changed person in all perspectives. I have decided that I should do Civil Services to bring up my country. I feel that doing MBA in IIM before preparing civil services will still more broaden my prospective and hence planning to prepare for CAT

Thank you Ruchi. I am a 4th year engineering student planning to write CAT in 2019. Please advise me whether I have to be equipped with basics of finance to take Main as Finance in IIM. If so, please suggest some online courses

17 Aug 2017, 10.53 AM

Faraz Hussain

I am a tireless person.. industrious.invesment banking aspirant

First of all i will say that you have done a fantastic job to share your experience..what you felf after entering the b school you shared it..one think thst yiu shared that try to know where us your area of interest n that i realised last year.. that i required to ckear my concepts of finance if i want to make my career in investment banking particulsrly in equity reseach ..as there is an enthusiasm to do well n ameliorate my my self this field.. i want to the full exposure of finance . I want to equipped with the financial skills. So i am also looking forward to ckear nism certification. N yes there is a site which offers free online course swayam.gov.in like edx. Along with that i will learn ms excel .. but for now i require to focus on cat . Ee must study for mba not for just . N Yrah goubgvfirward to read book of iim ahmedabad professer satish. As i love finance n a endless passion padsion for this finance industry ..whaterver i real8sed its only because of finance i realused that i must read the book of financial market management of class 11 n 12.. as it was my stream a new stream which i took .. Thanjs for remembering best of luch n yeah are you going to specialised in finance ? What has been your experienced there at iim ?

18 Aug 2017, 02.17 PM

Prakash Ahir

Prakashkumar Ahir B.Tech Mechanical Engineering,Nirma University Work Experience : 3.5 years in R&D and Manufacturing MBA IIM Bangalore

Hi Ruchi, How to make sure that you are not in a rat race but you really want to do management?

18 Aug 2017, 06.24 PM

Atul Chaudhary

Revelatory blog...

19 Aug 2017, 12.34 AM

Kritika Tyagi

Nice one Ruchi. Hope you have done your bit to make your cv shine amongst the others. All the best for your summer placements and do keep writing such blogs. They are really helpful for aspirants like me.

19 Aug 2017, 08.23 AM

Aakash Mehta

Great article Ruchi. You have really captured the essence of what goes in the life of an MBA student in first few month. I am sure this article will help all the MBA aspirants to not fall in the trap of so called rat race and prepare themselves for all the hardship before they join any MBA college and can have a differentiating factor from the rest.

21 Aug 2017, 12.15 AM