Hey Guys,
I am sure all of you would be busy with your mock tests, coaching classes and would be eagerly waiting for CAT to advertise.
Words like RC, CR, LR , Quant, VA would have become an essential part of your vocab now and the coaching institutes would be doing their best in making you all adept in these concepts.
Thus, I would not delve into the techniques of the above acronyms. What i want to bring forward is the use of these concepts in your Post - MBA classes.
Lets take a long Jump...
By June next year, most of you would be joining some of the top notch MBA institutes like IIMs and XLRI. You would be entering into the domain which would polish your intellectual abilities to the utmost to craft out a world class manager out of you.
The above process is not an easy one. You would be required to make the best use of the grey cells of your brains.
The process used by most of the B schools is that of pre reading and case studies.
There would be umpteen tasks in your plates at a moment and you would need to prioratize and implement them. Here comes the funda of speed and accuracy would you all would be concentrating upon in your prep.
Reading is the activity you all would be most involved in - be it case studies, pre reading, class discussion on a particular topic. Here comes the funda of RC , LR and CR.
Projects would be an imperative part of your course, wherein data analysis and interpretation is the key.
Thus, the point I want to stess upon is that the parameters which the B schools test upon in their enterance examinations is not arbitrarily decided , rather, it is a true reflection of what you would be undergoing when you come to the other side of the fence.
Thus, be motivated and understand the fundas clearly as they would be your tools when you join an MBA college.
Best of Luck for your preparations and may all of you land up in the B schools of your preferances....
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Topsy Turvy and Thankful
3:00 AM go to bed
8:30 AM get up for a 9 o clock class
try to find sleep inbetween classes...
No..my final year exams are not going on...this is the routine of a normal day in XLRI...
It has been approximately 2 months...have got used to this lifestyle..but as they say - it is in man's nature to crib.
Sometimes I tend to find the *oppurtunity cost* ( yes, you got it right..i have Economics in this term ;) )of this type of a lifestyle and tend to ask a question to myself "Why MBA???"
But the fact remains that doing MBA from a top notch college had been a long cherished dream for me..
Even though we are struggling with mid terms, project submissions and always short of sleep, yet i want enjoy every moment here. I am living my dream and there is no point in cribbing about trivial things ( like sleep , buhuhu )
Will continue with my experiences in XLRI later, let me catch with some sleep right now ;)
8:30 AM get up for a 9 o clock class
try to find sleep inbetween classes...
No..my final year exams are not going on...this is the routine of a normal day in XLRI...
It has been approximately 2 months...have got used to this lifestyle..but as they say - it is in man's nature to crib.
Sometimes I tend to find the *oppurtunity cost* ( yes, you got it right..i have Economics in this term ;) )of this type of a lifestyle and tend to ask a question to myself "Why MBA???"
But the fact remains that doing MBA from a top notch college had been a long cherished dream for me..
Even though we are struggling with mid terms, project submissions and always short of sleep, yet i want enjoy every moment here. I am living my dream and there is no point in cribbing about trivial things ( like sleep , buhuhu )
Will continue with my experiences in XLRI later, let me catch with some sleep right now ;)
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Tyrst with MBA
MBA - Masters in Business Administration - these are the few words which have haunted me since the past three years of my life.
The series of mock tests, mock interviews, their results, mugging vocab, solving timed test papers..blah blah blah....i am sure all the MBA aspirants would be able to understand these feelings. These sentences would follow me like the puppy in the Hutch ( now vodafone ) advertisement...whereever i go, my saga of MBA preparation follows ;)
A typical cribbing conversation in one complete cycle of form filling -> preparing -> final exams -> results -> interview >- final results would be :
Me: Yaar, this is the last time i am writting the CAT exam. if this time nothing happens, i will continue in my field ( whereas i knew that CAT form filling is going to be an endless festival for me which i would be celebrating each year, hehe)
Me again: You know, XYZ has got admission into ABC (choice of words is not coincidental!), i have been preparing for so long but nothing happens. It all about Luck and no hard work!
Me again: I hate this job, this year i am gonna prepare for GMAT, enough of CAT now. CAT doesn't deserve me ( innocent me ;) )
MEe again:I will apply for executive MBA now..what is the eligibility criteria for that?
There are umpteen sentences i remember which I used to share with my noble friends ( Thanks guys for that).
But now, the story has ended. Finally i got admission into one of the reputed colleges in India and i am joining on 13th June.
As they say, it is not the destination which matters, rather the journey. My tryst with this journey has ended....have learnt a lot from it and value what i have got more so because of this journey...
Have loads of stuff to write about it, but finally ending it with the crux of what i have learnt from this - "Yes, luck does matter...but it is nothing in comparision to the hard work and conviction you put in to reach where you want to be!"
The series of mock tests, mock interviews, their results, mugging vocab, solving timed test papers..blah blah blah....i am sure all the MBA aspirants would be able to understand these feelings. These sentences would follow me like the puppy in the Hutch ( now vodafone ) advertisement...whereever i go, my saga of MBA preparation follows ;)
A typical cribbing conversation in one complete cycle of form filling -> preparing -> final exams -> results -> interview >- final results would be :
Me: Yaar, this is the last time i am writting the CAT exam. if this time nothing happens, i will continue in my field ( whereas i knew that CAT form filling is going to be an endless festival for me which i would be celebrating each year, hehe)
Me again: You know, XYZ has got admission into ABC (choice of words is not coincidental!), i have been preparing for so long but nothing happens. It all about Luck and no hard work!
Me again: I hate this job, this year i am gonna prepare for GMAT, enough of CAT now. CAT doesn't deserve me ( innocent me ;) )
MEe again:I will apply for executive MBA now..what is the eligibility criteria for that?
There are umpteen sentences i remember which I used to share with my noble friends ( Thanks guys for that).
But now, the story has ended. Finally i got admission into one of the reputed colleges in India and i am joining on 13th June.
As they say, it is not the destination which matters, rather the journey. My tryst with this journey has ended....have learnt a lot from it and value what i have got more so because of this journey...
Have loads of stuff to write about it, but finally ending it with the crux of what i have learnt from this - "Yes, luck does matter...but it is nothing in comparision to the hard work and conviction you put in to reach where you want to be!"
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