Some lessons for your CAT Preparation can come from your experiences in other areas – areas that are be far removed from CAT coaching! This happens because generally there is a pattern to how we behave in certain situations, and this pattern can give us useful clues to deal with similar situations in the context...Read More

Some stories stay fresh in our minds long after they take place. And this is a turnaround story as remarkable as any can be – hence, the stickiness 🙂 This is the story of Sahib Kaur – a DU girl, who was a superb communicator and also someone who was very anxious about her CAT prep....Read More

Imagine this: You are a B.Com. graduate from DU(SOL) aiming to undertake the arduous CAT prep journey. You then did your fashion designing from Pearl Academy. You’ve been working for a while and are out of touch with academics. You do not have exceptional academics. Your initial SWOT shows QA as a major weakness. What...Read More

I tend to relate a lot of cricketing stuff with CAT Prep. Tendulkar was really good when he was just 14 years of age. He was smashing school records and dominating the best bowlers in the Mumbai circuit. He wasn’t a novice when he played against a formidable Pakistan pace bowling attack as a 16-year old...Read More

Any Top B-School/IIM personal interview panel normally interviews 10-12 Candidates in a single day, one after the other. Most answers from most aspirants to usual questions like “Tell us something about yourself”, “Why do you want to pursue MBA” and so on are safe, uninteresting and sound similar to each other. This becomes even more...Read More

One of the major drag-downs on success in any field, including CAT preparation, is the tendency to take a lot of pressure. For most of us ordinary mortals, pressure has a negative impact on performance. It takes away a lot of energy, it can cause a brain-freeze at crucial times, and it doesn’t help us improve....Read More

Preparation for a Top B-School/IIM Personal Interview is a little different from the prep for CAT. At times you might find yourself getting slightly different inputs from different mentors about the same question. So, Aman sir or Dhruba sir for example may have a slightly different view from what Rajat sir or I may think...Read More

My IIM Bangalore personal interview was a breeze. It was as if I had scripted it. A friendly panel, questions from my comfort areas, a very positive and pleasant interaction. I wasn’t surprised when IIM B made me the final selection offer a few weeks later. My IIM Calcutta personal interview was a completely different...Read More

A personal Interview is, first and foremost, an interaction. When you meet someone for the first time, your first takeaway is an impression from that interaction. The impression is usually qualitative – good, bad or umm.. unremarkable. Unlike the first stage of the selection process, wherein your CAT preparation results in some tangible numbers and percentiles as an objective...Read More

Not all CAT coaching success stories are struggles – some are relatively straightforward with just an occasional twist. But am sharing this one because it contrasts with the previous story of Hitanksha. She was a Journalism student of the Delhi University. And for her, it was the reunion with Quant after a long gap that presented a challenge....Read More