CAT experiences of IIMA students - I received quite a good feedback for the interviews. CAT aspirants have now a guideline and benchmark to follow. I remember we were quite unsure about how many to attempt! Some of us screwed up CAT just because they had no idea how many is adequate and ended up trying for the impossible. Now you have a definite plan - just answer 60% questions in each section with above 90% accuracy! I know it not that simple as it sounds! But, if you can do it - be assured to get calls from all the IIMs (if the exam goes by the usual pattern and usual level of difficulties)!

Read more http://catiimatales.googlepages.com/index

Happy Diwali and Catiimatales is back!

This time CATIIMATALES is back with a bang! We'll be producing interviews and CAT experiences of atleast 20 candidates from last year who made into IIM-A. It'll be how many they answered and which sections they answered first - how many questions they attempted from each section.

These interviews will definitely help you to analyze and compare across successful candidates and finally come up with a strategy of your own - Never before you got such an opportunity!

Check http://catiimatales.googlepages.com/interview1

Thanks for all your Diwali wishes. Hope you had a wonderful diwali too... we lighted a lot of diyas and decorated our dorms... I'll post the pictures tomorrow.

Till then keep watching the CATIIMATALES!
Boss@IIMA

Interesting success stories will be there... as a part of final touch on CAT - I'll be bringing you seven success stories of 7 different candidates. How they gave CAT and what they did in the exam hall? How they felt after exams? Which sections were the ones they did first? etc. etc.

Watch out CATIIMATALES tomorrow!

A visitor in my blog put a question:
"does an istitution really matter in taking up a mba...i know the cream of faculties and the var exposures that comes on the way; other than that wat are the advtages of getting in to an IIM ..... a local institute providing mba......is it enough?.......or the international exposure ...does it really matter in business degree. I think that mba from a local institute and work experience in India wud do wonders....then why take up a heavy one from IIM and go abroad?"

My Response:
Well, hardly 15% students from IIMA go abroad, rest stay in India and work in Indian companies. In a way, apart from IIMs which MBA degree will give you a starting salary of 8 lakh plus per annum? Moreover, the training given in IIMA enables one to face better the situations in life. I have worked in Industry, but never I faced the kind of pressure I had to face in my first year at IIMA. For nine long months I slept less than 5 hours a day - skipped hundreds of meals, fought hard against the best brains in the country, participated in social and cultural activities - and survived first year in flying colours. The kind of prestige and status associated with IIMs can't be obtained from any MBA degree college.
Cheers!

To some DI appears to be toughest puzzle of all. I received so many queries on DI that I devout a two phase strategy to discuss it. First phase is on general funda and second on specific funda. Today is first funda - general gyaan.
General Funda

Data interpretation - yes! It's a test of interpretation and not on calculations. Keep it in mind - DI is not a test of data calculation. Some of you tend to avoid this section - my request - DON'T AVOID!

If you can grasp it, it's one of the most scoring sections and you can score a lot of marks here! Now that CAT is one month away, spend a week on data interpretation - what are the questions and why did you avoid them - analyze thoroughly. One week of only DI - I bet you can crack at least half of the questions in CAT06 if you were a perpetual avoider till now!

Read the full article at DI/LR/DS Section: - CATIIMATALES

IIMA, like any CAT aspirant, was my dream and it's a dream come true for me to be studying here. Well, it's not an ordinary blog about CAT in general - it's not only about the strategy: how to crack CAT and enter this coveted institute? It's also about how to survive in the institute! Yeah, surviving here is more difficult than clearing CAT! If you don't believe as any IIMA alumni you know. You won't get such personal first-hand information from any other blog - I am going to tell the inside story of IIMA, ranging from nightouts to studies. If you have any question or suggest me some topic to write on, drop a line at hothotboss@gmail.com.

To know visit CATIIMATALES

Are you still undecided which coaching to choose? TIME/IMS?
Then we have the perfect gyan for you....
From the successful students of both the coachings, a comparative analysis...
find details at CATIIMATALES

CATIIMATALES Website: Tales of CAT Aspirants and IIMA Students

CATIIMATALES : A tale of CAT aspirants & IIMA students

For the uninitiated, it's a blog running successfully for the past one month with one thousand visitors everyday! It's about CAT success stories and IIMA life.
I am a student@IIMA myself and I write about my and other students' success strategies there.
In this edition Opinions of the successful candidates at IIMA abt the two premier coachings - live brought to you by CATIIMATALES!
Now it has grown to a full website!!!

CATIIMATALES

Cheers
Boss@IIMA