{"id":2575,"date":"2021-01-22T07:09:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T07:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iquanta.in\/blog\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2023-07-14T12:55:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T07:25:59","slug":"my-bittersweet-pre-mba-journey-from-kv-to-iift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iquanta.in\/blog\/my-bittersweet-pre-mba-journey-from-kv-to-iift\/","title":{"rendered":"My bittersweet pre-MBA journey : From KV to IIFT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>IIFT Convert : Soumyadeep Paul<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rDMsl4_y2xQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>January 2015 :<\/strong> It was yet another monotonous day in office. However, things were even gloomier<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">that day. XAT 2014 results were out and while I had managed to score a decent percentile (97), I had\u00a0royally screwed the decision-making section managing a paltry 69 %ile, thus ruling out all hopes of\u00a0pursuing my dream of a MBA from an elite B-school in India that year. I had given only CAT and XAT\u00a0in 2014 and had not done well in CAT either. This ended my below average MBA exam-season of\u00a02014-2015 with just a SJSOM(IIT-Kharagpur) call.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Though it was disheartening, I made up my mind that 2015 was going to be my last<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">attempt at redemption. I was willing to lay it all on the table and in case failure showed its dirty face<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">again, I would shift to other career options. So along the same lines, I started looking out for a good\u00a0online coaching class which could help me in being regular with my preparations. I was working in an\u00a0MNC and hence due to paucity of time, I did not find it feasible to join a regular coaching class. It\u00a0was exactly the same time wherein an unknown commodity called<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/iquanta.in\/\"> iQu<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/iquanta.in\/\">anta<\/a><\/span> was beginning its\u00a0journey. I have known <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jeetu.bhaiya.9237\">Indrajeet<\/a><\/span> since school(Class 8) and I was witnessing the transformation of a\u00a0man from a virtual nobody to a fledging entrepreneur. He had been doing an awesome job in\u00a0helping students (including me) with their preparations in several CAT Preparation groups for a\u00a0couple of years already before starting the well-known \u2018<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/Rockthecat\/\">CAT Preparation-iQuanta Group<\/a><\/span>\u2019 of his own, which\u00a0now boasts of around 2 lakh members and is definitely the go-to destination for MBA aspirants across\u00a0the country. With lots of optimism and faith in his \u2018quant\u2019 abilities, I enrolled in the inaugural batch\u00a0of iQuanta and kick-started my preparations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/Es5I1NPZXM55bFc9YbiOkY\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-21300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iquanta.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Join-CAT-Prep-Group-2-300x42.jpg\" alt=\"MBA Exam Dates\" width=\"743\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iquanta.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Join-CAT-Prep-Group-2-300x42.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iquanta.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Join-CAT-Prep-Group-2-1024x142.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iquanta.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Join-CAT-Prep-Group-2-768x107.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iquanta.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Join-CAT-Prep-Group-2-150x21.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.iquanta.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Join-CAT-Prep-Group-2-696x97.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.iquanta.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Join-CAT-Prep-Group-2-1068x150.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.iquanta.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Join-CAT-Prep-Group-2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">iQuanta classes are unique because they are held on an online platform through<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">videos\/events on Facebook. There is a great deal of flexibility owing to this as one can access the<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">course material at his\/her convenience and raise doubts at any time during the day. The doubt<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">clearing is quite spontaneous and satisfying too. All the three domains tested in CAT namely quant,\u00a0LRDI and verbal have been well covered this year around with pedigreed experts. Most importantly,\u00a0these create a basic schedule around which you can design your self-study every day. It keeps you\u00a0going and thoroughly updated too. This course coupled with your individual efforts can definitely\u00a0take you places in your journey. During my preparation, I also made sure that I gave all mocks of any\u00a0institute and also analysed them meticulously (even iQuanta is starting its own mock series this year\u00a0I have heard). Laying equal importance to all the sections(Quant\/Verbal\/LRDI\/GK) is of utmost\u00a0importance and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/Rockthecat\/\">\u2018<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Cat Preparation-iQuanta<\/span><\/a>\u2019 group is a brilliant repository for this. Following this group and\u00a0solving as many questions as possible helped me immensely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As exams drew nearer, I found myself quite confident to take on the challenge. I<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">took NMAT and IIFT examinations before CAT and this helped me to get in tune with the<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">examination feel and the nail-biting 3 hours. NMAT went good and IIFT excellent. The dreaded<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">day(29 th November) finally arrived. I tried to be calm but as we all know, it\u2019s easier said than done.\u00a0The exam started and verbal section looked quite manageable. Verbal had always been my strength\u00a0and I was quite confident that I had done well. I eagerly awaited the newly introduced LRDI section\u00a0and \u2018\u2019Poooof!!\u2019\u2019 The lights went off and I went absolutely blank. I had not deduced a single question\u00a0in the first 15 minutes and panic struck in. All my hard-work seemed to be going down the drain in\u00a0those mere 900 seconds. Gradually, I managed to solve a few questions and thankfully no surprises\u00a0were in store in the quant section and I did reasonably well. However, my spirit was sucked away by\u00a0the LRDI section and I was happy to see the clock strike 5:30 P.M(2 nd slot). That is the unpredictability\u00a0of CAT I encountered. It wasn\u2019t that LRDI was my weakness and neither was CAT the toughest paper<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I have ever seen in life(people who have given TIME mocks will agree to this :P), but still some things\u00a0just happen. Maybe I got obsessed with the result too much, maybe the easy verbal section made\u00a0me complacent, maybe I wasn\u2019t wearing my lucky shirt that day. Questions galore but alas, no\u00a0answers. I came home dejected and I knew that I had lost this battle long before the results were\u00a0declared. I took some time off and picked myself up for XAT. In the next few days, I devoured GK and\u00a0decision making material like some angry giant. There was one stop in between \u2013 SNAP, which\u00a0surprised everyone with its horrendously compiled set of \u201cnot-so- general knowledge\u201d questions last\u00a0year. I scraped through the exam. Then if life could not be crueller, I contracted dengue days before\u00a0the XAT exam. The first major disease of my life struck at the worst possible time. Somehow I pulled\u00a0my pale and corpse-like body to the exam hall against the doctor\u2019s advice and gave my best. Sadly,\u00a0that best was again not good enough. The exams (CAT &amp;amp; XAT) which I had prepared for with\u00a0dedication and dreamt about of excelling in had been screwed. Just for formality, I gave my TISS\u00a0exam next weekend still reeling with the after-effects of the wretched dengue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Results time! As per chronological order, NMAT -215, IIFT \u2013 99.23, CAT \u2013 96.85( Quant \u2013<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">96.4,Verbal \u2013 99.3, LRDI \u2013 69.28), SNAP \u2013 99.48, XAT \u2013 somewhere in 80\u2019s(did not care to memorize\u00a0or save the result) and TISS \u2013 81(Score). As evident, the royal screwing of LRDI in CAT and myself in\u00a0XAT meant no calls from my beloved IIMs and XLRI. I had to be content with calls from IIFT, SIBM-\u00a0Pune, SCMHRD, NMIMS-Mumbai, TISS-Mumbai, IIT-Kharagpur and IIT-IIM- ISI\u2019s PGDBA course (I had\u00a0qualified in its written exam held in February). First up was IIFT and one needs extensive preparation\u00a0for this battle. One has to be thorough with the current happenings around the world as these creep\u00a0into the GD topics. Overall, it is a well organised set of rounds comprising of essay writing, GD and\u00a0interview. The USP of IIFT\u2019s GD is that each person is given 90 seconds to speak initially thus avoiding\u00a0a fish-market scenario during the discussion. I did not perform to my expectations in the interview\u00a0and hence, chances were not too bright again. I felt I had let go off the best opportunity available to\u00a0me as only an IIFT convert could make me happy from this position. Next up were the Symbiosis\u00a0twins \u2013 the most chilled-out interview process of them all where no prior preparations are needed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The interview process is designed in such a way that only your spontaneity and creativity matters.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">NMIMS and TISS both had similar selection processes too \u2013 first GD and then an interview.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">While all of this was going on, I got converts from SIBM-Pune and SCMHRD and I obviously<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">chose the former. Though not fully satisfied, I went ahead and paid the first instalment to book my<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">seat. I was mentally preparing for the upcoming stay in Pune and the gruelling schedule over the<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">next 2 years. Then suddenly out of the blue, on 17 th March afternoon, IIFT results were declared. I\u00a0was pleasantly surprised to find my name in the Delhi list. This was really unexpected and finally I<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">could let out a sigh of relief. After lot of struggles and setbacks, I had managed to ace \u2018one of the<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">colleges in my list\u2019 when I started an year back. 3 months down the line and with no more regrets, I<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">feel excited and charged up for the next 2 years in IIFT-Delhi. \uf04a<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To all the folks who are giving the exams this year, please do make realistic weekly targets<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">and never go too hard on yourselves. After all, these are just a bunch of exams and these in no way<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">should be used as a judging stick in life. Be immersed but not obsessed during this period of<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">preparation. Things will get tough at times but just stick around and keep putting in your individual<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">efforts. Take mocks religiously and most importantly micro-analyse them to identify your strengths<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">and weaknesses. Always look to play to your strengths and try to improve as much as you can on<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">your weak areas. To those who have joined <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/iquanta.in\/\">iQuanta<\/a><\/span> and\/or the\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/Rockthecat\/\">CAT Preparation-iQuanta<\/a><\/span>, please carry on as I\u00a0assure you that you are in very good hands. Never give up aiming for the stars and you will definitely\u00a0end up on the moon at least (like me), which trust me, is good enough \uf04a. Lastly, thanks for bearing\u00a0this long article of mine and wish you all the very best!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cheers and Godspeed<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Soumyadeep Paul \u2013 iQuantite\/IIFT 2016-18 batch<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for a structured preparation for IIFT, click on the link below<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iquanta.in\/details\/xat-iift-course-2023\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-21277\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iquanta.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-05-at-4.09.29-PM-1-300x157.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iquanta.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-05-at-4.09.29-PM-1-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.iquanta.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-05-at-4.09.29-PM-1-1024x534.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iquanta.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-05-at-4.09.29-PM-1-768x401.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.iquanta.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-05-at-4.09.29-PM-1-1536x802.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.iquanta.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-05-at-4.09.29-PM-1-150x78.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.iquanta.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-05-at-4.09.29-PM-1-696x363.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/www.iquanta.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-05-at-4.09.29-PM-1-1068x557.jpeg 1068w, https:\/\/www.iquanta.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-05-at-4.09.29-PM-1-805x420.jpeg 805w, https:\/\/www.iquanta.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-05-at-4.09.29-PM-1.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IIFT Convert : Soumyadeep Paul January 2015 : It was yet another monotonous day in office. 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