Prasanth Narayanan
Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management (SJMSOM), IIT Bombay.
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General
Questions
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Questions related to Pre-MBA Preparation
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Questions related to Group Discussion / Group Exercise
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Interview-related Questions
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After
Joining MBA
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Questions related to Pre-MBA Preparation
Q. When did you start
your preparation?
A. July 2nd, 2006. That was the day I reached back home after quitting
Cognizant.
Q. How many months and
how many hours daily did you devote for preparation to entrance procedures?
A. I prepared for 5.5 months with 6 hours per day.
Q. Did you take up some
coaching institute or you believed in self-study?
A. I had taken up the TIME's Mock Cat Series and Classes. I also used the
study material provided by various institutes for my preparation. I also
interacted extensively with fellow students.
Q. Can you tell us
which are your favorite books, books that you used for preparing for entrance,
books for self-development, and books for pure relaxation?
A. I had no books per se for coaching nor for self development. I would
suggest "The DaVinci Code" as a great relaxation book though!
Q. What was your
experience with coaching?
A. The coaching was really good and it gave me a platform for interaction
with fellow aspirants that I felt was really awesome.
Q. What are the others
books & tests which you used for your MBA preparation?
A. None, sorry.
Q. What was your
strongest and weakest area while preparing for MBA coaching?
A. Strongest area was English and the weakest was DI.
Q. Some tips which you
used for mastering Quant, RC, etc.
A. For RC, I found reading the Editorial Section of newspapers every day
as if it were an actual exam. RC really proved helpful on two counts. Firstly,
it almost doubled my reading speed, and secondly, it gave me loads of
information that came in handy for the GD/PIs.
Q. How much time did
you put for MBA preparation everyday? How did you manage this while working full
time?
A. I threw around 6 hours a day. Thankfully, I was unemployed as I had
quit my job before starting preparation.
Q. Which all Exams and
B-schools you applied to?
A. CAT, JMET, XAT.
Q. Your present
B-school and course.
A. Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay. Master of
Management Programme.
Q. What is the range of
score for students who are admitted?
A. 68 to 78 marks in JMET, and Rank 1 to 349, out of 22000.
Q. What was your score?
(This will be kept confidential, if you desire.)
A. Rank 188, Score of 72.5.
