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Session details;

Date:16th Feb, Saturday, 2013.      Time : 10:00 A.M

Place : Taj West End, Race Course Road, Bangalore.

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Conquering IIM-A by Sandeep Chadda

Hi,

Best of luck to everyone who is preparing for MBA or appearing for interviews. I wanted to share my experience with all of you and uncover some myths to make your journey a little better and feel good about yourself. MY MBA experience is slightly long so you will have to bear with me:

I gave my CAT in 1999 and got a 99.2 percentile and did not get a call from any IIMs. I got a call from a good school but I did not go for it because of personal reasons. 

I gave my GMAT in 2003 and scored a 630. 

I gave my GMAT again in 2006 and got a 660.I applied at ISB and was waitlisted for the interview but never got a call. The reason stated was that my GMAT score was too low. I was broken and completely shattered. 

I gave my GMAT again in 2009 and got a 640. You can understand my situation now when I felt that MBA was not for me. I almost gave up and thought that this is not my cup of tea. 

I gave my GMAT again in 2012 and got a 670 and 6.0 in AA :( The score was not good and I was almost shattered. I knew I will not get any calls but I still thought of applying to some of the schools. Btw.. Some of the other folks who had applied along with me were averaging 710 +. There were others with 770s and 750s.

Anyways I went ahead and applied to IIMA, IIMB, IIMC, and IIML. I am also planning to apply to ISB. Here I want to take a small break and talk about my profile since it bears some relevance to the rest of the story.

Experience - 10 years

Field - Information Technology

Designation - Technology Architect

International Experience - 7 years

Hobbies - I teach at a Govt School, Blog (schadda.blogspot.com), and am a martial artist

Extra Curricular: I am passionate about public speaking and have been involved with Toastmasters at various levels 

So coming back to my applications, I got interview calls from IIMB, IIMC, and IIMA. IIML is yet to announce its results. To cut the long story short, I had a great interviewing experience with IIMC and IIMA. My interview with IIMB is on 17th Nov, I will share the details of the interview a little later. For now I have got a call from IIM Ahmedabad and I am ecstatic to learn that I will be able to live my dream this year. 

Now, I want to clarify some myths and share some learning:

1) It does not matter how many times you give your GMATas long as you can defend it. When I was asked this in my interview, I mentioned that I would have given it 10 more times if I am not able to convert it this time.

2) Only folks with high GMAT scores get into IIMA or prestigious institutes. I am a living example. But I must confess, in the last 2-3 years, I did not just take a break of 3 years. I built my profile as strong as possible so that I am able to defend everything I say. 

 - My communication was weak, therefore I joined Toastmasters and went on to win the regional competition in extempore speech in Michigan. 

 - My social responsibility had nothing substantial therefore I started teaching at a govt school. I am teaching there for almost 2 years now and am in love with the kids. 

 - I also started writing a blog that became very popular and has good number of hits in my technology community. 

I believe all this helped since IIMA conducts an extempore speech in the interview and that did not surprise me. 

One very important thing that I wanted to share was that though I scored a 670 in GMAT, I felt I was much better than this. Some of the fundamentals taught by Kalyan sir are embedded in my mind so well that my accuracy in SC, RC, and CR is consistently 90%. I still think 670 was a score on a day that had gone bad. 

The net story is that DO NOT GET DISHEARTENED. you have no idea what is in store for you. Your interview is also very very important and so is your profile. In IIM Bangalore GMAT holds only 10% weightage in your overall profile.

Here again I want to recollect what Kalyan sir used to tell us. YOU ARE DOING THIS FOR YOURSELF and not anyone else. it is your choice to live it with conviction. Sir, I THANK YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN for changing my perspective towards my goals. You gave me much more than just how to prepare for GMAT.

Regarding my preparation, I only read OG 10, OG 11, and OG 12. I followed what kalyan sir taught me to the core, I have great faith in his teaching style. 

Regarding my interview, I prepared for all current affairs, my engineering, and almost everything on my application form. This is how my interview went in IIMC and IIMA.

IIM-Calcutta

Q - Who is the CM of Bangalore?

Shettar

Q - Who is the Governor of Bangalore?

Bhardwaj - Hansraj Bhardwaj

Q - Who is the previous CM of Bangalore?

Yedyurappa (Damn.. somehow Gowda slipped out of my mind) 

Q - have you heard of Gowda?

A - yes he was the previous CM, not Yedyurappa I laughed and told the professor that I goofed up.

Q - Where have you been in and around Bangalore?

A - Yes, Mysore

Q - What is that temple called on top of a hill in Mysore?

A - Nandi

Q - How far is Nandi from the base?

A - 2-3 kms, 30 min drive

Q - What are the few amazing things about the Mysore Palace?

A - Sword of Tipu Sultan which is not there anymore

Q - Whose paintings are on display at the Mysore Palace?

A - NO IDEA, but told about some fascinating paintings that I recollected seeing 7 years back

Q - Tell me about your hobbies?

A - teaching, blogging

Q - Grilled me about Vedic Mathematics? Which Vedas contain script for Vedic maths?

A - Atharvaveda..told about everything I know

Q - Which book do you refer to teach Vedic Maths?

A - Told

Q - Give an instance where referring the internet for Vedic Maths has helped you?

A - Told

Q - Why was Maths required at that time - during 3000BC when the Vedas were written?

A - Told to keep a count on the number of soldier and cavalcade for armies... 

The prof told.. it was for calculating distances and measurements and I told that I was thinking out loud

Q - If you are so passionate about teaching then why MBA?

A - Told

Q - You will lose all that you are doing now?

A - Told in negative. told about my passion. and I was candid about sharing the number of times I have applied for my GMAT and I that I will not give up.

Q - Any questions?

A - Nah.. I am good.

IIMA

Got an extempore topic - If India's literacy rate is that high, then why are iNdians illetrate....

i have a habit of standing and delivering my speeches therefore I asked the professors whether I could stand and deliver. 

I gave a 3 minute speech. I had some facts in india education since I am fascinated about it. Lucky topic :)

Q - What is the literacy rate in India.. 

A - Gave the literacy rates for India, kerala, Gujarat etc

Q - What policies has India implemented for education?

A - Talked about how Bharat Nirman and MNREGA help education indirectly. 

Talked about RTE

Talked about ensuring 25% guaranteed education for impoverished in some good schools

Q - Asked full form of MNREGA?

A - Told

Q - If there is a policy that is not being implemented, then what will you do?

A - 

Talked about provisions in legislation to pass a bill

Talked about RTI

Talked about petitions etc

Q - How long have you stayed in Mexico?

A - 10 days.. 

Q - Where is Mexico?

A - Between NA and SA

Q - Laughed for a bit.. because Mexico is in NA and not between NA and SA

A - Even I laughed and acclaimed that thoda goof up ho gaya :)

Q - What language do they speak in Mexico?

A - Spanish

Q - Where is Portuguese spoken?

A - Brazil

Q - What about other countries in South America

A - Spanish

Q - What do you as an Cloud Architect? Tell me what you did yesterday?

A - Told - 

Q - What is Cloud?

A - Told

Q - Why is cloud important?

A - Told. I love my field so I had more than enough information

Q - Why do you want to do MBA? You will not be able to do any of this if you do MBA? 

A - Replied in Negative. Again there were references about my GMAT appearances and I told them that you will see me every year until you select me :) being a little cheeky

Q - What do you do in your spare time?

A - teach / blog

Q - What do you blog about?

A - Told

Q - Got details about my blog.

A - I invited them to visit my blog.

Q - Do you want to take 1 toffee?

A - Only 1 ??

They said - you can take more if you have kids

I said ... I am only a kid and took 2 and left :)

One thing I wanted to make sure was that I keep the energy levels in the room high. 

Well, this was a long post.. but I wanted to tell all of you that one thing that will take you to the best B schools is the belief in yourself. Kalyan sir shared a book with me called Think Again. One learning I took from the book was that if you train your brain to a goal, the goal will walk up to you. I believe this is what happened to me as well. 

Thank you once again Kalyan sir. You are a genius. 

Regards

Sandeep Chadda 

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1) Read LESS à Score MORE

We often read the Q multiple times in order to understand the sentence. Remember GMAT is testing your correction abilities and not understanding of the concept.

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Emphasize more on the answer choices, in order to find the correct answer and score higher.

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We tend to read each answer choice at once to understand and eliminate.

Remember understanding the answer choice is not important than finding the difference between each answer choices.

Csquare Strategy emphasizes on doing a VERTICAL COMPARISON of your answer choices (Move your eyes from top to bottom and NOT left to Right).This helps you clearly differentiate each choice from the other, to choose the comparatively BEST.

3) WRONG is GOOD.

Do not try to find the correct option, always try to find a flaw and identify Wrong Answer choices in order to eliminate them.

Wrong Answer choices help you arrive at the correct answer. Hence WRONG is GOOD: P

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"I decided to appear for GMAT sometime in August 2009. Some of my friends suggested that I look up for some good institute for preparing for GMAT. Initially, I thought that I could manage it on my own. So, I started to prepare for it on my own. My job was hectic enough at that time and managing GMAT preparations proved to be quite a challenge and I felt like I was beating around the bush without much progress. I then decided to look for some guidance. I tried to look for institutes in Bangalore through internet and found Csquare right at the top of my search. I looked through various forums and most of them were unanimous in their view that Csquare has the best to offer when it comes to GMAT. Hence, I took the leap of faith and joined Csquare. Right after the first class (on SC), all my doubts melted away and I was sure that I have come to the right place. This feeling got re-inforced more and more as I attended more and more classes.

On the verbal front, the strategies taught in the class for SC worked really well for me. Towards the end of my preparation, I was getting almost all SC questions right within the manageable time and all that was just by blindly following the "GMATically correct" SC rules taught in the class. The strategies offered for RC were also quite unique and if one really followed them, there was little chance of going wrong. I did my best to practice that and I got comfortable with it as the time progressed. On CR, the strategy to classify questions into various types was equally good. However, I somehow paid least attention to practicising CR and thats what probably led to some dip in my verbal score.

On Quantitative front, I found the strategies taught in the class very helpful in solving the questions quickly and accurately. Specially,with the kind of approach taught to solve DS questions it was really difficult to go wrong there. Quant is not just about solving a question, it is also about solving it quick enough and with least amount of effort and that is what was taught to us in the quant class. The classes were quite focussed and dealt with a very good pool of questions. So, quant became friendly by the end of it all.

I ultimately managed to score 710 (Quant - 50, Verbal - 36). I would like to thank Csquare for all the assistance and support. Special thanks to Rashmi and Kirtin for all their help and motivation."

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