Indian b schools don’t look at your profile beta, Period. So, If you want to learn something to build a good profile, I have a bad news for you even if you learn them all, their total contribution to your profile will be zero. This is a… (more)

Why practicing more RCs is harmful for your preparation

There is one piece of advice in the CAT world that almost everyone repeats, and it is this: solve one RC a day.

You have heard it from teachers, from toppers, and on every forum you have ever opened. But have you ever stopped to ask why it is one, and not three, or five, or ten? Nobody ever tells you to solve five RCs every day the way they happily tell you to solve fifty quant questions. It is always one,…

well.. nope, kiddo, it's not mandatory. But it will impact your interview for sure. However, not directly. See, beta, if you have great extra curriculars, it will be easier for you to talk about yourself and thus, steer the direction of… (more)

Your home mock can't test the thing that decides your score

I am going to say something that will sound strange coming from a teacher.

The mocks students take today are far less useful than the ones we took ten years ago. Not weaker on paper, because the questions today are sharper and the platforms are slicker and the analysis you get afterwards is better than anything we ever had. They are weaker in the only way that ends up…

Stop checking your mock percentile. Study your error report instead.

Almost every student I meet in September opens a mock the same way.

They finish it, they wait for the result, and the first thing their eyes go to is the percentile. If it is high they feel good for the rest of the day, and if it is low they feel bad for the rest of the day, and in both cases they close the mock and move on to the next one. And I understand why,…