1. General Questions
2. Questions related to Pre-MBA Preparation
3. Questions related to Group Discussion / Group Exercise
4. Interview-related Questions
5. After Joining MBA

Q. What was your first step to start preparation for getting into the B-school of your choice?
Ans. Once you have decided on the institutes which you would target, get as much information as possible about the entrance exams. Get to know the examination pattern, difficulty level, overall and sectional cut offs and ranks required to get a call and other key factors. Get hold of a few sample papers and solve them in order to establish a benchmark. For me, initially, I just solved various Mock CATs and previous years' papers to judge where I stand and where I need to be in order to get a call from my desired institute.

Q. When did you start your preparation? (How many months/years prior to management exams, did you start your preparation?)
Ans. I had put in consistent and uniform efforts for 12 months prior to the beginning of the management exams.

Q. How many months and how many hours daily did you devote for preparation of entrance exams?
Ans. I tried to devote at least 2 hours of effort daily for my examination preparation. Also, and perhaps more importantly, I devoted a lot of time for expanding my knowledge base (reading newspapers, magazines etc).

Q. Did you take up some coaching institute or you believed in self-study?
Ans. To keep me on my toes and constantly benchmark myself against others, I had taken up classroom coaching from IMS, Kailash Colony, New Delhi. Apart from this, I had also enrolled myself for TIME's AIMCAT series.

Q. What was your experience with coaching?
Ans. It was good and met my expectation. I personally believe that taking mock tests and thoroughly analyzing them are more important than the study material and the faculty.

Q. What are the others books and tests that you used for your MBA preparation, besides the study material provided by you coaching institute?
Ans. For Quant -Arihant Publications : Quantam CAT & Arun Sharma(TMH), For DI/LR - TIME mock tests and AIMCAT series, For VA/RC - Newspapers - Hindu and TOI

Q. What were your strongest and your weakest areas while preparing for MBA?
Ans. Strongest area: Quant and DI, Weakest Area: VA (error finding) and Reading speed in RC

Q. Some tips which you used for mastering Quantitative Aptitude, Reading Comprehension, etc.
Ans. 3 P's for Quant: Practice, Practice and Practice. RC: Hindu editorials (timed for speed)

Q. How much time did you put for MBA preparation everyday? In case you were working, how did you manage this preparation while working full time?
Ans. 2 hours; Fresher

Q. Which all Entrance Exams & B-schools you applied to?
Ans. CAT, FMS, IIFT, JMET, XAT

Q. Your present B-school and programme. What made you opt or this particular institute and programme?
Ans. SJMSOM, IIT Bombay, Master Of Management

Factors for choosing the same:

Q. What procedures your school has for admission to its MBA program?
Ans. Written test (JMET), followed by GD and PI

Q. What is the range of score for students who are admitted in your B-school?
Ans. Calls made to Top 400 students giving JMET ( approximately 99.2 percentile in JMET). Out of which Top 100 are selected after GD/PI

Q. What was your score?
Ans. JMET Rank 372

Q. Give some handy tips regarding the MBA written tests that would be of great help to MBA aspirants.
Ans. Be regular with the preparation:- questions, readings, discussions amongst friends.

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