“Thank you for all your help. I wish I had met you earlier. You know you are like an Agony Aunt…” Complements in my line of work are not rare but this one left me completely speechless. It made me wonder why do people get so desperate after things have gone wrong. Yes I was […]

“Stand up you three from the last row”, roared the lecturer. “What was so funny? Come on! tell us the joke”, he continued with the same pace he started with. The same hackneyed sentence, which our teacher had fired, almost killed the spirit of ludicrous comment on which we were actually laughing. We stood solid […]

What is Decision Making? Decision making is a cognitive process of reaching a decision with the given information and constraints. Decision Making process is an integral part of modern management. It is required at every level of management to ensure organizational or business goals are achieved. Essentially, rational or sound decision making is taken as […]

I know it is depressing but you need to put it behind and think about your future. Here is what I would recommend 1. Analyze why you wanted to go to ISB in the first place. do you want to try one more year 2. If not, are you open to a new way of […]

Next question that’s in the line after taking the exam is “My attempts in Quant are A with B% accuracy and in Verbal it is C with D% accuracy. How much %ile can I expect??” I am sure such questions could send even the Quant masters in a dizzy… Then again we have many aspirants […]

And the funniest part is the clichéd answers given by these “Gyaani babas” in defense to the questions raised over the authenticity or the success rate of those projections- “Actually the projections are not 100% correct but they are fairly indicative of your actual percentiles as they are based on the analysis and detailed study […]

So the time has come when the month-long marathon of CAT 2013 has shut all its windows and is now drawing its curtains. Ahhhh… But wait!!! I can see so many restless heads peeping through the window furtively, with a desperate bid to at least have a glance of their PERCENTILE; to which I feel […]

(Part 6 ) Also with the CAT on the rounds, it’s commonly observed among the aspirants that after writing their paper, they post their attempt rates n “probable accuracy rates” on every possible and available networking site, and then beg others to “predict” their %iles; however misleading the projected %ile might be. I sincerely wish […]

(Part 5) The same applies even to those kids who have been assigned the task of fulfilling their parent’s wishes. It is indeed a matter of pride that the kids happily agree to live up to the expectations of his parents. But the kid must realize that it is very important for him to first […]

(Part 4) Moving on to another most obvious reason for an aimless child to appear for CAT could be “joblessness” coupled with aimlessness. In simple words, MBA is the drowning (and aimless) man’s straw, in this situation. The very reason I described the “aimless CAT aspirants” to be dangerous was that they might end up […]