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?
A. Probably like everyone else, I joined a coaching institute, IMS, at Surat as the first step towards an MBA.

Q. When did you start your preparation?
A. At the beginning of my third year of engineering.

Q. How many months and how many hours daily did you devote for preparation to entrance procedures?
A. I appeared for the MBA Entrance exams for the batch of 2008-10, couldn't do so well. Had prepared for about 14 months for the same. Then I prepared for about 9 more months before writing Entrances for the batch of 2009-2011. A rough allotment was of 2-3 hours on an average daily, exclusive of the mock tests.

Q. Did you take up some coaching institute or you believed in self-study?
A. I chose IMS Learning Resources as the institute to guide me in my preparations. I was enrolled in the Surat Centre.

Q. What was your experience with coaching?
A. My experience of coaching institutes, both as a student and subsequently as a faculty, made me realize that an important role of coaching institutes, apart from teaching the fundamentals to the aspirants, is about ensuring that various misconceptions are removed. Subject based as well as MBA-based myths are prevalent everywhere, and a coaching institute dispels them by provide correct, precise information and knowledge.

Q. What are the others books and tests that you used for your MBA preparation, besides the study material provided by you coaching institute?
A. Apart from the study material, I used a lot of online material from websites like pagalguy.com, tenaday.co.in, totalgadha.com, tcyonline.com etc. One specific book that I referred to for Maths was: Quantitative Aptitude for CAT, by K. Kundan and P. Pandey

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. My favorite books were, and are:
Buyology, Six Thinking Hats, Blink, Freakonomics, Escape from the Benevolent Zookeepers, Losing my Virginity.

Q. What was your strongest and weakest area while preparing for MBA?
A. My strongest area was Mathematics, while English grammar was a weak area.

Q. Some tips which you used for mastering Quantitative Aptitude, Reading Comprehension, etc.
A. For Reading Comprehension, I had decided to go slow with the reading, try to understand it in one go, and then attempt only those questions which I was very sure of. That helped me build accuracy in this section, even though the attempts remained a bit low.

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?
A. About 2 hours of individual study. Apart from that, my work-experience at IMS was practically also a part of my preparation.

Q. Which all Exams and B-schools you applied to?
A. CAT, FMS, XAT, SNAP, NMIMS, MAT.

Q. Your present B-school and programme. What made you opt or this particular institute and programme?
A. The FMS MBA(MS) course was focused on service sector. That, coupled with my experience in the education sector and desire to go back to it on a long-term basis, made the course attractive to me. Also, my functional area interest was in marketing, for which FMS is well-known all around. Additionally, the excellent social and industrial exposure provided in Delhi was also an additional factor.

Q. What procedures your school has for admission to its MBA program?
A. Written Test Shortlisted Candidates called for Group Discussion, Extempore and Interview.

Q. What is the range of score for students who are admitted in your B-school?
A. The written test scores of students in the FMS MBA (MS) course range from 98.505%ile to 99.977 %ile.

Q. What was your score?
A. 99.977 %ile.

Q. Give some handy tips regarding the MBA written tests that would be of great help to MBA aspirants.
A. For English specifically, I would recommend practicing a lot of verbal reasoning questions. These questions (like finding conclusions, inferences etc, everything apart from grammar and RC), build you reasoning skills if you discuss and dissect them properly amongst your peers. These days, English is shifting more to the reasoning part than the grammar in many entrances.

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