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The MBA Option
The "business school" option is a
serious proposition for most engineering graduates. In order to facilitate this option,
the following information is being provided:
- List of management colleges in India
- How to go about the preparation?
A partial list of Institutes offering
MBA degrees:
- Indian Institue of Mgmt., Ahmedabad.
- Indian Institue of Mgmt., Bangalore.
- Indian Institue of Mgmt., Calcutta.
- Indian Institue of Mgmt., Lucknow.
- Xavier’s Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur.
- Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi.
- Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management, Mumbai.
- MDI, Gurgaon.
- IMT, Ghaziabad.
- IIM, Calicut.
- IIM, Indore.
- XIM, Bhubaneshwar.
- S P Jain, Mumbai.
- NMIMS, Mumbai.
- Bharti Darshan Institute of Mgmt., Tiruchirapally.
- Symbiosis Institute of Mgmt., Pune.
- T A Pai Mgmt. Institute, Manipal.
- Symbiosis HRD College (SCMHRD), Pune.
- SYDENHAM, Mumbai.
- University Business School, Punjab.
- K J Somaya Institute of Mgmt., Mumbai.
- R E C Trichi.
- NIRMA Institute of Mgmt., Ahmedabad.
- Goa Institute of Mgmt., Goa.
- IMDR, Pune.
- SIMS (Defence), Pune.
- ITM, Mumbai.
- Kirloskar Institute of Mgmt., Bangalore.
- Amity Business School, New Delhi.
- FORE School of Mgmt., New Delhi.
- Master of Finance Control, New Delhi.
- IISWBM, Calcutta.
- Anna University, Madras.
- Pune Business School, Pune.
- Cochin Business School, Cochin.
- Madras University Campus School, Madras.
Colleges offering Management-oriented
specialized courses:
- Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad.
- Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai.
- Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.
- Institute of Rural Management, Anand (Guj).
- Indian Institute of Technology (Mumbai, Delhi &
Kh’gpur) (only for engineers).
- NITIE, Mumbai (only for engineers).
How to go about the preparation?
- When to prepare for the test?
The best time to start preparing for the
tests is in your vacation at the end of the last-but-one year of your studies. Though a
period of 4 to 5 months is enough to master the quantitative areas in these tests, many
students find mastering verbal areas such as reading and vocabulary, rather slow going.
Since the verbal areas make for slow learning, you would do well to start these as early
as possible, say, 6 to 7 months before the tests.
The tests of prominent Indian institutes, are
unpredictable in their structure and composition. Broadly, what is intended to be assessed
is aptitude- Quantitative, Verbal, Logical and Analytical. Increasingly, many institutes
are testing the students’ awareness of current affairs and general knowledge. One
cannot, however be certain about the weightage given to each area. The tests change often
unrecognisably, from year to year.
While preparing for the Quantitative section,
one could give weightage to the various topics in the following order:
- Number Theory
- Percentage, Profit-Loss.
- Geometry and Mensuration
- Time, Distance and Work
- Quadratic Equations and Progressions
- Averages and Mixtures
- Simple and Compound Interest
- Indices, Surds and Logarithms
- Venn Diagrams
- Cubes
- Permutation-Combination
- Probability
- Inequalities and Special Equations
Perhaps the most important requirements for
success in these tests is getting to know the right technique for attacking them. Here are
a few useful tips to be help you succeed:
- Follow the instructions carefully: When there are several
sections in the tests, each of them would have different instructions, the misreading of
which is bound to result in disaster. If you are not careful enough to read the
instructions carefully, you are likely to goof up, for they may be very different from the
ones that you are used to.
- Intelligent selection of questions: The best way to attempt
the maximum number of questions correctly is to serially answer all those questions which
you can get right in the first shot. This way you would not have any regrets of having
left the simple questions unanswered. But, the important thing to note is that, this
process has to be completed in around half the available time alloted for that particular
section. After this, you may further proceed to solve the remaining questions. Do not
waste time on questions which seem too difficult, vague or confusing. You should remember
that, anyway you are going to score the same marks for a question, be it easy or
difficult.
- Should one guess? Wild guessing can be risky, but cultivating
the habit of guessing intelligently is the only alternative to total surrender. The art of
intelligent guessing which you have to master consists first of eliminating the obviously
wrong alternatives and of narrowing down your choice, so that you increase your chances of
hitting the right answer. If you already have spent too much time working on a particular
question, then you should not leave it unanswered, rather go for a wise guess.
- Be determined and have a positive attitude
Unless you cultivate the drive and zeal, you
won’t make it. The tests will demand the best in you, so sharpen your abilities to
the keenest point and attain the maximum speed you can work at. A luke-warm attitude just
won’t do. Be determined. Your determination coupled with the right attitude will help
you make a sensible action plan, follow it scrupulously and come out with flying colors at
the end.
Study Material:
You should not go hunting for too much
material or you will simply end up deciding which is the best! Rather, pick up one good
resource on a particular topic, complete it thoroughly and only then lay your hands on the
next one.
The following resources are
recommended:
- Correspondence Coaching
- Institute of Management Studies (IMS), Mumbai.
- Brilliant Tutorials, Chennai.
- TIME, Hyderabad.
- Other Resources:
Vocabulary:
- Master Word-List from Baron’s Guide to GRE
- 30 Days to a powerful vocab: Norman Lewis
- 6 weeks to a powerful vocab: Wilfred Funk
- All about words: Nurnburg and Rosenblum
Quantitative:
- Quantitative Aptitude fully solved: R. S. Aggarwal
- ICSE Mathematics: O. P. Sinhal
Analytical:
- Analytical Section from Baron’s Guide to GRE
- Analytical Section from Arco’s Guide to GRE
Current Affairs and G.K:
- Manorama Year Book
- Competition Master
- Competition Success Review
- Newspapers, preferably TOI, The Hindu.
Business Affairs:
- Business World (weekly magazine)
- Business India
- The Economic Times
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