Because of his background, he filled only the CAT form and no other entrance exam. So, this was his one shot to prove himself, and he began the journey to prepare. He took help from his friends, and they provided him with study materials. He started preparing for CAT by watching videos on YouTube, through online free sources and began giving mocks and analyzing them thoroughly. “I was dedicated, and nothing could stop me then. One person that was constantly helping me to prepare was my friend Aarushi. She helped me to be motivated and always supported me, and I am glad that I have a friend like her.” He used to study by himself together with managing his classes and cooking food. Sometimes he used to get stuck while solving but by re-analyzing, again and again, he got through the solution. “Even after giving several mocks my VARC section was not improving, and that’s when my friend helped me in improving this section a lot. A philosophy I stuck with was that it does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
While preparing for CAT he never let his grades get affected by this. For 2 consecutive years in college, he topped his batch. He even topped in 5 out of 6 semesters in DU and became the overall batch topper with the highest percentage and acquired Gold Medal in Business Economics. “As I was preparing by myself there were instances when in many mocks, I was not able to score good, sometimes my percentile used to go below 60, which made me upset and brought my morale down. I even used to think that maybe MBA is not for me, but my friend motivated me and helped me in coming out of this state of mind.” Just 2 weeks before CAT his health condition deteriorated which affected his mocks, but he did not lose hope and thoroughly analyzed all the previous tests to see where he went wrong.
“On the exam day, I was very positive about myself and gave the exam with full motivation. I managed to get a 94.77 percentile in CAT in my first attempt, and I was filled with joy when I saw the result; it was one of the best moments that I had.” He was also very anxious, as this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, and he did not want to ruin it. He put his heart and soul into preparing for WAT-PI by practising and giving mock interviews online. “My friends became mentors and helped me a lot in preparing for interviews.” He had other interviews along with IIM Rohtak which was scheduled for 12th February. “I did pretty well in the interview at Rohtak and was confident about its result.” Though he prepared well and gave his 100% in all the interviews, he had to face lots of rejection and was waitlisted as well. “It made me highly disheartened and was feeling bad as all the hard work would go in vain.”
But a little ray of hope was still there as the result for IIM Rohtak was awaited. It was the 22nd of May when the good news came, “I got the offer letter from IIM Rohtak. When I saw the result my whole world changed, I was not able to voice my feelings, the tears of happiness just rolled down my face. When I saw the proud feeling in the eyes of my mother and sister, it justified all my hardships which I had put through in these months.” Looking back on my life, I see that every time I believed I was being rejected from something, I was being redirected to something better.
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