Fear Psychosis of Exam

Naturally our perception remains top of mind and we tend to believe that. Childhood perception is that if I will not fare well in exams that will expose me and I will face embarrassment before parents, teachers and friends. 

Later it takes times to understand that we can take exams like initiative to excel & show world the worth of maturity and intelligence. 

Nevertheless competitive MBA entrance exams are definitely to grab berth of opportunity to shift oneself to gain professional outlook. 

With the strong will power supplemented with focused preparation even the most sought after CAT exam can be cracked. 

Factual fact is that in absence of any prescribed syllabus for any of MBA entrance exam; it becomes more of a mind game. 

CAT 2014 will be conducted in middle of October this year and serious aspirants like you have already on preparation mode.

Simplify complex situations

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

Complex situations do come to all of us but need to simply; this is what the teaching you get while doing MBA. You too get to know how to deal with stress which is the key to complexity.

Fresh graduates who are facing complex situations on whether they should go for unprofessional jobs or get in to MBA as PG education should opt for MBA that would help them to become professional and seasoned to cope up with worst conditions in life.

Author: MBA Rendezvous

Competency prevails always

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Ordinary men wonder why those of only average intelligence so often rise to the highest levels of power, while highly intelligent people generally do not.

They fail to understand that reaching the highest levels of power has nothing to do with admired attributes such as intelligence and competence.

The predominant characteristic of those who rise to the highest levels of power is a total disregard for the consequences – including death – that will befall thousands or hundreds of thousands, or millions of human beings if it is deemed necessary to attain his / her goals.

Generally speaking, it is this total disregard for humanity that has distinguished ‘rulers’ throughout history.

But to achieve professional competency you will have to sincerely take steps and one of the top priority is to declare zero tolerance for incompetency, lethargy and procrastination.

Author: MBA Rendezvous

Let’s clear our mind blocks

Over a period of time we all make a mental set which is a natural phenomenon but problem arises when we analyze that whether mind set is positive or negative.

Mind set when not analyzed or rectified perpetuates in to mental blocks which is many a times injurious.

Mind set on the other hand is useful like turning professional is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The professional thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work; he keeps on trying, no matter what.

The more mental blocks are broken and positivity creeps in, the better and positive mind set will win you success in all spheres’ of life.

To sum up the mental blocks, it is well said that “a stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it”

Author: MBA Rendezvous

Goal clarity is a must for you!

Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.

People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. Let’s learn this at a professional level when trying to get our high-performance; the longer lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track we got. Clarity comes with simplicity.

Our mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting our dreams, we must think about the process of achieving them.

All of us who are MBA aspirants must have goal clarity thru and thru and let’s write our goal and hang it on a wall like Picasso painting with great hope of achieving our mission of admission in MBA!

Author: MBA Rendezvous

Did we check on our own honesty?

On the scale of 10 how much would you like to give score to yourself? Be alarmed either it can be zero or ten because you can’t say that you are this much honest and that much you aren’t. So either you are honest or not honest on your own parameters.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

 

Author: MBA Rendezvous

Management education teaches you to be analytical

In simple terms management education teaches you to simply complex situations.

"Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs." aptly said Albert Einstein.

Management education keeps you going with thoughts like, if you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people
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The essence of management education is that it is not the strongest of the species that survives, or the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Adaptability is outcome of management education an even if you can be appointed a manager, but you are not a leader until your appointment is ratified in the hearts and minds of those who work with you hence, leadership skills is total sum of management  education.

Author: MBA Rendezvous

Hope is universal to mankind

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.  Says, Dalai Lama.

But on the contrary Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.  This is what Aristotle  envisaged.
Dilemma is that we all hope to do our best and sometimes we do hope against hope to happen the ordeal in our way particularly in exams.

Indeed all humans think alike and we continue to hope in our worst circumstances too. And why not; this is what we get through our morning prayers too.

Let’s pause for a while and think a bit differently as we are supposedly future managers of a company as MBA students.   Hope can be converted to an end result of a hard work, planning and execution to the excellent finesse!

Author: MBA Rendezvous

Updated general Awareness can be utilized in GD & PI

It is expected from MBA aspirants to have sensitization on the happenings which might affect common man and country, be it political front, economic front or on sociological problems.

B schools are looking in you as budding future manager who will be performing in a company wherein brand will get impact of government policies and ever changing global scenario.

MBA entrance exams like IIFT, SNAP, CMAT and XAT do have questions on General awareness. This is basically to test your awareness on current affairs.

Besides written exams, updated general awareness will also be helpful in WAT / Essay writing /GD & PI where you may come across situations which will certainly require updated awareness of current affairs or general awareness.

Read variety of general awareness Topics and achieve mission admission MBA 2014!!

 

Author: MBA Rendezvous

Handwriting can be crucial in WAT

MBA aspirants who have cracked CAT this year are anxiously waiting for getting shortlisted by thirteen IIMs and if percentile score meets that cutoff they are likely to get letters for second round of admission process.

New IIMs will be conducting written analysis test (WAT) to assess you on your written communication. You will have to complete your WAT on some assigned topic within a stipulated time frame in not more than 300 words on a piece of paper.

Writing in your own handwriting can be very crucial and this thought takes you to your school days when you formed your habit of writing straight or cursive way.

You will be assessed in WAT with a combination of multiple aspects of handwriting, way of expression, logical sequences and top of all for the conclusion as take away message for your audience.

Besides practice reading variety of WAT Topics will be helpful to succeed in WAT!!

In GD there Is No Place for Arguments

Name of test is Group discussion; that means that there are expected group of people who will be having discussion on some issue / topic.

MBA institutes conduct Group Discussion which is commonly known as GD for the assessment of aspirants in areas of communication, body language, team coordination and leadership qualities. 

Since in companies communication plays vital role to nurture Brand and thereby satisfy customer hence, GD is conducted to assess you on above parameters because MBA institutes look in you as future manager so the best of you are selected for admission. 

GD is a platform where you are expected to discuss an assigned topic and put forward your point of view at your turn so that a meaningful discussion takes and group can come up with logical take away message as conclusion. 

Arguments have no place in GD and can’t be tolerated. So much so if arguments continue then sometimes entire group gets rejected. 

Agreed, that if one of the members is taking stance on argumentative tone even then this must be turned to positive with counter logics. Same is applicable for the assigned argumentative topics also. 

Best way to be prepared for GD is to read variety of GD TOPICS and be successful in GD!

In GD you must keep composure

Group discussion or GD is second last test to assess your soft skills like communication, leadership, attitude, adaptability and body language.

Most of B schools will give you GD topic which might vary from area of sports to social behavior to politics to environment to economic reforms etc.

It is not essential to jump to opening sentences as the perception is totally wrong that who sever speaks first might get considered as leader.

On the other hand it will be prudent to wait for your chance and then speak with confidence and present your ideas which must be focused on GD

Many a  times it has been observed that GD group starts speaking  a bit loudly on the premise that others must listen you but in the bargain chance are high that group gets defocused and sometimes entire group gets rejected.

Experts advice to keep composure and speak whenever your turn comes and even if you wish to submit your additional point, you may interrupt but with permission of all members. This can only happen when you are having solid points and others are equally recognizing your way of handling the topic.

Read verity of GD Topics and develop points so to success in GD and achieve mission admission MBA 2014!!!

                                                                                  

What is expected from you in XAT 2014?

In XAT 2014 exam, unlike other MBA entrance tests, candidates need to be more attentive in selecting which question to solve and what to drop without wasting much time. This is an important aspect of XAT examination as it throws more number of questions to be solved in less time.

In such a pressure building scenario, students need not lose their nerve and solve easier looking questions before attempting tough or complicated questions.

However, selection of easier questions is very difficult as they are very well inserted between the tougher questions that are speed breakers in such competitive exams.

But, it is not impossible to master the skill of scrutinizing questions and one could polish this skill by regress practice and disciplined preparation.

For instance, one can easily find simpler questions based upon algebra and trigonometry, between two questions which might involve application of calculus.

Though the questions based upon calculus and functions are themselves on decline as observed in the past.

Thus, XAT 2014 on 5^th January will primarily test three skills in any aspiring student:

• Decision making abilities,
• Pressure handling and meeting deadline capability
• Ability to capitalize on ones' strengths

 

Author: MBARENDEZVOUS.COM