CAT Is Only the Beginning, It Is Not the End
Written by Soffia
Every year more than 10 lac students appear for the various MBA entrance exams held across the country. They put in a lot of time and effort to crack the CAT, the most prestigious exam for MBA entrance in India. Out of the 10 lacs that appear for these exams only ten thousand are able to get through. The end result is that several students who have burnt the midnight lamp, to reach their goals land up getting demoralized. They lose heart. They want to give up. For them it is the end a dead end.
We have a message to give to students who are not able to crack the CAT. The CAT is only the beginning, it is not the end. If you have prepared yourself for the CAT then you are equally prepared to give other similar MBA entrance exams such as the FMS, XAT, IIFT, SNAP, MAT, MH-CET etc.
Cracking any one of these MBA entrance exams can get you admission in some of the top colleges in India such as XLRI-Jamshedpur, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies-Mumbai, SPJIMR-Mumbai, sydenham institute of management-Mumbai, Weligkar-Mumbai, Symbiosis-Pune, IIFT-Delhi, FMS-Delhi, XIM-Bhuwaneshwar, Loyola-Chennai, NMIMS-Mumbai, KJ Somaiya-Mumbai. etc.
A degree from any of these colleges is no less than a degree from the IIM's. The syllabus and pattern of most of these exams is almost the same as CAT. You too can get a job as good as or even better than any IIM graduate. In fact some of these colleges rank even better than some of the IIMs. Further your degree is just a passport to a good company but ultimately what matters is your performance during your job. Graduates from a lot of Management colleges have performed well in their jobs and have achieved great scales and ranks. You can easily check the track records of these colleges with the help of Internet.
Remember hard work never ever goes unrewarded. Our duty is to concentrate on the process
and not worry about the results thereof.
Top Colleges Management
1 IIM Ahmedabad
2 IIM Bangalore
3 IIM Kolkata
4 IIM Lucknow
5 Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) Delhi
6 Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI) Jamshedpur
7 IIM Indore
8 IIM Kozhikode
9 S.P. Jain Institute of Management Research Mumbai
10 Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi Delhi
11 Birla Institute of Technology (BIT Mesra) Ranchi
12 Department of Management Studies, IIT Kanpur Kanpur
13 Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon
14 Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies Mumbai
15 Symbiosis Institute of Hotel Management (SIBM) Pune
16 Shailesh J. Mehta School of Mgmt., IIT Bombay Mumbai
17 Department of Management Studies, IIT Roorkee Roorkee
18 IIM Shillong
19 Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) Delhi
20 Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Ghaziabad
21 L.N. Welingkar Institute Mumbai
22 Birla Institute of Management & Technology Delhi
23 Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur Kharagpur
24 Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA) Chennai
25 Goa Institute of Management Goa
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