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BQuest Financial Times With CAT-XAT-IIFT-SNAP-TISS already on its way, it won’t be much longer before you’re donning your business formals and attending the GD-PI process of these prestigious B-Schools. The basic expectation from an aspiring manager for one of the top B Schools through CAT, XAT, IIFT etc. is for them to be adept with the most basic finance terms. BQuest brings for you your weekly dose of finance preparation for the upcoming GD-PI. Let’s start with first identifying what are these most commonly used words and what they mean. Earnings Per Share:  Earnings per share (EPS) measures net income earned on each share of a company's common stock. The company's analysts divide its net income by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the year. Price-to-Earnings Ratio (P/E):  P/E Ratio = Price per Share / Earnings Per Share What it means :     pr...

Last Week Strategy for CAT 2017 Disclaimer: The article is based on the assumption that you’ve been a serious aspirant for CAT for at least the last 3 months Nervousness creeping in? Witnessing sleep disorders? Panicking over any last minute possible f-ups? Anticipating too much over the difficulty level of the paper? If these describe you, then don’t worry, you aren’t alone my friend. There are thousands sharing the same feeling as you are at this very moment. Let’s take you through a few things you may want to try in the last 6-7 days for optimizing your results: 1.        Revise, Revise, Revise: You must have taken a considerable number of mocks till now available with various coaching centers like Career Launcher , IMS , TIME etc. Now is the time to put your trust in the solutions provided by them. Just go through their way of solving it. Keep a pen and paper with you while doing so. Anything and everything that amazes you or any plac...

Exam Day Strategy for IIFT  As we step into the exam season, the anxiety is palpable and with a window of just 7 days between CAT and IIFT, it is important to set the right strategy for IIFT. While CAT is the ultimate exam to crack for any MBA aspirant, it is important to focus on a few other exams as well (XAT, IIFT, SNAP, TISSNET, NMAT) as the colleges accepting these scores are among the best B Schools in the country. The main differentiation between CAT and IIFT is the exam taking strategy and time management, with 4-6 sections and sectional cut-offs getting the right strategy is very important in IIFT. Over the years I have seen many students having very high overall scores but fail to clear all the sectional cut-offs. What to expect in IIFT Exam Paper 6 Sections making up 120 Questions to be solved in 120 Minutes, while the difficulty level of questions is lower in QA, VA and LR compared to CAT, students tend to struggle in the GK and DI Section in IIFT...

BQuest Presents a 14 Day Preparation Strategy for SNAP GK This strategy can ensure that you achieve 15-20% of your overall SIBM Pune Cut-off marks in just 10 Minutes during your exam. Symbiosis National Aptitude Online Test Examination: How to ACE the GK Section in 14 Days   SNAP Test is one of the important exams that a candidate appears for in their quest to get into a Top Tier B School. With around 15 Institutes accepting SNAP Score, it is taken by around 50,000-60,000 students hoping to make it to SIBM Pune, SCMHRD and other B Schools under the Symbiosis umbrella. Among the 15 Schools accepting SNAP Scores, most of the CAT Aspirants eye for a call from SIBM Pune and then SCMHRD, the cut-offs for which hover around 90-105 out of a total of 150 marks. GK in SNAP becomes very important for any serious candidate as securing 25 marks out of 30 is not very difficult and it can be done in mere 10-15 minutes hence providing the cushion to the candidate to ma...

5 Things to avoid before the D-Day (CAT-XAT-IIFT-SNAP-TISS) Our Mentor for MBA Entrance Examination Pranav Raj shares some anecdotes on things to avoid before any big exam like CAT, XAT, IIFT, TISS or SNAP. It’s that time of the year again which the IIMs/XLRI/IIFT/MDI/FMS/SPJain/TISS aspirants have been waiting for. Anticipations and sleepless nights are genuine but the ones holding their nerves the longest will Bell the Cat or Jab the XAT or Nail the IIFT entrance exams. Very often I come across aspirants asking me what to do 15 days before the exam. From where I stand there is no constant recipe for success. A lot depends on the individual taking the test.   What I want to pass on today are the Top 5 things you shouldn’t do 15 days before the exam.    Don’t stress over your past academics – There are things that aren't under your control. Don’t get bogged down by your past, especially if it is something you don’t want to che...

How  did  Siddharth Tripathi score  99.99 Percentile in IIFT? In our BQuest Toppers series we bring to you this  exclusive article  from IIFT 2016 Topper Mr.  Siddharth Tripathi, a student at IIFT Delhi (2016-18 Batch) who scored  99.99 Percentile in IIFT 2016.  About the Author Name- Siddharth Tripathi Student of  MBA in International Business at IIFT Delhi Grad School- Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur (B.Tech in IT) Work Experience- Fresher IIFT Percentile- 99.99 (Score-70.58) Hobbies- Non-Fiction Novels, Blogs, Quizzing, Movie Buff IIFT Winning Strategy I consider myself as someone with an average intelligence; which is substantiated to a certain extent through my grades (73% in 10 th , 78% in 12 th and 72 in graduation). I feel the factors that really got me through were a slight tinge of luck and loads of Systematic Preparations. I started my preparations an year before the exam. Being an ardent read...