Can you answer Devang P’s question about MBA?:

I live in USA and want to study in India. I am planning to do MBA. Can you tell me good universities in Gujarat (also in other parts of India) that have service for international student, such as accepting GMAT. If possible can you give me website.

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Can you answer Devang P’s question about MBA?:

I live in USA and want to study in India. I am planning to do MBA. Can you tell me good universities in Gujarat (also in other parts of India) that have service for international student, such as accepting GMAT. If possible can you give me website.

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Can you answer Lunatic’s question about MBA?:

Hi,

I wanted to know how much time it would take to prepare for the GMAT. I am aiming to get a score around 700. I am also working so am a bit confused as how should I make a schedule. Will 5-6 weeks studying 3 hours on weed days and 4-5 hours on weekend be sufficient ?

I look forward to your responses. Thanks in advance.

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Can you answer natalie’s question about MBA?:

Some colleges accept the GMAT or the GRE for some graduate programs. Which one is easier to take? Which one holds more leverage?

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After a proud score of 760, lot of MBA aspirants seek my advice on various topics which revolved around these major questions:

- Am I MBA Material?

- Why MBA

- Where MBA

- When MBA

- How MBA (What is important for MBA admit)

So I am writing this article in difference sections, starting from bottom up.

This is the First part on “HOW MBA”

How MBA:

Before even consdering MBA as a career option, you have to set your ambitions right and your priorities straight [Why you want to do MBA, Where you want to do MBA, What specialization for MBA]. Realize its not a joke and needs commitment and hard work. Once you have accomplished this step, you can start preparing for your Voyage - destination MBA.

The journey starts much before you can start applying to various target universities. These are the prerequisites before you can start applying to universities:

- Work Experience

- A good profile

- Communication skills

- /www.scorechase.com/vb/showthread.php?t=766″> Application Essays

- Application deadlines

Work Experience:

Work Experience is an important part of an MBA application. Almost all of the Top 20 US universities require 2-3 years of work experience on an average. Why do they require work experience? I am not sure of their specific reasons, but I got a few which make sense:

- Experience entails maturity: Mature people make better professionals.

- Clarity of goals: An experience individual would have better clarity of his goals than the person who is fresh out of college. Fresh graduates tend to be fidgety about their career options, if you tell them that “Doing X is a great career option”, they start considering X.

- Competent Program: The competence and quality of program depends upon the quality of students in the program. Experienced professionals offer specialized perspectives along with professionalism and maturity to the program. As a part of MBA program dont expect to learn everything from a text book, students learn from each other. In my MBA program, I would definitely want to work with an experienced individual because then we both have something to offer each other.

- The Genius Factor: Geniuses usually make better scientists and lousy managers. If you have excellent Acads, how would the universities know you are not a genius suitable more to technology than to MBA program? Your work experience in the corporate world allays some of these doubts and helps make you a better candidate.

- The Average Factor: Responsibility and Sincereness of a person with averag/poor acads is always in question. If you have bad/average acads, only work experience can pacify these questions.

Now I hope you see the importance of Work experience for MBA programs. The next question is “How much experience is good enough?”.

According to me 2 years of work experience is minimum for a good university, however for Top 20 universities this has to be backed up by excellent GMAT Score, superb Profile and neat Essays (for application). Needless to say this is not an easy combination. Work experience of >=4 years relaxes these limitations a bit or actually contribute quite a lot to “profile” and hence “Essays”.

Coming Next: A Good Profile



Thanks to Scifi for contributing this article to our MBA blog:

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