Month: May 2019

Work with us

Published by Tony Xavier

As most of my students would know, I have been with IMS for more than a decade now. But I started teaching for aptitude tests way back in the past, right after my graduation while preparing for the CAT a second time around. At that time I felt that the teaching stint had a great role to play in my cracking the CAT; I felt the teaching made my thought process very clear when faced with a problem since one has to have utmost clarity of thought to explain a problem in such a way as many students understand the solution right away. Also one is always looking to find better, cleaner or to put it simply more elegant solutions to problems. My first 6 years stint with IMS was with the Academics Dept and the last six months have been at the front-end teaching as well as running the business. Starting I have moved back to the IMS HO in Mumbai, as the Chief Learning Officer (CLO) for IMS. Over the past year, I …

How to prepare for a CAT retake – Part III

Published by Tony Xavier

In the previous two posts, we discussed the mindset and the tools that you would need for a successful retake. In this post, we will take a look at the specific things you need to do for each section and area.

Choosing between premier b-schools other than the old IIMs

Published by Tony Xavier

As the years pass it seems to me that the decision-making process that goes into choosing a b-school is getting more and more complicated. This might be the reason behind me getting messages and emails asking for help in choosing between the premier non-IIM b-schools such as FMS, XL-BM, MDI, SPJIMR, NITIE and others. This post will address this specific issue.

How to prepare for a CAT retake – Part II

Published by Tony Xavier

In the previous post, we discussed the mindset with which one should approach a CAT retake; in this post, we shall look at a few more aspects with respect to a successful CAT retake. Since each one of you readers will have a different back story with respect to your first attempt and there will also be some non-IMS students among you as well, the focus of this post will be a bit wider.

How to and not to evaluate your first SIMCAT performance

Published by Tony Xavier

The response to the first SIMCAT was great and it was nice to see so many students jump into the fray from the word go. But the plunge as most of you would know is similar to jumping off a diving board for the first time — the moment of impact, the bewilderment when you are […]