Admission Story: Ravindra Khudania, IIM Calcutta, 98 Percentile, CAT

Ravindra Khudania is currently enrolled in the MBA course at IIM Calcutta. He graduated from Mumbai University with a 65% aggregate. Ravindra cleared the CAT exam with 98 percentile. He has worked in various companies as a software engineer.

Ravindra Khudania Profile

Current institute: IIM Calcutta
Graduation College: Mumbai University
CAT score: 98 %ile
10th Percentage / GPA: 86
12th Percentage / GPA: 86
Graduation Percentage/GPA: 65
Work Experience: JP Morgan, Software Engineer,1; Tech Mahindra, Software Engineer,1; Oracle, Software Engineer 3.5

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Ravindra Khudania Admission Experience

Did you avail of the benefit of any reservation?

Ravindra Khudania: “EWS (Economically Weaker Section)”

Describe the general setting of WAT / GD (if any)?

Ravindra Khudania: “The WAT topic was common for everyone in the group. There were two moderators. A page was provided to write it. The topic was based on general awareness and was not very difficult.”

What was the WAT / GD Topic?

Ravindra Khudania: “Me too movement”

What were your answer/points put forward for the WAT or GD respectively?

Ravindra Khudania: “My points were mainly based on the recent events on how the Bollywood celebs put forward allegations on other celebs and may or may not be true.”

Describe the general setting of your personal Interview.

Ravindra Khudania: “Panel of 3, offline interview, It was mostly on general awareness and my profile.”

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Mention at least 5 interview questions that were asked to you and your responses to each of them.

Ravindra Khudania: “What are your hobbies? Why do I want to do an MBA after such work experience? Where do you see yourself in 5 years? What qualities does trekking teach you which are applicable in business as well? (mentioned trekking as a hobby). What do you think about the recent spat between Mindtree and L&T?”

Mention 3 reasons why you chose this college over other colleges which you converted.

Ravindra Khudania: “Better ranking, placements, brand name”

What was the reason for you not converting other colleges? (if any)

Ravindra Khudania: “IIM K was specifically looking for people with lower work experience it seems and they were somehow not happy that I was doing MBA after 5 years of work experience.”

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