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I felt verbal is more straightforward. Vocab heavy but no unexplainable logic heavy
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Is there anyone who experienced it for verbal?
Yeah verbal is tricky is GRE and learning raw vocabulary is irksome tbh
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ShiftPuma You seem to have a good start in your career. What are your goals? If your work is largely in a non client facing or internal finance role, then research carefully how to position your experience and what post MBA goals would be the most logical extension of your skills. If not, then great. Also, you do not need to force social impact contributions right before applying. Schools usually see through that.
General observation, in case it applies to your research work experience: I have noticed with my mentees from equity research, financial research and backend analytical finance roles that they eventually realize proximity to finance is not always the same as proximity to decision making. People can become extremely technically strong in internal finance environments while still remaining one layer removed from those actually deploying capital, negotiating transactions or driving investment theses commercially. Your role may still build sophisticated market judgment and can absolutely become strategic within corporate finance leadership tracks. But if your long term aspiration is highly competitive buy side style investing exits, then at some stage you may need to move closer to externally facing capital allocation and transaction environments because that distinction matters a lot in recruiting. Therefore focus more on your goals strategy than the social services angle.

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I needed a bit guidance on how should I go about with my preparation for ISB

To give a bit overview I currently have 2 years of experience in financial services industry as a Research and Investment Analyst and have cleared all three Levels of CFA

I have 92.2% in in 10th, 94.17% in 12th and 9.55 CGPA in Bachelor’s translated to around 89%

I haven’t started preparing for GMAT but gave one of the GMAT club mocks and score around 615

I plan to apply for round 1

How should I start preparing and what kind of coaching should I take and what marks should I aim for

Also someone told me apart from this I will also have to focus on social services and charity work to have my profile stand out as a lot of people at ISB have CFA so won’t help in differentiating

Any kind of help will be very useful in my preparation towards it

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ShiftPuma - some more details can help assess your profile better e.g. your undergrad university, which company do you work in, key achievements/ projects at work, any promotions, career goals, etc.

Since your work-ex is a bit on the lower side, aim for a 685+ on the GMAT, with a balanced sectional split.

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I needed a bit guidance on how should I go about with my preparation for ISB

To give a bit overview I currently have 2 years of experience in financial services industry as a Research and Investment Analyst and have cleared all three Levels of CFA

I have 92.2% in in 10th, 94.17% in 12th and 9.55 CGPA in Bachelor’s translated to around 89%

I haven’t started preparing for GMAT but gave one of the GMAT club mocks and score around 615

I plan to apply for round 1

How should I start preparing and what kind of coaching should I take and what marks should I aim for

Also someone told me apart from this I will also have to focus on social services and charity work to have my profile stand out as a lot of people at ISB have CFA so won’t help in differentiating

Any kind of help will be very useful in my preparation towards it

Thank you
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axeofflane - interesting profile overall.

The GMAT score seems slightly on the lower side for ISB, was the score in-line with your mocks and is there scope to improve if you were to retake?

Also, the career goals would need introspection/ brainstorming, to sound convincing and practical.


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Post MBA goals: Strategic leadership positions in Global Pharma (or perhaps consulting in MBB to strengthen strategic positioning and thinking with an eventual pivot into global pharma)
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Hi [color=#00ccff]MBAGuide[/color]


thank you again for your detailed feedback on my profile. Your point about building stronger external market validation was really helpful, and I wanted to clarify one thing regarding that.

Since then, I have also set up the complete export and international supply chain for JamalJamaloo and expanded to Walmart US, including the required cross-border logistics and fulfillment setup. I am now receiving actual orders and generating sales from U.S. customers across multiple states. I also have ongoing sales through Amazon India & Amazon USA
Would this kind of actual marketplace traction and customer validation -particularly the Walmart US expansion and resulting U.S. orders count as meaningful external market validation of the venture and my entrepreneurial capabilities? Or were you referring more specifically to institutional validation such as accelerators, grants, fellowships, or recognition from credible organizations?

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I actually think there is more depth in your profile than what may appear at first glance. There seems to be a genuine underlying inclination toward innovation building, experimentation and entrepreneurship that has existed for years through your science projects, startup initiatives and now your business. That continuity is valuable.
At the same time, I also want to give you one honest thought to reflect upon strategically before the MBA applications. Although entrepreneurship is absolutely respected by top MBA programs, the adcoms will still subconsciously try to assess external market validation of your capabilities beyond a self owned setup. This becomes more relevant when the venture is still relatively early stage or modest in scale financially. So one way to further strengthen the profile before applying could be either moving back into a strong corporate, product or growth oriented role where your capabilities are validated in a highly competitive external environment,
or continuing to build far stronger third party validation within the entrepreneurship and impact ecosystem itself. And by third party validation, I mean things like highly selective fellowships, national level startup incubators, accelerator programs, media features,
[*]grants, or endorsements from credible organizations within the entrepreneurship or impact space. because many applicants today write variations of this startup then PM goals, the stronger applications are the ones where the candidate demonstrates very sharp thinking around what exact problem space they care about and why they care about it. Feel free to speak should you want to discuss more.
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