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Got it, thank you.
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Can you please evaluate my profile and provide some guidance on my chances of getting shortlisted.
Academic Background:
• Class X (CBSE): 8.8 CGPA
• Class XII (CBSE): 91%
• B.Com (Hons), DU SOL: 60%
• Chartered Accountant: 53% (Final)
Professional Experience: 6+ Years
• Articleship (3 years) – Completed from a mid-sized CA firm in Delhi, with core exposure to Audit, Taxation, Accounting, and Finance. (I would also like to understand whether this period is considered as formal work experience for executive programs.)
• Post-Qualification Experience:
1. NatWest Markets (RBS) – Worked for 7 months as a Senior Analyst in Regulatory Reporting (Derivatives), handling trade and transaction reporting.
2. Own CA Practice – Managed and operated my own firm in Delhi for approximately 2 years and 3 months, handling end-to-end client engagements across finance, compliance, and advisory.
3. Current Role – Working as a Credit Manager in Business Banking at one of India’s leading banks for the past 3 months. My role involves credit assessment, financial analysis, and risk evaluation of business profiles.
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• GMAT: Not attempted yet
I am particularly targeting the one-year Executive MBA program at IIM Ahmedabad or Tier 1 B Schools and would value your honest assessment of my profile, along with any suggestions on how I can strengthen my chances.
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Why did you discontinue your own CA practice?

See if you can target around 675 on GMAT, to be competitive.
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Hello, do folks still get admits from good schools if they aren’t actively full-time employed at the time of application, but having recent work experience
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Hi SassyTile, while this is not an ideal scenario, it is not a show-stopper.

You might find the following article useful: How to tackle gaps in work experience or in academics?

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1. 10th - CGPA 10 (95% cumulative)
2. 12th - 68%
3. UG - B.Tech in Information Technology (8.11 CGPA) from VIT Vellore
4. 2.5yrs work experience as product dev at Epicor. Currently an independent market consultant for a regional FMCG brand.
5. yet to take GMAT

targeting top 20 schools.

How does my current profile look and what can i do to improve or be a strong contender for the top schools.
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Product dev to market consultant? That comes across as a drastic pivot. Explain this transition well in your SoP.

GMAT score of 685+ would place you competitively for the top-20 schools.
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1. 10th - 89%
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1. 10th - 89%
2. 12th - 85.6%
3. Degree - btech CSE 7.75 CGPA
4. 8+ years of work ex and working as a product manager in Fortune100 company.
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what should be the ideal gmat score for this profile. I am targeting ISB and IIM A 1 year mba programs
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Hi all, don’t you think the GMAT club tests Quant section is too difficult and lengthy even though the concepts/logic is similar to the mba.com mocks?
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Hi all, don’t you think the GMAT club tests Quant section is too difficult and lengthy even though the concepts/logic is similar to the mba.com mocks?
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Are you talking about the 20 practice sims?
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In mba.com tests, after answering 5-19 questions correctly, the questions become difficult concept wise but never lengthy. Here in gmatclub mocks the questions become lengthy and if you want to do every question correctly, you cannot solve more than 15 questions
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Hi,

I am an Indian male with 4 years of work experience and am targeting ISB Round 1 for the 2027 intake.

Academic Profile:

10th: 89.6%
12th: 90.8%
B.Tech: CGPA 7.73 from a Tier-2 engineering college

Work Experience:
I have worked in supply chain functions earlier and am currently involved in transfer pricing projects. One concern in my profile is that I have not received a formal promotion over the past 4 years.

I would like honest feedback on the following:

What GMAT score should I realistically target to be competitive for ISB?
How significant is the lack of promotion as a weakness in my profile?
I currently have calls from some IIMs and MDI/IIFT after scoring 99 percentile in CAT, but my preference would be a 1-year MBA from ISB. How realistic are my chances of getting shortlisted/admitted?
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Individual problems are not the issue.

The issue is with staggering too many Q50/Q51s within the same set i.e. the difficulty density.

Treat this as drills, not calibration tests. To solve the entire set within 45 minutes one needS to have an olympiad level quant ability.

In actual GMAT, one should get 3-4 (that too at most) of the so called "hard" problems instead of 10-12 that these sets throw up once a clean sequence of first 7-8 is built up.

Even the first 7-8 has scattered landmines.

So bottomline is, don't look at the score you get from them .

These are an excellent collection of highest level quant problems, that GMAT can realistically throw at you.
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Individual problems are not the issue.

The issue is with staggering too many Q50/Q51s within the same set i.e. the difficulty density.

Treat this as drills, not calibration tests. To solve the entire set within 45 minutes one needS to have an olympiad level quant ability.

In actual GMAT, one should get 3-4 (that too at most) of the so called "hard" problems instead of 10-12 that these sets throw up once a clean sequence of first 7-8 is built up.

Even the first 7-8 has scattered landmines.

So bottomline is, don’t look at the score you get from them .

These are an excellent collection of highest level quant problems, that GMAT can realistically throw at you.
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I feel the same for DI as well!

Not necessarily hard but many questions time consuming asking too many percentages comparisons etc
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Individual problems are not the issue.

The issue is with staggering too many Q50/Q51s within the same set i.e. the difficulty density.

Treat this as drills, not calibration tests. To solve the entire set within 45 minutes one needS to have an olympiad level quant ability.

In actual GMAT, one should get 3-4 (that too at most) of the so called "hard" problems instead of 10-12 that these sets throw up once a clean sequence of first 7-8 is built up.

Even the first 7-8 has scattered landmines.

So bottomline is, don’t look at the score you get from them .

These are an excellent collection of highest level quant problems, that GMAT can realistically throw at you.
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Nah, difficulty in concept is okay. I am getting lengthy questions!
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> Individual problems are not the issue.
> The issue is with staggering too many Q50/Q51s within the same set i.e. the difficulty density.
> Treat this as drills, not calibration tests. To solve the entire set within 45 minutes one needS to have an olympiad level quant ability.
> In actual GMAT, one should get 3-4 (that too at most) of the so called "hard" problems instead of 10-12 that these sets throw up once a clean sequence of first 7-8 is built up.
> Even the first 7-8 has scattered landmines.
Nah, difficulty in concept is okay. I am getting lengthy questions!
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Can you please provide me one example?
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How do you guys manage to increase the speed
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I am struggling with CR and RC, Good at Quants and DI. Not able to improve my score in verbal section.
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