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I am extremely delighted to share a couple of great news with you.

1. Coffee With Sundar Co-Sponsored NIT Trichy’s Thyagaraja Aradhana. It is a small contribution to the great divine art of Carnatic music.

2. Coffee With Sundar has recruited one new person.
Its my pleasure to welcome Mr. Mahesh, 3rd year, Chemical Engineering student from NIT Trichy as the designer of Coffee With Sundar. He will primarily be designing posters and wall papers for Thyagaraja Aradhana.

Just to keep you all informed, Mahesh gets a lot “Good Wishes” as his annual compensation. He will also get other perks like enjoying treats from me, whenever he meets me.

On behalf of all the readers, Its my pleasure to welcome Mr. Mahesh.

Btw, Mahesh is a freelance researcher and runs his own blog here.

Today I have a very special guest for you! A CAT Cracker . It is none other than my very good pal – Mahesh Chayel. Mahesh has secured 99.4x in CAT 2007 and has secured calls from B C L I K. He graduated from Anna University and is now working in a leading Software firm. He has answered my queries very sincerely. I really appreciate his efforts. I also hope that this interaction is helpful to you.

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So, its “Coffee With Mahesh!”

Me: When did you think about doing an MBA and why?
Mahesh: “In college. Because I found myself interested a lot in how business works and its technicalities.”

Me: Was this your first attempt at CAT? How did you prepare for it?
Mahesh: “No, it was third. This time I wanted to be certain that I crack CAT and get into the best B-Schools in the country. So, I joined a full time course with a leading coaching institute. Thats where I met Sundar first. Other source of preparation was pagalguy. Learnt a lot from it and learnt that giving is actually getting.”

Me: How did you manage studying for CAT along with your job? What was your schedule like?
Mahesh: “Though it would seem tough at first glance but when you love your job and love your dreams you automatically start enjoying the process. I loved being part of this journey. Schedule was more of a concentrated effort at improving my weak areas in beginning and then showing consistency later on.”

Me: Which were your strong sections and which were the challenging ones?
Mahesh: “Strong section was always DI and LR. Whereas VA was always doubtful , but I usually used to clear it. The QA section which should have been easier was bad for me. But at the same time my maximum time used to go in improving quants.”

(just to add to the context, DI – Data Interpretation, LR – Logical reasoning, VA – Verbal ability, QA – Quantitative aptitude.)

Me: What was your strategy for CAT?
Mahesh: “Nothing big. Tried and tested QA-VA-LR in the order. 40 minutes each.”

Me: Was there any really disappointing incident in the whole process? Was there anything that pulled you down?
Mahesh: “Sometimes pathetic scores in some sections used to be heart-breakers. But the real downtime was in last 1 month. I got a string of bad scores, the last mock I wrote I just got 72 percentile. Before that I never got less than 86 percentile in the 30 odd mocks that I wrote. But just believed that I can.”

Me: What is your advice to the next batch of CAT aspirants for their preparations?
Mahesh: “Identify your weaknesses. Work on all sections equally well. Take string of bad scores seriously but not one odd case. And when you feel that you have done enough, be sure that you will get enough. Otherwise you haven’t done enough.”

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Wow! “When you feel you have done enough, be sure that you will get enough, otherwise you haven’t done enough”. Great words and good advice.

Hope you guys enjoyed “Coffee With Mahesh!”

At Coffee With Sundar, I intend to bring people from different walks of life and have a chat over coffee. I will put up the transcript for my dear readers to read, appreciate, learn and enjoy!

Hope you liked this experience. Give your feedback/comments

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