Admission Story: Saumya Saurabh, SCMHRD Pune, 97.3 Percentile, SNAP

Saumya Saurabh is currently enrolled in the MBA-BA course atSCMHRD, Pune. He graduated from JUIT, SOLAN with an 80% aggregate. Saumya cleared the SNAP exam with 97.3 percentile.

Saumya Saurabh Profile

Current institute: SCMHRD, Pune
Graduation College: JUIT, SOLAN
SNAP score: 97.3 percentile
10th Percentage / GPA: 96
12th Percentage / GPA: 90.4
Graduation Percentage/GPA: 80
Work Experience: Cognizant. Exp- 3.5 years. Role- Programmer Analyst

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Saumya Saurabh Admission Experience

Did you avail of the benefit of any reservation?

Saumya Saurabh: “General (No reservation)”

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

Saumya Saurabh: “The WAT/GD process happened offline. First was the wat process which had two topics - one technical, the other abstract. Gd followed WAT. There were 8 members in a group. Everyone got the chance to speak. Topics were mostly based on Current Affairs and were situational.”

What was the WAT / GD Topic?

Saumya Saurabh: “The topic for WAT was Manufacturing Industry: A backbone for the economy? And the abstract topic was Sucess or Happiness: what to seek. In GD, a situation was given which wanted our views whether cooperation between the government and the poor people is necessary for the alleviation of poverty.”

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

Saumya Saurabh: “For the abstract topic in WAT, I tried to interlink both success and happiness as having a causal relationship. For the technical topic, general awareness along with knowledge of facts and figures helped me work up the content. In GD, I tried to take the lead and led the discussion as per my views.”

Describe the general setting of your personal Interview.

Saumya Saurabh: “There were 2 members in the panel. The mode of the interview was offline. The interview lasted for 20 minutes. It began with basic HR questions and ended with a case-solving exercise which tested a candidate’s spontaneity.”

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

Saumya Saurabh: “1.Why MBA after working in IT for nearly 4 years?

Why Business Analytics?
Interests/Hobbies.
Strengths and Weaknesses.
Questions related to case studies followed."

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

Saumya Saurabh: “1. Good ROI as compared to similar colleges.

Was a pioneer college offering BA as a specialization at the time.
A top 25 college."

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

Saumya Saurabh: “I believe my inability to iron out my LR/DI section was one of the main reasons for not converting to the other top colleges. I would recommend students to have atleast a certain level of command on all 3 sections before going on to strengthening any particular section.”

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