Admission Story: Anupam Tiwari, IIM Bodh Gaya, 96, CAT

Anupam Tiwari graduated from KIET with 75% marks. He scored 96 percentile in his CAT exam and on the basis of his overall performance he converted IIM Bodhgaya. He also holds a work experience of 17 months with an MNC. In this article he shared his admission and selection insights with collegedunia.com. Keep reading for an insider story about GDPI and WAT at IIM Bodhgaya.

Anupam Tiwari Profile

Current institute: IIM Bodh Gaya
Graduation College: KIET
CAT score: 96
10th Percentage / GPA: 93
12th Percentage / GPA: 86
Graduation Percentage/GPA: 75
Work Experience: 17 months

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IIM Bodh Gaya Admission Experience

Did you avail of the benefit of any reservation?

Anupam Tiwari: “EWS (Economically Weaker Section)”

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

Anupam Tiwari: “WAT was held in offline mode and the topic was given and there was a time limit of 20 mins, during which we had to complet it. Word limit was around 300 and the topic was a bit confusing. Around 100 people were present.Tips for aspirants to prepare well for last year topic from internet and practice well by writing in given amount of words.”

What was the WAT / GD Topic?

Anupam Tiwari: “Topic was on current affair i don't remember but it is related to defense , the importance and sacrifices they had to made”

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

Anupam Tiwari: “Defense is important sector and there should be given enough facilities for the commitment they made to nation. We should come up with additional benefit for those who are in lower position and their families face a lot of issue because of the less benefit they got.”

Describe the general setting of your personal Interview.

Anupam Tiwari: “There were 2 panelists, one male and other was female. They were from IIM Bodhgaya and they mode of interview was offline.The entire duration was of 15 minutes. It was a stress interview. Prepare well for HR related questions and basic of your under graduation and work ex related questions.Expect cross questioning on whatever you say so prepare everything.” Check IIM Bodh Gaya Admission Process

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

Anupam Tiwari:

Question: Tell me about yourself

Answer: “Talked about my under grdauation activities,work ex hobbies of cooking ,cricket my achievements.”

Question: Why Mba?

Answer: “Told them about how mangerial degree can help in my career.”

Question: Deputy CM of U.P

Answer: “Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma.”

Question: Work ex related question

Answer: “So told about the functioning of the company.”

Question: He asked me about Specifications of Smartphone Camera

Mention 3 reasons why you chose this college over other colleges which you converted (OR if you did not join this college after converting it, mention 3 reasons for not joining it).

Anupam Tiwari: “3 Reasons for choosing this college over is because of

best among all available options
Best ROI
IIM Calcutta being its mentor initially”

What was the reason for you not converting to other colleges?

Anupam Tiwari: “I got call from CAP but I got a little bit stressed during the interview but after a while, i composed myself and started answering and thus i got a call from all baby IIMs and not new IIMs”