Should I quit my job to prepare for CAT exam ? One of the question that is often asked by many of the candidates. These days getting a job is very tough for anyone and quitting a job is a tougher task. It is normally seen that sometimes people quit their jobs because of their competitive exams. Is it good or bad – in this blog we are going to discuss that.
A person doing any kind of job may have the following questions –
– is it wise to quit my job to prepare for CAT ?
– will quitting my job have a negative impact on my profile ?
– how can I prepare if I am working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week ?
No need to worry about anything. If you are doing a 10 to 7 job, then also you can crack your CAT exam easily. No, its not a shocking news, as there are so many office employees have easily achieved their goal by doing so.
Yes, with the help of coaching institutes you can be able to crack any of the competitive exams without quitting your job. In a city like Kolkata, there are large number of coaching institutes providing the best facilites at a very reasonable cost. You all know that in comparison to those little earnings you can complete your MBA and can add it to your resume further, it will help a lot. Doing MBA requires money, so for that earning is important.
There might be other reasons as well ranging from a mind-numbingly monotonous IT job to a horrible boss, to the existential dread — what will become of me and my life if I am stuck in my current situation forever.
Also, there are many who have faced this situation this before as well when they had set their eyes for the first time on getting two more “I“s than what God brought them into the world with — the IITs.
For most of my colleagues, the answer is a simple NO. But I think under certain circumstances quitting your job not be the best option in front of you with the proviso that you quit at the right time and do more than just prep for the CAT.
If you quit,be prepared to face the music in every single interview
Before anything else, please understand that if you quit, you have to face many challenges like – why did you quit your job ?
This question is bound to be followed by others such as –
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- surely you did it just to prepare for the CAT!
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- so it means you are not good at multi-tasking?
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- more than half of our students have work-ex, do you mean to say that all of them had easy jobs that allowed them to put their feet up?
Do you want yourself to get admitted to a institute ? Are you a resident of Kolkata? Have you heard the name of Edufoster Institute – CAT coaching in Kolkata ? If not, then this blog will help you out.
No matter if you are doing any kind of job, you can prepare for CAT with the help of the best coaching for CAT. With Edufoster Institute, you can get the following facilities like –
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- Experienced teachers
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- Offline/online classes
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- Mock tests
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- Doubt clearing sessions
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- Previous year paper solved
How will quitting effect your job profile in getting into an IIM ?
First, let us look at the effect of quitting your job on your chances of getting a shortlist from a quantitative perspective.
There are colleges such as IIM-B and many others that give a weightage to work experience in the shortlisting process. In such cases, you will lose out on valuable points and will hence have to score higher on the test to get the shortlist than if you had stuck on in your job. So yes, there is a clear quantitative effect.
If you have two or more years of work-ex and the rest of your profile — X, XII, Grad Marks — is good you can on average score 0.5 – 0.75 percentile points lower than someone with no or low work-ex. But remember that this is only in the case of institutes that give a weightage to work-ex.
This quantitative effect as you will see will be negligible in the case of people with more than 30-36 months years of work experience since the points for work-ex are not directly proportional to the amount of work-ex in that they are capped after a point. To know more about IIM selection criteria you can read this post — The IIM Selection Criteria: Will I get a call from the IIMs?
The other way of looking at this question is from a qualitative perspective — in terms of how panelists will view you in the interview. Panelists more often than not feel that all MBA aspirants hate engineering and run after an MBA to make more money. So when they see candidates who have left what is on paper a promising professional opportunity, they tend to look at him/her in an unfavorable light and will expect them to justify the same.
How many months of work-ex makes it safe to quit ?
So, by now, it will be clear that quitting will not affect your chances if you do it after finishing 2 years of working. If you already have 3 years of experience and a relatively weak resume, it makes sense to quit yur job, prepare for CAT and build your profile.
Conclusion
Hope you like reading this blog and found it informative. CAT or Common Admission Test is a very tough exam to crack at the first attempt. Join Edufoster Institute as the CAT institute in Kolkata and be benefited with its facilities and services. . Even so, I am sure that each one of you might have unique backgrounds and aspirations making it tough for you to take a call.