Naveenan Ramachandran - Cracking CAT '05

1. The individual attention that Baskar could afford on each student helped me greatly.
   
   There were times, 2 months before CAT, when I thought that I had better prospects in the job I was holding at that point in time. Baskar took the time and energy to knock some clarity in my thinking so that I got back on track. I am sure this was something that I could not have got in the other institutes.
   
   
2. After each and every MOCK CAT test, there would be a 2 or 3 hour discussion in which EVERY question in the test was analyzed and solutions / short-cuts were elaborated. This helped me to understand how my peers were approaching the problems. Though this might sound trivial, believe me, it makes a LOT of difference. After all, the case-study method of study in MBA relies on the fact that every person in the class learns from the other's view point.
   
   
3. There is another feature which is EXCLUSIVE to Ascent. As part of GD / PI classes, Ascent encourages the students to prepare presentations on their chosen topics and "teach" about the same to the rest of the students. This ensures that all of the students knew something about everything under the sun (well, almost).
   
   I am a direct beneficiary of this exercise. A classmate of mine (Kedar Naik) prepared a presentation on "Telecom industry in India". The following week, in the Indore interview, the panelist asked about 10 questions on mobile telephony - and I was able to get most of them right. It definitely boosted a LOT of confidence in me.