Nikhil Goyal is an IIM Sirmaur MBA student.He got Admission at IIM Sirmaur with a CAT percentile of 92.43. He completed his graduation from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra with a percentile of 77.3%. Before joining IIM sirmaur, NIkil had worked with Infosys Ltd for 2.5 years in Software Quality Assurance. He shared his IIM Sirmaur MBA Admission experience with the Collegedunia Team, read below

Nikhil Goyal

Collegedunia Team: What was your CAT percentile? Did you avail reservation benefits for IIM Sirmaur MBA Admission?

Nikhil: I converted IIM Sirmaur with a CAT percentile of 92.43% and being a general class candidate I did not avail any reservation benefits. 

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Collegedunia Team: Describe your Pre MBA Academic Performance for Collegedunia readers?

Nikhil: I had scored 91% in the 10 board exam and a decent percentage in 12 boards i.e. 82.4%. Also, I completed my graduation from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra with 77.3% marks. 

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Collegedunia Team: Describe the general setting of your personal Interview.

Nikhil: IIM Sirmaur MBA Admission interview process was online. I was in the panel where there were 2 faculty members from one of the IIMs. 

It was quite an easy interview and questions were mostly about my work ex, current affairs. 

My suggestion would be to be well versed with your CV, current affairs, and everyday news. 

Collegedunia Team: Mention at least 5 questions that were asked in IIM Sirmaur Interview and how you responded to each of them?

Nikhil: The series of questions that were asked during the Interview are:-

Ques1. Why do you want to do an MBA?

Ans. I answered by linking it with my job experience and how I need to climb up the corporate ladder and how IIM can help me in achieving it.

Ques 2. Why not entrepreneurship? Your father is a businessman, it must be easy for you?

Ans. I told them the pros and cons of being an entrepreneur and the plan of starting a venture later but they were trying to grill onto that and I had to agree to them at some point

Ques 3. So, you have done electronics and communication engineering, tell me which is the recent company that closed due to business shortage?

Ans. Unfortunately I did not know the proper answer, so I told them what I feel about the recent scenario.

Ques 4. As you are interested in Badminton, tell me who is recently evolving as a good player?

Ans. I answered with my personal opinion about Lakshay Sen and his recent achievements.

Ques 5. Which is better Data Analytics without MBA or after MBA?

Ans. I mentioned the importance of domain knowledge before analysing the data properly. It's now necessary to gain that by MBA only but if from any other sources the person knows about it, it would be helpful in identifying the right variables to analyse. 

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Collegedunia Team: Mention any three reasons why you chose this college over other colleges which you converted.

Nikhil: I had to make a choice between IIM Sirmaur and IIM Bodhgaya. 

The main reason for choosing the former was the new director Mr. Prafulla Agnihotri, who has been the founding member of IIM Trichy. Another reason was the location of IIM Sirmaur which was better than Bodhgaya. Also the third reason was placements, which are almost the same for both the colleges but I believe in the long run, IIM Sirmaur would do better.

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Collegedunia Team: What was the reason for you not converting other colleges?

Nikhil: The first stage is getting calls from the colleges. I had received a call for a CAP interview for 9 IIMs and NMIMS. My other converts were NMIMS Bangalore, IIM Bodhgaya and IIM Trichy-HR. 

Unfortunately because of my CAT 2021 percentile, I did not receive many calls. As for some of the colleges, I did not apply as it was my personal decision to apply to selective institutes. 

So, if you have no such priorities, apply to every good college and maximise the number of calls, appear for interviews and convert as much as you can.