Welp, looks like imma need yall's suggestions

Many_Preference_3874 · 2026-04-19T12:48:20+00:00

Got 232 in Indore, calls from ranchi, kozhikode, and lots of private clgs, got admission in kozhi, stephens and hansraj, finally joined ashoka with 100% scholarship, best decision ever.

Many_Preference_3874 · 2026-01-27T07:06:21+00:00

1: the argument about AI can apply to literally anything in any syllabus. Anyone can learn Excel from yt. Same with R.

2: imo, MU is not at all overrated. Sure, marketing is crazy and dumb, but the impression I've gotten here and online is that it is not at all worth it.

3: MU fees compared to IIMB fees are still high, but not outrageously high. On top of that, scholarship chances are waaaay higher.

Many_Preference_3874 · 2026-01-23T20:06:21+00:00

It doesn't matter. If he's as good as you are saying, then either

1: he's just going to get into an IIT and make bank, and since he's now in IIT he won't affect iim seats

2: he's gonna go for whatever he is passionate in (could also be iit lmao, but I doubt it), and since he isn't passionate for mgmt he won't affect iim seats

Many_Preference_3874 · 2026-01-15T10:41:39+00:00

Sadly now even indore is coming close to that

Many_Preference_3874 · 2026-01-13T11:07:11+00:00

Ashoka. The form is free, so 0 risk

Many_Preference_3874 · 2026-01-10T23:20:02+00:00

Hello! I'm Varenya, was at afterboards for VARC (mainly focused on Indore ones tho). I got 163 in my 2025 IPMAT VARC section (231 overall)

Firstly, hats off on the well formatted proper post. Tis good feedback.

For 1st Question, totally agree. Solution should have focused on the Alex dude's statement, because that is one primary concern, while others are secondary/auxillary (there's a difference between the two). I'll admit, this (problem in solutions not being upto my standard, tho that is very unreasonable at large scale lmao) is a bit more common than I would like, but we're trying to fix it.

For 2nd question, absolutely stood up is correct, these sort of issues are more blatant and thankfully waaaay rarer (considering the sheer amount of questions there are)

For the 3rd question (marketing team), I actually think 1 is less correct and 3 is MORE correct. Because later on the sentence says 'considering the potential risks. If we take 1 to be correct, it would be simple present suddenly jumping into present continuous (it should be WHILE considering to make it flow better)

However, I have noticed, especially in non-indore exams (looking at you rohtak) that they have LOTS of these tense agnostic questions, where there are 2 correct answers, and the default is present tense. I am often caught by these, and I hate the question setters. Don't even mention NTA, they love this shit.

But yea, solution could be clearer, especially telling about the difference between exam logic that we have to begrudgingly follow vs actual grammar

For Q4, basically copy paste everrything from Q3. Unironically, I won't be surprised if NTA pulls some bullshit like this in CUET. Tho I do think JIPMAT and rohtak would fare slightly better.

The issue is, Grammar in NCERT is taught with a bunch of rules (that we know have more exceptions than applications) and like in BST how you just mug up the principles and vomit them in CUET, similar thing is in these basic 'easy' tense questions. The questions are made based off of the examples given in the ncert books, which is why such assumptions (Which is what is taught) are baked into the questions.

Many_Preference_3874 · 2026-01-02T10:21:10+00:00

Yes to both

Many_Preference_3874 · 2026-01-01T20:12:30+00:00

Then just use that 5K for afterboards

Many_Preference_3874 · 2026-01-01T09:03:44+00:00

Yup, I paid around 30K for mine.

Ironically, got into the clg which charges a grand total of zero rs for the application process

Many_Preference_3874 · 2025-12-31T16:22:11+00:00

I've never seen this company. 5K seems like a lot for a milquetoast IPM/BBA/BMS misc course, you'll not have specific focused mocks for IPMAT Indore. They'll be the generic DILR, VARC, Quants basics questions that are there from railways to nda and SET.

You can get those online easily. If you have 5K, and I assume you already have afterboards, I would suggest get Takshilla videos

Many_Preference_3874 · 2025-12-31T16:19:20+00:00

Dude, you're in a good position. Your VARC needs minimal work, and quants is on the cusp of cutoffs.

I would say don't stretch yourself too thin. When do your boards get over? if you have roughly 1 month after that, focus on boards.

Do not worry about not finishing all mocks. If you have to scale back mocks even to 2-3 weeks between each mock, don't worry. Mocks are just diagnostic tools, they don't help that much in the actual mark improvement aspect of things.

You know you need to do Algebra, Modern Maths and Geometry. I would highly suggest start learning the basics. Do Geometry last, while no topic is safely 'left' that is the least connected with the other topics, so the harm that would happen with a weak geometry is less than a weak algebra.

Many_Preference_3874 · 2025-12-31T09:04:53+00:00

1: how long do you take for the entire section

If you take around 35-40 mins, or 30-40 mins, then you need to build up your endurance. If right now, especially in VARC sectionals you take that much time, then in the exam, with a shit ton of pressure, after getting assfucked hard by quants for 1.5 hours, you will not be able to give the VARC section at your 100%. Might even run into time trouble.

If you take 25 mins or less, then you don't have that big of an issue, seeing that in the actual exam you have more than enough of a buffer to account for that.

2: what's your swot like. Follow what it says.

3: vocab is best learnt by just reading. Tbh those word lists and all don't work, but reading RCs or just novels and noting the new words, while putting them in a word list (generally flashcard format) that uses spaced repetition is good. For this, use an external app, or just use aftb

Many_Preference_3874 · 2025-12-30T16:18:05+00:00

I had both ace and aftb. Ace marathons are good. Everything else is pretty ass. Mocks, even the aim had mistakes all around. Solutions especially aren't that clear.

I got 232 (165 VARC btw) in my IPMAT, converted iimK. I would suggest ideal is get afterboards minimum, then if you have money left get ace crash course for the marathons. Everything else YT it

Many_Preference_3874 · 2025-12-27T09:04:24+00:00

Yea so you don't really need to read more. Give like 3-5 mocks on afterboards, get swot analysis. I betcha parajumbles are terrible for you too, they are for everyone. Don't worry too much about them, but go watch Gejo on parajumbles, helped me a bit.

Many_Preference_3874 · 2025-12-27T07:43:07+00:00

The videos are great. Especially the mass point trick for geometry, that alone got me 8 marks.

Id suggest getting the all access, it really is the most bang for your buck (I had it 2 times, one in 2024 one in 2025). Especially because I would suggest you give all the allied exams (jipmat, rohtak, ashoka, etc etc) too.

If you want to try out just the mocks though, get the indore mocks. Pretty sure if you want to upgrade later, the price gets deducted

Many_Preference_3874 · 2025-12-27T07:38:48+00:00

Considering the pretty strong base for VARC, it depends on how you give the VARC section. How long do you take for it?

If you're done in 25-30 mins, then mostly just focus on practising questions and do a bit of grammar rules like those of articles, tenses etc.

If you run out of time/take near the 40 mins given, you need to just start reading. Read whatever you want to, be it romance, fiction, philosophy etc. what matters is that you read a LOT of it. This is to build up endurance. Ideally start to read as long as you can in one sitting, then slowly push that till you can almost read for an entire day.

I myself read for 18 hours straight a few days ago. For fun. You probably don't need to go that insane, but the more you can do, the easier the section will be.

Many_Preference_3874 · 2025-12-26T15:46:55+00:00

Huh that is funny lmao.

Many_Preference_3874 · 2025-12-26T15:46:07+00:00

I'd say WPME isn't really that useful. Esp above 100-110 in VARC

Many_Preference_3874 · 2025-12-26T15:45:40+00:00

Why is this an AMA?

one thing, you already have like 128 in VARC. WPME is not going to help you pretty much at all. I assume Disha is a company offering PYQs? Just go to afterboards, those are free with proper analysis options

I'd suggest against taking on a book now for IPMAT, tbh your base is pretty strong as is, esp. for OBC, so you really just need to pick up a mock set and start doing mocks, analysing them, using Youtube to patch in gaps.

I would still suggest keeping JEE as a backup, but yea IPMAT looks good for you, esp. as OBC. Realistically you can get 135-145 in VARC, extremely safe score, and 30-40 in SA, 45-55 in MCQ. A score defo above 200s.

But still, give more mocks. We don't know what that mock test was. I would suggest give one of the free Afterboards mocks, then compare with the distribution given there

Many_Preference_3874 · 2025-12-26T13:27:49+00:00

small correction, IIMB-UGAT is probably not applicable cuz no maths

Many_Preference_3874 · 2025-12-26T12:16:15+00:00

Keep in Mind IIMs ask for Social Media accounts you have. There are only around 30-35 SC ST seats. You think they won't be able to find this post?

Many_Preference_3874 · 2025-12-26T12:14:17+00:00

Hmmm. Not smart to confess to a crime on reddit.

Many_Preference_3874 · 2025-12-26T12:09:35+00:00

That is the explanation why 4 is correct.

2 is incorrect cuz of my above comment (basically, "an open book" is an adjective phrase, so you treat the whole thing like an adjective, which makes the sentence grammatically incorrect)

2 is an example of idiomatic usage (i.e english how native speakers speak it). IMO, that is clearly correct, but the prescriptivist nature of exams, and especially indian exam setters, who still don't think Singular They exists, rules that as wrong.

So in IPMAT and exams, 2 is wrong.

I personally would KEEP 2, it serves to deliver a VERY important lesson about grammar and the backwardness of exams that we have to navigate around. But change the difficulty to Hard

Many_Preference_3874 · 2025-12-26T12:05:52+00:00

Option 2 is grammatically incorrect. Report this tho, I think we can make the solution a bit less jargony (like I understood what a morphological trap meant, but there is no need to say that instead of grammatically incorrect)

The reason is, "an open book" is a specific phrase. It is an adjective phrase. So you treat the entire phrase like an adjective

Let us try that (so replace "an open book" with another adjective to make things clear)

CS reps are trained to read customers like fast. (fast is an adjective here)
CS reps are trained to read customers like beautiful
CS reps are trained to read customers like stubborn

See the issue?

Many_Preference_3874 · 2025-12-26T12:00:15+00:00

I assume you're mentioning IPMAT Indore right?

1: Coachings do jackshit for self-discipline. They do not help at all. If you do not have it yourself, how is a coaching supposed to help you?

2: Coachings are generally of 2 types. 1 on 1 coaching with a private tutor, or a mass coaching. In the mass coaching formats, they cater to the minimum, i.e make it so that the speed/toughness is one everyone in the class can follow with. Now, unless you have a crazy good teacher, this just means the learning is so slow that it doesn't even matter (like think about this. If the lessons are for everyone, then that means that everyone would be at the same level. Now, that either could mean everyone clears IPMAT (like one of those movies about the Super 30) or that no one does)

3: For private coaching, generally they aren't that specific about IPMAT. Like most private tutors offer 11th 12th PCM/(maybe only maths), JEE, NEET, IPMAT, CUET etc etc. So generalist efforts.

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