Admission Story: Priyansha Sharma, IIM Shillong, 97.34%, CAT

Priyansha Sharma is an MBA student at IIM Shillong and was able to successfully convert IIMS with a CAT score of 97.34 percentile. She completed her graduation from NPGC Lucknow with a 67% GPA.

Priyansha Sharma Profile

Current institute: IIM Shillong
Graduation College: NPGC Lucknow
CAT score: 97.34%
10th Percentage / GPA: 81.6
12th Percentage / GPA: 90
Graduation Percentage/GPA: 67
Work Experience: 15

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Admission Experience

Did you avail of the benefit of any reservation?

Priyansha Sharma: “General (No reservation)”

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

Priyansha Sharma: “Didn't have GD this year.”

Describe the general setting of your personal Interview.

Priyansha Sharma: “There were 2 panellists in my interview, a little search found that they were HR faculties. My interview was online and the faculty was lenient and merry!

My interview was a good mix of stress and normal interview.

Stress, because of the domain they belonged to and when I started talking on finance they kinda got more in the 'curious mode' and kept running into details as much as possible. Thankfully I was able to work out confidently and nicely.”

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

Priyansha Sharma: “I am going to rank in the order of difficulty. 1st being the most difficult acc. To me.

1) Difference between East and west coast of USA

2) Comment on the impact of Labour Laws

3) Has India experienced negative interest rates

4) why Bank rates and Repo rates differ

5) why is US Dollar considered the standard currency

6) Formula for WACC

7) what are Beta and Rho.”

Mention 3 reasons why you chose this college over other colleges which you converted.

Priyansha Sharma: “1) This is my best call is the flagship

2) Given my interest in finance, IIMS offer a high-end faculty that so far has been able to entertain all the doubts politely

3) I converted IIMK PGP Fin too. But that was a risky bet, not to say that brand value is high there, I decided to go for a course which is more settled in the corporate world.”

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

Priyansha Sharma: “I converted all PI calls I had.”