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There may be numerous factors that influence your decision regarding the area you wish to specialize in. Depending upon your priority, you may choose a field as per the market demand (job availability), your interest area, preferred job profiles and the compensation package. So, it is not that Marketing has the best placements. If you work hard in any specialization, you will find a place for you and your dream job. But, in general, we can say that stats indicate that Marketing placements are good. The reason being nowadays it is booming. Digital Marketing and Online marketing has taken the MBA world by storm and it is growing very fast. The marketing department plays a crucial role in any organization as they are responsible for bringing in new businesses, growing the revenue, increasing market share and contributing to the company's growth and profitability.

Yes, you can. It would help you in a huge way if you are going to do MBA for sure once you are done with your graduation. You can apply for some coaching class for mock tests. Mock tests would help you in preparation. Or if you want you can join the classes as well. Many classes nowadays provide feature like if you are not able to get into the college that you want you can sit for their lectures in next year again. You get access to their online study material as well. As you would give the CAT exam while you are in the final year of your graduation you will get an idea about how entrance exams are in nature. Thus, even if you are not able to score in this year you stand a pretty good chance in the following year for scoring more marks as your score will improve only. So you should go for it in your final year of graduation. There is a lot free study material as well as free mock tests available online which might be useful for the preparation.

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Rashmi Bansal is an Indian non-fiction writer, entrepreneur and a youth expert. As of 2016, she is the author of seven books on entrepreneurship. Her first book, Stay Hungry Stay Foolish, traced the progress of 25 MBA entrepreneurs and sold over 500,000 copies, a record for books published in India.
On graduating from IIM, she first worked as a brand manager for the Times of India. After developing a youth page for The Independent, she went on to found JAM (Just Another Magazine), a youth magazine in collaboration with her husband Yatin Bansal.
She was inspired to write Stay Hungry Stay Foolish (2008) by Rakesh Basant, a professor at IIM Ahmedabad who suggested she should cover the experiences of 25 entrepreneurs from the school. It turned out to be so successful that 100,000 copies were sold in the first 10 months, eventually recording sales of over 350,000. Her next book, Connect the Dots (2010), traced the progress of entrepreneurs without the MBA qualification. It also proved to be a best seller. Her I Have a Dream (2011) focused on social entrepreneurs, introducing an interesting mix of English and Hindi, popularly known as Hinglish, in an attempt to add a more realistic account of her personalities.
In an interview with Heather Timmons of the New York Times, Bansal explained she decided to use Hinglish as it provides a more direct representation of people's voices and makes them more real. More recently, Bansal has written another four best-sellers on entrepreneurs: Poor Little Rich Slum, Follow Every Rainbow, Take Me Home and Arise Awake. All are concerned with entrepreneurship with advice on how to succeed. She frequently illustrates her ideas with accounts of those who have risen to unexpected heights.

Jaipuria Institute for Management is one of the most decent colleges for pursuing business studies in the Delhi NCR region. Many corporate and management related companies visit the campus every year for placements. Some of the top companies are:
Coca Cola, Axis Bank, Havells, Asian Paints, Amazon (two year prior), D-Mart, etc.
The average placement from the campus, specifically for MBA aspirants is around 5 LPA, whereas highest being 14 LPA.
There were few students recruited last year for abroad placements in USA.
Many companies visiting the campus are multinationals. By clearing that, one can grab the placement opportunity abroad.
Overall, the curriculum of the institute is updated and has a very nice infrastructure.

In the last of your interview, the interviewers should be impressed by you. Impressing the interviewers mean, they are convinced of your expertise, experience, desire, motivation, devotedness, entrepreneurship skill, managerial skill. Maybe anyone of these or each of these. Many a time, anyone of these is enough to get you in.
Now, the interviewers sitting in front of you can be fascinated in various ways which will depend on you.
Some would say communication skill is the necessary component. Some would say knowledge of current affairs and your subject matters. Others would say, your enthusiasm and being you is the key. There are many other views likewise. People discovered different ways to convert IIM calls. They may work for you, may not. You have to find your own way. There is no written rule that can lead you to the place where you want to be.

Asia Pacific Institute of Management (APIM), Delhi was established in the year 1996, a well-established Institute.
Scores of CAT/MAT/XAT/ CMAT/ GMAT are accepted.
Brands like Axis Bank, Reliance JIO, JW Marriott, Air InfoTech, FedEx, Gartner, Audi, Ernst & Young, Nestle, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Copal Amba American Express, Airtel, TATA AIA Life, Naukari.com, Citibank, JustDial, Zomato, Quikr, TATA Capital, Birla Sunlife ICICI Securities, Haldirams, IndusInd bank, IndePay, HDFC Bank, Alibaba.com, and India Bulls, etc. are major recruiters.
Apart from job opportunities, the college also offers trainings for various posts such as HR manager, general executives, hotel managers, sales officers and manager related posts and project heads, typically so that students can go with faster progress in any corporate.
The average placement for the institute is 9 LPA ranging from 4 LPA to 20 LPA including various international placements. So the institute is overall well for pursuing the business studies.

Yes, you can surely apply for an IIM even you have rejected a previous offer. There are people who do get selected in newer IIMs but they apply again to get into top IIMs. The shortlists are based on CAT score and profile and the number of attempts are not considered. Normally, during the interview process as well, the interviewers do not ask about whether you were selected last time. If they do, then you can give a valid reason for your choice and make them understand the opportunity cost of your decision. If you wanted to have work experience before joining IIM, then you can justify your choice. Having said that, you should really think beforehand whether you want to join or not. There is no guarantee that you will get a call this time if you get it before as it's all relative to the quality of candidates and CAT score.

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Here are few books for KMAT preparation:
1. O. P. Singhal for Quantitative Ability
2. Data Interpretation and Logical reasoning by Arun Sharma
3. Wren and Marten for Verbal Ability
4. P. Sinha for Quantitative Ability
5. Pearson Guide to Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation for CAT by Nishit Sinha, Publisher- Pearson
6. How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for the CAT by Arun Sharma, Publisher - Tata Mcgraw Hill
7. Business English and Communication by Clark Zimmer, Publisher - Mcgraw Hill Ryerson
8. Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension by Ajay Singh, Publisher - Arihant
9. Class 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th Textbooks of NCERT/Kerala State Board
10. Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension by TIME
The candidate should improve their vocabulary skills by reading English newspapers, magazines and watch English news. They can practice many online tests to improve their language skills.

No, pursuing a distance graduation won't impact your chance of getting admission in top B-schools as many colleges accept candidates with distance graduation but one need to prove themselves. it in much more better way than that of a candidate with regular degree. A student must first decide in what trade they want to build their career. There are many friends of mine who have completed their graduation from distance and completed their MBA from reputed colleges are currently working in a multinational company and are doing very well. So, it doesn't mean that if you are a distance graduation student won't get a better job. If a candidate is hardworking and focused then he/she can get a better job. According to me, pursuing distance graduation won't impact chances of admission in a top B-schools.