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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.

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.

Prestige Institute of Management is one of the premier institutes of the central India for management studies affiliated to the state government run Devi Ahilya Bai Vishwavidhyalaya (DAVV).
Though, the institute does not have remarkable placement record, it is successful in achieving 90 percent placement record and also has nice locational factors.
The placement record for the past recruitment session is around 9 LPA whereas 9 LPA being the highest and 1.6 LPA being the lowest.
There is no remarkable abroad placement here.
So, the institution should not be preferred for long distance education purpose.
Also, one should put his/her own extra efforts to get a good placement.

We need managers who genuinely understand markets, their relationship to the public sector, and the philosophical, cultural, and social meanings of business growing global influence. We need leaders who fully grasp that markets, while highly efficient, are not fair, kind, or wise. The current market price, while efficient, is not essentially just it can, in fact, be rather cruel. For example, when a large retail chain comes to a town, pushing small businesses to close. We need leaders who are ready to face the trials of growing income inequality, unemployment, environmental influence, and cultural homogenization that modern business practices do not yet appropriately address.
That's why India needs more, not less, business knowledge. It depends on it.
So, the answer to this question is no.

Books for general knowledge:
For general knowledge part of PGCET, you can refer to these books:
1. First in India
2. First in World
3. Current Affairs
4. Awards
Books for reasoning and general intelligence:
R.S.Agarwal is one of the best books for PGCET Verbal Reasoning.
1. R.S. Agarwal Verbal Reasoning
2. R.S. Agarwal Logical Reasoning
Books for Quantitative Technique:
Arun Sharma
Apart from practising the questions and the concepts, keep an eye on the time so that you have an estimate of which questions take more time and likewise you will be able to have a SWOT analysis of yours.
Keep taking mock tests as these are actually helpful, also helps to build your confidence level and make you more prepared for the test.
Hope it helps you in having some insight for the same.
All the best for all your future endeavours.