Ankur Warikoo says THIS question decides your MBA admission!

According to Entrepreneur Ankur Warikoo, this one question will decide your MBA admissions to the top colleges. Discover the question in this blog, and I will help you learn to answer it like a top B-school candidate.
The Question is - “Why MBA?”
The question seems very simple and easy to answer, but according to your career, your experience, your context the question you need to answer is "Why is doing an MBA the most important thing for you right now?" The answer must be very clear which will help you pass the interview.

The interviewer is looking for the attitude which must be humble and confidence while answering the question. When the candidates answer this question, the panelist analyze these factors of the candidate:

• Clear thinking
• Strategic mindset
• Career ownership

When the answer matched the above perspective students get the admissions easily.

The perfect answer to this question varies according to the categories. There are 3 categories

1. Freshers
2. Experienced Professionals
3. Work experience with management profile

Let's see what are the perfect answers for each section

1. Fresher - If you are a fresher this is the most difficult category to justify because you do not have enough stories to tell for your MBA but still you can do that specifically if you have internship then it becomes a little bit easier because there you can share what you have learnt in the internship. This will help the panelist to understand your observation and the experience you gained there.
2. Experienced Professional in a different non-management field - A candidate with work experience can answer this question more correctly where they must provide the valid experience and what they learned and if they are from IT field or law, you could pick and choose any one of them any one of the reason whichever you feel confident about one of the reason can be you see saturation in your career growth or in the type of role or type of work that you are doing maybe it has been consistent for a couple of years or for a couple of months it has been consistent so now you want to switch to something else. While answering you should more focus about as an individual what were your contribution that you're doing in the project rather what you want to move towards is more a team environment so you can say that you want to lead teams manage teams which is not possible in the kind of role that you are currently in which is more about individual contribution or you can say that you want to progress in the same industry.
3. Work experience in management profile - The candidates with experience in management profile the simple answer for this could be to expedite career growth, the way that you will progress after your MBA. In Consulting, you will develop great amount of knowledge through the case studies happening in B-Schools and that will help you a lot in getting placed in any consulting firm in a better position than what you are currently at. So this a very good answer to have Expediting career growth is simple enough.

1. How to prepare for a GDPI round?
   Ans: Once your CAT exam is over, the candidates must start preparing for GDPI round since is the important round. Here the answers and attitude matters the most.
2. What are the aspects to be kept while preparing for GDPI round?
   Understanding the Process, Have a hold on Current Affairs and GK, Communication Skills must be up to the mark, Must practice Mock Discussions and Interviews, and must practice the time Management skill,