You pick up any b school in India, you will find approximately 75% of the students are engineers. Now the question is why is it so? Well there are many reasons to it but let’s look at the main one. Yes, b-school entrance exams appear slightly easy for an engineering student compared to a non-engineer. If you look at the structure of the paper, there are 3 section in which 2 are dominated by mathematics and numbers largely where as one tests you on your English. Thus there is a dominance of mathematics and on an average, engineering students are better in that area compared to non-engineers. Though this inclination is very slight with a lot of exceptions. Also engineering students struggle big time in the 3rd section which is verbal where the is little exception.
Another factor to understand here is engineering is done primarily to get a job, which is not the case with a lot of other graduations like B.A, BBA, B Sc etc. Thus lot of engineers who don’t get a job pursue MBA further to get a job. Lastly among the engineering crowd in b schools, why is that the students from IITs and NITs get into top b schools very easily. You will often get to hear they didn’t even prepare but still got a 99.99, where as you slogged for an entire year and managed a 90. Here you have to understand the psychological aspect of this. The students we are talking about have been toppers throughout their life; in school as well as college. Being at best has got into their subconscious, they already have a complete belief that they will get a 99.99, do you have that mindset? For them, not getting a 99 will be a shocker. And so, with your mediocre academic background, you are competing with a person who has been on the top throughout their careers. It’s imperative that you understand in the beginning only that what the kind of efforts you need to put.
