A Must Watch Before Starting your MBA | MBA Course | Case Competitions | IIM Course | B-School

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Hello everyone, my name is Aloc and welcome back to my channel. I make videos around CAD and MBA. In this video, I'll be telling you if you are going to do your MBA this year, you're going to start with your MBA journey this year, what should be your preparation strategy before you go to the college, what all courses or what all things you should get prepared with before joining your college. So, let's just get started with this one.

[00:00:32]So I'll be dividing this video into three parts. One will be your academics like how can you be prepared about the academic load and rigor that's going to come up in the next months. Secondly, I would talk about the case competition hypes because everyone there'll be a buzz about the competitions and how and what to do to case them. And thirdly, uh most important part which is your summer placements and your CV preparation how you should get started with that and I think that is the most important part that we'll be touching towards the end of the video. Firstly, your CAT. So if you are an engineer and you have not been exposed to finance or balance sheets, cash flow statements, income statements, P&L statements. So this is the time where you actually start taking a hang of it because when you go to your MBA, you will immediately a lot many things will get started. Your classes, inductions, clubs and committees and everything comes just at one go. So you do not have a lot of time to dedicate to your studies after your classes. So if you have a basic you get your basics cleared about you know balance sheet statements uh you know basic terminologies or jarens of accountings and how do we do debits and credits journal entries and everything. If you are if you get the even the basics clear here it it's going to help you a lot when you sit in classes and you know get started with your actual thing for account student for commerce background students it's going to be a plus for you there uh you can get started with reading a bit of macroeconomics because economics will also come up if you are guys are not knowing about economics you can get started there so I think these two are the subjects which are very common and comes in very new to people who do not come from commerce or economics background. So there are a lot of YouTube playlists that you can refer to and uh you can you know learn basics there uh so that it doesn't come at once to you when you join journal entry.

[00:02:40]Secondly, case competitions. Okay, so case competitions are a thing in MBA, but I don't see that it is the only thing. Do not put in a lot of time and energy thinking about and preparing about case competitions as of now.

[00:02:54]Rather than that, you can just do some kind of skill building uh like learning how to make good PPTs, learning how to use Excel because that will come very handy. Excel is also something that uh it will help you in CADs also like in the first part which I was saying. So uh you will get one subject which will cover all the Excel basics you know and uh that is something also that non-engineers get like struggle with so for engineers it counts for non-engineers I think you get started with basics of Excel how do you do excel operations v look up and other functions how do we use it that is going to help you a lot it the the moment you get after a month or two your CV preparation begins and your summer placements will start like in no time. So I would say and and by the time you are just you know making your CV uh companies start coming in. So it's very overwhelming experience in the first scope but I I would suggest that make an outline of at least pointers that you'll be putting on CV of what you'll be writing from your academic achievements to your um other achievements to what if you have workx what work like pointers are you going to put and make sure that you think in terms of numbers you know try to quantify your achievements that I improved the sales by 20% % through doing this you know I improved the click-through rates and whatever uh terminologies are there in in your role was there in your role and you can how can you quantify it you know what percentage or by what number did you bring the impact that you brought in your organization so I would suggest start thinking in terms of that you obviously your college and every college has its format of uh building a CV or doing things but uh start thinking in terms of the pointers what you want to put in your CV because that is very important. uh at least you will be ready with the pointers and on top of that all these pointers who is going to verify you know some authority your manager or your professors from college like for the achievements part and everything your POS you know position of responsibilities who is going to verify and say that okay yeah this was true that is also to be brought on mail uh by most of the colleges do this practice right so start getting in touch with them you know tell them that you're joining on college and you might need help in terms of you know verification of pointers and everything on the CV so that at that point you do not panic that that person is not replying and uh what to do if that person doesn't reply now you will start looking for alternatives right but then at that point it becomes too much if you do not get an approval right so I feel for some this is very important another thing start reading about the domain you want to get into if you want to get into marketing if you want to get into consulting or finance and so start reading the basic basics about it through you know chipity or reach some companions or do something but then I feel the other two segments that we talked about are not as important as the summers are because when you get into when when companies start coming in you start feeling left out and underprepared if you have not started your preparation a little early so that's what I would say uh to how you should go about your summer preparation right I would keep this one shot. If you have any doubts, please you can ping me on my socials. I have added all the socials on my about in the channel description. Or you can also comment it down below here. Whenever I get time, I'll get back to you. Uh I hope you like my content. If it adds value, do subscribe to my channel. It really motivates me to make more such videos.

[00:06:48]Uh that's it for today. Uh I'll see you in the next one. Bye-bye.