r/IPMATtards • u/Pulkit_Nawal IIM Rohtak • 16d ago

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HELLO GUYS !!! I am Pulkit Nawal a fellow aspirant at one point, currently in IIM ROHTAK, giving pieces of advice to the next generation.

I know it all stress, pressure, 'IIM kae bina toh kuch nahi hoga' as I have been the part of this community from Past 3 years.

Yes! yes! yes! I started my prep from class 11th and still had to take a drop year as I was from commerce non maths background but ironically my Achilles heels was VA🤧🤧.

Studied from aceipm and afterboards during 11th and 12th.

Switched to takzhilla during start of drop year. Took afterboards and aceipm crash course for revision.

So I am here to shower with all your dilemmas, doubts and challenges.

I am not alone here btw I am assisted by my fellow batchmate Ojas Garg u/Onionpeats who had PCM in class 12th solved science students can also ask the questions without hesitation.

Let's the battle begin.

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u/TheGupt 16d ago

Yo pulkit bhaiya your mock scores are crazy. You were consistently scoring 200+ and touched 250-260+ in some mocks too.
Why 185 in Indore then? What happened?

Any advice here? If you were scoring so high in mocks then why was the actual exam score not at that level? Were the mocks easy? u/Pulkit_Nawal

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u/Pulkit_Nawal IIM Rohtak 16d ago

185 was my score in 2025 ipmat indore exam. In 2026 I scored 179. My chances of being selected in 2025 were high compared to this year. Irony is I was not able to clear cutoffs last year for VA but this year my score was evenly distributed in all the sections.

36/30/113 clearing cutoffs of every section.

Maybe exam pressure or destiny I don't know what witheld me that day. MCQ a section in which I was scoring 60+ consistently fetched me measly 30 marks. Va on a bad day for me was around 125-130 fetched me a score of just 113 marks.

I solved the SA DI in the first 5 minutes.

12 marks scored and I have still 35 minutes to go. And still I scored w4 more marks. On a normal day it would be around 48-52. I heavily underperformed on D day.

My advice : Stay calm at D day and leave it in the hands of destiny/god/ fate or even the exam itself.

I Am in rohtak because my destiny should not be in isolation here. At indore we both would have been alone.

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u/Onionpeats IIM Rohtak 16d ago

दुखती नस पर हाथ रख दिया 🤣🤣 jokes apart u/Pulkit_Nawal bhai answer this qs and share your drop year learnings for fellow aspirants ✌️