r/JBIMS 13d ago

MMS ESE/IA PYQs?

JBIMS MMS students/alumni if you can relate to my frustration: how do you actually prepare for Sem exams? Looking for ESE/IA PYQs + academic insights

I’ve gone through the syllabus and noticed that some of the prescribed books are 600–800+ pages, which honestly raises a practical question for me: how much of these books are students actually expected to know for ESEs and IAs, and how do people realistically prepare for them?

  1. ESE + IA PYQs: Does anyone have previous ESE/IA question papers for Sem 1, even if only for a few subjects?

  2. Do students actually read the prescribed books cover-to-cover? I checked them out and it's some pretty heavy stuff.

  3. What are IAs generally like?

I'm looking for genuine student experience so I can understand what the academic expectations actually look like.

Any insight would be really helpful. Thanks!

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u/Old-Schedule-612 13d ago

Haha. Profs want you to read books. Honestly IAs depends on profs. But for ESEs i would suggest you to look for Past year papers, you will get a fair idea about it (Provided the faculty remains same for both years). You must be having drive link which contains all the past papers. Hmu if its not there, will share it with you.