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One year MBA vs Two year MBA

Are there a lot of differences between 1 year and 2 year mba? How is the career growth for 1 year MBA as compared to the 2 year one? Network? Placements? Talking about tier 1 colleges for both. And also, for a GEM, how much experience is too high for 2 year MBA?

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Stealth13mo

Can speak for ISB. It’s expensive but by far the most established 1 year MBA. Placements and day 1 packages tend to cover the expenses of the loan; having spoken to more recent graduates, their salaries are significantly higher than when I graduated, median salaries are moving upwards.

The experience is fantastic and I would do it again if I could. 2 year tier 1 MBAs are EXTREMELY hard to get into since you’re competing largely on the basis of academic and entrance exam scores while 1 year MBAs (ISB, IIMA, B, C) tend to view you more holistically based on work experience. GMAT scores however are moving up rapidly and for example a 720 for an Indian male may no longer be sufficient for a sure shot interview

Network is fantastic, most of my classmates have leveraged it to get to the next stages of our careers

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Have you done your MBA from ISB? Can you please help me with resources for GMAT?
And how much work ex did you had when you pursued your MBA?

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Yes I have. My resource knowledge may be a bit rusty since it’s from years ago, but here goes:

Sign up for an online course, I used Veritas and Magoosh. It offers seemingly unlimited practice questions with detailed explanations. My first approach of learning everything chapter by chapter took me to a mock score of 690. I used brute force and worked maybe 3k questions in each section across increasing difficulty levels and this allowed me to adapt my thought process around speed and eliminate incorrect answers as opposed to trying to solve the question top down.

Don’t be scared to keep taking FULL length mock tests every week. Treat each attempt like the real thing to get used to the effort it takes to stay focused for 3+ hours. This will put you in the zone like nothing else.

And most importantly, don’t give up if you get a low score in your first few attempts. Set a target score and relentlessly keep working at weak areas, solving questions at the highest level. Remember. The kind of questions that appear are never infinite, once you do enough practice, the formats start repeating and that’s a good indication that you have seen 90% of possible questions and it’s now just a matter of being able to solve quickly

All the best!

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Stealth13mo

Let me know what your budget is? I’ll find something that fits

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Student13mo

Hey, budget around 20k for full prep. Looking to score 720+, so will need a good mix of basic and advanced alsoml

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