It began in the year 2013. December 2013, to be precise. After spending days brainwashing, and analyzing - looking at the pros and cons of an MBA - I finally decided to join a coaching institute to prepare for CAT, and hopefully become a successful manager some day. I joined the weekend batch of one of the leading coaching centres of India. Initially, I found managing my classes with my college quite tough, but eventually got a hang of it. My classes began with Quant (Number Systems) and Verbal (Vocabulary). The faculty was pretty great. I still feel that the only reason I secured a decent percentile is because of the teachers in my institute, especially in Quant. They tried to cover most of the syllabus in class, so I didn’t have much to cover at home. But I made it a point to go through my classwork again at home, since I felt that it was the only way to have the concepts at my fingertips. My classes went for about six months, till June 2014, after which I prepared by myself. In ...