In our latest Student Spotlight, meet Diptiman Banerji, a Knewton GMAT student who increased his score from a 500 on his Knewton diagnostic to a 660 on the actual test!
Name:
Diptiman Banerji
Hometown:
Calcutta, India
Current job?
Senior Manager with Aircel, a leading Telecom services operator in India
Why did you want to take the GMAT?
I am already a BE (Bachelor of Engineering) & an MBA and have 16 years of work experience. I had targeted to go for a PhD program in Management from the most reputed Management institution of India – Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta, which I have got through.
What’s your dream job after school?
Teaching for GMAT prep courses, Research & Consultancy in Marketing Management and Teaching.
Can you tell us a bit about your experience prepping for the GMAT?
Well, I started researching online for the course available on teaching GMAT. I got to know about Knewton, Manhattan GMAT, Kaplan & Pearson. I actually enrolled as a trial student in each of them & found the Knewton course to be best. Also, I got a very exciting India-specific offer, which made it quite affordable for me. Finally, I decided to go for Knewton as my course guide. The only books I referred to are the two basic GMAC guides.
Lightning Round: Favorite song right now?
It’s a Bengali song – which is in my mother tongue!
Data Sufficiency or Sentence Correction?
Data Sufficiency
Bill Gates or Steve Jobs?
Steve Jobs
Harry Potter or Twilight?
Twilight
Meghan is on the marketing team at Knewton. She received her BA in English from Stanford University and her MFA in Creative Writing from Hunter College.
