IMS

My offline experience in Prayagraj is amazing with IMS till date. But it also depends from centre to centre.Some IMS is not that great while some are fantastic. But the materials they provide as well as the portal is best of IMS. In offline you will get access to all the mocks as well as admat mocks and portal having a tremendous number of questions, books wagera bhi. You will get some concept videos, but online classes and recorded lectures won't be available when you choose offline course.

IMS Patna Branch batch size is too big due to which I am not able to ask doubts. English teacher knows nothing  and hardly takes class, just focused on completing the syllabus without sharing any strategy.

I really regret this decision of mine.

I really like the institute, and highly recommend the aspirants to join IMS. A very structured approach to learning, amazing faculty, and lots of masterclasses and workshops are conducted to maintain pace and disseminate useful tricks/info via such sessions.

I advise students to take up online programs rather than offline because in some places the center heads of regional IMS coaching might not follow the chief IMS timelines for topics, mocks, etc. Online batch directly connects the students to the Chief faculties at the program's core.

Also, myPLAN sessions with faculty cover areas like student-centric schedule development, mock analysis, general doubt-solving, the application process, etc. There are telegram and whatsapp groups for communication and doubt solving, plenty of good questions and a very good approach which makes the student to be regular with studies. Highly recommended it, hope this helps.

I am in the Durgapur centre. Faculty is very friendly but the teaching quality is way below from what I've seen in some other coaching (online). For me classroom program was definitely not worth it, I don't get the concepts and then I have to refer to online free youtube videos again.

Apart from the classroom teaching, the online resources provided are very helpful , the mocks are of good quality, their analysis and solutions are also very good, they provide online masterclasses and various practice questions and much more.

So in my opinion, it would've been better if I would've just purchased online resources and took coaching from elsewhere.

IMS Chennai (Anna nagar) centre is really good. The majority of faculties are amazing (except a few), we have classes every alternate day and can choose your convenient batch. We have doubt clearing sessions on every Saturday, other than regular sessions.

The centre is open from 10-8 almost every day. You can even stay there after class to sit and study with your friends. They have computer lab facilities for students who don't have a laptop or system at home to practice. We have a mentor who is amazing and gives excellent career advice.

And lastly, the IMS mocks are the best - the computer AI compares your test strategy along with the 90 plus percentilers and also predicts how much we would have scored if we covered certain topics. 

IMS Vadodara centre is scamming students.

I went there to know about the complete process of Cat. One counsellor was assigned to me, I shared my academics and my acads were not that great. But he told me that I can qualify for IIM Ahmedabad even with my 10 + 2 score. I was amazed.

The truth - they harassed me till I paid the complete fees which was a huge amount for me. I told them I will be paying in installments and during one installment I was late, and the teachers called me frequently for the money.

Once I paid the whole amount no attendance was recorded, no mentorship. They didn’t even care that one of their students has left the batch in the middle. In fact they didn’t know that I left the batch abruptly. No further contact was made with me regarding my classes or preparation.

Later it was my own research about the top schools when I found that how much important is a good profile with good past academics.

Honestly, it was my mistake (not being properly aware of the scenario). I was fooled, they are playing with students' aspirations. They are running only money-making business, they deceive the students for extracting money by showing them false hopes and dreams.

The IMS Chennai offline coaching was a waste. They only solve questions in the class right from the beginning, they don't even explain the basic concepts of a particular topic. No proper Guidance.

I trusted IMS, but it was the worst decision I've taken. But now I am preparing on my own. 

I joined Navi Mumbai centre and it was the worst decision ever. Faculty is good, no complaint, but the pedagogy of ims is not good.

When I joined in December 2021 they told me lectures will be going on till Maharashtra Cet but they completed the syllabus in the month of may this year and since then haven’t conducted a single lecture in offline mode. Some workshops which you can count on hands have been conducted but all in online mode.

Having classes going on is a crucial step as you are in touch with your studies and meet your faculty but this has been pathetic experience for me also their modules are not well structured.

This is my second attempt at CAT, earlier I had done through TIME classes and managed to get interview calls from new and baby IIMs. For this year as things were getting normal I decided to go for offline coaching and hence had to go for IMS as TIME hadn’t opened their offline coaching.

To end this please don’t suggest anyone IMS for coaching. Only mocks are good.

I have taken IMS Online coaching. The faculties weren't that good.. at least the ones who came for us. Ee requested as a team to change the faculty..there was no personalised guidance or attention. We struggled for getting our doubts solved. We have some really good faculties whom I have seen and felt during the special classes but am not sure if they take classes for students.

The material and test series are good. 

IMS needs to improve its quants and LRDI study material tremendously, they need to sectionally divide the problems in difficulty wise. Also, I feel that the quants questions aren't enough. My verbal faculty was very good and so is the study material, but in quants & LRDI I felt that they were only focused on teaching people who were already good at it, as a non-engineer I faced a lot of difficulty in these classes.

Their online question bank + mock tests is something that I really appreciate. But, only 7 mentoring sessions aren't enough at all.