TIME

I joined TIME Delhi (CP) branch for offline coaching. 

What I liked: Faculty was generally hardworking, the study material and mocks are really good, workshops for cat replica questions plus the online chat session was really helpful to discuss section wise problems, strategy and schedule.

What I don't like: I just don’t like the VARC faculty, or material, I mean I never felt like they enhanced any of my skill. Plus doubt session is a problem, because u have to book a slot for it, and it’s not necessary that you'll get it on the same day of your class, or right after your class. For eg, I had early morning weekend batch ie 4 hr class from 8-10,10:15-12:15 on Sat and Sun and sometimes there was a gap of 5 hrs between class and doubt session. So you can’t even go back home (as it took me 1.5 hr one way from metro). Plus it’s difficult to sit and wait at institute, and if you get it rescheduled, then you might get the next slot after 2-3 weeks. 

Maybe offline at centre is worth it but not Online. Though I took the Online course of a centre only so maybe that's why its bad.

Negatives - 1) VARC and DILR in prep material is not updated, 2) No availability of pre recorded lectures (which almost every other coaching provides). I can see some videos in my account but not helpful, 3) Sectionals and Test series are not upto the mark and 4) they don't provide previous year papers as mocks

Positives - 1) quants is great, 2) DILR basics are well covered, and 3) Material is plenty as far as quantity is concerned.

Being a serious CAT aspirant, I enrolled in TIME Online Course 3-4 months back. I just found unconcerned efforts from TIME management.

Every second day the portal gets lagged and breaks our link. I was seeing some video lectures and now the time is wasted and link is broken.

Doubts are not addressed properly. Doubts asked in July, that too asked in the given time mentioned in Excel sheets are not addressed which keeps the concept unclear.

Other than this I’ve posted many complaints regarding the carelessness of online classes which were cancelled, AIMCAT late analysis and video solutions not being posted, website not working etc.

Being a big name in MBA coaching, this is so unfair to the students. This not only wastes our time, gives us stress about not having things to study and unfortunately reduces our faith in our preparation and TIME.

Online faculty is good but extremely overburdened. They have classes scheduled all the time. So much so that they have no time to solve doubts, ever. I am always struggling to get my doubts solved. I get no response from their end. Ever.

The material had a lot of extra stuff. But they told me what to do and what to skip, so that's okay.

I love the AIMCATs. They are good.

Other than that, they give good GK material.

Honestly do not join Time vadodara for coaching. The faculty has no intention to see your growth. They want results but do not provide proper coaching, even the faculty is really bad. Study material i.e., booklets are a waste of time and money.

AIMCATs are really good but sectionals are not up to the mark. I have been taking IMS's SIMCAT and using their portal. It's fantastic. Learn tab, practice tab, mocks as well, take homes and proctored, past year papers in mock form as well as sectionals. So it's good to invest in IMS portal.

In Time Allahabad centre, faculty wasn't very good except one or two maths teachers. The rest were doing only formalities. They lured students by saying that faculty will come from Lucknow and highly experienced but was totally false.

They conduct offline classes only on weekends and rest is online. 

Study material - It was actually good

I felt that they only run after money that's all they do not care about the students and management was very very poor.

TIME Lucknow (Offline):

There are several reasons why to join this coaching and few in support of why not. 

I cannot deny the fact that the centre has the best faculty, their way of teaching is awesome and of course the study material is best (also reviewed by many who are not time students).

As I am a cat aspirant 2022 I joined this coaching 1year back in November. Now exams are only 50 days ahead and we are still left with few quants chapters of algebra, lrdi section and in varc we are left with the rules of parasummary and whole grammar. They have mismanaged their schedule and time table that they haven't competed syllabus on time. 

And doubt classes are almost zero. We had 2-3 doubt classes for LRDI and 100+ stydents sit together! How will they clear their doubts individually?! I regret because of high payment of 60,000 I made.

I will again say teachers are awesome but because of mismanagement, literallly rula diya inhone hme. 

Most of the faculties in online teaching were great and also the faculties who teach in recorded videos are really helpful for learning.

When it comes to online teaching Time has focused a lot on Quants and a bit less on LRDI but still whatever they have taught is helpful in preparation.

Their study material is also well structured especially for Quant, and for LRDI Advance sectional mocks cover a wide variety of questions.

In general, I found online coaching has helped me a lot. I feel they have done a lot from a teaching perspective.

The only problem I feel is doubt solving. In online mode, it's very difficult to clear your doubts.

I'll try to give my honest feedback for TIME Online course below:

Resources :- Resources are the only good thing about TIME (At least in my case). The mocks are good, there are a lot of sectional tests. They provide full mock analysis, etc. They also have pre recorded video lectures for almost all the topics.

Irregular classes: - Throughout the year our classes have been irregular, like even today there was no class, there was no class yesterday and day before yesterday too. This pattern was followed throughout the year, like there were barely any classes in the month of May and June.

Lies we were told:-  They told me the reason why the tuition fee is so high because they have to compensate for the books that they provide to us. I wasn't provided a single hard copy of a book, when I asked for that they simply told me that I have to refer to online books available on the website, and if I want hard copy of books, I'll have to pay 3k-4k extra.

Syllabus Not Yet Complete:- While all of the other institutes have started revising the syllabus, our batch still hasn't completed it. While I have prepared these topics from youtube videos, my batchmates are literally clueless about all these topics.

No doubt solving:- They told us that there would be active doubt solving, but our teacher barely replies to our messages and doubts.

No guidance:- There has been no guidance whatsoever by our teacher, our teacher doesn't guide us on how to attempt mocks, nor do they persuade students to appear for mocks. 

If you select Live Online classes, they will play videos on GoToMeeting. Recorded videos, NOT live classes. No point taking it, at all.

Took it last year; lost all trust in online coaching programs (could not shell out more money, and ended up being a CAT repeater), and purchased CL mocks plus AIMCATs this year.

AIMCATs are famous, but the self-administered AIMCATs (which one gets more in number of, sadly) are hardly attempted by students, so the percentiles can be misleading.

Study materials-wise: nothing beats TIME.

Perfect combination in my opinion: TIME material and IMS mocks, with AIMCAT Mini taken in mid-September (unavailable before that). Concept videos? YouTube for the win.

In Ranchi centre, faculty are not so good. They keep changing teachers and the teachers do not pay attention to your queries. 

Mocks and study materials are good but I will suggest youtube videos are better than taking such a coaching and spending so much money.