Not The Right Time

"Staying at IBA is far more difficult than getting into it". This is a phrase we constantly heard during our first year and I assume most of the new entrants have heard it as well. The authenticity and correctness of this phrase should never be doubted, specially if you are in your first semester.

IBA has strict academic, disciplinary and grading policies, and hard work is demanded from whoever enters its premisis. First things first, the GPA of a 1st semester student is his main priority , "You do not wan't to end up out of IBA after the first semester once you've distributed sweets among your relatives for getting into it" said Dr.Khadija Bari, the economics professor during her first session. Unfortunatley it turned out to be that way for 3 of my classmates and 19 other students. The primary reason was prioritizing politics and keeping GPA the second concern.

This mistake proved out to be fatal and I can't help look back at the times I spent with those friends, we used to be there at soccer, go out for lunches, have gossip, and one of the person dropped out was the most popular student of the class, It was a real shock.

Involvement in politics is not evil, however this is not the right time, the first priority is staying at IBA, and for that one needs to concentrate on studies. There would be seniors approaching you from every corner of the campus, asking for their loyalty, and what not, but being apolitical, at least for the first year, would definitely be the wisest call.

All the 22 students who dropped out last year tried again this year around, and (as far as I know), only one of them got back, three of them were denied admission in the intervies & GD sections, which indicates that once you're out, IBA tries to make sure you don't get in again, they prefer to give a chance to other deserving candidates, so once out, the odds are stacked seriously against you to get in again.

The courses of the 1st semester are very demanding, and if luck isn't on your side , you may end up getting very "Unfriendly" teachers and a class average gpa of 2.7 ( This was the case with our class).

All of the freshies, I'm sure, have had a torrid six months preparing for IBA, and they ought to have another similar six months to ascertain their stay at IBA, this is the right way to go about things, the only feasable option...