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GOALisB Hosts Panel Discussion with IIM Ahmedabad PGPX Admits from ONGC and Indian Railways
NEW DELHI, NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 27, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- GOALisB, an MBA admission consultants led by ISB PGP and Stanford LEAD alumna Shruti P,
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[{"type":"text","content":"NEW DELHI, NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 27, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- GOALisB, an MBA admission consultants led by ISB PGP and Stanford LEAD alumna Shruti P, hosted a live virtual panel discussion on 12 March 2026 at 4:30 PM IST featuring two of its most recent IIM Ahmedabad PGPX admits, Siddharth Pamnoor, a petroleum engineer from ONGC, and Piyush Pathak, an officer in the Indian Railway Service of Engineers. Both candidates also hold admits to IIM Calcutta PGPEX. The session, moderated by Shruti P, drew applicants and MBA aspirants from across India's public sector and government services communities. The panel covered the complete MBA admission journey for candidates from non-corporate and PSU backgrounds, GMAT preparation, essay development, IIM interview experience, and the specific doubts that government and public sector professionals carry into the application process. The discussion offered one of the most candid first-hand accounts of the IIM Ahmedabad PGPX admission process available to Indian applicants from non-traditional backgrounds. On the biggest GMAT misconception One of the panel's most quoted exchanges centred on the role of the GMAT in the IIM Ahmedabad PGPX admission process. Piyush Pathak, who cleared the Engineering Services Examination before his decade-long career in Indian Railways, described his entry into the MBA application process with the same assumptions that most candidates from competitive examination backgrounds carry. \"That GMAT is everything, that was the biggest misconception,\" Pathak said. \"Coming from competitive examinations it was always about a benchmark. Then I realised this just gives me entry to write the essay. After that GMAT just doesn't matter at all. It is perhaps just a nudge and sometimes not even that. What matters is your profile, your essays, how you justify your journey, the depth you have, and the fit you are for them.\" Siddharth Pamnoor, who spent over seven years at ONGC managing critical facilities including a desalter plant in Ahmedabad before his role expanded into team management and operational leadership, added that the value of technical experience from PSU careers is consistently underestimated by applicants themselves. \"They value your experience a lot,\" Pamnoor said. \"Not just management or corporate experience, they also value your technical experience. W...