What would be better as a recent XII pass-out (no olympiad pass-out nor great at jee adv maths) to prepare for BSTAT (partial drop) or 3years bsc stat and prepare for Mstat

So, i really like maths. Studying it and teaching it. I didn't know about ISI so I just took admission into B.Sc. with a subject math in a nobody college thinking of doing honours. Now that I have heard of this place, I wannnaa give the exam. My bg is shit. I had PCMB in 12th. I got 56% but I passed all the subjects. So, yeah.

I got classes every weekday. But, I will study for it anyways. What resources should I use? I saw previous posts but, everyone knew some high level math already🥀

Actually I just passed my 12th with pcm and my parents were pushing me into upsc stuff and I have passion in mathematics but my parents aren't supportive in this so they gave this gap year as a last chance to pursue mathematics. I got to know Abt isi ( B-stat course )and there are like 8-8.5 months left I have no jee or olympiad background but ik olympiad level number theory. I took sciastra aryabhatt batch and rn I'm giving like 6 hours a day I practice pyqs , excursion in mathematics, dpps and one or two subjective proofs from putnum or pss on Sundays. But I think I can't beat those olympiad kids wd this cause they have like 3-4 years of mathematical maturity ik 8 months are enough to transform but I still think there are too many ppl more passionate than me and more deserving than me.

I just want to ask if there is a realistic chance or not ?

So people, it's been creeping up on me since the past 2 weeks that whenever I go to sleep I feel like I'm betraying myself. I took commerce with maths and thought to keep maths as my primary focus since I want to study in ISI, but now I feel the weight of commerce too. I'm currently in grade 11 and I want two results of this post (so please comment and upvote for more ppl to see this):

1. what should I do to get away from this distraction if youtube and games, like srsly to help myself with all this guilt and feeling of wasting half my 11th.

2. I want to make a peer group that can push me and each other, we can be like accountability partners as I never had studious friends. Most of my current friends are cringe and are worse off than me, so if ur in 11th and focusing on doing good academically efficiently to give time ur goals (for example I use 4days a week for isi maths) then please DM me, let's make a telegram or a whatsapp for all of us (but be willing to put in the work or else you might be kicked if ur not that studious I'll also give 4 hrs in school days and 6-7 on holidays, i support humour tho don't get me wrong)

If anyone who has attended previous year programme or is trying this time. Kindly guide me thorugh. How do you work on the research topic of your choice also, what kind of output from your side have higher chances of selection

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I saw in the annual reports that 32 students were given admission in the mstat program in 2024-25

In that apparently 10 were sc st ews and obc. That would mean 22 were from general category, but in the prospectus it is given that there are only 13 general seats . How does that work?

Hi, here I'm going to give a brief description about the Delhi campus.

LOCATION

It is located on the S.J.S. Sansanwal Marg, entrance is on the main road. It is in a nice urban locality. Right opposite the ISI entrance gate, we have the Katwaria Sarai Bus Stand from where vans run all day to the Hauz Khas Metro Station. Also, when you take the Gate 1 exit of Hauz Khas Metro at Sarvpriya Vihar, you can find vans directly to Katwaria Sarai Bus Stand, which again, is right opposite the ISI entrance.

Hauz Khas Metro connects us to the entire city and makes travel very smooth.

RESTAURANTS

There is a nice Haldiram's restaurant near the campus, if your parents visit or if you wanna just go chill, it's a nice place with A/C and cleanliness, it's a bit costly. There is a Giani's outlet for ice-cream lovers. There are multiple budget options nearby captions, with a compromise on hygiene and A/C.

STORES

There is a medical store right behind the Katwaria Sarai Bus Stand. One can purchase grocery and snacks also nearby. If you want eggs, you will find a stand near Haldiram's to purchase boiled eggs. You can get printing/stationary in vicinity. There is an ATM right beside Haldiram's. You can get a hair cut at salons, little further inside the street connected to Haldiram's.

ENTERTAINMENT

If you're a film lover, multiple cinemas can be accessed within 30 minutes via the Metro. You can also visit the Laugh Store: DLF Cyberhub in Gurugram if you enjoy standup comedy, there would be several other options in Delhi as well.

MESS

The campus has a nice mess facility with awesome food menus ranging from Gobi Pyaz Parantha to Manchurian & Noodles. Rajma Rice, Chole Bhature, Biryani, Fish, Chicken are some of the cool food items.

ONLINE DELIVERY

While no major fast food chains exist in vicinity, one can always order Dominos, Pizza Hut, Subway, McDonalds, etc online and they'll arrive quickly since the campus is in an urban location.

Blinkit, Instamart, Zepto make a wide range of items readily available.

PEOPLE

Everyone is very friendly. Almost everyone speaks English, so there is no language barrier.

RAGGING IS PROHIBITED

Ragging is taken very seriously and everyone signs a compulsory undertaking while joining. Women's safety laws are also very strict and there are regular sessions about the same.

CULTURAL & SPORTS

Almost all major festivals such as Holi, Diwali, Janmashtami, etc are celebrated. There is an annual cultural night as well. Table Tennis table is there and multiple sports are regularly played on campus.

The Real Talk on Joining ISI (Kolkata) : For People Considering It

If you're a Person weighing whether to join ISI, here's an honest, no-sugarcoating breakdown of when it makes sense and when it doesn't. Save yourself some regret and read this before you decide.

✅ Reasons to Join ISI

1. You don't have strong finances and need the scholarship/stipend. This alone can be a legitimate deciding factor.
2. You genuinely love maths and stats : the nerdy, for-its-own-sake kind of love, not just as a means to a job.
3. You live close to ISI Kolkata, or you're Bengali. The adjustment curve is a lot gentler if either applies to you.
4. You don't care about college life, fests, or the typical campus experience : because ISI mostly doesn't have that to offer.
5. Your real goal is higher studies at a top international university (Stanford, Caltech, UC Berkeley, etc.) : though heads up, PhD offers out of ISI K have thinned recently due to visa issues, so factor that in.
6. You want a decent placement, 20 LPA+ range (for BStat + MStat) : though what's happening with 2024-onwards batches is genuinely unclear right now: seats have increased, the UG-level interview round via the ISI entrance test has been dropped, and the newer BSDS course's placement numbers might end up lower going forward.
7. You need a private room with an attached bathroom from day one. Room and bathroom quality is just okay-okay, but at least you get your own space.
8. Decent mess food matters to you.
9. You want a genuinely strong peer group.
10. You want a degree that's a gateway to almost everything after graduation : research, government jobs, corporate roles from low to extremely high-paying quant positions, academia, all of it. Passing ISI's rigorous stats coursework opens these doors if you're disciplined enough. And that word - rigorous , carries serious weight. It's something you can only truly feel once you're inside the course, not something that fully translates on paper.

❌ Reasons NOT to Join ISI

• You're not willing to actually study through your college years. ISI has a strict year-to-year promotion policy, and a lot of it comes down to individual professors , some of whom grade in a completely mechanical, unsympathetic way.
• You want the fest-and-fun college experience that IITs, NITs, IIITs, and GFTIs offer. As the saying goes : "ISI mein kuch nahi hota."
• You don't purely love theoretical maths and stats and want other things alongside it.
• You care about gender ratio. Fair, but keep it in context , women are underrepresented in STEM in general, and IITs aren't much better on the ratio front (though in absolute numbers, IITs will have more girls simply due to larger batch sizes). If this genuinely matters to you , for dating, friendships, whatever , the fix isn't necessarily "avoid ISI," it's making an effort to build a life outside it too: friends beyond your batch, fests at other colleges, etc.
• You can't handle ultra-humid Kolkata weather.
• No geyser facility in winter , you're stuck relying on your own induction cooktop, and power cuts from overload/poor wiring are common when people use them.
• Wildlife incidents happen , snakes, lizards, insects finding their way into rooms, and yes, one infamous case of a guy finding a rat inside the commode in his bathroom. But don't let this get exaggerated in your head , it's not like every third guy in the hostel has a horror story like this. Realistically it's more like 3–4% of the hostel that's dealt with something on this scale. Keep the actual odds in mind instead of picturing a jungle.
• Administration is classic government-office energy. Dean's office and staff technically get work done, but slowly and bureaucratically.
• ISI K turns into an ocean after decent rainfall, almost every time. If your prof doesn't cancel class, you're wading through that same water , complete with all the wildlife mentioned above.
• It can feel like nobody looks out for anybody. People tend to be self-centered, and there've been a fair number of gatekeeping incidents on this very subreddit. That said , you'd hear near-identical stories from IIT students, probably just as often, maybe more. This isn't really an ISI-specific problem; it's an adulting problem. The first real skill you need to learn is discerning who's actually good people versus who just happened to be around you first. A lot of people cling to the first friend group they land in as if randomness alone should've handed them their best-fit people, and when that doesn't pan out, they generalize it into "ISI people are like this" or even "people in general are like this." Those generalizations don't hold much water. Ask yourself honestly what traits actually made you close to the people you did click with , was it really just proximity? Figure out who you are and what kind of people you want around you, then go meet more people with genuine curiosity instead of writing off the whole institute.
• Out-of-the-box thinkers are rare here , it's a nerd-heavy environment. Worth pushing back on this one a bit though: research itself doesn't happen without out-of-the-box thinking, so the "nerd-heavy = no innovation" framing isn't quite right. The real reason startups aren't common out of ISI is more structural , small batch sizes, an ecosystem that's still developing, and a weaker professor-industry pipeline compared to what IITs have built. It's less about the people and more about the infrastructure around them.
• Teaching quality varies wildly. Most profs are deeply knowledgeable, but delivery can be worse than a mediocre tuition teacher you had for JEE , and some seem inclined to fail students. Last year in BStat 2nd year Probability III, 30+ students got back papers. In MMath, out of 18 students, 6 got a year back and 3 were forced to discontinue the program. It all depends on which prof you land , get a supportive one and you're good, get an unsupportive one and may God bless you. Worth noting for perspective though: the actual proportion of genuinely good teachers at ISI is higher than at most IITs , a lot of the frustration here comes from not having visibility into how teaching quality looks elsewhere.

Posting this for People who only hear the "ISI is prestigious" pitch and not the ground reality. Make an informed choice.

if any if u interested in preparing for bstat 2027 in group bcz i am preparing also bcz studing alone feels like boring. A group will help in good ways😊 Edit:- whoever wanna join tg grp drop your tg username

I’m preparing for MSQE 2027 (IIT JAM/ GATE/CUET PG/ISI). Looking for somebody who is preparing for same and willing to track each other’s progress or check in once in a while, just to not feel alone in this journey of drop year. Not a daily convo maybe but just enough in touch to stay motivated. Only serious peeps DM.

I’ve noticed that whenever quantitative PG programmes are discussed here, the conversation usually revolves around MStat, MSQE, MMath, etc. , which is fair, but I feel one programme that often gets overlooked is PGDBA.

PGDBA is jointly offered by ISI, IIT Kharagpur and IIM Calcutta, and it is a two-year full-time residential programme focused on business analytics. It combines statistics, mathematics, computing/data science and business-oriented applications, along with industry exposure.

I especially think it can be an interesting option for engineers/CS/IT graduates who have a decent quantitative background but don't necessarily want to go down the pure-statistics/pure-academia route.

If your objective is something along the lines of:

• data/business analytics
• data science and quantitative roles
• applying mathematical/statistical methods to real-world business problems
• transitioning from engineering/CS into analytics
• keeping both technical and business-oriented career paths open

then PGDBA is definitely something worth researching before narrowing your options.

This isn't meant to be a “PGDBA > MStat/MSQE” post. These programmes have quite different orientations, and whether PGDBA makes sense depends heavily on what you actually want to do afterwards.

I just feel that people preparing for ISI/CMI/IIT-type quantitative programmes sometimes end up thinking only in terms of the usual MStat/MSQE/MMath options, while PGDBA doesn't get nearly as much discussion.

So, if you're an engineer or someone from a quantitative background considering your PG options, don't overlook PGDBA. At least read through the curriculum, admission requirements, placements and past batch profiles before deciding.

Official programme pages:

1. https://pgdba.iitkgp.ac.in/ 

2. https://www.iimcal.ac.in/programs/PGDBA 

3. https://www.isical.ac.in/~pgdba/

 

Disclaimer: Not an advertisement or promotion, just sharing an option that I feel deserves more awareness, especially among engineers and other quantitative-background students. I have no affiliation with the PGDBA programme beyond being an ISI student.

How does class schedule at ISI look like :

We classes goes from Monday to Friday (Saturday & Sunday is holiday), there are time slots (you can have a class in any of these time slots apart from the lunch break slot) :

• 10:15 - 11:05
• 11:10 - 12:00
• 12:05 - 12:55
• lunch break : 12:55 - 14:15
• 14:15 - 15:05
• 15:10 - 16:00
• 16:05 - 16:55
• 17:00 - 17:50

one sem is not exactly 6months , its about 4 months

Every semester, an academic calendar is prepared. You can refer to this folder to get an idea of how it is structured and what it typically includes : drive_link

link : https://files.catbox.moe/1l0rvr.pdf

the link will take you to the pdf where all necessary quant resources are mentioned. it's not necessary a beginner friendly list.. but very useful indeed.

After giving it some thought and going down a few Reddit rabbit holes, I ended up with the following problem.

Feel free to go through the document below : PDF_LINK

Disclaimer : Before anyone overanalyzes the story... The scenario is fictional and exists solely to motivate the mathematics. It is not a commentary on arranged marriages, relationships, earning patterns, or gender roles. X and Y are deliberately gender-neutral, and the story works identically regardless of who earns more , or whether they are a couple at all. The only thing that really matters here is the recurrence relation hiding beneath the narrative.

If you are someone who loves abstraction , then you can also consider looking into the general case for this whole scenario : PDF_GENERAL_CASE

Also, there are quite a few interesting nuances to this problem that one can explore. For instance, the periodicity of salary payments can influence the analysis. We also haven't accounted for external expenditures : what changes when unavoidable expenses enter the picture? There are many such variations and scenarios worth investigating. I'll leave the rest for you to explore and experiment with as you like.

Disclaimer: despite the title, this isn't necessarily a mind-bending mathematics problem. The title is only there to highlight the problem and encourage people to take a look.

These are some of the Olympiad worth trying and preparing for :

IOQM [THE OG]

• https://ioqm.mtai.org.in/
• https://www.mtai.org.in/
• syllabus : pdf link
• the pipeline : IOQM → RMO → INMO → IMOTC → PDC → IMO

Indian Computing olympiad

• https://www.iarcs.org.in/inoi/#eligibility
• https://www.iarcs.org.in/inoi/online-study-material/index.php

Indian National AI olympiad

• https://www.inaio.in/
• https://www.inaio.in/resources

Linguistics Olympiads

• https://ltrc.iiit.ac.in/plo/
• https://aplo.asia/
• https://ioling.org/

philosophy olympiad

• https://www.philosophy-olympiad.org/

Statistics Olympiad

• C. R. Rao Statistics Olympiad

Other Mathematics olympiads

• IMMC (International Mathematical Modeling Challenge) : https://immcindia.org/
• Purple comet : https://www.purplecomet.org/
• ISI MTRP (Mathematics Talent Reward Programme) - part of ISI INTEGRATION annual fest
• CMI STEMS (Scholastic Test of Excellence in Mathematical Sciences) - part of CMI Tessellate annual fest

Trackers for olympiads

• https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/List_of_mathematics_competitions
• https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Mathematics_Olympiads
• https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Olympiad_Archive
• https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/List_of_international_mathematics_competitions
• https://moresults.org/
• https://www.indiaolympiad.com/
• https://wiwitness.com/olympiads
• https://myark.in/olympiads
• https://www.olympiadhelper.com/subject/default.aspx (it mixes serious competitions with commercial/school-level Olympiads , thus this one may-may not be helpful)

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if anyone has any other olympiad in mind , pls do put in the comment section