A cricket coach training its team said, ‘It’s not just about playing the right shot, it is about playing it at the right time. Because a perfect cover drive on the wrong ball still gets you out.’ Well, choosing a study abroad intake works exactly the same way.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of international students spend months perfecting their SOP, retaking IELTS, shortlisting universities, and then boom! Apply to the wrong intake. Not the wrong country. Not the wrong programme. But the wrong window! And just like that, a year disappears.