Presuming that you are eager on this subject, let’s get to business straight away.

Here is a list of Most Frequent Interview Questions :

1 ) Introduce yourself !

9 out of 10 times, you will find this as the first question of an interview. Quite surprisingly, over 80% people aspiring for their first interview find this difficult. The basic idea behind this question is to make you feel comfortable. There is nothing tricky in this as the interviewer is giving you space to get your senses together. The most general answer to this question is :

“I am ABC, currently pursuing MBA from XYZ university. I am currently working with EFG Limited as a Developer. I am currently drawing a CTC of Rs.10,000 p.m. I have done my graduation from ….so on.”

Avoid such kind of answers as this can ruin your first impression. All these details are mentioned in your CV and there is no point on reciting same things again. Another important thing to take care off is Grammar. Avoid using sentences like “Myself Mr. ABC,…… so on.” The term Myself Mr. ABC here is grammatically incorrect. Be careful. Take this question as an opportunity to get up close & personal with the interviewer and create a healthy atmosphere for interaction. Infact, one of the earlier posts by Mr. Vaibhav Mittal on “How to introduce yourself in an Interview” will provide you a complete idea to answer this question. However, an example answer to this could be :

“I am a fun loving person, who believes in Live life as it comes. I am very fond of classical music and have acquired a professional degree in this also. Playing online chess is my favourite pastime. I believe Internet is the future of human civilization and would love to see myself as a successful Marketing Manager.”

2 ) Where do you see yourself after 5 years from now ?

Here, the interviewer wants to check your instincts. He wants to know whether you are a practical person or a day dreamer. This question is to check your planning skills. Avoid giving answers like “CEO of this organization or HOD of a department.” If you are an executive, Manager is the maximum you can attain in five years. (The designation maybe different according to your industry but the common thing is that you will be in Middle Level Management.) Some of you might be thinking of another answer i.e “I want to see myself as the best in my profile.” Be very clear on a fact that nobody can be the Best. You can only be first among equals. By giving such answers, you are reflecting that you have no vision. Rather you are happy to be the same after 5 years. Therefore the following answer can be the most suitable one :

“I would imagine myself being in middle level management after 5 years from now. “

3) If not selected today, what will be your future course of action?

This is the second check point for your practical instincts. Here the interviewer is analyzing your approach toward failures. The most popular answer to this question is – “If  I am not selected today, I will try in some other organization.”  This is an answer which can ruin the positives you have attained/will be attaining in the interview. You need not tell your worth at any point during an interview. It’s the job of the interviewer to decide how efficient you are. Avoid leaving the impression of an opportunist. The most apt answer to this interview question can be :

“I believe in Learning from my mistakes. Likewise, if  I am not selected today, I will kindly request you to tell me my shortcomings so that I can go back, work on those and sit again in front of you (obviously if rules allow) to turn my failure into success.”

4) If in case you are working on bidding for a project which is very important for organization’s growth. Will you consider bribing the authority to ensure decision in your favour?

Now it’s time for a personality test. At the first level, the interviewer wants to test your diplomacy. Be very clear that this question has no connection with your family values or principles. It’s just to test your art of handling tricky situations. Every organization wishes to hire people who can think smartly. Thus, avoid giving a Yes or No straight away. The best possible answer to this can be :

“Sir, I have been brought up in a family with high moral values. I consider my workplace as my family. If an awkward situation arises, I will try my level best to resolve it amicably. However, if it requires me to bribe someone for the well being of my family, I will definitely consider it.”

By giving this answer, you will surely sink deep inside the mind of your interviewer.

5) How many hairs on your head?

Since your diplomacy has been evaluated in the previous question, it’s time to judge your smartness. Be crystal clear that this question isn’t to create a relaxing atmosphere, rather it aims to test your presence of mind. Don’t give any vague answers like “As many on your head” or “I have never counted”. Just let them know your smartness by saying :

“As many stars in the night sky”. (Don’t forget to put a little smile on your face.)

This way you will maintain the humour as well as prove your mental strength to the interviewer.

6) What will you do when you come across a whistle blower at your workplace?

After diplomacy and smartness, now it’s time for maturity. This question is to test your character as a professional. There are many distracting people around you at the workplace. This includes all those “Boss Favourites” and “Office Politicians”. The interviewer wants to know how you tackle them. Don’t reply with “I will go and discuss if there is any personal problem with him.” Nobody is interested to share his/her personal life at the workplace. Be careful not to answer this way. Also, avoid answers like “I will complain to his/her reporting authority”. This answer devaluates your rating as a team man. Just give a simple answer :

“I will not repent until his/her activities start hampering me or my team’s productivity. If the situation goes beyond control, I will kindly bring the matter to the notice of his/her reporting authority.”

7 ) Tell me something about your previous boss.

Your personality test is now over. It’s time for professional aspects. Here, the examiner wants to analyze your track record. Be very judicious with your words usage because this is a showcase in which the interviewer expects himself to be in after 2-3 months. The most general answer to this question is :

“He is one of the best professionals I have come across. But unfortunately, I had a number of disagreements with him. He is not open to suggestions and always insists on his sayings. Infact he is one of the reasons I am leaving that organization.”

This shows that you have a malicious track record. Answering in this negative way will surely hamper your chances of selection. Another popular answer to this question is :

“He is a very good man with exceptional skills. He always encourages me to learn new things. He has helped me a lot to develop my skills and it’s he who has brought me to this level.”

Avoid this one too. Don’t overemphasize on your boss or else you will be judged as a stooge. If your boss is such an eminent personality than why are you leaving the organization? You will end up in a web of such questions. The best possible answer to this can be :

“He is an excellent person to work with. Always ready to share his experiences. I have learnt many things from him and will always count on him at difficult situations.”

8 ) Ask me 2 questions of your choice.

This is the second level of your professionalism test. Many of you may consider this as the simplest of all questions in an interview. But to your surprise, this is the most important tool for an interviewer to verify your candidature so far. He wants to know whether your answers are a result of “overnight preparation” or you actually own that sense of professionalism. That’s why you should be cautious to ask questions. Avoid asking things like “How is the incentive structure”, “What is the employee strength?”,”What will be my reporting hierarchy?”, “Can you elaborate your business model?”and one most general one “When will I get the response for my interview?” All these questions are miles away from the mind of a professional aspirant. Even talking about the business model is no less than stupidity. Whenever you come for an interview, you are expected to have already gone through the company website and other stuff. The most preferred answer could be :

“There is not much I would like to ask but if you could give me a brief idea on future expansion plans it would be great.”

9 ) Why this company ?

This is the last level of your professional test. Till now, the interviewer is almost done with you. He just wants to confirm his evaluation. I assume that nobody of you would say stuff like “As the call came from your HR department regarding an opening, so I am here.” The most obvious answer to this is :

“I think working in an esteemed organization like yours will definitely help me to evolve as a complete professional. I believe that I can make the best use of my existing capabilities in a constructive working environment like herein.”

10) Why should I select you?

Now this marks the end of an interview. But don’t conclude that you can take it easy. Rather a judicious reply can assure you a place in your dream organization. The interviewer is now completely aware of your in & outs. Now he is just enquiring if something has gone unnoticed. Thus, a little word here and there from your side and you will create a trap for yourself. Just reassess what you have said and assert only those facts. Generally people say “You should select me because I am a hard worker and will do my best to achieve organizational goals. I will prove to be an asset to the organization.” Simply avoid such replies. You have already told your worth with your answers. Don’t elaborate yourself. The most preferred answer is :

“Since you have now evaluated me on all your benchmarks, I believe you would know better if I should be selected for the profile or not. As from my side, my job is my passion and that’s a one word summary of my candidature.”

Remember that an interview is the ultimate gateway to your dream organization. If you are not amongst the few unlucky ones, your interview shall be a 20 minutes interaction with someone who will test your personality & professionalism. Each & every question will check your level & sense of understanding.

This concludes my post on “How to Crack an Interview.” I wish you can get maximum answers to your queries on aspiring for an interview. Feel free to share your opinion on any of the above points. All the questions and answers discussed are solely based on my online research and Business Communication lectures of Prof. Gaurav Vashisht (IMT – Ghaziabad).

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Before we talk of number system, lets discuss the question which I asked in comment #10 on article 3.

The answer is 10%. Let’s see how to get the answer. After explaining how to get the answer, I will give you the logic. 100-85 = 15, 100-80 = 20, 100-75 = 25, 100-70 = 30. Now 15 + 20 + 25 + 30 = 90. This 90 when subtracted from 100 is 10 which is the answer.
Logic: ————–|————————|———————————|————————————–|————–
Say this line above represents 100% of the girls. The Red ones(upto first ‘|” mark) are the ones who are not fair and therefore the balance i.e. the black ones are fair. Similarly the blue ones(from first ‘|’ mark and upto 2nd ‘|” mark) on the line do not have blue eyes. Therefore the rest i.e. red ones and black ones do have blue eyes. And similarly the yellow ones(from 2nd ‘|’ mark and upto 3rd ‘|” mark) are not tall and therefore the rest i.e. red, blue and black are tall. And similarly the green ones(from 3rd ‘|’ mark and upto 4th ‘|” mark) are not rich and therefore the rest i.e. red, blue and yellow and black, are. See carefully now, these are the black ones who have all the four characteristics. And this will be 10%.

I do not have a solution better than this. Here note that I have kept the ‘Don’t have’ disjoint to arrive at ‘have ‘at least’’. The method is useful only in this type of question. And note that this ques(with diff data) has been asked many times in last 12 CATs and many other exams. Ques: Is this Maths? No. But its common sense.

Number system comprises of rational and irrational numbers, positive and negative numbers, even and odd numbers, prime and composite numbers. It also has Natural numbers, whole numbers, Integers, Perfect numbers, co-prime numbers etc. I am assuming that all of you know all this. If not, then please read any book. Please note you will, almost always find a ques on these in CAT.

So here come a few questions for you. Real CAT type questions.

Q1: 3ab59 = x + y. x and y are natural numbers and x < y. Both x and y are prime. What is x?

Q2: 2^10 = 1024. 1024 = p + q. p and q both are integers. p < q. Both p and q are not even. Both p and q are not odd. None of the two is negative. What is p? What is q?

Q3: How many rational numbers exists between two rational numbers?

Q4: Give one rational number between 1.3333……. and 1.4444…….(Both are recurring decimal numbers).

Q5: How many perfect numbers are there which are greater than 100?

Divisibility rules: If you want to understand divisibility rules of a number, I suggest instead of mugging the things, look into the multiples of a number. You will be able to see a trend/pattern almost always. If you don’t, then keep looking for the pattern, you will for sure find a pattern, almost always. Caution: Not all the numbers have divisibility rules. But these are only few. So few that u could be effected practically. I will talk more about divisibility rules with passage of time and with your feedback.

Q6: If a^b+b^a=100, where a and b are natural numbers, find the number of pairs of (a,b) such that the product a.b is maximum.(Ques by Courtesy of Mr.Rajneesh Tripathi)

Q7. Is X = 42.317317317…….(recurring), a rational number or irrational? If it’s rational, what is it’s p/q form. (Ques by Courtesy of Mr.Rajneesh Tripathi)(I suggest in this ques note the time in which u solved this question).

Q8. X = 0.ababab………(recurring). X is multiplied by Y and the result is an integer. What can Y be?
98 b) 198 c)298 d)398 e) None of these

Q9: 1001 ^ 1001 is expanded and sum of the digits is taken. Now sum of the digits of ‘sum of the digits from previous calculation’ is taken. And so on till we get a single digit. What will be this digit?

Q10. abcde x 4 = edcba. What are a, b, c, d and e respectively. a, b, c, d and e are all distinct.

Only this much for now. I am sure all of you will be able to post the answers within 24 hours. I think that should be enough time for you for you are preparing for a 2.5 hour exam having about 75 questions.

All d best to all of you.

VM (& Rajneesh)

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First of all, I thank you all for showing your interest by posting your comments on my 1st post.

As I mentioned in my last post that I will be writing about ‘How to prepare for MBA in long run’, here it comes.

Lets Understand 1 thing first. People(CAT experts) say that CAT is an aptitude test. My ques to that statement is, what kind of aptitude does it check. My ans when I don’t want to ans is, It checks ‘Managerial aptitude’. What I have not told here is, what is managerial aptitude? Now, my suggestion to all is, tell me what do u think is the managerial aptitude?

What is my understanding of managerial aptitude, I will post that soon. Not posting for I want all of you to brain storm about it. BRAIN STORM: thats one of the things which makes managerial aptitude. Hey guys, so if u read all my posts carefully(over a period of time), u will understand what it is, though I will write explicitly what it is.

In this post my focus is on, what to do to develop that managerial aptitude.

So, here I a few things you should do on a regular basis(daily) not till u clear CAT but even in those 2 years and years after that.

1. Start reading DELHI TIMES. Hey, I am marketing TOI for no salary. Most of the CAT teachers will say, be away from DELHI TIMES. Guys, see it from my eyes. There is SUDOKU, KAKURO, SPELLATHON, CROSS WORDS, MIND BLENDER, LOOP THE LOOP etc. in all 7 or 8 such things. I suggest start spending time on these things. Initially you may end up spending 2 to 3 hours on these, but soon, with a little practice your time will come down to 50 minutes approx. As of now, try solving these spendng as much time as you can, per day.

2. Pick up some puzzle books. There are 3 books by Shauntala Devi. They are good. Pls note here that Shakuntala devi has not written these books for CAT and other MBA entrance exams. So many puzzles there, u may not feel that they are useful for CAT. Never mind. Since you do not know what is useful for CAT and what is not, in thise books, I suggest you better concentrate on solving those puzzles. Guys, 3 books taken together, you have to solve just 5 puzzles per day. And beware. Solutions are there at the back. DO NOT, DO NOT for god sake refer to solutions till you have tried solving a puzzle at least 5 times, on 5 different days. Just match your answers.

3. Start reading some novels. U should be an avid reader. U shud have 1 novel going, always. I know some of u hate reading novels. But then a manager has to read many reports he is not interested in. So u will have to develop this habit of reading. To name a few good novels, I will say, ATLAS SHRUGGED, GONE WITH THE WIND, THIRD WAVE, FUTURE SHOCK, POWER SHIFT, MADE IN JAPAN, BUSINESS @ SPEED OF THOUGHT, GOD OF SMALL THINGS, LEE IOCOCCA-An Autobiography, CHICKEN SOUP(all editions), THE TOYOTA WAY, ZEN & ART OF MOTOR CYCLE MAINTENANCE, DAVINCI CODE, SOPHIE’S WORLD, PRIDE & PREJUDICE are some good ones to start. For those who will start reading novels for the first time, 5 POINT SOMEONE, 1 NIGHT @ CALL CENTRE, ALCHEMIST, Books by Sydney Sheldon, TO SIR WITH LOVE, WHO MOVED MY CHEESE, 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE, WHALE DONE, RICH DAD POOR DAD are some of the good ones. Typically 1 novel should be finished in 4 to 10 days, spending about 2 hours a day. For those who don’t have time to read that much, I will suggest use, ‘time of travelling’, ‘time of waiting for ur turn at doctor’s clinic’ etc., to read.

4. Read at least 1 newspaper a day. I like TOI bt for MBA prep I will suggest HINDU as 1st choice, INDIAN EXPRESS as 2nd. I suggest start with any 1.

5. Read a Financial Newspaper, daily, at least Mon to Fri. I like ET, you may start with any other as well.

6. Subscribe EPW, a weekly magazine, Economic & Political Weekly. www.epw.org. If I can recall properly, in 2004 there was a RC which was a part of one of the articles from EPW. Read THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, TIMES MAGAZINE, AND ECONOMISTS. You should read these regularly. A must for your good health.

7. Read a general magazine like Outlook, India today etc. and a business magazine Business world, business today etc. regularly.

8. Play Minesweeper. Play Chess. Play Poker, teen patti of and on.

9. Solve some puzzles on internet, average 10 puzzles a week.

10. For Grammar pick up Raymond Murphy(Beginner) and read 3 chapter a day. And read them 2-3 times till u get everything in your head. U may like to pick Wren & Martin. Ok with me. 1 Chapter a day.

11. Word power made easy – by norman louis. Read a chapter a day and follow the instructions inside. In addition, pick up any tutorials word list and start mugging up 25 words a day. Its a boring exercise. What do you say? Follow my method. Learn 25 new words of A the first day. 2nd day 25 new words of B and revise old words of A. 3rd day 25 new words of C and revise old words of A & B and so on. Revise maximum 4 old alphabets. In additon, you the tricks given here by Bhuvanesh. They are good.

12. And now the last thing, my favorite subject. Maths or Problem Solving as it is called. Don’t worry. This is the easiest subject to learn. U don’t believe me. Ohh i c…

Lets see what are people’s comment abt what i said, that its the most easiest subject to learn.

Guys, I want your feedback, not with respect to what u feel abt what I have written, but with respect to how you feel after following this schedule religiously for at least 5 to 7 days.

Happy START of your preparations…

Wait for the next post for tips on Maths…

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Why WriterZone.info?

A very very simple navigation with less confusion. This is the requirement of the time. There are many quotation websites in the web industry but very few knows how to showcase their content, so we have tried something new (atleast we think so ). Just go to the home page and you will see a matrix of 26 characters of our very own English language.

Working:

1) Go to homepage and take your mouse to anyone of the character in the matrix, and click. bingo……

2) A list of authors whose name starts with the alphabet, on which you clicked, come up.

3) Click on any name and see the writers/authors/poets/scientists etc  profile (along with the photograph) and the quotes/phrases/maxim/adage written by him.

You can filter the result by ‘Nationality‘ or ‘Type of Author‘, and also search the quotes in your mind in our search box.  Here’s the screenshots of the site:

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Guys,
Let’s understand one thing. Whatever we are today, we are as a result of ‘torture’ that has been done on us by our teachers in schools, teachers in college, parents, family, society and may be in cases of some of us by our bosses.

What we have been exposed to has made us develop a taste for something, at the same time anti-taste for some other things. In our childhood we have nurtured what we have developed taste for. And in the process we have developed certain skills and certain qualities.

Now, we want to do an MBA, Right.

Let’s understand that theoretically we should try to explore the qualities we possess and should choose a career where we can utilize our qualities. For e.g. I liked explaining things a lot to friends, to people around me, when I was in school. Hence I picked up teaching as a hobby. And when I saw myself excelling in teaching, I thought of making a career in teaching. When I looked more into it, I realized that I like teaching UNCONVENTIONAL ways of solving questions. And so I moved into MBA/CAT teaching and left Engineering entrance exams etc long back.

I hope you are getting an idea of what I am trying to explain.

Now, we have decided to do an MBA, irrespective of the fact our qualities support MBA or not and at the moment we are only interested in designing an answer to ‘Why MBA?’.

So here I go.

Understand this that as a manager you will be required to possess certain qualities, for e.g. present mindedness, time management, perseverance. These are just examples. There are many more, in fact. Now, understand this that MBA will develop certain qualities in us which are important to pursue a career as a manager. But then certain qualities are required to do MBA for e.g Hard work.

Understand this, that till now, I have spoken about 3 phases. What you are now?(Lets call it A) What you expect you will be after MBA?(Lets call it C) and What MBA will imbibe in you? (Lets call it B)

Understand this now. In order to answer the question ‘Why MBA?’ you have to do a mapping of A, B and C. Your answer should look something like this.

‘During my schools days, I use to do this that blah blah blah…And I started developing …..(mention the skills).. When I started thinking about the career during my graduation, I realized that these skills can make me …(Talk of Life as a manager or if you see yourself as an entrepreneur). At this time, I felt the need of doing an MBA because it will develop …(talk of certain skills) and at the same time I think (the skills I possess) will help in doing an MBA and hence an MBA’…

Guys, Note that if you design an answer like this, first of all you will get a better idea as to why you should be doing an MBA. And don’t you think that if you will know better why you want to do an MBA , you will be able to convince them better. Also note one thing, that when you will design first draft of your answer, that may turn out to be a 2-3 page answer.

Never mind, after 3-5 editing your answer will become a perfect answer that too customize to you. And after 3-5 reading/changes/editing you will be able to say it in lesser words as well.

One more thing, when I suggest this method of designing answer, many of my students end up designing a 5-7 minutes answer. You know that they are not going to hear the you for more then 1-2 minutes. Still, I am saying make a long answer, reason being, when you are in an actual interview, I know you will forget a lot of things. So I know by experience that a 5-7 minutes answer will reduce to 3-4 minutes answer after a couple of editing and changes. And in actual interview a 3-4 minute answer will turn out to be a 1 to 1.5 minute answer. I am telling you hardly anyone of you will be able to touch 2 minute or cross that.

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Followings are some facts about growth at states level:

Robust growth and High per capita income

High growth and rising per capita income

High to Moderate growth and rising per capita income

Low growth and low per capita income

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A frame work drives you to recollect your thoughts. It helps you to build a foundation of your think tank. This will create different dimension to GD  and a positive lead for your candidature.

Different   Frameworks that can be used in Group Discussion:

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The placement standards prepared by IIMA will consider following while calculating their placements figure:

1. Removal of performance-linked compensation like variable pay and annual bonus.

2. Removal of fringe benefits like employee stock options and club memberships. while reporting final salaries.

3. Foreign salary packages will be calculated by using the scale of purchasing power parity instead of the currency exchange rates.

The areas that will be calculated for deriving salary figures will include

1.  Basic salary

2. Additional guaranteed cash components (HRA, travel allowance, medical allowance, leave allowance, entertainment allowance, etc)

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1. A video resume is a short video made by a job applicant for employment that can describes  his/her skills and qualifications.

2. The video resume allows interviewer/employer to see, hear and get  to know how  applicant presents themselves.

3. It is typically used to supplement a traditional resume.

Five Tips for better Video Resume:

1. Plan & Practice what you want to say and rehearse it sometimes before putting on your video camera.

2. Keep it short.  Ideally  video resume should last for one to two minutes.

3. Put right background and make ensure there is no sound  from behind as it looks awkward.

4. Look straight in to the camera. Video should be like “you are talking to the interviewer”.

5. Keep in mind your intended employer before making the video resume and accordingly make it.

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Yesterday I was watching ZEITGEIST MOVING FORWARD and the one word that stuck in my mind is “Planned obsolescence”.

Taking one more steps to dump stuffs qucikly corporation used one more technique called “perceived obsolescence”, to convince us to throw away goods that are still perfectly useful. How do they do this? They change the way things look.

1. Fashion is a prime example of this: It encourages us to value ourselves and others by the clothes we wear and the cars we drive, and to keep up with the current trends.

Summarizing the issue: We have become a nation of consumers, and this has become our primary identity. We buy and throw out so much stuff that we are going to create one more Himalaya of trash. Our earth has limited resources & if we will be continued with this habbit then will left with nothing for our future generations. So think before buying unnecessary items and creating waste.

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At this juncture, we wish to CONGRATULATE those who have already got  calls and we also wish to take you ahead to the second level of the process of getting into your dream B-Schools. Yes, you are thinking right. We are talking of Group discussion and Personal Interview preparation.

Let me give you a glimpse of ‘What does a GD and a PI check you on’? Answer is straight and simple. Written exam has checked you on your aptitude. Now is the time when you should be checked on your attitude: attitude towards life, attitude towards your career and attitude towards the society as a whole.

Attitude makes your overall persona. How you carry yourself? How you present yourself, especially in a formal group? How you know your own self – Your strengths and weaknesses, your goals, your ambitions, your dreams? How much of the world around you, you know? Do you mean everything you have written in your biodata and/or the IIFT form, for e.g. These are a few things to begin with, which are part of your persona.

Persona is something which cannot be developed or changed in 2 to 3 weeks time (That’s the time you typically get between your calls and actual GD-PI). I am sure, you all with agree with me on this. And therefore, we have specially designed a 2 months course for group discussion and personal interview training. Our GD-PI module answers all the questions above mentioned and many more.

Let me, in short, run through what our GD-PI program is. It’s actually a series of events. It includes close to 40 hours of classroom training and unlimited number of hours of off-the-class training.  I can share with you what is/are covered in in-the-class training. There are minimum of 2 Group discussion orientation lectures and similarly 2 Personal interview orientation lectures. There will be 1 session on Essay writing, specially meant for XAT but not just for XAT. There will be 1 psychometric test session, 1 MET(Mica entrance Test – a test of your creative skills). Most importantly there will be minimum of 12 Group discussions and minimum of 2 PIs(Personal Interview) for all. NOTE that you can have as many PIs as you want, just that you need to bring as many different calls from B-schools as is the number of PIs you want.

In addition, you will have a series of GK Lectures specially focusing the content you may require in a GD or in an interview.

In addition, you will have a mentor allotted to you, who is usually an industry expert. These mentors are our alumni from IIMs, XLRI, FMS, IIFT, MDI, S P Jain and what not.

If I talk of off-the-class sessions, I know I will not be able to do justice with them, in words. To tell you a little, you will have a ZION Ghost behind you almost all the time. We will be discussing and charting out answers to the questions ‘Where do you see yourself 5 years down the line’, ‘Why do you want to do MBA’, ‘If you don’t get selected this year, what should you be doing’ etc etc etc. I hope you have understood that I am talking of the typical cliché questions you may face in real PIs. I hope you will agree with me that answer to these questions are highly personalized and many times you don’t even want them to be shared with other students in class. And so all such sessions are a part of off-the-class training. And so these sessions usually happens over a cup of Tea or coffee. You know ‘a lot can happen over a coffee’ – Café Coffee day. Ohh am I marketing CCD or Barista here!! Never mind.

More importantly, unlike other CAT training institutes, we have very limited seats in GD-PI training module. GD-PI module is so much student-centric that the plethora of Faculty members which we have, that also turns out to be too little. And we specifically do not believe in treating a patient who requires special attention in the same way a patient of cough-cold or viral well be treated. There has to be special treatment of those who have got calls from premiere B-schools or the B-school of his/her choice.

All the best

Vaibhav K Mittal

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WHY THE EXISTING ANTI-CORRUPTION BODIES ARE INEFFECTIVE
CVC

1. No jurisdiction over politicians, only bureaucrats
2. No power to register criminal cases. It deals only with vigilance or disciplinary matters
3. No direct power over departmental vigilance wings. It mostly forwards corruption complaints to them and keeps sending reminders
4. Supervisory powers over CBI have made little difference as CVC can’t call for any file or issue directions to the agency

DEPARTMENTAL VIGILANCE WINGS

1. Manned mostly by officials from within same department, on temporary basis
2. Since each wing is under direct control of head of department, can hardly probe any senior official of that department.
3. Even otherwise, in complaints against senior colleague, vigilance officer might hesitate as he could be posted later under the same person
4. No jurisdiction over politicians and no power to register FIRs against anybody. Can only deal with disciplinary proceedings

CBI

1. Though it can book cases against bureaucrats and politicians, CBI’s independence compromised as it comes directly under Centre’s control
2. Government control leaves it vulnerable to charges of investigations being politically motivated
3. Since it is overburdened, CBI does not accept cases unless amount involved runs into crores
4. Cannot book cases against officers above the rank of joint secretary without prior sanction from their department

Similar structural deficiencies lead to impunity for corruption at the state level

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Further on  40-year-old proposal Lokpal bill to probe political corruption

1. The common man cannot approach the Lokpal directly. They will have to address their complaints to the Speaker of the House, who will forward this to the Lokpal if he deems fit.

2. Lokpal can only deal with members of Parliament and ministers. Its authority does not extend to government officials.

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Arguments in favour of topic

• Growing economic activity (production and consumption) requires larger inputs of energy and material, and generates larger quantities of waste by-products.  Increased extraction of natural resources, accumulation of waste and concentration of pollutants will therefore result in the degradation of environmental quality and a decline in human welfare, despite rising incomes.
• Furthermore, it is argued that degradation of the resource base will eventually put economic activity itself at risk.  To save the environment and even economic activity from itself, economic growth must cease and the world must make a transition to a steady-state economy.

Arguments against the topic

• The fastest road to environmental improvement is along the path of economic growth: with higher incomes comes increased demand for goods and services that are less material intensive, as well as demand for improved environmental quality that leads to the adoption of environmental protection measures.  As environmental protection measures are adopted, demonstrates that in the longer run, the surest way to improve your environment is to become rich.

Mixed arguments

• The implied inverted-U relationship between environmental degradation and economic growth came to be known as the “environmental Kuznets curve,” by analogy with the income-inequality relationship postulated by Kuznets. At low levels of development, both the quantity and the intensity of environmental degradation are limited to the impacts of subsistence economic activity on the resource base and to limited quantities of biodegradable wastes.  As agriculture and resource extraction intensifies and industrialization takes off, both resource depletion and waste generation accelerate.
• At higher levels of development, structural change towards information-based industries and services, more efficient technologies, and increased demand for environmental quality result in leveling-off and a steady decline of environmental degradation.

This Article is Taken from Theodore Panayotou work
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In this speech he had shared his life & IIMA experiences which may be vary beneficial for an MBA aspirant. I have tried summarizing some of the points which he has mentioned in his speech.

Harsha 0n Excellence:

Can we fill 2 litres in a 1 litre pepsi bottle?

So we can never give anything more than 100%.

But we can give 100% for every moment

There is no shame in saying “Well Done .. you are better than me” When you know that you have given your 100% effort ethically.

“Excellence never seeks excuses”

The moment someone says “I would have been good But”.. it means you are trying to assign the blame of your poor performance on someone else. This means you are not great already!

Harsha Bhogle’s Speech on Achievers of Excellence Part-2

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Lets start with the short answer : Most B-schools publish their average GMAT score and the 80% range. This usually gives a pretty good picture picture of where your GMAT score lies. If your score is within the 80% range, you have good chance, however realistically speaking, the further below its from the average, the lower your chances of getting in. Lets look at an example of an imaginary B-school – “Jane Doe School of Business”

Average GMAT: 705
80% range : 640-750

However the above is just a thumb rule, there are some other factors in the play:

- GMAT Score and Academic performance
- Industry and experience (Resume)
- Application pool

These are a lot of permutations and combinations to consider and since most schools don’t publish a minimum GMAT score, the situation gets murkier.

- Academic performance:
If you had a stellar academic performance, a lower GMAT score can be compensated. This can really help if you are still on the lower side of the 80% percentile range of the previous years GMAT score. But if it has been more than 5 years since you graduated, your academic performance may not matter much, as is shown by a recent study for GMAC : “When are Grades No longer Valid”

- Industry, experience and Application pool:
What is your industry? Some industries like IT, Finance are too heavily represented in MBA applications. As a result, if you belong to any of these industries, your low GMAT score may be detrimental to your acceptance probability. On the other hand, if you belong to non-profit sector, your GMAT score may not be as bad.

- Application pool:
Similarly, as schools press for diversity, if you belong to an international pool with lesser number of applicants, your chances of getting away with a low GMAT score are pretty good, however, if you are from the India / China applicant pool, your chances may be severely hampered.

ScoreChase.com has been providing GMAT Prep services for over 3 years. Our courses provide individual focus and we work with our clients to identify their weakness and improve on them. Our self-preparation / recorded crash courses have helped students raise their scores beyond 750. If you have more questions, please contact: support@scorechase.com

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“This coming together will greatly ease the stress of having to hop from one interview to another. We don’t want leftover candidates from the older IIMs. IIM-Trichy will have its own identity and admission process. The directors of all new IIMs will meet soon to decide on holding joint interviews and using those scores for admissions,” IIM-Trichy Director Prafulla Agnihotri told TOI. “There is great synergy when the IIMs come together. We have been talking about it (holding joint interviews and GD); all we need to do now is to sit down and chalk it out,” P. Rameshan, Director, IIM Rohtak told TOI. Even though the idea of joint interviews and GDs is not entirely new, the older IIMs, especially at Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta, have rejected it for the sake of autonomy.

Over 186,000 candidates appeared for CAT 2010 held between October 27 and November 24, across 20 testing days. The CAT score is one of the inputs used by IIMs in admitting students to its flagship two-year postgraduate programme.

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I am writing this post based on  personal experience and tips  that me and most of my friends  followed, who made finally to IIM A, B,C and L also in XLRI, IIFT and FMS, during our fight to win the RAT[CAT] races of our lives.

To give you a brief about GD[what/why?]

A GD is a method  to gauge whether the candidate has certain personality traits and/or skills that an institute desires its students possess. This way institutes judge if the candidate fits into its cultural setup, or if the candidate’s personality is going to add a different flavor to the existing culture.

Points that a GD brings out about candidates personality-

Ability to work in a team
Communication skills [including listening, speaking and expressing]
Reasoning ability
Leadership skills
Initiative
Assertiveness
Flexibility
Creativity
Ability to think on ones fee

How to approach a GD

Always use time given for before discussion starts judiciously and efficiently

Step 1:   Read/ listen to the topic very carefully

Step 2:   Identify the main ideas and themes about the topic

Step 3:   Write your points on the sheet provided and try to structure them [5-6 points are enough]

Tip:- try to remember to link your examples to point from the readings and experiences you had relating them to the main topic

Roles people play during a GD

1. Initiatingt the GD started by introducing the topic to the groups and adding his points

2. Facilitating participation of all the groups members, If  anyone or few dominate a group moderator tries to control that,

3. Keeping the content of discussion around the core issue

4. Giving and asking for information & reactions & critiques

5. Discussing and questioning each other’s interpretations of materials

6. Summarizing what the group has said and moving on giving new direction to the discussion

7. Final conclusion

Strategies you may adopt

Competing without a strategy will take you nowhere, unless you are planning to reach nowhere.

Depending upon the comfort level with the topic you must decide in the beginning which role will you be playing in a particular GD. Same strategy for all the GDs that you may be participating in may not be a good strategy as a person a different level of comfort with different topics. So choose a role carefully rather strategically. If you are comfortable playing multiple roles and very swiftly you can switch roles and use your strengths to your advantage.

Normally, opening a GD involves these very important things:

1. Define the topic of the GD if there is a need to define it for others (clarity)
2. Set boundaries/parameters that you may feel will help the GD to be discussed without ambiguity.
3. In case you have a story/ incident/ experience for the topic, then start with that.
4. Creative GD will be started with your interpretation and the supporting thought process for the interpretation.

No matter what role you choose, but you have to make sure you put your own points forward and do your job by adding some valuable points to the discussion.

Tip:- 1. As most of the candidates pounce on the opportunity to open the topic and lot of people speak simultaneously and no one is heard. Better strategy could be to choose roles from 2-6 so that it will be easier to pitch in you points.

2. It is always good to substantiate your point with some facts. Most Business Schools ensure that they pick up those students who have some data on the topic or related discussions wherein the students can compliment their point of view or the stand they might take. This approach gives an impression that candidate has a rational thought process and knows how to built arguments.

Dos and Don’ts

• You must ensure that the group hears you. If the group hears you, so will the evaluator. That does not mean that you shout at the top of your voice and be noticed for the wrong reasons.
• You have to be assertive. If you are not a very assertive person, you will have to simply learn to be assertive for those 15 minutes. Remember, assertiveness does not mean being bull-headed or being arrogant.
• Participate in as many practice GDs as possible before you attend the actual GD. There is nothing like practice to help you overcome the fear of talking in a GD.

• The quality of what you said is more valuable than the quantity.

• Be as natural as possible. Do not try and be someone you are not. Be yourself.
• A group discussion is your chance to be more vocal. The evaluator wants to hear you speak.
• Take time to organize your thoughts. Think of what you are going to say.
• Seek clarification if you have any doubts regarding the subject.
• Don’t start speaking until you have clearly understood and analyzed the subject.
• Work out various strategies to help you make an entry: initiate the discussion or agree with someone else’s point and then move onto express your views.
• Opening the discussion is not the only way of gaining attention and recognition. If you do not give valuable insights during the discussion, all your efforts of initiating the discussion will be in vain.
• Your body language says a lot about you – your gestures and mannerisms are more likely to reflect your attitude than what you say.
• Language skills are important only to the effect as to how you get your points across clearly and fluently.
• Be assertive not dominating; try to maintain a balanced tone in your discussion and analysis.
• Don’t lose your cool if anyone says anything you object to. The key is to stay objective: Don’t take the discussion personally.
• Always be polite: Try to avoid using extreme phrases like: `I strongly object’ or `I disagree’. Instead try phrases like: `I would like to share my views on…’ or `One difference between your point and mine…’ or “I beg to differ with you”
• Brush up on your leadership skills; motivate the other members of the team to speak and listen to their views. Be receptive to others’ opinions and do not be abrasive or aggressive.
• If you have a group of like-minded friends, you can have a mock group discussion where you can learn from each other through giving and receiving feedback.

Tip:- 1. Be yourself. Try not to react and get into a heated argument rather respond and give a very cogent argument

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The latest AICTE notice for PGDM programs in AICTE-approved b-schools has appalled various MBA colleges. The notice says that Admission to all PGDM courses shall be done through common entrance test such as CAT/MAT or examinations conducted by the respective state governments (such as MH-CET) for all Institutions other than Minority Institution.

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1. Social issue
2. General Topic
3. Current Topic
4. Economic Topics
5. Business Related Topic
6. Abstract Topic
7. Creative Topic
8. Political Topic

Here I am listing some of the General Topics

1     Should agricultural subsidies be stopped?
2     Is Paperless Office a Reality or Not?
3     How to Deal with International Terrorism?
4     Conditional Access System for Cable TV Watchers: Boon or Bane?
5    Higher education should be made possible only for those who can pay for it
6     Is Swapping Terrorists for Hostages an Encouragement to Plane-Hijackers?
7     Indian Army as a Career Option
8    Do NGOs in India Really Work for Others OR Work for their Own Vested Interests?
9    Is Swadeshi relevant for India today?
10     Brain-Drain has to be stopped
11    Women cannot successfully combine both career and home
12    Women are good managers
13     Borderless World: A Threat?
14    Privatization will lead to less corruption
15     Doctors’ Accountability to Improve Health-Care
16    State is the biggest violator of human rights
17    Religion And Politics Should Not Mix
18     Unrest in Countries around India
19     Rules & Regulation Breed Corruption
20     Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrants in India
21    Developing countries should spend more on development than on defense
22     Beauty Pageants are a Must,
23     How safe is Unmarried Fairer Sex?
24     Exit Options for the US from Iraq
25    Foreign trade is necessary for any country to survive
26    Advertising is a waste of resources
27    Technology: The Ism’ Of The New Millennium?
28     Are Peace and Non-Violence Outdated Concepts?
29    Should Animals be used for Testing New Drugs & Medical Procedures?
30     Should Guys Expect their Educated Wives to be Virgins?
31     Corruption is a Necessary Evil for Success in Any Sphere
32    What is the Difference between People who do Things Rightly and People who do Right Things?
33     Universal Disarmament is a Must
34     Should Sting Operations be Carried Out?
35    Executive should be allowed to form unions
36    Political parties have outlived their utility
37     Should Research on Human Cloning be banned?
38     Secularism has become a Tool to Justify the Wrongs done by the Minorities
39    Indians perform better as individuals rather than in groups
40     Borderless World: A Myth or Reality?
41    Security Cameras & Privacy
42    Money is required to earn more money
43     Are Live-in Relationships better than Marriage?
44    Presidential Vs Parliamentary form of government of India
45     Nuclear War cannot be won and should not be fought
46    Voting rights to illiterates in India is illogical because it is widely misused
47    There can never be a classless society
48    Beauty pageants are a marketing gimmick
49     Is India a Soft Nation?
50     Is Dependence on Computers a Good Thing?
51     Advertisements Cheat People, Hence Should Be Banned
52     Is India Aping the Western Obsession with Celebrities?
53     Capital Punishment should be Banned or Allowed?
54     Flexi Timings or Fixed Timings – Which is better at Work?
55    Business and ethics go hand in hand, or do they?
56    The weaker sex is the weakness of the stronger sex
57    Joint family is a blessing in disguise     All states have equal rights on them
58     Individual Brilliance Certainly makes a Difference
59    Effect of liberalization on poverty
60     India at 60: A Senior Citizen?

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In simple words : “Hosh udd gaye” One of the toughest XAT exams till date. Quant of XAT 2011 will give even our Quant Gurus a tough time. Verbal was ok. Most scoring was DI section. The one who had picked quant section earlier must had a taken a good amount of time.

Right strategy would be to take up DI first, Quant second and Verbal in the last. Institutes and Gurus are predicting that overall cut off of XAT 2011 will drop this year as compare to last one. But stay tuned to detailed analysis.

Various sites has come up with their cut offs and analysis. Lets first talk about the cut offs of XAT 2011:

1) As per Career forum:
XAT 2011 Cut Offs

Few excerpts from pagalguy on what students feel about XAT 2011:

paper was tough attempted 50 odd questions. season ends on a low note. by catophile

The toughest ppr of the season.. Huh no hopes at all byaditya131025

Dude you can’t compare those papers with XAT 2011, what i meant was that cut off was bound to go low and people should not give up so soon even if they have done bad, you just can’t really help if the paper setter just goes out of his mind to set such a paper. by robs9316 (XIMB Student)

A very difficult paper indeed- But difficult for everyone so cut-offs will be low for sure!
My attempts-
QA- 11
VA-15
LR&DM- 14
OA-40

BY natashabhatt

Thread of Pagalguy on XAT 2011

Analysis by different institutes:

IMS:

XAT 2011 came up with a number of surprises. The break of questions: 34 questions in Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning, 24questions on Analytical Reasoning & Decision Making and 43 questions in Data Interpretation & Quantitative Ability. Moreover, this time all the questions carried variable weightage in the range of 1 mark to 5 marks and the marks for each question was mentioned beside the question. Therefore, the entire paper was a test of your ability to select the questions judiciously. The Quantitative Ability questions were difficult, whereas the Data Interpretation questions were doable. The weightage given to questions on decision-making was higher. The Verbal Ability section was also on the difficult side, though question types were similar to last year. After two years, poetry based question has made a comeback in XAT. The essay topic was also presented in a different manner this year – an argument was given and one had to present a judgement on the argument along with justifications and examples in 250 words. Overall, it was a difficult and tricky paper.

Answer key:

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We hope you have already been enjoying the season with lots of exam. At this juncture, we wish to CONGRATULATE those who have already got IIFT calls and we also wish to take you ahead to the second level of the process of getting into your dream B-Schools. Yes, you are thinking right. We are talking of Group discussion and Personal Interview preparation.

Let me give you a glimpse of ‘What does a GD and a PI check you on’? Answer is straight and simple. Written exam has checked you on your aptitude. Now is the time when you should be checked on your attitude: attitude towards life, attitude towards your career and attitude towards the society as a whole.

Attitude makes your overall persona. How you carry yourself? How you present yourself, especially in a formal group? How you know your own self – Your strengths and weaknesses, your goals, your ambitions, your dreams? How much of the world around you, you know? Do you mean everything you have written in your biodata for e.g. these are a few things to begin with, which are part of your persona?

Now we are coming with an exciting series on “How to handle GD-PI”.Today we are going to take one of the most popular question & going to answer it with our experience. So we are coming up with first challenge which students faced when they enter PI room & they are asked to describe themselves. They concoct such a story which lands them in nothing but arrays of questions which they are not expecting. Try to answer this question in such a way that you take examiner where you want to take him.

How to go about the question ‘Tell me something about yourself’

While answering this question you should start with what kind of person you are, what are your special interests or achievements, what you like what you dislike? And you should know what you like – why you like that and similarly what you dislike – why you dislike that, though you won’t say that unless asked for.

Then you should talk about what your ambitions are. And this answer should be supported by ‘What made your ambitions’ Remember there is always a trigger for what your ambitions are at this stage. Any one while in graduation or after should know Why he wants to go for something.

And this should be a good 45 to 60 seconds talk.

Next, you should talk about your strengths and should not talk about weaknesses though you should know them at the same time. Never use words like ‘My strengths are…’ Better say – ‘I am a person who believes in perseverance’ etc etc. Here only you should mention about your academic achievements and also your hobbies.

You should know the difference between Hobby/Interests/Leisure time activities. Don’t say ‘Coin collection’ is your hobby if it wasn’t pursued passionately. If you use to collect coins just as an amateur than say that it was a leisure time activity or something you were deeply interested in.

Understand one thing; choice of right words makes a difference. The meaning of what you say should be crisp to them and they should understand what you want them to understand.

And this should be 30-45 seconds answer.

Last you can talk about the kind of family you belongs to and the value system of your family. This can be 15-30 seconds answer. So all in all you can have an answer ready for 2 minutes to 3 minutes, and that is enough. Usually an interviewer will come up with another question from your first 40-60 seconds answer.

All the best for next phase.

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ICFAI Business school aptitude test IBSAT 2010 held on December 26, 2010. The test was similar to last years pattern. There were 125 questions of  moderate level difficulty.

Some quick facts about the paper:

• IBSAT 2010 – 2 Hrs duration
• IBSAT 2010 – 125 Questions
• IBSAT 2010- Divided in four section
• English Usage 50 Questions
• Reading comprehension 25 Questions
• Quantitative ability 25 Questions
• Data sufficiency and DI 25 Questions

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JAN-FEB 2011 will be crucial for all MBA  aspirants to get into their dream B-School. Just after  X’mas/New year eve  you will be facing  another barrier to get in to MBA college. You have to shift your focus to group discussion, current affairs, general knowledge personal interview, & essays/sop’s.  Here essay/sop’s will be playing a important role for your candidature.

Although CAT score, Marks and Grades are considered key benchmarks for shortlisting for first round but essays or sop writings are key criteria for admissions in leading B-schools,  be it IIMs, IIFT,Grate lakes or Symbiosis MBA program. For instance, IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Lucknow, IIM Kozhikode and IIFT conduct Essay Writing along with GD PI.

IIFT has recently declared the names of the candidates shortlisted for Essay Writing, GD and PI, which will be held in January 2011. When the CAT 2010 results are declared on January 12, 2011, the IIMs too will call the candidates to appear in the GD PI and Essay Writing rounds from February.

Hence, it  is very crucial for you to have good awareness about the patterns of Essay Writing and how to prepare and practice for perfect essay writing.

Following writing  from Ms. Jaya Desai( Product Head, IMS Learning) will give you some tips for MBA essays writing.

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With XAT-2011 is less than 10 days away it’s right time to prepare and practice for XAT-ESSAYS. Here i am listing all xat essays from xat-1999 to xat-2010.

XAT  Essays Topics

XAT-1999 Essay Topic:  “Television really is, another eye so you can see anywhere, another part of your heart so you can feel and care about things you never felt and cared about before, another ear to hear strange music…. The first and only international language.”

XAT 2000 Essay Topic:  “Ships are safer in the harbour, But they are not meant for the same”.

XAT 2001 Essay Topic:  “Economic Growth without distributive justice can only lead to violence”.

XAT 2002  Essay Topic: “Indian Economy in the Post WTO Era.”

XAT-2003 Essay Topic: ” To give real service, one needs to add something that cannot be bought or measured, like sincerity and integrity”.

XAT-2004 EssayTopic: ” Asked at the age of 83, as to which of his project would he choose as his master piece, Frank Lloyd wright, the architect answered, “The next one”

XAT-2005 Essay Topic: “More than one billion Indians:  A gigantic problem or a sea of opportunities”.

XAT Essay 2006 Topic: “India has the largest pool of talented manpower, but very few innovations and patented products.”

XAT Essay 2007 Topic: “Economic growth without environmental damage – a mirage or a reality “.

XAT 2008 Essay Topic: “GENDER BIAS :CAUSE OF 3RD WORLD WAR”

XAT 2009  Essay Topic: “The Inherent vice of Capitalism is unequal sharing of blessings and the inherent virtue of Socialism is equal sharing of misery”.

XAT 2010 Essay  Topic: “Earth provide enough to satisfy every man’s need but not every man’s greed need”

Above listing shows that XAT essays are not restricted one particular domain they are covering  economical, social,and also abstract topic sometimes.Similar Posts:

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What is looked for in XAT Essays?

1. Subject knowledge
2. Clarity of thought
3. Flow of ideas
4. Examples
5. Facts
6. Correct usage of grammar
7. Correct usage of words
8. A neat hand-writing

How should you write a XAT essay?

1. Always write in paragraphs
2. It’s not a natural but learned skill
3. Different paragraphs express different ideas that contribute to the main idea
4. A paragraph should ideally contain :

• Topic Sentence: it is the 1st sentence expressing the main idea of the paragraph- Say what you are going to say
• Supporting Sentences: they expand the main idea expressed in the topic sentence- Say it
• Concluding Sentence: rounding off what has been said or a logical conclusion of the idea in the topic sentence- Say it again!!!

Precautions while writing XAT essay?

• Follow a flow of paragraphs
• Always let the first paragraph be an introduction to the subject matter
• Expansion/ support/ refutation of the idea must follow in subsequent paragraphs
• The last paragraph must have a conclusion of the main idea
• There could be two forms of writing- Deductive and Inductive
• You should have good knowledge of the topic to write about
• Read the directions carefully
• Recognize action words- discuss, evaluate, argue, comment etc.
• Focus on the issue rather than peripheries
• Choose words with precise meanings; avoid ambiguity
• Do not use Jargon
• Do not use Slang
• Do not use Cliché
• Do not use Abbreviations
• Do not use Quotations without acknowledgments
• Make tentative statements; avoid definitive statements- it leaves a scope for further discussion

Where to prepare for XAT essay ?

1. Regular reading of: Newspaper editorials, News papers, News websites & Non-fiction article etc
2. Discussions with friends and family
3. Informational thinking

XAT Essay topics from XAT-1999 to XAT-2010

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First of all, following are the various type of case studies, you may come across:
1. Finance based
2. Marketing based
3. HR based
4. Ethical Dilemma
5. Social issue
6. Legal issue

Most common of all, is the HR case. The reason for that is, that anyone can speak on HR issues without technical knowledge of HR function. And they want to give chance to everyone to speak, because without you guys speaking they won’t be able to judge you.

Now, irrespective of which type of case study has been given to you, following are the steps, I will suggest you should be following:

1. Identify the problem in the case.

If a case study has been given to you, there has to be a problem or concerns which you are suppose to tackle. You need to clearly identify this. Please note, it seems identifying problem is easy. Trust me it is at times not that easy.

Eg: ‘Excessive exposure of female anatomy should be banned in the advertisements’

Think for a minute, before reading further, that in this GD(not case study) topic what is the main concern.

Is it exposure?
Or is it excessive exposure?
Or is it females?
Or is it exposure of females?
Or is it excessive expose of females?
Or the advertisements are the issue?
Or females in advertisements are the issue?
Or is it exposure of females in the advertisements?
Or is it excessive exposure of females in the advertisements?

Trust me it’s neither of the above. When I took this GD topic, in my class a couple of weeks back, almost everyone in the class of 40 said something or other written above.

The problem/concern in the above topic is ‘Banned’ or ‘Banning’. Think over it.

2. Identify the cause of the problem.

Once you have identified the problem, your next step should be identifying the cause of the problem. Note that cause of the problem may or may not be explicitly mentioned in the case. If it is mentioned, nothing like it. If it is not, then you have to take assumptions.

In the above example, following can be the causes:
Exposure is spoiling the society.
Models are ill-respected.
Society heads are raising questions.
Laws does not allow.
Etc.

3. Work on solution.

There are two ways of doing it.
a) Work on the cause. If cause can be well taken care of, then the problem itself is taken care of. In this case develop strategies to address the cause. You should at least develop 2 strategies for this. Once primary and the other secondary.

b) Work on the problem. May be the cause is intrinsic. That means the cause and problem are interlinked, in the sense that solution to one thing gives rise to other. In this case, you will have to work on minimizing the effect of the problem or eliminate the problem working on something else but the cause. Again I will suggest develop at least 2 plans/strategies to work on it.

4. Implementation plan.

This means how are you going to implement the plan you have made. What will be the stages involved. What will be the order in which you will implement it? Etc.

5.Backup plan.

A manager has to be always ready with the backup plan. If the main plan back fires than the back plan has to be used. In a case study discussion you will only mention what is your back up plan. You need not talk of its implementation plan, reason being its implementation comes into picture only when the primary plan fails and that’s something we can’t say in discussion only.

That’s it.

All the best

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XAT which is  most admired exam after CAT  in INDIA for admission in B-school is just 15 days away. Before making any strategy to fight the XAT-battle,  go through  previous year XAT  trend. 

Most relaxing part is that negative marking which was as high as 1/2 or 1/3rd  in XAT-2006 to XAT-2009 had been reduced to 1/4th for first five incorrect answer then 1/5th for each incorrect answer thereafter in XAT-2010.

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Today, I am giving you tips on ‘How to write an effective CV/Resume/Biodata’ to be carried to GD-PI centre of various institutes.

First and foremost, Most of the B-schools give you a check list of what to bring and what not to bring to the GD-PI centre. Most of those institutes which required a biodata from you, will explicitly ask for it. And many won’t. My students ask me if they should be carrying a biodata to the institute which has not asked for it.

Answer to this is quite tricky. See, if you have a lot of credentials which you like boasting about, I will suggest carry your biodata, which carries these achievements, to the GD-PI venue. This is to ensure that they at least get to know the achievements which you have gathered in so many years. And also to invite questions on them.

Second case, if there are things in your life, in your biodata, which you do not want an interviewer to prick you on, I will suggest better don’t carry biodata in that case. I am sure I need not explain it further.

Another case, you don’t have much to write on your biodata, in that case I can say it hardly matters that you carry the biodata or not. My suggestion is better don’t carry. Why will you like someone to see that there is nothing much you can talk about, about yourself, on paper?

Another point, when I am saying above that don’t carry your biodata, Please note I am saying don’t carry it in the folder you are going to show to them. You FOR SURE should carry a biodata in every case, though you may keep it at the back of the folder or in a different file in case it’s not asked for and at the same time you decide not to show-case it.

Now, some important DO’s and DON’t OF WRITING BIODATA:

1.

Always write the biodata in reverse chronology. That means – latest first. For e.g. if you are an engineer with 2.5 years of work ex and 2 companies, you will start your biodata with work experience that too with the current company, followed by the previous company. Then will come your academic profile which will start with engineering, followed by 12th, followed by 10th. Then you will talk of your extra –curricular, that too in reverse chronology i.e. latest first. Then you will talk about the achievements/awards/certificates etc. again in reverse chronology. And lastly you may talk about your hobbies/interests etc. or may be strengths(NO WEAKNESSES in biodata).

2.

Writing a long biodata say 3 to 4 pages is a wonderful way to ensure that no one gives a dam to your biodata. In a way, you make interviewer loose the interest in you. Note that your biodata (assuming, you don’t have more then 3-4 years of work-ex) should not exceed 1 page, whatever come may.

3.

Note that biodata is a SELLING TOOL. Remember you won’t buy Ruffles lays if the packet is torn. Right. So is the case with biodata. Remember to do spell check before taking a print. There should not be any grammatical mistake or spelling mistake for that matter. And yes, you will never fold your biodata. It has to be crisp.

4.

A biodata is like a greeting card for your girl friend. You need to have a separate(customized) card for all of them. You cannot have a generic card for all of them. What I am trying to say is that you may have to do a little shuffling here and there in your biodata, depending on the institute you are going to. E.g. for XLRI-PMIR your biodata may not be 100% same as what it will be for IIMs, though in totto it will be same. What may be different is the sequencing.

This is all in all how you should draft your biodata. Here is one sample CV for your referance:

Resume – Amol 1

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This question is the most scared question across all MBA interview panels. In 1908, the Graduate School of Business Administration (GSBA) at Harvard University was established; it offered the world’s first MBA program, with a faculty of 15 plus 33 regular students and 47 special students. The mission of the program was to produce leaders and ideas that will shape the practice of management in vital organizations of every kind around the globe.  What makes an idea or a leader successful is the clarity. That is why each applicant was asked to write in their SOP [statement of purpose] the answer to the question “Why you want to do MBA?”.  Since many B-schools do not have the concept of SOP, they ask this during the interview.

But as smart we think we are, the people in the interview room sitting across the table are Smarter. Don’t forget these are the people [the Profs] who are taking interviews over the years. Some of them have career span more than the age of the certain candidates. So no prize for guessing that how easy it is for interviewer to catch fake or made up [as spoon fed by the coaching institutes] answers. And  if you are successful in doing that [first of all give yourself a pat], the story does not end there. Read ahead.

I hope I have been able to draw your attention towards the issue in the right way.  I am sure most of you still have not got YOUR answer to THE question. This is fairly okay… it is good if you are searching for your own rather waiting for someone to spoon feed you.The answer has to come from within and believe me it is going to come some day.

To help the readers about being clear about their thoughts and organize them, here are few books I would suggest that will give you fair idea how can live your dream and please appreciate that its not going to be MBA for all of you.

1. Virgin King -Richard Branson
2. Business at Speed of ligth- Bill Gates
3. Snap shots from Hell The making of an MBA- Peter Robinson
4. Alchemist- Paulo Cohelo
5. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull- Richard Bach
6. Rules of revolutionaries – Guy Kawasaki
7. Odyssey – Pepsi to Apple – John Sculley

Some of these books will give you good idea to introspect and how managers handle things at work place. In the next article I am going to suggest some more books, which will help you figure out YOUR own answer to WHY MBA??

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Explanation:
expensive > expand
1. Capable of expanding or tending to expand.
2. Broad in size or extent; comprehensive: expansive police powers.
3. Open and communicative; talkative or effusive: Wine made the guest expansive.
4. Grand in scale: an expansive lifestyle.
courtesy: free dictionary

I am writing this post because I did the same today in my office, and when my manager pointed out this mistake to me I was baffled as to how can I make this silly mistake.

Conclusion: whenever in spelling dilemna, think of the spelling of the root word (assuming you know the root word) and you will find what can be the correct spelling. This cannot be always true but in probability terms it will be more than 70% (figures are based on my personal experience as I didn’t find any nielsen research report on this )Similar Posts:

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Topic-wise break-up of questions – The distinctive feature of IRMA GK section is that almost all the questions relate to the rural scenario in India. The questions in this section test the candidate’s basic understanding of all relevant issues of present day India, and ability to analyze and take a view on conflicting socio-economic goals, objectives and demands.

According to IRMA’s brochure the GK questions are mainly asked from:

1. The Indian economy and Issues relating to India’s national income and its composition; per capita income, etc.

2. Millennium Development Goals, human development, HDI and its achievement by India.

3. Issues in demography: rural and urban population, sex ratio etc.

4. Issues arising from the social and economic exclusion of large sections from the benefits of development such as poverty and inequality: poverty levels, poverty line, disparities in income, employment and literacy by rural-urban background, and gender and social groups like caste and religion.

5. Right to information; issues relating to good governance and accountability to the citizens including the maintenance of human rights, and of probity in public life.

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7. Agriculture in India, crop and livestock production systems.

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CAT 2010 Practice Test

There is no need to give this judge the difficulty level of CAT 2010 by this test.  Motive here is to acquaint you with the platform. Though they have provided the practical guide which will help you know the basics of the testing platform, but I have compiled that guide in a video format. Here’s the video of the practical guide:

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The FEE of this strategy session is: Your SINCERITY, DEDICATION & DETERMINATION towards your own career.

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What is the difference between √x and (x)^1/2 ?

This is a very critical concept. There is a very crucial difference

√x : √ sign (the radical sign) is called the “Principal root” and always results in a non-negative number.

(x)^1/2: The x to the power of 1/2 is the result of the equation, y^2 = x. In this case the result could be “positive or negative or zero”.

So here is the conclusion

√x : Always non-negative

(x)^1/2: Can be positive or negative or zero

As in ScoreChase GMAT Workshops, we don’t believe a concept is complete without working on an example. Here is a question that will help you understand this topic a little bit better:

Q. For a negative integer x, what is the value of  x * √(x^2) ?
A) x^2
B) -x^2
C) x
D) -x
E) -1

Once you have found an answer. Please highlight the text below to see the solution

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Since x is negative, -x will be positive
Since √(x^2) yields positive result and x is negative, the result will be -x
So, x*√(x^2) = x * -x = -x^2
(B)

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Simple enough!

Stay tuned for more beyond the book concepts !

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‘Google Lookup’ is a SpreadSheet function of Google Docs. Using this function you can find Google/Internet (pun intended) right from your spreadsheet. Tutorial Video is embeded below. It’s you who has to think how you can exploit this new function provided by Google. After watching the embeded video I chuckled and thought that – now this is the power of Tech-Age. Well, let me cover ‘GoogleLookup’ in Q&A form:

Q. What is Google Lookup?

A. A google-docs spreadsheet function which searches Internet and brings the attribute you want to find. For Eg. if you want to kow the capital of ‘India’: you will put ‘India’ (event) in one column of spreadsheet and ‘Capital’ (which is attribute) in other column header. After this you will use ‘=googlelookup(“India”,”Capital”)’ in a cell and it will bring the result – New Delhi in no time.

Q. Why Google Lookup?

A. To name a few:

For Students: create GK Sheet, Project Research, Holidays List etc.

For HouseWife: know Festival Dates, Squares & Cubes (;)), songwriter etc.

For Professionals: Know Stock Price, Event Date, Move Release Date, Capital of a Country, GK Sheet etc.

Hfffff! I think I’ve provided enough reasons of why googlelookup?

Q. Limitation of Google Lookup?

A. You can do upto 1000 lookups in a single spreasheet. Even Google’s official blog didn’t talk about it. I found it when I tried to go beyond it. Here’s the proof.

Tutorial Video:

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1) Download box/page immediately open after clicking the link on the head of this page or by clicking the banner towards the right side of this page. Here’s the screenshot of the page.

2) You can see what is popular in the download section in the Popular download section which is just below the search box(covered in next point).

3) You can search a file in the download section by keywords. For e.g if you are looking for sample papers of CAT, just put ‘CAT Sample papers’ in the search box and the result will bring all the sample papers of CAT. If result is not appropriate change/imporve the keyword you have used.

4) You can also filter the material with date/no. of downloads. Here’s the screenshot:

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This time I am bringing something very different for all of you. This is especially for those who tried to prepare last year for CAT 2009 but somehow could not. This is also for those who have started their preparation and are facing difficulties in adjusting their preparation into daily routine. This is also for those who want to give up their preparations.

This is how one of my students started preparing for CAT and what all challenges/problems came his way. This will also tell you how he tackled those challenges. This article will also act as a time manager for you.

I have written this article keeping myself in his shoes. So now on where ever you read ‘I’ it’s he actually. He does not want his name to be mentioned here and his friends call him ‘Quiz Master’. So I will also call him Quiz Master.

I am calling this article ‘My Life, My Journey, My CAT preparation’

Enjoy reading it.

Vaibhav K Mittal

CEO – Zion Education Services

‘My Life, My Journey, My CAT preparation’

Majority of us want to live life to the fullest; best job or business, beautiful house, luxurious car, great family and be able to travel to places of our dreams. I was no different when I started working. Being a fresh graduate from an engineering college, I thought that I would take the whole world in my hands. But soon I realized that it was not easy to grow in an organization. Time and again you have to proof your worth to your managers in order to excel. This is when I started to observe my managers to learn from them and be like them. After a few discussions the fact came out that they all had a vast experience of at least 5-7 years before coming to this role. The other fact that also came out was that those who did a post-graduation in finance or with an MBA degree from a reputed institute got placed as managers earlier than those who were just graduates.

This is when I decided to prepare for CAT and pursue MBA; after all it was shortcut to becoming a Manager!! Shortcut? You may ask!! There is no shortcut to success. Yes, everyone knows there is no shortcut to success but doing an MBA from a prestigious college is no shortcut. It requires great hard work pre and post admission into these colleges.

When I started preparing for entrance exams, I faced another challenge. I was almost out of my home for 13 hours working and traveling to work. Coming back from office I was left with no energy to study. However the words of one of my school teacher echoed in my mind who said “We would spend endless number of hours searching for the Gucci T-shirt that SRK wore in DDLJ even on a hot summer day but we would not study in the comfort of our home knowing that one day it will help us earn enough to afford that same T-shirt and many more things”.

This, indeed, is a fact that most of us achieve what we want to if we are passionate about it.

Since I was passionate about preparing for MBA entrance and getting in a good B-school, I started analyzing my time and the way I can utilize it to the maximum.

There after my mornings would start with a prayer and then a quick walk to the park. I prepared cards with word meanings, its synonyms and antonyms, and would read them while having my breakfast. Since I used to travel to office in a company bus, I carried a newspaper and the cards I prepared for vocab, and read both during the journey to office. For those of you who drive yourself to office; you can download some Mark Gorman motivational lessons or David Swartz’s ‘Magic of Thinking Big’ audio-book and play them either in your mobile or your car’s CD player. This would keep you motivated throughout the day. I used to listen to them while coming back from office as there was not enough light to read during my evening journey back home.

Once I was home, I did not waste much time and focused on the main topics of mathematics, data interpretation/sufficiency, logical reasoning and verbal ability. I spent on an average 2 hours a day studying these subjects. I tried studying both Maths and English on a daily basis but on occasions I would study them on alternate days.

Since I was regular with Maths, DI/DS and LR and English including grammar, RC and vocabulary; the only thing that was left was my business aptitude. Since partially it was taken care off by the newspaper readings, to get the complete insight of the business arena I subscribed myself in Business Today Magazine.

During the weekends I would read books of renowned authors, revised the topics I studied during the week and solved some crossword-puzzles and sudoku. These puzzles are important for your mental abilities.

As most management entrance exams test a person’s time management skills; I had to test mine before the D-day. A mock-CAT series is what helped me in trying different strategies for the main exam.

I am sure that this experience of mine will help you in your preparation for CAT exam. I know that people get nervous by just thinking about the exam. All I would like to mention before I sign off is a thought that someone shared with me:

‘It doesn’t matter where and who you are, all that matters is where and who you want to be’.

Courtesy: Quiz Master.

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We do that by a simple fission reaction.
Let us break the bigger set of CAT into two subsets: Math and English.
The two subsets can be further divided into smaller sets.
In case of English, identify the core areas of study followed by the thumb rules and strategies. Once you identify- the ‘whats’ of the core areas, move to the next step- the ‘hows’ of your study plan. Make a day plan-make sure that your hobby is a part of your day plan. If you love playing video games-ensure that playing video games is a part of your day plan.
I suggest that study Math and English everyday because you will not take Math and English exams separately. It is important to allocate few hours to both subjects each day. As for reading, I strongly suggest that you should not read what you love instead you should learn to love what you read. Let us summarize:

1. Break the big set of CAT into subsets and smaller units
2. Identify the core areas
3. List the thumb rules and strategies
4. Progress from the ‘whats’ to the ‘hows’
5. Make a day plan. Don’t forget to include your hobby
6. Study both subjects every day.
7. Don’t read what you love instead learn to love what you read

Dream comes true when passion multiplies!

Cheers!

Neha Sharma
CAT Trainer – Verbal Areas – Zion Education Services.
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Well without wasting anymore time of yours let me tell you how you can download this guide for FREE:

1) Direct download link from the official Site: India 2010

2) From our download box. Guide is present in the GK folder.

3) Via scribd. Here is the embedded version: (if you don’t find the manual below, then there is streaming issue and you can download it directly from scribd by clicking the link below.)

India 2010

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Many of you come to this site as you won’t be able to see your result as the server of CATiim is not responding. Even when I tried to ping their server, it was giving a “Request Timed Out”. So there nothing to worry though as “Sabra Ka Phal Meetha hi Hota hai”. Just keep trying……

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CAT 2009 Result Page

CAT 2009 Score Card

BTW, they have officially declared about the heavy load on their server. Here is the screen shot.

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Salient features of the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings, 2010

Total number of valid respondents polled (sample size): 9,576

Total number of b-schools in the initial list: 184
Total number of b-schools in the final rankings: 92
Of which Nationally Aspired-to b-schools: 55*

And Regionally Aspired-to b-schools: 37
(5 from Jaipur
14 from Mumbai
10 from Hyderabad
8 from Chennai)

2 Colleges got black-listed from the Ranking: Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur and International Management Institute, Delhi

Quite different from last year’s Rankings - New looks, More Colleges, Regional Rankings, New options of Ranking. Well I found some good points and some not-so-good points in this year’s PG B-School Ranking , and I have jotted them down to share it with you guys.

Good Points:

1) It’s all about Looks: Decent looking Blue theme is used in user interface and the speed of the Javascript used is also good.  Full points to them. Here is the screen-shot:

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2) Awesome UI: Whole user interface is very friendly and have provided some salient features like

• Filtering of colleges according to the score they accept.
• Link of College website on hovering through the college name in the list.
• Rankings on different criterion like: Freshers, Work Ex, Women,Alumni, Aspirants, MBA Students.

3) Full Transparency:  Whole methodology of calculating the Rankings is published. Also different opinions has been published regarding the rankings.

4) Comparitoption: the ‘Compare B-School‘ section which helps you compare different colleges is seriously very solid. Saves lot of time in deciding which gd/pi to attend in case of clashes …just kidding. Clashes are solved by re-arranging instead of dropping one option.

5) Quant-Savvy Ranking: All kind of Statistics/Mathematics is used in calculating this ranking. According to Apurv, the ranking was put to the test of Recursive Induction (I forgot when did I hear this term last time, well Apurv has tried to explain it here) in order to maintain the authenticity of the Rankings.

6) New Ivy Leagues : Last but not the least PG has for the first time introduced the Regional Rankings (R.R) this year. They have included those colleges which have only regional reach. 4 Regions – Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Mumbai have been included in R.R.

Not-So-Good Points:

1) Only 4 regions are covered in Regional Rankings. I don’t know the reason behind this but more regions would have made the Rankings more worthy.

2) Regional Colleges of Delhi (Capital of India) is ignored. Still I don’t have any clue. Delhi guys don’t you want to know the rankings of the regional colleges in Delhi? or everyone is eying only IIFT, IMT, MDI etc…

Few Nitty-Gritties:

1) If you will go to the ‘Compare B-Schools’ section and you don’t know the name of the college then you have to ‘double click‘ inside the B-School-search-box so that you can select your college directly from the B-School list. Here is the screen shot.

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2) Mouse Over the B-School Name in the list in order to know more about its ranking. A pop-up will appear consisting its different ranks, website link of the college, and the discussion thread related to that college in PG Forum.

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