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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thank you so much,i think this article will help many guys who graduated from school this year,best wish to all of them
Thanks man for appreciating it. I Just wrote what I learnt in my last 14 years of training students for CAT/MAT etc..
VM
Sir,The Article is very nice !!great going!All the best!!
sir can i hav some sample answers just for examples..
Ankit
I have many actual answers with me. BUT I wont give you any. reason being, once u read one of them u will not be able to think an answer unique to u. Rather U will continously build your answer on the lines of the answer you will read. I suggest you write your answer and send it to me. I will suggest you the changes , in case any is required.
And if you want, we can conduct a mock PI for you(with feedback).
Waiting for your asnwer.
Vaibhav K Mittal
CEO – Zion Education Services
vaibhavkmittal@gmail.com
absolutely sir..
as u say…
sir, i started a news paper and search a topic but not improved my english language plz…. tell me how improve my english language…..and how can asked the pi question…….plz help me sir………………
Vishwa
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All the Best
VM
sir i started reading the newspaper ‘mint’
but i am not getting anything..
what to do..
Keep reading it for about 15 days , for about 1-2 hours a day. You will start getting it,
Also see the terms which you can’t understand, on wikipedia. You will have to take a little pains, but believe me results will be worth the efforts.
Bye VM
Hello sir,
I want to know some general tips during personal interview like gesture,movement of hands while explaining etc…I m a fresher,thats why i wanna know…
plz do reply…
sir. im thanking u alot. i m getting many things from ur article. meanwhile i hav a lot of problems in speaking so kindly suggest me how to improve myself.?
I suggest you can join Toastmasters international. Google it to find more about it.
This will for sure help you. Side by side start watching English moview(HBO) and speak with the actor in the movie.
Bye
VM
dispenses use a wonderful website decent Gives appreciate it for the work to support me
Pls tell in detail. U can email to me at vaibhavkmittal@gmail.com.
Vaibhav K Mittal
dis will really help all of d students,,,great sir………
Thank you!
sir
It was really nice one.
Thanks a lot Mr. Vaibhav for sharing your experience. I am sure this will help everyone who is seeking out a place in one of top B-Schools
Thanx Yatin for complementing.
This article is very good sir . After reading this and preparing i got admission is christ university bangalore . Thank u a lot sir.
gudnoon sir, main mat scorer n uptu scorer hun n 15 ko meri gdpi hain n meri english thodi week hain..kyaa gdpi mein hindi mein main participate kar sakti hun.??????
Varsha. I won’t suggest you using Hindi words or Hindi at all in a GD or a PI. If you are weak at English, then u should better practice speaking certain sentences & cram them up. This will boost your confidence and may be you will be able to speak a little better than you expect.
All the Best
sir how to answer the question how did you spend your last weekend????
sir,
thanks a lot i m reading ur articles quite regularly….
I hav good english but the problem is, m so scary abt interviews…so i become so uncomfortable nd then i cant recollect right words. As you said using specific words is so important. so sir plz suggest something to improve myself….