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Second level of getting into your dream B-Schools

Vaibhav Mittal — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 03:37:39 +0000

Dear Student,

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.

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All the best

Vaibhav K Mittal

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Mastering GD/PI – Video

Gaurav — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:34:57 +0000

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How to answer “Introduce Yourself” in an Interview…..

Vaibhav Mittal — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:08:56 +0000

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.

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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Why MBA?? Why not Something else?

Ansh — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:27:47 +0000

Why MBA?? Yes the most cliched question of our generation, but the MOST apt also. You must be thinking why am I asking this question, of course…. most of the people landing on this page have figured out this for themselves. Wait!!! It is not that easy. Lets dig a bit deeper into this question.

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.

90% of the students who join MBA have no clear idea why they joined this program

The point I am trying to highlight here is that it is really important for any B-school aspirant [for his future career] to figure out the answer to the Holy question “Why MBA??” I have been interacting with students here at IIM L for two years now and it is purely from personal interaction with students here [now across 3 batches my senior, my batch and my junior] I conclude that 90% of the students who join MBA have no clear idea why they joined this program. Many of them realize that they could have been better somewhere else [in my job or may be pursuing my core field]. Many of them feel two years are wasted here, and they spend 2 yrs [the most crucial phase of their life] just cribbing about system and about their decision [which they realize was due to herd mentality]. Many of them flunk, not being able to cope up with the system, they don’t relate with the studies here [what the hell is Debit and Credit, why i have to read all the maths again ]. This is what my experience at IIM L and I am sure [talking to my friends in other IIMs] the scene is pretty much same everywhere. Believe my words “Its harder to Pass out from an IIM than getting in“. The student is not he only one who is at loss here, it is the whole system. The institute does not get good bunch of students, the companies come for placement complain about quality of talent, the performance of the batch across various competitions through out the year goes down. And it is all because we [the aspirants] do not get TRUE answer to the question WHY MBA?? What is my take away from MBA program?

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.

Virgin King -Richard Branson
Business at Speed of ligth- Bill Gates
Snap shots from Hell The making of an MBA- Peter Robinson
Alchemist- Paulo Cohelo
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull- Richard Bach
Rules of revolutionaries – Guy Kawasaki
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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Link to the articles from Economist – for GD/PI

Gaurav — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:58:12 +0000

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January 21st 2009

CFO IN FOCUS
Our monthly round-up of noteworthy articles published on CFO.com, a
source of news and insight for senior finance executives: firms get
“risk religion”, sacking customers, the optimism of youth, and
searching for bright spots in the economic gloom.

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NEWS FROM THE SCHOOLS
From around the business campuses: a dean stands down in London,
accreditation for CEIBS, and the Satyam scandal’s effects in India.

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FACE VALUE: ONE TOUGH YAHOO!
Life has tested Carol Bartz far more than even running Yahoo! will.

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MANAGEMENT GURU: HENRY MINTZBERG
He found that managers were not the robotic paragons of efficiency that
they were usually made out to be.

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the other pieces, and the magic, come unglued?

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Group Discussion tips for Freshers

Gaurav — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:34:31 +0000

Here is a pdf file which I found on scribd and is really helpful because it not only gives the questions but also gives the ideal answer for that particular question. Remember that these are the ideal answers, not the right answers because interview questions don’t have right or wrong answer; every answer is different. So these answers will help you framing your own answer which you could defend while giving an interview. You can also download the undermentioned file directly from scribd by clicking on the title of the undermentioned file.

Group Discussion Tips For Freshers

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GD-PI IIM Bangalore and Calcutta – Questions Asked

Gaurav — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:10:48 +0000

You can download the undermentioned file through scribd by clicking on the title of the embeded file.

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Gd-pi Scmhrd, Scit & Nmims experience

Gaurav — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:04:46 +0000

Embed below is the GD/PI experience of some of the shortlisted students. This list is made by catindiaonline. This will give you a feel of GD/PI session of different colleges. Every college has a different criterion to judge.

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GD/PI tips given by an IIM-A pass out

Gaurav — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:47:11 +0000

Today while surfing I came across some GD/PI tips from an IIM-A pass out. He has posted these tips on his blog – Enjoying Myself. Here are they:

* GD is usually not an elimination procedure. The evaluator evaluates you on skills like communication in group, leadership, assertiveness and most importantly listening. Remember you have one mouth and two years. So the communication should also be on similar pattern. A group discussion is your chance to be more vocal. The evaluator wants to hear you speak. So you do not have to sit quitely and hope that someone would give you a chance to speak up. Stand up for your opinion.

* Regarding the content- TIME told us a strategy which I found very useful for every topic -SPELT. Think about a topic from five different prespectives -Social, Political, Economic, Legal And Technological, u wud be able to generate a number of good points.

* Take time to organize your thoughts. Think of what you are going to say.

* Don’t start speaking until you have clearly understood and analyzed the subject. Seek clarification if you have any doubts regarding 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. It is a high risk, high return strategy. The move can backfire badly if you make any goof up. I personally preferred being second or third speaker.

* Your body language says a lot about you – your gestures and mannerisms are more likely to reflect your attitude than what you say. Gestures like pointing a finger or pen, sitting cross legged, playing with pen, tapping with feet needs to be avoided. Maintaining an eye contact, smiling faces are always welcomed.

* Try to know as many as people before the GD. This helps as familiar faces may not interrupt you as you speak.

* 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”

* In case of a ‘Fish market situation’, first and foremost- make sure that you don’t contribute to the mayhem. If the group is too disorderly wait for the right opportunity to make your point. Also a valuable tip – If a GD/Case study is more than 15 mins duration, it would not turn into a fish market. So act accordingly. IIMA case studies do not turn into fish market. There is a lot of time and people are really hesitant to create fish market kind of situation.

* 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.

* Read a lot for generating content. Go thru newspapers like Hindu, mags like Businessworld etc to get a familiarity with current topics.

* Modulate the various aspects of your voice viz. volume, pitch and tone so as to suit the nature of the point you are making. Make sure you don’t sound rude or arrogant.

Apart from the above points, the panel will also judge candidates for theiralertness and presence of mind, problem-solving abilities, ability to work as a team without alienating certain members, and creativity. An old cliched but valid adage says -’Practice makes a man perfect’….. n GD is one of the places where it is most apt.

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SPJain Global Experience

Ansh — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:04:07 +0000

I successfully completed cracked the SPJ global Selection process. Thank you, if you are congratulating me and also to those who will do it sometime in future .

It was in mumbai….amchi mumbai. It has a different air, and you can feel a vibrancy in it.

I went to SPJain mumbai at Andheri, popularly known as Bhavan’s campus, where you can see true mumbai crowd. I reached there for 10.00 am slot which I chose from various time slots available. I did all the formalities of submitting documents. Then there was announcement that there will be no GD- thank god no fishy stuff. The coordinator distributed the case studies to us, respective of our opted specialization. Mine was service marketing management and I got a case onFacebook and Myspace, why the former is more successful and how business can leverage its power.Time given 45 mins. In Next 15 mins two questions- Discuss your strength and weaknesses, what success means to you- were to be answered.

Then candidates were called for the panel interview. A lady and a gentleman were waiting for me in a small room, with a round table in it. I felt comfortable as it looks like another across the table session with client (actually this is the way one should take interviews rather than beingconcious about it). They asked me why I wanna do MBA and what I learned during my work years till now, sothat I feel MBA will help me further we talked on this topic for 2o mins. Then next question was on my hobbies, again 10 mins on that. I said cooking and socializing. They asked what I learn m these activities and how they help me. I defended the question pretty well. Lastly, they asked me if I have any question. I used the opportunity to ask them about the Canada option they are offering during the course period. After few rounds of sentences from both the side we ended the interview.

Then came the next call (only to the few successful candidates) to have an PI with institute director. Huge room and a person was seating across the long table. He offered me seat, I graciously accepted it. Again the question was why MBA but in different bottle. Why you wanna do specialization in service marketing. Again I was in the mode of convincing another client. I said what was true to me(everyone has to figure out his/her answer), 15 mins grilling on this. And that’s it.

The logic was to check clarity of your thought, how much conviction you have. I knew I have given them what they were looking for.

The idea is to stay cool and have conviction in your answers showing them what they are looking for. Keep it Simple.

By the time I reached Delhi, the admission call was in my mailbox. In this time of sinking market, I don’t know whether I will join, but the experience is worth sharing with you people.

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SCIT GD/PI Experience

Gaurav — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:09:57 +0000

Day:5th Feb 2009

Time: 8:00 a.m

I reached SCIT at sharp 8:00. I didn’t have my breakfast and they immediately asked me to go to Assembly Hall. I went there and saw near about 70-80 students with no face expressions. On the dais were standing some SCIT students. Everyone(SCIT Students of-course) was in uniform, one of them directed me towards my seat- 6th batch, 2nd seat.

After having my seat, I first analyzed the interiors of the assembly hall and then have a closer look at the dresses of invigilators (SCIT first year students). Boys were shabbily dressed, un-shaved, and wearing casual shoes with formal dress which gave a bad impression of SCIT on me. BTW,

Round 1:At 8:30 they started the first round of Psychometric Test. It contained 40 questions with 10 mins to answer them. Question paper was subjective with questions like

If some one argues with you. You will?
If you don’t like someone. You will?

Few questions were repeated after 2-3 questions to check whether your mind gives different response to the same question? There could be other reasons too; I don’t know how to judge the psycho of a person.

Round 2: GD for my batch 6. We were a group of 8 people. The topic we got was

“IPL promotes business not Cricket”

we had 15 min to discuss; everybody gets the chance to speak. Judges also intervened so that those who did not want to give chance to others can be stopped. Overall, no one took any stand and the conclusion of the discussion was that IPL promotes both business and cricket .

Round 3: Another GD session after 5 min. The topic of this new GD with new judges was:

“1+1=11″

Everyone talks about the team work but there were some good points like two legs look like 11, its only the mind which wants to show they are different; remaining ones I don’t remember. But there can be lot many.

Round 4: Then came the HR interview round in which an old man exchanged a hand shake with me and told me to take the seat. Then he asked me about myself, my biggest achievement, my biggest failure, my best experience, my worst experience, my biggest failure in decision making etc. It went for about 15 min.

Round 5: last and the final round of technical interview in which a single person interviewed me and he didn’t ask any technical question. He just asked my qualifications, then he asked me about Sub-prime crisis. After this he asked me to select one of the chits on the desk which contained case studies. He asked me to read it and suggest the possible solution for it. In the mean while he was seeing my certificates. In brief, my case study was that a competitor of Mc-Donald wants to become big. For that he has one solution of overtaking a doughnut making company, I am the consultant at Mc-kinsey and I have to suggest whether he (Mc-donalds competitor) should buy the doughnut company or not. I suggested that it depends on his priorities i.e if he only wants to expand then it could be a good option else he should concentrate on his brand building to become a major player in burger. I also gave some more funde of marketing costs, and then he asked why MBA after becoming an entrepreneur? I gave my reasons which are very true and original; after which he said thank you to me

After that I quit and come to lucknow, enjoying myself and waiting for the result in Feb end.

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IT (Amendment) Bill, 2006 passed by Lok Sabha

Gaurav — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:07:58 +0000

As everyone is preparing for GD/PI now-a-days, you should know more about IT (Amendment) bill passed by Lok Sabha. Various point of views are coming from different intellects; some are saying that it is good and some has completely repudiated it. So now its up to you which stand you want to take. Here is the link of official copy of the bill:

IT (Amendment) Bill, 2006

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GD PI tips

Gaurav — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:58:28 +0000

Here are a list of tips which I find very beneficial for preparing for GD/PI. here is the list of titles; click on the title to open it in a new window.

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Global Terrorism – a GD topic

Gaurav — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:17:47 +0000

I have got a very nice article on global terrorism which could be a topic in your GD. So please go through it so that you can have more number of points to make. After reading this do make some research on various terrorist groups like Naxal, LTTE, ULFA, PLO, IRA, Al-Qaieda, Taliban, Maoists etc. Please click on the image to expand it.

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Chat Archive of T.I.M.E

Gaurav — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:42:04 +0000

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Live Chat on GD Preparation

Gaurav — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:04:54 +0000

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This is also a part of their Group Discussion articles for which you must be
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GD-PI Experiences

Gaurav — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:27:42 +0000

Experience of Devinder who get a call from SP Jain, SIBM, MDI, SCMHRD, UBS, GCET, NMIMS. He has shared his experience and I am sharing it with you guys:

GD-PI Experiences Devinder

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Interview Questions (PI tips)

Gaurav — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:07:33 +0000

So, the file I found today is unmatchable. The under-embedded file contains the most important questions along with the tips to handle such questions. This is seriously good. If you are not preparing for interview right now even then you should download this file to your computer so that you can read it later on. You can download it directly from SCRIBD, just click the heading of this file.

Interview Questions

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