CAT %le [ Overall 98.66... QA: 97.xx... VA: 97.xx... DI: 81.xx ]
Work-Ex: 22 months in an IT major.
XII score: 87.xx
X score: 89.xx
Extracurriculars: Organized several events in college.
Academics: 6.66 OGPA, ISM-Dhanbad
Course Applied for: PGDM(FT)
GD/PI center: Osmania Univ, Hyd
GD experience:
First, photocopies of all documents were taken including the Personal Details form(which was used later in the interview). After a long wait, about 12 of us(I think 4 girls and 8 boys) called into a chamber where 3 panel members(who also took the interview) were seated.
Asked us to sit in order of our pre-assigned numbers.
Asked the nearest participant to pick an envelope.
The topic we got was "
Those who fail to plan, plan to fail".
Some time to note down our points and then we began.
Expected a major fishmarket at the beginning, but things smoothened out quite well. Everyone(including me) took the same stand at the beginning and tried to justify the statement giving several examples. Later on however, one guy pointed out external circumstances cannot be helped. There was some crosscutting but it was essential and happened at the right moment when someone was digressing from the actual topic or taking too long to make a point. Several times, 2 guys would speak simultaneously and each would stop to let the other guy speak... and a third one would cut into the silence.
Anyhow, when we were about to reach a sort of consensus, the panel stopped the GD. Then we had to give a monologue and finally a written summary.
Personal Interview:
After a long long wait...
we were called in serial-wise for the interview.
3 panelists. CellphoneGuy(CG), OutspokenMan(OM), Royal Pain(RP). And Me...
I dont fully recall what CG was asking me. He was on his cellphone mostly, running in and outta that room throughout...
OM: Good Morning...
RP: Are you guys coming in randomly or according to serial number?
Moi: (appropriate answer)
RP: (looking at sheet)... Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad huh?
Moi: Yes Sir. (hmm.. so he knows about it...)
OM: What's your stream?
Moi: Mechanical sir..
RP: So... what do you do in blah blah company?
Moi(attempts to joke): I'm waiting to do my MBA sir....
OM(smiles but says quite sharply): I know that 40000 guys in Infosys, TCS etc etc are waiting to do just that. So... (interrupted by RP...)
RP(quite seriously): So... What do you do?
Moi: Sir, I'm working in software development.... CAD software.
RP: No no no.... what exactly is it that you DO?
Moi(thinking... what the hell does he want to know...): Sir, I work in a customer funded project. Basically, my client is blah and blah an aerospace company is their client. There is a software blah blah...
OM: So... what does that.... (Interrupted by RP....)
RP: What type of enhancements? What does that mean?
Moi: I get functional requirements.... like adding special parameters into an existing simulation... So... I do that....
OM: Does that involve anything related to mechanical?
Moi: Not really... but what the end user does require knowledge of mechanical....
RP: What does he do with it?
Moi: They design aircraft bodies and contours.
RP: Why did you join this company?
Moi: (appropriate answer)
OM: Why do you want to do an MBA?
Moi: (appropriate answer)
OM: Do you know what's Bernoulli's principle?
Moi: It is basically conservation of energy for an incompressible fluid... (gave 2 of the 3 terms in the equation.... then)... I don't remember sir.
OM(laughs mockingly): Better you go back to college and study.. man.
RP: What are the forces that act on an airplane?
Moi: Drag...
RP: What is drag? (I explained clearly..) ok... and?
Moi: And Lift, Gravity, Thrust...
RP: What is thrust?
Moi: It the forward force generated by the turbines in the engine by... (I smiled as I realise what he was heading towards...) It involves the Bernoulli's theorem sir...
He agreed.. and then gave some random funda about having solid technical fundamentals... etc etc.
RP: Anyway... you say you're already good at management... so why an MBA?
OM: (appropriate answer)
RP: What have you done in college?
Moi: I was the head of a cultural society.... for about a year.
RP: What was the budget?
Moi: Rs 30000
OM: You must be earning around like 2 or 3 lacs per annum.... thats a much bigger amount you are managing... why do you need an MBA... go and enjoy man... don't do an MBA...
Me stays blank....
Moi: An MBA at IMT has always been my primary goal sir... (interrupted)
OM: What other calls do you have?
Moi: I applied to SPJain, MDI and have both calls.
RP (mockingly): Ah...great.. you'll say IMT is primary here... and at MDI you will say MDI is primary and IMT is secondary.
Moi: (explained that MBA was primary.. not college and job was secondary..)
OM: So your current job is not satisfying...?
Moi: No sir... it is.... but I find the kind of work after my MBA to be more satisfying....
RP: What is the name of your blog?
Moi: (appropriate answer)
RP: What kind of name is that? I don't like it...
(Started explaining how I named it... but they weren't listening)
OM: Do you know Amitabh Bachchan's blog name?
Moi: I don't know....
RP: What other blogs do you read?
Moi: Blogs of friends.. and one called Blank Noise Project... its a movement by Bangalore women (interrupted)
OM: Do you like girls in bangalore?
Moi(thought and said): I like girls in general sir....
OM: Really? What do you like about them..?
Moi:They are good to look at.
RP: Do you like Jayalalitha..? She is from Bangalore.
Moi: Oh! I didn't know that.
OM says to RP and CG: We used to like her when she was young.
Moi(interrupts OM): Actually, I still like her sir...
but for a different reason. (explained the Karunanidhi and Jaya governance cycle in Tamil Nadu)...
OM commented on the same issue further and then looked at the time and sent me off....
VERDICT: Converted. 
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