[razabpn]

Originally Posted by susobhan_82

dont worry Sir... I am there with u... ur valiant efforts wont go waste. If u see the previous thread of IBA which I started b4 coming to the Campus was really successful though it did take effort, well that was 'networking'. If u see - we have lot of pgs in 06-08 batch than in 05-07 batch, but I suppose whatever u said is contagious so much so that these pgs of our batch also donot find the time to post their experiences even with me informing quite a few of them.:grab:

Hey First thing is u hav to drop that 'Sir' thats makes me very embarrassed.. And am not that learned to be called so...there are enough people here who has that gYan to be called so... Suvas Mahapatra ( Awesome Professor... Hopefully u guys experience him soon), Chandrakant...

Well I couldnt understand the last line though.. PGs of ur batch dont find time????

Biswa Prakash,
IBA

[razabpn]

[quote=susobhan_82]Coming to a different issue altogether - 06-08 batch is having a lot of classes postponed and cancelled. Can anyone throw some light on the effect and the subsequent result of this on our mid sem. and future..? Seniors can throw some light I suppose.
Also some help required for IT test. Its supposed to be online and objective type. What sort of questions will be asked? How will it exactly happen? it was supposed to be held today(6/8/06) but fortunately or unfortunately got cancelled as the server is down and intranet cant be accessed.



Hi
Regarding the cancelled lectures... This is taken for granted here.. Finance People had a Super Crash Course..They toiled really hard this time.. See Ours is a Growing B school so in order to hav best faculties we want our schedule to fit to their timings..I guess i hav written on this. We dont hav much of In campus faculties.

Sometimes Visiting faculties pack their classes in one or two weeks and go off. ( Regularly in 2nd year) Sometimes they postpone classes. Their MArji...Problem for us is we hav to toil hard on somedays.. Learn 3 months course in 2 weeks. do various assignments in one day..so on so forth.. Learning takes a back seat then but finishing the course becomes more important then...

As far as 1st year most of the subjects are handeled by In campus faculties so no need to panic... They will be regular.. One or two subjects that are being cancelled will be finished withour much stress on u.. Neways Exams in IBA is easy if u r attentive in class... I bet any smart guy can score more than 60%, only if he is attentive and he has decent GK. U need not do extensive study, i assume that u guys do ur assignments on ur own...

Mid Term is cake walk...

Moreover get rid of this Exam mania and CGPA mania...
U dont get job if u score more or hav higher CGPA... Learning is more important... I will take it up sometime later in detail...

Just pay lot of attention in class, do assignments on ur own and some Gk and there u go....

Regarding IT exam, Online exam is fun...Objective type.. Choose the best option ( Becareful about negative marks)..
Questions generally test ur Fundas and some basics...MBA is all about Managers in making not Software Developers!!!

Chill out and Read the summary at the end of chapter of that BAsic book on Computers..( U can go in detail if u want to) and read the important terms and concepts and Bingo!!! U rock the first online test... May be the test willl be postponed for the Intranet prob...

Bcoz for the test u hav to take ur Laptop and access the Intranet web page of IBA...so get ur Laptop configured and other details will be explained by ur faulty...

Thats it,
Biswa Prakash
IBA,

[susobhan_82]

[quote=razabpn]

Originally Posted by susobhan_82

Coming to a different issue altogether - 06-08 batch is having a lot of classes postponed and cancelled. Can anyone throw some light on the effect and the subsequent result of this on our mid sem. and future..? Seniors can throw some light I suppose.
Also some help required for IT test. Its supposed to be online and objective type. What sort of questions will be asked? How will it exactly happen? it was supposed to be held today(6/8/06) but fortunately or unfortunately got cancelled as the server is down and intranet cant be accessed.



Hi
Regarding the cancelled lectures... This is taken for granted here.. Finance People had a Super Crash Course..They toiled really hard this time.. See Ours is a Growing B school so in order to hav best faculties we want our schedule to fit to their timings..I guess i hav written on this. We dont hav much of In campus faculties.

Sometimes Visiting faculties pack their classes in one or two weeks and go off. ( Regularly in 2nd year) Sometimes they postpone classes. Their MArji...Problem for us is we hav to toil hard on somedays.. Learn 3 months course in 2 weeks. do various assignments in one day..so on so forth.. Learning takes a back seat then but finishing the course becomes more important then...

As far as 1st year most of the subjects are handeled by In campus faculties so no need to panic... They will be regular.. One or two subjects that are being cancelled will be finished withour much stress on u.. Neways Exams in IBA is easy if u r attentive in class... I bet any smart guy can score more than 60%, only if he is attentive and he has decent GK. U need not do extensive study, i assume that u guys do ur assignments on ur own...

Mid Term is cake walk...

Moreover get rid of this Exam mania and CGPA mania...
U dont get job if u score more or hav higher CGPA... Learning is more important... I will take it up sometime later in detail...

Just pay lot of attention in class, do assignments on ur own and some Gk and there u go....

Regarding IT exam, Online exam is fun...Objective type.. Choose the best option ( Becareful about negative marks)..
Questions generally test ur Fundas and some basics...MBA is all about Managers in making not Software Developers!!!

Chill out and Read the summary at the end of chapter of that BAsic book on Computers..( U can go in detail if u want to) and read the important terms and concepts and Bingo!!! U rock the first online test... May be the test willl be postponed for the Intranet prob...

Bcoz for the test u hav to take ur Laptop and access the Intranet web page of IBA...so get ur Laptop configured and other details will be explained by ur faulty...

Thats it,
Biswa Prakash
IBA,

Thanks for ur feedback Mr. Biswa Prakash. The IT exam has not been held yet perhaps it will be soon, it got cancelled as the server was down and the intranet was not accessible. Further notice as to when it'll be held has not reached us yet.

[razabpn]

Hi Folks,

SO Exams are at our door steps knocking and giving us really hard time ( Although i remain rather cool during exams, may be thats bad as i take things bit easy) ... End Term are starting from 10 and will be over by 14 th. Each day 2 papers..

Already guys are planning how to make use of the 4 days that we will be having ( Very Unusual.. we never got holidays before!!!) as break... some trip to Goa, some Ootty some Mysore etc....I am pretty undecided at this juncture as i hav couple of Novels to finish, A Site to be put up and so on... And a pub to explore....

YA talking of CGPA...some guys sorry some gals are in that hallowed list of Top CGPA >9... compared to us measely 6 or 7.... I personally dont believe in igh CGPA bcoz of couple of reasons...

• High CGPA implies u r bookworm which i always try to put forward as i am not...
• High CGPA increases the benchmark and expectation of the interviewer during interview, so u have the burden of meeing them or u let him down.
• High CGPA means u r good in every subject and so there is no particular subject which u can project as ur core competency subject. So better hav average CGPA and project one or two suject ( Marketing and IT in my case) as ur core subject.
• Companies never look for CGPA but good concepts and ability to relate to the practical world with those concepts. So CGPA of 6 or so i guess is pretty decent and ability to face the world with that is better bet.
• IBA history says that >8 CGPA always find it tough to get placed... ( MAy be they is mismatch between company and their benchmark!!!)

Hey guys above arguments r my point of view and i bet they r great excuse for not getting good CGPA and avoid studying!!!!

First year is more of Bookish knowledge whereas second year is more of Practical aspects... Most subjects in second year dont hav book, neither slides to refer...and i like those subject full of case studies, own research and presentations, own learning of the concepts (bcoz i fared better in this case compard to theoretical subjects in first year)...

AFter our exams Juniors are having their Mid term so i rather tell thm not to buy my point instead start studying and aspire to get maximum CGPA in his first trimester... bcoz 1st trm is the onl time when u can sore heavily without much of trouble(relatively easy subjects and easy mugging up!!!)..after this trim u really hav to slogg...ompetition will increase..

Datadepot is down since 6 days...i donno when it will be back working...

IBA Server reminds of something called Rogue Server... it was there some reasons but instead do somethig else.. Download songs, Orut, Chatting and what not!!!

Guys Best of luck,
Biswa Prakash
IBA

[razabpn]

Hi Folks,

I am flabbergatsed.... Know why????

Rakshya Bandhan... ya for this ..

There is a guy called B in IBA. He has 3 Sisters ya Blood-sisters... He never calls them to inquire about them.. If at all he calls them then only ask for money, these thing that thing. And they oblige very promptly bcoz B is their only Bro. They religiously love B and always pray well being of their Bro. Gentleman B is so engrossed in IBA hardly he remembers his sis..... Neways they hav sent the auspicious Rakhi very delicately packed in a pack for his bro... B has not cared to reciprocate with any gifts or even acknowledgement... Today morning he could hav called on his sis but he didnt bcoz he cared not to..

Now the second part is B is very popular in IBA campus, particularly among gals... Not a casanova but a helping, always ready to help kind of guy..so in other words Bhaiya...Muh bola Bhaiya... His Bike is filled with oil for Nebody's emergency trip to city provided it is she... He will drop u to neplace..and so so forth...So he is so helping, cute and Bhaiya after all...

Today is B's day...he has been tied rakhi by 3 gals in IBA apart from his 3 Blood sisters.. ( So still there is a dearth of Sis for him)... He has shopped yesterday evening all over place in Jayanagar for gifts and coughed up quite a sum... He forego his whole evening for studies and went because after all this is for his Sis in IBA. and dont forget he has exams tomoro.. ANd when i asked why dont u buy gifts for ur own sis he said he is running short of money other excuses....
Apart from the gifts he also offered them Hard Cash tooo.... wow i wished i were a gal and i would hav saved this month's pocket money......

Now my point is there is no cap in how many sis u make but the point is are u responsible to already existing sis???
When u cant fulfill whatever duty u hav for them why go for more sis????
Or is it a stop-gap arrangement????
Or is it a FAD???
Bro-Sis is it so cheap or easy that can be decided in 2days and made in 10 minutes???
Or Bhaiya is a nice arrangement for Behena's for doing all sort of things, Nice Step-in...
What is the Logic ???? i am clueless!!!!

IBA has some very wierd fads and so much of pretensions.....

Long Live Bhaiya Behena!!!!

Biswa Prakash,
IBA

[susobhan_82]

.....Today is B's day...he has been tied rakhi by 3 gals in IBA apart from his 3 Blood sisters.. ( So still there is a dearth of Sis for him)... He has shopped yesterday evening all over place in Jayanagar for gifts and coughed up quite a sum... He forego his whole evening for studies and went because after all this is for his Sis in IBA. and dont forget he has exams tomoro.. ANd when i asked why dont u buy gifts for ur own sis he said he is running short of money other excuses....
Apart from the gifts he also offered them Hard Cash tooo.... wow i wished i were a gal and i would hav saved this month's pocket money......
ALL THE BEST FOR UR END TERM STARTING TODAY....

[niraj4mba]

hey sushobhan hw many girls offered u rakhi??i m sure there r quite a few..

[susobhan_82]

Originally Posted by niraj4mba

hey sushobhan hw many girls offered u rakhi??i m sure there r quite a few..

I am not here to make sisters neither gfs. so naturally I didnot get a lot of rakhis but one.
Coming to a different issue altogether - since yesterday I saw a lot of seniors being called in the admin block for an answer, for their shortage of attendance. The required criteria as we are given to understand is max. 2 absent per subject in an entire trimester, though this is quite in divergence to what has been written in the orientation letter that we received b4 coming to the campus. There it was written min. 80% attendence required per subject. Simple mathematics would say this is not the case in reality, as almost all subjects will have more than 10 sessions (in which case 2 bunks will come to more than 80% attendence).
We all saw the extent to which all those with shortage of attendence were harassed - from around noon till around 12 at night ( thats the last when I went out of the hostel). Things went to such an extreme that ultimately around 3-4 students were not allowed to sit for their end term resulting in around 60-70 seniors joining in to boycott the exams in solidarity. As far as I have heard - they did ultimately give their exams (thats obviously other than those who were barred for appearing in the exam). Protestants were told that if they dont give the exams they will not be given Pass Certificates ultimately.
Now thats what really is scary, so all 'protestants' went to give their exams though a good 1 hour late.
Now, the questions are:
who is at fault? Is the management justified in taking such a tough stance? Were the students at fault or they did have genuine reasons for shortage of attendence??? There are also rumours that people in CRDT have also been caught, so Is it that people in the CRDT might not get their attendence ultimately even though it will be said that they will?
Perhaps Mr.Biswa will be the best person to answer these questions also discuss about this whole issue.
So lot of things to watch out for now....

[razabpn]

Although in Exam Mode..i write bcoz i lov to...

Moreover there is so much happening around u , u better write...

System Vs U ... Classmates Vs System

Welcome to CB ...Reference Groups... Normative or Indirect but here we hav Villianeous Reference Groups!!!

[ "A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development." ]

The noun villain has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1: a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately
Synonym: scoundrel

Meaning #2: the principle bad character in a film or work of fiction
Synonym: baddie

Source: Wikipedia

According to CB Reference groups are Opinion Leaders, They are experts but here they are Selfish, they hav hidden agenda, they hav malicious intent, they use ur innocence.. Dusron ke kandhon pe bandhuk rakh ke Goli chalate hein....

Ya i am talking about Peer group more rightly called Classmates...

FIR: 5 Guys were debarred from writing their papers today for shortage of attendance in respective subjects. (<80%) IBA's rule..very fair....isn't it... But they very skillfully made it an issue of personal vendetta between Admin and themselves!!! And appealed rest of the batch to join them to fight Admin.. The scene was something of Union meeting in Kolkata ( Sorry, Leftist... No offence meant)...

I am not against Genuine Reasons but on the pretext of false reasons u cant run away....
Kindly check up Attendance Rule in IIMs, u will know where u stand...

My ponit is u miss class for ur doings or mis-doings..and u pay the price..why make a issue out of it... I hav missed one attendance of Chandrakant bcoz i went to hav bun butter after 5 hrs at a stretch but could not return in stipulated 5 minutes break!! no question asked... I missed one EIA surprise quiz bcoz of similar cirumstances!!!

I know many of us hav n no of instances and we hav lived with it... Never drawn others and created a scene.. Probably that is the reason not many people were happy to support these guys...

Where is the point in sleeping in close comfort when rest of are fighting battle to stay awake in class at odd hours of 7 AM in the morning!!! And very good excuse of being not well and on duty ( This is ridiculous excuse but very effective one!!! )

Maybe i can be accused of leaking sensitive Batch information... but i dare. Bcoz these Malaise exist in every batch and in times to come it will remain... Point here is beware of such situations and deal with it smartly....never fall pray to this nefarious designs of few villians... Or u can also choose to be a Rebel and pay price....

No body want to be a rebel for a cause...then u become lost but rebel for no reason u r infamous overnight!!!

Thats it, Over to exam mode...

Biswa Prakash,
IBA

[razabpn]

Originally Posted by susobhan_82

Coming to a different issue altogether - since yesterday I saw a lot of seniors being called in the admin block for an answer, for their shortage of attendance. The required criteria as we are given to understand is max. 2 absent per subject in an entire trimester, though this is quite in divergence to what has been written in the orientation letter that we received b4 coming to the campus. There it was written min. 80% attendence required per subject. Simple mathematics would say this is not the case in reality, as almost all subjects will have more than 10 sessions (in which case 2 bunks will come to more than 80% attendence).
We all saw the extent to which all those with shortage of attendence were harassed - from around noon till around 12 at night ( thats the last when I went out of the hostel). Things went to such an extreme that ultimately around 3-4 students were not allowed to sit for their end term resulting in around 60-70 seniors joining in to boycott the exams in solidarity. As far as I have heard - they did ultimately give their exams (thats obviously other than those who were barred for appearing in the exam). Protestants were told that if they dont give the exams they will not be given Pass Certificates ultimately.
Now thats what really is scary, so all 'protestants' went to give their exams though a good 1 hour late.
Now, the questions are:
who is at fault? Is the management justified in taking such a tough stance? Were the students at fault or they did have genuine reasons for shortage of attendence??? There are also rumours that people in CRDT have also been caught, so Is it that people in the CRDT might not get their attendence ultimately even though it will be said that they will?
Perhaps Mr.Biswa will be the best person to answer these questions also discuss about this whole issue.
So lot of things to watch out for now....

Ok Susobhan,

I guess i hav answered most questions in prev post...

Coming to specific issue...

Min 80 % attendance and Max 2 Bunks. Common sense is be on safe side.. if there are 11 sessions min attendance is 8.8 classes. so u got to attend 8.8 classes rounded off to 9 classes. 11 sessions minus 2 Bunks makes it 9 sessions. SO u hav to attend 9 classes...
By same logic 12 sessions turns out to be 10 min sessions to be on safe side..
if there r 9 sessions then min sessions is 7.2 and 2 bunks ...there is a confusion..but thumb rule is choose to do 8 classes..bcoz thats common sense...

Now being harassed...who chose to get harassed????

CRDT members are officially allowed to miss classes provided they go in for CRDT work... But there is proper procedure, u write application to correct authority ( May be in IBA we hav 2/3 authorities for one post!!!) , get it approved, and submit to the right person.

Incase of health problems, Health certificate has to be submitted and procedures hav to be followed..

For ur kind information the list was having 73 names, then Admin considered the cases and reduced it to 34... then these 34 people were summoned to Admin for clarification.. People with genuine reasons were let off.. ( someone's father expired, Health issues, Joined late after Summers....)
But ultimately caught were those who had no excuses...

CRDT people are excused but they dont hav the leeway to use it as a veil to bunk classes.. i repeat BUNK classes not Miss classes....

So dont panic.... if u r sincere and regular and have ligitimate reasons and proof u r ok..
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