BIM Tiruchirapalli GD/PI Experiences-2006

[Dream_lover2k]

Hi Pagal Guys!

This is a thread dedicated to all those aspiring for an MBA at BIM Tiruchirapalli. Please post in your GD/PI Experiences here so that it is going to be beneficial to both appearing for this year as well as the ones in the coming years.

To begin with i would like to post in my experience.

I had my GD/PI at IFMR Chennai. I was on time at the venue. First of all we had to produce all our Degree Marksheets and XAT/CAT Scorecards for the verification. I guess we were around 15 of us present there. many of the call getters probably didn't turned up. Of the ones who did were mostly from the Engineering background. 15 of us were divided into two groups of 5 and 10. I being in the 5 persons group. The group had their GD first and we, The group of 5 had PI first.

So here goes in the PI.

There were around 4 panelist. And 2 people were sitting at my back. i Really dont have any idea for what purpose they were there? The room was a big one and a typical corporate office types.

Q> So, you are from St Xavier's, how many students are there in your commerce department?

Q>How do you rate yourself among them?

Q>Please introduce yourself?

Q>Who is your favourite Tennis player? Local, National, and International Level?

Q>Have you played any local or national tournaments?

Q>Why Mahesh Bhupati is your favourite?

Q>Who is the first Tennis player from Bengal?

Q>What is your favourite subject and why?

Q>What is your second favourite subject?

Q>Why not cost? You didnt read it in your degree course?

Q>What is cost of sales?

Q>What is break even positioning?

Q>whwhat is break even analysis?

Q>What is fixed cost?

Q>What is Variable cost?

Q> What is sales?

Q>What is the difference between cost of sales and sales?

Q>What is the differnce between Commerce Ministry, Finance Ministry and Industrial Ministry?

Q>Who is the commerce minister of India?

Q>What is a Capital Account Convertibility? How will it help Indian Economy?

Q>If PAT is Rs 64000/- and tax rate is 20%, what is PBT?

Q>Who is the founder of Art of Living?

Q>What is e-commerce? Give some examples?

Q>What is the term A->B, B->C

Q>Name some online trading sites? Give some more.

Q>What is Bazee.com

Q>Who has taken over the same?

Q>What is your favourite advertisement? why?

Q>Tell us something about HLL? NAme some of its products?

Q>Since how many yrs has been LUX there? What was there offer on completion on 75yrs?

Q>Who is the founder of BATA? Name some of its brands.

Q> What is GDP and GNP?

Q>What is the difference between both?

Q>Why MBA? Why not CA?

Q>Which subjects do you want to take up as specialisation and why?

Q>Which colleges did you applied for? Why not XLRI/XIMB?

OK! You may go. Thankyou!

YA! it was scary. it lasted for about 35mins. One advice please be prepared for all you have written in your forms? they have it infront of them.

Next comes second round of Trauma- THE GD

Group of 5. It was held in the conference room so quite a formal setup.

Topic: ELECTORAL ALLIANCES- Oppurtunistic or Realistic?

1 of the panelist was there from PI.

2mins to think.
15mins to discuss
5mins for a page of summary.

Hope i did help you people. Looking for responses as well as experiences from you guys!

Lastly my XAT %ile was 99
VA 96
DI 90
QA 99

Thankyou!

[Dream_lover2k]

Please Post in your Experiences here as it would benefit all of us and much more convinient for everybody.

[bharathraj1]

hey buddy
i think ur pi was cool depending on how u have answered.
how come they asked u so much on commerce.....are u from that backround
me thought u were an engineer.
and what did ya speak in the gd.
was the topic similar to coalission goverment.
well me asking too many questions, but there are very few bim seniors active dude other than vikas goyal.........so i guess we have to self eveluate
regards

[Dream_lover2k]

Originally Posted by bharathraj1

hey buddy
i think ur pi was cool depending on how u have answered.
how come they asked u so much on commerce.....are u from that backround
me thought u were an engineer.
and what did ya speak in the gd.
was the topic similar to coalission goverment.
well me asking too many questions, but there are very few bim seniors active dude other than vikas goyal.........so i guess we have to self eveluate
regards

AS i mentioned earlier i think i was the only person from the Commerce background. I guess the panelists were of the commerce background and they didn't asked engineers about the academics.

And to be very honest i didn't knew much about the gd topic. but taking clue from what the others i said a few things. like alliances are extremely necessary in todays political scenario since it's difficult to get majority of the votes for a single party. it mantains a balance between different people and stuff. ya it was somewhat related to coalition govt.

in pi i couldn't answer 4 of the questions. otherwise it was cool.

All the best!

[bharathraj1]

Originally Posted by Dream_lover2k

AS i mentioned earlier i think i was the only person from the Commerce background. I guess the panelists were of the commerce background and they didn't asked engineers about the academics.

And to be very honest i didn't knew much about the gd topic. but taking clue from what the others i said a few things. like alliances are extremely necessary in todays political scenario since it's difficult to get majority of the votes for a single party. it mantains a balance between different people and stuff. ya it was somewhat related to coalition govt.

in pi i couldn't answer 4 of the questions. otherwise it was cool.

All the best!

rightly done dude
thats how u perform in a gd.....take clues from other peeps, only prob is like in gim they ask u to introduce the topic for 30 sec and if u have no clue ur screwed. so its cool in that way, also shows ur a listener
and the pi i am sure if u have answered well u have a very good chance dude
regards

[Dream_lover2k]

Originally Posted by bharathraj1

rightly done dude
thats how u perform in a gd.....take clues from other peeps, only prob is like in gim they ask u to introduce the topic for 30 sec and if u have no clue ur screwed. so its cool in that way, also shows ur a listener
and the pi i am sure if u have answered well u have a very good chance dude
regards

Thanx for that. Let's hope for the best! I think they give lots of preference to Engineers and people with IT work ex. So let's see.

anyways all the best to you for GD/PI

[hellmutt]

Hey all! First things first. Just cos BIM doesn't figure very high on anyone's wishlist, do NOT take it light. Cos the interview is pretty tough and followed my acads pretty closely. They ARE asking questions from your chosen field and they are pretty un-bluffable.

Anyways, now that gyan has rained, lemme tell you about my interview. First, I was the first guy to be there at arnd 8.00 am. Awaited the others, had breakfast nearby and finally intro'ed myself to the arrivals. A good grp of diverse ppl. All felt that BIM was their last good call and so were desperate to do well.

First to go was the verification process. Was asked to show XAT cert and marksheet of B.tech. Did so. Then asked to wait for PI and did so. This was while another grp was simultaneously going thro GD first. Finally, the call to go in comes..

I had an old man and an older man take my interview.

The first question was about my branch, it's importance and why not that! Then about myself and what values I value the most in life, what I want from others etc. Then was asked what 10 yrs from now?

Also asked 3 tech questions like diff between CAD and CNC, about CAM and CIM etc . And asked why I had low grades in my first 2 yrs of engg and better ones later on. Answered cos of army. Immediately they jump onto that and start to question me as to the diff between army and civvies. Various things about my native state(A.P) were also asked. Asked why marketing and how I would be able to fit in etc etc. And thats about it.

All in all, I felt that I had been able to impress them as a good human, but doubt my profile fit their idea of a BIM student. Nonetheless, hopes are high. Also, the NDA thing impressed them about my discipline and my quick thinking helped me escape a few awkard questions.

The GD that followed was very cool and we guys really helped each other in making points. And no body got cutoff or interrupted. A very cordial GD for the topic Braindrain:discuss the pros and cons. But after the 15 min GD, we had to write the summary and a conclusion within 3 min and 20 lines on the entire GD. Which I also did.

Thats the entire process. ATB to the guys who have it left and sorry again for not posting earlier.

[bharathraj1]

Originally Posted by Dream_lover2k

Thanx for that. Let's hope for the best! I think they give lots of preference to Engineers and people with IT work ex. So let's see.

anyways all the best to you for GD/PI

they do give majority of their preference to engineers and IT profeesionals, but u need to know that those guys are the majority applicants, and also batch profile is also considered, and that means in every batch they want some engineers, few commerce grads and so on.......in that way if there are very few commerce graduates u will have a very good chance
regards

[hellmutt]

Originally Posted by Dream_lover2k

Thanx for that. Let's hope for the best! I think they give lots of preference to Engineers and people with IT work ex. So let's see.

anyways all the best to you for GD/PI

Yup! Hoping thats the case man!But not for the IT work-ex tho. Not a single day there! But if I can bear 4 yrs of Engg, then I can bear anything. Cheers.

[vikas420]

Hi friends,

So people are goin throgh the final round. The posts regardin yor experience at BIM gd/pi reminded me of my experience.
Okie coming back to the topic.

Hey dream lover, it wsa very long interview for u, which shows that they mite be intrested in u and wanna to check u thoroughly. But nothing can be guranted, as my interview was of just 5 mins.
Be honest in in pi, never try to fool the panel.BIM interview panel is always very very experienced.
If u dont know anything abt the question asked in yor interview, frankly tell them that u dont know, donk make flukes.Coz normaly they derive the next questions from yor last answers.I agree that saying no to the question is difficult thing, but if u really dont know, then dont try to show that u know it.

In gd as everone says BE COOL, make an entry with some solid point. Entering in the gd for 4/5 times is enough. But donk speak anything out of the topic, speak relevant to the topic only. If u dont have clear idea abt the topic, then first listen to others, and be clear abt the topic and finaly putforth yor point of view.Most of the gd topics will be general.

Keep posting yor experience

Vikas Goyal