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IIFT Gd Pi Experience 2007-2009 Thread - 29-01-2007, 11:22 AM

hi Junta,

Since, the IIFT interviews start today, kindly post your IIFT GD PI experiences here....it would be useful for those appearing for it later...

Please give the essay topics, GD topic...also is the pattern same as it was last time...

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Re: Gd Pi Experience 2007-2009 Thread - 29-01-2007, 11:27 AM

Which college's GD/PI experience?


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Re: Gd Pi Experience 2007-2009 Thread - 29-01-2007, 11:31 AM

Sorry my blunder....IIFT...Mahip could u please edit the Tread Title...sorry again


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Re: Gd Pi Experience 2007-2009 Thread - 29-01-2007, 11:34 AM

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Sorry my blunder....IIFT...Mahip could u please edit the Tread Title...sorry again
When are the GD/Interviews starting? In a day or two?


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Re: Gd Pi Experience 2007-2009 Thread - 29-01-2007, 11:43 AM

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When are the GD/Interviews starting? In a day or two?
GD PI for IIFT started today .. at 9 AM to be precise ..
The first batch should post their experiances by mid aft or even ...
Let the thread remain .... title could be changed to
"IIFT GD/PI Eperiences 2007-2009"
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Re: Gd Pi Experience 2007-2009 Thread - 29-01-2007, 11:51 AM

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GD PI for IIFT started today .. at 9 AM to be precise ..
The first batch should post their experiances by mid aft or even ...
Let the thread remain .... title could be changed to
"IIFT GD/PI Eperiences 2007-2009"
Best of luck...i guess urs is tomorrow....will be waiting for what u guys tell me...min on wednusday....

@Mahip....
We could laso close the other Threads....(IIFT Interview calls are out) ...too many threads...makes it difficult to track informative posts


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Re: Gd Pi Experience 2007-2009 Thread - 29-01-2007, 01:00 PM

Best of luck folks!

Have asked the mods to rename this to: IIFT GD/PI Eperiences 2007-2009.


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Re: Gd Pi Experience 2007-2009 Thread - 29-01-2007, 01:49 PM

BOL..!! i.e Best Of Luck to all the PGians whose GD/PI starts today..

My heartly wishes that most of you clear the GD/PI so that I will get less competition next year..just kidding..

really looking forward to hear the GD topics
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Re: Gd Pi Experience 2007-2009 Thread - 29-01-2007, 02:03 PM

All the best to all puys for ur IIFT interviews....!!

Waiting eagerly to read ur experiences.....
Please post them asap....

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Re: Gd Pi Experience 2007-2009 Thread - 29-01-2007, 02:41 PM

Quoting tatimatla vbmenu_register("postmenu_671856", true); experience today


Probably the first one to post the experience here...
The Essay/GD/PI process kicked off today at 9.45 in the morning.

The Essay was: "Spirtualism in India is regaining the ground."


The paragraphs I stressed on were as follows:
1. How colonalism led to the disregard of spirtualism
2. How spirtualism potrays a great picture of India abroad.
3. How the work of institutes like Ramakrishna mission, Aastha channel (Swami Ramdev) are catching up with the masses.
4. A morning walk in any residential area potrays the picture...India is slowly turning spirtual.
5. BUT...it is common among the older people than the youth...to really regain its lost ground, importance must be paid to spirtual awareness among the Indian youth.

The GD was on: "Is Foreign investment in the Education sector good for India?"
There were 11 of us...and it was a bad bad bad GD...it was a fish market from the beginning to the end.
The start itself was bad...ppl started off with opinions...I tried hard to bring in some structure...of no avail.
Junta please remember...all those who start off the GD's, put in the structure initially...that's what earns most of the points.
The best part of my GD was the moderation...I actually took over and silenced all those who wanted to make the GD look like a fish market...only those people spoke whom I wanted to speak.
The conclusion was even worse...indeed there wasn't any conclusion...it was a fish market all along.
I hope some of the ppl who are gonna have the GDs in the future take care of these misgivings.


The interview left with me no good feeling either.
My interview lasted about 8-10 minutes.


There were two interviewers, both women...another man joined in later.
One interviewer was wearing a punjabi deress (P) and the other one with a saree (S).
I am the bakra (B)


P: Inroduce yourself, in short.
B: blah...really short.
P: You mentioned something about leadership position in a firm. What is the difference between leader and manager.
B: Leader is a generalized version of a manager. Manager is a corporatized version of a leader. Manager has pre-defined tasks and deadlines...blah...I had a feeling that the interview panel wasn't convinced.
S: You have been in embedded systems throughout...how do u think IIFT will help you.
B: If I wanted to be in Embedded Systems throughout, I would have gone into research (an MS in the US). The main reason why I entered into the corporate world is with a purpose of attaining a leadership position. I have, over two years established a technical base that would aid me in any position in a technological firm. I look up to IIFT to imbibe in me the necessary business knowldge that would help me in running a business. (now this was totally unintended...I didn't mention anything about being an enterpreneur)
P: Now how is the enterpreneurship scene in India?
B: talked about how india is loaded with enterpreneurs, especially the retail sector.
P: now...is running a kirana store enterpreneurship
B: definitely...they have their own businesses, their own targets, they employ people...definitely. Only difference is that they don't have the technical details about running a business.
P: If you were to open an exports firm, what would you do?
B: I would first of all zero in on the place where I am gonna sell a product. I would then promote the product.
S: Do you mean to say that you are doing market research before you develop a product.
B: I assumed that we already have a product. (S smiles). OK...I develop a product, conduct market research, promote the product in the area we're gonna sell and finally ship the product. We then look after the smooth running of the operations. After we conduct these operations for 2-3 years, we then assess ourselves and decide on the future course of action.
S: Now if you get a seat in IIFT, you would remain in Embedded systems...right?
B: eh? Mam, I am extremely serious about the MBA program at IIFT, I look at this program as a stepping stone for my career. If I stay back as an Embedded Systems Engineer, I would become an SME, in which I would have done better pursuing an MS.
P: We don't doubt your seriousness B...if u weren't serious, you wouldn't have been here...
B: Eggjactly

P: OK...thank you very much.
B: thank you very much.


Overall...the only thing that left me in bad taste was that the interview lasted only for 8-10 mins...I thought I did a good job in some of the questions...my opinion...the interview was more of a psychometric test.


Verdict:
Essay : 7/10
GD: 7/10
Interview: 7/10


Hope is all I can do.


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