My gdpi was today.....total 12 students in the gd, topic: to decide not to decide.........
all the topics today were abstract, some of them were left right 123 and predictably all were fish market. Our was a little good. There was a guy in our batch who was english faculty from IMS, so ofcourse he had to show his leadership skills, but.........letc c if panel was able to identify his over-leadership capabilities.
then PI, My panel was 1 and it had finance hod, one more faculty member and i guess 2 from the industry. I work in health insurance domain. work ex 18 months
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entered
HOD introduced me to the panel by vocally pronouncing my degree, college(on which i think he was impressed because its one of the top 10 in india), my work ex(on which everyone retorted :- all are just the same.) then one prof asks.
q. tell us about your work respnsibilites.
ans: rata rataya ans
q. so you work as business development
ans (from where did he get this). no sir this and this not this
q. so in insurance there are few terms like adverse selection.
ans: i had heard about this term, can i give it a try (nods). I try, he says thats wrong, so i accept defeat, later checked that i was right. dont know why did he disagreed.
q. tell us about the US healthcare.
ans. was fully prepared for this and answered it viz-a-viz indian healthcare system. Told about US being privately managed by insurance companies and india being managed by goverment run hospitals with insurance penetration being less. Also told about India expenditure on healthcare being less than 3% of the gdp while US spends over 6% of its GDP.
HOD: But you said US was privately managed then how cum this expenditure.
me: Told that while India spends on AIIMS like institutions, US has National Institutes of health which are 21 in number for specialized R&D.
q. do this type of insurance schemes work like they have in US.
ans:- where India lacks is in implementation. some of the schemes in the budget were very good, like rashtriya bima yojna in which govement will pay 100 RS as insurance premium and it will give 30k cover to the poor, but most of the times what fails is the implementation, like PDS.
q. that is what (ANGRY), you can have good schemes on paper but implementation is what counts, give me areas where PDS lacks.
ans quality of cereals and curruption, then spoke about the smart card which are being implemented in this budget to ensure the reachability of the PDS to the targetted people
q. whom does PDS target.
ans BPL population
q. define BPL.
ans in calories terms its so and so
q. No i want in value terms
ans 1$ per day
q. in rs terms
ans should be 40 but he disagreed so i said that i am not sure if it is PPP terms which i though it was.(verified it to be in PPP terms which is Rs 10
then he passes the chance to other prof
q. tell me about financial concern in the yesterdays newspaper.
ans i said sub prime but he asked more recent, so i said inflation i guess was looking for this answer.
q. how much was it and what do you mean by that
ans 6.64% and its meaning as in it is the change in difference of price of basket of predecided goods over same week last year to current year./p>
q. there are some other indices too
ans wpi and cpi, and their differences, could not recall the difference in the actual baskets but he was satisfied and asked me to let it go.
NOW COMES THE DOWNFALL.q. so you are electronics engg.ans
q. favourite subjects, why are CMOS widely used, than NMOS and PMOS
Ans. wrong ans, said that they are faster to switch than a transistor
q Faster than transistor??????both are transistors, expand MOSFET.
ans expanded, Metal oxide Field effect TRANSISTOR phew was tough to recall
q: see you said transistor so both are transistors.
ans so it must be faster than BJT.
q. No they are not, has something got to do with power.
ans by this time i was totally fed up with the question that i got it all wrong, so i said i dont know.
q. what is clock speed of pentium
ans dont know
panel.....YOU DONT KNOW CLOCK SPEED OF PENTIUM, GET OUT.(gist was this)
HOD: So are you satisfied with your interview, the sir's part (who asked me ELEC questions). I say that i am not satisfied with the electronics part, then he asks me about the earlier part, to which i say that I am.
He then asks me to leave.
me
so its all over it seems on one inane question, and couple of other in electronics. God why did i choose electronics. I think after the last three questions they decided that i was hopeless, but i have 80+ % in degree....how can they expect me to remember such typical reasons after 2 yesrs though i studied them well in engg. My rank too is amongst last to be called so i might be rejected. letc, i am hoping against hope.
a ton of thanks to the seniors, they were very helpful, panel 1 coordinator for pi manish was extreamly helpful. ciao
VERDICT: converted based on this interview.....
[2008] DMS- IIT Delhi GD/PI experiences -
30-03-2008, 10:29 AM
...i was like ab kya karu!!! anyways listened to pepal n then started giving my points...
( ho gaya)
) he declared the topic 
Linear Mode
