somehow i m through IIT Kanpur also :)
read on to find out how i made a complete fool/idiot/(think up more synonyms) of myself in one the most hilarious PI's i wud ever give in my life
My profile (mere matrimonial ad ka copy paste :biggrin:):
1) Acads - excellent in school (DPS Noida and DPS Mathura Road) and average in college( NSIT-IT'06 batch,DU,Delhi)
2) 18 months work ex at time of GD PI in Amdocs wid 6 months abroad in Cyprus
3) Gud Extra cir - Lots of Social work,State level swimmer(no prizes though
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4) JMET rank - a pathetic 1579 (only callls - IIT Kanpur,Roorkee)
5)
CAT 07 score - 98.2 (99.3 DI, 97 VA,a measy 76 in QA)
6) Fake engineer ++ in IT (Information Tech)
7) blah blah.......yada yada.......blah blah
Some Background : IIT K had called ppl by ranks and since my rank was nothing 2 boast about (1579) ,my GD PI was on last day,last slot....
hd got some info frm ppl before me that the top rankers wr being blown apart in PI's ....being quizzed about Phy,Maths and nything under the sun from ur BE syllabus...... was seriouly pondering on cancelling a trip to IIT Kanpur.....but for the already booked ticket to Kanpur and the fact that this was my once in a life chance to visit IIT Kanpur, i wont hv been penning down this post
GD (Group Discussion): topic was on "Is growth Sustainable"....easy topic so as to say and i made decent contributions
my own GD rating - 6/10
PI (Interview): now the fun starts......believe me,everything below actually happened ....
.i m not bluffing nywere in this post:satisfie:if u hv read the background above carefully, u can imagine my mindset while giving the PI.....hvnt been this non serious in any PI and
if i say i was just looking fwd to hving some fun, it wud a huge understatement ......read on
the plot involves involves 3 main characters :
Me, M(male teacher),F(female Teacher)
M : plz hand over ur mark sheets of all sems
Me : yup, here u go (......ab to baj gayi,semesters ke subjects tak to yaad nahi thei mujhe :confused:)
M starts to stare at my subjects in each sem and on a side parer, keeps noting down his favorite subjects in each sem
(me cursing my decision of wasting money to come to IITK)........time passes...knowing where the PI wud son go, i try to
take matters in my hand and blurt out suddenly...
Me : i went abroad for 6 months
F : So ????
(oops,my artillery had just backfired.:shocked:..was hoping they wud take my cue and ask me about my 6 months abroad....alas,none of that happened)
finally M is finished wid the note making.....i can see 12 subjects on d note encompassing all 8 sems of BE
(HELL !!!.....whats going 2 happen now:puppydog:)
M to F : madam,u can ask him about n of these 12 subjects i hv noted down
Me : (M is thinking that i know all 12 subjects in and out.,lets break his bubble now
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F : so u read sorting algorithms
Me: ya ,they were in d syllabi so hd to read (what kind of an answer is that...nyways i hd made up my find to hv fun as i knew the path this PI wud take knowing i didnt even remember the name of books of 8 of the 12 subjects M has joted down,leave alone the course contents)
F :so tel me the best sorting algo and its complexity
Me :(took a wild guess and said..) Quick sort,complexity is ....err....donno
F: name few other sorting algos
Me : named 3-4,bubble,merge,heap,radix
F : what is a heap
Me :(torture starts........) Heap is a ....err.....err
F : ok,leave heap, what is Radix sort
Me : i just remember d name ..our DS teacher was behind schedule so she didn't teach Radix sort(was i frank in PI or what ???)
F : so u did n coding
Me : nothing substantial i can think of (talk of hitting ur foot wid a axe.....behold.....i love 2 do that)
F : u r saying that in 4 years of BE (IT) ,u never coded......what was ur BE Project
Me : i was in charge of data assimilation,binding,running around here and there, not coding (thought this wud b d best way of conveying that
my BTP wasnt exactly a Genuine piece of art/code)
M takes over : so u saying that u never coded in your 4 years
Me : (bhai sach to yehi hai.....) i did but not after 2nd year so not in touch wid C/C ++
M : how did u end up at Amdocs if u cant code:sleepy:
Me : destiny has surprises for every1....btw i do code at Amdocs, i code in Powerbuilder
M :that's not even a language
Me: ohh...but at Amdocs,my mentor told me it was a language....i can write a piece of code for u in Powrbuilder
M: no no, spare m time....... r u gud in Maths
Me : (sheepishly....) sort of
M : draw graph of e^(-x)
Me : here it is(this was d only correct answer i gv in whole PI)
M : (aahh, he is gud at something atleast....) Now do this probability question
Me : (tried for 2 mins ,was going nowhere.....blurted out in
HINDI...a cardinal sin,sud never do that)
arre sir, yeh to 1 se zyada aa gayi (.....his stare cud hv stopped my heart beat)
M : so u r not gud at Maths even
(.....yup,boss.....i aint no gud in nything)
F who was enjoying the fun from sidelines decide to jump into the thick of action and gazes over that list of 12 subjects written down by M
(here starts that part of PI which i will remember my whole life)
F : so as i can see, u read databases in BE
Me : ya i did
F : did u read DBMS or RDMBS
(for the uninitiated, RDBMS is Relational Databases Mgmt system and RDMBS is subset of DMBS,Database Mgmt systems)
Me :....err.....err.......i guess i read RDBMS
F : how can u say that
Me : coz i read Korth ...the title of the book was RDBMS (what an incredibly foolish way to answer this question)
F : what crap....Korth is titled "DBMS", not RDBMS
Me : then i wud hv read DBMS madam (height of stupidity !!! :wow:)
F : but ur marksheet says u read RDBMS
Me : i m very sorry for the goof up....if marksheet says so, i must hv read RDBMS
(laughter all around.....i was laughing so as to make one last attempt to somehow change the flow of PI and they were laughing coz they knew
i had definitely convinced them i was a fake engineer)
M : i can see u read Financial Management in 7 sem,can remember nything in that apart from the book and author's name
Me : (gosh... i giv up boss) nopes, i just remember that i read PERT
M : what is PERT
Me :nopes...cant remember.....
M : u cant remember what u read in 7th sem
Me: yup,thats me
....(so why do u think i call myself a fake engg huh ???)
M and F : best of luck
Me : ya sure (after the kind of PI, even Almighty cant get me into IIT K)
my own rating in PI : -2/10 (so i hd accomplished the rare feat of scoring in d negative direction...
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grinning from ear to ear as to how i managed to make me look as an idiot from outer space in the PI,i left IIT K campus never ever expecting a convert
Result(Apr 7) : IIT Kanpur converted (in top 60 out of approx 500 ppl called)_....still dont get it how i made it through :)
ppl reading this post for preparing for PI next year, plz go over all ur BE subjects.....atleast the names and very basics.......i m clueless as to how i made it after an experience as above
PS : everything written above is true.....its not a belated fool day prank
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) but there has been a lot of discussion on the topic and we should not needlessly worry over the same as the matter is not in our power.also noboby knows 4 sure why such a decision was taken by iitk....