Hi All, The GD/PI process of VGSOM,IIT Kharagpur is starting today. Best of luck to all of you 
Please use this thread to post your GD/PI experiences.It would not only help the other shortlisted candidates but would also serve a purpose fo…
Hi All,
The GD/PI process of VGSOM,IIT Kharagpur is starting today.
Best of luck to all of you :)
Please use this thread to post your GD/PI experiences.It would not only help the other shortlisted candidates but would also serve a purpose for the next year Aspirants/Applicants.
So,Please post your GD/PI experience in following format-
CAT score
OA :
QA/DI :
VA/LR :
Xth :
XIIth :
Graduation stream :
Graduation %age/CGPA :
Work ex :
GD/Case Study Experience
No. Of people in group/panel :
No. Of of people who actually attended :
GD/Case study Topic :
GD/Case study Experience :
Time duration :
PI Experience
Number Of panel members :
Panel member names(if you knows) :
Questions asked :
Interview experience :
Other Miscellaneous Details :
Overall Experience :
Verdict :
Sanjay Kumar
VGSOM 2011-13
Some of the guys have shared their experiences in the VGSOM's Admission page of Facebook.The link for the same is here
http://www.facebook.com/groups/307985942575946/
I would request all others to post their experiences here also for the greater good of all the other shortlisted candidates :)
Sanjay Kumar
VGSOM 2011-13
Mumbai
8.00 am slot
(first day, first show 
)
CAT : 97.32, both sections 93+
10th : 87 %
12th : 89 %
BTech Mechanical : 6.5 / 10
Work-ex : 32 months with L&T; Power
First they showed us a short presenation on VGSoM and life @ campus, took few questions then sent us to GDs...
GD was a case discussion.
Short case containing a simple management problem
5 mins to read, 15 mins to discuss, 5 mins to write down summary
they stressed on the point that the written summary should be concise and clear, since they were looking for good written communication skills
write it fast since you only get 5 mins
the discussion itself went fairly smooth, some loud noises here and there, but as long as the group stays on topic and everyone speaks properly it should be ok.
they actually instructed beforehand not to make it fishmarket.
2 people on panel for GD, same took PI
PI started off with first 4 going on for half an hour each.
then when my turn came it became shorter.
Started with tell me abt yourself.
When i got to the point of where i work, asked more details about my role in my workplace....explained in detail....
some technical questions about my work domain followed, again i answered in detail
then they asked why my grad acads were low, i had prepared for this question so answered well, told them i was slightly distracted by extra currics in college environment....
then they asked what other calls i have, and encouraged me to go to NITIE
dunno if that's a good or bad sign...
then they finished by asking me if i want to ask them anything...
was over in 15 mins.
am kinda pprehensive coz others before me were grilled for 30 mins 
Basically, they were trying to judge that i know what i'm doing when it came to my work domain and my work profile, technically as well as managerially, they seemed satisfied with my answers so didnt probe too deep.
If you come off as a serious & mature candidate who knows what he's doing, you'll be fine.....
Tip : apart from me and another guy, most people were from IT background, and they were being grilled, so go prepared with your work, your projects, your clients, etc....
Verdict : mostly will convert
A lot of candidates are finding it difficult to download the e-brochure from pagalguy.I've uploaded the same in scribd and here's the link for the same
http://www.scribd.com/doc/84680848/VGSOM-IIT-Kharagpur-eBrochure
Sanjay Kumar
VGSOM 2011-13
Was there any question on career goals and whatever relevant details we filled up during application?
subscribed
CAT score
OA : 95.86
QA/DI :86.4
VA/LR :98.33
Xth :91.4
XIIth :85
Graduation stream :Information Technology
Graduation %age/CGPA :8.32
Work ex :14months in TCS till date
GD/Case Study Experience
No. Of people in group/panel : 10
No. Of of people who actually attended :7
GD/Case study Topic : a simple case on mismanagement,had to suggest alternative actions that could have been taken
GD/Case study Experience : the most sensible GD I had this season. Everyone had enough time to put forth their views. It was a small case, when I found that almost all points had been discussed, and everyone had spoken, I suggested to summarise all the solutions discussed.Overall, I beilieve we did well as a group.
Time duration :5mins to read, 15mins to discuss and 5mins to write summary
PI Experience
Number Of panel members :2 ( same professors who were ther in GD)
Questions asked :
1) tell us everything about yourself:wow:
2) Was questioned on my hobbies that I mentioned while answering the question..how do i get time and all..
3) family background
4)what are u planning to do after MBA
5) diff between IT and Information system..
6) some details regd the role I play
7) diff between white-box testing and black-box testing
diff between alpha testing and beta testing ( couldnt ans, said I read it in B.tech, but havent come accross this term during my course of work as QA member)
9) then a series of questions on Networking..:banghead:..couldnt ans many of the( it was one of my least fav subjects)
10) where all u have given interviews.. are u not interested in HRD?.. which would u prefer HRD or Systems..
11) extra currics at college
Interview experience :
got over witin 15minutes, feeling bad for not being able to ans some of the technical qs and for not being asked anything from the subjects I was good at.. rest of the interview went smoothly...
Overall Experience : A very well conducted process...enjoyed the videos
Verdict :not known
OA : 95.86
QA/DI :86.4
VA/LR :98.33
Xth :91.4
XIIth :85
Graduation stream :Information Technology
Graduation %age/CGPA :8.32
Work ex :14months in TCS till date
GD/Case Study Experience
No. Of people in group/panel : 10
No. Of of people who actually attended :7
GD/Case study Topic : a simple case on mismanagement,had to suggest alternative actions that could have been taken
GD/Case study Experience : the most sensible GD I had this season. Everyone had enough time to put forth their views. It was a small case, when I found that almost all points had been discussed, and everyone had spoken, I suggested to summarise all the solutions discussed.Overall, I beilieve we did well as a group.
Time duration :5mins to read, 15mins to discuss and 5mins to write summary
PI Experience
Number Of panel members :2 ( same professors who were ther in GD)
Questions asked :
1) tell us everything about yourself:wow:
2) Was questioned on my hobbies that I mentioned while answering the question..how do i get time and all..
3) family background
4)what are u planning to do after MBA
5) diff between IT and Information system..
6) some details regd the role I play
7) diff between white-box testing and black-box testing
diff between alpha testing and beta testing ( couldnt ans, said I read it in B.tech, but havent come accross this term during my course of work as QA member)9) then a series of questions on Networking..:banghead:..couldnt ans many of the( it was one of my least fav subjects)
10) where all u have given interviews.. are u not interested in HRD?.. which would u prefer HRD or Systems..
11) extra currics at college
Interview experience :
got over witin 15minutes, feeling bad for not being able to ans some of the technical qs and for not being asked anything from the subjects I was good at.. rest of the interview went smoothly...
Overall Experience : A very well conducted process...enjoyed the videos
Verdict :not known
CAT score
OA : 98.85
QA/DI :96.17
VA/LR :98.88
Xth :93.86
XIIth :90.60
Graduation stream :Electronics
Graduation %age/CGPA :75.85
Work ex :7 months in Infosys till date
GD/Case Study Experience
No. Of people in group/panel : 10
No. Of of people who actually attended :7
GD/Case study Topic : a simple case on workshop/lab training to be given to employees which was not successful,had to suggest alternative actions that could have been taken
GD/Case study Experience : good but less content was discussed. Everyone had enough time to put forth their views. It was a small case, when I found that almost all points had been discussed, and everyone had spoken, I suggested to summarise all the solutions discussed.Overall, I beilieve we did well as a group.
Time duration :5mins to read, 15mins to discuss and 5mins to write summary
PI Experience
Number Of panel members :2 ( same professors who were there in GD)
Questions asked :
1. Tell me about famous things of BARODA (My native land)
2. Technical : write a c program to find n! using recursion.
3. about .NET in which I got training at mysore.
4. Favrit sub in grad ? I ans : Micro controllers and micro processors
5. What affects speed of micro processor? Latest processor in market?
6. Java : OOPS concepts
7. Why MBA ?
Over all exp : very good
happy..
OA : 98.85
QA/DI :96.17
VA/LR :98.88
Xth :93.86
XIIth :90.60
Graduation stream :Electronics
Graduation %age/CGPA :75.85
Work ex :7 months in Infosys till date
GD/Case Study Experience
No. Of people in group/panel : 10
No. Of of people who actually attended :7
GD/Case study Topic : a simple case on workshop/lab training to be given to employees which was not successful,had to suggest alternative actions that could have been taken
GD/Case study Experience : good but less content was discussed. Everyone had enough time to put forth their views. It was a small case, when I found that almost all points had been discussed, and everyone had spoken, I suggested to summarise all the solutions discussed.Overall, I beilieve we did well as a group.
Time duration :5mins to read, 15mins to discuss and 5mins to write summary
PI Experience
Number Of panel members :2 ( same professors who were there in GD)
Questions asked :
1. Tell me about famous things of BARODA (My native land)
2. Technical : write a c program to find n! using recursion.
3. about .NET in which I got training at mysore.
4. Favrit sub in grad ? I ans : Micro controllers and micro processors
5. What affects speed of micro processor? Latest processor in market?
6. Java : OOPS concepts
7. Why MBA ?
Over all exp : very good
happy..
for morning slot, when does the whole process gets over??!! bcos i will have to catch a train by 4 in the evening??!!! 
but sorry..
@raMBrAm : process of morning slot ends at 1 p.m.
best luck....
CAT score
OA : 96.67
QA/DI : 97.57
VA/LR : 88.24
Xth : 83.45
XIIth : 93.58
Graduation stream : B.E. mechanical
Graduation %age/CGPA : 84.2
Work ex : 30 months in Vedanta Resources
GD/Case Study Experience
No. Of people in group/panel : 10
No. Of of people who actually attended : 8
GD/Case study Topic : case study..
something like this....a company is struggling with budegetary constraints and top mgmt
is not allowing to hire any one permanently or temporarily..in that time, a admin support fellow who is handling
customer grievances is not available for few days. customer queries are not answered. important customers are threatening the manager that they will leave this company and join the competitor.
what actions that manager should take ?
GD/Case study Experience : 5 min for prep., 10 min for discussion then 5 min for summary..(they stressed more on written ability) average GD..no fish market...everyone pitched in 3 or 4 times..no great points discussed
PI Experience
Number Of panel members : same as GD panel
Questions asked :
tel me about yourself?
asked about my hometown...
worked in two diff. locations..so asked about the differences in two places(technical)
5 min discussion on that...
what is the ideal workex for doing MBA in india?
asked some 12th std chemistry question 😞 (dont know)
what other calls u have? which one you will join?
Interview experience :
very chilled...didnt ask anything in detail...
no current affairs...no acads...only few question on work ex...
total time for PI - 14 minutes...
didnt check any certificates or mark sheets
Other Miscellaneous Details :
they have our profile sheet(one we sent)..
after each and every interview, they take 5 to 10 min...(may be to evaluate the candidate)
process started exactly by 2:15...showed two videos
GD started by 3'o clock..(30 min)
i was the first one in the panel...
so my PI got over by 4'o clock...
Verdict : going by my PI, it is sure selected or sure rejected...crossed!!!
Hello puys...here goes my interview experience....
CAT score
OA :98.34
QA/DI :99.70
VA/LR :76.84
Xth :93.57
XIIth :91.60
Graduation stream :Electronics and communication Eng.
Graduation CGPA :8.52
Work ex :Nil
GD/Case Study Experience:Case study
No. Of people in group/panel :9
No. Of of people who actually attended :9
GD/Case study Topic : It was something about a employee who works on temporary payroll for a company and after 4 years of experience he is hired by the company on contract based process.The employee felt that he would be enjoying the same kind of perks and payroll as he used to on temporary based service, but now he is treated like a new employee, his salary is also reduced , fixed working hours instead flexible hours he used to have and so on...Because of this, he is demotivated and can not focus on the work...so what that employee should do now and what the company should do to avoid such kind of scenarios in the future???
GD/Case study Experience :great...No fish market...everyone contributed almost equally...
Time duration :5 min to read, 15 min for gd, 5 min to summarize
PI Experience:Overall experience was pretty good as both the interviewers were calm and supportive...
Number Of panel members :2 (same from gd)
Panel member names(if you knows) :P1, P2
Questions asked :
P1:introduce urself...
I: Told...
P2:what are the job offers you have procured?
I:Told...
P1:What is SIX SIGMA?
I:Don't know sir...:banghead:
P1:What is sigma?
I:Told...
P1:Tell me something about the project you have mentioned???
I:Told...
P2:Listed some no.s on the pad and told me to find out Mean, Median and Mode.
I:Told...:)
P2:So u r frm EC???..k tell me about induction...
I:told...
P2:What is electrostatics?
I:Told...
P2:Why 3g has the advanced capacity than 2g...??? What is actually done at the micro level?
I:Replied in brief...
P2:What other calls do you have?
I:Told...
P1:How loyal you would be to IIT Kharagpur???
I:Told...
P1:Okay...that's it...anything for us???
I:Nothing thank you sir...
P2: how did u like the selection process???
I:Told...compared with others...
P1,P2:okay thanks...Best of Luck...
I: Thank you...:)
Interview experience :Great interview...Still somehow I dont understand as interview lasted for 20 min.,but after only 12-15 min.,my actual interview was over and then we were talking about the selection process at other IIMs and how they manage and all...So had they decided me to reject or something from the beginning only after the GD......Do they have any cut off for gd tht if someone is below tht level he/she is out of the league...???
Other Miscellaneous Details :None
Overall Experience :GD was Average...PI was Awesome...
Advice to future aspirants: Dont be nervous...people taking interviews are very helpful and wont make you feel uncomfortable at any point of time...
@ layadalja,
You will be marked upon your performances in both GD and PI ..
If one aspect was not satisfactory, the other has to be good enough to balance it...
Speaking less in a gd is not bad at all as long as you talk sense and put in valid points ..
ATB .. 😃
very contrasting rounds
Had a woNderful GD ,Contributed a lot
but then in the interview i heard the interviewer say it a lot of times that my Computer science is zero even though i was asked nothing from the acads.
have given many interviews but never heard an interviewer criticize or say something like this.
I just hope that it was a delibrate ploy to induce stress
apart from tht the interview was fine , talked about my research project and how it could be continued in iit kgp.
Tips for freshers: Dont get bogged down by 5-10 min interviews , most of the freshers had tht, brush up your acads very nicely and specially for CS people ,study about the latest technologies and the hardware aspects .
ATB
very contrasting rounds
Had a woNderful GD ,Contributed a lot
but then in the interview i heard the interviewer say it a lot of times that my Computer science is zero even though i was asked nothing from the acads.
have given many interviews but never heard an interviewer criticize or say something like this.
I just hope that it was a delibrate ploy to induce stress
apart from tht the interview was fine , talked about my research project and how it could be continued in iit kgp.
Tips for freshers: Dont get bogged down by 5-10 min interviews , most of the freshers had tht, brush up your acads very nicely and specially for CS people ,study about the latest technologies and the hardware aspects .
ATB
That indeed was an stress interview for you :)
Sometimes,it happens when the interviewer really play these tricks when the entire interview process goes monotonous.I guess they must have checked your other skills during the GD and so they just wanted to check your patience.The stress interview is a good process to check the same.
I believe you did a great job 😃
do we need to carry any reference letters?
its no where mentioned but we have given two names under references in the form when we applied..
do we need to carry any reference letters?
its no where mentioned but we have given two names under references in the form when we applied..
You don't have to carry any reference letter.
Sanjay Kumar
VGSOM 2011-13
Hi Seniors,
I have a query to make. I was awarded a trophy in my current profession, but there was no certificate for it. While applying, I had mentioned that in my SOP. Now what proof should I carry for it?????
Hi Seniors,
I have a query to make. I was awarded a trophy in my current profession, but there was no certificate for it. While applying, I had mentioned that in my SOP. Now what proof should I carry for it?????
Don't need to worry ...
If there's no certificate it's not your fault.. Just tell the interviewers if they ask ... Give proper explanations and logical answers , they will be convinced by you ..:)