“Tell us your strengths & Weaknesses” is the most common FAQ in PI

What an opportunity for you when you are being asked the most common frequent question in Personal Interview that tell us your strengths & weaknesses !

Here is an opportunity to present your complete personality and detail your strengths and so called weaknesses. Provided you work on your own SWOT analysis, you would have found that you can turn your weaknesses to strengths positively. Likewise you can find opportunities in threats also.

MBA admission selection panel is looking in you a positive minded person who knows his strengths & weaknesses but articulates weaknesses in such a way that they look like strengths. You need to be very clear with your own personality and create different USPs of your own and sell them heavily.

Go ahead rework on your SWOT and have firm conviction to win success in PI.

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Body language is everything in PI

Personal Interview or PI is last step before you are declared to be selected in a B school hence; PI is very important stage of MBA admission process. 

Selection panel has already seen your performance in admission test and later in WAT / Essay / Extempore Speech etc. Finally you are being exposed to selection panel who wishes you to respond with your best presentation. 

Selection board is looking forward to the best candidate who dreams for future with most achievable aspirations and has doable ideas. Positive approach with equally fresh ideas and simple body language will be call for the day.

It is suggested to be updated with General awareness topics that will gain you confidence to be successful in Personal Interview. 

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Essay is not just writing

MBA aspirants need to be ready for Essay writing test post MBA exams results.  It is advisable to understand the reason for this test. 

In exam you have already been tested for your analytical skills but that is still not enough because a would be manager is expected to have more skills so with Essay writing you will now be tested in areas of communication, creative writing, handwriting, expression of thoughts and top of all how do you conclude so that reader of your Essay must get some take away as message. 

Topic of Essay might be given from current affairs so that your general awareness can also be tested. Speed and writing in a stipulated time is also a test for your time management and domain knowledge. It is said that Essay writing is a reflection of your personality so advisable to be clear whatever is being written as chances are high that you will be asked questions in PI based on your Essay.

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How to choose best B school?

Very often MBA aspirants keep on guessing for selection of B schools. Building or location matters least for post graduation programme like MBA which is residential in nature but infrastructure in form of resource,   pedagogy, industrial relation and placement record matters most.

Option of B School will accrue only after your getting high percentile and your further getting success in WAT / Essay writing / Extempore Speech / GD & PI.

Based on your performance on above parameters you might get selection letter and now you would get chance to avail option of B schools from where you would have received such letters. 

Besides considering USPs of B schools, you must also introspect yourself again and then find the final suitability so that you are on the trajectory of great learning of management education! 

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WAT after CAT?

WAT after CAT?  Yes it will be written ability test which you have to give after you are being short listed by IIMs based on your percentile which you will come to know on January 9, 2013. 

Off course you are curious to know the result but within you, are you confident to make it? It’s better to take positive confidence forward and now you must bother about WAT / Essay and GD followed by PI.

Certain areas of the above can’t be improved overnight so advisable to practice a lot for each of the above and read variety of topics which might include fiction, autobiographies , novels besides regular reading of news paper & magazines. 

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