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What is judged at PI ?



After having succeeded in WAT / Essay Writing / Extempore Speech / GD, now you will be grilled in Personal Interview and most of the questions will be picked up by the selection panel from your performance of the above.

Personal Interview is always one to one and that reflects that being a last leg of MBA admission procedure, you are being asked comfortable questions to judge your positivity with your responses which you might give either orally or with your body language.

You are being watched while you walk or your sit down or when you express your gestures while giving your answers.

Be careful but confident because your simple answers in straight forward manner will positively get you success at PI.



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PI is very crucial and critical



MBA aspirants who have cracked MBA entrance test like CAT, IIFT, XAT, SNAP, CMAT, MAT, NMAT etc. will have to go to the last stage of MBA admission of Personal Interview.

PI is very critical and highly crucial as failure over here means complete loss of opportunity.

Once you are successful at PI and have impressed admission selection panel then you are through to your mission and likely to be given final selection letter in any of the top B-School.

Need not be surprised if you are anxious at PI then selection panel is equally anxious to receive and judge you on the parameter of communication, body language, positivity, presence of mind, previous academic record and work experience if any.



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GD is not shouting



Over a period of time MBA aspirants have been under the impression that during GD leadership qualities are being judged by admission selection panel.

Of course you will be judged on the above quality but you will equally judged on your communication power and toleration power. 

GD is not a platform for shouting or raising voice because this will lead you to a negativity and you might go out of focus from subject which must have assigned to you.

Better would be to suave and decent to your fellow GD participants, understand their point of view and even if you have to rebut any of their point, be humble and take permission to counter the point and give your own view to lead and give direction to the entire GD.



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What is judged at GD



MBA aspirants must be aware of that Group discussion is a test which is being conducted mainly to check communication power and body language of the candidates.

The above can achieved with can do attitude. Positivity will come in nature with positive thinking only and it is a process which can’t be achieved overnight.

You need to develop reading habit of various books which are motivational and autobiographies of successful people of the world.

Imagine if Yuvaraj Singh can come out from negativity of Cancer and now he has found the place in test match, it is because of his will power and attitude of winning at any cost.

That is the positivity so when you are undergoing GD think of achieving success always.



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Why GD is conducted



After you have successfully cracked IIFT, NMAT, SNAP, CMAT, MAT, IRMA, XAT etc. you will be undergoing Group Discussion.

Since you have already being tested in analytical skills and subject knowledge in the MBA entrance examinations, now you will be tested for your soft skills on communication, body language and attitude.

Factors which can be seen and sensed like positivity and being courteous will be highly crucial in GD.

Remember you are trying to enter in B-School so that you can gain theory of business ethos and entering in corporate world. So you need to at your best at GD to impress selection panel that you are the right candidate who can be transformed as future manager.