[2014-2016] IIM Bangalore Interview Shortlist and Related Discussions

@SarayuSheshadri I have two queries.
1. What should I enter in graduation details SGPA out of 10 or percentage ? On my marksheet only SGPA is mentioned.
2. I am working in Siemens PLM Software company. We develop NX (CAD/CAM Software). What should be my industry type?

Score Sheet of Graduation is degree certificate? This is with reference to Upload Score sheet field.

@amh

any ICSE 10th students over here?? what have you put for month of completion???



Yes. I am from ICSE - 2006 batch. I put the month as March (22nd March was the last exam for us)

@SarayuSheshadri :I want to ask a few things:
1. I am currently working in L&T; Shipbuilding.What should I write in the Industry Sector: Manufacturing,Engineering or Manufacturing, Manufacturing.
2. I am currently working in L&T; Shipbuilding.So should I leave the 'to month' and 'to year' column blank???
3. In the university section, university type is shown as central. But I have studied in a private university incorporated in state legislature and had filled it correctly in the CAT form.....Is that a problem???
4. I have prepared my SOP......I seek your permission to send you my SOP for your review and suggestions.......
5. We have to upload our 10th and 12th Marksheets in pdf format????Because it is not mentioned in the guidelines......

In the references section, in the field 'In what capacity does HE/She know you?', what should we fill?

Do we need to get detailed REFERENCES for IIM-Kozhikode similar to that of IIM-Bangalore ???? Or is it just a formality form which needs to be filled ???

I mean to ask will THE IIM-K team send a referral form to the references mentioned just like IIM-B did....

Can anyone please specify about in which categories the following companies belongs to :

TCS,
Samsung Research India-Bangalore

Hi ... Any1 from Cognizant chennai who got shortlisted ?

Hello Seniors,


I have a few doubts,

1. Can we take black and white scan of all the score sheets and ragging declaration or it has to be a colored one?

2. What exactly score sheet of university should contain?

As of now, I have merged my all semesters grade card into one pdf and uploaded.

3. What will be the industry type of Samsung R&D; Institute India?

Hi IIM B Aspirants, Congratulations for your outstanding success. I hope that your preparation is going on fine and you are gearing up for IIMs personal interview. It is common that anxiety levels reach new heights and search for perfect answers for few profile related and career goals continues with no time limit. In fact, it is common for majority of the call getters. I was also in the similar situation even after scoring 99.93 percentile but focussed on a few things. I strongly suggest you to focus on

1) Curricular (Important subjects/concepts - For Freshers and 1-2 years work-ex)

2) Co-curricular activities (Quizes/Seminars/Paper presentations/Assignments/Projects - Prizes & Participation Certificate and Knowledge-For freshers)

3) Extra-curricular activities (Achievements, Awards, Certificates, Social service- For freshers & work-ex)

4) WORK-EX (The Most Important for IIM_B) Contribution to the project, technical and managerial knowledge gained through interaction with peers and though orientation and training programs and social side of project.(For 1+ years work-ex) and for freshers-Major project during graduation and your learnings from it and your contribution if it was a group project.

5) General awareness (Economy, Country growth, Political news and chances, Social movements and agitations, few sports news - For both freshers and Work-ex) and

6) Career Goals (story behind going for MBA and future career, personal and social goals.)

I don't think academics play the crucial role now as almost all the candidates shortlisted for WAT-PI round have strong academic background but might be handy when there is a stalemate among contenders.

I gained IIM A, B, XLRI and FMS Final admissions with X-57.33, XII-53% and BA(Eng-Literature)-50.3% and CAT-99.93 percentile but back then IIMs used to give no significant weightage to academics to shortlist candidates for WAT-PI. ATB for your future success.

Hi, In my CAT application, I have given my 10th and 12th percentages as 90.40 (actual 90.36) and 93.80 (93.75). I have rounded it off. Will that be a problem in IIMB?

Im unable to upload my graduation certificate( University level) ..the file size is less than 1 MB..what can the issue be?


My degree is a B.E.(Honours) Degree.. Should this be mentioned as Bachelors of Engineering or in 'Others'

Hi I am unable to login to IIMB application, looks like servers are down? Any one else facing this issue?

Not able to login to IIMB portal to fill the form 😞 ...last date approaching fast

Seniors kindly give us the list of Essay Topics which we have to cover as per your experience

Hi Seniors,
While uploading graduation Marks for each semester , i encountered a problem. For My university , 1st and 2nd semesters are combined and exam is for 1st year. But rest are semesters from 3 to 8. So how do i enter the graduation marks ? I cannot put 1,2 in the term/semester/year coulmn as it is a dropdown. Kindly suggest a way
@CA_Sid @SarayuSheshadri @ricsani

Thanks.
Sruthy

Can the SOP be little more than 600 words?

Do we need reference letters besides the online references??

Hi Seniors


2 of the 3 referrals I got are not getting reflected in the online portal. I got confirmation mail for receiving only one. But all three refrees had filled and submitted the referrals. I waited for a day and deleted and added the same refrees again. Again after filling and submitting the forms, the same is not getting updated in my portal.

Please help as I do not have any more attempts to change refrees left.😟