MBA-Qualifiers (2019)

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CMAT GK

Art and Culture

1) Which one of the following festivals is not celebrated almost simultaneously in the month of January each year?

A. Makar Sankranti

B. Pongal

C. Gudi Padwa✅

D. Lohri


2) Which of the following combinations of the States and the festivals mainly celebrated there is not correct?

A. Rajasthan - Gangaur

B. Gujarat - Durga Puja✅

C. Maharashtra - Ganesh Chaturthi

D. Uttar Pradesh - Krishna Janmashtami


3) Nand Lal Bose, Manjit Bawa, Tyeb Mehta are

A. Classical Singers

B. English Poets

C. Photographers

D. Painters✅


4) Raja Harishchandra, an early Indian film was produced by

A. Dada Saheb Phalke✅

B. Ashok Kumar

C. Ardeshir Irani

D. Gurudatt 


5) Where is Pushkar Fair held?

A. Jodhpur

B. Ajmer✅

C. Jaipur

D. Udaipur


6) Ramkinker Baij was a well known

A. dancer

B. theatre personality

C. violinist

D. sculptor✅


7) In which of the following states is the Hornbill Festival held annually?

A. Mizoram

B. Assam

C. Sikkim

D. Nagaland ✅


8) In which field of Art did Jamini Roy make his name?

A. Sculpture

B. Music

C. Painting✅

D. Drama 


9) Sattriya is a classical dance form of which State?

A. Manipur

B. Uttar Pradesh

C. Assam✅

D. Andhra Pradesh 


10) Which devotional saint was cobbler by profession?

A. Tulsidas

B. Raidas✅

C. Surdas

D. Kabir

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I have filled CMAT 2020 form. Which all college forms do I have fill separately to get my scores accepted?

P.S. I don't have a domicile of Maharastra.

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Case Study Practice:

 Case:

XYZ is a well established, smooth running, multi-crore manufacturing giant, aspiring to be the "No.1" on not only business fronts but political and management horizons too.

You are about to complete tenth year of service in this business house. You are happy and expecting a second promotion. One fine day you board the company bus in the morning to notice a very special silence. All the chirping, joking, gossiping has come to a stand still .You get to know that your company has accepted the VRS recommendations by the central government. Your bus partner enquires about your age and the number of years of service.

The grapevine is that the company may shut down this plant possibly in the next fiscal year due to taxation and infrastructure problems. To begin with they want to cut down the manpower, beginning with managerial cadre, then the vendors followed by the workers.

The facts are that earlier the Govt. did not allow job termination so easily. The recently elected govt. has a commitment of "job creation" in their electoral "Magna Carta" of promises. One brainy idea has come in the form of termination of "old, experienced but sometimes difficult" employees under the disguise of offering "golden shake hand" or "voluntary retirement”. On one side the country is facing grave shortage of skilled, experienced manpower on the other they are promoting schemes like VRS!!

The challenges before you are:

  • You have family of five to support.
  • You have to shoulder a housing loan and a car loan.
  • Having spent ten years in a particular industry it may not be easy to find a new job.
  • VRS is for the employees above forty years of age and / or have completed ten years of service.
  • Maximum package of Rs. Five Lacs is for those having completed 15 years and above.
  • You can get a maximum of Rs. 2.90 Lacs only.
  • Once you accept VRS, getting a new job may not be easy.
  • If you do not opt for a VRS, possibility of transfer to a remote place or you may be asked to resign, and go without any compensation being in management cadre.

What will you do?

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50 Commonly Discussed GD topics

1. Is the concept of Non- Violence still applicable?

2. Rural Vs Urban development.

3. Social Networking is a menace.

4. 100% privatization - good or bad?

5. 20 years of liberalization has pushed India to pre 1991 era.

6. A black man motivating people against America on grounds of social, economic, injustice and inequality.

7. Mobilizing masses on basis of caste, creed, and colour. Is it right or wrong?

8. A video on rural India was shown and a bicycle was used to work as a washing machine and the topic to discuss was "What drives innovation?".

9. A video shown on rural India, showing initiative by the government and the author spoke about sustainable income. The topic to discuss was "How has India incorporated inclusive capitalism in its growth model".

10. Animal research is a moral Crime.

11. Anna Hazare movement on Lokpal Bill, whether India needs it or not?

12. Appropriate age for adulthood is 18, 21 or 25 years?

13. Are call center employees cyber coolies?

14. Are we producing a generation of burnt out children?

15. Are women capable of taking more stress as compared to men?

16. Are women fit to join Army?

17. Arranged marriages vs. love marriages.

18. Black money- How black is it?

19. Brain Drain is good for the country.

20. Are women good managers?

21. Why MBA?

22. Is there a rat race to do an MBA?

23. Marketing decisions at shopping mall.

24. Privatization in India and its impact.

25. Advertisements- helpful to customers or just eye wash.

26. Is blackboard learning superior to managerial experience?

27. Does Corporate World promote Entrepreneurship?

28. B-schools fit square nuts into round holes.

29. How professional are the professional companies today?

30. Make any advertisement in group of 3 students.

31. Advertising is all glitter and no substance.

32. MBAs do not make good business leaders.

33. Consumer is never satisfied.

34. Outsourcing: Boon or Bane?

35. Customer is always right.

36. Is management degree essential to be a manager?

37. Consumer is the king in today's market.

38. What matters more - Outlook or Talent?

39. You would not like to be the Prime Minister of India because…

40. Hope for ill gains is the beginning of loss.

41. Happiness is a mystery; like religion and it should not be rationalized.

42. Law is the creation of the strong to rule the weak.

43. Haste makes waste.

44. Food is more important than Ethics.

45. Indians perform better as a group?

46. A bullet for a bullet - is this a right strategy.

47. Is it necessary to wear a tie to office meetings?

48. A ship docked on the shore cannot move into the storm

49. There is no right way to do a wrong thing.

50. Year 2025.

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Excelling an Interview

What is a winning strategy to market yourself in a Personal Interview?

Following is the list of parameters upon which you are likely to be evaluated in a Personal Interview, accompanied with a list of things you need to keep in mind for scoring well in these areas. An understanding of these parameters will help you to assess what the panel “needs”. It is only then that you can state a value proposition and market yourself well !

Introduction:

This is that part of the interview where you set yourself up. This is where the panel gets a first look and evaluates your personality. The question type in itself is a vast one and you can cover a host of information in this area. You should make sure you mention your positive traits in this section and drop the right hints for the panel to connect with you later in the interview. This is an opportunity for you to demonstrate an ability to prioritize information and lead the panel.

Education:

This is the place where you portray your overall learning skills and demonstrate that you have a well-rounded personality. Academic learning is checked with the help of your subject knowledge, questions can be sourced from favorite subjects, recent most subjects, core subjects and subjects related to management (depending upon graduation stream). Technical training and projects also become a probable source for questions. Your knowledge is co-related with your performance and this gives the panel a fair idea about your learning levels. Extra-curricular activities are evaluated on the basis of their nature, relevance and level of achievement. Performance in competitions is a further proof of your passion.

Current Affairs:

Questions on current affairs can become an Achilles heel for many students. These questions are designed to check of your knowledge, awareness and ability to process current information. The larger challenge is to assess the candidate on an overall environmental sensitivity. Knowledge in areas such as political, economic, business and socio-cultural domains is required to well in these questions.

Career Planning:

What the panel is evaluating here is your “time bound plan” and it is extremely vital that you provide a clear and logical guide for your future plans. The important consideration here is that you should not appear to be too over-ambitious in your plans and you should strike a balance between being practical and ambitious. You can always state that you wish to start a business but if you have no inkling of what you are going to do or you do not have any basic plan to back up your claims, this kind of a statement can be hard to justify in an interview. You can always say that you wish to be the Business Leader of a company but then you need to have a defined career path to justify the same. Making tall claims requires a lot of backing and you would do well to keep a humble profile that can be justified easily. The focus, while discussing your long term plans, should always be on the skills you wish to learn rather than the posts and positions that you want to occupy.

Personality based questions:

Interviews often feature questions on areas such as strengths, weaknesses, role-models etc. Each of these questions is actually based on your “self-awareness levels” and the degree to which you know your own self. In case you know yourself well enough and have enough time figuring out the intricacies of your personality, you would have no difficulty in providing examples for your strengths and detailing your weaknesses and how these could be overcome. After all, a B-school would appreciate a personality carved out for management someone with strong initiative, willingness to learn, ability to contribute and work in teams ! 

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Tell us something about yourself

How to handle the challenges during the “Introduction” stage of the interview?

Introduction sets the tone for the subsequent interview and is therefore of prime importance. In fact, a smart introduction helps you to leverage the wisdom in the age old saying “well begun is half done”!

Enter the room with a mild knock on the door and close the door behind without turning your back towards the panel.

Walk confidently towards the panel striking a proper eye contact with all panelists; ensconce yourself formally on the chair and sit upright with the interview folder/file placed on the table that separates you from the panel.

When asked to introduce, start with your strengths and try creating innocuous teasers for the panel; these have a strong probability of translating into discrete questions if presented well.

  • For example: Starting with your name and place of “belongingness” can lead to certain questions around these elements of identity, from something as basic as the meaning of the name to something as intricate as recent industry initiatives in the place you belong to. It helps to research information surrounding these challenges try familiarizing yourself with any mythological story that forms the genesis of your name as well as the economic, historic, geographic, socio-cultural and political environment of the place of belongingness.

Kindly appreciate that the interview follows an action-reaction mechanism whatever you say goes into creating the basis for the next question.

  • For example: If you begin the introduction by telling the panel that you are “a creative and passionate person with good interpersonal skills”, the panel is likely to test you on a basic understanding of these terms, examples to validate these traits/skills through practical experiences and the relevance of these strengths to your professional life. The panel may even graduate to the extent of asking you to prove certain traits at that very moment- a “creative” person may be questioned on doing something creative at the spur of the moment while “passion” may be assessed by  the way you connect with the panel!

There is no “right” sequence to the inputs you pass on to the panel.  However, the “introduction” should reflect a gradual progression from one aspect of your life to another- random hip hop from one pedestal to another could demonstrate inability to prioritize and sequence.

Try laying emphasis on “learning” from varied aspects of life.

  • For example: A candidate projecting life as a wonderful learning experience with opportunities to learn from both family and education, may come across a more multi-rounded personality as contrasted to someone anchored to only academic activities. The B-school looks at your willingness to learn from diverse facets of life.

The introduction part is also an opportunity for the candidate to highlight his/her comfort areas, leading the panel to ask questions on these desirable points.

  • For example: An “engineer graduate” can highlight the application orientation of the program and then single out a subject or project work, particularly the ones reflecting empirical learning. Similarly, a “commerce graduate” can showcase the practical link between commerce subjects and industry performance.

While the introduction part assesses your ability to create wishful “entry points” for subsequent discussions, it also tests your ability to exit the discussion on a smart note. A suggested way of doing so would be to conclude by asking the panel if they would like you to “highlight” any part of what you said in the introduction. This may be appreciated as an ability to exit gracefully and pass the baton back to the panel!

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With immense pride, IME IIT Kanpur presents the Interim Report on the final placements of the MBA batch 2018-2020.

A total of 29 companies visited our campus this year with the highest offering being 20 LPA and average offer at 12.86 LPA. It was a 16.69% growth from the last year.

We look forward to welcoming the batch of 2022 and assisting all the MBA aspirants for the upcoming admission process. Applications closing 31stJanuary.

Visit https://pingala.iitk.ac.in/MBADM-0/ to access the admission forms and feel free to reach out to us for all admission related queries through our official admission information channels:

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Tips to Handle a GD 

When proposing an idea or argument, you must be clear in your communication and thinking. Your proposal should be structured and systematically put across to others in the group. Charm and personality takes you up to a certain point but after that it is simply your intelligence, thought process and command over the language which pulls you through. After proposing your idea, your must put forth a question. The person who answers the questions will have to look at you while answering, giving you a chance to intervene with another idea. Once you learn to handle group discussions in a scientific way, there is no need for you to resort to techniques such as shouting, hammering your fist on the table, etc.

Be Yourself:

The most important mantra to ace GDs is “Be Yourself”. The more you change things about yourself, the more trouble you would find yourself in. The best way to go about things is to be natural and make sure all your responses are natural and spontaneous.

A Group Discussion is not a seminar:

The most fundamental principle of participating in a Group Discussion is that you need to speak; there is no escape to this bare minimum requirement of a group discussion. Even though it is stating the obvious, yet at times you go in with a mindset that is not best suited to a group discussion.

Prologue and Epilogue:

Most of you may think that opening the GD is the best way of entering one. But do remember that this approach is fraught with dangers, and the risks and rewards of doings so are generally very high. As far as time to speak in a GD goes, the opening speaker has the best chance to speak for the longest duration of time. But quantity is not quality.

Taking the Stage:

The key challenge that some of you face in a discussion is entering it. In a hostile environment, with a number of speakers putting across their points in a vociferous manner, it becomes hard to enter a group discussion. The solution to this problem is not a cut and dried one; it requires practice. In such a scenario, where you are stuck in the middle of a very aggressive discussion, it becomes vital that you participate in a discussion and make sure you speak.

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 Top 50 Interview Questions - Work Experience

Top 50 questions you should be able to answer from your Work Experience:

1. Apart from your regular work, what else have you done in your company?

2. Are you not happy with your job? Then why do you want to leave the company?

3. Can you describe any innovation that has taken place in ignition systems?

4. Challenges you had in your work?

5. Describe the current product that you have been working on? People say it is full of innovations? What is your take?

6. Describe your final year project?

7. Describe your job profile?

8. Did you face problems motivating your team?

9. Did you have foreign clients?

10. Discuss the appraisal process at "Company Name". How has "Company Name" benefitted you?

11. Do you know any strategy consultants who helped Indian companies?

12. Do you think you are a bad performer and won't get a better opportunity?

13. Elaborate on your experience while working in "Your Company’s Name".

14. Explain the concept of total quality management.

15. Explain the different levels of organization.

16. Explain your job responsibilities?

17. For how many months have you taken a work experience?

18. Have you been placed somewhere? Will you join the company?

19. Have you interacted with your customers?

20. Have you worked on any project in MS?

21. How can you improve upon the current profile that you are working in?

22. How do you analyze the market?

23. How do you do sales forecasting?

24. How do you get the estimate for the likely time required?

25. How do you make sure people work under you?

26. How good was your company?

27. How is quality measured at your job?

28. How is your company performing in the wake of recession?

29. How much time did you need to understand your client's business?

30. How will your current experience help you if you go on to become a manager?

31. I know the VP of the company you have provided solutions to. Should I confirm with him?

32. Introduce your organization. What role you play in the organization? Tell us about your projects.

33. Is "Your Company’s Name" taking adequate measures for sustainable growth in the next 5 years?

34. Is there any impact of the slowdown in the west on the business that you people get?

35. Name some company where you'll get the kind of cross-functional exposure?

36. On which technology do you work?

37. Saying that you will give important job to a subordinate is easy, but have you ever done that?

38. Since your company has a high growth potential, then why do you want to leave the job and change the field?

39. So what are steps of Requirement Gathering?

40. So what was your experience as a Lead?

41. Tell me about the job sites that you have worked at?

42. Tell me something about unit processes?

43. Tell me what you did as the magazine editor?

44. Tell something about the CSR initiative of "Your Company’s Name".

45. Tell us about one creative work that you have done in your job?

46. Tell us about your work responsibilities?

47. There are 5 people working under you. Who would be responsible for managing them?

48. What are the financial implications of the sales cycle?

49. What are the latest happenings in your industry?

50. What are the managerial aspects of an organization? 

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Always Remember This Quote!!

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Top 50 questions you should be able to answer as an economics student:

1. Any depreciation frauds in the recent news?

2. Can someone live for a day with 32 rupees?

3. Can you draw AC curve?

4. Can you draw the demand curve?

5. Can you explain what Indian English Literature is?

6. Can you name five emerging economies of the world?

7. Define inflation?

8. Define poverty line?

9. Do you have interest in world economics?

10. Draw demand curve. Why it slopes downwa0rd?

11. Draw the normal distribution curve?

12. Euro zone debt crisis?

13. Explain CPI, WPI?

14. Explain Elasticity of Demand & Supply?

15. Explain what consumer's risk is and what producer's risk is.

16. What is the difference between a customer and a consumer?

17. Give me the reason why is China depreciating its value of currency?

18. How does government make money?

19. How does macro-economic policy affect business?

20. How is economics different from business economics?

21. How is inflation calculated?

22. How is per capita income calculated?

23. How many times you gave exam for Economics honors?

24. How many types of markets are there?

25. How would economics help you out in MBA?

26. How would you improve agriculture?

27. How you will value inflation?

28. I am not very good in economics. Can you tell me the concept of liquidity?

29. If you are so much interested in Economics, why don't you pursue it as your career?

30. Monetary Policy & Fiscal Policy difference?

31. So which is a better system Capitalism or Communism?

32. Suggest a plan to increase sales of HB pencil by 5%?

33. Tell us about Indian economics?

34. Tell us something about the industrial economics and the management principles.

35. What are Substitute goods and economies of scale?

36. What are the different modes of communication?

37. What are the various types of depreciation?

38. What do you generally like in reading?

39. What do you know about the Indian economy?

40. What do you mean by liquidity and inflation?

41. What gains do companies get by charging depreciation?

42. What happens with overproduction?

43. What have you read in Economics honors?

44. What is a determinant?

45. What is CRR?

46. What is depreciation?

47. What is GDP, Budget?

48. What is India's per capita GDP?

49. What is Inflation/GDP?

50. What is inflation? What is its current rate? 

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Case:

Sumit Sethi was tired and dejected. His company's reputation and profits were at stake. Sumit had believed Gopal to be a promising employee; so he had recently promoted him to the top position in operations but Gopal's apathetic behaviour had now resulted in a major crisis for Reliable Couriers.

Sumit was a bright student, topping his class in school. He always wanted to start his own business but unfortunately his father passed away in his last year of commerce graduation and Sumit was held back by family responsibilities. After his graduation he started his career as a Marketing Executive in a well known logistics company. His hard work, dedication and people skills led to quick promotions and within four years he rose to the position of Regional Manager. In the meantime he had taken good care of his family - his younger brother was now in a good engineering college and his only sister married and settled. Two years ago he saw a good business opportunity in courier services and started Reliable Courier. Besides Nationwide wide delivery services, Reliable Courier had same day intracity delivery services through bike messengers and scheduled pickup and delivery services for major clients. Sumit had recruited Gopal Verma a fresh graduate from a low income family, as his assistant to manage routine office work. Sumit found Gopal hardworking and enthusiastic, showing keen interest in learning other aspects of the business.

Sumit's business strategy was focused on institutional business and he impressed his corporate clients by excellent services. Reliable's core strength was its streamlined operations - the key person behind this was dynamic Chief Operations Manager Vineet Seth. Reliable had now become a well known player in Courier services and had grown from a staff of twenty to three hundred. All the old employees were rewarded with promotions and Gopal was made the Assistant Operations Manager. Last month Reliable had won a major contract of servicing 500 branches of Indian National Bank (INB). This was a critical project. It would double Reliable's profit this year and if serviced well could lead to similar contracts with other major banks. Things were moving satisfactorily but just then a personal urgency required Vineet Seth to move to Australia and so he resigned. This came at a time when Sumit was extremely busy planning a new premium service called Next Flight Out which could be a first in India for achieving same day deliveries across India for important packages. Sumit was continuously travelling to meet and workout collaboration with a few airlines. Sumit promoted Gopal as Chief Operations Manager with a good raise and perks-Gopal had already worked as Assistant Manager Operations; Sumit also thought that instead of selecting an outside candidate for the top operations post, selecting Gopal would enthuse other employees as it supported the scope for good performers getting the top job.

Soon after the promotion, Gopal began having personal problems including financial ones. Sumit asked his Accountant to give Gopal a personal loan which he could pay back in instalments from his salary. Gopal was also lax in the operations reporting and sometimes Sumit was unaware of his whereabouts. Gopal had cited personal problems when Sumit had asked him. Yesterday Sumit had received a complaint from the Head Office of INB that an urgent packet was still undelivered and that there were many instances in the last month of important packages not delivered on time and when contacted Gopal was not responding satisfactorily to their queries. Sumit was shocked but promised the INB officer that he would resolve their problems immediately. Sumit soon discovered that there were many other operations issues lying unattended.

What should Sumit do?