MDI GD PI experience for mba admissions 2012
============================================uddalak banerjee
MDI has traditionally been a cat percentile based college.IT used to have a weightage of 70% to cat percentile previously.However for 2012 also it had reduced the quantum of weightage but still it went with the cat percentile as the single most deciding factor for admissions.As was evident in the final selections list which was more or less the decreasing order of cat percentiles started from 99.98 and moved all the way to 99.03 in the first list .My GD centre was IN KOLKATA itself at saltlake. I was asked to report at 1 pm on 19th march 2012. My cat percentile was 99.12 . ONce I reached there we were asked to wait for 20 minutes so that everyone arrives so that the process could begin. As usual all the candidates queued up and in this case all of the aspirants were mostly above 99 percentile.My group number was 2. And guess what ? The group id was also based on cat percentile. The first guy in the group had a percentile of 99.16 and then the very next guy that is no 2 in the group 2 was 99.16 and then successively 99.15,99.14,99.13,99.12 and so on. For other groups too the same order was followed .For group 1 it was 99.29 was no 1 then 99.28 as no 2 and so on .
The group discussion was completely a Fish market. Our topic was :”Preparation provides content and intent decides delivery.”
From the very moment the topic was announced it was complete fish market.ANd everyone was speaking all at the same time.Some one tried to dig in by saying,” hey friends it is time out guys we should not quarrel we are damaging each others chances”
But then it was of no avail as noone else was ready to give up.They were just not ready to relent.Everyone was at times mindlessly saying whatever it pleases him/her. One of us started to say,”sachin tendulkar always practiced hard and hence was a great player.”. SOmeone dug in saying,”exactly as my dear friend has said ,” sachin tendulkar is a role model and the delivery which was his score proves that he has the intent”
and again someone else cut in saying,”taking forward the point sachins flawless technique has come from preparation and that has given him a wide range of shots but it is his intent that makes the delivery complete.Before the match he remains tensed .” and so on. I said ,”practice is needed for success.While we prepared for CAT we took a lot of simulated tests and we scored 99+ in quite a fewof them but then there were many who had score more but in the end scored less than us.Because they panicked in the D day because they had not may be practiced with time limits that seriously.That seriousness made the gulf” And again some one cut me it was hardly 20 seconds that one could at best speak in one go. Someone brought up “SouthAfrica as a team why it failed” .And amidst all the rubble and when most people were speaking at a time ,there were distinct groups immerging with all good speakers. The moderator finally said “ok fine that would be all.Please wait outside and await your turn for interview”.When outside again we were talking about IIM calls and when the results would be out etc .Soon my interview turn came .
There were 2 members in the interview panel.One was elderly and the other a bit young.
Interviewer1 ,” Please come in”
I said,”yes sir”
Interviewer1” your name is UDDALAK...big name...have i pronounced it right?”
I said,”yes sir”
Interviewer1,” which other calls do you have?”
I said,” XLRI , 6 IIMs and NITIE, IIT bombay, delhi,kharagpur, IMT ghaziabad,SCHMRD,SIIB,SCIT”
Interviewer1 ,” XLRI is your best call then?”
I said ,”yes sir”
Interviewer1,” you are a kolkattan?”
I said “ yes sir”
Interviewer 1,”so you know about kolkata ?”
I said ,”mostly “
Interviewer 1 ,” mostly!! (smile) ok tell me who was founder of kolkata”
I said ,”job charnak”
Interviewer 1,” who was swami vivekananada?and what was his contribution ?”
I said ,” he was disciple of ramakrishna paramhansa and propagated hinduism.He had propounded 4 yogas bhakti yoga,karma yoga,rag yoga and there is one more i cant recollect that “
Interviewer 1” what is relationship between swami dyananda and swami vivekananda?”
I said,” both propagated hinduism one created ramkrishna mission and the other DAV school.”
Interviewer 1 ,” is it only relationship or is there any other?”
I said,”sorry sir i dont recall any”
i was getting more tensed after this question.Outside it was tension free but as the interviewer keeping on questioning a gradual tension was creeping in.
Interviewer 1,” what was contribution of ishwarchandra vidya sagar?”
I said, “ he wrote barna parichai..and also was the first to do widow remarriage”
Interviewer1 then looked at Interviewer 2 and said ,” is he correct”
Interviewerer 2 said ,”yes”
Interviewer 1,” ok tell me why do you want to come to mdi ?”
I said,” because of the huge brand of mdi which is only comparable to IIM A B C fms xl and to some extent to iim k and i and these are the colleges which makes the top 10 of any mba rankings of colleges in india”
interviewer 1 ,” ok one last question what was the trade of rani rashmani?”
I said,” hmmm..i dont know..i cant recollect..i just know that ramkrishna paramhansa was the priest of rani rashmanis temple”
Interviewer 1 ,”do you know about kalpataru..do you believe in it?”
I said,” my parents believe in god and i too have been brought up in an environment in which everyone believes God . I too believe in chamatkars and hence there is no reason to not believe in Kalpataru.In intense devotion people get communion with God and hence i believe that it might be true especially with olden day priests “
Interviewer 1,” tell me one thing why did bengal have maximum scolars during the time of 1900 -1940?”
I said,” maybe there was a sense of competition propounded by one good person and the trend happened to reinforce with one learning from the other and a spirit of renaissance started with people wanting to learn more and more.”
Interviewer 1 “why did not it happen else where?”
I said,” i cant say for sure it is just chance for the leader to come.It could have come elsewhere too but then the structure was there location wise too it was good with a port at that time and then british first came there as kolkata was capital of india at that point of time.”
Interviewer 1,” but i thought delhi was capital of india throughout!even at the time of mughals”
I said,” no actually delhi was capital at the time of mughals but then when british came that is from 1757 to 1905 it was the capital of india because british came here first after the battle with sirajudduallah and hence east india company established the structure there”
Interviewer 2,”what was the date when swami vivekananda gave lecture at chicago and what was te address?”
I said,” date was in september ,1893. address i cant recollect it was somewhere in chicago”
Interviewer 1,”chicago is not a bus stop..it is a big place..where in chicago”?”
I said,” it is in parliament of religions...”
Interviewer 1,”where was the parliament ? it must have had a street number ?”
I said,”sorry sir i dont know .I will definately try to know it”
Interviewer 1 smiled and said ,” ok go and call the next one”
After coming out i realised that the interview had stretched to 25 minutes which was at that point the maximum time taken for a candidate because guys before me just came and went and hardly it might have took 5 minutes each.I was getting increasingly apprehensive.HOwever result came and i cleared. :) IT was my first Top 10 college convert. From the result i found it was mostly in decreasing order of cat percenitle with merit rank 1 was 99.98 percentile holder.
RESULT :CONVERT.
============================================uddalak banerjee
MDI has traditionally been a cat percentile based college.IT used to have a weightage of 70% to cat percentile previously.However for 2012 also it had reduced the quantum of weightage but still it went with the cat percentile as the single most deciding factor for admissions.As was evident in the final selections list which was more or less the decreasing order of cat percentiles started from 99.98 and moved all the way to 99.03 in the first list .My GD centre was IN KOLKATA itself at saltlake. I was asked to report at 1 pm on 19th march 2012. My cat percentile was 99.12 . ONce I reached there we were asked to wait for 20 minutes so that everyone arrives so that the process could begin. As usual all the candidates queued up and in this case all of the aspirants were mostly above 99 percentile.My group number was 2. And guess what ? The group id was also based on cat percentile. The first guy in the group had a percentile of 99.16 and then the very next guy that is no 2 in the group 2 was 99.16 and then successively 99.15,99.14,99.13,99.12 and so on. For other groups too the same order was followed .For group 1 it was 99.29 was no 1 then 99.28 as no 2 and so on .
The group discussion was completely a Fish market. Our topic was :”Preparation provides content and intent decides delivery.”
From the very moment the topic was announced it was complete fish market.ANd everyone was speaking all at the same time.Some one tried to dig in by saying,” hey friends it is time out guys we should not quarrel we are damaging each others chances”
But then it was of no avail as noone else was ready to give up.They were just not ready to relent.Everyone was at times mindlessly saying whatever it pleases him/her. One of us started to say,”sachin tendulkar always practiced hard and hence was a great player.”. SOmeone dug in saying,”exactly as my dear friend has said ,” sachin tendulkar is a role model and the delivery which was his score proves that he has the intent”
and again someone else cut in saying,”taking forward the point sachins flawless technique has come from preparation and that has given him a wide range of shots but it is his intent that makes the delivery complete.Before the match he remains tensed .” and so on. I said ,”practice is needed for success.While we prepared for CAT we took a lot of simulated tests and we scored 99+ in quite a fewof them but then there were many who had score more but in the end scored less than us.Because they panicked in the D day because they had not may be practiced with time limits that seriously.That seriousness made the gulf” And again some one cut me it was hardly 20 seconds that one could at best speak in one go. Someone brought up “SouthAfrica as a team why it failed” .And amidst all the rubble and when most people were speaking at a time ,there were distinct groups immerging with all good speakers. The moderator finally said “ok fine that would be all.Please wait outside and await your turn for interview”.When outside again we were talking about IIM calls and when the results would be out etc .Soon my interview turn came .
There were 2 members in the interview panel.One was elderly and the other a bit young.
Interviewer1 ,” Please come in”
I said,”yes sir”
Interviewer1” your name is UDDALAK...big name...have i pronounced it right?”
I said,”yes sir”
Interviewer1,” which other calls do you have?”
I said,” XLRI , 6 IIMs and NITIE, IIT bombay, delhi,kharagpur, IMT ghaziabad,SCHMRD,SIIB,SCIT”
Interviewer1 ,” XLRI is your best call then?”
I said ,”yes sir”
Interviewer1,” you are a kolkattan?”
I said “ yes sir”
Interviewer 1,”so you know about kolkata ?”
I said ,”mostly “
Interviewer 1 ,” mostly!! (smile) ok tell me who was founder of kolkata”
I said ,”job charnak”
Interviewer 1,” who was swami vivekananada?and what was his contribution ?”
I said ,” he was disciple of ramakrishna paramhansa and propagated hinduism.He had propounded 4 yogas bhakti yoga,karma yoga,rag yoga and there is one more i cant recollect that “
Interviewer 1” what is relationship between swami dyananda and swami vivekananda?”
I said,” both propagated hinduism one created ramkrishna mission and the other DAV school.”
Interviewer 1 ,” is it only relationship or is there any other?”
I said,”sorry sir i dont recall any”
i was getting more tensed after this question.Outside it was tension free but as the interviewer keeping on questioning a gradual tension was creeping in.
Interviewer 1,” what was contribution of ishwarchandra vidya sagar?”
I said, “ he wrote barna parichai..and also was the first to do widow remarriage”
Interviewer1 then looked at Interviewer 2 and said ,” is he correct”
Interviewerer 2 said ,”yes”
Interviewer 1,” ok tell me why do you want to come to mdi ?”
I said,” because of the huge brand of mdi which is only comparable to IIM A B C fms xl and to some extent to iim k and i and these are the colleges which makes the top 10 of any mba rankings of colleges in india”
interviewer 1 ,” ok one last question what was the trade of rani rashmani?”
I said,” hmmm..i dont know..i cant recollect..i just know that ramkrishna paramhansa was the priest of rani rashmanis temple”
Interviewer 1 ,”do you know about kalpataru..do you believe in it?”
I said,” my parents believe in god and i too have been brought up in an environment in which everyone believes God . I too believe in chamatkars and hence there is no reason to not believe in Kalpataru.In intense devotion people get communion with God and hence i believe that it might be true especially with olden day priests “
Interviewer 1,” tell me one thing why did bengal have maximum scolars during the time of 1900 -1940?”
I said,” maybe there was a sense of competition propounded by one good person and the trend happened to reinforce with one learning from the other and a spirit of renaissance started with people wanting to learn more and more.”
Interviewer 1 “why did not it happen else where?”
I said,” i cant say for sure it is just chance for the leader to come.It could have come elsewhere too but then the structure was there location wise too it was good with a port at that time and then british first came there as kolkata was capital of india at that point of time.”
Interviewer 1,” but i thought delhi was capital of india throughout!even at the time of mughals”
I said,” no actually delhi was capital at the time of mughals but then when british came that is from 1757 to 1905 it was the capital of india because british came here first after the battle with sirajudduallah and hence east india company established the structure there”
Interviewer 2,”what was the date when swami vivekananda gave lecture at chicago and what was te address?”
I said,” date was in september ,1893. address i cant recollect it was somewhere in chicago”
Interviewer 1,”chicago is not a bus stop..it is a big place..where in chicago”?”
I said,” it is in parliament of religions...”
Interviewer 1,”where was the parliament ? it must have had a street number ?”
I said,”sorry sir i dont know .I will definately try to know it”
Interviewer 1 smiled and said ,” ok go and call the next one”
After coming out i realised that the interview had stretched to 25 minutes which was at that point the maximum time taken for a candidate because guys before me just came and went and hardly it might have took 5 minutes each.I was getting increasingly apprehensive.HOwever result came and i cleared. :) IT was my first Top 10 college convert. From the result i found it was mostly in decreasing order of cat percenitle with merit rank 1 was 99.98 percentile holder.
RESULT :CONVERT.
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