NIRMA university GD PI Experience mba admissions 2012-14
=====================================UDDALAK BANERJEE
NIrma university is one of the reputed universities of India which is known for its rural management programmes. It stands at 35 among 4000 + mba colleges in india asper current pagulguy ranking 2012 . IT has been persistently been there for a long time now. WHen i applied to NIrma university i did so keeping in mind the high competition that occurs for the top 20 mba colleges in india and even with a high percentile there is no guarantee for admission because gd and pi along with profile has a big role to play there after. My nirma interview was held in kolkata at ho-chi- minh sarani on 18th march,2012.I was late for the gd pi .IT was supposed to start at 8:45 am and i reached at 9:00 am. That too i was not prepared for the process. Last day that is 17th march i had XLRI interview and from jamshedpur came to kolkata and the very next morning there was this interview. My body clock was just not working well . There was a written assignment going on at that time from 8:45 am . I was 15 minutes late already yet i went to toilet because it was urgent. So that took away another 10 minutes. After that i joined the group with the written assignment. It was an essay on “Communication skills are more important than technical skills to achieve success “.
IT was a topic i took would have taken some time to think but then that was not there. So i decided to write straightaway. I wrote about current IT sector comprising of most multinational service oriented companies who provide mostly communication oriented role in support services in which there is a call system which is mostly known as client call in which the client gets to speak with directly with the team leader and team members as to what they need to do and how the job is progressing and so on.Technical skills in a service oriented environment always takes a back seat.Besides if employment pattern is followed closely in employment exchanges BE s and BTECHs often outrun the ME s MTECH because a basic knowledge of computers is needed mostly and not indepth analysis to run such type projects. Thats why even mechanical and civil engineers in private colleges end up in Computer science core companies like Wipro,TCS ,CTS and so on.
The written assignment was soon followed by Interview. I was 9th in the panel. It took some time for my number to come. I was talking to other aspirants to know as much as possible about the college so that i can bail out any question on the college like why Nirma? and What are advantages of mba at Nirma. I did not have much time to prepare for it so i just tried to accumulate as much knowledge as possible.
Soon my turn came. The panel had 3 members .One was a middle aged woman and the other two were old men.We were asked to wait infront of the door serial number wise.
Interviewer 1 ,” please come in and take ur seat.”
I said,” thank you sir”
Interviewer 2,”U-d-d-a-l-a-k Banerjee.hmm. you are a bengali?”
I said,”yes sir”
Interviewer 1,”your form is incomplete. You have not filled anything in the second part of the form”
I said,” Actually i was in the hurry .yesterday i had interview in XLRI jamshedpur. Yesterday night i came and then today morning i set off for here. And this kind of schedule is happenning for the last one month. I have applied to most colleges because the percentile itself doesnot guarantee any selection it is just an eligibility. And given the competition for seats i believed that it would be safer if i apply more. And hence in hurry i just missed out on that”
Interviewer 2,”But isn’t this very irresponsible?”
I said,” sorry mam .I just forgot about it. I filled the first side but i just forgot to fill the next side”
Interviewer 3,”you have 99.12 percentile . And u have applied to most colleges. So you must be having many calls. So where does nirma rank among them. Because practically speaking i feel that u have just come here for a timepass.”
I said,”Sir to be very true I dont do things for a timepass .I make mistakes which is human. But then as far as NIrma is concerned i feel it is one of the best colleges in rural management sector and it is at a happening place like gujrat and hence number of companies coming for recruitment is huge. And with an average package of 7 lakh around i dont think that i should even think twice before applying it. As for other colleges are concerned. Sir if i get xlri,iim,mdi ,ximb ,iit bombay then obviously i wont come. But then that is a far off thing. AS of now it is in hand and a worthy college so I dont think that i should let it go.”
Interviewer 1,”hmm.. so you have any workex?”
I said,” yes i have workex of 10 months in birlasoft as of now.”
Interviewer 2,” you have not mentioned that in the form?”
i said,” no actually the breakup was 70 percent on Cat score and 20 percent on gd pi and 10 percent on acads. So as such there was no weightage given to workex. So i did not mention it.”
Interviewer2,” how confident are u to get through this interview?”
I said,”as per calculations from the 70% i should get atleast 69.5 and from the rest 10% in acads i should get 8. it makes 77.5 .from the rest 20% i believe that i should get in between 12-15 which makes a cumulative around 90 out of 100 which is a decent score to get qualification. But then this are all quantitative ways of analysing things. IT all depends on how you percieve me .”
Interviewer3,” why do you want to do mba?”
i said,” Having worked in birlasoft i have had a decent exposure to corporate. I believe that creating softwares or providing services are just a part of the whole thing. MBA is the whole thing .It deals with administration of the company ,taking judicial decisions and participating in a more active way in the day to day affairs of the company. It proves self actualisation to the person who not just enhances his aptitude but also his attitude to meet the demands of a business.”
Interviewer 1,” any unfulfillments that u have in life..Because ur scores are all very good. I mean Nmat 99.98 and then cat 99.12 and then u have very good scores in snap ,xat ,ibsat ,mat,gmat everything.”
I said,” well i have qualified in aieee for nits with a the then percentile of 99.2 calculated at a base of 6 lakh candidates who took the test at that time. Now it is taken by around 13 lakh candidates.So i found some success at that time also getting into an NIT was a great experience and having studied with people from different social economical and cultural background was a great learning experience more so because all of them also performed admirably well in aieee to get into NIT fold. But yes still i could not do IIT . It remains a thorn in the flesh. Hopefully if i make to xlri /mdi /iim then it would be highly rewarding and maybe in the long run this failure would heal .”
Interviewer 3,” so tell me finally if selected would u join NIRMA?”
I said,” well that again depends on results of other exams being favourable or not. But yes if i dont make it in mdi,xlri ,iim then i would definately like to come to NIRMA. Atleast it will leave me with an option .If i fail here then it wont be there.”
Interviewer 1,” ok fine. You may leave now. “
I said,” thanks and good day”
RESULT: CONVERT
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=====================================UDDALAK BANERJEE
NIrma university is one of the reputed universities of India which is known for its rural management programmes. It stands at 35 among 4000 + mba colleges in india asper current pagulguy ranking 2012 . IT has been persistently been there for a long time now. WHen i applied to NIrma university i did so keeping in mind the high competition that occurs for the top 20 mba colleges in india and even with a high percentile there is no guarantee for admission because gd and pi along with profile has a big role to play there after. My nirma interview was held in kolkata at ho-chi- minh sarani on 18th march,2012.I was late for the gd pi .IT was supposed to start at 8:45 am and i reached at 9:00 am. That too i was not prepared for the process. Last day that is 17th march i had XLRI interview and from jamshedpur came to kolkata and the very next morning there was this interview. My body clock was just not working well . There was a written assignment going on at that time from 8:45 am . I was 15 minutes late already yet i went to toilet because it was urgent. So that took away another 10 minutes. After that i joined the group with the written assignment. It was an essay on “Communication skills are more important than technical skills to achieve success “.
IT was a topic i took would have taken some time to think but then that was not there. So i decided to write straightaway. I wrote about current IT sector comprising of most multinational service oriented companies who provide mostly communication oriented role in support services in which there is a call system which is mostly known as client call in which the client gets to speak with directly with the team leader and team members as to what they need to do and how the job is progressing and so on.Technical skills in a service oriented environment always takes a back seat.Besides if employment pattern is followed closely in employment exchanges BE s and BTECHs often outrun the ME s MTECH because a basic knowledge of computers is needed mostly and not indepth analysis to run such type projects. Thats why even mechanical and civil engineers in private colleges end up in Computer science core companies like Wipro,TCS ,CTS and so on.
The written assignment was soon followed by Interview. I was 9th in the panel. It took some time for my number to come. I was talking to other aspirants to know as much as possible about the college so that i can bail out any question on the college like why Nirma? and What are advantages of mba at Nirma. I did not have much time to prepare for it so i just tried to accumulate as much knowledge as possible.
Soon my turn came. The panel had 3 members .One was a middle aged woman and the other two were old men.We were asked to wait infront of the door serial number wise.
Interviewer 1 ,” please come in and take ur seat.”
I said,” thank you sir”
Interviewer 2,”U-d-d-a-l-a-k Banerjee.hmm. you are a bengali?”
I said,”yes sir”
Interviewer 1,”your form is incomplete. You have not filled anything in the second part of the form”
I said,” Actually i was in the hurry .yesterday i had interview in XLRI jamshedpur. Yesterday night i came and then today morning i set off for here. And this kind of schedule is happenning for the last one month. I have applied to most colleges because the percentile itself doesnot guarantee any selection it is just an eligibility. And given the competition for seats i believed that it would be safer if i apply more. And hence in hurry i just missed out on that”
Interviewer 2,”But isn’t this very irresponsible?”
I said,” sorry mam .I just forgot about it. I filled the first side but i just forgot to fill the next side”
Interviewer 3,”you have 99.12 percentile . And u have applied to most colleges. So you must be having many calls. So where does nirma rank among them. Because practically speaking i feel that u have just come here for a timepass.”
I said,”Sir to be very true I dont do things for a timepass .I make mistakes which is human. But then as far as NIrma is concerned i feel it is one of the best colleges in rural management sector and it is at a happening place like gujrat and hence number of companies coming for recruitment is huge. And with an average package of 7 lakh around i dont think that i should even think twice before applying it. As for other colleges are concerned. Sir if i get xlri,iim,mdi ,ximb ,iit bombay then obviously i wont come. But then that is a far off thing. AS of now it is in hand and a worthy college so I dont think that i should let it go.”
Interviewer 1,”hmm.. so you have any workex?”
I said,” yes i have workex of 10 months in birlasoft as of now.”
Interviewer 2,” you have not mentioned that in the form?”
i said,” no actually the breakup was 70 percent on Cat score and 20 percent on gd pi and 10 percent on acads. So as such there was no weightage given to workex. So i did not mention it.”
Interviewer2,” how confident are u to get through this interview?”
I said,”as per calculations from the 70% i should get atleast 69.5 and from the rest 10% in acads i should get 8. it makes 77.5 .from the rest 20% i believe that i should get in between 12-15 which makes a cumulative around 90 out of 100 which is a decent score to get qualification. But then this are all quantitative ways of analysing things. IT all depends on how you percieve me .”
Interviewer3,” why do you want to do mba?”
i said,” Having worked in birlasoft i have had a decent exposure to corporate. I believe that creating softwares or providing services are just a part of the whole thing. MBA is the whole thing .It deals with administration of the company ,taking judicial decisions and participating in a more active way in the day to day affairs of the company. It proves self actualisation to the person who not just enhances his aptitude but also his attitude to meet the demands of a business.”
Interviewer 1,” any unfulfillments that u have in life..Because ur scores are all very good. I mean Nmat 99.98 and then cat 99.12 and then u have very good scores in snap ,xat ,ibsat ,mat,gmat everything.”
I said,” well i have qualified in aieee for nits with a the then percentile of 99.2 calculated at a base of 6 lakh candidates who took the test at that time. Now it is taken by around 13 lakh candidates.So i found some success at that time also getting into an NIT was a great experience and having studied with people from different social economical and cultural background was a great learning experience more so because all of them also performed admirably well in aieee to get into NIT fold. But yes still i could not do IIT . It remains a thorn in the flesh. Hopefully if i make to xlri /mdi /iim then it would be highly rewarding and maybe in the long run this failure would heal .”
Interviewer 3,” so tell me finally if selected would u join NIRMA?”
I said,” well that again depends on results of other exams being favourable or not. But yes if i dont make it in mdi,xlri ,iim then i would definately like to come to NIRMA. Atleast it will leave me with an option .If i fail here then it wont be there.”
Interviewer 1,” ok fine. You may leave now. “
I said,” thanks and good day”
RESULT: CONVERT
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