Name: Anamika Kumari
Entrance Exam Percentile:
96.82
Programme and Batch: PGDM
2014-16
Work experience: NIL
For WAT:
1.
How
was your performance in the MBA entrance exam? Also share your overall WAT
experience?
I did not have a very good
score in CAT but I got calls from SPJIMR, MDI and IIM Indore. You need no
preparation for WAT and the topics are very random and usually not related to
general awareness. It is to judge your writing ability and consistency of
thoughts. Topics are usually you can easily relate to.
2.
What was your
topic for WAT and what was your Time limit?
Topic: You are 80 years old now and you look
down to your life. Do you feel happy about it? Do you regret about something?
Write your thoughts. (Not exactly the same but somewhat similar)
Time: 30 minutes
3.
What was your
approach towards WAT and how would you rate your writing?
My approach was very simple. For a minute I
collected my thoughts on what and where I want to be by the time I become 80
and started writing according to that. I wrote about all the successes and
wrote about some of the regrets I felt could be possible.
4.
How did you prepare
for WAT, your Time Management strategy?
No preparation works usually for these
topics. You need to be in habit of writing. Just make sure you fill in your
form very well and answer the questions on your own, know yourself – your
strengths and weaknesses, try to be a bit creative and you’re done.
5.
How did you Structured
your essay writing along with the time constraint?
For me it was kind of a
story writing, I tried to make it as interesting as possible and did not follow
any structure as such. Time was a constraint. One should time oneself while
practicing for WAT.
6.
Was
the topic tough for you to write? Please share the difficulty while outlining
the structure for the essay and how you tackled the problem?
The topic was not tough for
me, it just required some creativity and clarity of thoughts. Once you know
yourself well, it becomes easy to write.
7.
Is
there any advice for the aspirants who’d be appearing in the WAT test soon?
Practice writing; pick up
any topic and write down your thoughts, it increases your speed and helps you
structure your essay.
For GI-1:
1.
How many members were there in your interview board?’-
There
were 3 members, two were faculty members and one was an alumnus of SPJIMR.
2.
How was your interview structured?
We
were asked some questions one by one in the sequence in which we were sitting.
The questions were the typical ones – Tell me about yourself? Why SPJIMR? Why
this specialization?
3.
Was there any tough question for you to answer?
As
mentioned above, these were some very typical questions that one can prepare
for. One needs to justify the specialization really well.
4.
What were the key factors which you think influenced
your selection at PI stage?
I
was confident, witty and gave clear answers. I believe this worked for me.
5.
How did you prepare for your PI?
I
used to follow PagalGuy religiously. It helps a lot to know the experiences and
questions asked and prepare some general questions asked in interviews. In the
process of preparing those answers and while preparing the answers for the
questions in my form, I realized a lot of stuff about myself.
6.
Did you appear for any other PI exercise at other
top B-schools? Please share a few experiences (where you went wrong).
Yes,
I appeared for IIM Indore and MDI interviews. In IIM Indore I was mostly asked
questions from my academics and some general questions to test my thought
process. MDI was also mostly technical and they also asked questions related to
current awareness.
7.
Any interesting moment from your PI which you would
like to share with MBA aspirants?
In
my GI-1 I gave some really witty answers which made everybody in my panel
laugh.
8.
What is your advice to aspirants for Group
Interview?
Prepare
some of those typical questions really well and fill the form on your own. List
down your achievements and reflect on the past experiences in life, your
learning from them and then write down the answers, your weaknesses and
strengths.
For GI-2:
1.
How was your GI-2
experience different from GI-1?
GI-2 is tougher.
The number of applicants forwarded to GI-2 completely varies across the panel.
In GI-2, they see if you are fit for the institute or not. They judge you on
your social sensitivity and clarity of thoughts. I was grilled a bit on the
difference between smart work and hard work.
2.
What according to
you was different/unique in your interview (ex: over Skype, Extremely
technical, completely non technical etc.
GI-2 was completely
non-technical for me.
3.
How was your
selection post GI-1 communicated to you?
Our group was taken
to a different room from the waiting area and we were informed about the result
by the Admission Committee (ADCOM) members
4.
How did you
overcome your nervousness(if any) during the interview?
Group Interviews
has both pros and cons for an applicant. Overcoming nervousness is one of the
pros. You feel comfortable when you go in a group. Talking and being familiar
with the people in your group when you are waiting to be called in also helps.
5.
What role did your
background play during the interview process?
It did not help much as there were no technical
questions but I had connected my background with the choice of my
specialization and it helped. What they look for is a logical connect, I
believe.
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