IIM L GD PI experience

after a 3-4 mock GDs and a very good mock interview ( IMS ) and equally psyched out interview at TIME ..

Kept my finger crossed for the final day .. I was nervous for sure .

GD Topic:

Statistics is the only science where different experts come to different interpretations seeing the same graph ..

Ever heard of a boring topic than that.

7 candidate …peaceful not a fish Market…may be everybody was equally bored .

If this was not enough they asked us to write a 150 words write up on the topic in 10 minutes .Every one talked about how to collect sample but did not ponder into whether it was the only science

I did not uttered a single word for first 5 minutes .Then I remembered that this is my only call and came into the GD 5-6 times I was asked to summarize ( as I spoke least) which I did pretty well.

Overall 6/10

3^rd to be interviewed .Other two were asked no question on acads so I was very happy but fate had a different view on me

Interview

two peaceful professors and me

P1:So tell us about yourself

M: Repeated the ritual

P1: so you are an architect ? is it same as Civil engg ?( I could see the smile on his face and he was ready to grill me if I said that we use civil inputs although in a small way )

M: NO

P1: I don’t know anything about architecture ? You ask ( to P2)

( It’s a different issue that he went on to ask archi question for next 10 mins

p1: whts Mughal.british architecture example from your city .etc

Answered them well

P1: whts whispering gallery ?how it works in golkunda fort

Unable to tell the structure but told him the basic form

P1: Do you use shading calculation on building software

Hell No.

P1: they don’t teach you such useful things. Things which have been done 100 of years back …you don’t know ?

(Sir u are right … do tell our profs )

P1: is India a democracy ?

What !!....abrupt jump from acads to general awareness

P1: how is it different from other country

Talked about constitution … art 356 . etc

Fairly convinced

Over to P2

P2: which paper you read ? who publishes

Me: TOI . answered

P2: so what kind of books do you read?

Me : Non fiction .

Peter drucker .trout( positioning ) ..financial management (p Chandra )

P2: whts positioning ?

Answered

P2: is advertisement not waste of money

Had a lengthy decision whether quality of product is important or advertisement Why a good movie like RDB need advertisement …is it not all gimmickry ?

He kept on asking the same thing “WASTE OF MONEY “.I tried using different example “cola vs coca cola “ RDB vs DDLJ .. target consumer ..noise level in ad world

Grabbing consumer attention . …it continued for 5 mins

Finally his face said he was convinced although he kept on frustating me

P2: brand value? .brand equity ?

Answered

P2: career goals ?

Gave the best diplomatic answer

P2: why not architecture?

Again diplomacy

P1: You may leave now ( that was also abrupt !)

Interview 9/10

Gut feel says I made it through but Only almighty knows better

L or no L .I am going to go for a job. No tempo to attend classes for next 2 yr …if I join any institute at this point of time.I will be surely be kicked out of institute

But after 2 yrs it will be very funny to make the panel understand my shift from archi to IT to MBA …hahaha