IIM CALCUTA GD/PI EXPERIENCE QUESTIONNAIRE

PERSONAL DETAILS:
Name: Astha Jain
Education: B.Tech Textile TEchnology
IIT Delhi
Year of passing out: May 2003
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Duration of Total work experience: 22 months
Company last worked for: Infosys Technologies Ltd
Position: S/W engg
CAT PERCENTILES:
Overall: 99.57
Verbal: 93
Quantitative: 99.85
DI/Reasoning: 95.99
IIM C calls: BOTH
Final calls:C,L,K
GD/PI venue: IIM Bangalore.
GROUP DISCUSSION:
Topic of the GD: There are no facts, only interpretations.
No. of participants in the GD: 8-10
Time Limit and any other instructions: 12-15 minutes.
Whether asked to summarize the GD: Yes
Whether a written summary of the GD was asked: No
THE GD EXPERIENCE: (please provide at least 5 lines of description)
How would you rate the Chaos level in the GD (on a scale of 1-10, 1 being most peaceful 10 being most
chaotic):7/10.
GD was
Any observations on mistakes you committed in the GD:
I did not get to say much .. got a bit noisy .. 10 ppl were in thr group .. spoke 2-3 times .. made some good
points abstract gds tend to get a bit chaotic and if u could streamline the gd it wud work in ur favour ..

Any observations of what you could have done better in the GD:
Should have spoken more .. they asked me to summarise .. dint to a good job there either .. but the whole
of our gd group got final calls ..
Any tips for GD preparation: practice .. with different ppl if possible and be well informed about the
current topics .. read this book India outbpund .. gives lot of funda about Indian economy .. quoted
something from it in almost all my GDs..
PERSONAL INTERVIEW:
No of interviewers in the Panel: 3
List of the questions asked and your responses:
(Intro questions/acad based questions/work experience based/general awareness/personal questions)
the interview was pretty cool .. first they asked me why I dint speak m,uch in the gd .. then asked me about
my project in Infosys .. talked a lot about it ,.. then they asked me y shift from textile to IT to
management .. said that u ppl dont know whr u want to go .. going where the flow is .. etc etc then
asked me about hobbies .. I talked a bit about basket ball and what all I did in college .. one person was
going through my certis .. asked me general stuff about my home city .. they asked me the book I recently
read .. I said India outbound .. they asked me stuff about the book .. then they asked me about the writer ..
no maths Qs .. the other panel asked stuff on stats .. also asked me to rank the IIMs in order of my
preference .. I said liked fin ..wanted C ..

Any observations on mistakes you committed in the PI:

Was not very clear on the shiftrs I was making .. be well prepared with the question ..
Any observations of what you could have done better in the PI:
Any tips for Personal Interview preparation:
Prepare well about ur core expertise .. both graduation and work experience .. was asked stuff on IT .. my
project was in retail so prepared that too .. ppl with work ex need to be well prepared with their work
related stuff mien was textile so wasnt asked much . and prepare on the macro issues hindu should
be good enough for preparing that ..