CT-GE-PI experience-- IMT Ghaziabad

Critical Thinking- Group Exercise-Personal Interview is the final stage for admissions in IMT campuses. For me, the experience was a mixture of excitement, fun and a lot of nervousness. It started with the Critical Thinking test.

Critical Thinking Test

The test comprised of a topic on which an essay of 300-400 words was need to be written. The word limit, as the officials said, was just a formality. The main content must have at least 5 points for or against the topic. Yes, you couldn’t take a diplomatic stand. The topic was “Investment on Employee training is a wastage of time.” I wrote against the topics. The points that I mentioned were—“Channelizing the skills of the employee, giving room for more creative ideas, providing practical knowledge, orienting the employee to the working conditions and employee do contribute to the organisation in their training period, though in small amounts.”

Group Exercise

This was the most exciting of all. Your group, i.e., the applicants in your panel, were grouped up in a team and you were given a task to design a customer helpline for a credit card company. There was a lot of chaos, so I decided that instead of suggesting the points, I would try to manage the discussion so that a proper conclusion could be deducted. I asked my teammates to jot down all the problems, one by one, and explain it to the group. Then I asked everyone to brainstorm the solutions, on every issues one by one. Then I would make a note of it for the final presentation. This reduced the commotion to a great extent, because at the end we had 10-12 valid ideas for our project. My focus was to reduce the chaos and making sure that none of the important points that came up during the argument got lost.

Interview

There were two panellists.

P1= Okay Kishan! Tell me about yourself

Me= my name is ……. I am currently studying in BIT Patna..,

(interrupts)

P1= BIT Patna. I thought it was Mesra.

P2= Are you a Mechanical Engineer? Haven’t got placed yet?

Me= No ma’am.

P2= Have you appeared in any placement process? Are there enough companies for your extension centre?

Me= No maam. I haven’t appeared in any process. And there are a couple of companies for Mechanical at our campus too.

P2= What’s the strength of your batch?

Me= 40

P2= And you think that a couple of companies are good enough?

Me= Its not maam. But mechanical engineer are more inclined towards further studies, so it doesn’t matter much to us, whether we have placement process or not.

P1= I think you are making this up. Mesra shouldn’t have given any opportunities to their extension centre.

Me= No sir, they give us plenty of those. It’s the company that decides which campus they want to visit. Mesra asks those companies to kindly allow their extension centre.

P2= Again you are making this up. Ok leave this discussion for now. Tell me, what was the state of campus placement a few years back?

Me= There were a lot of companies back then. Our sen………….

P1= Then what happened?

Me= There was economic recession. So, I think that………

P1= what do you mean by recession? You know recession, slowdowns etc.

(I drew a curve showing recession, depreciation, boon, recovery, slowdown)

P2= Explain all the things you know about recession and slowdown.

(I tried to explain but got nervous)

P1= You think that recession and slowdown are the same thing. But they are not. So don’t use the words interchangeably.

(They didn’t give me a chance to reply)

P2= Tell me what you witnessed as a student about demonetization.

Me= Ma’am I was always inclined towards online payment, mobile wallets……………………….

P2= Which wallet do you use?

Me= Paytm.

P1= Why not mobikwik, freecharge?

Me= There are couple of things. Firstly, their user-interface. I never found it easy to use. Too much navigation. Secondly, their server is not that developed to handle so many users. So their interface gets hanged often.

P2= You know, Narendra Modi once said that number of use that are using social media, can use Mobile Wallets too. How much do you agree to this statement.?

Me= Ma’am I don’t think it’s that easy. For mobile wallets, one need to have access to credit/debit card/ net banking. And such facilities are not available to everyone. If 100 people are using facebook, then only 80 might have such facility, and out of that 80, 40-50 might be using mobile wallets only. There is another reason. Facebook is a very big organisation. It has a huge server that can handle billions of users. Paytm is still a small one as compared to Facebook. Its server can handle more that 20-30 million users.  Also, you can’t transfer money from one’s paytm wallet to another’s free charge wallet. This is another aspect…………………

P1= Okay then provide me some measures to make these wallets more useful.

Me= Awareness…. Etc eetc etc.

Okay Thank you. Enjoy your day.