PaGaLGuY GD-PI Anthology

537 Pages·2011·3.8 MB·English

Hundreds  of  real  personal  accounts  of
Group  Discussions  &  Personal  Interviews
during  MBA  admissions  to  India’s  best  B-­schools
Written  by Compiled  by
Loads  of  MBA  Aspirants The  PaGaLGuY  MadCapz  Group
The
PaGaLGuY.com
GD-PI
Anthology
Hundreds of real personal accounts of
Group Discussions and Personal Interviews
during MBA admissions to India’s best business schools.
In this edition: The IIMs at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Lucknow,
Indore & Kozhikode.
Written by
Loads of MBA aspirants
Compiled by
The PaGaLGuY MadCapz Team
PaGaLGuY
GD-PI Anthology
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What this book is about
What is a real IIM interview like? What kind of questions do they ask and what judgments do
applicants have to make while answering them?
Since 2003, those with real Group Discussion and Personal Interview calls from India’s top b-
schools have been posting entire and detailed transcripts of their admission interviews
immediately after they happen, so that others slotted for later interviews can learn what GDPI is
going to be like this year.
This book is a collection of dozens of handpicked GDPI experiences from the country’s top b-
schools during the admission years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. In this edition, we
have included over 180 GDPI experiences from the admission processes of IIM Ahmedabad, IIM
Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Indore, IIM Lucknow and IIM Kozhikode.
A team of 33 volunteers, who are themselves at some stage of the MBA admissions process, were
asked to make the selections based on what seemed most interesting and characteristic of a b-
school to them.
Who this book is for
Those with GDPI calls from b-schools included in this book will benefit from this work the most.
But the book will be an interesting read all the same for those who are planning to take a go at MBA
admissions in the next season and would like to know where the process of cracking a tough
entrance exam eventually leads to.
How to read this book
As the book is a collection of 150+ individual discussion forum posts stitched together. Expect a
huge variation in writing styles, shorthands and semantic flow. In order to retain the flavour of the
story the way they wanted to tell it, we have edited the stories minimally. Without the slang, the
occasional Hindi words or the typos, you will not enjoy the transcripts.
A visual guide to reading the experiences follows in the next few pages.
Acknowledgments
Just as the content in this book is a collective effort of the community, so is the editing and collation. A young
and enthusiastic team of volunteers from across the country helped compile this book. Their names are,
The PaGaLGuY MadCapz Team - Led by Rohit Awasthi (estranged_gnrs) and Satwinder Singh
(Satwinder)
Abhinav Agrawal (arion5)
Akanksha Sharma (adept)
Amar Naik (anaik100)
Anand Jhunjhunwala (AnandJJ)
Anwesa Nanda (anwesa09)
Appurv Kathuria (appurvkathuria)
Apurv Patel (Apurv Patel)
Ashok Khatana (khatana)
Ashwani Grewal (grewal.ashwani)
Avneet Sethi (MBAvirus)
Bharadwaj (EagleMenace)
Brij Dwivedi (Monnu )
Dhiresh Daga (dhiresh1009)
Gaurav Jha (gauravjha)
Indranil Chowdhury (Neil)
Jaydeep Ghose (superchiku)
Karthikeyan (caartey)
Keerthi Koch (keerthi_koch)
Kinjal Das (kinji@PG)
Namita Kapaley (urvashi.kapale)
Neha Seth (neha.visionary)
Rishabh Mathur (rishabh3374)
Ritesh Girdhar (c@t)
Sada Sivam (sadasiv)
Santosh Lakshman M (luckymurari)
Sarath Kurup (rebzin)
Shruti Verma (sweetgalshruti)
Siddarth Chowdhary (id2222000)
Somaditya Basak (sbk1337)
Vaibhav Goel (goelsvaibhav)
Vibhav Kamat (hotculture)
Vivek Arora (v!vek@rora)
Back at the PaGaLGuY HQ, the following people contributed to the book,
Lajwanti D’souza Editing
Sreeraman MG Cover Design
Devadatta Sahoo Made personalized downloading possible
Apurv Pandit Layout, Editing
Not least, we’d like to thank all the PaGaLGuY members who’ve been contributing their GD-PI experiences to
PaGaLGuY every year. You people have no idea how exponentially helpful your contributions have ended up
being to newer MBA applicants over the years.
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How to use this book
Each chapter
contains GD-PI
experiences for
one b-school
The GD-PI
experiences are
arranged by
forward
chronology
Username of
the poster
GD Experience
PI experience.
Each
experience
usually starts
with a short
introduction
of the people
in the room.
The
PaGaLGuY
GD-PI
Anthology
Table of contents
IIM Ahmedabad - Year 2005! 11
IIM Ahmedabad - Year 2006! 29
IIM Ahmedabad - Year 2007! 45
IIM Ahmedabad - Year 2008! 58
IIM Ahmedabad - Year 2009! 77
IIM Ahmedabad - Year 2010! 91
IIM Bangalore - Year 2005! 105
IIM Bangalore - Year 2006! 110
IIM Bangalore - Year 2007! 125
IIM Bangalore - Year 2008! 141
IIM Bangalore - Year 2009! 151
IIM Bangalore - Year 2010! 163
IIM Calcutta - Year 2005! 176
IIM Calcutta - Year 2006! 189
IIM Calcutta - Year 2007! 204
IIM Calcutta - Year 2008! 221
IIM Calcutta - Year 2009! 233
IIM Calcutta - Year 2010! 248
IIM Lucknow - Year 2005! 260
IIM Lucknow - Year 2006! 276
IIM Lucknow - Year 2007! 291
IIM Lucknow - Year 2008! 306
IIM Lucknow - Year 2009! 325
IIM Lucknow - Year 2010! 339
IIM Kozhikode - Year 2005! 353
IIM Kozhikode - Year 2006! 367
IIM Kozhikode - Year 2007! 384
IIM Kozhikode - Year 2008! 403
IIM Kozhikode - Year 2009! 422
IIM Kozhikode - Year 2010! 445
IIM Indore - Year 2005! 455
IIM Indore - Year 2006! 467
IIM Indore - Year 2007! 482
IIM Indore - Year 2008! 493
IIM Indore - Year 2009! 513
IIM Indore - Year 2010! 526
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