IIM Kozhikode Interview

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Date: 17th Feb - Time: 9:00 am

Venue: Monarch Hotel (Panel 3)

GD Article

About Govt should not involve in the business rather facilitate it ...PSU disinvestment....etc etc

Peaceful GD...Came in around 6-7 times arnd 3 times new points and rest adding up stuff. Every one chipped in ... Overall - More than satisfied

PI (Around 15 mins)

I was the fifth one to be interviewed.There were 2 profs P1 and P2. and ME (M)

P1 escorts me in...

P2 is already looking at my form.

P1 - Can I have your certificates

Me - Gives them .

P2- Please tell us something about yourselves?

Me - Told him for one min.

P1-You work at XXX and your designation is Sr Member Tech ? Is it a management position?
Me - Told him it is equivalent to Sr Software engg. and told him some things about my work and company.

P2-Asks me some more details abt my company

Me-Told him

P1-(Browsing through my marks card) .... So you had a subject called ..

Me - (Which one is he going to pick now !!!!!)

P1 - Industrial management in your engg course. What did you study in it?

Me - (Did I have it??? Collecting thoughts) - Told him we read about Sales , Break even point (lucky me) , some principles of balance sheet, management principles MBO and MBE(Was just Hoping that he does not get deeper into MBO and MBE)

P1 - What is break even point?

Me -- (Great sigh of relief) ... Told him... happily

P1 - Whats the formula or how is it calculated?

Me - Explained him and wrote a equation

P1 - I have 3 projects on hand. How will you choose which one do you want go ahead with
Me - Listed what all factors I would be considering ... etc

P1 looks at P2 - P1 continues to have a look at my certificates

P2 - So Naveen you have written func specs , involved in development, testing etc etc....All the phases?

Me - Yes sir ... explained him that we are a small team and hence have the opportunity to get involved at all phases

P2 - What happens during a project from start to end?

Me - Explained from Business proposal ... to Business requirements .... Tech specing... Development ... P2 interrupts me and

P2 - What is a business rule and business requirement doc?

Me - Business rule is something that has to done in the market where as business requirement document is that we offer to clients

P2 - What is the difference between two

Me - Explained him in detail

P2 - How is business requirement translated to a tech module

Me - explained him

P2 - Can you explain with example

Me - Took an example of how I go about supporting a new IPO
(A good discussion on this one many qs and ans)

P2 - You are into development ? What do you do there?

Me - Explained him told him that we write some SPs and C files

P2 - What all factors do you take care of while writing SPs

Me - Told him performance ... LOC etc etc

P2 - What is Physical data and logical data

Me- Told him that physical or static data is the supplied data and logical data is calculated or dependant on the physical data .... Some discussion on this one

P2 - What is difference between physical and logical model?

Me - Telling some thing .. was really not sure ... (Suddenly heard a sound .....)

P2 - Thank you. Please call the next candidate

P1 hands over the file

Me - Thank you sir

Came Out hoping I have similar outing on one of those three days (A/B/C)

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IIM Lucknow Interview

First IIM interview of my life


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Date: 16th Feb - Time: 10:00 am

Venue: Monarch Hotel (Panel 1)


GD

Topic - A Room without books is like a body without soul.

Essay Write up -10 min and then the GD started.


From the word GO I started attempting to get on with the GD, in few min I realized that its becoming more and more difficult with every one speaking simultaneously. I was found talking with 4 others at some points and finally I came in with a couple of points (Around 3-4 times) . A couple of new points . My presence was mostly felt in the latter part of the discussion.

Overall - Satisfactory


PI (Around 10 mins)

I was the second one to be interviewed.

There were 2 profs P1 and P2. and ME (M)


P2 - Can I have look at your certificates.

Me - Sure sir... Handed over the certificates

P2 - So Naveen you are working at XXXXX ? Where is it?

Me - It is at Hyderabad sir and I told them some thing about the company.

P2 - How come u r in software company after doing a course in Mechanical Engineering

Me - Some gyaan

P2 - Hmmm.. What do you do in your free time

Me - Told about my extra curriculars - and hobbies


Then on we spoke a lot abt it (for abt 3-4 minutes) and it went on well Suddenly P2 came across a certificate from MICO (Had done my final year project there)


P2 - What did you do at MICO

Me - Explained that we have worked on a SIX SIGMA project at MICO as part of our final year engineering

P2 - SIX Sigma ... Do you remember anything about it?

Me - Told him what Six Sigma is and gave a brief presentation of my project in a couple of mins

P2 - Can you draw a normal curve and explain six sigma

Me - Explained.

P2 - What all do you know about the curve ?

Me - Told him I can tell him abt mean , Cp, Cpk , or equation of the curve(generic one)

P2 - I am not interested in them do you know anything else?

Me - (Thinking...)

P2 - Have u heard of 12 sigma or 10 sigma?

Me - Initially, Told him I fairly remember reading about 7 sigma. But later took back my words saying that I am not sure of it.Couple of more qs followed on the curve (Nothing great)


P1 comes into picture now ---

P1 - What do you want to do in your life.

Me - Some gyaan....

P1 - If you want to be there how will managemnt education help you

Me - Some more gyaan..... Told him what all I can learn and how it is useful(On the hindsight May be could have handled it even better)

P1 - We don't teach anything of that sort at L

Me- ghuma firaake wohi baath bolaa ...

P1 - Are you pursing management out of interest or compulsion

Me - Told good reasons and justified why it is not a compulsion (May be could have done better here also)

P2 and P1 -- Look at each other .... OK , Thank you and do you want to tell any thing about us or ask anything ?

Me- Some small talk and Thanked them....


So feel good factor..... but it is the same for everyone(most of us)

I think they are looking at something beyond what we are looking at !!

Overall , I feel that call from Lucknow will mostly depend on my "LUCK" NOW.


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Blues, Butterflies and finally so simple

Feb15th,2007-

Time - 2PM : Done with my tasks for the day... Knew that it would be hard to concentrate as the day progresses

Time - 5PM : Time to start on a journey... Locked the system ... Collected a printout which had the details of political trivia ....One of my colleague helped me ease out ..... Started off to catch the Bangalore Express

Time - 7PM : Train started .... and few minutes later .... opened the CAT2006 Brochure and went through the Institute pages ... then went through the pre-prepared notes on various topics.... then there were few rehearsals on the regular stuff ... Intro, Why MBA , etc ... Started to feel good and slipped into the much wanted sound sleep

Next day morning - My friend came to Bangalore East to help me out with the proceedings in the city ... He dint utter a word as it all showed on my face ....

Reached Hotel Monarch at 8:30 AM .... walked into waiting hall and with in an hour I realised that the faces in the room are all familiar ... It was like waiting for GD at TIME Ameerpet branch ... Needless to say that I was pretty relaxed and then on the things started looking simple

Teaming up

Its been a week since CAT 2007 Results are out ... Achieved 99.84 % ... Managed to get a BLACKI ... Beware the battle has just begun... still a long way to go.....Now with BLACKI calls and close to 4 years of work-ex I thought I should not settle for anything less than the BIG 3... Yes, the goals are always set on a higher side.... And I have the habit of assigning Indian players to the examinations and form a batting lineup and go ahead with my preparation ... Some of my undergrad friends at M S Ramaiah would know it better ....

Even for the written CAT I had done this -

DI - Score at a faster rate - take some risks - Sehwag can handle this one!

Quant - Major chunk comes from here of course depends on whether the section is scorable or not - Sachin does the job for me !
Verbal - My weak link - I just want to score no matter at what pace - Have to cross this barrier - Other than Dravid who else can do it better !!!

Thats the history now ... More important thing is ahead of me now.... the GD PI of six IIMS

Anyone would want to get into IIM A but thats not a cakewalk ... one cannot pin his hopes on it and relax .... it is analogous to India depending solely on Sachin to click and win the match. Coming to IIMB -- Realistically I thought that I had the best chance to get into this institute provided I handle it well and put in my best performance ... In other words I am more or less dependent on this one .. just as Indian team more or less depends on Mr. Dependable. Then comes the coolest one of the big3 - Saurav Ganguly - IIMC. Now I am left with L,I,K . Its always good to have a backup so I thought Lucknow should be my backup option ... Assigned Sehwag to it as he is a proven match winner . I and K are resembled by Yuvraj and Uthappa...In all good games they have to click reasonably well no matter what!!! Team is formed and line up is perfectly on the expected lines ...

IIML - 16thFeb - Sehwag
IIMK - 17thFeb - Uthappa
IIMB - 1stMar - Rahul
IIMI - 6thMar - Yuvraj
IIMA - 7thMar - Sachin
IIMC - 14thMar - Saurav

Team India goes ahead with the preparation lets see what happens now !!!

My CAT Score Card

Cat 2006 Score Card

Result:

Name: NAVEEN CHALUVADI
Application No: 187375
TR No: 5360412
Address: 11.45/A PRAGATHI NAGAR
GADDIANNARAM
HYDERABAD

Date of Birth: 6/30/1982

DI/LR(Percentage Score)	57
DI/LR(Percentile Score)	99.28
Verbal(Percentage Score)	33
Verbal(Percentile Score)	98.53
Quantitative Ability(Percentage Score)	66.667
Quantitative Ability(Percentile Score)	99.22
Total(Percentage Score)	52.222
Total(Percentile Score)	99.84

In case of any mistake in your name or address kindly contact the Admissions office of the IIM you sent your form to by writing an email/fax/letter with the subject "Name/Address correction in the CAT 2006 Score Card" before 6th of January, 2007.