Phir Hath Mein Kitab Hai

Phir hath mein kitab Hai,

sach bolta hun main

Yeh cheez out of syllabus hai ,yeh cheez out of syllabus hai

Sach bolta hun main

Khud hee karun main assignment to,

Aata nahi maja,

Khud hee karun main assignment to,

Aata nahi maja,

Apna to Xerox hee kam hai, apna to Xerox hee kam hai

Sach bolta hun main,

Phir hath mein kitab Hai,

sach bolta hun main

Subject samjh na aaye to,

CP ke khatir bol,

Subject Samjh na aaye to

Cp ke khatir bol

Lecture mein attendance short hai, lecture mein attendance short hai

Sach bolta hun main

Phir hath mein kitab Hai,

sach bolta hun main

IIFT GD/PI Experience

Disclaimer : Its going to be long one :)
They said a journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.....
well if that is the case then my journey for IIFT started with a rollicking step...
 I had my GD/PI on 16th feb at 9.30 am and had a train from chandigarh on 15th at 6.15 pm, at around when it was 5 and i was to leave for the station my teammates caught me and we had a cake cutting ceremony adn i was completely pasted with cake inspite of my requests that i need to go... 5:30 got free and left for station on bike..half way through and bike gets punctured..holy god....
it was 5.45 now and by no way i could have reached the station in time..frantically called my friends but all of them were in meeting but was lucky enough that one of my friends was bunking the meeting and got through him,..explained him the situation and he came on his bike to leave me to the station..

time 6.00 pm reached station at almost 6.15 , the shatabdi had started moving and was gaining momentum...ran like mad and finally boarded it ..uff ha ..let me take a breath..sigh :)
normal routine journey ..train reached new delhi half an hour late around 10.40 and again ahd to run to catch the last metro at 11. finally reached home around 12...now took some rest and started my laptop to have some last min prep and all...and here came the biggest shock...charger short circuited and i was "WTH WT****" No No No : ( :( so said ok what can be done ...slept at around 1 , had put the alarm at 6.

6.00am alarm rang...tring tring...it rang tring tring...
6.15 am alarm rang...tring tring...it rang tring tring...
6.30 am alarm rang...tring tring...it rang tring tring...
6.45 alarm rang...tring tring...it rang tring tring...and finally i woke up and saw the time :( :(
some how got ready by wearing the suit at around 7.15 and left , got the metro and reached central secreterat at around 8.15 now IIFT would have taken around 40 min from here on auto so was looking for an auto ..and expectedly yes you guessed it right..couldn't trace any auto... 8.30am got an auto bola bhaiya take it as fast as you can...thank god i had been to IIFT earlier so wasnt involvedin much finding the place..

reached IIFT at 9.00 am there was an auditarioum in which one had to sit for the essay..lovely audi and quite high tech with lcd screens and table mics etc.. 9.30 am a prof came and told the topic "Inclusive growth"
bus thats it kuch jyada nahi he said thats it you have to write around 300 words in 20 min..a sheet was given in which one had to write on both sides.. the paramaters of judging were clarity of thought , content , structre and logical..(some kind of this) wrote something in detail regarding urban and rural divide...services ,manufacturing and agriculture problem..labour reforms , education reforms etc (imagining india was of great help :) ) around 10 it got over and we had to move for our GD's ..
the groups were of around 12-13 size i had the group GIV whose GD was in kanchi ( for others who were there in my group) was number 12 in 13 so immediately was feeling the heat kee when my turn wud come up most of the points would have been covered. a middle aged male prof and a lady came for the GD (the lady's mobile rang 3 times throughout the GD) the male prof told that there will be 2 rounds..in 1st round each one of you will be given around 1-2 mint o give your views..he explicitly said that dont give any examples etc just give overall views and once that is done there will be open round for around 25-30 min..
 topic of GD "Subsidy on petroleum : should it go?"

started thinking about it and had thought by the time my turn would have been there all definitions would have been done so should so lets hear what others have to say..after initial 2 min the prof struck again said we will start in the reverse order :( WHAT :) quickly though of the structure when mu turn came defined subsidy..whats the need of it..the affected parties comapnies and the common man..and we cant let it go as it will raise too much pressure etc..spoke well i believe then eveybody spoke about it and was good and when the last guy spoke prof said ok now we will have round 2 and was saying kee dont make it a fish and all..he was explaining and i think he had finsihed talking and i started the GD ( later 1 guy told that prof was not finished yet :( WHYYYY :( ) spoke about the political factor that we dont have a authoritative govt to abolish subsidy and all..GD went ok for 5 min...and it was quite healty when the prof chipped in and said its not working out we will again have one by one and everybody speak whatever they want to (dont know why he did this as all of us believed GD was ok and no where a fish market) so it was again one by one and this timei was 6th..gave solutions like india-iran gas pipeline should be looked upon ..renewable sources...regulated subsidy dependent on price of crude oil..etc in the end prof asked any volunteer for summary and 3 guys raised their hand ( why didnt i did it :( )and they summarieed

differentg panel for the interview
then had to wait till 2 for the interview and i think the panel was kinda bored or may be tired etc
 three people a smiling lady : L1
a alumni or a visiting prof (he was not from IIFT delhi as he was asking about directions to the washroom :D ) A1
and a strict looking prof S1

Me entered good afternoon madam , good afternoon sir
A1: Sit Sit
A1: so tell us about yourself
Me: told about engineering and infosys and what i am working in infosys
A1: but what do you do in your project
Me: explained him my role and how it had helped in cost savings etc
A1: so basically you do programming Me: yes sir (ab one word answer thodi na dunga)
S1 enters with a strict look
S1: so what have you heard outside about us
Me: i was not outside sir , i was in the canteen.... cuts me
S1: what are you saying just give me a Yes or No answer
Me: no sir i havent heard anything as i was not present
L1 : (with a smile) What is this SDLC you have written in responsibility
Me: madam its software development life cycle in wich there are various stages of development
L1: different kind of models for the same
Me: told waterfall model , spiral model and one more is there and explained her that and tehn suddenly i realised the name prototype model
L1: whats the iterative model
Me: explained her that
S1: what are the problems faced by the IT sector in india
Me: told the major dependence on US and how recession had impacts on profit , reagarding our focus towards services and not products
S1: any other
Me: saturation of the BPO sector
S1: and how can you rectify these problems
Me: we are removing dependenceon US with markets in europe middle east and africa , companies are now focusing teh attention on products gave example of finnacle of infosys and in BPO things like KPO , EPO are coming up
 S1: do you think india can suustain their IT advantage from rising countries liek thailand etc..he named some i dont remember
Me: yes sir we are very hardworking people and enough talented and innovative and i think we can sustain the challenge
A1: what are the different kinds of mobile operating system
me: told about symbian , windows mobile and android by google
A1: to L1 anything you would like to ask madam
 L1: what is this resume bullet you have written in the CV
A1: haan tell us what is this
Me: madam its like thsi people sometimes just have degrees but they dont have the knowledge aboput it and the degree is just for the resume only, i dont want that i should have sumit khanna passout from IIFT 2010-2012 in my resume and dont have any knowledge about it , so i want it to be a knowledgeable experience
S1: so you think you will get diversity at iift
Me: yes sir
 A1: tell me infosys is such a big company dont you have people from varied places and diversity there
Me: yes sir we do have but all of them are from IT background and their thinking is towards that only
S1: but here also we have all engineers
Me: sir but even in engineers you will ahve some from mechanical background , civil etc and that will not be limited to IT only
S1: nah we have all engineers and all from IT..out of 13 ..12 are engineers so how can you get diversity here
Me: sir i agree to you that major chunk is of engineers but still i believe IIFT will give me more exposure than infy can give, as ther our conc is towards just getting the work done and not much innovation..here we will hve the liberty to think and even if all are from IT it will be a different case than working on the proj

S1: ok how important you think diveristy is at work place
Me: sitr i wont say it is 100% necessary but still it is majorly important as it can help in getting different thought processes for gettinmg thinsg done
S1: have you been to onsite
 Me: no sir :(
S1: but you must have interacted with people there, what changes you think are there office and ours
 Me: sir here we become mangers aftr 6 years of work and people lack the maturity and sense of responsibilty..there people become managers after 15 years and they have much more resposnibilty towards their work
S1 towards A1 and L1..anything else
 A1: yeah one last question Me: 4.7bn $ sir meand it is around that
S1: and the profit 1 bn
Me: i dont remmeber the exact figure sir but is less than that
S1: who's the next CEO of infosys
Me:sir right now it is mr kris gopalkrishnan but i dont know hwos next
S1: you dont know who will become after 2 years
 Me: sorry sir
s1: ok thats it done thank you
Me: thank you sir sigh sigh sigh so how did you find it guys and gals..it was quite good by my perception rest only results will tell

IPL : Curse or Boon

IPL the biggest acronym that one hears this time. it has revolutionised cricket like nothing ever before it. So is it a curse or boon..


Some short points :
Boon:
- Oppurtunity for younger players
- Tough competition help in sharpening skills
- Harmony between players of different countries
- Interest of females towards it
- Commercially very profitable


Curse:
- Injuries to players
- Infights between players of same team
- Slaying the hen that lays golden egg, too much dose can be given
- Younger generation going away from test cricket
- Younger players getting lured by money , ravindra jadeja case


So all in all it is mix of both and one should make sure that it doesnt hampers us and we make full use of it 

The Changing face of CAT: IIM Selection Process

Consider this scenario; 2-3 years back you get a 99+ percentile with 95+ sectionals and you were bound to get calls from almost all the IIMs. Come to present, you still get the same score and there is a major chance that you will end up with a zilch or a no call.

Yes this indeed is true. If the adventure of IIMs of turning the years old paper-pen format paper to a electronically buzzing Online paper in CAT 2009 wasn't enough ; the eligibility criteria this year which have been brought by the different IIMs for short listing is even more mind boggling.

The CAT paper on which there is a multimillion dollar industry flourishing, the paper which is termed as toughest in the world owing to the student: seats ratio, the paper which students trust so much to leave their comfort and smooth life behind and burn midnight oil in order to crack it, the paper for which students come back again next year if not successful the previous time, the beloved CAT; the IIMs plainly dumped it. The weightage of CAT exam now varies from 30 to 50% while short listing a candidate for the call.

So now the question arises what other criteria has been added? It is your academics, the 10th class score, the +2 score and your graduation score will also be considered now for giving that coveted IIM call in addition to work experience. These factors were considered even earlier but that used to be in second stage i.e. after the calls had been given and were used in final conversion. But now the almost equal weightage which is associated to them means that you can have some 92 percentile with a 90% in 10th and you will get a call from IIM Lucknow which gives 10% weightage to 10th score whereas a person with 98 percentile and 80% odd won't get it.

There have been many cases like this in which people haven’t got a single call at 99+ scores owing to their academic profile. So that brings us to the question Why this is done , What impact it will have ,How it could have been better done and last but not the least the way forward?

There is no official reason given for the same but the only one which can be thought of is that IIMs weren’t sure of the quality of candidates who have got good score in CAT owing to the catastrophe it has been, so that’s why they went for a safe passage of giving more weightage to academics for the calls.

The impact is already there for everyone to see, the skew nature of calls defies all odds. What can justify the logic by which a 99%iler doesn’t get a call and a 90%iler gets one? There has been wide spread agitation among students about the change that how can they go in past and change their academic scores. The Xth class exam whose difficulty level varies over years, boards etc and is a exam which one writes at least 5 years before he writes CAT, is it so important that you need to get a 90% in that to get a call?

What IIMs could probably have done better? The first thing is that if you are doing a change to the process, you should make it clear in advance. The IIMs change the criteria every year owing to their suitability and no one is aware of the reason and logic behind the change. What possibly they could do in future is to publish the criteria at the time of notification only so that a prospective candidate knows where he/she stands for selection.

What is the way forward? Academics are something which one can’t change, whereas one can study and get a better percentile in CAT, so give weightage to academics but not on the expense of CAT score and also be a bit more transparent in the criteria and scoring patterns. IIMs are the pinnacle of esteemed institutes in our country and they should take the first step in bringing the much needed transparency in the system. In our country it’s just not only the student who suffers, it’s the entire family. It hurts the parents to see their child spend sleepless nights, studying plethora of books and still being undone by no fault of theirs but a stupid system. This leads to depression, stress related diseases and sometimes even suicide. So being the supreme that you are in India: Bring the change which is so dearly needed.

Links for short listing criteria of different IIMs:

IIMA

http://202.41.76.206/catShort10-11.pdf

IIMB

http://www.iimb.ernet.in/sites/default/files/PGP_Admission_Process_IIMB_Batch_2010_0.pdf

IIMC

http://www.iimcal.ac.in/CAT-2009-Criteria-for-Shortlisting.pdf

IIML

http://www.iiml.ac.in/Adm_Policy_2009.pdf?PHPSESSID=df0121a89539cb1738f5f619038c6d34

IIMI

http://www.iimk.ac.in/admission/cat09/criteriashortlistings1s2.php

IIMS

http://www.iimshillong.in/admission/Shortlistingcriteria.pdf