IIM Case analysis case study

Case analysis is one of the hurdle to be tackled in second stage of the admission process for MBA in IIM after CAT exam, IIM-A, L being significant one.
Skills for case study
A case study, just like a group discussion, is designed to assess certain group performance skills of a individual.The difference stems from the fact that a case study a larger & slightly different skill set as compared to a normal group discussion. The following is a list of special traits, which a evaluator look while assessing a IIM aspirant.


1. Analytical Skills
The core competence of an MBA is analysis of situation breaking down data, formulating it into a pattern that makes sense & deriving a sensible conclusion or recommendation. You should display this skil through efficient, targeted & accurate piecing together of the data while wrestling the group towards a solution to the case. After self analysis you should clearly & logically present the findings & recommendaions for the group to discuss further.
2.Quantitative Skills
Some case studies involve working with numbers to reach an effective solution. In that situation, a quick on the side of rough sheet enables you to present relevant figures for the group stands in a very good light with evaluator.
3. Flexibility
This refers to the ability of the candidate to consider the opposing oint of view in light of facts/figures presented in the case. There is no singal solution to the case & thus a flexible candidate should not leave out good options on his analysis even if they were presented with an opposing point of view.
4. Leadership Skills
Leadership is demonstrated by taking charge of the discussion & trying to achieve a consensus solution. This consensus solution need not to be best one according to you; instead it should aim to incorporate all the viewpoints.
5. Presentation/ Communication Skills
Like a GD, effective communication forms an integral part of a case study too. The skills tested are articulation in presentation, fluancy, body language, eye contact, coherence. Remember: when you are speaking, slow down & smile. It is always better to take a very small pause rather than babble.
6. Behavioural/ Personality traits
The personality traits being evaluated are attitude, controlled aggression, team membership, patience, amenability & assertiveness.
7.Goal orientation
This parameter is avalutaed through the candidate's willingness to arrive at a solution & intelligent use of others content.
8. Confidence
Last but not the least, the level of the confidence, proactiveness & action orientation form an important part of candidate's evaluation.

English Vocab Game

Friends we will start some kinda of english vocab game. English vocab is very important in CAT exam. Many of aspirants scored 100% in maths but 0 in english. So make your vocab grow. Here I will post some words & their meaning, but the last 3 words are not with meaning. One of reader give their meanings in comments & ask another three words. Likewise other person should give meaning & ask some words.
Referendum:- vote
incumbent:- officeholder
temporal:- for a limited time.
give meanings of
1. rapacious
2.tensile
3.lapse

Some sample GDs with arguments & counter arguments

Then friends, are trying hard for CAT or not? I am giving away lots of tips for cat which I know & read in various books. In this article we will take a GD topic, I will give arguments & counter arguments, you think over it, if you do have some points just tell me in comments, justify your points & if you want me to reply you leave back your email id.
A good discussion will try to arrive at a solution thet shows balance. You need to demonstrate your understanding of the issue from more than one perspective alone. The conclusion at the end should indicate a filtration of more relevant issues & recommendation for policies/ changes that can be made in current system.


Tip to increase scope of your thinking:
Read a lot is only mantra to improve knowledge, speed of reading, understanding & interpreting given passage. Reading books will help you to get writers views, perceptions, thinking. But when you read a novel don't just read it for sake of fun or to pass time but while reading note down words which you can not understand. Try to guess their meanings on your own, by context. Then use a lexicon. After reading one chapter or one scene in novel try to write down summary of that part. This will help you to let you know whether you got the meaning or not, that writer wants to convey.
GD Topic:
Should capital punishment be abolished?
A. In favour of abolition
1. Man is supposed to be a rational animal. But can a rational being kill a man for a man? No. because it would be savage & barbarous. Besides, by killing a murderer the dead cannot be brought backto life, nor would he or his famaly be compensated. So instead we should reform a killer, make him realise his sin & follow a virtuous life.
2. If we kill the murderer his troubles are over. But his family is made suffer for no fault of theirs. We should instead give him other punishment, say, for example, life imprisonment so that he has to face his own conscience & repent for what he has done.Alongside, he should be given psychological treatment & an opportunity to lead a normal citizen's life.
3. Instances are many where instead of being given capital punishment to even hardened criminals, they were just imprisoned or put in a reformatory with result that they realized & regretted their wrong doings, their term of sentence were reduced as a reward. Such acts enebled them to serve their innocent families & they even turned towards social work.This shows their capital punishment is not only remedy to take care of criminals.
4. We observe today that inspite of capital punishment being very much there on the statue, heinous crimes are not decresing. It goes to show that capital punishment is not detterent of criminals. Therefore, we must think of changing the method of punishment. Over 30 countries in the world abolished capital punishment but none has reported any increase in crime. So death punishment is not justified in any sense.
5. The reason capital punishment should be abolished is based on the fact that sometimes judgments go wrong, and, consequently innocent people are hanged. This is because of legalistic juggling of clever lawyers. Even otherwise instances are nto rare when current police officials are brought over through money and political power to file patently cooked up chargesheet in courts and magistrate in turns pass doubtful judgement. The only way to preclude the possibility of error is to abolish capital punishment itself. 'Benefit of doubt' is an important point of law & rightly so because law holds that 99 guilty can go unpunished but even one innocent should not be punished. In same spirit our suprime court has held death penalty should be awarded only in 'rarest or the rare case'.
6. We have no right to destroy what we cannot create. It is for god to give or take one's life. Mercy is higher in his life than punishment. It is barbarous to hold the doctrine of " thooth for thooth " and " limb for limb".

B. Against Abolition
1. The time is not yet ripe to abolish capital punishment. There is no letup in crimes. Capital punishment is an effective detterent for would be offenders or murderers. Those who argued that despite of capital punishmentbeing thete on the statue bookcrime is on the increase fail to understand that it is because of our faulty justice delivery system where justice delayed is justice denied, and not the other way round.
2 There are certain kind of hardened criminals who are beyond reform. It is futile to teach them sanity. Killing other has become thier second nature and they have dozens of murder cases pending on them. It would only be for good of society that they are sent to the gallows thus their career on crime is stopped.
3.If a murderer is not put to death but instead allowed to live on, he is tempted to repeat the crime in future. It is often happens that murderer set at large through police connivance or legal trickery of lawyer indulge in more heinous crime for fun or contract killing until they are caught or killed.
4.In some countries like pakistan, iran, dubai where laws are rigid and even petty criminals are awarded harsh punishment, crime is rare. Similarly in facist countries where death penalty is awarded for negligence of duty or other offences, efficiency & honesty is found in abundance. Jawahar lal nehru once favoured capital punishment for blackmarketeers as well.