B-school Admission Tips
IIM Lucknow's post-CAT selection process consists of three parts: 1. Written ability test (of 15 minutes duration) 2. Group discussion (on a given topic for 20 minutes) 3. Personal interview
Last year, the process began with the written ability test, which is typically an essay-writing exercise. Over the past three years, the topics for this test have been one line abstract topics and the time allotted for this is 15 minutes.
Evaluation of the essay is done on the parameters of perspective and communication. This is followed by a group discussion on the same topic. The maximum time allotted for the GD is 20 minutes.
GD topics for CAT 2008
* He who knows how to be poor knows everything * Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy * A fool can ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years * You have to break a few eggs to make an omellette * When all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail * If you want peace, prepare for war * Patience is a bitter plant but it bears sweet fruit * Cursing the weather is bad farming * It is better to be born lucky than rich * Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgement * If you are not a part of the solution, you are part of the problem * Rules are made to be broken
GD topics for CAT 2007
* Business and Ethics do not go together * Performance enhancing drugs should be legalised in sports * The test of a successful man is not an ability to eliminate the problem before it exists, but to meet and resolve it whenever it arises * Good economics is bad politics * A successful man is not one who has ability to eliminate problems before they occur, but who can face the difficulties as they arise and solve them * Good things always arise from good thinking * A successful man is one who plans for the problems and avoids them and not one who faces problems as they come and solves them * Faith is to believe what you do not yet see, reward for faith is to see what you believe * Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative * When you find that you are on the side of majority, it is time to reform * Science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind * Morality is the creation of the weak to deter and limit the strong * Winning is what matters, whatever may be the cost * Education is a progressive way of discovering your ignorance * Great spirits face violent opposition from mediocre minds * Helping hands are better than praying lips * Necessity is the mother of all invention * Thinking about the worst prepares you for the worst * A closed mouth catches no flies * You don't have to be different to be good; but you have to be good to be different * If you give a man a fish, he eats it once. You teach a man to fish, you lose a business opportunity * A man with words and no deeds is like a garden full of weeds * For an idea to be accepted it has to be advertised by a good salesman * Law is the creation of the strong to rule the weak * Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should not be rationalised * Hope for ill gains is the beginning of loss * Education is what remains after one forgets what one has learnt in school
GD topics for CAT 2006
* Life has become dangerous in this unipolar world * A permanent seat in the UN Security Council is neither necessary nor sufficient for India [ Images ] to become a world power * A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in teaching the students * In business, the rear view mirror is clearer than the windshield * True happiness can be got only when you make the others feel that they are responsible for it * A room without books is like a body without soul * Speculation is an art of life * The validity of science lies in its power to predict * Freedom is the freedom to say 2 + 2 = 4. Once that is granted, everything else follows * That so few people now dare to be eccentric, is the chief danger of our times
Courtesy: getahead.rediff.com
