IIM Admission 2020: Chandan Singh shares his WAT-PI experience at IIM Lucknow

Read how SRCC graduate Chandan Singh converted IIM Lucknow interview call with with 98.81 percentile in CAT 2019.

Chandan Singh, a BCom (Hons) graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), received interview call from a number of top B-Schools in India following CAT 2019 result declaration. With 98.81 percentile in CAT 2019, Chandan made it to the WAT-GD-PI round of IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, IIM Kozhikode, FMS-Delhi, IIFT-Delhi, MDI-Gurgaon and the third generation IIMs. Chandan shared his WAT-PI experience with Shiksha. Read on.

Date of interview: March 5, 2020

IIM Lucknow: WAT Topic

WAT Topic  - Good old village life is obsolete Utopian Concept

Summary of what I wrote: I understood the topic to be a negative idea of village and explained through facts why villages are important to us and how why rural life in India should be improved. Also shared a lot of facts on agriculture and then associated agriculture with rural life. Engagement of workforce (out of total percentage) in rural economy and their subsequent GDP contribution. Since these numbers were very grim, I gave few solutions of improving GDP contribution and productivity of rural workforce.

My observation: The topic was little vague or you can say that it was imaginative/abstract. After I talked to a lot of aspirants and they took topic in positive manner and supported the idea of focusing more on urban areas instead of rural areas.

IIM Lucknow PI Experience

(2 Male, 1 female panelist)

Interviewer: Hi! How are you doing?

Me:  Good Sirs and ma’am!

Interviewer: Give us your introduction.

Me: Gave a chronological introduction right from my early childhood to my works in BIG 4. It was chronological but it was also not tike taking a boring. An only key highlight of my career was presented.

Interviewer: So what is degree of freedom?

Me: I do not good idea of it, but it is number of pieces of knowledge which we require to reach the final conclusion.

Interviewer: Ok fair enough, what is standard deviation?

Me: Wrote the formula

Interviewer: Why you were so passionate about taekwondo (My hobby)

Me: Told them what derived me towards taekwondo and also told about the sense of victory which I used to get after winning taekwondo tournaments.

Interviewer: What do you know about share trading?

Me: I explained that that I am trading since past 1 year and why share trading is important for any company and the economy.

Interviewer: Suggest me five shares.

Me: Suggested the shares but four out of five suggestions were PSU’s.

Interviewer: Why are you suggesting all PSU stocks?

Me: Told them about to government plans of privatization of most of the PSU’s in upcoming years, and how it will improve their productivity and profitability

Interviewer: What are complementary and supplementary goods?

Me: Explained the economic definition with example.

Interviewer: Government can plan all they want but someone should be ready to buy them. Look at Air India; no one is ready to buy it.

Me: I answered my opinion that Ratan Tata will not leave Air India because Tatas started Air India and it was too close to them. All he is waiting for is for price to come down further.

Interviewer: If he invests in Air India, I will lose respect for the man. It will be a foolish decision.

Me: You start respecting him again after some years when Air India will start earning profit under his leadership.

Interviewer: Why your grades are so low? Looking at your grades it is hard to believe that you possess such knowledge about markets and can debate about it even in an interview. Were you in love and got heartbroken?

Me: I smiled looking down on the floor.

Interviewer: Speak up man, don’t be shy. Love is a valid reason I guess.

Me: I told him the actual reason that I was busy working with students union instead of studying and after that I worked 1 year part time to gain some startup experience during second year.

Interviewer: That will be all from our side

Status: Converted

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