TISSNET 2022: What is Pre-Interview Test? How to prepare for it

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Shruti Garg
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4 mins readUpdated on Nov 11, 2021 11:04 IST

TISS, Mumbai will announce TISSNET 2022 results tentatively in the second week of February 2022. Qualified candidates will have to appear for the Pre-Interview Test (PIT) and Personal Interview. Here are a few tips on how to prepare for TISS PIT and PI.

TISSNET 2022 result will be announced tentatively in the second week of February. The National Eligibility Test conducted by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISSNET), is the first step towards pursuing the reputed institute’s M. A. programmes. Once the TISSNET is over, the next hurdles to cross are the Pre-Interview Test and Personal Interview, which plays a major role in the selection of candidates for its various PG programmes. The PIT/PI round is scheduled to be conducted between the second week of March and the first week of April , for programmes offered by TISS. The first list of selected candidates will be released in the third week of April 2022.

Table of content
  • TISS Admission Process: Important Dates
  • What is Pre Interview Test?
  • Revised Score Aggregation method
  • TISSNET 2022 Score for final selection

TISS Admission Process: Important Dates

Here is the tentative schedule of events related to TISS Admission Process:

Event

Dates

TISSNET 2022 Results

First week of February 2022

Pre-interview test and personal interview

Second week of March to first week of April 2022

Announcement of Merit List

Third week of April 2022

Online documents uploading and Payment of Fees

Second week of May to first week of June 2022

Announcement of first wait List

Second week of May 2022

Physical Documents Verification and Confirmation of Admission

Second week of May to first week of June 2022

Commencement of New Academic Session, 2022-24

Second week of June 2022

What is Pre Interview Test?

PIT or the Pre-Interview Test is essentially an essay writing test. The 50-mark question paper consists of two sections: 1. Essay Writing 2. Short case-let.

The essay section carries 30 marks and the topics of the essay will range from issues on current socio-economic, geo-political scenarios to matters of cultural and political significance.

  • The candidates must know that there is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answer in topics like these. They will be assessed on their ability to articulate their opinion on the given topic in a crisp and succinct manner. Hence, they must read a lot and practice presenting their thoughts in clean sentences in a short duration.
  • The section of the short-let case is designed to test the candidate’s social awareness and sensitivity to complex issues. The 20 mark section will have four questions based on a case-let to be answered within the stipulated time.
    Also Read:
    TISSNET Question & Sample Papers 2022
    TISSNET Syllabus 2022
    TISSNET Pattern 2022

Amongst many, the institute’s Masters in Human Resource Management and Labour Relations (HRM-LR) is a popular course among management aspirants. Every year, thousands of aspirants take TISSNET to pursue Masters in HRM-LR.

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For this programme, the candidates will have to appear in a Group Discussion. They will be given a passage to write in not more than 200 words and discuss the same in the group discussion. The candidates must remember to write their thoughts clearly and with a definite closure as the written material will be collected before the discussion. So, it is critical to remember your point of view thoroughly and the argument supporting it while speaking.

Revised Score Aggregation method

From this year, TISS has tweaked the procedure to arrive at the final score

TISSNET 2022 Score for final selection

Components

Weightage (%)

TISSNET 

50

Extempore reflection on a given topic

20

Online personal interview*

30

*Online personal interview was conducted previous in view of COVID-19 situation. Candidates will be updated in case of any change in the final components for weightage.

TISSMAT 2022: Score for final selection

For managment aspirants, who have applied for MA HRM&LR and MA ODCL, the scores for TISS-MAT, PIT and PI will be aggregated in the ratio 30:40:30.

Components

Weightage (%)

TISSMAT

40

Pre Interview Test

30

Personal Interview

30

Total

100

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