It was 27th March 2018, and I went to Mumbai from Chennai for my NITIE interview. My interview was to be held in the afternoon at the campus itself. I reached the campus by 1 pm. The campus was one of the most beautiful ones I’ve ever seen. It was filled with greenery and couple that with a beautiful pond and a hilly terrain, you’ve got yourself the most peaceful and serene campus. The academic building, in which the interview was going to take place, sat atop a hill inside the campus. One of the ways to reach it is the famed ’96 steps’, surely a daily morning workout to reach the class.
The next step after you crack TISSNET is the GD-PI round. The interview round is an important screening process for admission into TISS Mumbai, HRM & LR. Not only is the business school looking at what you will add to the classroom but they're also judging you on your potential to be a future manager. This is the right opportunity to display your skills, qualities and future goals.
After the CAP and other institutes’ interview processes, I was waiting for the results, hoping to get into one of the newer IIMs. It was the third week of April, I was working as usual on a busy Monday and received an email stating that I had been shortlisted for stage 3 of the admission process for PGP in Management from IIM Nagpur. I was asked to choose the location and slot for PI-WAT rounds. I chose Bangalore as I was working there. My interview was scheduled during the 2nd week of May at 9AM with guidelines mentioned.
The interview season is upon us. You might have gone through numerous blogs and videos on how to nail the interview process. And here's my contribution to it.
The Webinar will cover all queries and concerns pertaining to the PIT-PI rounds for HRM&LR at TISS, Mumbai; preparation strategies, Life at TISS and beyond.
For a lot of us, quant, reasoning and making sense of complicated formulae is not simple. In fact, it can be really intimidating and we do wish we were evaluated on more things that made us who we are. At SDA Bocconi Asia Center, your scores matter but so does your profile and your potential of becoming a business leader. It is one of the top b-schools in the country that welcomes diversity in profile and is very conscious of how their students add to the pool of the next generation of business leaders. If you feel there is a lot more to you and that other entrance scores have not been able to define your potential, giving the Bocconi test is definitely worth a shot.
The Bocconi Test
The Bocconi Test is SDA Bocconi’s main entrance test. Amidst this chaos of solving quant questions and cracking the DI-LR section, the Bocconi test has a unique method of testing your potential to succeed in a work environment. It is a computer adaptive test and features a constantly updating question bank with no negative marking, which basically means that based on your previous answers, the test throws new questions at you. It is tuned to not only judge your potential to contribute as an IMB student but also as a future business leader. While SDA Bocconi Asia Center also accepts applications of students who have given their CAT, NMAT, and GMAT, one can also take the Bocconi Test to submit a direct application. This even works out for students who were not able to perform well in the other competitive examinations.
What does the Bocconi Test consist of?
The Bocconi Test is divided into 3 broad sections. Each section has 30-35 questions and the overall test is timed at 70 minutes. The test pays specific attention to your reasoning ability in different scenarios and is relevant from a professional perspective.
Let’s get into the details then?
The first section of the Bocconi Test is Verbal Reasoning. This is timed at 19 minutes and is in a multiple choice question (MCQ) format. It is designed to measure your ability to analyze the logic behind the many arguments that will be presented to you in written form. You’ll be provided with a passage that gives out information on a particular topic that represents a variety of work settings and businesses. Once you’ve read the passage, you’ll be asked questions which have to be answered with either ‘True,’ ‘False’ or ‘Cannot Say’ if you don’t have relevant information to make a decision.
Pro-tip: Do not make any external assumptions. Your answers should be solely based on the information that has been listed in the passage. So if you feel that you don’t have enough information to make a decision between ‘True’ or ‘False,’ then clicking on the option ‘Cannot Say’ is your best option.
The second section is Numeric Reasoning. No, no don’t go hiding behind the chair now. As much as math may scare you, one of the best features of the Bocconi Test is that it adapts to your previous responses. This means that if you’ve been great at answering the earlier questions, you’ll be levelling up to more tougher questions and if you probably couldn’t answer one of them, the test will adapt to your level and slowly get to the more difficult sets.
In this section, you are assessed on the ability to understand and make correct decisions or inferences from numerical or statistical data. All the questions are based on realistic workplace problems. These are also in the form of MCQs but require calculations, interpretation of graphical data and tables and you’ll be given 25 minutes to solve this set.
Pro tip: Read and understand the questions that are asked before diving into calculations. It is important that you don’t waste your time doing extensive calculations and focus on understanding the information that the table or graphs already provide.
Inductive Reasoning makes for the final section of the Bocconi Test. You will have 25 minutes to crack this section. The questions will test your ability to understand the relationship between various concepts without any previous assumption or acquired knowledge. It basically tests your logical reasoning and most of the questions are based on numeric and spatial patterns.
Pro tip: Nothing better than practice to ready your mind for some logical reasoning exercises.
Bocconi Test Prep
If you’ve prepared for other competitive exams like CAT, NMAT, and GMAT, you’ll know your way around the preparation material for the Bocconi Test. To prepare, you can also practice online and they also have mock tests that you can take.
Whether you’re preparing for the Bocconi Test or any other competitive examination, it is important to do a self-assessment after every mock. This will help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and what areas you need to put more work into.
Where do I apply for the Bocconi Test?
You can apply for the Bocconi Test when you start your IMB application. You have to select the option to give the Bocconi test and there are no additional fees for the test, other than the application fees. The admissions team at SDA Bocconi Asia Center will get back to you with the details for the test.
Life is a wave that has troughs and crests, so does love. I was one of those lucky Indian youngsters who witnessed a true love story at the age of 19. I met her on a train ride, and that journey gave birth to a different story that eventually took me to the world of writing & publishing. I came up with my first book in 2014. Although today if I look back I feel bad for one thing, that unexpectedly she left for the heavenly abode, but that memoir gave me a different dimension in life. Oops, love, Valentine's week, what am I writing here on InsideIIM. I was supposed to write about my B-School interviews and calls, but I got dragged to my past.
It was 27th March 2018, and I went to Mumbai from Chennai for my NITIE interview. My interview was to be held in the afternoon at the campus itself. I reached the campus by 1 pm. The campus was one of the most beautiful ones I’ve ever seen. It was filled with greenery and couple that with a beautiful pond and a hilly terrain, you’ve got yourself the most peaceful and serene campus. The academic building, in which the interview was going to take place, sat atop a hill inside the campus. One of the ways to reach it is the famed ’96 steps’, surely a daily morning workout to reach the class.
The next step after you crack TISSNET is the GD-PI round. The interview round is an important screening process for admission into TISS Mumbai, HRM & LR. Not only is the business school looking at what you will add to the classroom but they're also judging you on your potential to be a future manager. This is the right opportunity to display your skills, qualities and future goals.
After the CAP and other institutes’ interview processes, I was waiting for the results, hoping to get into one of the newer IIMs. It was the third week of April, I was working as usual on a busy Monday and received an email stating that I had been shortlisted for stage 3 of the admission process for PGP in Management from IIM Nagpur. I was asked to choose the location and slot for PI-WAT rounds. I chose Bangalore as I was working there. My interview was scheduled during the 2nd week of May at 9AM with guidelines mentioned.
The interview season is upon us. You might have gone through numerous blogs and videos on how to nail the interview process. And here's my contribution to it.
The Webinar will cover all queries and concerns pertaining to the PIT-PI rounds for HRM&LR at TISS, Mumbai; preparation strategies, Life at TISS and beyond.
For a lot of us, quant, reasoning and making sense of complicated formulae is not simple. In fact, it can be really intimidating and we do wish we were evaluated on more things that made us who we are. At SDA Bocconi Asia Center, your scores matter but so does your profile and your potential of becoming a business leader. It is one of the top b-schools in the country that welcomes diversity in profile and is very conscious of how their students add to the pool of the next generation of business leaders. If you feel there is a lot more to you and that other entrance scores have not been able to define your potential, giving the Bocconi test is definitely worth a shot.
The Bocconi Test
The Bocconi Test is SDA Bocconi’s main entrance test. Amidst this chaos of solving quant questions and cracking the DI-LR section, the Bocconi test has a unique method of testing your potential to succeed in a work environment. It is a computer adaptive test and features a constantly updating question bank with no negative marking, which basically means that based on your previous answers, the test throws new questions at you. It is tuned to not only judge your potential to contribute as an IMB student but also as a future business leader. While SDA Bocconi Asia Center also accepts applications of students who have given their CAT, NMAT, and GMAT, one can also take the Bocconi Test to submit a direct application. This even works out for students who were not able to perform well in the other competitive examinations.
What does the Bocconi Test consist of?
The Bocconi Test is divided into 3 broad sections. Each section has 30-35 questions and the overall test is timed at 70 minutes. The test pays specific attention to your reasoning ability in different scenarios and is relevant from a professional perspective.
Let’s get into the details then?
The first section of the Bocconi Test is Verbal Reasoning. This is timed at 19 minutes and is in a multiple choice question (MCQ) format. It is designed to measure your ability to analyze the logic behind the many arguments that will be presented to you in written form. You’ll be provided with a passage that gives out information on a particular topic that represents a variety of work settings and businesses. Once you’ve read the passage, you’ll be asked questions which have to be answered with either ‘True,’ ‘False’ or ‘Cannot Say’ if you don’t have relevant information to make a decision.
Pro-tip: Do not make any external assumptions. Your answers should be solely based on the information that has been listed in the passage. So if you feel that you don’t have enough information to make a decision between ‘True’ or ‘False,’ then clicking on the option ‘Cannot Say’ is your best option.
The second section is Numeric Reasoning. No, no don’t go hiding behind the chair now. As much as math may scare you, one of the best features of the Bocconi Test is that it adapts to your previous responses. This means that if you’ve been great at answering the earlier questions, you’ll be levelling up to more tougher questions and if you probably couldn’t answer one of them, the test will adapt to your level and slowly get to the more difficult sets.
In this section, you are assessed on the ability to understand and make correct decisions or inferences from numerical or statistical data. All the questions are based on realistic workplace problems. These are also in the form of MCQs but require calculations, interpretation of graphical data and tables and you’ll be given 25 minutes to solve this set.
Pro tip: Read and understand the questions that are asked before diving into calculations. It is important that you don’t waste your time doing extensive calculations and focus on understanding the information that the table or graphs already provide.
Inductive Reasoning makes for the final section of the Bocconi Test. You will have 25 minutes to crack this section. The questions will test your ability to understand the relationship between various concepts without any previous assumption or acquired knowledge. It basically tests your logical reasoning and most of the questions are based on numeric and spatial patterns.
Pro tip: Nothing better than practice to ready your mind for some logical reasoning exercises.
Bocconi Test Prep
If you’ve prepared for other competitive exams like CAT, NMAT, and GMAT, you’ll know your way around the preparation material for the Bocconi Test. To prepare, you can also practice online and they also have mock tests that you can take.
Whether you’re preparing for the Bocconi Test or any other competitive examination, it is important to do a self-assessment after every mock. This will help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and what areas you need to put more work into.
Where do I apply for the Bocconi Test?
You can apply for the Bocconi Test when you start your IMB application. You have to select the option to give the Bocconi test and there are no additional fees for the test, other than the application fees. The admissions team at SDA Bocconi Asia Center will get back to you with the details for the test.
Life is a wave that has troughs and crests, so does love. I was one of those lucky Indian youngsters who witnessed a true love story at the age of 19. I met her on a train ride, and that journey gave birth to a different story that eventually took me to the world of writing & publishing. I came up with my first book in 2014. Although today if I look back I feel bad for one thing, that unexpectedly she left for the heavenly abode, but that memoir gave me a different dimension in life. Oops, love, Valentine's week, what am I writing here on InsideIIM. I was supposed to write about my B-School interviews and calls, but I got dragged to my past.
