Admission Story: Amitanshu Singh, FORE School of Management, 86.5, CAT

Amitanshu Singh is currently pursuing the PGDM course at FORE School of Management. Having done his graduation from GLA University, he cleared both CAT and XAT with 86.5 and 86 percentile respectively. Amitanshu told collegedunia.com his admission story and tips and tricks to making it work at the WAT&PI round of FORE School of Management. Let’s have a look!

Amitanshu Singh Profile

Current institute: FORE School of Management
Graduation College: GLA University
CAT score: 86.5
10th Percentage / GPA: 79.8
12th Percentage / GPA: 80.8
Graduation Percentage/GPA: 75.1

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FORE School of Management Admission Experience

Did you avail the benefit of any reservation?

Amitanshu Singh :

“ General (No reservation) “

Describe the general setting of WAT / GD (if any)?

Amitanshu Singh :

“ Written Aptitude Test was conducted in place of Group Discussion. Time Duration provided was of 15 minutes in total.Words limit was set to 250. Topic given was very generic. It was on Hospitality of Private hospitals vs government hospitals. Mode was pen paper. “

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What was the WAT / GD Topic?

Amitanshu Singh : “ Private Hospitals or Government Hospitals? “

What were your answers/points put forward for the WAT or GD respectively?

Amitanshu Singh :

“ Wrote about the corrupt Doctors in government hospitals & at the same time mentioned about the doctors in the private sector who just want to extract money from the patients by wrong treatment. “

Describe the general setting of your personal Interview.

Amitanshu Singh :

“ Single Panel-3 members-Faculty-Offline interview-15-20 minutes duration-Yes I can say it was a stress interview because at the start i was give an extempore speech for 1 minute for which I got to prepare for 30 seconds. “

Mention at least 5 interview questions that were asked to you and your responses to each of them.

Amitanshu Singh :

“ Started with a general introduction. They saw my interest in Automobile from my resume so asked about the falling automobile sector at that time. Asked why I chose to join MBA when both my parents are from the government sector. “

Mention 3 reasons why you chose this college over other colleges which you converted (OR if you did not join this college after converting it, mention 3 reasons for not joining it).

Amitanshu Singh :

“ Apart from this I got KJ Somaiya & great lakes. I booked my seat in great lakes but I cancelled my admission there because of the location perspective. New Delhi is near my hometown. Kj somaiya I cancelled because I couldn't get the general PGDM programme there. I was offered a retail management course. “

What was the reason for you not converting other colleges?

Amitanshu Singh :

“ I never prepared for a management course interview. I think that was the biggest mistake I made. In some interviews I couldn't answer basic economics questions. “