Admission Story: Rohit Taxak, FORE School of Management, 89.98, CAT

Rohit Taxak is currently pursuing the PGDM course at FORE School of Management. Having done his graduation from Birla Institute of Technology, he cleared XAT with 89.98 percentile. Rohit also had a working experience of 15 months as application developer with IBM India PVt Ltd. He shared his FORE School of Management Admission & selection experience with collegedunia.com. Let’s have a look!

Rohit Taxak Profile

Current institute: FORE School of Management
Graduation College: Birla Institute of Technology
CAT score: 89.98
10th Percentage / GPA: 7.6
12th Percentage / GPA: 64
Graduation Percentage/GPA: 7.21
Work Experience : IBM India Pvt Ltd, 15 months, Application Developer

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FORE School of Management Admission Experience

Did you avail the benefit of any reservation?

Rohit Taxak:

“ General (No reservation)”

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

Rohit Taxak:

"FORE- no GD

Tapmi- offline GD with 15 students in a panel and 3 moderators and 2 minutes were given to think and then discussion for about 10 minutes and 1 minute to summarise each student.

KJ Somaiya- offline GD with 8 students in a panel and 2 moderators and 2 minutes were given to think and then discussion for about 10 minutes.

GIM- offline GD with 8 students in a panel and 2 moderators and 1 minutes were given to speak to each student initially and then discussion for about 10 minutes and 1 minute to summarise each student."

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What was the WAT / GD Topic?

Rohit Taxak:

"FORE- unemployment in India ( extempore)

Tapmi- indian railways towards privatisation

KJ Somaiya- case based topic on women in defence

GIM- should the national anthem in movie theatre be continued?"

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

Rohit Taxak:

"FORE- practical education at initial stage of education

Tapmi- started with PPP ( public private partnership) started by prime minister Narsimha Rao, ease of organising exams in collaboration with TCS

KJ Somaiya- started with introducing female defence personalities leading air force , army regiment efficiently

GIM- in favour of continuing national anthem as generating patriotism feeling towards people and as 52 seconds standing for nation and remembering hero's won't make chaos."

Describe the general setting of your personal Interview.

Rohit Taxak:

"FORE- 3 panelists including 2 facilities and one alumni , it was offline interview, it went for about 7-8 minutes and it wasn't stress interview

Tapmi- 2 panelists were there , it was offline interview ,it went for about 15 minutes, no stress interview

KJ Somaiya- 2 panelists were there , it was offline interview ,it went for about 15 -20 minutes, kind of stress interview

GIM- 3 panelists were there , it was an offline interview ,it went for about 15 minutes, kind of a stress interview as I mentioned I heard the panelists are very chill."

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

Rohit Taxak:

"FORE- just 2 questions one was from my extempore where I used AI

How AI will increase unemployment--- as autonomous will decrease employment because it will be replaced by robots
what are jammers (as I was from ECE branch)--- when particular frequency is used for communicating between two transmitter and receiver.

Tapmi- 1. Biggest risk-- when I left job and prepared for CAT

What is your long term goal-- my long term goal is to reputed position in an dream organisation
What is your dream organisation and why-- directI , because of work culture and technology they work on.

KJ Somaiya- 1. Difference between job and task-- task is subset of job

Tell me 3 strength-- leadership skills, multitasker, time management
Give example of multitasker- during my college I managed sports fest along with my studies and also worked on my research paper

GIM- 1. What is the turnover of IBM-- I'm not sure about turnover but share price is very low about 140 rupees

What was your role in IBM-- I worked on obiee tool for better representation of data and charts.

Favourite subject and why-- computer networking because it included Daily life technologies and working"

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).

Rohit Taxak:

"I choose FORE because