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Updated on 10th January, 2024 , 3 min read
The full form of IIM is the Indian Institute of Management. IIMs are the most prestigious and top business schools in India providing high-quality education in the field of management. These institutes provide admission to its diploma, undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctorate programs.
The MBA (Master in Business Administration) programs offered by all the IIMs are the flagship programs of these institutes. MBA is a full-time postgraduate program in business management, with a course duration of two years.
There are a total of 21 IIMs in India. These are:
WAT stands for Written Ability Test. The written ability test is an important test for the second round of the shortlisting process. However, it wasn’t conducted for two consecutive years by many IIMs due to the pandemic.
Some of the important topics that candidates must prepare for, to ace the written ability test round are:
GD stands for Group Discussion. It is one of the rounds in the selection process for admission into IIMs. As the name suggests, the Group Discussion round involves a group of candidates sitting together and discussing a topic that has been assigned to them, within a given time frame.
There are three types of group discussions depending on the topics asked.
The group discussion round consists of an array of topics from diverse domains. These these are:
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By - Nikita Parmar 2024-09-06 10:59:22 , 6 min readWAT stands for Written Ability Test. It is a part of the selection process in IIMs, that judges the candidate based on their writing and thinking skills.
The WAT score ranges between 10 to 20 marks depending upon the criteria of the particular IIM.
GD stands for Group Discussion. The group discussion round involves a group of candidates sitting together and discussing a topic that has been assigned to them, within a given time frame.
Climate change, Globalization, Artificial intelligence, Economic slowdown, Poverty, and Women's safety, are some of the best topics for GD.
After the topics are assigned for GD, candidates are allotted 5 to 8 minutes to think about the answers and plan strategies.
Examples of topics allotted in WAT are Make in India, Digital India, the COVID-19 pandemic, Farm Bill 2020, Demonitization, etc.