About : IIM Ahmedabad, By : zyanzaphod

Basic fundaes to avoid repetition:

GD - has been Case based only and extends to one page at max.Will be extremely straightforward (no brilliant deductions/analysis required, its mostly about communication ) You get about 5 mins to think, 20 mins to discuss and a written summary at the end. Most people do not finish the summary and it is commonly believed that this negatively impairs your chances for a final call. There are about 9-10 members to a GD.

PI - An Ahd interview is in most cases all about 'the form', so spend maximum time on it..The A & I forms are similar and Loooong and will be reaching you soon.

And then some more fundae....

1) Find a decent set of people through PG or otherwise(classes) and practice cases. You can find a lot of cases on threads of previous years.

2) In the first couple of days, spend free time at office 'productively' by looking through the GD-PI experiences of the last couple of years. You can also read the last year's queries thread for more 'gyaan'. That will give you a general idea of what to expect.

As ismbaneeded posted, last years thread is http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/cat-an...periences.html (IIM Ahmedabad GD/PI experiences for 2007-2009 batch)
Other links for previous years are here
http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/cat-an...periences.html (Links for GD/PI Experiences)

3) There is a set of 50+ HR/personals questions along with an pretty comprehensive article posted here. Ideally , you should have an idea of what to talk about for most of them.

http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/prep-r....html#post3458 (Interview tips - Must read)

4) Talk to as many seniors/coaching classes heads as you can find. You can stop, like I did, when they start repeating themselves

5) As far as possible, do post on the thread rather than PM'ing. It avoids repetition. And as you can see, there are enough people around to reply soon

6) Don't worry about your acads/extracurrics/cat score etc. If you excelled at them, good for you. If not, you can hardly do anything about it now, can you? Focus on what you know you are good at and portray that well. Its enough.

Phew, first round of gyaan-spouting dispensed with! ..Do pour in your queries.More fundae specific to gd/pi soon.

Cheers,
Anand