CAT and Bells..

They say..More than half 115 billion of India is young..young and ambitious. To me, as a young man from a hard working parent. Being ambitious means, a big fat pay check. Not an all on the line entrepreneurial venture, but the relative safety of a job.

And as every college student in India knows..If you want it big, and want it early..CAT is the way to go. And now that CAT is in the season..I sat down to actually marvel at the ingenuity of Percentile (or %ile as I like it).

Percentile is all about Normal distribution curve. Okay, CAT is also for commerce graduates, so let me talk non gibberish. Normal distribution curve simulates the way our world is. Like in any class most of the students score around a certain score, say like 65%. The farther we move from it in either direction, the fewer are the people we find. Just like in a bell.

So the people holding this bell of the future of hundreds of thousands of young people, slice and dice it into a hundred pieces each having an equal area.

Having equal area means that the first part or top 1 %ile (the leading edge of the bell, towards the right) may have a range of 10 marks or more, where as when we travel towards the mean or the 50th %ile. A fraction of a number may be enough to get you several notches below that next fellow. Same happens as we start travelling below the mean. The range starts getting bigger.

This ensures that, if there is one freak genius. As there usually are several. (You just can't help these number crunchers from IITs) Everyone else does not end up with a sorry figure. One of them could have got in upper 200s and the next one barely a double hundred, but if there is no one in between. The second fellow still is better than everyone else, and so both of them end up getting the top percentile.

So young men, and beautiful women (Yes, its biased. And I decide who is beautiful.) As they say it. Go out and have fun. BELL the CAT.

Take care everyone *peace*

Happy Teacher's day..

Class Representative please manage your classmates. All the students please respond to the roll call. Dr. S K Mishra, Prof Ashish Garg, Prof Mahima Thakur..

Yup this was the way the Teacher's day celebration commenced. Today the faculty were playing the students and the students were the task masters. The day was not going to be easy for our students of the day. There were several lessons lined up for them. And the momentry masters of the show were relishing the opportunity.

After the attendance the first lesson for the students was about being organised. Five of the students were called on the stage and they had to take down some notes, put their laptops alongwith the chargers in the bag, notebooks and pen. All in their proper places. Results being ruled by Prof ............

Now that we were through with the lesson on being organised, they needed to be taught to be presentable. So the next set of five students on the stage please(See we are polite, we talk to the students with a please). Now let's see who is the quickest one to tie the knot. Oops!! It was not the knot, but the tie. Tie a tie. 5..4..3..2..1..go.. Damn!! this was not supposed to be a lesson on team work. Why are two of the students working together on the tie. Something is wrong. The two are disqualified. So the results stated Prof S K Jain is most presentable while Prof Megha and Prof Kirti, you are debarred from any further exams.

Innovation and perseverance are two most treasured traits of any MBA graduates, specially when today we are targeting to train entrepreuners. So lets see if these are abound in our students. Students please transfer the popcorn from the first glass to the other glass with the help of a single straw and you are not allowed to touch the glass or the popcorn rang out the instruction. The puzzle was cracked soon enough. One of the students started sucking his lung full, it seemed he wanted to drink the popcorn with the straw. But now the popcorn was stuck to the straw and the race on its way. Others immediately caught up and the popcorns started moving around. Prof ........... was declared the most perseverant.

Management is not a one man show. You need a team which understands your signals without you ever having to voice them. Or thus goes the wisdom. So, let us see if our students are good at communicating. Five pair of students on the stage please. And plaeas do not form PAIRS. And the students were playing dumbsherads. Jung, Lagan, ...... Gosh!! we need to work on their comm skills. Only two out of five could read it correctly. Sounds like Prof ........... was the best communicator.

Finally we know that any MBA graduate cannot be successful unless they are given the taste of personal success making them driven to achieve lots more of it. The graduation degrees were at stake. Let the Bulls eye roll out. Guys you got to hit the pile of rocks and girls please master the hoops. The condition was, the more you hit the better will be your degree/diploma. The ball, literally was set rolling. Rocks were strewn around..Hoops got battered. And the fun reached its cresando. There was wild cheering at every success. Both students for the day and the students were engrossed alkie. But as every class comes to and end, every good thing in life passes. The day had to end. So we dispersed after a small prize distribution ceremony for the winners of the events.

Perseverence..

Damn!! It's been one busy schedule. Project submissions..assignments..presentations and to top it all we had mid-term assessments. Tommorow Corporate Finance class test with almost entire syllabus. The day after Organisation Behavior assignment with the basic instruction..Beg, borrow or steal but assignment has got to be on the desk in time. Saturday brings along the submission of Bussiness Communication (or Bizz comm) assignment.

The teams go out for the 'Outreach' on friday evening. Mostly returning on next week's Sunday..some on Monday. Hope they enjoy it.

Take Care everyone *peace*

Interesting reads about Denial of Sex Education in India

Read this article from guardian.co.uk about how sex education is being denied on the grounds such as 'sex before marriage is "immoral, unethical and unhealthy" and that sex outside marriage is "against the social ethos" of the country'. Then I guess kids should not be taught about the importance of truth as well, because lying is immoral and unethical, and lyingat any age remains immoral and unethical.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/16/sex-education-india

Another comprehensive critique of Right to Education is also very interesting..

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KH18Df01.html

A Lesson..

My professor of Organisational Behaviour, Dr Mahima Thakur taught me about Internal Locus of Control. And I knew for certainty, I had an External locus of control. After all I was only very rarely motivated to pursue something because I wanted it. But she never got around to telling us, what to do about this aliment. So, I still keep on saying..

Why do I stand so lonely, even when surrounded by my family and friends?

Take care everyone *peace*