The IIMs and other premier B-schools follow a 2-stage selection process –

• During the first stage the aspirants undergo a written exam like CAT, XAT, SNAP etc. Among the test takers a selected number of students are shortlisted for the second stage of the selection process.
• The second stage of the selection process involves activities such as Group discussion, Written ability test, Personal Interview etc.
• GWPI stands for, as you know, Group Discussion, Written Ability Test (WAT), and Personal Interview. It earlier used to be called GDPI. However, of late, with the IIMs moving towards WAT as against GD, GWPI is the preferred terminology. Some B-schools call Written Ability Test as essay-writing also.
• GWPI is the second stage of the B-school selection process. The number of students who get a call for the GWPI stage (get shortlisted) depends on the number of seats that an Institute has and the call:seat ratio. Call:Seat ratio is the ratio of the number of students called for the GWPI process to the number of seats available. This ratio could range from a minimum of 2.5:1 for the top-most B-schools to 10:1 or more for the lower-ranked B-schools. In general, most of the B-schools in the top-15 range would have a ratio in the range 5:1 to 10:1. What this means for a candidate is that getting a shortlist from the thousands of candidates applying to a B-school is only half the task well done. The other half would be to do well in the GWPI process and get a final seat in the preferred B - School.

T.I.M.E. provides excellent training for GWPI rounds. Apart from providing inputs on basic approaches/concepts, we will also provide hands-on experience by conducting mock GDs, mock WAT and mock PI sessions.

The GWPI training module will be provided from January onwards for the shortlisted candidates. The details of the GWPI program of T.I.M.E. will be updated here after CAT results are announced.