Last Minute prep tips to TISS

Disclaimer: All the below suggestions are applicable majorly to HR as that is the only course i attempted and hence i do not have much idea on how to tackle papers for other courses

With just less than a week to go for TISS exam , its high time one should concentrate on important areas rather than trying to achieve every thing

To be very honest , those who had written any other entrance exam this year can sleep in peace. One might then wonder what to do with the last section where in you come across questions from wide variety of areas like sociology,human resource management etc (seriously neither did i have much clue at this point last year, even though i concentrated my full efforts in the last 10 days for this section ,which didnt help me much in exam :( )

so i would like to summarise on the points which helped me last year, the mistakes i did while attempting the written exam etc . Read it and do attempt the paper intelligently . I would stick to the written part for now .

NOTE: This is not the only way to attempt the paper . Play according to ur strengths . Verbal is my strength

(1)Practice good number of papers in TISS format in the last week . Apart from this year Model paper  u should defineteley practice last year model paper (which incidentally is the original paper of 2010) and possible one or two other model papers u can get ur hand on

This would get u in tune for the format of TISS

(2) Paper I should be easy (personal opinion) as it is common across all the courses . Mind it that apart from students appearing for courses in School of management & labour stuides , the other students might not be appearing for management entrance tests. Also time would be more than sufficient for every one . Only caution here is that dont do silly mistakes and also do mark the answers on OMR sheet from time to time

(3)Part 2

This is the area where u have to take a call based on ur strength area . For me its verbal . so i started the paper by attacking the RCs

But i suggest that dont go with a rigid strategy . Be felexible because the standard of TISS (generally based on previous years) is low and hence ur weakness (quant is my weakness but i solved each and every question in that section) may not effect u much

so start with a section which seemed to be easy and try to maximise the score (remember that there is no sectional cut off )

QA:

Even though it is data sufficiency , having a good knowledge of basic formulae helps 

last year the questions are quite basic and even if one do not have much grip on formulae can solve the paper 

Verbal:

Last year i felt the RCs are a bit lengthy but i persisted in completing all the questions there . This i feel is a mistake because later i realised that Return on investment(ROI ) on DI and QA section is better than Verbal

DI:

The sets are very basic and they did not contain much data either .But since i attempted this section last , i am under some pressure and made 1 DI set wrong . Some how managed to correct at last moment

Sociology,HRM etc:

If u have prepared for this section , its good . Else leave it . its not the time to be nervous thinking of the weaknesses. Concentrate on strengths and maximise the score . Even those who prepared for this section , do not spend much time thinking of the answer . As soon as u see the question , if u remember the answer good else move on (Dont mark guesses, this year there is negative marking for second paper)

Caution:Even those who did not prepare for this section , do have a look at it for a few mins . U may find some qn which u touched upon some where and some times it do happens (last year it happened) there might be a critical reasoning qn in last section which case u can answer it

The toughest part of getting into TISS is the interview regarding which i would discuss later .Just go with a calm mind and exam can be cracked

one final word of caution: Paper2 is more about race against the Time . so dont get bogged down by a qn . if u dont get the answer leave it and go ahead . there are immense no of sitters in the paper and also dont be astonished if u find any qns too simple to be asked (last year it happened to with one DI set where in i spent time thinking examiner cannot ask such a simple qn :P )

Also there is change in marking scheme (negative marking for paper 2 ) . So dont go with stereotypes .Paper might be difficult for a change .but do remember it would be surprise for every one

My score last year in written : 51.8/70

All the best for the exam :D :D