Syllabus
Soft Skills
Professional Grooming and Practices: Basics of corporate culture, key pillars of business etiquette – online and offline: socially acceptable ways of behavior, body language, personal hygiene, professional attire and cultural adaptability and managing diversity. Handling pressure, multi-tasking. Being enterprising. Adapting to corporate life: Emotional Management (EQ), Adversity Management, Health consciousness. People skills, Critical Thinking and Problem solving.
Group Discussions: Advantages of group discussions, Types of group discussion and Roles played in a group discussion. Personality traits evaluated in a group discussion. Initiation techniques and maintaining the flow of the discussion, how to perform well in a group discussion. Summarization/conclusion.
Aptitude
Logarithms, Inequalities and Modulus: Basics
Sequence and Series: Basics, AP, GP, HP, and Special Series.
Time and Work: Basics, Pipes & Cistern, and Work Equivalence.
Time, Speed and Distance: Basics, Average Speed, Relative Speed, Boats & Streams, Races and Circular tracks.
Logical Reasoning II: Arrangements, Sequencing, Scheduling, Venn Diagram, Network Diagrams, Binary Logic, and Logical Connectives, Clocks, Calendars, Cubes, Non-Verbal reasoning and Symbol based reasoning.
Verbal Skills
Vocabulary: Help students understand the usage of words in different contexts.
Grammar (Medium Level): Train Students to comprehend the nuances of Grammar and empower them to spot errors in sentences and correct them.
Reading Comprehension (Basics): Introduce students to smart reading techniques and help them understand different tones in comprehension passages.
Reasoning: Enable students to connect words, phrases and sentences logically.
Oral Communication Skills: Aid students in using the gift of the gab to interpret images, do a video synthesis, try a song interpretation or elaborate on a literary quote.
Summary
Pre-requisite: Willingness to learn, communication skills, basic English language skills, knowledge of high school level mathematics.
Course Objectives and Outcomes
Course Objective: To help students understand the corporate culture and assist them in improving their group discussion skills, communication skills, listening skills and problem-solving skills.
Course Outcomes
CO1: Soft Skills – To improve the inter-personal skills, professional etiquette and leadership skills, vital for arriving at win-win situations in Group Discussions and other team activities.
CO2: Soft Skills – To develop the ability to create better impact in a Group Discussions through examination, participation, perspective-sharing, ideation, listening, brainstorming and consensus.
CO3: Aptitude – To interpret, critically analyze and solve questions in arithmetic and algebra by employing the most suitable methods.
CO4: Aptitude – To analyze, understand and apply suitable methods to solve questions on logical reasoning.
CO5: Verbal – To be able to use vocabulary in the right context and to be competent in spotting grammatical errors and correcting them.
CO6: Verbal – To be able to logically connect words, phrases, sentences and thereby communicate their perspectives/ideas convincingly.
Skills: Communication, etiquette and grooming, inter-personal skills, listening skills, convincing skills, problem-solving skill.
CO-PO Mapping
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| CO3 |
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| CO4 |
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| CO6 |
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Evaluation Pattern
| Assessment |
Internal |
External |
| Continuous Assessment (CA)* – Soft Skills |
30 |
– |
| Continuous Assessment (CA)* – Aptitude |
10 |
25 |
| Continuous Assessment (CA)* – Verbal |
10 |
25 |
| Total |
50 |
50 |
*CA – Can be presentations, speaking activities and tests
