Soft Skills

Interpersonal skill: ability to manage conflict, flexibility, empathetic listening, assertiveness, stress management, problem solving, understanding one’s own interpersonal needs, role of effective team work in organizations
Group problem solving: the process, the challenges, the skills and knowledge required for the same.
Conflict management: the concept, its impact and importance in personal and professional lives, (activity to identify personal style of conflict management, developing insights that helps in future conflict management situations.)
Team building and working effectively in teams: the concept of groups (teams), different stages of group formation, process of team building, group dynamics, characteristics of effective team, role of leadership in team effectiveness. (Exercise to demonstrate the process of emergence of leadership in a group, debrief and reflection), group discussions.
Interview skills: what is the purpose of a job interview, types of job interviews, how to prepare for an interview, dos and don’ts of interview, One on one mock interview sessions with each student

Verbal

Vocabulary: Help students understand the usage of words in different contexts. Stress the importance of using refined language through idioms and phrasal verbs.
Grammar: Enable students to identify poorly constructed sentences or incorrect sentences and improvise or correct them.
Reasoning: Facilitate the student to tap her/his reasoning skills through critical reasoning questions and logical ordering of sentences.
Reading Comprehension: Enlighten students on the different strategies involved in tackling reading comprehension questions.
Public Speaking Skills: Empower students to overcome glossophobia and speak effectively and confidently before an audience.
Writing Skills: Practice closet tests that assess basic knowledge and skills in usage and mechanics of writing such as punctuation, basic grammar and usage, sentence structure and rhetorical skills such as writing strategy, organization, and style.

Aptitude

Sequence and Series: Basics, AP, GP, HP, and Special Series.
Geometry: 2D, 3D, Coordinate Geometry, and Heights & Distance.
Permutations & Combinations: Basics, Fundamental Counting Principle, Circular Arrangements, and Derangements.
Probability: Basics, Addition & Multiplication Theorems, Conditional Probability and Bayes’ Theorem.
Logical Reasoning I: Arrangements, Sequencing, Scheduling, Venn Diagram, Network Diagrams, Binary Logic, and Logical Connectives, Clocks, Calendars, Cubes, Non-Verbal reasoning and Symbol based reasoning.
Logical Reasoning II: Blood Relations, Direction Test, Syllogisms, Series, Odd man out, Coding & Decoding, Cryptarithmetic Problems and Input – Output Reasoning.
Data Sufficiency: Introduction, 5 Options Data Sufficiency and 4 Options Data Sufficiency.
Campus recruitment papers: Discussion of previous year question papers of all major recruiters of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Miscellaneous: Interview Puzzles, Calculation Techniques and Time Management Strategies.

Pre-requisite: Willingness to learn, team spirit, basic English language and communication skills and knowledge of high school level arithmetic.

Course Objectives:

• Help students to understand the importance of interpersonal skills and team work
• Prepare the students for effective group discussions and interviews participation.
• Help students to sharpen their problem solving and reasoning skills
• Empower students to communicate effectively by using the correct diction, grammar and verbal reasoning skills

Course Outcomes:
CO1: Soft Skills – To demonstrate good interpersonal skills, solve problems and effectively participate in group discussions.
CO2: Soft Skills – To write technical resume and perform effectively in interviews.
CO3: Aptitude – To identify, investigate and arrive at appropriate strategies to solve questions on arithmetic by managing time effectively.
CO4: Aptitude – To investigate, understand and use appropriate techniques to solve questions on logical reasoning and data analysis by managing time effectively.
C05: Verbal – To be able to use diction that is more refined and appropriate and to be competent in knowledge of grammar to correct/improve sentences
C06: Verbal – To be able to examine, interpret and investigate passages and to be able to generate ideas, structure them logically and express them in a style that is comprehensible to the audience/recipient.

CO-PO Mapping 

Evaluation Pattern  

*CA – Can be presentations, speaking activities and tests.  

Soft Skills

• “GMAT Official Guide” by the Graduate Management Admission Council, 2019 
• Arun Sharma, “How to Prepare for Verbal Ability And Reading Comprehension For CAT” 
• Joern Meissner, “Turbocharge Your GMAT Sentence Correction Study Guide”, 2012
• Kaplan, “Kaplan GMAT 2012 & 13”
• Kaplan, “New GMAT Premier”, Kaplan Publishing, U.K., 2013
• Manhattan Prep, “Critical Reasoning 6th Edition GMAT” 
• Manhattan Prep, “Sentence Correction 6th Edition GMAT” 
• Mike Barrett “SAT Prep Black Book The Most Effective SAT Strategies Ever Published” 
• Mike Bryon, “Verbal Reasoning Test Workbook Unbeatable Practice for Verbal Ability, English Usage and Interpretation and Judgement Tests” 
• www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/skills/grammar/grammar_tutorial/page_55.htm
• www.campusgate.co.in

Aptitude 

• Arun Sharma, “How to Prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT Common Admission Test”, Tata Mc Graw Hills, 5th Edition, 2012
• Arun Sharma, “How to Prepare for Logical Reasoning for the CAT Common Admission Test”, Tata Mc Graw Hills, 2nd Edition , 2014
• Arun Sharma, “How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for the CAT Common Admission Test”, Tata Mc Graw Hills, 3nd Edition , 2015
• R.S. Aggarwal, “Quantitative Aptitude For Competitive Examinations”, S. Chand Publishing , 2015
• R.S. Aggarwal, “A Modern Approach To Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning”, S. Chand Publishing , Revised -2015
• Sarvesh Verma, “Quantitative Aptitude-Quantum CAT” , Arihant Publications , 2016

• www.mbatious.com
• www.campusgate.co.in
• www.careerbless.com