Syllabus
Soft Skills
Soft Skills and its importance: Pleasure and pains of transition from an academic environment to work-environment. New-age challenges and distractions. Learning to benefit from constructive criticisms and feedback, Need for change in mindset and up-skilling to keep oneself competent in the professional world.
Managing Self: Knowing oneself, Self-perception, Importance of positive attitude, Building and displaying confidence, Avoiding being overconfident, Managing emotions, stress, fear. Developing Resilience and handling failures. Self-motivation, Self-learning, and continuous knowledge up- gradation / Life-long learning. Personal productivity – Goal setting and its importance in career planning, Self-discipline, Importance of values, ethics and integrity, Universal Human Values.
Aptitude
Problem Solving I
Numbers: Types, Power Cycles, Divisibility, Prime, Factors & Multiples, HCF & LCM, Surds, Indices, Square roots, Cube Roots and Simplification.
Percentage: Basics, Profit, Loss & Discount, and Simple & Compound Interest. Ratio, Proportion & Variation: Basics, Alligations, Mixtures, and Partnership. Averages: Basics, and Weighted Average.
Data Interpretation: Tables, Bar Diagrams, Venn Diagrams, Line Graphs, Pie Charts, Caselets, Mixed Varieties, Network Diagrams and other forms of data representation.
Verbal
Vocabulary: Familiarize students with the etymology of words, help them realize the relevance of word analysis and enable them to answer synonym and antonym questions. Create an awareness about the frequently misused words, commonly confused words and wrong form of words in English.
Grammar (Basic): Help students learn the usage of structural words and facilitate students to identify errors and correct them.
Reasoning: Stress the importance of understanding the relationship between words through analogy questions.
Speaking Skills: Make students conscious of the relevance of effective communication in today’s world through various individual speaking activities.