Every year, a certain no.of top Candidates from each of the Academic disciplines will be shortlisted for AWT and PI based on their Composite Score.

The Academic Writing Test is a 3 paragraph Newspaper like article. The purpose of AWT is not to test your knowledge but to test your critical reasoning and analytical skills. You need to Analyse the line of reasoning and use it as evidence. You have to discuss what evidence would strengthen or refute an argument and if necessary, what changes in the argument would make it more logically sound. Challenge the assumptions and consider the argument to be weak.

Personal Interview is usually 15-20 minutes with the initial 2-3 minutes spent on introducing yourself or ice breaking conversations. They next enquire about your Academic qualifications, your projects in the College and their applications in real life. You need to prepare atleast 2-3 topics of your choice and work hard on them. Then you are usually given a topic of current affairs and then ask you to discuss about it. Finally certain basic behaviour questions are asked.