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.
