group discussion skills

2. GROUP DISCUSSION
 Group discussion is an idea to identify and
understand the linguistic and professional
abilities of candidates aspiring for
admissions into courses and jobs. Group
discussions help to summarize the ideas
and information that a group of informants
may come to hold as a group, rather than
the information held by the individual
members.

3. PURPOSE
Admission into Academic
Evaluation of the Products
Evaluation of the job aspiring
candidates
Product developments
Language skills development
Brainstorm activities

4. GROUP DISCUSSION PROCESS
Controlled by Panelists and
Moderators
No. of participants in a group 6-12
Duration of time for each member 15-
30 minutes

5. EVALUATION PARAMETERS
 Subject knowledge
 Creative ideas
 Originality
 Voice and clarity
 Body language and presentation skills
 Analytical ability
 Language Fluency
 Initiatives
 Leadership and group management
 Attitude

6. PERSONAL INFORMATION
 1. Explain yourself to the audience.
 2.What would you think that is special in your
resume?
 3.What are the most important events of your life?
 4.What would you like to change in your life?
 5. What do you prefer as the most important in your
life?

7. SELF DESCRIPTION
1. How will your friends describe you
in terms friendship and profession?
2.describe yourself in your own way.
3. describe three specialities of
yourself

8. AIMS AND GOALS
1.What are the new aims and goals
have you for your life?
2.What are your specific career goals?
3.What are the ideal job for you and if
not name the second options with
reasons?

9. VALUES
 1. How do you view success in ones life?
 2. Define success and failure in your own
way?
 3. what is your best preference between
money and job?
 4. Who do you prefer great in your life and
why?
 5. What do you consider that is most
important in ones character?

10. MANAGEMENT ABILITIES
 1.Define the role of leadership in an
organisation.
 2.Explain an event in which you successfully
resolve
 3. What do you prefer is more important for
a leader from your personal experience
 4.What are the most important
characteristics of employees?

11. STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
 1.What are your strengths and weakness?
 2. Tell about the positive initiatives you took up in
your life
 3.What do you feel that is great in you rather than
others?
 4. Explain your experience on failure and how did
you overcome it?
 5. What is your opinion on working with groups?
 6. What is your favourite work nature and
ambience?
 7.What you feel that will motivate the workers well?

12. EDUCATION
1.Why did you decide to get into arts
studies?
2.What made you to study Linguistics?
3.What are the elective papers and
supportive papers you preferred and why?
4.What was your topic of research and
why did you select it?
5. What are your future aims on studies?

13. EXTRA CURRICULAR
 1.What are the extra-curricular activities you
involved in schools and colleges?
 2.What did you learned from your extra
curricular activities?
 3.What are your favourite books, Movies,
Songs?
 4.What are the books, magazines,
newspapers you read regularly?

14. JOB
 1. What do you think about your
company/college you just studied?
 2.What is your future prediction about the
company?
 3. what do you think about the strength and
weakness of the company?
 4.What make you to prefer this company to work
in?
 5.What are your expectations in this
organisation?

15. GD TOPICS
 Topics of group discussion can be any issues
related to social, political, economic, scientific,
cultural, education etc.
 Samples are:
 Lockdown: Is it Enough to Fight the coronavirus
Pandemic?
 Corruption free society
 Is E-Learning a substitute for classroom learning?

16. THINGS TO REMEMBER IN GD
 Think well before you speak.
 Pick up clues from the discussion and intelligently
add points that come to your mind with regards to
the topic, in case you don’t know much about the
topic.
 Back up your points with facts and figures if
needed.
 Be gentle and sure in your presentation of views.
 Be calm and composed while speaking.
 listen others view points.
 Use appropriate body language.

17. COMMON MISTAKES
 Losing balanced approach and making
personal offence
 Too much importance of style of the
language rather than valid points
 Taking turns too often
 Presenting too much information and facts
 Not analyzing a topic well and taking hasty
starts
 Loosing chances