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Hi friends,

Many Campus is yet to come in colleges for Final year students.. Let me share with u today about Group Discussion. It will be useful for Interviewers also since im hereby giving some Topics also.

First, Let me ask u WHAT IS GROUP DISCUSSION?

Group Discussion is being extensively used along with personal interviews for the final selection of candidates. It plays a main role in selecting the best among the best. It becomes necessary to conduct further screening for choosing a few among many. It is one of the best tools to study the behavioral and attitudinal responses of the participants within some span time.

Types of Group Discussion Topics:

While preparing for GD, you need to know what short of GD topics are given in a real job test. This post tries to categories these topics into following four categories:
1. Factual topics.
2. Controversial topics.
3. Abstract topics.
4. Case studies.

Factual topics:

As the word says - these topics are about facts. You are given a factual statement and you are supposed to discuss it. Examples include:
1. Conspiracy is a very common form of political behaviour.
2. The pros and cons of having a credit card.
3. Drinking and driving is dangerous to yourself and others.
4. Terrorism breeds out of a sick mind.
5. Affirmative action draws people to work they never considered before.

Controversial topics:

These are the topics would heats up any GD:
1. Sustainable urban living without the use of excessive natural resources must be our future.
2. China is better than India in software.
3. Reservations should be removed.
4. Multinationals: Bane or Boon?
5. The pros and cons of a female President.
6. Online dating chats have nothing to do with the search for a soul mate.
7. Sex education should be implemented in all schools.
8. Life imprisonment is a good alternative to capital punishment.

Abstract topics:

These topics by itself does not tells you anything. You need to formulate what it means and how to go about it:
1. Group Discussion.
2. Position of Women in India compared to other nations.
3. Environment Management.
4. A multi-polar world.
5. The Internet and Web 2.0.

Case studies:

These topics gives you a situation (mostly a problem) and you need to chalk out a startegy to reach at a consensus solution with your group mates:

1. Lata moves from the Insurance sector to FMCG sector. Her performance during training and during the year she is assigned a small territory, is very impressive and so she is assigned a larger territory. But her performance there is not very good. Her supervisor blames her. Her excuse was being in a male dominated society. What does the central office do?

2. Prasad, who works for a reputed educational institute is made in charge of relief operations for a particular camp in an area that has been hit by an earthquake. Some medicines being sent to his camp are hijacked by Dinesh, the nephew of the local MLA. Dinesh wants to divert the shipment to another camp. The goods are being held 20 km away. What does Prasad do?

3. A king of an Arab country is approached by a foreign mining company with a contract. Presently, the country earns its revenues through tourism. The contract if signed will initiate mining near the coastal regions which will affect tourism. The opposition party is very powerful and if the contract is not signed, they will initiate a coup. What should the king do?

Above examples are given so as to familarise you about what topics are given in a GD. You can invent you own topic for preparing yourself for the GD.

All the best for ur career friends!