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GROUP PLANNING EXERCISE
Group planning exercise is an important exercise in the GTO series. It is
the only task in which a written plan is submitted & studied by the GTO in de-
tail. I have discussed the common mistakes which candidates make & what
they should do to ensure good performance.
Common Mistakes
• Ignoring the time plan. This is the most common mistake. Accomplish-
ing the tasks in the required time is important. Time is a limited re-
source and hence judicious utilisation is essential to an effective plan.
It must be given due respect. In the time plan at times candidates tend
to make impractical assumptions which should not be done:
Example: If a person has to be admitted in a hospital then the
travel time as well as time taken to get him admitted must be
considered realistically. Just taking the return journey time is im-
practical.
• Wasting Time in Stupid Tasks. I remember some stupid tasks which
cannot be done being attempted by candidates. Examples (You are a
group of students on picnic):
A monkey owner requests you to locate his monkey who has run
away.
A lady requests you to recover her buffalo from marshy land.
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