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while at school. I would also like to know about your close friends and why you consider them so,
Teachers you liked most and about those who did not impress you much. How is your education being
financed?

Remember the sequence

(a) Academic performance

(b) Best/poorest subjects

(c) Grades/Division/Percentages overall and subject-wise

(d) How much effort towards co/extra-curricular activities and special achievements

(e) Friend circle/close friends – their activities

(f) Relationship with teachers

(g)How was the education financed?

Points to Remember

A good candidate is the one who studied well and worked hard to score well even in those subjects
in which he was not very strong naturally, took part in extra/co-curricular activities in schools and
colleges, has several friends and take part in constructive activities with friends and has good
relationship with teachers. Never criticize your friends and teachers.

A typical answer to this question could be

Sir, I have been an average/good/poor (depending upon your grades in 10th/12th/Graduation

scores) student from the beginning. Or, initially I was a poor student but later became good by sheer
hard work. The subjects I like the most are Physics and Chemistry and the ones I dislike are
Mathematics and social studies (adapt to your personal likes and dislikes). However, mathematics
being vey important for engineering studies, I put in hard work to make it my strength today. I scored
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80% in my 10 , 76% in my 12 and 70% in my engineering. (This trend could be
reducing/increasing/almost constant depending upon your actual scores. If it is increasing there is no
issue as it reflects that you have been focusing more on academics, if it is reducing you need to
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mention why and if it is constant it is fine.) In my 12 and graduation I took part in several
extracurricular activities like sports, tech-fest, inter college debate and quiz competition etc. I was

my college cricket team captain and we won the district level tournament (Do not bluff. Say so only if
you have participated). I was part of the organizing committee for the tech-fest which was a great
success and our team stood first in the inter-college quiz competition. However, these activities
resulted into some decline in my academic performance. I have several close friends in my college
and locality. They are good friends because we stay together and help each other in studies. We do