GROUP PLANNING EXERCISE :

The Group planning Exercise is the second test of the GTO test series. In this test a story on a model with a few problems is narrated. What you are required to do is to identify the problems and evolve the practical solution within the given time. You are expected to write down your own individual solution on the paper provided to you. A candidate while giving solution should think logically, write and draw neatly and also examine alternate solutions of the problem. Thereafter your group collective solution will be discussed by the group and you are expected to participate in evolving the group plan acceptable to everyone. One of you may then be asked to explain the acceptable group plan.

EXCELLING IN GROUP PLANNING EXERCISE

1. Write neatly, carefully: You need to maintain a good handwriting while you write your solution. As time will be a constraint so you are likely to mess up your handwriting. There are myths regarding the Group Planning Exercise solution, many people say the GTO never reads it. But you have never been a witness to what happens inside the board, so please write carefully and neatly.

2. Apply Logic: Do not go for bookish solutions. There might be solutions where country is being given more priority and in some life is given priority. It is your own appreciation what you give priority to. There are no hard and fats rules to solve Group Planning Exercise, and I am sure if you stick to others solutions you are likely to fail. So read a few solutions, and what matters the most is applying your brain.

3. Be analytical: Analyzing a problem is even bigger a task than solving it. If you are able to analyze a problem well you can excel in Group Planning Exercise very well. Look out for the minutest details, look out for the resources and apply them in your solution. Read the problem carefully and listen to the instructions very prominently.

4. Divide and conquer: Candidates feel that they have to put the whole group to work for a single problem. This is not the case. You can divide your group in various parts.

5. Listen and take a chance to speak - When you feel the solution which you wrote is not as good as the plan others are speaking, change your side. Go with the plan you think suits the best.

6. Learn to find mistakes: If you can learn the art of finding small mistakes in others plans, you can come up as the hero in the planning exercise. Listen to their plan and find small mistakes, do not say them in a condescending manner, instead comment politely, that you plan is good but lacks this. Do opt yourself for the person who narrates the group story.