Syllabus & Preparation Tips || Management Trainee for Central Warehousing Corporation

The Central Warehousing Corporation, CWC is conducting exam for Management Trainee (General) to be held in 2019. Let us understand the syllabus, notification and some preparation for this prestigious job. First let us understand the Syllabus and then jump on to the Preparation Tips.

Broadly the syllabus of Management Trainee, CWC can be divided into following 10 buckets:

Bucket No 1: Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior:Recruitment and Selection, Employee Discipline, Compensation Management& Performance Management, Human Resource Development: Strategies and Systems, Manpower Planning, Management of Training and Development, Dispute resolution and Grievance Management, Organisation Behaviour, Organizational Change and Intervention Strategies, Interpersonal Processes and Counselling Skills for Managers, Change & Conflict Management.

Bucket No 2: Industrial Relations and Labour Laws: Management of Industrial Relations & Labour Legislation, Trade Unions. Please note that CWC has not clearly defined last of labour acts. We advise you to read at least 7 of them; namely, Factories Act, Trade Union Act, Industrial Disputes Act,  Employee Compensation Act, ESIC Act, Provident Funds Act, ESIC Act.

Bucket No 3: Marketing Management: Concept, Marketing of Services, Advertising and Brand Management, Segmentation and Positioning, Rural and Social Marketing, Promotion Management and B2B Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, Consumer Behaviour, Marketing Research, Internet as a Tool of Marketing, Pricing Theories, Concepts of Supply Chain (Channel Management, Sales Management, Distribution Management, Wholesalers and Retailers, Packaging)

Bucket No 4: Operations Management: Total Quality Management, Aggregate Planning,  Inventory Planning and Management, Service Operations Management, Business Process Re-engineering, Concepts of Supply Chain (Inventory Management, Demand Planning, transportation Problem, Queuing, ERP)

Bucket No 5: Computer Aptitude:There is no defined syllabus. We advise students to study following topics: Types of MIS, Anatomy of Computer, generations of computers, Memory, Software, Open systems, Computer Languages, Computer Networking, OSI model, Topology of Network, Cloud Computing, Internet and e-Business, TPS, SDLC, Software testing, Securing Information Systems, Legal framework in India (Data Protection Act of India and Europe),Cybersecurity, ERP, DataWarehouse and Data-Mining, Databases, Knowledge Management, AI and Big Data, Neural network, Key terms

Bucket No 6: Other Topics- Rural Marketing, Online Marketing, Retail Management, Exports and International Logistics, Indian Contract Act 1872 (Contract Management), Concepts of Supply Chain (Demand Forecasting)

Bucket No 7: Reasoning and Quantitative Aptitude– There is no defined syllabus. We advise students to focus on reasoning questions like coding-decoding, syllogism, number series, letter series, directions, ages, relationships, seating arrangement, ranking etc.

Bucket No 8: Data Interpretation: There is no defined syllabus. Try to understand methods of faster calculation.

Bucket 9: English Language: No defined syllabus, but expected level of difficulty will be moderate. Should be cakewalk, for anyone, who has completed MBA (because you might have prepared for MBA entrance exams)

Bucket 10: General Awareness:  There is no defined syllabus. This is unlimited ocean. From preparation point of view, just ignore. This section will not be a deciding factor (almost everyone has same level). Keep reading newspapers, as much as you can, nothing more.

It is very important to score high in written exam only. One reason is that the competition will be high for this coveted job. Second reason is that the interviews are usually unpredictable. You have to secure your seat with high score in written, so that even if you mess up in Interview, you are still IN. 

But, how do we get Amazing Score in written exam of CWC Management Trainee?

Based on our experience at Human Peritus, following are important preparation tips to crack Management Trainee-General exam of Central Warehousing Corporation, CWC:

Challenge Number 1, The CWC Management Trainee- General exam requires speed of 1 minute per question (you have to solve 200 questions in 180 minutes, separately timed for each section). This means, you will need amazing “time management” skills.

You can’t afford to spend disproportionately large time on one question, even if you are sure to get it right. You have to learn art of to skipping tougher question and move to next question. It might look trivial, but we have been seeing many students, over the years, who could not attempt all questions (and thus missed easy ones), because they spent more time on tougher questions.

And this “Art of Skipping and Moving to next question” does not come naturally. You have to practice it. The focus should be, to not to miss even a single EASY question. This is the most important part, even more important than preparation efforts.

Challenge Number 2 is the topic of Labour Laws. There are 15 labour laws, which are generally studied in Industrial Relations. Which one to study and which one to ignore. How do we remember, each line of labour acts, considering the language in which they are written? But this is deal breaker section. You can not ignore it.

We advise you to read at least 7 Labour Laws; namely, Factories Act, Trade Union Act, Industrial Disputes Act,  Employee Compensation Act, ESIC Act, Provident Funds Act, ESIC Act.

Challenge Number 3 is time taken by questions of Quantitative/Reasoning/DI. Please keep in mind that you will be competing with the people, each of whom has prepared for CAT and other MBA entrances in their lives. So everyone will be able to attempt questions in these sections. Only challenge is, whether, they will be able to do at speed of 1 minute per question. You will not be able to attempt all questions. Identify your strengths, before you enter the examination hall.

Challenge Number 4 is one-fourth negative marking. What to do with tougher questions? You have to use strategy of elimination for difficult questions. If you can eliminate 0 option- 25% of getting it right, If you can eliminate 1 option- 33% of getting it right, If you can eliminate 2 options- 50% of getting it right. Attempt the question, ONLY if you are able to eliminate at least 2 options, so that, there are at least 50% chances of getting it right. Otherwise, leave the question unattempted. 

Challenge Number 5 is the coverage of syllabus.  Please stick to topics mentioned in the syllabus. Do not get lost in unlimited ocean of books.

Challenge Number 6 is General Awareness. We advise you to not to put special efforts for this part, as anything can be asked. Just stick to Newspapers, as much as you can. Otherwise its OK. This section will not decide, if you are IN/OUT.

We, at Human Peritus, have prepared a 2 Component Preparation Plan (Click Here) for Management Trainee, CWC exam. Based on syllabus released, this is most concise and targeted approach and can get you 180/235 in the exam. Please Click Here to understand the preparation plan, with which you can prepare in 20-30 days only for this prestigious job.

Please note that you need NOT refer any other book or previous year Papers. Nothing else. We, at Human Peritus,  have it all covered for you. 

Please write to us at contact@humanperitus.com (we reply within 24 hours)

The detailed notification/advertisement of Central warehousing Corporation can be viewed at  Click Here

All the Best.