We reached bangalore on march 11. We were staying in an apartment (which itself was very cozy) which was just 2km frm the central railway station and iisc.
I reached the campus at 7.30 am on march 12th though the reporting time was 9 am. We had breakfast from a good restaurant inside the campus and had a long walk back to the Department of Management Studies. There was even an underground subway inside the campus (which is the same size as the one you can find in Trivandrum).
We were supposed to register before the presentation and I found many absent. Here there were 6 girls including me. Around 60 or so people were present.
During the presentation, the prof gave a statistics... Total of 30000 were supposed to write Jmet. A total of 28000 odd took the exam. Of the students who qualified, IISc got 650 odd application and they chose 250 for the process. After the gd/pi they will select 20. The unique thing about IISc is that they have no waitlist.... So those 20 to whom they give the call are the only students who join there. If they happen to not join for any reason then they will leave that seat vacant wasting another student's chance...
I met 3 mallus during the process of which 2 were frm MEC, 2006 batch and 1 a pass out frm CET. There was no active participation of the students like what I saw in Bombay. The seniors there were mostly interacting with us and very willing to help us out for anything..
Everyone was split into groups. There were a total of 5 groups each with around 10 people.
GD:
Since mine was the 4th group we had to wait till the 1st 3 finished their gd.
The gd topic was ‘Bollywood heroes are poor role models’.
We had been given 5 minutes to think, 15 min for discussion and 3 minutes to summarize. The panel will just give the topic and ask you to start. You will have to time yourself and carry thru the different stages of the gd. The gd didn’t go too good as people were practically shouting without showing any lenience to anyone. Even though some people tried to bring some useful points there were mostly repetition of points by the same person or irrelevant points. All together it was not a good one.
I tried my best to be an active participant thru out but in vain... People were practically cutting you and speaking... so it was more like a war of voice... The person with the loudest booming voice can survive there.... Just like any other field... Survival of the fittest !!PI:
I had the PI only by 3.30pm even though my gd got over at 11.45 am. So we had a relaxed lunch... There were 2 panels for the PI. I was in the non statistics panel.
The panel had 6 members including a lady panelist. ( 2 of them were mallus). The panelists of the gds need not be the ones for the pi. But for me they were also present.
Some of the questions asked to me were:
Introduce yourself.
Why mba?
What is the sum of the first 100 natural numbers?
What is the sum of the cube of first 100 natural numbers?
What is fourier transform? Why do we need it?
Rank the IITs according to your preference.
Compare IIT B with IISc. (Most of the candidates were asked this)
What role should the management assume to deal with the union problems?
Why is the industrial growth very low in Kerala?
Overall it went ok
... the other panels were even asking basic mathematics like fourier series, differential equations and integration 
There were people who went in the beginning who were asked to explain CMOS manufacturing
... Hearing this question me, Iyas and Anand (both 2006 batch EC, MEC) were running to meet a batch mate of their's who was doing his M.Tech there ( after quitting Nvidia)... yea you can find all sorts of people at IISc... He was explaining the whole process of manufacturing over lunch....The campus is really beautiful and anyone interested in research will find IISc the best place. One will find plenty of options there....
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