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The CIMA Mind Challenge was held at Waters Edge on 27th April 2008, where the team from Wisdom Business Academy successfully became the winners of the competition beating the Dialog Telecom team at the final round by a mammoth margin of over 100 points. The CIMA Mind Challenge is a mastermind quiz competition testing various knowledge areas of students, not merely confined to the CIMA curriculum, but also covers questions from several areas including current affairs, general knowledge, CIMA curriculum, entertainment, sports, business affairs etc. Leading commercial establishments in the business and financial sectors participate in this annual event, which is organized by The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Students Society (CIMASS). It is praiseworthy to note that Wisdom Business Academy has emerged champions of the CIMA Mind Challenge in four occasions and runners up once since the 2002
This year the event was held in two rounds and 26 teams from the mercantile sector establishments such as Amba Research, HSBC, Dialog, Ernst & Young, SJMS participated competing with the teams from leading CIMA institutes. In the first round the participating teams completed in a table-quiz which comprised 6 rounds with 10 questions in each round and the teams had to answer the questions in a paper based format. At the end of the First round 8 teams were qualified for the Second round leaving out 18 teams in the audience. The second and final round was on a direct answer basis and there were 80 questions presented to the participating teams, where the team answered through their captains at the press of a buzzer. Wisdom Quiz Team took the lead by achieving 215 points with the utmost challenge, defeating the other teams by maintaining a lead of 100 points with the Dialog Team who became Runners up.
Wisdom not only focuses on the academic activities but also provides opportunities for its students to improve their soft skills in various disciplines such as quiz competitions, debates and other social events. The Championship at the CIMA Mind Challenge 2008 is another milestone of their numerous achievements which adds on to the success story of Wisdom.
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