Opening and Closing criteria play a vital role in a Group Discussion, the candidate who is going to start the discussion, he/she will get more uninterruptible time, and at the same time evaluator gets the best time to observe the candidates. This opening time is the time where evaluators can analyze the candidates clearly, because only one candidate is talking and the rest of them are silent. If he/she starts the discussion on a good path he will be benefited otherwise he/she will be fired,so the opening criteria is like a double edged sword.
Opening a discussion is a very tough task but you will get more out of that from the evaluator. In Most GDs opening speaker will get maximum time to speak. The evaluator will get a good chance to observe the opening speakers; soit’s a challenge to be an opening speaker.
In the group discussion round, opening speaker talks make sense, if the speaker talks suitable and effective worlds will get credit because he/she opened the discussion and he/she taking the group inthe correct direction. If not, it will be a very big disadvantage for the candidate, because in starting itself, he/she reveals their shortcomings, so evaluators get negative impact on them.
So if you have enough confidence, suitable and valuable content with you (means whenever you have sensible content to say about the topic), then only you should start the discussion, otherwise it’s better to keep yourself silent.
Try to summarize the discussion at the end, this is called GD closing. While you are closing the GD, do not stress on one point of view, means, particularly either negative point of view or positive point of view. You should accommodate both negative and positive sides, means your point of you and others point of, at the last moment of the GD, use some famous saying, it will be helpful to you and if you have any quality points to say, you can tell so that it will help you to get good marks.
