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S No College/Institute
1.
Indian Inst. of Foreign Trade, Delhi
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23. Symbosis Institute of Operations
Management(2017-18)
24. Symbiosis Institute of Telecom Management
(2017-18)
25. S.P. Jain Institute of Management and
Research, Mumbai (2017-18)
26. T. A. Pai Management Institute (2017-18)
27. Tata Inst. of Social Sciences (2017-18)
28. Xavier Inst. of Mgmt., Bhubaneswar (2017-18)
29. Xavier Labour Relations Institute,
Jamshedpur (2017-18)
30. Birla Institute of Management Technology
(2017 - 18)
31. Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi (2017 -
18)
32.
Goa Institute of Management, Goa (2017 - 18)
33. Great Lakes Institute of Management,
Chennai (2017 - 18)
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Indian Inst. of Foreign Trade, Delhi (2017-18)
Personal Interview:
Average Duration: 5-25 minutes
No. of Panelists: 3
Excerpts from Interview 1
Candidate Profile: Working as a senior analyst in
Capegemini
What's your role in your workplace? What is the
connection between data analytics and foreign trade?
Tell me about descriptive, prescriptive and predictive
analysis. Did you predict anything for Valentine's Day?
Why don't you go into politics? From which other B-
schools have you received calls?
Excerpts from Interview 2
Candidate Profile: Fresher, B. Tech (Mechanical)
So what do you think we are going to ask you? Why didn’t
you opt for a job after your graduation in 2017? Why
should a fresher go for an MBA without any work
experience? Why should we choose you over someone
with work experience who is obviously going to
contribute more in class? What exactly FMCG means?
Name five famous FMCG in India. Are Nestle and
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Cadbury different? How does marketing help an FMCG?
What is the difference between a conductor and semi-
conductor? What is this p and n region you are talking
about? Can you draw their diagrams? Explain semi-
conductor in layman terms. How is data transmitted
exactly? What is the difference between current and
charge? Do you know about total internal reflection? You
didn’t convert IIF call last year. What happened? Did you
get any coaching for CAT? What other calls have you
got?
Excerpts from Interview 3
Candidate Profile: B. Tech (Electronics) with work
experience
Why do you want to pursue MBA? Do you have work
experience? Why are you leaving a good firm? How will
you link your start-up thoughts to your Electronics
stream? Will you do the job after MBA or start your own
start-up? Tell us about some global events that have the
major impact on the business world and International
trade?
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Indian Institute of Management, Shillong (2017-
18)
Personal Interview
Average Duration: 20-25minutes
No. of Panelists: 2
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about teaching this thing to young kids? Is India a
peninsula? What is a peninsula? Which is the
southernmost point of India? Where are you from? (The
candidate mentioned Indore) Do you know the history of
Indore? How did Holkars come to power? Are Rajasthanis
the majority population in Indore? What is Indore famous
for? You read too? What genre do you read? What sort?
Noddy or Harry Potter? Which book is your favorite? So
you know about Greek mythology. Who was Zeus? Who
is Zeus's Roman counterpart? What is Mercury's relation
with Zeus? Are they related at all? What is the difference
between Cost Accounting and Management Accounting?
Have you studied ratio analysis? What is Inventory
turnover ratio? What is Interest coverage Ratio?
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Indian Institute of Management, Indore (2017-
18)
Personal Interview
Average Duration: 10-30 minutes
No. of Panelists: 3
Excerpts from Interview 1
Candidate Profile: Fresher, B.Tech (Aeronautical)
Tell me something you have not mentioned in your CV.
What are your extracurriculars? Tell in detail. What is
current account deficit? What is the current economic
scenario? What is dollar imbalance? How does change in
America’s interest rates affect Indian economy? Where
do you see yourself, five years from now?
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Extempore- You are given a time of 30 seconds, speak
about: how Indian economy could collapse in next 5
years?
You said real interest rates, what are they? Private
investment demand is a function of? Why private
investment reacts to the interest rates? If private
investment is increased by 1 billion $ then GDP will rise
by greater than it, lower than or equal to it? And why?
Multiplier is a function of? Do you know about civics or
geography? Who are Parsees, where did they come from?
Name any Parsee personality. Where do Jews live in
India? What is the holy book of Sikhs and how many
gurus were there and who was the last guru? Any
question for us?
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Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
(2017 - 18)
Personal Interview
Average Duration: 20-35 minutes
No. of Panelists: 2
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unethical? (The candidate mentioned about case of a
dam set up on river Narmada) Who made this dam?
Where is this dam situated? Where is the river Narmada?
Please draw it on the map. Is it in Himachal Pradesh?
The candidate drew a large circle around Gujarat and to
its right.) So it is in Rajasthan? Okay you have mentioned
in your SOP that you have also mentioned that
production always prefers a buffer of excess inventory.
What does this statement mean? Why do they prefer long
running jobs? Why do they want to reduce changeovers?
What are the costs involved? What other costs are there?
What about labour cost? Let us talk about other
industries and not the manufacturing industry. Do you
think there are changeover costs associated with other
industries? What about software industry? What if we
finish that program properly and now move onto another
program? But don’t you think that there would be training
costs involved? Tell me difference between operation of
external and internal combustion engine. Tell me about
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the laws of thermodynamics. What do you do during your
free time? (The candidate mentioned about playing
football.) Who is the captain of the Indian Football Team?
India is a country where there is a lot of income
inequality. What can be done to solve that problem?
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water? Are you trying to pull off a Narmada canal here?
(Some more specific questions on the same topic) Where
do you see yourself in 10 years? (The candidate
mentioned teaching) Why? So who is nobler, a Teacher or
a Doctor? (The candidate’ mother works in education
department and his father is a doctor)
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Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
(2017 - 18)
Personal Interview
Average Duration: 20-30 minutes
No. of Panelists: 3
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only for 7 months. Why not continue at ITC? Tell me the
current share price of ITC. (The interviewer handed a
paper to the candidate). Please draw here how the share
price varied over the past 1 year. When was GST
implemented? You have shown that the price increased
after that. Why did it increase? How have the share
prices been affected over the past 1 week? Tell us about
VIT. How was life there? (The candidate mentioned about
playing football) So you were a player as well as a
manager? So you mentioned that you have a
multicultural team. How did you manage? Did they know
English? Why 4-1- 2-3? What is the role of the 1 here? So
did you have Chinese people in VIT? How are they? I
mean how are they at academics? But the Chinese claim
that they have premier universities. Why would they
come over to study in India? So there were no Chinese
members in your football team? Oh, but they are
proficient coders. Are they not? Okay, coming back to
ITC. Tell me what you have you learnt there? Tell me one
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instance when you dealt with something and you learnt
and gained a lot from that experience. So it turned out
okay in the end? But don’t you have a boss who
supervises all this? Considering the volumes at stake?
Okay, so the orders you place. Do you have any price
agreements in place? How is the gross contribution?
What goes into the variable cost? How do you deal with
imports?
So, you are from Kota? Where is it? Why is Kota in news
nowadays? What else in Kota? Do you know the recent
statement of HRD Minister? Do you read any newspaper?
Do they post all the news links? Why do they post the
links? How they are going to reduce the syllables? What
did you study in 12th Physics? What did you study in
Thermodynamics? What is the first law of
thermodynamics? How will they reduce the syllabus?
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Which language is not important among these? What do
you think is the reason behind student suicides? In every
city of the country, coaching centers are there, but why
do suicides happen in Kota? So you did this Supplier
Improvement project. Tell us about it. What was your
contribution in this? Why do you want to improve these
suppliers? Why did you tolerate these suppliers so long?
When can you move to the new suppliers? Which parts
do they supply? Is headlamp an important part? Is it an
aesthetic part? Tell us about your work, what do you do?
If your company MD comes to you and asks you to
choose any department, which one you will choose? Are
you sure? Tell us about your marketing project. Is it your
regular job? Do you think Tata Nano is a poor product? Is
it a successful product? What are the reasons behind its
failure? Can you tell us about any other marketing
campaign? How did they turn around? How can you use
the IoT to improve the Quality of Parts? Do you know IoT?
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Excerpt from Interview 3
Candidate profile: Fresher, B. Tech (Mechanical)
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So, why would you fill up an aero plane with tennis balls?
How will you make a kid understand how big an aircraft
is? Don’t you think it would be better to make him or her
imagine the size of aero plane by gestures rather than
telling these calculations? So, you have interest in music
and I can see that you have done diploma in Tabla with a
merit position. Then why not make a career in Tabla?
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Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (2017 -
18)
Personal Interview
Average Duration: 30 minutes
No. of Panelists: 3
Do you work with L&T currently? Why did you leave your
job? What are your goals? (The candidate mentioned
operations analyst/consultant?)What do you mean by
operations analyst/consultant? Can’t you get the same in
your company? What if you don’t get admission? (The
candidate replied he will apply abroad for fall season)
Study outside is costly. Can you afford it? Which courses
are you looking for? So what is the plan here, 5 years
down the line? What are types of gears? Why are they
used? What did you do in seminar presentation? Explain
what you did? What is 3D printing? What are its types
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and ISO? Explain 3D printing and how it works? Does L&T
use 3D printing? Okay, not your division, then the group
as whole, any subsidiary? So, you like movies that teach
something about life, tell me one. Did you follow quora
and pagalguy for interviews? Any question for us?
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know what it is? Do you read? Which was the last book
you read? Tell me one famous line from that book.
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should it take? You mentioned shareholders. Who owns
the shares of PNB? You wrote that you're interested in
strategy. What do you understand by strategy? So what
would your strategy be as the CEO of the company? You
said there are people with a B. Tech working with you.
Why would they work at a lesser position? Do you have
any questions for us?
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Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
(2017 - 18)
Personal Interview
Average Duration: 20 minutes.
No. of Panelists: 2
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willing to give up on IIM K for the club you admire? Which
company do you work in? What is your role there? What
are the components found in the circuit board of a
Cellphone? Name two companies that manufacture the
chips of mobile phones. Give me two names for OS of
mobile phones that are not very popular. When Microsoft
bought Nokia, couple of employees from Nokia refused
to join Microsoft and decided to start their own handset-
making company. Name that company. (A couple of
questions were asked on candidate’s family background)
Any questions for us?
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Excerpt from Interview 3
Candidate Profile: B. Tech (CSE) with work experience in
Samsung
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Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (2017
- 18)
Personal Interview
Average Duration: 15-20 minutes
No. of Panelists: 2
33
Excerpt from Interview 2
Candidate Profile: Fresher, B.Com
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How is power distributed in India? What are the woes of
the distribution sector in India? What are your hobbies?
Which adventure sport is your favorite? Which author do
you follow? Which novel by this author have you last
read?
36
New IIMs- Common Admission Process (CAP)
(2017 - 18)
Personal Interview
Average Duration: 10-15 minutes
No. of Panelists: 2-7
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What all subjects have you studied during under
graduation? What are the functions of HR? Tell me about
different types of interviews? How can we check the
efficiency of our recruitment process? Tell me the 4 P's
and 7 P's of marketing? Have you studied Taxation? (The
panel gave a situation based on it and then cross-
questioned) How is the president of India elected? Name
the seven sisters with capital? Have you read about any
major news in past six months? What is it? How will it
impact firms and consumers? (Again gave a situation
and cross-questioned on it).
So, what have you been doing all this time? Are you
placed? Why do you think Indian IT sector is facing a
downturn? What do you know about Indian economic
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slowdown? According to you, what is the main highlight
of Indian budget? How do you think government is going
to generate so much money for this scheme? What is a
venture? What is Cp/Cv ratio? What are your hobbies?
How many places have you been? So, which place do you
want to visit again? Which is the government in
Maharashtra? Name the Chief Minister of Maharashtra?
So, which of the new IIMs is closest to your place? Which
IIM would you prefer to go to? (The candidate talked
about TedX) Which other new IIMs conduct Ted X?
(No extempore)
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railway junctions of North India and South India? Tell me
how CSE is relevant in robotics? What is humanoid?
What creative feature will you add in your rover to Mars?
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activities? Do you have reservation? What is fuzzy logic?
What is the difference between optical fibres and copper
cables? Why are they preferred? Who is the father of
fuzzy logic? You are from a State University. What is the
difference between State and deemed universities? What
is the difference between State and Central universities?
Name some Central Universities. What are the
advantages and disadvantages of State and Central
Universities? What will u choose? and why? Write these
two linear equations in matrix form.
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International Management Institute, Delhi (2017
- 18)
Personal Interview
Average Duration: 15-25 minutes
No. of Panelists: 2
How are you? Is this your first interview? What other calls
do you have? Tell me about yourself. What do you like
and your family background? So, you are in final year of
B. tech, have you got the placements? Which company?
And what is your domain? How is the company? What is
the number of employees in the company? So, which
specialization are you planning for? (The candidate
mentioned finance) What do you know about it? We want
students to have work experience for MBA, so why do
you want to do MBA now? You should have some
experience, then it would be much beneficial. What is
SEBI and what does it do? What is stock exchange? How
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it is managed? What are IPO and FPO? What are listed
and non-listed companies? Who is governor of RBI?
Name the deputy governors of RBI? Who is the Vice
president of India? Which newspaper do you read? (The
panel asked about the capitals of some states) Your
academics are good enough, what are you interested in
apart from studies? (The candidate mentioned about
playing cricket) Who is the captain of U-19 cricket world
cup and who is the head coach of U-19? So, what do you
think, what is the major factor behind this extraordinary
performance of U-19 in the world cup? Who is your
favorite player? (The candidate mentioned Rahul Dravid.
The panel asked about some stats on Rahul Dravid
career.)
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Excerpt from Interview 2
Candidate Profile: B. Tech (CSE), working as freelance
content writer
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Is SRK the right person to advertise it? Is SRK a suitable
actor for intellectual cinema audience? Do you know
about Shyam Benegal?
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Institute of Management and Technology
Ghaziabad (2017 -18)
Personal Interview
No. of Panelists: 2
47
Excerpt from Interview 2
Candidate Profile: B. Tech - Electronics
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Excerpt from Interview 4
Candidate Profile: Fresher
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K.J. Somaiya Inst. of Mgmt. Studies & Research
(2017 - 18)
Personal Interview
No. of Panelists: 2
50
Excerpts from Interview 2
Candidate Profile: Work ex
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Excerpts from Interview 4
Candidate Profile: Fresher, engineer
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Loyola Institute of Business Administration,
Chennai (2017 - 18)
Personal Interview
No. of Panelists: 3
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up? How many hours do you study? What are your
hobbies?
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Management Development Institute, Gurgaon
(2017 - 18)
Personal Interview
No. of panelists: 2
You are already into corporate. Why are you here? So,
you did your B.tech in which branch? So, you do stand
up? Can you do a 5 min set for us? What are your
hobbies? What do you write? Which genre in poems? You
read books? – of what genre? What is philosophy? Tell
me about any famous philosopher. Can we ask questions
on current affairs? Have you prepared for it? (No
questions asked on current affairs) Have you ever
thought of going for UPSC? Have you heard of Maruti?
Suppose Suzuki wants to make an entry in your sector
and Suzuki management appoints you as an advisory.
What advice will you give? How do our machines damage
road?
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Excerpts from Interview 2
Candidate Profile: B. tech CSE, work ex
How are you feeling? Why are you excited? Tell me the
names of subjects from first year of your btech? What is
database? What is relational database, primary key and
secondary key? What is the tester’s role in project? What
is the first thing a person thinks on joining Infosys? Why
did you leave Infosys? Who is CEO of Vinsol? (The
candidate had worked in Infosys and Vinsol) What are
the disadvantages of offshore?
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writes www.yahoo.com) Tell me why do we use dot as
separator and not slash or comma or other characters?
What steps would you follow to bring about change in
your organization? List them. Ok, so I am from a state
where girls are not allowed to go to school. They think
girls are a liability. How would you solve this problem?
Give me a self sustainable solution to this problem.
What's your percentile? What other calls you have? Why
would you join MDI? Do you have any questions about us
or the institute?
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Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal
(2017 - 18)
Personal Interview
No. of panelists: 3
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management? Which are the popular rivers in your state?
What do you think the state can do to manage the
pollution in water bodies? What are your goals after
completing your MBA?
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Inst. for Financial Mgmt. & Research, Chennai
(2017 - 18)
Personal Interview
Excerpt from Interview 1
Candidate Profile: B. tech Fresher
Duration: 20 mins
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Introduce yourself? What do you know about finance
accounting? Explain the demand and supply cycle? What
do you understand by money supply? What are your
strengths and weaknesses? Do you know the specialty of
Anand? Why do you want to do MBA? Which
specialization will you opt for?
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National Institute of Industrial Engineering (2017
- 18)
Personal Interview
No. of Panelists: 4
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at your company? How do you decide which parts to
check?
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Excerpts from Interview 3
Candidate Profile: Working in Automobile sector
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Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
(17-18)
Personal Interview
No. of panelists: 3
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Why engineers are opting for MBA? (The candidate is
working in Deloitte) Deloitte is paying you handsomely.
Why don't you want to go for a job change? What did you
do in Deloitte that you are really proud of? What did you
prepare for the interview? Tell us what have you prepared
best and what should we ask you? (The candidate
mentioned his love for food) Mention some food outlets
in Bangalore. There are a lot of lakes with foam. Do you
know the reason? What should be done? Why Bangalore
is called the city of gardens? Which specialization would
you choose? (The candidate mentioned about his extra-
curricular activities in graduation) What did you learn
from your extra-curricular activities?
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Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human
Resource Development, Pune (2017-18)
Personal Interview
No. of panelists: 2
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(The panel handed a piece of paper to the candidate) So
this is a case. You have to read it and suggest your
course of action.)
So you suggested that you will take the entire team and
approach a person. Won't your boss get very angry about
that? How will you feel if some 10 people approach you
and tell you that you are wrong? Have you heard the
phrase "Boss is always right"? So, according to you, the
customer is always right? You have Sanskrit scholarship
for two consecutive years. Can you recite a Sanskrit
shloka for us? When you walk out of this room, tell us
why should we feel, this is the candidate who has to be
selected?
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SIBM, Bangalore (2017-18)
Personal Interview
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Introduce yourself? Name 5 business persons originated
from India. You don’t know any women entrepreneur?
Name any 3 women entrepreneurs. What are your
hobbies? What form of martial arts do you practice?
What is the difference between Taekwondo and martial
arts? Why is compound interest used in banking? Why do
you want to do MBA? To implement your business plan
all you need is money, which you can get even without
doing MBA, then why you need a degree?
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Symbiosis Institute of International Business,
Pune (2017-18)
Personal Interview
Average Duration : 10-15 mins
No. of Panelists : 3
Excerpts from Interview 1
Candidate Profile: Fresher, Graduate in agricultural
engineering
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Introduce yourself. Who is the CM of your state? What is
your profile and role in your company? Which project are
you currently working on? What affect will automation
have on the IT sector? Companies like Nokia and Kodak
were on the top of the market a decade ago, then what
happened now? What is the reason for this downfall? As
a business head, how will you handle such a situation?
Why do you want to do MBA?
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return to Banking after your MBA? What are your views
about recent Salman Rushdie row?
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Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management
(2017-18)
Personal Interview
Excerpts from Interview 1
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Symbiosis Institute of Telecom Management
(2017-18)
Personal Interview
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S.P. Jain Institute of Management and
Research, Mumbai (2017-18)
Group Interview (2 rounds)
No. of Panelists : 3
Duration : 30-40 minutes
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So what do you know about union budget? What is twin
balance sheet problem? Do you know about NPA
problem in Public sector banks in India? What is FRDI
bill? What is the impact of demonetization? What are the
pros and cons of Minimum Support Price for the
agriculture sector? What is priority sector lending? What
quantum of loans are turning NPA corporate loans or
small priority sector loans and why? What are your
hobbies? (The candidate mentioned nail art and painting
as her hobby) How would you conduct a market research
to understand the customers who would want to pursue
nail art or what would be your market segmentation for
nail art?
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ethical dilemma that you faced? Was there any news that
shook you recently? Do you have any questions for us?
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T. A. Pai Management Institute (2017-18)
Personal Interview
No. of Panelists : 2
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Tell us about yourself. (Many questions asked on
candidate’s life experiences) What major challenges
have you faced till now? So, how did you cope up with
these situations? Why should we select you? Why
banking course? What interests you in banking? Why did
you apply for this college with regards to BKFS?
Why did you apply for all three courses? Why HR? Tell me
one such policy of your company that you would like to
change? Have you mentored anyone? Tell us one terrible
experience that you had at your workplace. What did you
learn from it? What should be the role of an ideal HR?
What do you think is the most important role of an HR?
What would be your preferred ranking if you get selected
for all three?
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Introduce yourself. Why PGDM? Do you have any regrets
in life? Have you motivated anyone in life? What is the
most important lesson that you have learnt in your
professional world? What are your hobbies? How was
your HR interview? How did your GD go?
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Tata Inst. of Social Sciences (2017-18)
Personal Interview
No. of panelists : 3
Duration : 15-30 minutes
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Excerpt from Interview 2
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Xavier Inst. of Mgmt., Bhubaneswar (2017-18)
Personal Interview
Your 10th and graduation marks are good but why was
there a drop in 12th? Which subject did you like in 12th?
(The candidate mentioned chemistry) Where is isopropyl
alcohol found? Where is acetone found? Define ‘mean’.
What separates Asia from Europe? (another question
from geography), What is the revenue of Infosys? (The
candidate works in Infosys) Who are the founders of
Infosys? What does a Voltmeter do? What does an
Ammeter do? What is the difference between congruency
and similarity? What is geometric progression? So, what
are your job responsibilities?
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Excerpts from Interview 2
Candidate Profile : Fresher, B.E (ECE) (shortlisted for BM)
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Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur
(2017-18)
Personal Interview
No. of panelists : 3
Duration : 15-30 minutes
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Tell us something about your job? What is your role?
How is a bubble chart better than a bar chart? You have
data of infant mortality, average life expectancy and
literacy rate. They’ve no correlation between them so
how would you visualize it in one chart. Draw the same.
Tell me two things that you don’t like about your
company. Tell us about your clients. You don’t need to
name them just industry/domain. What do you do in your
free time? Which books have you read? Tell me about the
last trip you had. What did you learn from the trip?
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mentioned financial management) So, what all did you
study there? What is capital budgeting? What are
financial ratios? Can you give us an example when
someone has been angry at you? Are you a single child?
Tell us about an incident where you saw something
wrong being done and you were powerless to stop it,
something from your work. What does your father do?
Tell me why MBA? What kind of role are you looking for
post MBA? Did you give cat? Which other calls do you
have?
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Birla Institute of Management Technology (2017
- 18)
Personal Interview
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Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi (2017 -
18)
Personal Interview
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Excerpts from Interview 2
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So you are born in Ahmedabad, did your petroleum
engineering in PDPU Gandhinagar and presently work as
plant engineer at GSFC,right? What is GsFC? Is it a state
PSU? Extempore-Think for 10-15 seconds and speak for
one minute on “Subsidy in Fertilizer sector". So what is
status of food security in India? So as a policy maker
what steps would you take? You mentioned leakages
right so what steps would you take to curtail them? What
do you do in your free time? Which games? You
mentioned reading Books, which books?
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Goa Institute of Management, Goa (2017 - 18)
Personal Interview
Round 1:
No. of Panelists: 2
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intelligence? What is the difference between sales and
marketing?
Round 2:
No. of Panelists: 3-4
Duration: 30 minutes
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plaguing Bangalore? What are the solutions? (The
candidate belonged to Bangalore)
Round 1:
No. of Panelists: 2
Round 2:
No. of Panelists: 3
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Duration: 10-15 minutes
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Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai
(2017 - 18)
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