IIM Interview Questions

So when you say statistically outperform, what does that mean?

What is the difference between Statistical Data and Historical Data?

What is risk? How do you measure risk?

But every year I am getting a positive return. So where is the risk?

If you take a return of 8%. Then x minus x-bar is -1%. But if you put it in the formula it gets squared. So negative becomes positive. And over a long period of 20 years, everything will be positive. So where is the risk?

Over a long period, there will be no risk. Isn’t that correct?

Is there a better measure of risk than SD? Don’t you think SD is insufficient?

So tell us about your hobbies.

All this is okay in festivals and everything. Tell us about a hobby that will be useful to us as an academic institution.

Do you read or watch news? How do you get your news?

Tell us the 3 watershed events in the Indian Economy in the past decade.

So why do you think this has happened? I mean it has hurt the economy hard. So why did the people in UP view it so positively?

So how to solve the problems associated with making India Digital?

What is a monopoly? Do monopolies really need marketing?

So are you interested in marketing?

Is advertising the same as marketing?

If I gave you an advertising budget, and asked you to advertise a product, how would you go about it?

Say it’s a product for rural masses. Which medium would you use?

How do you know if your ad is serving its purpose?

How would you actually measure the impact of an ad you’ve placed on a medium?

How would you advertise a luxury car?

So are buyers of luxury cars using System 1 or System 2?