IIM Interview Questions

What do you want to specialise in?

If you like marketing why do you want to get into strategy, you have no experience or education with that?

Will you choose IIML or IIMB?

Tell me something about yourself

Have you given a bribe?

Didn't you pay a bribe to a policeman while riding a bike?

One good and bad thing about Gorakhpur?

If Devesh is made a chief minister for a day, what will he do?

One of your positive qualities and one negative?

Mimic Prime Minister Modi.

What can I expect from the PI panel if I say I'm interested in entrepreneurship?

So it is not something bad I'm thinking if I say yes I want to pursue this entrepreneurship path with the help of this e-cell in the campus?

If I want to startup my venture and I worked for a successful startup but later gave off the job and joined an established company to see how that works plus I had interest in the work which this established company does, so how to explain this to the panel. I mean I want to startup but I gave a startup job too in the past because of certain reasons.

Is there any specific set of recurring questions in the process? How does one go about preparing for the next round? Do throw some light on the process and some Key Performance Indicators that the panel looks for?

For the question what has inspired you or significant change in your life? Is it ok to say that when for the first time I scored 90+ percent in 3rd std. I loved the feeling and saw my parent's proud face and since then I have tried to put my 100% in everything I do.

Is some background information regarding startups required if I say that I want to be an entrepreneur?

Can questions on hobbies/interests make or break the interview or are they just to test your passion?

I aspire to be an investment banker or a hedge fund manager so is this appropriate straight forward answer to why MBA?

What the interviewers are really looking for in a candidate at the time of PI?

In PI, how much important it is to tell your goals which are relevant to campus placements, i.e. the profiles which companies recruit from the college? What should be my answer in case where my long term ambition is not aligned that well with placements? How should I go about convincing the panel?

What do interviewers look for when they ask "Why MBA"?

If a person is not highly career oriented but do have some other major goals. Is that a negative?