IIM CAP Interview experience 2025

IIM CAP Interview experience 2025 Hey everyone! I will be sharing my interview experience of CAP IIMs. Afternoon slot, Feb 19th Venue: Delhi NCR-1 at Lemon Tree & Red Fox Hotel, Gurugram My profile: 9/9/7, Chemical Engineer, Female It started with column wise seating arrangment based on panel number. and around 2:00 PM, we had our wat at Lemon tree. WAT topic: India in olympics, what next? Wrote an essay of 300 words in 20 minutes. Then documents were verified and we were sent to another hotel, Redfox for the PI. I went inside and there were two panelists, one in the age of 50s and another in his 40s. Let's call them P1 and P2 respectively. I said good afternoon sir, may I sit. P1 was replying to me while P2 was noting down soemthing. P1: So, Tell me a little bit about yourself? (Told) P1: So, what's the structure of the Dual Degree program you are pursuing at IIT Delhi? (Told) P2 got interested in listening now. P1: What's your M. Tech project all about? (Told) P1: So, it's pure technical. P1: You also mentioned Research papers on Machine Learning? What techniques did you use? P1: Can you tell how did you use decision tree? (Told) P1: Don't you think that decision tree and random forest is used for categorical classification and not regression. (I said, it's used for both) P1: Don't you think Linear regression would have done better? (Told) P2 interrupted: How did you messure the accuracy of the model? (Told) P1: Difference types of Machine Learning? (Told) P2: What is reinforcement Learning? (I was unsure, so tolde them clearly) P1 jokingly said: Naam toh suna hi hoga! P1: Leave it tell me, What is entropy? (Told) All along, P2 was laughing at me which was creating a stressful situation but I tried to stay cool. P1: So, why do you want to do an MBA when you are already from an IIT Delhi? (Told) P1: Tell me 3 problems at IIT Delhi. (Took 30 seconds and Told) P2 interrupted and added: Also, give the solution to each problem as a manager. (Told) P1: I'm done, now P2 will take over. This was the beginning of the rapid fire questions. P2: Who is the governor of uttarakhand? (don't know sir) P2: Who is the governor of Odisha? (sorry sir, don't know) P2: Who is the governor of West Bengal? (again sorry sir, I don't know) P2: From which state you are? (Told, Madhya Pradesh) P2: What are the neighboruing states of Madhya Pradesh? (Told) P2: Now tell me their capitals. (I fumbled here and forgot to tell the capital of Rajasthan) P2: Which is the longest........river.....No, road!?? (I fumbled and said, it might be some NH from Delhi to kanyakumari) To which they both started laughing? (It's a road, obviously it would be an NH) P2 again gave me a chance: which rivers flow in the opposite direction? (Eureka moment! Told them with proud) Then they said, okay we are done. I said thank you sir and greeted them. Overall: It was slightly grilling but I would rate it pretty average as per my expectations. CAPs would likely to focus on Current affairs and geography!