IIM CAP Interview Transcript

IIM CAP Interview Transcript IIM CAP interview transcript GNEF, percentile: 95.84 profile: 9.8/95.5/8.75, 14 months work experience P1: Female, P2: Male P1: where are you joining us from? Me: Delhi P1: do you know how IIMs are a part of the CAP process? Me: 10 P1: where is sambalpur? Me: Himachal Pradesh, I instantly realised and said that Sirmaur P1: do you know which IIM is hosting the cap process? Me: Kashipur P1: where is Kashipur? Me: I’m not sure but Uttarakhand P1: So since you don’t know the states of these IIMs I think you’re not serious for MBA, convince in one minute why you wish to pursue MBA? Me: told P1: only 15 seconds have passed and I’m still not convinced Me: gave the entire why mba answer P1: since you mentioned personality development, which area focuses on that? Me: it’s a general things and happens with experiences P1: no, but which area is it? Me: can happen through extra curriculars P1: but we don’t teach that, tell me the subject? Me: Human Resource development P1: so you’ve studied leadership and organising in your 6th semester and you have an O, tell me two leadership theories Me: answered wrongly P1: she interrupted and said you just studied it, I said no it was in my second year, then she checked again and asked do you know maslow’s hierachy? Me: yes, was telling and then she interrupted P1: so you already know that Tellll me your favourite subject Me: advertising and personal selling P1: so, how is marketing different from personal selling Me: explained it P1: so, now due to Genz the trends are shifting to influencer marketing and all? Can you tell first who Genz are like which year? Me: 1998-2010, basically late 1990s P1: so, how are the trends shifting Me: i was telling how focus is on social media P1: she said no I know that but what would you suggest for your product or company? Me: I was telling about the marketing strategies for zomato and Swiggy Interrupted again P1: no, I’m asking about influencer marketing and please don’t give me any stories just tell theory Me: explained influencer marketing P2: so, why did you have low grade point in microeconomics and then good grades later on, do you not like it? Me: no sir, it was my first sem and I was enjoying college activities at that time but I learned my lesson later on P2: which was the last state you visited Me: Karnataka, Bangalore P2: what’s the name of that airport? Me: I don’t know sir P1: he asked state why did you say Bangalore? Me: Maam I said Karnataka P2: so, for a fair coin the probability is 1/2, what will be the probability in case of a biased coin? Me: sorry sir I don’t know that P1: don’t say sorry, give it a try, it’s an interview, take 5 minutes to think P2: for example we give you a coin and you don’t what heads and tails is, how many attempts would you make to gather that the probability is 1/2 Me: 3 P2: why 3? What if in all 3 chances heads comes up Me: in that case I would keep tossing till tail comes P2: for eg, we are doing a toss and you chose tail and heads comes in all 3 chances and I ask you whether you wish to change your choice? What would you do and why? Me: me changing my choice wouldn’t really affect the outcome so I wouldn’t change it P1: do you have any questions for us? Me: so do IIMs allow students to forms new committees? P1: yes, but only when the approval from faculty is there. Which committees do you have in mind? Me: not any particular P1: kuch toh hoga ya sirf question puchna tha toh puch liya Me: I saw that a lot of IIMs don’t have enactus P1: what is enactus? Me: told P1: we have similar committees you can go through them.