IIM-B
Engineering

Sumit Sapra (BE, Electronics and Communication) ( DCE )
1. Introduce yourself.
2. Students do not attend classes in DCE? How did you find it? Do you attend?
3. You are grades-oriented? What do you know about IIM-B classes? It is rigorous — What is your reaction?
4. Oh! Coaching? What else did you get to know there?
5. Why MBA? Why not work experience?
6. Who is an entrepreneur? Which sector?
7. What is IT enabled industry? Give some examples.
8. Events: Which ones did you organize?
9. Sports: Which position in basketball?
10. Favourite player?
11. What is Karl Malone known as?
12. Which programme do you watch on TV?
13. Favourite subject — digital electronics
14. Did anyone outside tell you that we do not know about it?
15. How does a cellular phone work? What are the companies providing the services?
16. How is that signals of various operators do not clash?
17. How does digital TV work?
18. Do you want to know anything else about IIM-B?

Sudhir Kamat (BE, Computer Science)
1. Good marks in XII, why did you join DIT ( now called NSIT )?
2. Why do you want to shift from software to MBA?
3. What, why about MBA? Why not four years of experience?
4. What are products?
5. Where are Indian industries heading?
6. Name some products and companies.
7. Venture capital — How would they help you in your software firm? ( “I said I wanted to start a software company” )
8. As a venture capitalist, what would you look for in a software company?

Commerce
Vijaya Tudu (BCom Hons.)
1. Background
2. Accounting concepts
3. Why not banking — why MBA?
4. Dance — various forms, of which form are you the student? ( “I am a dancer” )
5. Latest book and what did you learn?

Surender Singh (BCom Hons.)
1. Principles of accounting
2. What does dy/dx mean?
3. what is the point of inflexion?
4. What are the emerging issues of finance?
5. What is Capital account convertibility?

Science
Saket Narang (BSc, Physics)
1. Who is your idol — questions on Peter Drucker (”my Idol”)
2. Which books do you read — how did it help you understand management?
3. How did you contribute to your physics society?
4. What is Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle?
5. Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawkings — discussion
6. Quantum theory and gravity, particles
7. What is standard deviation — what if it is 0?
8. What is the weight of a squash racquet?
9. Do you watch movies?
10. I was shown Akshay Kumar’s photo — “talk about this person.”

Subodh Kumar (BSc, Botany)
1. Should the interview be general or specific?
2. How do you relate botany, law, management and computers?
3. Name five botanists who contributed to the society.
4. Discussion on Rabri Devi, government and on IPKF.
5. What is the difference between LAN and WAN?
6. Botany related questions.

Economics
Aparajita (BA, Economics)
1. What are Marginal costs?
2. Is replacement cost a marginal cost?
3. Spectacles manufacturing — what is marginal cost?( ” I wear specs ” )
4. In labour — regular and contractual — which one is a marginal cost?
5. A loan processing company — what are salaries, fixed costs?
6. If workers increase, what would happen?
7. Computer processing application — what is the characteristics of cost function?
8. What are the characteristics of a step function?
9. What is the Break-even point — depict in spectacles business — total revenue?
10. Who were the last two Governors of Reserve Bank of India?
11. Name the Hill resorts of Tamil Nadu? ( ” I had mentioned travelling as a hobby ” )
12. Which rivers merge at Sunderbans river basin?
13. Economies of scale — steel plant

Ruchika Rishi (BA, Economics) (MIB, DSE)
1. Three equations — Cost + Profit = Price; Price – Cost = Profit; Price – Profit = Cost — used by three different businessmen. Can you comment on their psyche?
2. Of these three people who is a monopoly, who is a PSU, etc.?
3. Banks — costs and expenditures
4. You are an MD of a rural bank — what would you do to decrease costs?
5. Rural economy has more gold. What are the opportunities & implications?
6. Balance Of Payments — pre-1991 and current scenario — comment