These are the actual questions asked in interviews, arranged according to the respective institutes and academic stream of interviewees. The list spans interviews over 4 calender years.

IIM-K
Engineering

Aman Batra (BE Mech.) ( DCE)
1. What are your career goals?
2. Consultancy — I was grilled on consultancy.
3. Why shift from engineering to management?
4. Why do you want to leave a job from L&T?
5. Questions on quality control and quality assurance
6. How to find the faulty machine?
7. How do you rectify design faults?
8. Calls you have got. Which one do you prefer?

Sachin Sharma (B.Tech, Industrial Engineering)
1. Work and time study
2. Fredrick Taylor —why is he known as the father of industrial engineering?
3. Production process — types of system.
4. Product cycle time
5. Five sentences about yourself
6. Hobbies — team activities.
7. CAD-CAM: how can a company benefit?
8. Have you got placed in the campus interviews?

Commerce
Rahul Joshi (BCom Hons.)
1. What is financial leverage/operating leverage?
2. Questions on differentiation — solve couple of problems.
3. Why MBA?
4. What are Producer surplus, Consumer surplus?

Prashant Gulati (BCom)
1. What is e-commerce?
2. What is your job description?
3. What is the most significant achievement in your life?
4. Why don’t journalists start their own ventures independently? (”I was the editor of the college mag”)
5. Is there a management’s interference in the running of newspapers?

Science
Amrita Verma (BSc, Statistics)
1. Statistical quality control — acceptance sampling, control charts
2. Differences in education between the schools in England and India
3. Piano grades and evaluation process in music .
4. Stochastic processes

Economics
Malavika Pillai (BA Hons., Economics)
1. Where are you from?
2. Questions on Kerala and God of Small Things.
3. What are consumer surplus and producer surplus — graphs?
4. Applications of statistics — time series
5. What is linear programming?
6. Elasticity of demand — examples of elastic and inelastic goods
7. Revenue maximization vs profit maximization
8. Is India going through stagnation and why?
9. Hobbies

Gaurav Vohra (BA Hons., Economics)
1. Tell us about yourself.
2. Why is India poor?
3. What are the different welfare indices?
4. What are your extra curricular activities?
5. Which is your favourite T.V. program?
6. What types of books do you read? How do they affect your moral values?
7. Talk about your father’s business.
8. Would you pay Rs 5 lakhs as the fee here?