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-I
Engineering

Sachin Sharma (B.Tech,Industrial Engineering) (IITD)
1. What is pulp fiction?
2. Pop music vs pulp fiction — difference
3. Wood pulp, fruit pulp — uses
4. Sawdust — uses
5. Why is outer covering of a tree darker?
6. What is plywood?
7. What is ebony? Where is it grown? What is bamboo?
8. Cactus — give example of a hallow cactus.
9. History of OR. Simple dual problem.
10. Why IIM Indore?
11. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai — story, moral, music director
12. Weakness — impatience

Amit Agarwal (BE Electronics and Instrumentation)
1. About case study — short-term and long-term solutions
2. Why IIM Indore — grilled?
3. About cricket — Bradman, Sachin, Gavaskar’s averages
4. What was special about Wasim Akram’s hat-tricks?
5. Latest all-rounder
6. Latest happenings in cricket
7. Which other calls? Which one would you prefer?
8. How will you contribute to your birth place?
9. What did you gain from your job?
10. Why management?

Commerce
Bankim Mitra (BCom, Hons.)
1. Current affairs — events in last six months.
2. Difference in IRR and NPV
3. How do you compare firms of different industries?
4. Concept of cash flows and fund flows
5. How do you calculate the net profit of a firm (accrual and cash basis)?
6. Difference between cash basis and accrual basis
7. Disadvantages of accrual basis

Rahul Joshi (BCom Hons.)
1. Differentiate monopolistic competition from monopoly with examples.
2. What is perfect competition?
3. Correlation and its applications
4. Difference between balance sheets of Godrej and SAIL
5. Differentiation and its applications
6. Questions on cricket( ” That was my hobby”)

Science
Mukut (BSc, Chem)
1. What do your name and surname mean?
2. Caste system
3. Fractional distillation chamber — advantages and disadvantages.
4. Where do you see yourself 10 years down the line — entrepreneur?
5. Which industry — what would you like to set up?
6. Hindi as a national language — for and against, give reasons.
7. Who has been the best prime minister? Why?
8. Global company vs MNCs of pharma industry

Shantanu Jain (BSc Hons., Physics)
1. How was your GD?
2. Physics laws applied to GD
3. Questions on physics — (”I was thoroughly grilled on some concepts”)
4. What was your job role? Why financial job?
5. Why physics then in graduation?
6. Which companies would you join?
7. What kind of company you want to set up?
8. Why do you want to quit your job?

Economics
Aman Jain (BA Hons., Economics)
1. Can you name some Nobel laureates in physics and economics?
2. Why shift from science to economics?
3. Indifference curves and isoquant curves.
4. What do their slopes signify?
5. What is the least-cost resource combination?
6. Amartya Sen and welfare economics
7. Ceat ratings — how many Indians and their position?
8. Who is all-time best test player?
9. Who will win the World Cup?
10. Mt Kilimanjaro, Alps — where are they?
11. Name of Kolkata port?
12. What is Nhavasheva?

Ruchika Rishi (BA Economics, MIB)
1. Impressions of the interview panel.
2. Extra-curriculars
3. Variations in marks in academics — give rationale.
4. Statistics — mean, median, mode with examples.
5. Difference between an MNC and globally-oriented firm
6. Define marketing and international marketing.
7. Explain your weaknesses.
8. Relevant examples for some weaknesses portrayed as strength.