Personal Interview Questions for IIM Interviews:
The Personal Inteview questions that are most expected in the IIM’s and other Top B-School interviews 2021 are given below. The candidates are required to prepare and go through the general questions and questions on basics of their specialization in graduation.
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Personal Interview General Questions:
- What is the difference between a good manager and a good leader?
- What is your biggest failure?
- Why marketing/finance/etc specialization? (Mention name of specialization before the answer)
- Why MBA now and not after experience? (For freshers) (If you are experienced, ignore this question)
- Why are you academics so poor? (For poor academics) (If your academics are good, ignore this question)
- What do you parents, colleagues and your boss say about you?
- What do you do in your spare time?
- What are your strengths and weaknesses?
- What does success mean to you?
- Why do you want to pursue MBA?
- How do you organize yourself for a typical day.
- Tell me instances where you have shown leadership.
- What is your greatest achievement?
- What are your short term and long term career goals?
- Tell me about yourself.
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Questions on Hobbies:
1 | Singing/Dancing/Musical instruments | ||
2 | Cooking | ||
3 | Adventure – Trekking/Marathon/Cycling | ||
4 | Outdoor sports – Cricket/Football/table tennis/Martial arts | ||
5 | Indoor games – Chess, table-tennis, carrom etc. | ||
6 | Sketching/ Art/Painting | ||
7 | Travelling | ||
8 | Exercise forms : Gyming/Yoga/zumba/pilates | ||
9 | Swimming | ||
10 | Listening Music | ||
11 | Photography | ||
12 | Animators/Graphic designing | ||
13 | Social service | ||
14 | Literary activities : Creative writing, Blogging, dairy writing, quora | ||
15 | Following current affairs | ||
16 | Online Gaming | ||
17 | Gardening | ||
18 | Food blogging | ||
19 | Debating | ||
20 | Watching movies/TV series. | ||
21 | Reading books |
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IIM Interview Questions on Engineering
Mechanical Engineering Questions:
1 | What is heat treatment and what is its purpose? | ||
2 | Differentiate between first-angle projection and third angle projection. | ||
3 | What is the difference between creep and fatigue(in material science)? | ||
4 | Typical stress-strain curves for various types of materials. | ||
5 | Is It The Stress That, Produces Strain Or Strain Produces Stress? | ||
6 | Difference between runner and riser (foundry)? | ||
7 | Define degrees of freedoms. | ||
8 | Differentiate between impulse and reaction turbines. | ||
9 | Explain different types of braking systems used in vehicles. What is brake bleeding? | ||
10 | Define toe in and toe out (automobile)? | ||
11 | What is ABS and EBD? | ||
12 | Tell us about Carnot engine. | ||
13 | Explain the refrigeration cycle. | ||
14 | Tell us about the working of Petrol and Diesel Engine. | ||
15 | What is the difference between two and four stroke? | ||
16 | What are the laws of thermodynamics? What is perpetual motion machine of 1st kind, 2nd kind etc? | ||
17 | What is the difference between adiabatic and isothermic reactions? | ||
18 | What are the different types of metalworking processes? (Rolling, Forming etc.) | ||
19 | Differentiate between a shaper machine, a slottter machine and a planner machine. | ||
20 | What is the purpose of governor and EGR valve? | ||
21 | What is bending moment? | ||
22 | What are the types of steel? What is the composition and how does the composition affect the property? | ||
23 | Difference between plasticity and elasticity. | ||
24 | Difference between hardness and toughness. | ||
25 | What is bernoulli’s equation and principle? |
Civil Engineering Questions:
1 | How do you measure concrete? (units) | ||
2 | What are the various steps involved in the concreting process? | ||
3 | What is the meaning of soil reinforcement? | ||
4 | What is ‘aggregate’? | ||
5 | What is ‘modulus of elasticity’ and its applications? | ||
6 | What is soil analysis? | ||
7 | What are the reinforcements that are used in the process of prestressing? | ||
8 | Describe the various types of slump test indications. | ||
9 | Can you point out the various methods of curing concrete? | ||
10 | Why are steel plates inserted inside bearings in elastomeric bearings? | ||
11 | What is a concrete box girder bridge? | ||
12 | What is the difference between a pot bearing and an elastomeric bearing? | ||
13 | Why should pumping be not used in case of concreting works? | ||
14 | Discuss different types of Building foundations? | ||
15 | Explain the cavitation process in pipes & drains? | ||
16 | What do you mean by M20? | ||
17 | Can you list out some of the common ways of demolition? | ||
18 | What is honeycombing and how to rectify it on-site? | ||
19 | How will you measure the workability of concrete on-site? (tests) | ||
20 | What is the composition of concrete? | ||
21 | What is the composition of cement? (percentage distribution) | ||
22 | What is the difference between a beam and a girder? | ||
23 | Define strength and toughness? | ||
24 | What is cantilever? What are its support conditions? | ||
25 | What is bending moment? | ||
26 | What are CPM and PERT? | ||
Interesting factual/ current affairs questions | |||
27 | World’s/ India’s tallest human-made structure? | ||
28 | World’s tallest statue. | ||
29 | Height of the ‘Statue of Unity’. | ||
30 | What is a ‘green building’? |
Chemical Engineering Questions:
1 | What is heat treatment ?What are the modes of heat transfer? Examples of each | ||
2 | Difference between laminar and turbulent flow? At what reynold nuber does a laminar flow cease to exist? | ||
3 | What is the difference between turbine and impeller? | ||
4 | Explain stress-strain curves for various types of materials. | ||
5 | What is kozeny-Carman equation? What is vapour compression-evaporation? | ||
6 | Pros and cons of cstr and pfr | ||
7 | Define degrees of freedoms. | ||
8 | Differentiate between impulse and reaction turbines. | ||
9 | What is a polymer, what are the types of polymerisation | ||
10 | What is a manometer | ||
11 | Explain TLC, HPLC, GC | ||
12 | Tell us about Carnot engine? What is fouling | ||
13 | Explain the refrigeration cycle. | ||
14 | Explain the process of industrial manufacturing of Hcl, HNO3, H2SO4, Wine making etc | ||
15 | What is crystallisation, steam distillation, reverse osmosis, polynmerisation, extrusion? | ||
16 | What are the laws of thermodynamics? | ||
17 | What is the difference between adiabatic and isothermic reactions? | ||
18 | What happens to humidity at low temperatures? What happens to solubility at high pressures? | ||
19 | What does space-time, space velocity mean? | ||
20 | Write any 1 equation of mass transfer/momentum transfer/energy transfer from transport phenomenon? | ||
21 | What is bending moment? Difference between plasticity and elasticity. | ||
22 | Explain navier-stokes theorem? | ||
23 | What is bouyancy? Explain archemedis principle | ||
24 | What is newtonian and non-newtonian fluids | ||
25 | What is bernoulli’s equation and principle? | ||
26 | Difference between newtonian and non-newtonian liquids | ||
27 | Explain fick’s law of diffusion? What is McCabe Thiele method? | ||
28 | What is chemical reaction engineering? | ||
29 | Write a process flow diagram | ||
30 | Write a balanced chemical equation? WHat is heat of reaction, equilibrium, kinetics? |
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Instrumentation Engineering Questions:
MEASUREMENTS: | |||
1 | What are sensors? What are the different temperature/pressure/flow/proximity/optical sensors? Working, Merits and demerits of each sensor. | ||
2 | Why 0-20mA signal is not used as a standard but 4-20mA is used as the standard in electrical measurements? | ||
3 | Define various terms like accuracy/precision/resolution/sensitivity/types of errors. [Asked in SIBM interview] | ||
ANALOG ELECTRONICS: | |||
4 | What is doping. How are diodes/transistors formed based on this principle. Explain working of zener diode. | ||
5 | What are OP-Amps? Explain about OP-AMP741/parameters of OpAmps. | ||
ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS: | |||
6 | .Resistor / Inductor/Capacitor and their behavior related to AC current and DC currents. | ||
7 | How is filtering achieved? RC/RL/RLC/Highpass and lowpass filters. Terms associated with them. | ||
8 | Basic circuits like Thevinins, Norton , Wheatstone bridge. Halfwave, fullwave and bridge rectifiers. | ||
Signals: | |||
9 | Types of systems like time variant& invariant, linear and non-linear, analogous systems. | ||
10 | What is transfer function. Why and how is it useful? | ||
Process Control: | |||
11 | 1st order/2nd order/3rd order processes. What are they? How are they different from each other? Real life examples. | ||
12 | Terms associated with controllers. Parameters required to design controllers. Kp, Ti and Td. How are they used to determine the efficiency of a controller | ||
13 | P , PI and PID controllers. difference between each controller. Advantages and disadvantages. Real life examples | ||
Industrial Instrumentation: | |||
14 | What are Distributed control systems? How are they used? | ||
15 | What are PLC’s? Explain ladder logic. How is it used in an industrial setup. | ||
16 | Scada systems, HMI systems |
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