@Interview Experience
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3 days ago
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I am aiming to take the CAT 2025, but I am a bit more scared about the interview part of the process. any guidance or transcripts will help me a lot right now to calmly prepare for it.
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Honestly, I was scared of the interview prep too! But all you need to do is be consistent and have a good introduction/TMAY(tell me about yourself) prepared with you.
A good introduction includes pointers from which you want the interviewer to ask questions from you, it helps you in taking the interview in the direction you want, if you can do this in the right manner, then you have already made it more than half the way! The rest half depends on how strong your academic knowledge is alongside general awareness, and your confidence surely helps you sail through smoothly.
In short, keep studying well and prepare a very good introduction!!
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Hey, preparing for interviews can be a bit scary at the first, as you are expected to prepare everything under the sun but honestly it is not that scary if you prepare with a proper plan and structure.ย
You can divide your prep into different sections including:
- Academics(Mostly graduation and some mathematical questions of 10th level)- it basically includes any unique subjects you had during your school or college
- Workex- any working professional is expected to know about their job role and their functionality in the company and the basics of their companyย
- Current affairs- this I believe is the most dreaded part as it is the most vast one to prepare, but as you clearly. have time, I will suggest you just start reading the newspaper thoroughly and be aware about whatever is happening in the world- also go through important events that happened which are not so recent
These are pretty much the 3 sections in which you can prepare- but for the first 2 you are supposed to be thorough with your subjects and worked so do focus on studying that as you will have less than a month to prepare after getting the calls and before the interviews, so the earlier you start the better!
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This is insightful
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It's great that you are already focusing on the interview prep, it will help you a lot! I am sharing my IIM Ahmedabad interview transcript here, hope it helps!
Very chill and welcoming panel, 2 professors, both male
Started with AWT and then immediately interviewed
- asked a basic maths expression to do orally
- asking about my academics and question
- asked about my hobby
- asked me about maggi
- asked me about women empowerment
- asking me about where I get my news
- asking about usa and then black Lives Matter
- at last asking me about food in Europe and India and explain why the difference in them using my academic background
- asked me if I had any questions
-gave a candy
These were pretty much all the questions that were asked of me, honestly interview can go pretty much into any direction but the most important thing is your confidence and how well you can perform under pressure! Good luck!
