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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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IIM Indore Interview Transcript
1 pm Delhi at taj vivanta
1M,1F panelist
Acads heavy
No tmay
Politics- chief minister,etc people were being asked a lot on politics
Pageants-how will it help?
What is unique in you?
You are just an eng graduate how does pageant differentiates you?
Name one quality that you have through pageants that will make you stand out.
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IIM Mumbai Interview Experience
Delhi, 18th march 2025, 2-4 pm slot
1M, 1F panelist
- Male panelist starts with what’s your name and where are your from
- A bit more of random questions as after that he jumped on directly to ministries- what all ministries are there? Finance minister; external affairs minister
- What does the External Affairs Ministry do?
- How are the diplomats selected for all the bureaus and embassy
- Number of female chief ministers in india- i didn’t knew the count so i said rekha gupta delhi and mamta banerjee-mentioned deputy cm of my state- name?
- Why MBA-leadership qualities
- But won’t that increase after workex of say 2 years?
- Female panelist
- So you are from engineering background- a couple questions from grad could answer some of them
- Tried to slide in pageants
- Explained them what pageants are a bit of questioning on that
- Then again back to grad questions
- Have you ever lived in a hostel?
- Single or sharing?Last
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IIM Sambalpur Interview Transcript: 21 march 2025, 1 pm at their delhi campus
1F,1M panelist
- TMAY
- Tell us more about your pageant journey- they were aware of pageants
- A bit convo on how is india doing and why not any recent wins
- Why MBA
- What all traits should an entrepreneur have?
- Types of leadership- had a small convo on like what do you think offices in india have autocratic or democratic leadership
- What international and national news have you been following- followup questions on that
- A bit about the manipur ongoing scenario
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IIFT GDPI Experience
they make you come and sit directly in the GDPI room and you are asked to wait till everyone and the panelists arrive, in my batch there were 12 candidates for GD but only 11 showed up, there were 2 female panelists.
GD Topic: Influencer marketing: short term or long term?
They give each candidate a min to speak one by one and after that they open the floor for discussion for 15 mins
Right after GD gets done you are asked to wait outside the interview room for your turn
1M,1F panelist
- TMAY
- How are pageants and mba related?
- Male panelist leaves
- Okay so what are pageants and how does it helps you?
- Basic chitchat like conversation about pageantry
- She said that you already have so many qualities of an mba graduate- I answered I hope that’s good;)
It went like a smooth conversation and went for around 7-8 minutes
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I have a very strong extra curricular background so if someone else has something like that too, I think my interview transcript should help.
IIT Bombay Interview Transcript
3 panelists- 2F,1M: the panel was very chill and interview went just like a conversation
- TMAY
- Questions on pageantry like how will that help me in an mba?
- What all skills has that taught you?
- What have you learnt from it?
- Tell me the recipe for the last thing you baked!
- Why don’t we use yeast instead of baking powder in a cake!?
- If you have to give yourself a tagline what would it be?
- How can the revenue sources be increased for pageants?
- What is the area of improvement for pageants?
- Which countries are focusing on pageants?
- What did you do for your minor project?
- What are some more options available for designing?
- Why did you choose figma? What is the difference between figma and canva
- You are from cs background so what’s your opinion on AI?
- Is AI affecting your industry?(deepfakes)
- What do you want to do after completing your mba?
- Okay so if you want to own a brand then what kind of brand?
- Why only zara? What’s unique about it?
- What are the shortcomings of zara or what’s something that you would want to build in your brand?
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Thanks For sharing
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+1 BLACKIs
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Can you share the Transcripts from BLACKIs
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Can Someone share IIM Ahmedabad as well ?
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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.
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 company
- 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!
