Academic questions

Academic questions

Mechanical/ Production/ Automobile Engineering

1. Define Mean, Median and Mode
2. Equation for parabola graph, graph for x3
3. Why is differentiation done? Why is integration done?
4. What will be the slope of this curve? (Drew a diagram)
5. How will you find the Maxima of a function mathematically?
6. What can you infer from ax2+ bx +c =0, If I say roots are imaginary.
7. Integrate xexusing by parts.
8. Give equation of hyperbola
9. What is linear programming? Are all problems linear in nature?
10. Thermodynamics and functioning of AC
11. What do you know about Industrial Automation 4.0?
12. Explain gyroscope.
13. Draw the phase diagram of Iron and steel and explain the difference between
Cast Iron and Steel.
14. Tell me the basic requirement for multiplication of two matrices?
15. What are asymptotes?
16. What are the types of fuel injection systems used in automobiles?
17. What is ABS in automobiles? Difference between power and torque? Why gears
are used in automobiles?
18. Explain ductility and malleability.
19. Can you explain Refrigeration cycle and Carnot cycle?
20. Draw graph of 1+(tanx)2
21. What is the meant by destructive and non-destructive testing?
22. What is Young's modulus if elasticity? Is stress a destructive testing or a non-
destructive one?
23. Can you show me by drawing the diagram of IC engine?
24. Draw the free body diagram of car and explain the forces acting on it?
25. Units of viscosity.
26. What is HVAC & HVDC?
27. What are the important characteristics of a lubricant?
28. Difference between engine oil and gear oil?
29. What is high grade energy and low grade energy. What is Perpetual Moving
Machine of type 2?
30. Differentiate 2 stroke vs 4 stroke

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31. What is a cantilever? Draw Shear Force and Bending Moment diagram for a
cantilever?
32. Difference between mechanics, dynamics and kinetics
33. Driverless cars and their fallacies?
34. What are your views on hydrogen fuelled cars?
35. What are your views on electric cars and vehicles?
36. How are various domains in mechanical engineering different?
37. Questions about Bernoulli's constant, Euler's Equation, Submersible Pump,
Normal Pump, Riveting, Shear Stress, Pressure Head.
38. What are the different types of Heat Transfer?
39. Suppose I place a heat source at the midpoint of this rod and heat this rod. Tell
me how the temperature of this rod will change with time and position of the
rod.
40. If there's a supernova explosion on the moon, will we be able to hear it?
41. Why does sound require medium? How does sound propagate?
42. Which medium is more conducive towards sound and Why?
43. What is the difference between stress, pressure and strain?
44. How is stress different from pressure, even though both have the same
formulae?
45. Explain about the following terms and give the difference: Reflection, Refraction,
Diffraction, and Transmission.
46. Explain Vapour Compression Cycle.
47. Explain Vapour Absorption Cycle.
48. What do you mean by Heat Treatment?
49. What are the different types of Heat Treatment?
50. What do you mean by Degrees of Freedom?
51. What does it mean when I say that an object has 3 Degrees of Freedom?
52. How to find if material is elastic or plastic?
53. Graph of stress strain.
54. Explain Hooke’s law.
55. Draw graph of Normal distribution.
56. Draw graph and write equation of Damped oscillation.
57. What is entropy, enthalpy, heat transfer, mass transfer? Explained basic
definition with examples.
58. What is system and surroundings in daily life? Correlate with thermodynamics.
59. What is open system and closed system? Give examples of open and closed
system.
60. What is entropy? Does it decrease? If we increase the AC temperature will the
entropy increase / decrease?
61. While meditating, does the entropy increase or decrease?
62. What is a fluid? Difference between fluid and solid.
63. What is a turbine? What is a pump? What is the difference between the two?

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64. How energy is generated using turbines?

65. Types of turbine and their functioning.
66. What is Boundary Layer?
67. Plane flies at very high altitude where outside temperature is -60C or even less.
Why is then air conditioning needed in the plane?
68. What is natural frequency of vibration? What is resonance?
69. What is ergonomics?
70. What is isotropic process?
71. Why can’t temperature drop below -273.15 celcius?
72. What is adiabatic process?
73. What is Reynold’s number? What is Prandtl number? What is Nusselt’s number?
74. What is the difference between the Petrol Engine and Diesel Engine?
75. What is a carburettor? What is Multi-point Fuel Injection?

Production Engineering
1. How is production engineering different from mechanical engineering?
2. What is Six Sigma, Process Capability and Process Capability Index. Their
mathematical formula and explanation?
3. Difference between PERT and CPM. Which one among PERT and CPM is
probabilistic?
4. What is gemba kaizen?
5. What is lean manufacturing?
6. What is Kanban?
7. What is bullwhip effect?
8. What is EOQ? What is the formula for EOQ?

Electrical/Electronics Engineering
1. Equation for parabola graph, graph for x3
2. Why is differentiation done? Why is integration done?
3. What will be the slope of this curve? (Drew a diagram)
4. What is Laplace Transform?
5. What is Fourier Series?
6. How will you find the Maxima of a function mathematically?
7. Sum on Normal Distribution Curve
8. What can you infer from ax2+ bx +c =0, If I say roots are imaginary.
9. Integrate xexusing by parts.
10. Give equation of hyperbola

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11. Can you draw the schematic diagram of a simple transformer with all the
relevant equations and its phasor diagram? So, what is leakage inductance? Can
you draw it in the same diagram?
12. What is an Auto-transformer? equations?
13. Explain Kirchoff’s Laws
14. With all the fuss about negligible resistive loss in AC transmission, what are the
advantages of transmitting DC power over AC?
15. My laptop is 20V AC but our standard voltage supply is 240V AC . How does
this charge my laptop then? What system is used in Trains (AC/DC) Why? What
is HVDC system?
16. Tell me the basic requirement for multiplication of two matrices?
17. How does a transformer work?
18. What are asymptotes?
19. What are the effective methods to transmit power? Why do we step up the
power while transmitting it?
20. Draw line circuit diagram for circuit switching? Is circuit switching analog?
21. Draw graph of 1+(tanx)2
22. Draw Wheatstone bridge
23. What is the difference between AM and FM? Draw the waveforms, which is
better? What is PM? How it is different from Am and FM? Various modulation
techniques? PCM? Block diagram of PCM?
24. Tell us the process of converting sound into digital signal.
25. About Star-Delta, Stator-rotor, Transmission losses, solar panels.
26. Explain Laplace Transforms to an eight year old kid.
27. Convolution, Modulation, how to measure frequency
28. What are Active and Passive networks. How are they different?
29. Draw the circuit diagram for car wipers.
30. Why is 110V 60Hz AC supply used in US and not in India? Why power is
transmitted in the multiples of 11 like 11KV, 22KV etc, Why 50Hz is used? What
is power factor? Why should we improve power factor? How can we improve
power factor?
31. Transmission line are in star or delta?
32. Why is there a sag in the transmission lines?
33. Explain the working of a microwave oven.
34. What is ultrasound frequency?
35. Tell me in a layman's term, what can we do to reduce power theft?
36. Describe the function of rotor in motor and generator.
37. Do you know what Eddy Current is?

38. What is resistance? What is the difference between AC and DC? Explain the
working of electrical instruments in the room (bulb, fan etc.)?

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Electronics Engineering
1. What is Neural Network?
2. What is Y connection, 3 phase and 1 phase, electrical sensors, LED bulbs and
their working, voltage conditions
3. Difference between intel I3, I5, I7.
4. Difference in intel processor generations?
5. What is GPS? How many satellites required for GPS?
6. What is zener, its function, avalanche and breakdown voltage?
7. How does a transistor work?
8. What is a diode? What is a triode?
9. In control for natural gas plants, would you rather use pneumatic control or
electrical control?
10. What is VLAN?
11. What is a microcontroller?
12. What does the 'large' in VLSI mean?
13. How does a calculator figure out cosine of a number?
14. What is control feedback system? Give an example
15. What is a transistor, resistor, transducer, diode, satellite, Micro processors?
16. What are avalanche Diodes and Antenna?
17. Tell me how microprocessors are made
18. How does telephone communication take place?
19. About OSI Model and its 7 layers also about TCP/IP model.
20. What is the difference between PNP and NPN transistors?
21. How do two mobiles communicate? Do they follow any protocol?
22. Tell me the difference between an analog and a digital signal.
23. What is a chip? Why do we call it a chip?

24. Tell me about various cell phones that are coming in the market this year in
India... Are they 5G enabled? And does the Indian version of these devices vary
from the global version, if yes then how?
25. What are modulation techniques?
26. What is CDMA and technology used?
27. What are semiconductors and how they are formed?
28. Low pass and high pass filter.

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Computer Science
1. Define Mean, Median and Mode
2. Why is a "bug" called a bug? Why is it not called a virus?
3. Integrate xexusing by parts.
4. What are type 1 and type 2 errors?
5. Design an algorithm to detect any particular object in this room.
6. COBOL is 50 year old language, how come it's still in existence?
7. Write a program for a double linked list.
8. Do you know Turing Machine?
9. What is the difference between TRUNCATE and DELETE in SQL
10. What is sorting & search?
11. How do we measure force? Name some instruments and the transducers used.
12. What is mesh topology?
13. What is data mining?
14. Write down the 7 OSI layers?
15. What is the divisibility rule of 11? Give an algorithm for the same.
16. What is a prime number? How do find prime number? How will u find an
arbitrary prime no. Give the algorithm for the same.
17. What are data structures? Give two types of data structures
18. I'm going to ask you about computer networks. Do you like it? Why do IP
addresses start with 192? What's a subnet mask? What are the types of IP classes?
19. Why JAVA does not have pointers?
20. What is a modem and a router.
21. Client side architecture? Linear programming? What the EFF?
22. Name a data structure whose memory isn't stored in contiguous locations? Name
another apart from linked list?
23. Explain difference between Java and NET technologies
24. Explain Polymorphism, Inheritance, Abstraction and Encapsulation
25. What is the difference between Runtime error & compilation error?
26. What are the 4 pillars of object oriented programming?
27. Write a C++ code to find the greatest of 5 numbers.
28. What are the different types of attacks in network security?
29. Types of Software testing, Difference between alpha testing and beta testing.
30. How do Windows OS or Microsoft Word communicate?
31. What is cloud computing? What are the hurdles in the implementation of cloud
computing?
32. What is a Bit? Give the full form of Bit.
33. What is tautology, commutative, transitive laws?
34. Write a program for Decimal to Binary Conversion.
35. Program to print Prime numbers.
36. Draw curve for a quadratic equation.

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37. What is Object Oriented Programming? What are its advantages?

38. Write a program to find if a given word is a palindrome. What is the time
complexity of the solution?
39. What are the features of Python?
40. In Java object, why is the constructor of the object not specifically called?
41. What is a default constructor?
42. What is a friend function in C++?
43. What is operator overload in C++?
44. What is the difference between a list and a tuple in Python?

Civil Engineering
1. Tell me something about Pavement design procedure
2. What are the conditions for application of pile foundation? What will happen if
there is no strong strata below -transfer the load by friction? What if there is no
friction-build a pile cap thick enough to act as a raft? What if the strata is 1 km
below?
3. What is the difference between a building foundation and a machine foundation?
4. Tell some types of dams. What about gravity dam?
5. What is a cantilever? What is a propped cantilever? Draw Shear Force and
Bending Moment diagram for a cantilever?
6. What is RCC?
7. Definition, unit and curve for stress-strain.
8. Type of roads in India.
9. What are the different types of foundation?
10. What is the difference between load baring and RCC?
11. Can we have a 10-storied building built using load baring?
12. What is the difference between first angle and third angle?
13. What is isometric view?
14. What are the different grades of cement?
15. If I were to build a building in a desert, what type of foundation should I use for the
building?
16. What is prestressed concrete? What are its ingredients?
17. How are dams built? How is the wall constructed right at the bottom of the river?
18. What is geodetic survey?
19. If you have to build a skyscraper in an earthquake prone zone, what precaution will you
take?
20. How do you measure strength of concrete?
21. What is the composition of cement?
22. What is the composition of concrete?
23. What is buckling of a column?

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24. What special precaution should we take for building the runway of the airport? There is
an impact of huge weight of a plane suddenly on the runway.

Commerce
1. Demand vs supply graph; which comes first? examples of it.
2. How will you explain NPV and IRR to a 10th standard kid without using
technical terms?
3. What is Financial Modelling? How do you get terminal value of a firm?
4. What is depreciation? What is amortization? What is the difference between the
two?
5. What is P/E ratio? Aren't P&E same?
6. Explain the format of balance sheet
7. What is goodwill? How is goodwill treated in a Balance Sheet?
8. What are different ways to raise money? Difference between raising money
through banks and Share markets.
9. Can you tell us the difference between margin and profit?
10. What are outstanding shares?
11. What is accumulated depreciation?
12. What is Cost of Equity? How is it calculated?
13. Do you know about the Black-Scholes model?
14. What is Enterprise value?
15. What is payback period? How to calculate that? What are fixed and variable
charges?
16. What is the difference between NPA and write-off?
17. What is the difference between finance and accounting?
18. What are cash flows? What is the difference between share and equity?
19. What's the difference between Merger and Acquisition? Give it with examples
Give one recent M&A happening. One recent M&A in India failed. Do you know
what it is?
20. Difference between Balance sheet and Profit and loss statement.
21. What is inventory turnover ratio?
22. Name two features of private limited companies.
23. What are the components of Investment in Cash flow?
24. What is operating profit?
25. What is Sinking fund and its significance?
26. Why does company maintains Reserves?
27. What is Difference between Book value and Face value and which value is
recorded in Balance sheet?
28. What is Value statement?
29. Impact on Book value if reserves decrease.
30. Difference in Authorised and paid up and called up capital.

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31. What is an accounting equation? How can you relate it to the three golden rules
of accounting?
32. Since we already have banks, why do we have NBFCs in India?
33. What is more regulated - NBFCs or banks?
34. Why is an Investment bank called a bank?
35. What are some problems with GST?
36. Explain some problems faced by ITC with GST
37. Types of Taxes in the stock market.
38. Current DDT rate.
39. Explain different methods of valuation of a company
40. What is Fund Flow statement?
41. What are the types of accounts in accounting?
42. What are golden rules of accounting?
43. What is the difference between the Operating Lease and Finance Lease?
44. What is trial balance?
45. What is the difference between Financial and Operating leverage?
46. What is Debt Service Coverage Ratio?
47. If you were to invest in a sector now, which sector would you invest your money
in?
48. What is Current Ratio?
49. What is working capital?
50. What is the difference between Financial Accounting and Managerial
Accounting?

Economics
1. Define Mean, Median and Mode
2. Demand vs supply graph; which comes first? examples of it.
3. What is inflation? Can you explain various ways in which inflation can occur? Is
inflation good or bad for the economy?
4. GDP vs IIP as a measure of growth for industrial production - which is better?
5. What is Universal Basic Income? What is your view on UBI?
6. What is Law of diminishing marginal utility?
7. What happens when the point of equilibrium shifts in an ISLM curve. Explain.
8. What are inferior goods? Give examples.
9. What is a perfectly competitive market?
10. What is an IS Curve? What is LM Curve? Explain analysis
11. What is the difference between Fiscal and Monetary policy
12. What is the comparative advantage?
13. Name the determinants of GDP.
14. What is the difference between GDP and GNP?
15. What is NFIA?

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16. What is the difference between macro and micro economics?

17. What is Kahneman's contribution to behavioural economics?
18. Name other behavioural economists who have won the Nobel. Which years?
19. What is monopolistic competition /oligopoly?
20. What is GDP? GNP? Their difference.
21. What is inflation? Current value?
22. What is BSE, NSE? Why are two exchanges required?
23. What does IMF do?
24. What does the World Bank do?
25. What is Production Possibilities Frontier?
26. What is Behavioural Economics?
27. What is Elasticity of demand? What is Elasticity of supply? How are they
measured?
28. What is law of demand? What is law of supply?
29. What is the effect of imposing minimum wage requirements on the labour
market?
30. What are complementary goods?
31. What are substitute goods?
32. What is cross elasticity of demand?
33. What are indifference curves? Why does it have that particular shape?
34. What are externalities?
35. What are the types of externalities? Give example.
36. What are income effect and substitution effect?
37. What is lemon market?
38. What is Gresham’s law?
39. What is Current Account? What is
40. What is Fiscal Deficit? What is budget deficit?

Mathematics/Statistics
1. Define Mean, Median and Mode
2. Equation for parabola graph, graph for x^3
3. Why is differentiation done? Why is integration done?
4. What will be the slope of this curve? (Drew a diagram)
5. How will you find the Maxima of a function mathematically?
6. What is statistical analysis?
7. Explain regression analysis? Give a practical example?
8. Sum on Normal Distribution Curve
9. What can you infer from ax2+ bx +c =0, If I say roots are imaginary.
10. Integrate xexusing by parts.
11. Give equation of hyperbola

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12. What is Bayes theorem?

13. Tell me the basic requirement for multiplication of two matrices?
14. What are asymptotes?
15. Draw graph of 1+(tanx)2
16. Explain Laplace Transforms to an eight year old kid.

BMS
1. What is Financial Modelling? How do you get terminal value of a firm?
2. Explain CAPM
3. What is risk free rate?
4. What is Qualitative and quantitative research
5. What is probability? What is relation between risk and probability?
6. What is the difference between need, want and demand?
7. Do you know about the Black-Scholes model?

8. What are the core elements of advertising agencies?

9. What are Angel Investors? If your business doesn't earn money for a long time,
how do you pay them back?
10. What is the difference between a business model and a revenue model? Or are
they the same?
11. One weakness and one strength of the Indian Economy?
12. What is Statistical significance?
13. What is FRM?
14. What is the difference between spending and investing?
15. Tell us more about the income tax slabs?
16. What is IRR and NPV?
17. Explain brand architecture.
18. What is Green advertising?
19. What is Branding? How do you do branding?
20. Who is an Entrepreneur? How a person is called an Entrepreneur? What are the
criteria?
21. What is the difference between fee and tax?
22. Difference between emerging and developed market?
23. Is a company a contract? Why?
24. Is the foundation of a company a contract? Why? What constitutes the
foundation of a company?
25. What is accounting? In the current scenario with scams coming up, do you feel
accounting is relevant?
26. What is the difference between cash flow and profit?
27. What is the other name for debt to equity ratio?
28. What is BCG matrix?

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29. Tell the 2 axes of the BCG matrix.

30. MM Model - How would you apply it? How will you modify it?
31. What is Autocorrelation?
32. What is r ? What is the range of r? What is the formula for r?
33. What is the absolute advantage? What is the comparative advantage?
34. What is the beta of a stock? How is it calculated?
35. How do T-bills work?

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