My actual interview was on 30/01/24 at spjimr college Mumbai.

1st round WAT:

Topic: should standardized testing be the primary measure of academic performance.

1st Group interview round:

2 male panelists, both of Operation. One was mechanical engineer, second was
software engineer.
3 candidates including me all 3 were there for operations and supply chain management.
Q1: Introduce yourself but we have already read your forms so tell us something which is not
there in the form.
Answer: All 3 ended up repeating their education and work experience.
Q2: Why MBA and why operations
Answer: I related it to my work experience.
Q3: The mechanical engineer panellist grilled me a lot on mechanical engineering concepts,
asked to explain what electives I took at IIT Kharagpur and why. Asked me to explain finite
element method which is in mechanical engineering.
Answer: I explained all the concepts.
Q4: Which is your dream company that comes for campus placement in spjimr for operations
and supply chain management. What job profile it offer and what salary does it offer.
Answer: I told Amazon and explained its job profile. I thought salary part was the trick
question so I said I didn't check how much it pays.

2nd group interview:

2 male professors, one from operations and one teaches spirituality.
5 candidates all for different departments.
Q1: Imagine you are on a date with a beautiful lady at Starbucks. Introduce yourself in 2
minutes.
Q2: you are in a company where your boss is sexually harassing your female colleague. Will
you leave the job? What will you do?
Answer: I answered that me resigning is not going to solve anything. I will complain in the
HR department.
Q3: you are in a team of 5, all 5 collectively submitted a report and I was pointed out my the
professor that the report had 30% plagiarism. If no one tell the name of the culprit all 5 will
get rusticated and if we tell the name only that person will be rusticated.
Will you tell the name ?
Answer: I answered that I will tell the name of that person. I will ask professor that which
part of the report had plagiarism and check who was working on that part.
One candidate answered, will not tell the name if the reason is genuine.
Q4: what can be a genuine reason for plagiarism.
Answer: I answered that I cannot think of any reason that justifies plagiarism.
Q5: Tell us who amongst you 5 performed the best and why. You can't say your own name.
I got the most votes in this question :)

IIM L
shwetank sir interview replica not exact but 60%)
Two panelists both male
P1- mid 30s P2- mid 50s (the observer)
P1- Vinay have it (offering me a samosa)
No sir thankyou
P1 and P2 together :- we insist
Okay sir
Eating eating eating for the first 5 mins
P1 is looking at his laptop P2 is looking at me
P1: what does your father do vinay?
He runs a business sir of engine oils, I even worked as a marketing agent for the business
P1: Please elaborate vinay, unofficially right?
Yes Sir for about 8 months in particular on weekends, I used to go to nearby areas such as
ganj bhasoda, vidisha I used to show our catalogue and there were products on it
I used to convince them
And many more business questions as such; tackled them completely
P1 joins his zoom meeting between
P2 asked suddenly what is market segmentation
For about 5 seconds I got blank as I got a bit diverted because I heard the meeting's voice
Then P1 said carry on vinay I will just turn off the sound
Then I gave the answer but stammered a bit
(This was the only fault)
They asked me another academic question; I don't remember right now!

Overall review:- Our panel was pretty chill but the corner most panel was pretty harsh on the
students asking them about inflation rate, grinding them too hard on workex, a GEM
candidate was asked pretty tough questions on academics.
I was the second last person in the campus to give the PI in particular at 4:30 pm, he joined

IIM Lucknow (23/01/24)

MBA and MBA-ABM Call
WAT Topic - The world is slowly moving towards de-globalisation

I was the last in the panel

Two panelists. Both Male
P1 - Young Aged (Accountancy Background)
P2 - Middle Aged (Economics Background)

I greeted them and sat down

P1 - Tell me about yourself.
P2 - Don’t you think all other candidates are from b tech engineering and you are from Tourism. What
are your thoughts
Me: answered that Tourism is a very diverse and growing industry. Went on to explain that
government has started giving more attention to it but was interrupted.
P2: GDP contribution of tourism (answered)
P2: most tourism revenue country (debated on this)
P2: Except for Tourism Maldives other industries (did not knew)
P2: Asked about Turkey(told about tourism and Istanbul being the hub),interrupted and asked about
turkey economic crisis(Did not knew)
P1: Asked what news I read recently (told about Ramsar sites, asked what are they explained in detail)
P1: asked whether yoga as it was one of my subjects, was taught through theory only or
practical(Answered that it was covid so only theory class were conducted)
P1: Asked how ball swings with lots of follow up questions(told)
P1: Asked Why Agri. Answered in relation to rural tourism. Followed up by what are your goals.
(Told)
P1: Asked questions on nature’s law and continuous function (did not knew) then asked the last time I
studied maths, I said in 10th so he said oh okay.
P1: Okay you can go. All the Best

No Questions on Agriculture.