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IIM Calcutta Interview Questions

Hello sir I have applied for the job at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta and I have been selected now tomorrow I have to go for Interview so would you please provide me Interview Questions of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta???
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15th July 2015, 04:19 PM
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Re: IIM Calcutta Interview Questions

Hello friend as you are looking for the Interview Questions of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta so here I am providing you the same…..

1. What are your career goals?
2. What go you do in your free time?
3. Which brand of shirt are you wearing? What is the effect of branded shirts on the market?
4. What changes have come in last 5 years in economy?
5. How will you finance your MBA?
6. Why do you want to apply for MBA in General Management? Why not MBA in Agri Business?
7. What is the difference between average salary and mean salary?
8. Why do you want to do an MBA?
9. You should go into research since you seem to be the kind of person who can focus on one thing and do it well, rather than
juggle 3-4 things. Why MBA only?
10. Who has proved to be the best Prime Minister of India since independence?
11. Where do you see yourself in the next 10 years?
12. What are your aspirations in life?
13. Who are your role models?
14. Why are your academics low and do you think that they are low?
15. How did you prepare for CAT?
16. Does joining a coaching institute for CAT preparation helps?
17. Why don’t you apply for MBA? Why PGDM?
18. Tell about yourself.
19. Why are services difficult to market?
20. What is your job profile?
21. Give a comparative analysis of the top three IIMs and which one would you choose if you get calls from all three?
22. Tell us about your family.
23. What are the three qualities your engineering and school background have taught you? Which all qualities would help you in a
management career?
24. What is your most outstanding quality?
25. Enumerate your strengths and weaknesses.
26. What difference will Indian managers make to the global scenario tomorrow?
27. Why are Indian managers thought to shy away from risks?
28. Have you got a campus placement?
29. Won’t you lose out on the money your job is offering to you?
30. How many calls have you got?
31. What are the reasons for slowdown/saturation in global telecom industry?
32. Can be over-capacity in a country like India?
33. Tell us 4 things about your role model that we don’t know.
34. Should we conduct the interview standing or running around the hall?
35. Why do you want to become an entrepreneur?
36. What is bureaucracy what is bureaucracy?
37. How many famous Indian entrepreneurs have done MBA? Why can't you set up a firm now itself?
38. Tell us a few things about the history of Pondicherry. What about the French impact on Pondicherry? Why are industries being
setup in Pondicherry?
39. Do you think that there should be a tie up between industry and engineering colleges?
40. Which is more challenging- programming or managing?
41. Today there was a headline in newspaper about BJP manifesto what is it?
42. Should temple and mosque be built side by side in Ayodhya to resolve the differences?
43. Are you conservative?
44. Are you concerned about the environment? We build dams, link rivers, lay roads etc; all these pose danger to environment,
so which side are you with? Developmental activities or conservative types?
45. If we cut forests, will our future generations suffer?
46. Does your job give you a global perspective?
47. How would you rank yourself in the group of 9 in the GD/
48. What is an exit poll?
49. Tell us about the Indo -Pak relations, history and present.
50. Find the probability of you getting through IIMC.
51. Where do we use calculus in daily life?
52. What is an antilog? What is its purpose?
53. What is the difference between a bar graph and a histogram?
54. What exactly do you think will you learn in IIM C?
55. Is anything wrong with HLL these days? Who are their competitors?
56. Define success.
57. What is the difference between success and perfection?
58. Who is the most successful person that you know of?
59. How does MBA fit into your career goals?
60. Why are you wearing a tie?
61. What are derivatives?
62. Who is Sonu Nigam?
63. What do you think about Indian Idol?
64. What is conditional probability?
65. What is difference between matrix and determinant?
66. Who was Raja Agrasen?
67. What is creative writing?
68. Imagine a situation where you find yourself in mid ocean. you hear a child crying and an old lady shouting for help. You can
save one. Whom will you save?
69. What is globalization with a human face?
70. How does Indian military camp intercept Pak camp's messages?
71. How was Saddam traced?
72. You are 21 years old; old enough to start earning and to be independent. Why do you need a guardian?
73. Tell us about your vision.
74. Why is it that you seem to have a lust for power and occupying important positions?
75. Tell us one industry which has a negative working capital.
76. What do you know about the Barings Bank?
77. Do you recall any Bond defaulters?
78. What are the forex reserves?
79. Why don’t we invest in infrastructure using forex?
80. Don’t you think that the career in stocks is mere gambling?
81. What are the problems that India has with it neighbours? Can you provide any solution to improve the relations?
82. What is game theory? Who devised it?
83. I would say all these big shots had lots of luck. Your comments.
84. What is the situation of Iron industry in India?
85. If I make you a CEO of a company today, what three steps will you take just after joining?
86. How much have you bothered to know about IIMC before coming for the interview?
87. How would you inculcate good practices in your employees as a manager?
88. If you had to take mental journey from Mumbai toward the west, what would you identify as the problem areas?
89. Tell us about an incident from work.
90. What is Knowledge Management?
91. What is inflation? If i have 6% inflation this week, and 5% next week; have the prices risen or fallen?
92. What will you do if you are made an in charge of a poverty eradication programme?
93. What are your weaknesses?
94. What do you know about the Kyoto Protocol? Which countries haven’t ratified it?
95. Can you tell me something about conventional biological diversity?
96. Have you heard of Birla Lodha dispute?
97. Tell me one international news in last one month.
98. In your opinion on what has US done in last 1 yr.
99. Fictionalise and give a picture of world in 10 yrs from now.
100. What is full form of Wipro?
101. Compare Azim Premji and Narayan Murthy.
102. How much time do you think you would need to become a CEO?
103. What are the two most important qualities that a CEO should have?
104. Is the Nobel prize given for a book?
105. What's the difference between nervousness and anxiety?
106. Can you spell 'occurrence'?
107. A good adjective derived from the word 'government'. Spell gubernatorial.
108. What is NWDPRA? Who started them? What were the other missions?
109. What do you say about lack of fund utilisation by ministries?
110. How do you rate your job (on a scale of 1 to 10)?
111. Are you intelligent? Do you work hard? Why can’t you learn about finance, marketing, HR from text books on your own?
Why do you want to waste your 2 years at a B School?
112. Which company do you want to work after MBA? Do you think this company will not take you now?
113. Do you want to design cars or sell cars?
114. I have Rs 1 lakh to invest. How should I go about it?
115. What is the latest controversy in Delhi about the drugs?
116. Tell me 3 qualities why should we select you?
117. Do you think mid day meal scheme is a good idea?
118. Where is Kalahandi?
119. Have you heard about digital divide?
120. Do you think labour laws and mid day meal scheme are interrelated? How?
121. How will mid day meal scheme help in curbing poverty?
122. What is the difference between fdi and fii?
123. What is the difference between revenue deficit and fiscal deficit?
124. What is the future of terrorists?
125. How does Sensex change? How do the share prices change? What has the budget got to do with Sensex?
126. Are you not promoting piracy by watching movies over LAN?
127. What is liquidity ratio?
128. Tell us 3 things that will lead to Industrial revolution in U.P.Assume that you are the God and you can do anything that you
wish.
129. Which is the most industrialized state in India?
130. When did Kerela become a state? Was it ruled by the British before that? Why does Kerela have a high literacy?
131. Do you think Mayavati has improved the lot of dalits?
132. What is the difference between innovation and invention?
133. What does the term “social entrepreneur” mean?
134. Name the governor general of India.
135. Name presidents of India in chronological order.
136. What was Saddam Hussiain’s moral justification in attacking Kuwait in 1990?
137. What is your opinion about copying of ideas?
138. What do you think of plagiarism?
139. What is patenting?
140. Are you a thinker or doer?
141. Name the developed countries in Asia.
142. Name some South East Asian countries.
143. Tell me something about ESOP.
144. How will you manage risk in a project?
145. Give me examples of risk in a construction project.
146. Sachin Tendulkar earns 5 mn $ a year, Ronaldinho earns 50 mn $, Tiger Woods earns 500 mn $, why this mismatch?
147. What was the amount that Jet airways spent on painting its fleet last year?
148. Major issues the world is going to face in next two decades.
149. Are you an extrovert and an introvert?
150. How long do you think will it take Kerala to be a non communist state?
151. How would you, as MD of LIC, make it an international brand?
152. What are the qualities necessary for an Insurance company to be successful overseas?
153. I am going to Hyderabad next month. Give me a plan for a good weekend.
154. If you need to advice Mr. Y S Rajasekhar Reddy (CM of AP) to transform this place to be another Hyderabad, what would be
your suggestion?
155. There have been complaints of people waiting for 18-20 hrs at the airport. So if you are the CEO of Deccan airways, what
would you do to make it the no.1 low fare airways?
156. What are Fixed and Variable Costs?
157. Who hit a century in 1975 world cup finals?
158. What is e-governance?
159. Compare north and south India on the basis of economic development.
160. Name the North East Indian states.
161. What do you think about the economic state of Tamil Nadu?
162. What is your opinion on Wal-Mart coming to India?
163. What is your prediction for the UP election?
164. How did you prepare for the IIMC interview specifically?
165. What are the criterion for filing for a patent?
166. If there is a business meeting where everyone is shouting at the top of his voice to give all irrelevant points possible and
you have some very relevant points. Should not you enter the discussion with a strong voice and convincing arguments
rather than just waiting for your chance?
167. How is digital technology playing a role in getting me richer?
168. What is the other name of Mt. Everest?
169. Who is the Deputy. Speaker of Rajya Sabha?
170. If you have to go for a very important sales deal,last seat available on flight and one lady has also to go as her husband is
dying.What will you do?
171. Why are the financial dailies coloured the way they are?
172. Who is the minister of state for finance?
173. What are our finance minister's educational qualifications and which universities did he get his degrees from?
174. What is the need of NCC?
175. What is the significance of fiscal deficit?
176. What is the need of NCC?
177. Statistics-What is covariance? Have you heard of LIES,DAMN LIES and Statistics?
178. Give me five qualities of Bihari.
179. what is right to information act.
180. Define Affable.
181. Why is blogging good? But doesn’t it spoils the language grammar etc? Do you read blogs? Which ones? What do you thing
about marketing using blogs?
182. Explain divide and rule. Who implemented it?
183. Explain BT cotton. Advantages and disadvantages over normal cotton.
184. How many Vedas are there?
185. Let’s say you are going to a venture capitalist and selling him the concept of veda education, how are you going to
convince? Who will be your target audience?
186. There are 2 kind of tourists that go to Kerala- the foreign tourists and the Indian tourists.If you are the Tourism Minister
then what would you do to promote Kerala among the Indian tourists?
187. Do you know what Junagadh was famous for in 1920?

Engineers
1. What is data warehousing?
2. What is the difference between databases and data warehouses?
3. How much data can be sent in an optical fibre currently?
4. What is SEI CMM Level 5?
5. What is ethical hacking? Explain the difference between ethical and unethical hacking.
6. What is Diffie Hellman Scheme?
7. What is the difference between a microprocessor and microcontroller?
8. Give an example of convergent series.
9. Why did you choose to do engineering? Why not history or English?
10. Do you know which company licenses the CDMA technology?
11. Which is better GSM or CDMA?
12. How will you rate data, voice and other telecom services in regard to the rural sector? What is the use of studying Operations
Research?
13. Where can you use travelling salesman problem in ECE?
14. What is c in cDNA?
15. What is m in mRNA?
16. What is cmp?
17. How do you estimate the load in an area?
18. How is the billing done?
19. What is the difference between electrical and electronics?
20. Can you speak on any tech topic for 10 min without saying a thing wrong?
21. What is the third law of thermodynamics?
22. What do you know about optical fibres?
23. What is the difference between GSM and CDMA from a user's perspective?
24. What is signal processing? Whatever is happening in this room, if you had to define it in terms of signal processing, how would
you do it?
25. Have you heard of the term ‘Fordism’?
26. What is difference between AM and FM?
27. What is the difference between microprocessors and microelectronics?
28. What are transducers and discuss their applications.
29. What is a process patent? What percentage of drugs is under the patent regime or will be under the patent regime?
30. What is 1G/2G/3G in mobile communication parlance? Do you agree that mobiles phones are replacing computers? How soon
will mobiles completely replace computers (specific time-frame)? What will be the scene in computer hardware industry then?
31. How will you connect the whole of north east? What about sattellite communication, LEO, MEO, GEO, HEO, which one will you
opt and why?
32. Tell us any 2 recent contributions of electrical engineering to this world recently?
33. Do we encrypt whole the message in Encryption?
34. Do you know about Rank of the matrix?
35. In India, what percentage of Radio broadcasting networks use AM/FM? Which results in better noise reduction- AM or FM?
36. Can you draw the circuit diagram?
37. Give us a function which has a discontinuity at x=2 and another function which has infinite discontinuities.
38. Why do they call your department Strategic Marketing, that means there is something called tactical/non strategic Marketing,
justify this.
39. Explain to a layman that if he catches an electric wire, there is a possibility that he may not die.
40. Difference between online and offline cnc programs.
41. What is the difference between an AC and DC fan without switching it on?
42. What does aerospace Engineering consist of?
43. What is nanotechnology?
44. Tell me about Windows Vista. What new features does it provide?
45. What are open source softwares? Advantages and Disadvantages.
46. What will be the problems if open source is used in government offices?
47. What is JIT?
48. Do you know 6-sigma? Who started it?
49. What is DMAIC?
50. What is an engagement?
51. Say I have a class. I need to find attendance using software; faculty shouldn't be involved with attendance task; No signature
collections from students as proxies are possible. How will you do it?
52. Who invented the network or www?
53. What is the difference between IT and computer?
54. What is Business Intelligence?

Extra Curricular
1. What is wildlife photography? Where have you done it from? What camera do you have?
2. What roles do you play in cricket?
3. What is the difference between style & technique?
4. What is one attribute of Sehwag that makes him successful?
5. Can you come up with a software to simulate the way ball behaves in cricket?
6. Which books do you read? Who is your favourite author? Discuss his style of writing. Which parameters define "style of writing"?
Compare it with some other author.
7. How do you bowl a reverse swing? (Cricket)
8. Who is the CEO of Cricinfo?
9. Name 5 movies in which OP Nayyar gave music and one song each from the movies.
10. What is the qualification of the cricketer - Asif Iqbal?


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