IIM Bangalore Interview

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Date: 1st Mar - Time: 9:00 am

Venue: IIM Bangalore (Panel 3)

Case

Dr.Gupta , president of IDA, approves a medical device inspite of it not being tested properly and a stiff resistance from Scientists.He did so because, there was huge pressure from patients and the advisory committee also recommends it.. Now it is found that the device had side effects and hence should we suspend Dr.Gupta

Very Cordial discussion. Came in many times and gave many points.

Overall - More than Satisfied. It happens to be the best GD of my life so far

PI(Around 25 min)

I was third one to be interviewed.There were two profs P1 and P2. and ME (M)

P2 - Can I have your certificates

Me - Gives them .

P1- Please tell us about your job profile?

Me - Told them...

P1- Did you give GMAT?

Me - No Sir

P1- You have close to 4 years of experience? Why not GMAT?

Me - Some Gyan on Indian B schools and etc etc .... Seemed convinced.

P1- How many CATs did you write?

Me - Told him written in 2002 and 04 . Both times scored around 99% overall and missed due to low verbal percentile!!!

P2 - Whats ur V % this time?

Me - Told ....Then we discussed about the Verbal paper ..

P2 said there were lot of criticism against V paper and then I told him may be it was because the paper was not on expected lines

P1 P2 Me ----- All Laughs

P1 - Whats your future plan?

Me - Some gyan

P2 - What if not MBA?

Me- Some more We had a long discussion on this one..... They were not buying my thoughts. I was telling them the same in different ways. It went on so for next 8 - 9 mins

P2 - What are highlights of Budget

Me - Told few ....

P2 - Interrupts -- I am sure you must have just read this one for the sake of interview

P2 - Immediately --- Whats happening to Sensex?

Me - Its been falling for a week sir?

P2 - Why?

Me - I read somewhere that this trend will continue till budget.

P2 - What happened yesterday?

Me- it lost around 500 points ... Reached the lowest mark since Dec12th (Heard some one discussing)

P2 - Why?

Me- May be industry expected something from budget and did not get the same(Blunder.....Actual reason was Chinese market fell drastically on 28th Feb ... Was not aware of it as I had to leave for interview very early ... Canot be a nice excuse ofcourse)

P2 - I will tell you something ... Market lost 700 points before budget was presented and recovered some 200 points while the budget was being presented!!!Can you tell me why?

Me - Thinking ...

P2 - I know you must have been reading the finance related articles for the sake of interviews for the last few days . Do you read them regularly?

Me - Told him ... I read articles here and there but not to an extent of analysing it thoroughly.. Like what happened during intraday ... why sensex rose at some point and fell at other

P1 and P2 - Look at each other ..

Both- OK Thank You

Me - Thank you Sir

Came out ... Thought about it for 30 mins or so and realized that might have been a STRESS interview.... they were not buying any of my thoughts!!!

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