Sample Interview Questions for B-Schools (Personal Interviews)

QUESTIONS RELATED TO PERSONALITY, COMPETENCE, SKILLS, EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES, ETC.

 Introduce yourself
 Why did you join the arts / commerce / science stream?
 Why do you want to want to an MBA?
 What are your career and educational goals?
 What are your long-range and short-range goals and objectives? When and why did you establish these goals?
 What would you consider as your major achievements, strengths and weaknesses, and furnish details to substantiate any one of them.
 Give an instance where you experienced satisfaction on achieving a goal through patience, perseverance and hard work.
 What motivates you to put forth your best effort?
 Describe a situation in which you encountered interpersonal problems with people you worked with. How did you handle it?
 Describe a situation where you have needed to involve others to achieve a task or to deal with conflict among team members. What did you do? Explain your reasons for the same & what the outcome was.
 Describe a recent experience of working with and/or leading other people and the role you played in it
 Share a situation when a group activity was benefited by your leadership role.
 Describe your contribution to a group effort that you may have participated in?
 Give me an example of a leadership role you have held when not everything went as planned.
 Give me an example of a time when you successfully worked with a team.
 Describe a situation in which you overcame a difficult problem. How did you do it?
 Describe a challenging and difficult project that you have undertaken. What did you do? Explain your reasons for the same & what was the outcome.

Share one experience in your recent past, wherein you were placed under a lot of stress and how you handled the situation.

 Tell me about a time when you successfully resolved a conflict.
 Tell us about a situation wherein you influenced a team of people to implement an innovative idea.
 Are you creative? Give me an example. What have you done that you consider yourself to be creative?
 Have you ever had difficulty finishing a task or a project? Why and what did you do to eventually get it done?
 How would you describe your contribution to those activities? Did you run into any difficulties?
 What are your hobbies?
 Give me the name of a book you have read that had a powerful influence on you.
 What extra-curricular activities were you involved in? What have you learned from your activities?

ACADEMIC
 Why did you select your graduate degree?
 Describe the course that has had the greatest impact on your thinking.
 How do your studies relate to your career goals?
 Did your grades accurately reflect your ability? Why/Why not?
 Are your grades a good indication of your academic achievement?
 What is your favourite subject?
WORK EXPERIENCE
 What was your previous / current job description?
 What did you enjoy most / least about your last job?
 What were your main responsibilities? Achievements?
 Give an example of a situation where you provided a solution to an employer.

 Describe a situation/project where you have been able to bring tangible benefit to the end consumer/customer by adopting an innovative approach. What did you do? Explain your reasons for the same & what the outcome was.
 What was the most difficult project you worked on? How did you go about accomplishing it?
 Tell us about a time where you had to handle a moral issue with your staff.
 Why did you leave your last job / position?
 You have been in Company X for a long time. Have you kept a track of the financials of the company since you have left?
 What are the two major things that have happened in the last company you worked in the past 2-3 years?

PROJECT
 Tell us what you did in the project
 Give a brief description of your project
 What were your findings? And recommendations?
 How did you collect your data and analyse it?
 What was the toughest challenge and how did you manage it?

COLLEGE SPECIFIC
 Why should we select you?
 Outline briefly in not more than 50 words your reasons for applying to our college and choice of course
 Why do you want this course / college?
 Why are you interested in our college?
 What do you know about our college?
 Where else have you applied?

What other colleges are you considering?
 What makes you different from other candidates we are interviewing?
 What do you expect from your course?
 What are your expectations from the faculty?
 What do you have to contribute to our college?
 What in particular, interests you about our products, or service?
 What kind of training do you expect at our college?