IIM MBA Personal Interview - Practice Questions

1. Why should we admit you into our MBA program?


2. What are your strongest abilities?


3. What skills would you be bringing to the classroom?(relevant if you have job experience)


4. What are you looking for in this program?


5. Tell me something about yourself?


6. What are your greatest strengths/weaknesses?


7. Where do you want to be in 5 years?


8. Why do you want to study in this institute?


9. What does "success" mean to you?


10. What does "failure" mean to you?


11. What are your three major accomplishments?


12. What have you disliked in your past jobs? (If you have worked in more than one organization)


13. What kinds of people do you enjoy working with? (If you possess work experience)


14. What kinds of people frustrate you?


15. How long before you can make a contribution (Not monetary) to the institute?


16. In the past year, what have you been dissatisfied about in your performance?


17. What according to you is your ideal job and how will this program help you realise the same?


18. What can you tell me about your past bosses? (If you have work experience)


19. Which is more important to you: money or the type of job?


20. What have you learned from your activities in college?


21. Were your extracurricular activities worth the time you put into them?
22. What have they taught you?


23. What qualities should a successful manager possess?


24. What two attributes are most important in your job?


25. What major problem have you encountered and how did you deal with it?


26. What have you done that you consider creative?


27. Who do you admire? Why?


28. What do you get passionate about?


29. What courses are you taking?

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