Interviews: Indian Institutes of Management and Personal Interview
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Personality Assessment Round Process Details (2013-2015 batch)
By now, you must be quite familiar with the different processes that various B-schools use in the second round of their selection program. Let us now look at some individual institutes to get a better grasp of the mechanism they use in order to select the best candidates. Please note that institutes do keep tinkering with their selection processes from time-to-time. Therefore, this list can only help you to understand all the stages that an institute has used for selection in recent years with specific focus on last year's method. However, please remember that it is quite likely that in subsequent years, an institute may use radically different processes as well.
IIM Ahmedabad:
Process: PGPM: Essay Writing Task + Personal Interview
ABM: Group Discussion + Personal Interview
Essay Writing: The candidates were given 1 minute to think and 10 minutes to write on the topic. Most of the topics were either general in nature or related to current affairs. Some of the topics given to the candidates were - “CAG is slowing down progress in India's telecom and mining sector”, “Obsession with constant research by smartphone companies has had a serious effect on our social life.”, “It is advisable to raise the legal drinking age limit to 25 years for responsible drinking.”
Group Discussion: Usually, the Group Discussions involved case studies. Candidates were typically given a few minutes to read the case study and prepare their points. At the end of the discussion, candidates had to write a summary of the discussion.
Personal Interview: Personal interviews were conducted after completion of the essay writing task / Group Discussion and, generally, lasted for about 15-20 minutes. In this round, candidates were interviewed by panels of two members each. Those with prior work experience were asked detailed questions pertaining to their experience
Personality Assessment Round Process Details (2013-2015 batch)
By now, you must be quite familiar with the different processes that various B-schools use in the second round of their selection program. Let us now look at some individual institutes to get a better grasp of the mechanism they use in order to select the best candidates. Please note that institutes do keep tinkering with their selection processes from time-to-time. Therefore, this list can only help you to understand all the stages that an institute has used for selection in recent years with specific focus on last year's method. However, please remember that it is quite likely that in subsequent years, an institute may use radically different processes as well.
IIM Ahmedabad:
Process: PGPM: Essay Writing Task + Personal Interview
ABM: Group Discussion + Personal Interview
Essay Writing: The candidates were given 1 minute to think and 10 minutes to write on the topic. Most of the topics were either general in nature or related to current affairs. Some of the topics given to the candidates were - “CAG is slowing down progress in India's telecom and mining sector”, “Obsession with constant research by smartphone companies has had a serious effect on our social life.”, “It is advisable to raise the legal drinking age limit to 25 years for responsible drinking.”
Group Discussion: Usually, the Group Discussions involved case studies. Candidates were typically given a few minutes to read the case study and prepare their points. At the end of the discussion, candidates had to write a summary of the discussion.
Personal Interview: Personal interviews were conducted after completion of the essay writing task / Group Discussion and, generally, lasted for about 15-20 minutes. In this round, candidates were interviewed by panels of two members each. Those with prior work experience were asked detailed questions pertaining to their experience