IIM IPM Interview Transcripts 2025 — Comprehensive Records

IIM IPM Interview Transcripts 2025

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This document is a comprehensive, verbatim collection of IPM interview transcripts from multiple IIMs across India during 2025. It captures the flow of each interview, including the panel composition, stream, timestamps, subjects covered, specific questions asked, and candidate responses. It spans a wide range of IIM campuses (e.g., IIM Indore, IIM Bangalore, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Amritsar, IIM Ranchi, IIM Shillong, IIM Sirmaur, IIM Delhi, IIM Mumbai, and IIM Kolkata), and includes the following recurring themes:

• Personal background and SOP-related cross questions
• Core economics concepts (GDP, inflation, monetary and fiscal policy, monetary transmission, currency and exchange rates, consumer and producer surplus, demand and supply, elasticity, etc.)
• Mathematics fundamentals (differentiation, integration, limits, matrices, vectors, probability, statistics, distributions, Poisson, normal distribution, Bayes, etc.)
• Accounting and finance basics (cost accounting, accounting standards, balance sheets, cash flows, depreciation, working capital, journal entries, goodwill, share capital, dividends)
• Business strategy and entrepreneurship (startups, business models, markets, competition, disruption, project evaluation, SOP relevance in business context)
• General knowledge and current affairs (geopolitics, tariffs, regions, policies, major global events)
• ECAs (extracurricular activities) and personal attributes (leadership, teamwork, resilience, communication)
• Interview dynamics (cross-questioning style, probing by panelists, time management, stress handling)

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7/21/2025 11:09:28

Date- 21/7/25

Slot-10:00

Panel-1

Prof 1: introduce yourself

me: basic intro, talked abt social entrepreneurship

Prof 1: asked abt diff between general and social entr, asked abt company that inspired me for social entr.(answered) then went a little into detail abt that.

Prof 2: asked acad questions. types of business org, ways company can raise debt, how are eco and maths related, asked if i had calculus.

Prof 1: asked abt any recent economic policy in india im aware of.( didnt know) then asked abt international, talked abt trumps bill. he then asked any

international policy affecting india, i talked abt the BRICS tarriff thing.

Prof 2: asked abt my SOP, specially abt how i used words like perseverance, orientation to maths, i used it to divert convo to me also wanting to pursue

management consultancy.

Prof 1: asked what consultants do and a situation where hiring them is useful and situation where hiring them is not.( was able to answer 1st part)

7/21/2025 11:31:04

Show Your Screen (to show my aadhar)

Share the Document

Tell SMTH about myself

Fav Subjects

2 Depreciation methods

Which is used? (Any can be used as per choice)

Inflation, types of inflation (said the types wasn't in curriculum, what I had learned from extra and added not sure) impact on economic gap between poor and

rich, how to solve in your opinion, how can economists help (I said I didn't know about economists work, inflation control is mainly done by either govt. Or

central bank through their respective policies)

Then on My extracurriculars (Startup and MUNs)

Then on the Beautiful Life answer( How I helped others, How I constantly improve, if they both were in conflict then what would I do?)

Then Maths- solve X^2 + 5x + 6.

And that was it

7/21/2025 12:03:46

Duration: 15mins

Panelists: One male, one female

No introduction asked

• Started with questions and cross questions based on the two questions - "Who am I?" and "What is the definition of a beautiful life for me?"
• What is a mole?
• Why is it significant?
• Why was there a need to introduce 'mole' if we already had so many other units of measurement?
• What are your strengths?
• What are your weaknesses?
• Questions + discussions on ECAs
• Why do you want to pursue IPM?

7/21/2025 13:18:52

Date- 21/07

Slot 1

1M1F

1. Asked to share document

2. Introduce yourself

3. Why IPM?

4. What other calls?

5. Why switched to Commerce in 11th?

6. What is stock market?

7. Which are stock exchanges in India?

8. Difference between merger and joint venture

9. What is bell curve?

10. How symmetry and standard deviation related to bell curve? And explain in details

11. Explain about social work experience during Covid you have mentioned in who am I?

12. Didn’t your parents or organisers stopped you when you were minor? (Explained I did all digital awareness work)

13. Don’t you think your beautiful life theory is not practical in real world?

14. Thank you, you can leave

7/21/2025 17:29:16

So mai gayi and sir ka connection problems rha bahut zyada.

So there was one sir and one mam. Sir asked ki fav subject, then geography of my state, he asked how many rivers, why bms, what is the difference in fees

between nirma and sirmaur ka( because i am at nirma rn). Then mam said, why should we select you karke we are not convinced convince us💀🙏

Also she asked ki buisness headline, last book you read, about my hobbies, why the dip in marks from 10th to 12th etc etc

7/21/2025 17:56:59

21 July 2025

Morning Shift

Commerce w/ Maths

1. Share Doc file

2. Introduction

3. Why I like the singers I like

4. How will Shubhanshu Shukla's trip impact our economy

5. What is economies of scale? What's the reason behind it?

6. What is Gini's Coefficient?

7. How is Income Inequality measured?

8. What is partial differentiation vs full differentiation?

9. Definite vs Indefinite Integration?

10. Why is C used in Indefinite Integration?

11. What are Sensex and NFTs?

12. Some elaboration on my 'Who am I?'. How do I identify my strengths and weaknesses?

7/21/2025 22:38:31

Interview Experience:

Was admitted 20 mins late to the meeting room

There were 2 panelists(A sir and a ma'am)

They asked me to share my screen and show them the pdf with all the documents. After verifying, they asked me to keep on sharing my screen and continue

with the interview

Sir:

1) Introduce yourself

2) What are your favourite subjects in 11th and 12th(I said computer and physics)

3) Asked me some syntax questions in Java and the difference between recursion and iteration.

4) asked me about Newton's laws of motion and asked me what would happen if they didn't exist

5) Tell me about your strengths and weaknesses and how are you overcoming them

6) How are equations of line and linear regression connected

Ma'am:

1) tell me the difference between scalar quantities and vector quantities

2) how will I explain this difference to a 5 year old

3) cross questioned me about my weakness and grilled on that

4) asked me what I did apart from academics and social work(I worked with a couple of NGOs)

5) Asked me if i were to establish a programme for social betterment in northeast region, what will I set up and why

6) basic form of quadratic equation

Then they said "all right, you're done, please leave the meeting"

7/22/2025 10:34:08

22 July

9:40 am

panel: one male, one female

stream: commerce with maths

• elaborate on your who am i essay and your goals. (cross questions around that)
• where do you see yourself after you complete ipm at iim shillong (mentioned a venture, cross questioned)
• how will you make your edtech startup stand out from the rest as its a very competitive market and saturated market? (answerd)
• derivative of y=2x^2+2 and its graph
• where will the derivative lie on that graph?
• any other fav subject (mentioned economics)
• what are indifference curves?
• what do they imply?
• what is utility and any important concepts revolving that? (mentioned ldmu and elaborated)
• okay assume you got your startup registered and incurred expenses before that, how will you account for it? (fumbled)
• elaborate on your music district level achivement.
• So you have done an internship? elaborate your role?
• what does the company do?
• any similar startups or companies? name a few.
• thank you, you may leave

7/22/2025 11:25:44

1M and 1F

Started off with screen sharing and document verification

Introduction

What is elasticity of demand for luxurious goods? (I had commerce+applied maths)

What topics do you study in applied maths

What is a quadratic equation and what is the basic form?

Application of quadratic equation irl?

Questions on hobbies

3 differences and 3 similarities between north indian and south indian cuisine (cooking was a hobby)

3 differences and 3 similarities between cultures in france and japan (I lived there before)

What is your goal in life from a non materialistic pov?

7/22/2025 11:33:15

10 AM 2M

What is your first name?

Narrate what you wrote in your idea of a beautiful life.

4-5 questions related to my father's occupation?

What does my father's son (me) look like?

Questions on Indian Railways.

Questions on privatization of indian sectors

Approximate distance from my city to shillong

How did you calculated it

Questions on normal distribution

Questions on standard normal distribution

Question on calculating revenue normally and through function

Favorite subject

How is math used in econ, BSt and accountancy

Why do we use GDP as an indicator

What are its types

Which is used by india

Who calculates GDP

7/22/2025 12:02:55

Panel and slot - Didn't see

22/07/25

Commerce with Applied Maths

10th - 94.17%

12th - 89%

Document Verification

What is the Feynman method (Mentioned in the SOP)

Explain Differentiation to a 5 Year old... (Explained with speedometer, he then said Unitary Approach se bhi kar skte hai then what is the need of differentiation

-- Grilled a bit on it)

HR - Tell me one other instance which impacted your life

What makes you Happy

What makes you Sad

What will IIM Shillong gain if you get selected

What will you gain if you get selected

Acads -

What is your fav subject? Why it is favourite - Said Eco because we can create policies (Give an example - Retirement plans (this is all I could come up with))

What are giffen goods? (Answered further discussion)

What is AC and MC and how they are related (Flunked)

What is integration (answered)

What are it's Practical Applications? (Answered drew the graph for Consumer Eq.)

What are the forms of debate?

Thanks you can leave now

7/22/2025 13:35:56

2 Panelists, Both male

Firstly, they asked me to share the screen for aadhar verification and certificates.

I had a few certificates in badminton then they asked if I still play badminton and asked questions about who the prominent players are currently.

The next ques. was why I do I want to pursue IPM and not any other course like BBA or B.Com.

I'm from Indore, they asked why Indore in news recently and what were the steps taken by the local authorities to achieve such levels of cleanliness.

Since, I'm from PCM background, they asked about the importance of rare earth elements in India nowadays.

The other prof. asked me questions on chemistry like what experiments did I perform in the lab and details about it. then he asked about Covalent and Ionic

Bonds. Some important facts about Sodium and formula to find the atomic mass of Chlorine.

No intro and no SOP questions asked!

7/22/2025 13:36:19

22nd July, 12:10 PM

P1: M

Got my documents verified

Why IPM?

What do you want to be? Any role models?

Give some examples of managers who were able to bring about societal changes (cross questioned back and forth on this, discussed for 3-4 mins)

How will you bring change to the society?

Why do we equate the first order derivative with 0? (Cross questioning)

P2 : F

What are economic and accounting profits? Are they different?

What are normal profits?

Consumer Surplus

Consumer equilibrium

Asked me the graph(fumbled)

Journal entry on a company taking loan

Journal entry on a company inviting shares for 15 rupees at the face value of 10

What is share capital? Where is it shown in the balance sheet? Are the value of shares calculated on the paid up value or face value?

What do you see in the companies before investing? Which fundamentals?

P1 takes over again:

Why leaving the current college for IPM?

What will you do if you get a seat in IIM Shillong?

Why should we select you?

Duration: 18-20 mins. Both the panelists were chill but looked for elaborate answers on everything, they're not easy on acads. Overall experience 7/10.

7/22/2025 15:12:34

Panel - 8, slot - 2:20 Tuesday (22 july) 2Male

PCM background

P1 - screen share and show aadhar card pdf (P2 confirms)

P1 - share the file (asked in the mail)

P1 - so, tell something about yourselves [my name]

Intro + tried a setup for specific hooks on ECAs (didn't work)

P1 - Fav subjects (phy, chem) what topic specific in phy. (mechanics)

P1 - Give me an example of a machine that works on principles of mechanics. tell the first thing that comes to your mind. (engine - torque, energy

conservation, etc)

P1 - Many people don't understand chemical formulas easily so, how would you explain any formula to a 5th Grader. (took a simple one and started from the

basics; he cut me off in middle and said point understood)

P1 - What did you learn in your Comp.Sci. course (said I had none in 12th)

P1 - what concepts do you remember of maths (int. diff., stats, probability)

P1- ohh, then tell me (a+b)2 (told)

P1- while writing the 'who am i' essay, what one strength did you come across (told both 1 str, 1weak)

P2 - how would you use probability as tool in business (explained a hypothetical scenario)

p2 - If I had the data, then which statistical tool would I use to predict sales for the next quarter (I used logic and said that graphs would be used; they were

they were trying to trick me into predict=probability)

P2 - If I am a student and wan to travel from city to city (from state to state) tell me the mathematical tool to cut time (dist. and displ. , route aligned with

displ.)

then done (thank you for your time bye)

very technical, also they seemed to be a bit tired or something, but were very witty.

7/22/2025 16:41:41

Panel- Couldn't See

22/07/25 Slot was for 4:20

93.6 in 10th and 96 in 12th

2 interviewers, both were male. At the start I was taken by surprise because my slot was for 4:20 but I got admitted at 4:05 itself.

Document Verification

P1: Tell me about yourself, your family back ground and why IPM?

I introduced

P1: You mentioned that it is a blend of liberal arts and managements like psychology and calculus, tell me an instance where you have experienced that.

Me: Sir, I haven't experienced that and that is why I am really excited about this program.

P1: Okay tell me about a time where you showed leadership skills.

Me: I gave an example about a group presentation.

(Some internet issues occured)

P1: Okay tell me about the income demand concept

Me: I answered but I couldn't word it well

Then the other person started asking questions

P2: Where are you from

Me: Sir I am from Mumbai

P2: Where in Mumbai

Me: I replied with the district

P2: Tell me something unique about Mumbai and the district you are a part of which is not that well known

Me: I told them about some random cave system

P2: Okay tell me in accounting for NGO what do we write profit as?

Me: Sir I have not learnt accounting for NGO as it was not in my syllabus but can I take a guess?

P2: Yes

Me: ( I took the guess)

P2: Okay you may leave now

7/22/2025 17:16:40

Both Male panellists(one was chill one was a bit blunt)

22 July 2025, 3:20 PM (Interview started at 3:40)

PCM W ECONOMICS

93.2 in 10th and 72.8 in 12th

2 interviewers, both were male. At the start I was taken by surprise because my slot was for 4:20 but I got admitted at 4:05 itself.

Document Verification

P1: Tell me about yourself

2) What are your favourite subjects in 11th and 12th(I said computer and physics)

3) Asked me some syntax questions in Java and the difference between recursion and iteration.

4) asked me about Newton's laws of motion and asked me what would happen if they didn't exist

5) Tell me about your strengths and weaknesses and how are you overcoming them

6) How are equations of line and linear regression connected

Ma'am:

1) tell me the difference between scalar quantities and vector quantities

2) how will I explain this difference to a 5 year old

3) cross questioned me about my weakness and grilled on that

4) asked me what I did apart from academics and social work(I worked with a couple of NGOs)

5) Asked me if i were to establish a programme for social betterment in northeast region, what will I set up and why

6) basic form of quadratic equation

Then they said "all right, you're done, please leave the meeting"

7/22/2025 19:47:06

Shillong interview

How are you

Share your screen and show aadhar card

Send pdf in chat

Tell us something about yourself

Asked about ecas

Asked about french (learned in 12th and mentioned in essay)

What topics did you learn in ocm

What about bk

What are principles of accounting

What did traveling via public transport teach you (mentioned in essay)

Why is family important in your beautiful life?

Asked abt ecas again

Give an example of quadratic function

How will you find maxima and minima

Show your working

What is a straight line

How can you find slope

7/22/2025 21:06:03

Pane- 1Sir and 1Ma'am

Date & Slot- 2pm (startted at 2:05 to 2:24, 5 minutes document sharing and them reading my SOP/Answers submitted to questions)

Stream- PCM+ PHY. ED.

Transcript￾share screen and upload the document.

1. what are the different characteristice between salt water and fresh river water.(my sports extra curriculars are mostly in swimming)

2. why do we float and sink.

3. cross questions on buoyancy and buoyant force and factors affecting it.

4. does ph play any role in salt water.

5. then moved to uses of ph in day to day life(eg.s)

6. matrices, inverse, properties, and their applications

7. what does it say when a matrix does not have an iverse.

8. tell us about a time you failed as a leader in a school project.(debate competion I mentioned in extra curriculars)

9. how will you friend describe you?

10why ipm and why the change of heart from engineering

11.. how will a classmate, let's say someone who does not like you, would describe you?

12. your weakness and strengths.

still 7/22/2025 21:38:32

They didn't let me finish my intro. I spoke I am XYZ and I hail from city A. So They asked about the disperancy in my 12th marksheet being in another state.

Differences between city A and city xyz. Also asked about why my marks in 12th fell? In addition to that, they asked me about my drop year and what I did.

Then asked about PE and what's the difference between yoga and pranayam. They asked about the 3 laws of thermodynamics then the difference between

petrol and diesel engine. After that they asked about what I think the indian economy is headed, changed question before I could answer to when will India's

next trillion will come. After that they asked about what I think of the Luxury goods sector in India. My stream was PCM my 11th and 12th was 94 and 85

7/22/2025 23:52:36

not sure about panel, 1male and 1female

22/7/25- 2:40 pm

commerce w/ math

96% in both

no intro, asked for my fav subj (i said accs)

-cash flow components

how to calculate cash flow from operating profits

accounting for non-profit org

what all have you studied in accountancy

revenues & expenses a/c (didnt understand the qn)

what is sinking fund

what is integration

what are its applications

what do you understand by regression

what is regression coefficient

for how many variables do we calculate regression

y= x^2 + 2x + 1 — how do you represent this (i answered in detail)

what are your weaknesses

what are your aspirations (spoke in detail about that)

what challenges do you think you will face in ipm.

i didn't know the ans to some acads qns as they weren't in my syllabus but i kept smiling and was honest.

7/23/2025 0:50:53

22nd July

4:40

Commerce with maths

10th-88.33

12th-86.60

1M 1F

Female prof- Why Ipm ? and further courses I aim to pursue alongside th course Favourite subject, what is matching principle, what is principle, Consumer

surplus, producer surplus, perfect competition and example.

Male Prof- Goal in life, follow up question on answer, Thought on Evs and Tesla coming to India

Female prof- strength, weakness and most important thing in life

7/23/2025 11:46:35

DATE - 23-7-25

TIME- 11.15AM

Science with computers

-asked my hobbies

-asked what do u know about north east

-what is 7 sisters

-lets go on to computer science

-asked me to write code to output "welcome to iim shilling"

-asked me what iostream is

-asked me a few spread sheet questions which I never heard of

-few stock market questions which I could answer all

-went to English and asked me what have i learnt

-asked me the poets i had in 12th

the panel were really friendly but i fked up cuz i did not expect to be asked English and computer science :(

iim dream for UG is finally over :(

7/23/2025 11:46:35

Iim shillong interview

1. Introduce yourself

2. What have you studied in business studies

3. Why is controlling necessary

4. What is span of management

5. How many employees should be under a single manager

6. Have you studied accountancy

7. Can working capital be negative ( said I'm sorry Accountancy is not my forte)

8. Asked if I studied economics

9. Tell me areas where disguised unemployment takes place

10. Asked me to solve a probability question

(Second interviewer takes turn)

11. Is innovation required in the sense of problem solving or creativity

12 . Justify in three points

13. Can you tell me when is it better to create something new instead of upgrading the old product.

( Asked for three examples)

14. If companies cannot compete on price, how would they compete

15. Tell me something about Smart India Hackathon, in which u participated in under a minute

16. Is there a way to predict earthquakes.

7/23/2025 12:42:20

I literally don't remember a lot of questions

They asked me about the utility of computer

Then asked if we can draw an indifference curve using that utility

Then they said okay if we have mobile phones then we can make

What will be the graph

What utility will computer gainb coz of usage of mobile phones can mobile phones increase utility of computers

If it is increasing then what will the shape of the ic curve

Then asked about tesla model

I said I don't know the model but I know the base price

Then asked elastic of inelsatic

Why elastic

Then grilled a lot about monopolistic competition

How's that different from monopoly

A lot of grill on that

Since I'm a partial dropper they asked a lot of questions

One of them repeated like 3 times "don't you think life is very unfair to you that you're still giving interview after a year and not getting a college that you want"

Then asked why ipm why iim shillong

What is one thing which ipm can give that you can't get from any other course

They asked few about where I see myself after 5 years who's my inspiration

They also asked which industry is suffering the most rn

And asked a few cross questions

7/23/2025 16:05:31

IIM Shillong Interview

2 panelists, 1 Male and 1 Female

Greetings

M1: 1. What do your friends think about you?

2. Tell me one thing your classmates don't like about you?

3. What were the challenges faced by you as the school captain (I mentioned that I was the school captain)

4. What did you do in order to resolve those challenges?

5. Why IPM?

6. Tell me a businessperson that you admire? (I said Ratan Tata)

7. Why do you admire Ratan Tata? (3-4 rounds of cross-questioning)

Then, F1 : 1. Which is your favourite subject? (I said Economics)

2. Tell me a firm in which there is a monopoly competition

3. Tell me examples of perfect competition

4. A farmer will come under which type of competition?

5. What are giffen goods?

6. A bank reconciliation statement question? (I can't exactly remember the question)

7. What would be the journal entry on issue of share capital?

8. Why indifference curves don't exist in real life?

Then again M1 : 1. An easy P&C question.

2. What do you do in your free time?

3. Which is the last great movie that you watch?

4. Why you liked that movie? Describe.

All the best, you can log out.

7/23/2025 18:16:13

12:00- 20 interview.

Started with screen sharing+ CV(My CV was pretty decent)

Medium friendly panel

Tried to put pressure.

Transcript:

Grilled me on my tie+(types of tie)

Said, to me good somewhere.

2-3 PHY questions

2-3 MATH questions

2 CS questions

Zero geo, studied a lot😭🙏

Zero questions on CV (Had a lot of good one, it was 20 pages!, made it beautiful )

HR Full : On life and religion , goals(age 50)

And then the "Admission Office will get back to you about your results, know about your results"

/Either they were trynna putt pressure or or they didn't care or idk/

7/24/2025 10:42:01

24th July

Time - 9:50am

Entry at 9:57am

Panel - 2 male

Asked me what is elasticity of demand

Then gave me a situation about two firms and how would you choose which firm to invest in.

Asked me what ratios would you check before investing.

Asked about future goals

Since I had a lot of accolades in debates, gave me a topic to think on for 30 seconds and give three points by taking any stand on that matter.

Overall I would say they are very academically inclined so I would recommend perfecting that. Also ensure to cite examples for each answer that you give.

All the best for your interview!

7/24/2025 12:10:24

24-07-25 11:30

commerce+maths

10th-92.5%

12th-97.6%

1m and 1f

P1-

1strangth and 1 weakness

something about issuing of shares

indifference curve and real life application

inelasticity of demand and 5 examples

P2-

2 problems u will face at iim shillong coming from south and how will u solve them

2 initiatives u will take to improve the campus

why should a person come out of comfort zone

how will u change yourself internallly to adopt to this place

7/24/2025 12:30:56

24th July. 2:20 Pm (Started few mins before and lasted roughly 10 mins)

Commerce with Math

Class 10th : 93%

Class 12th : 95.33%

Panel : Didn't see.

Extremely friendly

1M and 1F.

First thing , they asked me to send pdf in chat box.

(Didn't ask me to share screen)

Male Panelist

Introduce yourself

Why IPM

What you think about Northeast?

Which northeastern states border which all countries.

(First he asked Which country Meghalaya borders)

What all countries are part of Saarc

India's relation with 3 bordering countries.

Who's heading Bangladesh?

You are from Mumbai...we are scared to come to mumbai as we don't know Marathi...what's your take on this Marathi vs Hindi issue?

(I was prepared for this)

And for rest of the above questions...I was able to answer most..and answered not sure for few questions.

Femal Panelist (Smiling)

What subjects you like

OCM(business studies) and Accounts questions.

What did Fredrick Winslow Taylor contribute

Some questions regarding...how your father's business

Who is your role model?

Male panel interupted and asked about my hobbies...

Female panelist asked...what books will you open if partner is retiring.

(Talking about questions from ma'am...I was able to answer almost all the questions)

That's it!

(Both panelists were very calm and nice)

7/24/2025 20:53:33

Bangalore fun facts (I talk about it being the first City to receive electricity in 1905, Winston Churchill owing Bangalore bar 13 rupees and freedom park being a

jail)

Traffic (Mention about the TomTom Traffic index with Bangalore being the third slowest city globally. How from the state of mysore, the state of Karnataka

transitioned in 1956 making bangalore the capital leading to rapid urbanization in Whitefield and Sarjapura side without the proper capacity to build infra.

BMRCL metro shipments being delayed and issues at the yellow line)

Why low in maths? (I tell what went wrong, what I learnt, How I improved)

GP (Explained what a Geometric Progression with an example)

Matrix- determinant (A square matrix with a deterministic value)

Business studies (can't remember the questions they asked)

How do you tie business studies in regards to freelancing? (Dynamic environment, since I deal with tech, it become inate for me to be at the forefront of the

l latest software to deliver in regards to client expectations)

Economics - Indifference curve (Indifference curve or oridinal utility or hacksian analysis is all the possible combinations of two goods when a consumer is indifferent. It comes under the concept of consumer equilibrium and is said to be a more accurate measure as to the utility approach as its measured in

ranks)

What is depression? (spoke about the economic cycle of boom, recession, depression, growth/expansion and mention the great depression of 1929 and its

significance in the shift from classical to neo classical economics)

Devaluation (I mentioned about the US imposition of tarrifs on BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - due to them looking to

potentially devalue the US dollar. Then have a basic definition in the context to what I think it means)

Purchasing power parity (Fumbled a little but used what I understood to answer)

What is scalar and vector? (Scalar is just magnitude and vector is direction with magnitude)

Is light scalar or vector? (I mentioned how I'm not a science student. However I mentioned that light is neither scalar nor vector but told that if I had to pick

one then it being scalar would be a better choice)

Is a stock scalar or vector? (Stock is vector as it has direction, in the sense the price goes up or down, and magnitude, which relates to buy how much the

price changes)

How fast do you solve the rubiks cube? (Under 15 seconds)

Tell us how rubiks cube relates to life (I mentioned the uncertainty of life. how the rubiks cube has 43 quintillion manners in which it can be permuted, that

being more than the grains of sand or figures we can comprehend. In life we are faced with externalities and uncertainty but following a course of action, in

tangent to how we use the path of cfop -cross, F2L, OLL and PLL- in a Rubik's cube, we are able to arrive at the end result or solution)

They asked about my love for animals (I mentioned about adopting street doggos and cats)

Don't you think people in your area despise you looking after animals considering it causes disturbance (I tell them how I am previlidged enough to live in an

urban City like Bangalore in an affluent neighbourhood, this ties into the manner in which people think. How the perspective shifts from animals sharing the

world with us to how we share the world with these animals. In this regard, people infact come along to look after these little creatures :3)

What is elasticity of dog food? (I mentioned that inelastic demand is the demand that remains unaffected with changes in price level, this wouldn't be true for

dog food due to aspects such as competitors who supply these products, consumer tastes and preferences being now inclined towards quality and price of

each brand, it therefore can be understood that dog food is infact elastic as they tie into the final purchasing descision of the buyer thereby affecting

demand!)

They thanked me and I thanked them telling it was lovely to talk to them in the meet :P

I hope this transcript helps you revise your concepts or get an idea of sonething new :3 Best of luck!!

7/25/2025 1:23:03

Both Male (Yup one was Psy Prof and other Math/Operatinal)

Together on 1 screen.

haha, I did a W move

Brownie Point move(I know they don't care, I had put IIM Shillong BG as my desktop Wallpaper🤣🤣, showed that for two seconds)

Secondly decorated and formated my PDF (Doc of Proof, well)

Together on 1 screen.

haha, I did a W move

1: I had said I always smile, I was initially smiling, but was struggling to post my

Grilled on my tie (types) to check if I can handle pressure.

THEN SMILED WHOLE TIME, laughed to keep it comforting

2: Start with what are your favourite subjects:- I said math and physics.

Diffn ques, Phy ques based on logic - Answered decently

CS- Python and RDBMS- "Relational"

Asks me something PLUTO full form (idk)

1. HR Questions

50 Years, what will you do

Goals- religion-mischief (yup, they were kinda weird, but fun to answer)

Are you a good son💀🤣

they he said good for my answer

What challenges did you face, and how did i overcome it (mid answer)

THATS ALL (bruh)

NO question from my CV and my past acads was really good.

Disappointed bcs, very less ques, very less duration, no geo, no intro

IDK, Anyways tips for future guys, wear PERFECT TIE

LUCK MATTERS, I didnt get to answer why ipm and all (i had crafted beautiful answer where I could have dirven the interview)

no intro ( i would have driven the interview so easily)

Either they liked me, saw my essays and past cv(really good) and thought just check his personality, else they didnt care or were like leave this guy.

ended it with smile and namaste.

I will put my UPDATE, once the results come😭😭

Jai Shree Krishna.

7/25/2025 2:23:03

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Note: The transcript data continues across multiple IIMs (Amritsar, Ranchi, Kozhikode, Indore, Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata, Shillong, Sirmaur, Ranchi, etc.). The entries include a mix of academic topics (economics, accounting, finance, statistics, calculus, matrices), practical PT (direct questions on micro/macro economics), and extempore prompts. The interviews were carried out in different slots across days in July 2025 with multiple panel formats (1M1F, 2M, 2F, etc.).

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