How was your SPJIMR interview experience?

The following interview experience is based on my friend whose profile looks like this

• 10th: 95%( Odisha board) : state rank 47
• 12th: 79% (Odisha board)
• Graduation: 82.2% ( BSc in agriculture 4-year degree program)
• CAT 2021: 96.07 %le (2nd attempt )

After ID Verification, she was taken into a room for GI where 3 panelists were waiting for her. After the introduction, she was probed with the following questions:

• Why did she choose Marketing as her specialization? To this, she gave a pre-prepared answer

• Looking at her rural internship, they asked her why she did not take up Rural or agricultural marketing. She told them that agricultural marketing would be monotonous because of her graduation in the same field and she wanted to explore other fields. In fact, many of the courses offered at SPJIMR aligned with her career interests.

• The panel also asked about her achievements during the rural internship program. This part was also answered smartly by her. She told the panelists how she provided better market accessibility, solved problems, and understood consumer behavior.

• They asked her how she provided better market accessibility. She told them about government online portals like eNAM and ReMS.

GI Round 1 concluded after some more related questions. The other members participated actively and all 4 of them got selected for Round 2. Here they asked more objective questions like:

• Who would you prefer as a captain between Virat and Dhoni And why?
• Do you think aggressive behavior is unhealthy for the spirit of sport?

In conclusion, the 1st round was data-based and subjective while the 2nd round was easier and quite objective.