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Introduce yourself.
Why do you choose marketing/ Finance/ xyz as your area of specialization?
Who do you think has performed best in your group? Why ?
Why MBA?
Why should we select you?
Should parliamentary proceedings be aired live?
Does a sense of humor require a high IQ level?
If a leader from the 1950s or 60s was brougt back to rule our country who would it be?
What do you mean by an extrovert?
Indians are hypocrites. Comment.
Waht are values? Mention 3 values that you implement in daily life. Illustrate 1 with an example.
Leadership techniques of different leaders. Comment.
What was special about todays newspaper?
What are your principal interests, if any, outside your academic pursuits and/or career? How have they influenced your personality?
If you had the freedom, what career or activity would you like to pursue in life?
Describe an incident from the recent past when you had to overlook ethics to get your work done.
If you had a choice, what attribute of your character would you like to change?
Describe a situation where you as an individual set your sight on a difficult target and saw it through 2 completion despite obstacles.
Give an example of how you worked effectively in a team to accomplish an important task.
Provide an accurate and detailed description of the job responsibilities at your current/last place of employment.
What is more important- academics or extra curricular activities?
What do your parents/friends/seniors think about you?
What are your strengths and weaknesses?
What steps are you taking in your life to overcome your weaknesses?
How would you connect between your hobbies and your management?
What are your whims and fancies?
Which animal/ bird do you associate yourself with? Why?
Give an opinion about the effectiveness of Manmohan Singh as Prime Minister and can Chidambaram be interchanged with
Manmohan Singh, and will it or wont it make a difference and why?
What are your views about the tsunami? Do you think India is equipped to handle such disasters? If you were a part/head of the
team which has to avert such disasters, how will you go about it?
What steps would you take to avoid stampedes in religious places ?
Can you tell me 3 measures to curb corruption?
How do you suggest we punish a person who bribes a cop?
What are your career objectives?
Assuming you have been selected into the institue, which of the other person from this group would you select into the institute and
why?
What is your take on religion?
What can be done to improve the situation of India?
Your comments on brain drain.
What is the significance of your name?
If you were given admission based on a condition that you will be placed only in an NGO after the completion of your MBA, will you
still take it?
You have won a personality paegent and you have exactly one minute to describe yourself; do it.
Where do you see yourself 10 years from now?
What is the best way to channelize relief fund money so as to ensure least corruption?
Your views on media's role in promoting consumerism.
How would do you define quality in education?
Have you ever come across a person with difficult personality. How did you del with him/ her?
Why SP Jain?
What are your views about the movie Baghban? Do you think that what the the director has portrayed is true?
What is Globalisation ? Does it have any effect on social values?
Do you have any societal concerns and are you doing anything about it?
Do you think that values and business could co exist?
Given an option would you become a politician or not? Give reasons for your answer.
Compare you previous and present company.
Is Valentines Day hyped?
People sitting behind bushes in gardens or those getting cosy in buses should be objectionable or not?
How would you justify the sleaze in music vedios these days?
Which public figure do you admire the most and what is unique about him or her?
If china becomes a superpower what implications will it have on India. Comment.
How should be a relationship between a boss and a subordinate?
Variety is the spice of life. Comment.
Discuss about current trends in marketing.
What do you want to do after you complete your MBA?
Explain any event in life when someone you know betrayed your trust?
Do you think today's youth is not clear about his goals?
Do you think school plays a more important part in your formation than college does?
If you dont get through SP jain this year then what do you plan to do?
Indias growth rate touchin phenomenol 9%. Discuss.
What is the strongest stand of your value system?
How are Marwaries, Jodhpuries and Jaipuries different in culture?
Why women crickiters are not very famous?
In this era of fast life with 16 hours a day work style, we have no time for onself and our family.
We are more privileged than our parents. Do you agree?

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Consumerism is good for the soul.

What is a brand?
Are B-Schools a brand?
Are female Managers better?
What is adversity?
Can a company run like a family?
What is your definition of a reputed company?
What do the terms bull market and bear market refer to?
What do you read in your spare time and how does it add value to your life?
Which value in your life would you compromise on and which value you would not?
If given a choice, which country would you emigrate to and why?
If granted a wish, what would you wish for?
If you had no qualifications but loads of money, what profession would you choose and why?
Mention one thing that has made you proud over the past 6 months.
Give 3 reasons for being here at present.
Give 3 reasons why you would join a company and 1 reason that you r ready to overlook.
Is US a phoney friend of India?
What would you do if you were the witness in Jessica Lal murder case?
Why is Harry Potter so succesful in India and why not Panchantantra? Market Panchatantra.
What are the three qualities that a Marketing Manager should posses?
What would you do if you find a Rs 10 note on the road?
Who is more important? Leader or a follower? Why ?
What is the difference between a manager and a leader? Is is necessary for a manager manager to be a leader?
It is said that management is all about common sense, then why go for a formal degree?
Say you have RS 10 lakh and you have two options, either to invest the money on the education of a girl child or feed some hungry
people in the slums.What would you choose?
97. What are the 6 strings of a guitar called? What are the strings of a 4 string guitar called?
98. What are the three levels in Reiki?
99. Don't you think your knowledge of engineering would become irrelevant after an MBA in marketing?
100. What is so unique about the company that you work with?
101. If you were told that you will die 24 hrs from now what will you do in these 24 hours?
102. Why is cricket so popular in India?
103. What is P/E ratio? What does it signify?
104. What is the difference between smart work and hard work. Which one do you prefer? Explain by giving examples.
105. Is being Jack of all trades good?
106. The selection criteria at B Schools-Discuss.
107. What is important in team work?
108. Why manufacturing sector is not growing in comparison to service sector?
109. If your manager were to describe one positive and one negative quality of you in one word. What would it be?
110. What are the negatives of the Indian IT industry?
111. Child labour should be banned. Discuss.
112. Working together but separately ,working separately but together. Give 2 examples for it in sports.
113. Consistency is not necessarily the mark of excellence. Discuss.
114. Mention one ad that you have seen on TV that has impressed you?
115. Discuss one aspect of budget that has affected you.
116. Why do all these Aluminium and Steel plants set up plants and smelters in countries such as Doha, Dubai, Middle East?
117. Is Champagne spraying in F1 a waste of money?
118. Will the world economy slow down in another 2 years?
119. Green is the color of envy. Discuss.
120. What are your opinions about the way Bush has dealt with Saddam?
121. What are major problems faced by a typical Indian?
122. Describe your typical day.
123. Arrogance is essential for success Discuss.
124. How important is honesty to you- in context of marketing/selling something to a customer?
125. Can bad products be marketed?
126. If Jaspal Bhatti was invited to SP Jain Campus, what question would you ask him?
127. How far is conservatism a roadblock to progress?
128. How has blogging contributed to your personality?
129. Tell us an incident when you worked smart and not hard.
130. The worst decision you have made in your life and why?
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Dagny Taggart

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