The personality assessment stage at IIM Lucknow consists of a GD followed by an interview.

Group Discussion

The number of candidates for group discussion were 8-10 and there were 2 moderators. The candidates were given 2 minutes to think followed by 12 minutes to discuss the topic. The seating arrangement was semi-circular.

GD Topics:

Proactive judiciary is a threat to democracy in India.

The impact of economic reforms has been that rich people have become richer rich and poor people poorer

Regionalisation of Indian politics.

Interview:

The interview panel was the same as in the GD. The interview lasted for 10-18 minutes. The panel asked general questions like why MBA, role models, introduction etc but the questions were not dealt with in detail. Also there were questions on fundamentals in academics. The candidates having work experience were grilled on work experience also. The panel had a tendency to make sarcastic remarks on the interviewee and tried to put the candidate under stress.

Questions

1. Why MBA? And in which specialization?
2. Introduce yourself.
3. Why a gap in studies?
4. Role model and why?
5. What is your career plan?
6. What are your hobbies? What type of books do you like to read and questions on the book and authors?
7. What is your project in Final year followed by questions on the project?
8. What is your career vision and how do you plan to achieve them.
9. How many states have women chief minister and name those states?
10. Headlines of the newspapers.
11. Any question you want to ask the panel.
12. Which institutes have you applied to?
13. What would be your preference in case you get calls from the other IIMs too?
14. Questions on work-ex & job profile, reason for leaving , reason for not joining other Companies like WIPRO etc.
15. What is your opinion on the fee deduction that is taking place?
16. What is the greenhouse effect?
17. What else are you good at besides academics? Other interests?
18. What do you think about the India-Bangladesh pipeline?'
19. Where all have you applied to?
20. What is the six-sigma?
21. Microeconomics questions
22. Discussion on Socialism
23. What is the ‘Sindhu'? (River) where does it flow?
24. What do you know about the BCG matrix?
25. Selling a pencil & marketing a pencil. What is the difference?