IIM Ahmedabad - Interview & AWT Question Bank (Compiled)

(Questions from past years, cleaned, grouped, and reformatted for your use.)

AWT / WAT Topics

1. Work Culture & Productivity

Should India move toward a 90-hour or 100-hour work week?
Giving tight deadlines breeds creativity - analyse the argument.
Turning cameras on should be optional in online meetings - strengthening & weakening points.
Delivery apps became popular during the pandemic - now they should not continue. Analyze.
Food delivery services are bad for the economy - write against this.
Public places (like airports) are being renamed - two travellers disagree. Identify assumptions and counterarguments.
The Supreme Court rejected a PIL on cycle tracks; a person disagrees. Identify assumptions, strengthening & weakening points.
Kids not playing outside affects immunity - assumptions, strengthening & weakening points.
Corridor of uncertainty: discuss assumptions in debate on airport names & priorities.

2. Academic / Technical Questions

Economics & Finance

What is Markowitz Portfolio Theory?
Explain Sharpe Ratio & calculate with given values.
What is depreciation? Give an example where depreciation happens without usage.
What is CAPM, beta, WACC?
How do you value a business? Methods and formulas.
What is expected shortfall?
Write & explain the Black-Scholes equation.
Explain correlation vs regression.
What is R-squared, adjusted R², slope-correlation relation?
What is VaR? Calculate.

Math & Probability

Probability of COVID-positive given sensitivity - Bayes theorem problem.
What is a random variable?
Explain Central Limit Theorem using RV terminology.
Probability of 10 consecutive heads.
Plot a continuous but non-integrable function.
Draw a probability distribution for wickets India might lose.
Average of given fractions (34/40, 70/80...).

Physics / Engineering

Explain shear stress & pressure with diagrams.
What is Nyquist frequency?
Explain Fourier Transform and whether it can predict stock prices.
Explain heat transfer: conduction, convection, radiation.
Why 0 Kelvin? Why not –273.15°C?
Explain IS–LM model, slope of LM curve.
Largest cylinder inside a sphere (geometry).

Computer Science / AI

Difference: Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning.
How does ChatGPT determine responses? Any optimization?
What industries will see jobs due to AI?
Explain false positives / false negatives in AI detection.
What is Swagger in software development?
Explain normalization forms, foreign keys, SQL vs C++.

Mechanical / Civil / Manufacturing

Types of bridges.
How bottles/pencils/syringes are manufactured.
Why do vehicles need a differential?
Two-stroke vs four-stroke.
What is TAKT time?
Explain value stream mapping.

Electronics / Signal Processing

Explain PN junction diode in detail.
Show how sampling frequency affects audio quality.
Explain DSP pipeline for music conversion.

3. General Awareness

(GK) Current Affairs

Why are nations moving towards deglobalization?
Effect of Trump’s tariffs.
What’s happening in Russia–Ukraine, Israel–Hamas, Syria, Manipur, Tripura?
What did Hindenburg accuse Adani of?
Who else did similar short-selling (George Soros)?
Why are interest rates rising despite low inflation?

Indian GK

Name all Union Territories, southern states & languages.
What is special about Howrah Bridge and Howrah city?
Who is the SEBI chairperson, RBI Governor, IT Minister?
Why women’s labour participation rate is falling.
Metro projects - necessity or vanity?
Ports on India’s west coast (excluding JNPT).

World GK

How many states in the USA?
What are the latest added US states?
Which countries are part of NATO?
What is happening on the Myanmar–Mizoram border?

4. Behavioural Questions

Academics Related

Why such a low CGPA in one semester?
Why choose BBA (International Business) / Civil / ECE, etc.?
Do bad marks reflect lack of interest?

Work Experience

What exactly do management consultants do?
Explain your projects, revenue model, competitors.
Why will clients choose you over others?
You changed 3 organizations - why?
Why can’t you understand client problems in current role?

Motivation & Career

Why MBA? Why not MS Data Science, Public Policy, or Executive MBA?
What value will you bring to IIMA?
What social problems do you care about?

Personality

What is something unique about you not in the form?
Analyze your favourite cartoon character (Doraemon, etc.).
Why don’t you read books?
Is networking really your weakness? Give an example.

5. Work-Ex Related / Industry-Oriented Questions Tech, Consulting, Logistics, Analytics

How do you project financials?
How to know if capacity expansion will sustain?
How do you project volumes in logistics?
How do you record interest payments in cash flows?
Why do startups have high P/E?

Social Projects / Policy

How will you fund social projects post-MBA?
Why not pursue a specialized policy degree?

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IIM Ahmedabad - Interview & AWT Question Bank (Compiled)

AWT / WAT Topics

1. Work Culture & Productivity

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