SPJIMR (S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research) is one of the most values-driven and profile-sensitive B-schools in India. Unlike many IIMs that focus more on academics or current affairs, SPJIMR deeply probes:

• Your value system
• Your self-awareness
• Your empathy & interpersonal maturity
• Your clarity of goals
• Your narratives beyond achievements
• Your ethical compass in dilemmas
• Your willingness to take responsibility

This blog compiles real previous-year SPJIMR PI questions (2024–25) across profiles - IT, Finance, Operations, Marketing, Freshers, Work-ex candidates - and provides the exact frameworks SPJIMR expects in answers.

SECTION 1: Top Behavioural Questions Asked in SPJIMR PI 2025. These questions aim to reveal your character, value system, empathy, and emotional awareness. Actual PYQs

• Introduce yourself within a minute and include something not on your CV.
• Tell me about yourself focusing on something aside from achievements.
• How do you tackle FOMO in a competitive environment like SPJIMR?
• How do you acclimatize to new people easily?
• Your friend tells you, "My job defines my worth." What do you do?
• Your friend then says, "I want to be known by who I am and not what I do." How do you respond?
• What is your greatest fear, and would you train for a parachute jump to overcome it?
• If your friend works in a high-pressure environment with no room for mistakes, what would you tell them?
• Why do you feel privacy is an issue, and why do people need privacy?
• What is your idea of success and happiness?
• If you had to start a business in a hill station (non-tourism), what would it be?
• Why do you prefer solo traveling? What has it taught you?
• What are the negative aspects of solo travel?
• Do you think flexibility is important in life?
• Whom are you closest to in your family and what weakness would they point out?
• Which year of your life would you undo and why?
• Do we always need to make elders happy even if it compromises our aspirations?
• Add something about yourself that's not in your form.
• Tell us something that makes you want to live, dance and sing.
• Tell us something significant happening in society that touched you.
• Are you emotional or rational in decision-making?

⭐ How to Answer SPJIMR Behavioral Questions (Framework) 

Use the E–A–R Framework SPJIMR loves: 

E – Emotion Show awareness of your internal state (honesty > perfection). 
A – Awareness: Explain what the experience taught you about yourself/people/life. 
R – Response: How did you act, adapt, or grow from it? What changed? 

SPJIMR is NOT looking for: ✘ textbook answers
✘ “I am highly motivated, passionate…” clichés
✘ boasting
✘ perfection
✘ corporate buzzwords. They want reflection, humility, and empathy.

SECTION 2: Technical Questions Asked at SPJIMR 2025 SPJIMR tests whether you understand the fundamentals of your domain, not advanced complexity. 

Actual PYQs (Finance)

• What is NPV and IRR?
• Why do we discount cash flows?
• What is the difference between a Balance Sheet & Income Statement?
• Key financial ratios to analyze a company?
• What is Sharpe Ratio?
• What is Market Capitalization?
• What is Negative Working Capital?
• What is Debt-Equity Ratio?
• What is Solvency Ratio?
• What is TIPS in finance?
• What is Portfolio Risk?
• When to use Standard Deviation vs Beta?
• What is Net Worth?
• What is Fixed vs Variable Cost?

Actual PYQs (Marketing)

• What are 4Ps, 4Cs, 7Ps?
• How is psychology used in marketing?
• What is surrogate advertising?
• Suggest strategies for a digital art venture.
• How would you launch lab-grown diamonds?
• Key metrics for digital marketing campaigns (CTR, CPC, etc.)

Actual PYQs (Tech / IT)

• How would you determine code quality?
• What is DevOps?
• Is AI replacing DevOps jobs?
• What is Agentic AI?
• Draw MOSFET output characteristics.
• Why do companies use AI in energy monitoring?
• Explain descriptive statistics.

⭐ Technical Answer Framework (SPJIMR-Style) SPJIMR expects: 

1. Concept (simple, crisp definition): Not textbook; practical. 

2. Example from your work or industry: SPJIMR values application > theory. 

3. Relevance to business decision-making: How does this concept help firms make better decisions? This 3-step style wins every time.

SECTION 3: Work-Experience Based Questions (Actual PYQs)

• What do your DevOps responsibilities involve?
• Explain your hackathon project.
• IRCTC–Domino's integration: Explain the user journey.
• How do you manage project delays between production, procurement & finance?
• What are the significant problems in project planning?
• How do you handle cost deviations in projects?
• What are your KPIs at work?
• Are you involved in the tendering process? At what level?
• What sort of projects are you involved in?

⭐ Work-Ex Answer Framework (SPJIMR-Specific) Use S-T-A-R+V:

• S: Situation
• T: Task
• A: Actions
• R: Result
• V: Value demonstrated (Empathy / Integrity / Responsibility / Excellence)

SPJIMR always asks follow-up questions, so keep examples crisp, honest, and defensible.

SECTION 4: GK Questions Asked in SPJIMR 2025 Actual PYQs

• India’s prospects in the Champions Trophy
• Recent stock market decline
• DeepSeek vs OpenAI – impact on India
• Viksit Bharat – fundamental problems
• Good things about the Union Budget (and one criticism)
• Management of MahaKumbh – operations improvement
• Quick commerce industry (Dunzo, Blinkit)
• Views on Freedom of Speech incidents
• Recent US developments
• Lab-grown diamonds vs natural diamonds
• Readymade food shift in India
• Has empathy degraded?
• Should robots have self-determination rights?
• “India becoming the pharmacy of the world”

⭐ GK Answer Framework SPJIMR expects: 

1. Fact/context: Show awareness of the issue. 

2. Balanced view: Pro–Con–Nuance. 

3. Values lens: Ethical, empathetic, responsible viewpoint.

SECTION 5: Case / GD Topics Asked in SPJIMR 2025. These themes repeatedly appear: Actual Topics

• Pharmaceutical Industry: Growth of India
• Data breach in a large clothing company
• AI-based energy monitoring = efficiency but high attrition
• Dunzo failure & Reliance write-off
• Quick commerce landscape
• Administrative dilemma: ethics vs empathy
• Child labour case in rural India
• Meta removing third-party moderators
• Apple sourcing tin from child labour zones
• Financial prudence vs independence
• Kerala lottery system
• India becoming the pharmacy of the world

⭐ Case / GD Answer Framework (SPJIMR Format) SPJIMR likes: 

1. Structured problem identification People, Process, Technology, Policy, Values. 
2. Stakeholder lens Employees, Management, Govt, Society, Customers.
3. Values-driven recommendation Empathy + Responsibility + Practicality. 

This is the SPJIMR signature style.

SECTION 6: Career Goals Questions (Actual SPJIMR PYQs)

• What do you want to do after MBA (specific company & role)?
• Which companies interest you?
• Dream company for Product Management?
• Why MBA now as a fresher?
• Why shift from Mathematics to Marketing?
• How do economics & finance intersect?
• Why switch from your current job profile to management?
• What startup sector interests you?
• If plans for the next 10–15 years fail, what then?
• In what roles do you see yourself post-MBA?
• How will an MBA fit when you have already created impact?

⭐ Career Answer Framework (SPJIMR-Ready) 

1. Past → What gave direction
2. Present → What you’re doing now to explore the path
3. Future → Clear, specific role + industry + reasoning
4. SPJIMR → Why SPJIMR is the perfect fit (Values, Domain specialisation, ADMAP, internships etc)

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