Practise the B-school Personal Interview (FMS, MDI, SPJIMR, IIFT, JBIMS, NMIMS, SIBM)

Two or three panelists: faculty, sometimes with an alumnus or an industry member.

No school publishes a PI rubric. Panels test the same things as the IIMs — goals that follow from the story, command of the graduation subject, work that stands up to numbers — and ask sharply why this school and not another.

1. 1 About you
2. 2 Academics & work
3. 3 Why this school
4. 4 Views

Each school sets its own composite, and the interview is a large part of it. Symbiosis pairs it with a group exercise and a writing test (GE-PIWAT); NMIMS with a case discussion. The group exercise is the next round here; the others are not simulated.

Assessed on: Clarity of goals · Academic fundamentals · Depth of experience · Analytical thinking · Awareness and perspective · Communication and composure

Two or three faculty observers. Here you sit it with five other applicants.

Schools use the group exercise to see how an applicant thinks aloud with peers — the way a case discussion in class works.

1. 1 The topic
2. 2 Discussion
3. 3 Close

Part of the school's composite where it has one; Symbiosis institutes weigh the group exercise with the interview and the writing test.

Assessed on: Initiation · Content · Listening · Leadership · Communication · Summarising