Q). Can you work under pressure? Any example you can quote in support of your claim? A Sample Answer:  Yes, I am confident I can handle pressing situations and deliver the results. As a cricket player also I have faced pressing situations and thought and excelled. I believe in accepting all challenges that can reasonably be met; and I remain calm and focused and proceed methodically to quickly solve and overcome the problem. However, the extra concern does create extra eagerness to respond quickly & does create some amount of stress, but I think some stress is good.  (Quote some believable example from your life or of those whom you know closely saying that in your own life – you have not faced a really pressing situation – but you have observed closely a case which taught you the way one should handle pressures & narrate)

Q). Why did you choose to attend this college? A Sample Answer:  This is a premier and highly rated college of this region; and academic standard is high; and discipline and ambience is very good and infrastructure, labs, workshop, libraries are all well equipped and best part is that faculty is knowledgeable and very helpful. And the placement opportunities are very bright as several very good companies come here for campus recruitment and our seniors are working in all the top class well known companies & many are abroad.

Q). How has your education prepared you for your career ? A Sample Answer:  The education I have undergone has given me the conceptual clarity & technical (domain) knowledge about my professional field & groomed my personality and attitudes. Given these inputs with some application experience and process ability that I can gain by initial training in a good organization, I am confident of pursuing a good career.

Q).Are you satisfied with your academic performances till now? A Sample Answer:  Our college schedule is quite demanding. Besides curriculum studies, we have to attend many co-curricular activities like seminars and PDP classes & Sessions and also participation in extra curricular activities is also mandatory. So I have done reasonably well, though I think with a little better time management and extra focus I could improve by another 3% to 4%. – which now I am trying to do.  (Sometimes if you’re academic scores has gone down over the years or fluctuated there may be questions aimed at this and you have to include a viable explanation for the same which is believable)

Q). What qualities do you feel a successful manager should have? A Sample Answer:  The job of a manager is to bring out the best results through his people making optimum use of resources available and so he should have. good leadership skills, be people friendly and capable of motivating his team, result oriented and a sound decision maker. Further he should judge his subordinates based on the performances they deliver and not on other extraneous considerations. Also he should be a balanced & good person.