Arun Kumar Das converted IIFT Kolkata MBA with a 87% in IIFT 2021 Examination. He graduated from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela with 86.2%. He had a work experience of 3 years at L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering. In this Interview, Arun has shared his IIFT Kolkata MBA-IB Admission experience with the Collegedunia Team, read below

Collegedunia Team: What was your IIFT percentage? Did you avail reservation benefits for IIFT Kolkata MBA Admission?

Arun: I scored 87% in IIFT 2021 Examination. Yes, I am from the OBC Category so I availed the reservation benefits. 

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Collegedunia Team: Describe your Pre MBA Academic Performance for Collegedunia readers?

Arun: Yes, I had scored 91.17% in my 10 boards and had a good score in 12 board exams, i.e 90%. Also, I had completed my graduation with 86.2%.

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Collegedunia Team: Describe the general setting of WAT / GD (if any).

Arun: There was an online extempore round for the admission process. 

Collegedunia Team: What was the WAT/GD Topic?

Arun: The topic for the extempore was- Ayushman Bharat Yojana.

Collegedunia Team: What was your answer/points put forward for the WAT or GD respectively?

Arun: I started with the points like, which year it got implemented. Who should be the beneficiaries and what are the provisions under the scheme? Till the dates, what is the number of beneficiaries?

Collegedunia Team: Describe the general setting of your personal Interview.

Arun: There was only 1 panel and consisted of 3 faculty members. The mode of the Interview process was offline. Each session was around 25 minutes. The panel was cool and the Interview was not stressful.

Collegedunia Team: Mention at least 5 questions that were asked in IIFT Kolkata MBA Interview and how you responded to each of them?

Arun: The questions asked during the Interview are:

F1 Panellist

1) What is a sensor ? Whether it is electronic components or electrical components? 

2) LED bulbs - Electronic or Electrical? 

3) In which direction Fan rotates ? And what's the reason for the same? 

4) What is Fuse? 

5) What are Circuit Breakers ? What's the difference between Fuse and CBs?

F2 Panellist

1) Working of my company.

2) The most challenging situations encountered during the work ex?

3) Why pursue an MBA? 

4) Do you have any colleagues reporting to you? 

M1 Panellist

1) What do you know about the Iran oil pipeline project with Indi? 

2) Sanctions on Iran? 

3) How did India buy Iranian Oils? What were the payment systems developed? 

4) Any port of economic importance in Iran? 

5) Do you know anything about Trading blocks like NAFTA, EU?

6) Some basic questions on ASEAN and SAARC?

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Collegedunia Team: Mention any three reasons why you chose this college over other colleges which you converted.

Arun: The three main reasons were:

  1. This Institute is the best among others in the field of International Business.
  2. Median package is better than other same tier colleges.
  3. Better faculty in the MBA-IB field. 

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Collegedunia Team: What was the reason for you not converting other colleges?

Arun: The major reason for me to not convert to other management colleges was less percentile in the CAT exam.