IIM CAP PI Transcript

17th Feb Afternoon, Red Fox by Lemon Tree Profile : 93.94 9/9/7 Fresher/Male/OBC/BA Hons

WAT : Pathways for Developed India @ 2047 Panel 1 Both male panelists in early thirties.

As I entered, M1 confirmed name and asked to sit down. M2 was reading my WAT sheet. Before I could sit down M1 asked M1 - Your course and college ? M1 - Explain your degree. M1 - Favourite subject from graduation ? I - told(didn't ask a single question from that) M1 - When did you graduate ? What were you doing after graduation ? I - told about the intership I did after graduating. M1 - What was your role in the internship ? I - Market Research Intern. ( Now everything from here was about research) M1 - Who was the client ? I - It wasn't disclosed to me. M1 - What did you do exactly ? I - Primary data collection. M1 - How did you collect data ? I - administered a structured questionnaire. M1 - Write down the basic framework of questionnaire on paper. I - did. M1 - How is your stats ? I - pretty basic. M1 - Why ? Didn't you study in ur graduation ? I - told. M1 - What did you study in Research Methodology ? I - told. ( Now started rapid fire) M1 - What are the different type of sampling? What is cluster sampling? What is a Cluster ? What is Sample ? What is stratified sampling ? What's the difference between cluster and stratified sampling ? Asked almost all sampling techniques, convenient/purposive/systematic and when to use .

Over to M2 M2 - What's the difference between probability and non-probability sampling ? I - told ( M2 - What are the different type of analysis ? M2 - What is thematic analysis ? M2 - Gave some hypothetical situations and asked about best sampling techniques should be used. M2 - asked about various biases in research in different situations.

There were few more questions I don't remember now, Though, about Research only. I couldn't complete my answer for most of the questions as they fired questions continuously before I could complete the previous answer. They had timer set for 15 ig. There was snooze in M2's phone and he concluded within a minute then. It was such a fast paced interview.