The following answer is based on the interview experience of my friend who had applied for MBA-HRM and was fortunate enough to get a call from XIMB. Her WAT topic was ‘Should migration be allowed in services?’

The questions asked were

• Her general introduction 
• Name of school principal
• When you joined your organization, what was the first program you attended?
• What is the difference between the two? (Induction and Orientation)
• Explain your domain and the work you do in your organization.
• why do you want to do MBA in HR when you are already doing well in work (He answered with a real-life example
• Who is Arundhati Bhattacharya?
• Name any other female in such a high position. ( Rather than naming a famous personality he mentioned the name of a female entrepreneur who was his role model)
• Mention some extracurricular achievements of yours.
• Where else have you applied for an HR course? (He told them NMIMS)
• If you get selected in NMIMS and XIMB then what will you prefer?
• Why? ( He spoke highly of the course curriculum and institutes Management)

At this point, the interviewers were pretty impressed as almost all the questions were answered correctly and confidently by him. So the conclusion I drew from this experience was that the interviewers are on the lookout for candidates that have excellent thinking capabilities and excellent academics are not that necessary.