PhD/FPM (Fellow Programme in Management)

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got iim b fpm interview call for information systems. any one with same call? jus comment please. and also let me know if there is any group for iim b fpm

Has IIMB sent mails for strategy.. anyone got.. pls tell.

Has anyone got IIM B marketing call yet?

Anybody got call for OB or Public Policy?

Got call from iim-b for ob/hr anyother for same stream ?what this area specific test all about?

anyone got strategy call from iimb

please inform here if anyone gets a call from iim indore for fpm..

Anyone got call for FPM Operational management from IIM Bangalore

Anyone ugc jrf here?

Anyone got a call for FPM finance from IIB B?

Guys , anyone using gre marks to apply for FPM and got a call from IIMB OR C?! Let me know !

Hello friends, Is there any candidate who applied for FPM in Food and agribusiness in IIM A through ICAR SRF in lieu of CAT. plz inform

Did anyone get any mail from ISB asking any further questions or any interview dates???

Congratulations and all the best to candidates following up on their calls to IIMB and IIMC. Don't hesitate to use the forum to ask insightful, one time and serious questions about the process and the PhD life / program as such. Please try and arrange institute wise calls on a single board or use an excel.


I will happily field questions on any process related questions but may not answer subject matter questions except in Finance, Strategy, Public Policy and Economics


anyone knows when IIMA FPM shortlists will be out?

Anyone knows have IIMB sent interview calls for strategy area. 

  Congrats to all call getters of IIMB. Below are some of the questions I was asked when I got a call few years ago (could not convert then). This time strangely no call from B inspite of an improved profile. Anyways as I had mentioned in an earlier post very few finance questions were asked in a finance phd interview. Some of the questions that I can actually recall are given below. My interest area then was Fixed Income Securities. A bulk of the questions were from 10+2 math concepts (NCERT level) and MBA level business statistics. Interviews are taken in the first row of the classrooms. So they make you solve stuff on board or on paper.
 

Define Bond Yield.  
 

How would you forward price a Treasury strip?  
 

Differentiate X!. (Hint: not a continuous function)  
 

What is lim x->0 sinx/x? Prove it (Hint: use Sandwich Theorem, See NCERT).  
 

Write down the formula to calculate PV of growing annuity. Prove it.  
 

Slope of Secant to a curve equals Slope of tangent to the curve. Which calculus theorem is it? (Ans. Mean Value Theorem, See NCERT)
 

A coin is tossed and you get $2^n everytime till you get a Heads where n is the number of tails. Moment you get a Heads you are out of the game. What is the expected payoff? (This is the famous St. Petersburg Paradox. I had no idea at that time.)  
 

What is the difference between increasing and strictly increasing function?  
 

What is the difference between a fat tail and long tail distribution.  
 

Some property of log X base, which I do not recollect.  
 

One question on 2 sample t-test
 

“Tell me about yourself” ‘Why FPM”, etc. were the other usual questions. 


The area specific test before the interview contained 2 questions... a passage on tax evasion and then some critical analysis questions. The second was a caselet on game theory involving pigs. Search for "Game Theory + Rational Pigs" on Google.    


Hope this helps you to get an idea... 

Dear experts, please share FPM interview experience(s) at various IIMs with regard to Marketing discipline....

If anybody has any experience in attending OB/HRM FPM interview, kindly share......