How is FPM in IIM rohtak, udaipur and Trichy?
How important are referees and what is asked of the referees?
I have 99.79%ile in NET JRF. How likely am I to get a call from IIM ABC?
IIT,IISc,AIIMS scholar are demanding for hike in fellowship ,why not IIM FPM scholars supporting their demand
CAT : 99.61 (Quant - 99.89)
GRE : Â 328 (Quant-170,Verbal-158)
10th - 10/10 CBSE
12th - 93.60 CBSE
B.Tech from 2nd Gen. IIT - 8.08/10
Fresher, General Engineer MaleÂ
Do I have a strong chance at IIMA FPM?
(I am not interested in PGP at other IIM's)
Interested in Information Managment, Operations Research, Economics
IIM Cal required two refree say A and B for each area , if i am applying for 2 area than can i provide same refree A,B for both area ? Are it should be  refree A B C D
Any IIM work in Environmental Policy .? Biodiversity policy ? I meant something related to ecology and management like that ? Moreover how tough is economics? I mean is it fully mathematics oriented Research ? Please reply .
Hello everyone, need some opinions. I am a 2015 batch passout from one of the old IITs. Joined SBI in 2017 after 2 unsuccessful attempts at civil services. 10th : 95+ 12th : 92+ B.Tech : 7/10 Since joining the banking sector, I have developed a very keen interest in the banking domain and am thinking of IIMs FPM programme to further pursue my interest. Any good soul here to guide me on how to best utilise my time before CAT 2019 ? Should I focus more on CAT or reading for my research subjects? I have already gone through a few basic books on risk management ( one of my topic of interest)- mainly frm suggested books. All free advice is welcomed and highly appreciated đ
Any idea about FPM industry program and how it is different from normal FPM?
Can anyone please give a review of public policy as an area for FPM? How do people fare at the end of the programme? Where do they end up or tend to go? And what kind of people tend to choose it?Â
My background: Age 27.5 years, an engineering graduate who worked for 2 years as GET doing miscellaneous things (kind of PA to boss/ GM - but did varied work, trying to learn whatever in anything I got to engage with), got frustrated or/and having had interest/strong motivation for working in the government, left job and started preparing for civil services exam, been 3.5 years in this now. Also have (actually through the preparation for civil services exam) developed interest in economics/ public finance, macro-economics. Perhaps an FPM in economics opens up opportunity to play for the country on economic front (at RBI?). And also want to - which perhaps is a bigger / more real motivation - gain expertise in a respectable field of work as where I stand I am practically a credential-less person as far as career graph goes 5 years after passing out. I am looking at FPM as one of the best ways to resuscicate a career in dumps. Its's not that civil services preparation is for nothing, but it doesn't add anything except blank years in your career. You basically prepare yourself for an aptitide in governance wherein you equip yourself with contemporary and extant realities of society and the background of current and prospective aspirations wherein all other actors play. It would help in becoming a knowledge producer in a managment area, I guess. Should help I reckon in being relevant in my 4-5 years of FPM and beyond.
And thinking of these two areas for FPM right now: public policy/systems and economics. Can an insider please provide some insight and guidance on these two? And please also speak on my suitability/ chances for converting. A few words on referees would also help. Am yet to sort out whom to call/mail for agrreing to refer me. How relevent is that part and what are they supposed to do? How did your acquintances go about choosing their referees? It's been a long query, hoping for kind, considerate responses. Would apply to IIMA and IIML.
Where can I get help for SOP preparation?
Does IIMA, IIM INDORE, IIM Rohtak doesn't mail to referees? Cuz my referee fold they didn't get any from from the above IIMs.? Can anyone confirm?
Does IIM Lucknow doesn't require LOR?
GRE cutoff for FPM with MDI?
IIM Rohtak asking for 80+ OA percentile in CAT to be eligible to apply to FPM. Am I reading corrently ???
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Hi FPM Applicants,
I would like to share my IIM C FPM selection process experience from two years ago. Though I was not selected after the third (final) round, the experience left me impressed and wiser. This is for Finance area and I hope it would be useful for other areas too.
Day 1 Morning-
 We were all made to sit in a classroom from where we were called for document verification to another adjacent classroom one by one. FPM seniors verified our documents. Make sure you carry two copies of each document (degree, mark sheets, experience certificates, CAT/GMAT/GRE score cards etc.). After that we waited for area specific interviews. There were about 25- 30 candidates from Finance area.
I was third to be interviewed (there were two panels). After the usual âtell me about yourselfâ and âwhy FPMâ, things turned towards questions on corporate finance and valuation (I had worked on a private equity valuation case study and it was on my SOP). Questions were very basic and fundamental. I was made to write free cash flow formula on the board and explain each component. Following that I was asked to walk through the DCF valuation process step by step. I was asked a very esoteric question on valuation among others which I could not answer but I could answer every other question. Based on my previous experience as a future and options trader I was asked about put call parity and assumptions of Black Scholes options pricing model. Â All in all it ran for about 15-20 minutes and apart from couple of questions I could answer all.Â
Be careful of what you write on your SOP as you would be grilled on them and they would ask you only fundamental questions. In my experience of IIM B and C interviews, I was never asked any question that is not there in MBA finance books. If you write valuation, donât be caught fumbling on FCF or discount rates or cost of capital questions. A candidate who was an equity researcher asked me about the difference between free cash flow and equity cash flow after I came out of interview. Donât be that guy, you would be chucked out by the panel in no time. It is quite possible that in our jobs we work on something very specific from our areas and tend to forget about the rest but if you are MBA finance, you are expected to be conversant with the basics of accounting, valuation, investments, derivatives etc.Â
Day 1 Evening-
After being shortlisted we were administered a 1 hr. written test at about 6-630 PM. We had to choose between verbal and quant. The verbal section had a page and half long excerpt from Stephen Toulminâs Cosmopolis followed by questions. Mind you he is a philosopher and the passage was convoluted and a mother lode of toughness. Tougher than any RC passage you might find on CAT/GRE/GMAT. The quant section had some 25-30 MCQ questions a notch above NCERT 11/12 syllabus. It fairly covered all topics (quadratic equations, combinatorics, matrices, determinants, functions, limits, continuity, differentiation, integration, maxima minima, probability and basic statistics.) There were no questions on trigonometry, coordinate geometry, area under curves and differential equations that I can remember. I would suggest you practice basics from NCERT and do some of the NCERT exemplar problems. I did the verbal section (in the hindsight I think it was a mistake as I was a finance applicant with BTech background and maybe expected to do the quant section). But I had read some of the works of philosophers like Kant, Rousseau etc. so I thought how difficult Toulmin could it be.
After the test was over, the Finance FPM seniors took us (9-10 of us) to another classroom for a group interaction where they explained to us the structure of program, faculty, visiting faculty, accommodations etc.
Day 2 Morning-Â
We were interviewed by the FPM committee of four members. There was no subject related questions anymore. It went fairly quick (10 minutes maybe). It was again on past work experience, why IIM C FPM, where else I had applied, whether I would join IIMC if I get selected at IIM A or B. If I know what kind of research is done by finance group there etc.Â
Then the finance finalists were taken on a tour of IIM Câs trading lab by FPM students and faculty at around 4 PM and boy was I impressed. The vibe positively overwhelms and excites you. I was sold, but alas! not selected.Â
All the best to applicants this year. AdiosâŚ
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How is MDI for FPM?