Calling all IIM Ahmedabad PGPX Applicants (2025 Intake, Class of 2026)

Hi Nitish, the R1 essays are - 1) Please describe some of the challenges you faced in the last three years of your work life and how you were able to overcome them 2) Tell us what is special about you that makes you a good addition to the classroom 3) What will a management degree bring to you at this stage of your career? (500 words each)

Thank you!

this Is for the round 1, 2024?

To all R2 applicants- since you have only 2 days for writing essays, I’d say once you submit your profile and your CV and all other docs, start thinking of essays 2 and 3 (mostly these are common and/or will repeat) if anyone needs any help for R2 applications, please DM me - Shivna, PGPX 2021-22

Yes

All right!
Thanks again

CV? There's no place to upload CV:(
Is it to be submitted with the application form or later along with essays?

Posted from my mobile device

how many essays are there?

3

That window to upload the CV will be available post 14 th

16 th

thanks

Post 14 th I mean, around 15-16 th

All the best to Bengaluru folks

Anyone who can share their interview experience of today?

I interviewed today. It was a chill experience. No element of stress interview at all. One prof was friendly and smiling, the other maintained a poker face. I didn't time the interview but it felt like 20-25 minutes. I didn't have a lot to talk in extempore so that part didn't stretch, and the remaining Q&A didn't last too long.
I got asked why MBA, why I didn't get selected the last time I interviewed (I'm a reapplicant). I got to talk about struggles in my profession (I'm a journalist). They brought up that I didn't join IIM Calcutta (I was selected last year), and I used this opportunity to answer why IIMA. The interview was a free-flowing conversation, where the smiling prof asked a few things about the state of journalism. I was surprised when they said, ok, thank you. They didn't ask me if I had any questions, but I asked one nonetheless. There were toffees and cookies on the table, but I wasn't offered either. Some other candidates (they all had panels different from mine) said they were offered a toffee. I'll try not to read too much into it. The others too said that their interview was fine. By fine, we all meant that they didn't press us or test us, but that it was a pleasant conversation and we don't know how to assess it.

My extempore topic: One nation one election is a threat to democracy.
Someone else's topic: Content on social media should be censored.

Thanks for sharing your experience, all the best !!

Hi All ,
Mine was a stress interview ,
It was related to international affairs .
I had a super long topic , but the topic required me to talk about the following :

democracies can be overthrown by people , explain this with help of neighbor hood countries
what role does social media play in such downfalls .

Reading experiences above I was thinking that I wouldn't have a stress interview .
But mine was a disaster

All the best guys for round 2 and 3 . Although all the panels were super sweet , but be prepared for stress interviews too

I prepared for all such current affairs topics, but no one got any such topic from my day of the interview, everybody got generic topics only. Seems the last leg of R1 interviews finally drew the current affairs topics out of the closet!

What were those generic topics?

Generic topics, which don’t require any specific knowledge, or will even do with minimal knowledge. For eg - first mover advantage is the most beneficial thing in business and it can’t be compensated for.