Rice Jones KIRA interview assessment questions

Rice Jones KIRA interview assessment questions

* What steps have you taken to prepare yourself and ensure your success in this program?
* Tell us about a time you had a challenging project and how did you manage it?
* Tell me about a time you made the right decision, but it was challenging
* What traits or characteristics make you an excellent candidate for our program?
* Tell us about a time when you had to deal with an unethical situation at work and what did you learn from it.
* Imagine a situation wherein you completed an internship but were not offered a full-time offer, even though you felt you deserved it. How would you deal with this situation?

Questions were: (10s, preparation, 1 minute to answer) --> this was different from the allowed time in the KIRA practice
1. Show your photo Id and state your name.
2. What parameters did you evaluate while choosing RICE as your business school?
3. Tell me about a time when you faced an ethical dilemma.
4. How did you resolve a conflict between the team.

Just got over with the assessment. These were the question
1) who was your favourite teacher and why?
2) who would be the person you’d like to go with for a meal and why? A person can be alive or someone from past
3) tell us about a time when you collaborated with someone from different culture and what did you learn from them?

1. Why rice
2. Define a situation when your morality was put in a spot
3. Define a situation when you have missed your deadline because of someone else's work

Q1.Please hold up your photo ID to the camera and state your name out loud
Q2.This MBA program requires applicants to be able to manage their work-life balance effectively. Tell us about what you’ve done to prepare yourself for the rigour of the program.
Q3.How do you feel diversity-related issues will impact your future work in a business?
Q4.Imagine that you have to lay off one of your employees despite the fact that they were excellent workers. How would you approach the situation to show care to the other person?

Tell me about a time you take on too much responsibility and missed the deadline. What did you do and how do you avoid that in the future?
Tell me a time where you believe you have to do the right thing. Even though it is a challenging decision to make.
How do you prepare to handle the work load from undergrad to grad school

1. Why Rice? Most exciting aspect of Rice and the MBA program from your perspective
2. Implementing change can be difficult, especially as your values and beliefs change. How would you implement change?
3. How would you lay off an employee, who has been a top performer. How would you show care in such situations

1. Proof of Identity
2. How do you prepare to handle the workload from undergrad to grad school?
3. Tell me a time when you believe you have to do the right thing. Even though it is a challenging decision to make.
4. How would you operate in a situation where you have many difficult examinations within a short period?

Prep: You can practice as much as you want with 3 questions, but the time is different 10 secs prep and around 50 secs to answer
Questions: 20 secs for prep + 1,5 min to answer
1. Show me your ID
2. How do you prepare to handle the workload from undergrad to grad school
3. Tell us about a time when you had to deal with an unethical situation at work and how did you confront it?
4. Imagine a situation wherein you completed an internship but were not offered a full-time offer, even though you felt you deserved it. How would you deal with this situation?

1. Show your photo ID
2. Why Rice?
3. Instance where you learnt from other cultures
4. How did you handle difficult employees at work

4 questions in total -
a) ID
b) Why MBA? Why Rice? (What worked for me: I picked out 2 things from the program that I’m super interested in!)
c) What do you for fun in free time (typical question)
d) What would you do if you score less/ fail in one subject (My answer: go back to first principles, reach out to my classmates with relevant experience, and practice in a test-like environment)

For more information about KIRA questions, check KIRA interview assessment questions.
_________________