Unconventional B school interview questions you should prepare for!
“Tell us something about yourself”?
Or
“Describe some of your best achievements”?
Or
“What is your goal after MBA”?

These are some of the mandatory questions that might come to you when you are preparing for your MBA interview. Personal interviews serve various purposes to B schools (Business Schools) and each of them follows a different pattern. For some institutions, interviews act as screening tools while some interviewers sketch down the psychology and personality of prospective students by using an unconventional questionnaire. Some B schools even use interviews for gathering information about the students.

While there are plenty of resources for preparing for the common interview, the unconventional is the most dreadful. Here we have lined down some unconventional categories of questions you must prepare for your B school interviews.

Question about failures:
Look at the below questions:

• Describe a failure in which you were involved.
• Provide an example of a team failure of which you have been apart. If given a second chance, what would you do differently?
• Give an example of a failure.
• Describe a situation where you failed and how the experience. . .impacted your relationships with others.
• Tell me about a time you failed.

All these are some unconventional questions you might come across in B school interviews. We all surely prepare for answering questions on achievement, however, we tend to fumble when we are asked about our failures. The interviewer’s motive is not about finding your failures but knowing how you dealt with that episode of your life and what you learned from it.

You will have to handle such questions tactfully. Instead of narrating your fears, you must describe them how you handled your fears, what you learned from those incidents, and how you emerged stronger from them. In this way, you will create an impression that you have dealt with even a discomfiting situation as a positive one. Remember never to pass on the blames of your actions on others, it proves a sense of responsibility.

Questions on Personal Weakness
Refer to these two questions:

• What are your weaknesses?
• What is your biggest weakness?

Responses to such personal questions too should be answered in a positive tone. You can highlight sharable personal stories of how despite having a personal weakness, you emerged from a situation. However, it would be cleverer if you can highlight instances of situational weakness instead of character weakness.

The motive of your interviewer is to understand whether you will be able to contribute actively throughout the program. He/she will also try to accesses whether you have a clear vision of your future and whether you are confident enough to use your MBA degree for productive purposes in life.

Though an interview is not a mandatory medium for admission to a B school, if you do not present yourself confidently, you might miss your dream school! So keep your chins high and do your interview homework well. Follow these tips and prepare for unconventional B schools' interview questions.