MBA Personal Interview FAQs

This page gives you a list of important questions frequently asked in job interviews and MBA interviews. NNE has compiled a list of top personal interview questions which you can prepare in advance.

1. What specific goals have you established for yourself for the next 10 years?

2. What do you really want to do in life?

3. What are the most important rewards you expect in your career?

4. What do you consider to be your greatest strengths and weaknesses?

5. How do you think a friend or a professor who knows you well would describe you?

6. How has your education prepared you for your career?

7. How do you determine or evaluate success?

8. How do you feel about competition?

9. How did you rank in your graduation class in high school? Where will you probably rank in college?

10. Why did you select your college or university?

11. Which of your college years was the most difficult? Why?

12. In which extracurricular activities have you participated? What have you learned from participation in these extracurricular activities? What did you enjoy the most?

13. Do you have plans for continued study? (Why did you decide to pursue an advanced degree?)

14. What are your special abilities?

15. What criteria are you using to evaluate the institute for which you hope to join?

16. Do you enjoy sports as a participant?

17. What types of books have you read?

18. What have you learned from your mistakes?

19. Tell me a story.

20. Have you ever had any difficulty getting along with fellow students, faculty, or employees?

21. Do you have an analytical mind?

22. Is it an effort for you to be tolerant of persons with a background and interests different from your own?

23. Do you have any questions?