Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad

Dhanbad, Jharkhand

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Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad Placement Interview Questions

Updated 18 Jan 2025

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I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Jun 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

Mathematics, English, Reasoning

2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

3

Group Discussion Round

Clean India
Corruption

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident and believe in yourself
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I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Jan 2021.

2 Interview Rounds

1

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. What are your interests?
  • Q2. Why are you choosing sales when you have marketing and HR as majors?
2

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Not that good a start in this company
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I was interviewed in Aug 2016.

4 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: ONGC being a PSU is hugely inclined towards GPA. This was a challenge for me since I was not endowed with an excellent GPA. However, I was selected according to my rank in my batch. In General category, I was ranked 6th with an overall GPA of 8.03. A figure of 8 and above does help, by the way.
N.B.- In General category, I was the last ranked student to get selected. Thanks to my technical background.

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: This was the major deciding factor apart from your GPA. ONGC strictly tested the technical knowledge of the students of Petroleum Engineering. Credit was given to the projects and internships undertaken.
The interview panel consisted of eminent personalities of the organisation from different departments of drilling, reservoir, production, HR etc, who have been working in the industry for an average of more than 25 years.
They also had a fixed set of questions, which I guess we're asked to every student who appeared for the interview.
Not only were technical skills tested, but also one's logical bent of mind.
What worked in favour of me was my sound technical knowledge, my choice of project and my research in bringing about innovations in different fields of the subject.
Post my interview, I was asked by one of the Directors to share my research material with him, which I realised was a positive feedback. Nevertheless, the next day I got notification? of my selection.

Skills: Technical Analysis
College Name: IIT Dhanbad
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6 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

  • Q1. Basic questions of mechanical engineering in technical round. You may find them on Quora easily.
  • Q2. For HR, again very basic and general questions as to why low gpa, strength, weakness, why not higher studies, family background etc.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Online test of aptitude and technical questions
Tips: Nothing as such. Score well in aptitude.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 60

Round: Presentation round
Experience: We were asked to prepare a presentation in .pptx format which had a pre decided layout . There were questions asked regarding why you want to join, tell us about yourself and why Maruti etc.
Tips: Be short, precise and expressive at the same time. In the tell us about yourself section, make sure to leave a lasting impression.

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: My HR round was very impressive. Having an average gpa, I somehow managed to impress the panel. HR round can be prepared specifically for this company.
Coming to technical round, for the first 3 questions I was blank. Then, very politely but in a confident manner I told the panel that my area of interest has been engines. The response was positive and I answered every question asked. Around 7 to 8 questions were asked. Basic.
Tips: Be confident. That's the key, according to me. Prepare for technical round smartly. Google general interview questions, that will surely help you. Basic conceptual questions are asked.

Skills: Confidence, Trainable mind, Stability
College Name: IIT Dhanbad
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I was interviewed in Dec 2016.

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Tips: Try to enhance more on Finance skills and certificates!

Round: Trade Mogul Round
Experience: Participate in 14 days online trading at trade mogul website by help of Futures First
Tips: Do maximum No of trades!!!
They don't care for P/L, Spent maximum time on these 14 days of trade.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: I told Hr that my CGPA is low , 10th ,12th grades are also less so even though i may get 99.99%tile in CAT i won't get admission in good IIM so i don't have future plans for MBA!!
Tips: BE Fluent , Answer Wisely !! Each answer could lead to yes or No for you

Skills: Communication And Confidence, How Well You Can Handle Stress, Conversation Skills
College Name: IIT Dhanbad
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I was interviewed before Feb 2016.

3 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: The test was conducted in AMCAT so the questions are of medium standard which can be solved by a better time management
Tips: one can practice previous amcat questions from -----.html
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 30

College Name: IIT Dhanbad
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user image Aanisha Mishra

posted on 14 Jul 2016

I applied via Company Website

4 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I applied through mail. With a short description about me and the position I applying for, I attached my resume.
Tips: Keep your resume handy. Restrict it to one page. Keep the most important and relevant (to the position your applying) achievements in the top. Remove unnecessary information like your photo and age. Instead just mention your date of birth. Include links to online repositories.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The person on the other side was very patient. Overall the conversation was good.
Tips: The stage usually consists on negotiations. Master the skill.

General Tips: Do not be nervous during your interviews. The staff is very understanding, considerate and just amazing.
Skills: Java Programming, Android Development
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Dhanbad
Motivation: This is a startup with an awesome product, a very unique idea. It has no rivals proving its one of its kind. Get through the website tonetag.com
Funny Moments: We had a one week expansion campaign where we had setup of two games. The ticket was Rs. 1 and people have to pay that using Tonetag pay app. That was a great time when all the corporate came out of their office, got to know the product, appreciated it and spent some time embracing their inner child with our games.
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8 Interview Rounds

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Round: Test
Experience: The aptitude section was quite easy but lengthy in general. The questions required a presence of mind to solve them quickly. Whereas technical portion was directly from the course asking about simple components, its process and definitions. The questions were linked throughout the question paper. So watch-out for finding answers in question paper itself.
Tips: Keep your speed up from the start, else you will miss some questions.
Get strong hold of technical knowledge as there is nothing you can think about, at that instant.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 50

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: For who doesn't know the meaning of brain drain please google it. Its a phrase. DON'T think in its literally sense.
The experience was fine. The HR did not interrupt a single time and allowed students to do as they wished, observing carefully about your moves and actions and how you control the GD. They will be basically checking your communication skills and leadership qualities apart from obviously communication skills.
Tips: Try not to start to a GD if you don't know the exact meaning of the topic. Wait for others to speak up and follow their lead. But if you know the meaning, fire away. Keep you voice levels constant yet authoritative.
Duration: 30 minutes

Round: Test
Experience: It consisted of a single question. We were provided the isometric view and were supposed to draw the orthogonal projection of the same on an A4 sheet. Carry your ED Box to facilitate the process.
Tips: Start practicing free hand ED, as A4 doesnt provide much support and drafters cannot be placed. Just had to use pencil, scale and a compass.
Duration: 30 minutes
Total Questions: 1

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The main topics that were covered in the interview were belt conveyor, crushers, grinding mills, and pumps.
The interviewer was quite friendly, and even explained the questions that were answered wrong or incomplete. He wanted to check the knowledge of the subject and also the interest with which you are seeking answers to them. Try to visit the site and thoroughly go through the contents and remember it. It shows the interest you have in the company and definitely is a plus point.
Tips: Keep your cool and try to answer to the best of your knowledge. You wont be able to answer questions you don't know answers to. So just be yourself.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: It was a typical HR interview go get to know your thought process and philosophy of life. The questions that followed were in relevance to your answers. The interview was conducted with a sole purpose of knowing you as a person and the ideologies that you carry.
Tips: Try to stick to your own ideologies and formulate answers of your own. A ton of cross-questions were followed with each answer to crack you, if you are trying to copying answers of someone else. Just try to show your own personality and focus on who you are.

Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: The interview was conducted by the deputy manager of Tega Industrues in Kolkata.
He wanted to know the short listed candidates better in person and not just as a sheet of paper. But make no misconceptions. It is an elimination round.
The main purpose of this interview was to check your quick thinking and firmness in your own behavior and ideologies. The questions were basically as that of HR with a little more depth and judgments.
Tips: Just be cool. You have already been selected. Carry your attitude as a professional.

Round: Other Interview
Experience: This was a bonus interview round for us. A panel member couldnt come for on-campus placements and hence took an extra interview.
The interviewer was a mine of knowledge with a experience of 40 years.
The interview was basically focused on your knowledge and life philosophies, His main interest was in Thermodynamics. I tried to avoid the topic and was successful. Many weren't. So get a good hold of thermodynamics, specially cooling tower is his favorite.
Tips: Try to be as precise as possible, and wait for his question to end before answering it. He may not like being interrupted.

Skill Tips: Don't try to someone you are not. You will be caught in the long recruitment process.
Skills: Technical Skill, Verbal Communication Skills, Leadership Skills
College Name: IIT Dhanbad
Motivation: Its a manufacturing company and the experience of first 2 years in this company raises your market value by many fold. So if you want to actually learn in the industry. Go for it.
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posted on 22 Nov 2015

4 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: There were 4 sections related to quant, logical, verbal and technical. The technical part was above par especially if you are mining engineer as most of the question in technical section will be based on course of 6th & 7th semester while company visits after 5th semester.
Tips: The part of aptitude and logical is usually very simple and most of the people easily scores in these sections. As I said technical is tough. So, the main difference is due to marks you get in the verbal ability part.
Do LOD-1 of Arun Sharma and questions from Indiabix.com which will be sufficient for aptitude part. For technical, you can refer some basic notes of u/g coal, ventilation and mine legislation (for mining engineering)
Duration: 120 minutes
Total Questions: 95

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: The GD was little bit unusual as they allowed every one to put forward their points one by one and then counter the points of other if you want. It may depend on the HR guy visiting the campus.
Tips: For GD, just focus on the basics like don't be too dominant, open yourself to points put by other, do not right away take a single side in case of GD with debatable topic.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It was the 3rd & the last round the Personal Interview. They may have a look at the CV (as was case with me). Usually kept the questions strictly related to the technical and management aspects of mining especially focuses on your projects and papers. They also posed some genuine and general HR questions towards the end of the interview. The main focus in HR question is to find out that will you be adaptable to the remote location of the job.
Tips: Focus on your CV. Never put a false point in it. Be yourself and stay focused in whichever way you can. For me, I listen to music in any such situation and that's what I was doing half an hour before interview. Be dressed up properly as it gives you a lot of confidence boost. Prepare for some basic HR question. Make sure that you put the point where you want interviewer to focus on in the introduction in the best way possible so that interview can take a better and your preferred pathway.

General Tips: Be focused on your goals especially short-term. If you want to prepare for CAT then I would say you should say NO to internship. In case of MS, you can surely grab it. Be sure about this at the start of the 5th semester. Interact with your seniors and colleagues and based on your interest make a suitable decision for yourself.
In case you want the job in core sector then start improving the technical knowledge. Give importance to your B.Tech. project. Adapt yourself to the condition that you will get a remote location if you are a mining engineer
Skill Tips: Start focusing towards building skills from the 5th sem. Getting an intern at any company will help you improve your technical skills. Prepare for aptitude skills as a leisure activity. Form a serious group who are ready to do a GD daily. Get as much technical knowledge as you can and keep your concepts clear. Also maintain a decent GPA as the company usually prefers people with higher grades.
Skills: Technical Questions, Group Discussion Skills, Aptitude
College Name: Indian School of Mines
Motivation: I was not that sure at that time between doing MBA or to remain in the core sector, so for me there was no motivation. I was just going with the flow and BAMM!! got intern. Then i started taking real interest in the technical aspects.
PLEASE DON'T BE LIKE ME!!!
Funny Moments: During interview, I addressed my father working as Govt. Servant instead of employee. The HR wrote that point and asked me about it later after all the technical question. I was left embarrassed and giving lame excuse that it is the word we use in day-to-day language and the whole panel was laughing on me..:P
Thank GOD!! it didn't create too much negative impact
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posted on 7 Nov 2015

5 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: It was a nice experience as the whole interview process took less than 5 hours to complete. First round was of 70 minutes in which 30 minutes were allotted to aptitude section and 20-20 minutes each for Java and DBMS section. Aptitude questions were average while remaining two was not so easy.
Tips: Need to look for advanced functionalities of Java-Servlets, Applets, AWT,etc
Depth knowledge of DBMS and constant practice of Aptitude
Duration: 70 minutes
Total Questions: 60

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: 2 minutes for preparing some point. Then ,we all started. I was the second one to join the conversation. Gradually,many good points came to my mind one after another which give me an edge over others. At the end, 4 out of 10 in our group were selected for next round.
Tips: Try for initiating the GD. If not, be the second or third guy to speak up. They keep notice of it. Stick to your side for whole discussion and let others speak too. Better to jot down important points of conversation. They also keep notice of your body language.
Don't hesitate if your English is not that good. Once you start speaking for right things.then words just start popping out of your mouth. And most important, Keep calm
Duration: 15 minutes

Round: HR Interview
Experience: This was a round in which your confidence was checked along with your comfortability level. Questions may be asked from your resume and project. So,better prepare it firmly.
Tips: Be confident and Keep calm.

General Tips: Be confident and keep calm . Believe in yourself. You will definitely land up with some good job. Package does matter but nothing is worth for your confidence and knowledge. I truly believe in Chasing after your dreams rather than chasing for something which you don't want from life.
Skills: Confidence, 1)communication, Group Discussion Skills, Reasoning Power And Aptitude, Basic Knowledge Of DBMS, Java Programming
College Name: IIT Dhanbad
Motivation: Having read the reviews, it is nice company to work with for beginners. Big name in financial and banking sector. Hoping to fetch the maximum out of it. Only company from India in this sector.
Funny Moments: HR was generous and calm.
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