IIM Lucknow Interview

GD/PI on 30th March, 2 PM at IIM Lucknow.
Vikas Kumar
IIT Kanpur
99.99 percentile
CPI 8.4
Status: Finally converted
GD Topic: Only the powerful can speak of peace and harmony.
The discussion was a bit chaotic but I entered 5-6 times and came with some good points. Infact this is what my group members said to me. I hope the panel members feel the same. Overall my performance in gd was quite good.

PI: Was a bit tense since I had lost my admit card. I was again second last after C and B.There were two profs one a young chap(YP) and the other an older prof(OP).After entering the room:
ME: Sir, I have lost my admit card
OP: How can you do this?
ME: Sir, I am sorry.
OP: I dont know what can I do.
ME: Sir, look at the xerox of the admit card and my driving license.Thankfully the matter settled there and then.
OP: Tell me about yourself
ME: The usual crap I had prepared.
OP: Looking at my cat scorecard. You scored 100 percentile in quant and 99.99 percentile overall. That's excellent Then said that 100 percentile is technically not feasible.
ME: Added to his point.
OP: Ok gud, so you are good at maths. But in your acads you started with a spi of 9 and then ended with 7.2 Why such a consistent fall
ME: The prepared answer..
OP: After getting such a gud rank in JEE you should not talk of competition.
ME: Talked of the projects that I had worked on apart from my course projects.
YP: So, what are your interests?
ME: Politics.
YP: which newspaper?
ME: Hindu.
YP: why hindu?
ME: Justified and said that earlier I liked toi. Tried comparing both.
YP: You cant compare TOI with Hindu
YP: Which news has drawn your interest recently?
ME: Sale of F16 to PakistanA long discussion for 10 minutes on US, india's foreign policy , pakistan and Israel ..I was able to raise some good points .
YP: Some more question on my family background and my schooling.
ME: handled really well and tried higlighting my strengths.
OP: Ok last question from acads What is NP complete problem.
ME: Defined P, NP and NP complete problems.
OP: give an example.
ME: TSP explained in detail about the same.
OP: gud you are correct.
YP and OP: Best of luck!
Overall a very good PI

Vikas