FIITJEE Hyderabad had sponsored our whole trip from chennai airport to Hyderabad airport to Radison Blue hotel , where the interview took place, and back to Chennai airport. The only expense from our side was to travel from our home to Chennai airport.

After reaching the hotel, we were segregated class wise and given a form to fill which asked your

1. Class, School Name, Your Rank in Class
2. Family details, Hobbies, Participation in co curricular activites, Best achievement , Worst failure
3. Role model and a question regarding how will you help others if you are provided with schlorship.

My Interview slot was given 2:30-3. Lunch was provided in the form of a buffet(v/nv) in the hotel itself and tea / coffee + biscuit was available from morning til departing from hotel.

Okay, coming to the interview, I had been asked to bring a copy of my achievements (certificates). And there are 3 professors sitting on opposite side of large rectangular table , each from one subject , Maths (M), Physics (P), and Chemistry (C). They had my 1st stage result and the form that I had filled earlier on the Table with them.

P – You are from which school , are you a fiitjee student.

I answered

P – okay, lets say there are four points in space and we connect resistances to every two points, what is the equivalent resistance. and how many connections are made.

Abishek(A) – answers and explains [Redraws – get wheatstone bridge – ans: R/2 ]

P – okay now what will be the equivalent resistance if 5 points are there?

A – thinks and said not sure

P – what is centripetal force

A – when a object moves in a circle, the force that acts toward the centre, radially inward

P – is it defined for only a circlular motion, what about other forms of motoin

A – thinks

P – okay, draw the graph of sin2x

A – blinks

P – leave it, draw for sinx

A – draws

P – now if an object is placed at the top and is moving with velocity v , what is the centripetal force

A – v2 / r = v2 / 1

P – is the radius 1

A – explains my logic for radius 1 [ The topmost point of the “curve” was 1 (sin90 deg) ]

P – no the radius is not 1 ( points to C to take over)

C – There are 10g of calcium carbonate which burns to give X and CaO. If X is added in an aquesous solution of sodium carbonatie, calculate the moles of sodium bicarboante formed.

A – Calculates

C – what is oleum

A – Sir i know the formula (one of my friend who had interview slot before me had been asked this question, so i looked it up)

C – hmm ok (in disappointment) draw strucutre of napthelene

A – Draws two benzene rings (then C points towards M)

M – reflection of (3,2) along y=x line (i was given a paper with these 2 questions)

A – (2,3)

M – max and min value of x+ 1/x

A – (somehow i inversed the inequality and writes max = 2 , min = -2)

M – asks me to leave

[The actual answer the question is max tends to infinity, while min tends to -infinity, which was taught during the first few classes of my 11th FIITJEE class ; The Oleum question was also in my BCC Package (11th)].

I didn’t get selected for the subsequent stage – Top 10. I got an overall of 510 marks, and i believe the cutoff could be around 520-530.