Interview Questions : B.A

More Interview Questions : B.A

Political Science

1. Define political science.
2. What do you mean by applied politics?
3. Define referendum.
4. What is the difference between the parliamentary and presidential forms of government? Which do you think is more suitable for India’s needs
5. Who is your favourite political scientist?
6. Is the Indian economy still a mixed economy? How many kinds of economies do you know?
7. What is a hung parliament? How is it different from a minority government?
8. How is the President of India elected?
9. How many kind of taxes are there in India?
10. Define socialism

Sociology
1. Difference between psychology, sociology, and social psychology.
2. Max Weber’s treatise on Protestant Ethic.
3. How will you operationalise class theory?
4. Define existentialism.
5. Comment on Emile Durkhiem’s contribution to sociological thought.
6. Differentiate between Weber and Marx in their studied of the British working class.
7. What is the relationship between sociology and management?
8. What are the trends in Indian sociology?

Economics
1. How do economics theories help in creating value in real world?
2. Define economics of scale.
3. Define economics of scope.
4. Make a break – even point diagram.
5. What is GDP of India?
6. Give the equation of straight curve.
7. What is Linear programming?
8. How will economics help in becoming a good manager?
9. Derive the consumer’s demand curve form his preferences.
10. Differentiate between Normal goods and Giffin’ goods.
11. What subjects do you have in 3rd year economics?
12. Discuss the theory of money.
13. What are determinants of money multiplier?
14. What is elasticity of demand? What is marginal utility?
15. How will you link call money rates and exchange rates?
16. Compare monetary and fiscal policy. How are they related?
17. What does RBI do?
18. What is shadow pricing?
19. Draw the Hicks-Alien price-substitution effect.
20. If Say’s law holds true, would we need marketing managers?
21. What is devaluation? Why is it not improving our country’s export performance?
22. How would the study of microeconomics help in management?
23. How is the interest rate determined in a free market?
24. What is opportunity cost?
25. What is the parallel economy?
26. What major works in microeconomics were developed in the 1930s? By whom?
27. What is a perfect market? What is demand and supply, its equilibrium and why is it significant?
28. What are demand and supply curves?
29. Questions relating to economics: (i) What is Pareto optimality? (ii) What is indifference curve? (iii) What is welfare economics? (iv) How can utility be maximized? (v) How can welfare be maximized a0 for an individual, b) in a society? (vi) Output maximization? (vii) What is MPL and MPK? (vii) How are inputs allocated?
30. What is classical economics?
31. What do you think went wrong with the Mahalanobis strategy of planning?
32. What is Giffen’s Paradox?
33. What is perfect competition? How is price determined under perfect competition?