The following are the typical questions asked by Shipping Companies:
Please note the questions are asked to test your level of communication. So, you should give
elaborate answers.
Personal questions:
1. Introduce yourself
2. Why you are choosing seafaring as a career?
3. What do you know about seafaring?
4. Who advised you (or) motivated you to study a course to become a seafarer?
5. Why do you choose Nautical Science / Marine engineering?
6. Tell about your family.
7. Where do you see yourself after five years?
8. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
9. What do you know about Maersk?
10. What do you know about AMET?
11. What is your next step if you are rejected in this interview?
12. What are your achievements?
13. What are your short-term and long-term goals?
14. Educational history and places you have did schooling.
15. What grades / marks you are expecting in 12th class?
16. Tell me about your hobbies, extracurricular activities and achievements.
17. Are you a Vegetarian / Non-Vegetarian?
18. In case of Veg, they will ask – Will you eat Veg food in a Non Veg Hotel?
19. In case of Non-Veg, they will ask - Will you eat beef and pork
20. Muslim cadets may be asked, Do you know – on board a ship, you cannot expect Halal food?
21. What are your parents view on this course?
22. Who will take care of your parents, when you are away from home?
Technical Questions
1. What is your favorite subject? (Example: Maths / Physics / Chemistry). You will be asked
questions from that subject.
2. What is Archimedes principle?
3. How the ship made of steel is floating?
4. What is buoyancy?
5. Application of various laws
6. Charles law
7. Boyles law
8. Parallelogram law of vectors
9. Newton laws
10. What is inertia?
11. Wheatstone bridge
12. Lenz’s laws
13. Thermodynamic laws
14. What are semi-conductors?
15. What is friction?
16. What is frequency and wavelength?
17. What is escape velocity?
18. What is couple?
19. What is vector and scalar?
20. Laws of equilibrium
21. What is integration?
22. What is differentiation?
23. Equation of square?
24. Why sky is in blue color?
25. What is kinetic energy and potential energy?
26. What is power?
27. What is impedance?
28. Why is Mars red in color?
29. Layers of atmosphere?
30. What is nuclear reactor?
31. What is refrigerator?
32. What is density?
33. State Bernoulli’s theorem.
34. How airplane flies?
35. Write an acid base reaction?
36. What is redox reaction?
37. What is moment of inertia?
38. Application of Bernoulli’s theorem?
39. Volume of sphere
40. How rainbow forms?
41. What is total internal reflection?
42. What is a Transistor?
43. What is Reynolds number, concepts of thermodynamics?
44. Friction, types of friction?
45. Color with highest wavelength?
46. Moon and gravity
47. Cause of tides?
48. Eclipse and causes of eclipse?
49. Knee voltage?
50. Peak voltage?
51. Problems of mechanics (equilibrium of forces)
52. Metacenter?
53. Thermal reactor?
54. Explain Doppler effect?
55. Describe law and formula of Current flow?
56. What is Vector law?
57. Chemical formula for hydrochloric and sodium hydroxide?
58. What is torque
59. What is horsepower
60. In Electricity, What is AC and DC?
61. Color of FeSo4
62. What is fuse?
63. What is ozone layer?
64. Copper or tin? Which one will you use to make a fuse?
65. What is specific heat capacity?
66. What is refractive index?
67. What is centripetal force and centrifugal force?
68. Difference between enthalpy and entropy?
69. Pentavalent and trivalent bond
70. Leaching
71. Creeping
72. Electrical lab experiments
73. Physics lab experiments
74. Chemistry Lab experiments
General Knowledge Questions
1. Who is the President of India?
2. Who is the Vice President of India?
3. Who is the Indian Cricket Team Captain?
4. What is the National Animal of India?
5. What is the National Animal of India?
6. What are the ports in India?
7. How many oceans are there? Name them.
8. How many continents are there? Name them.
9. What is the value of the currency of USA?
10. Have you seen Containers? If yes, Where?
