Panel Smita Nagraj ma'am
Duration 20-25 minutes
Date 16/03/2021

Chairperson-
1. What are the reasons for flood in Bihar and tell me the solution
2. What will be the effect on downstream side if we construct dam in Nepal like China is constructing Dam over Brahamputra

Memeber 1
1. What was your work at site(I was in job)
2. How to do compaction of soil
3. What are methods for finding Bulk density and water content
3. What is Calcium Carbide method?
4. tell any other method for water content determination which is superior to calcium carbide method
5. What is engineered backfilling
6. What are tests to be done on the soil that is being borrowed to site for backfilling
6. describe about your project details ( as I was in job )
7. Have you visited RMC batching plant ?
8. What are functioning of RMC batching plant
9. Describe the working of batching plant

Memeber 2.
1. Why did you leave your job
2. What is index property of soil
3. what is undisturbed sample
4. How to make undisturbed sample
5. What are the testings done on undisturbed sample?
6. Tell the limits of Clearance ratio , and Area ratio
7. If soil is having area ratio less than 10% then is this undisturbed?

Memeber 3.
1. So you have worked on the site ?
So tell What are the importance of water in concreting?
2. what are testing done on water that is being used for concreting
3. What is hydration reaction?
4. How water affects the strength of concrete?
5. Role of Admixture
6 Tests to be conducted on concrete on site
7. What OMC
8. What is Proctor density
9. What is Vane shear test and it's usefulness
10. How to do liquid limit test through vane shear test
11. Have you heard about inland water way that was inaugurated by Pm Modi in last year in Bihar
12. Tell the characteristics of inland water way
13. Which water way passes through Bihar
14. How much waterway is cheaper than Roads way

Branch : Civil Engineering
Duration : 25 minutes
Board name : TCA Annant
Interview date : 11 March 2021 (Forenoon)

Chairman (TCA Annant) :-
Read DAF and college name, year of passing and place of college (Jalandhar).

Then he asked about my past experience :
Ans : I worked as a Quantity surveyor engineer for 2 years in Tender Dept in Riyadh (Saudi Arab). And as a site Engineer in Gurgaon for 8 months.
So which type of drawings you worked on
Ans : I worked on Structure and Architectural drawings, Although there were other drawings also in tender documents like Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Fire Fighting etc

M1 :-
Have you worked at site.
Ans : Yes sir, I have worked at site in India in Gurgaon Region.
What was the name of your project.
Ans : I Worked at Indira Gandhi Eye Hospital.
Tell me some special features of Hospital.
Ans : We provide specially designed thick walls and slabs for X-ray rooms which are subjected to radiations, In hospital building we take care of all the safety norms, since it is a public building, we provide fire extinguishers, panic bars at all the exit doors to escape corridors.
He asked for some features from civil engineering perspective.
Ans : There was separate STP Tank for Treatment of Sewage. There was basement for Parking, Then he interrupted asking “how many basements were there”….. I Replied “There were two basements”
He asked me to draw Process of Sewage treatment.
Ans : I made the layout of Sewage treatment on paper, then I explained the whole process.
How the waste water is collected in a hospital.
Ans : The Sump pits are provided in basement, from there the water is pumped to STP and treated further.
What is macerator.
Ans : It is a device to grind large waste product into raw sewage.
Where are these used other than sewage.
Ans : Sorry sir, I don’t know.


M2 : -
What is stability of slope and where it is done.
Ans : It is the process of strengthening of soil at slopes, it can be done by soil nailing, Geo-membranes and Geo-textiles as reinforcements, It is done at the slopes of embankments, at sides of excavations etc.
What is angle of internal friction
Ans : It represents the internal friction offered by soil
Is there difference b/w angle of repose and angle of internal friction.
Ans : there is not much difference angle of repose gives an approximate idea of angle of internal friction.
What is negative skin friction.
Ans : it is the downward drag exerted by relative settlement of loose soil deposit surrounding soil on the piles.

M3 :-
As you have done work as quantity surveyor engineer, Suppose you are working on a project which is High income group building and all the foundation works, slab and column has been casted, masonry work has also been done, then what will the next activities that you will perform, what will be the specification of the materials used.
Ans : Sir, I have done structure work only in India, after that I was transferred to overseas location at Riyadh Saudi Arab and there I worked in tender department in office, Also I was not involved in MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing) works it was done by separate team. so I am not able to answer this question.

He said you are a civil Engineer, you have done your graduation from NIT Jalandhar, so you should be able to answer this question.

Then I started answering
Sir we will do plastering works, flooring works and all the civil works will be coordinated with MEP works like fire fighting, plumbing, AC ducts, utilities etc. and finally painting works will be done…But he said you are mixing everything and I felt it clearly that he was not satisfied with my answer…

What is full form of EWS, how many income groups are there like high income group
Ans : Economically weaker section. Low income group, Middle income Group, High income group, Ultra high income group.

Then Chairman asked me to Leave saying “ Thank you Mohit, Your interview is over”

Interview board name - Dr. TC Anant sir

As I enter the room, wish them and sit properly and chairman sir is reading my DAF form, about my education detail then after 2-3 minute asked me
CP- what are you doing in this gap because I had passed graduation in 2019?
Ans- I told them I am preparing for IES exam from last one and half year
CP- Ok, tell me about your B.Tech project and elaborate it
Ans- I told the detail of my project which I have done during my graduation.
CP- Tell me about your favourite subject.
Ans- I told them soil mechanics, SOM, transportation engineering

M1- tell me about 5 natural sources of energy from where we extract
Ans- since my project related to solar energy this q has been asked, I told them about solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, hydropower
M1-in which form we extract solar energy
Ans- light and heat form and explain PVC cell and thermal equipment
M1-how wind energy is generated and supplied to household
Ans-I told them about wind turbine and I have not much detail about storage and transportation of wind energy.
M1- how we are extracting geothermal energy
Ans-I have recently read about the Jammu geothermal energy and told about them.
M1-he asked about my hobby which is teaching
Ans- I explain my interest and how I am currently doing now
M1-ok, tell me how you detect the leakage in pipe supply system in your home without flowing water them
Ans- I have not much detail about this
M1-he asked again about leakage detection in water distribution system in public water system
Ans-I tell them about pressure gradient measurement system and he want me other method also here, chairman sir interrupted and handed to next sir

M2-since I came from farming background, he asked about the farming of paddy
Ans- I know very well about farming of paddy so I explain
M2- land measurement and why this particular unit you are using
Ans - I have no knowledge about this question
M2- he asked about MSP
Ans- I told them properly
M2- about fertiliser, type of farming of paddy
Ans- I told them about fertiliser which we are using
M2- what is metacentre and its uses
Ans- I told them it is used in floating body to explain its stability and how it is found
M2- for war ship you keep it 2 or 1 meter and why
Ans- I told him 2 meters because it will improve its stability
M2-ok, and for passenger ship
Ans- I tell him 1 meter because it will increase time period which provide comfort to passenger
M2-what is principle of surveying
Ans-I told them about whole to part and measurement of one point from two aspect

M3-tell me about the dam situated near you
Ans- I told them about Jargo dam and Rihand dam
M3-what is height of dam which type it is
Ans-I told them 91 meter and gravity type dam...I have read it because its capacity is highest in Asia
M3- is there hydropower plant
Ans - yes, it produces approx. 300 MW
M3- tell me 5 company names of cement
Ans- I can answer only 3 at that time
M3- process and ingredient of cement
Ans- I told them about wet and dry process and ingredient
M3- what is rapid hardening cement and low heat cement and its uses and its formation
Ans-I explain both of them
M3-tell me about Abram law and name some plasticizer
Ans- I told them inverse relation and lignosulphate
M3- what is stage hydrograph
Ans- I have no knowledge about this term so I asked permission to explain each term separate and explain them
M3- he asked me how many max numbers of bar can you place in one line in 300*600 beam in M20 in 20 mm bar steel
Ans- I am little confused initially but understand it but since he has asked maximum but I am unable to recall the is code for spacing of bar
M3- ok this is last question, how to measure the diameter of HYSD bar
Ans- sorry sir, I have not knowledge about this

My interview is over and said them thank you all of them and comes out.

Feedback- my interview is DAF based. You should prepare yourself for practical based question. They asked me no questions from my favourite subject, which I told them. Chairman and other member are very cordial and never humiliate you if you do not know the answer. Before entering the room, you can be very tense but as you enter the room you feel good. There is no restriction on which your language you answer, I preferred Hindi.

Date: 19 march 2021
BRANCH : Civil engineering
Board : TCA Anant
Duration: around 25-30 minutes

Chairperson :
So Mr. you're from Sikar Rajasthan,
You did Btech from so so so college
You are 18 pass out
What did u do in these years
Any Btech project?
(carbon fibre reinforced self compacting concrete)
What was it?

OK passed to M1

M1:
what were your favorite subjects in Btech(SOM, Soil Mechanics, Irrigation engg. Highway)
So lets start from soil mechanics
How will you determine percentage of clay and silt in a soil
What is min. size of sieve and why?
What is size of clay particles
What is this hydrometer analysis based on? Which principle
How will you determine permeability in field? ( variable head constant head)
(Those are lab tests)
How will you determine in field?
What is Darcy’s law
Write the expression
What is difference between seepage velocity and discharge velocity
Which will be more and why
How will you construct a housing society project on landfill site
Why can't you?
Why soil there is porous?
What kind of soil is present there in below landfill
Why organic?
Why volume decrease occurs there?
Have you heard of secondary consolidation
What's it
In what kind of soils this occurs
Draw a curve of soil undergoing consolidation along with curve of loading unloading
Why curve is different for NC soil and OC soil
What is virgin soil
How will you determine pre consolidation pressure?

M2:
So you've lived in Srinagar so tell us about cold weather concreting
You like bike riding? So why
What is a cycling track called as?
What was your Btech project about?
Tell in detail
What is fibre reinforced concrete
Why you used fibres
Why especially carbon fibres any advantages?
How using carbon fibres is different than reinforcement bars
What changes it made to concrete?
What conclusion you drew from that
How much strength increase?
You teach mathematics also?
Explain Pythagorus theorem
Tell us about use of Pythagorus theorem in civil engineering
How a Mason uses it in construction
What is 3 4 5 in construction how Mason uses it?

M3:
In project management how delays can be prevented?
What are tools used to check if project is on time
What is milestone
How will you complete a project on time in such a pandemic situation when labour isn't available as much as you require?
What is crashing
How would you choose an activity to crash if i give you 3 activities
What financial management you would do if an accident happens on site
What is ground improvement
Tell us few methods of ground improvement
How will you resolve a situation in which there is a railway embankment slope which is about to fail?
What is soil reinforcement with example

Date 25th March,2021
Branch Civil Engineering
Panel TCA Anant
Duration 25-30 min

Chairperson
So Mr. you graduated from x college.
Nice.what were you doing during last two years(graduated in 2018).
What was your B.Tech project.
What were the findings.
favourite subjects.(Geotech , Railways, RCC )

M1:
Tell me about railway sleepers, cement, wires, grade.
Why we don’t use RO on larger scale.
Why we use UV and what are its drawbacks. (he wanted to hear something that I didn’t know)
Chairman: NGT has recently requested people to not use RO in their homes. Why ?

M2:
Tell me about Warning signs.
Gave me a warning sign post (imagine a flag ) and asked me the failure criteria, forces, point of failure, bending torsion.
Raft foundation(my project was on Raft foundation). my findings were average so asked me what did you do?
as these things you already know. Quoted IS code and scope of study and compared it with isolated footing and Timoshenko flexible plate theory.
Machine foundation. (asked me whether I know about it and I told him I had general idea)
Yaw, sway, bending about which axis. Criteria of failure, designing consideration etc.

M3:
Retaining Wall types, failure criteria, difference between buttress and counter-fort. draw them.
Concrete acceptance criteria, definitions of words I said, like standard deviation, constant etc.
Standard deviation on field, when it is modified?
Have you worked on field or any work experience?

Date: 12/03/2021
Session: Forenoon
Chairman: BB Vyas
Duration of interview: 25-30min
Last person to enter

Chairman
1. Read my DAF and asked what else I want to do (as I have done many things in college) on a lighter note.
2. What are the geological characteristics required for a reservoir.
3. What are wet docks and what are its advantages and disadvantages.
4. What is LSM.
5. What is e-governance and relate it with civil engineering.
6. What are wind excited oscillations (as my college was in coastal State)

Member 1
1. Read DAF and asked about my city, for what it is famous and places to visit around it.
2. What is your B.Tech project.
3. What are Geo-grids.
4. Other than reinforcement for what it can be used
5. What are other Geo-synthetics and their uses
6. Can we use Geo-synthetics in reservoir and in what form can we use it in reservoir
7. What are other methods of soil stabilisation
8. Why do we do soil stabilisation
9. Is soil stabilisation method depend on soil or we can use any method on any soil
10. Why highway is called highway

Member 2
1. Asked about my B.Tech project
2. What are different finite element methods (as my BTP is based on that)
3. What is section factor
4. What do you mean by fire resistance
5. How can we make a building fire resistant
6. What are active and passive measures of fire resistance
7. Which is better for earthquake design-T-beam or rectangular beam

Member 3
1. What is great Triangulation Survey
2. How many times had we done it
3. What is MSL
4. What is RL
5. Can MSL be at 0m
6. What is AH (related to highway)
7. What do you mean by slope failure
8. What is infinite slope
9. What is sheet pile
10. What is diaphragm wall
11. Can we made it with rcc or pcc or both
12. Define energy dissipators and where they can be used and name some of them

Date 10/03/2021
Chairman: TC ANANT SIR
Duration: 25-30 mins

CHAIRMAN:
What was your B.Tech. project, Your role and conclusion.

M1:
What is strand jack system and hydraulic system for lifting devices
Reaction turbines types working principle, guide vane, governer?
What is open flow and pipe flow?
What is orifice, manometer, venturimeter?
What is thixotropic and give one example?
Different type of numbers in fluid( Reynold,mach...)

M2:
what is steam curing,
How will you design M20 concrete.( Chairman asked me to explain what is M20)
Code for design mix?
What does IS 456 include.
How many no. of samples you will test for concrete.
what is STP in solid waste management?
Composting?
What is regular and special maintenance?
Soil reinforcement?
Your role as a supervisor on the site.

M3:
what is amphibious (not sure) building?
How plastering will done bottom to top or reverse. If slab is not completely constructed in a day then at which location you will prefer to leave it and why.
How much coal ash is generated in india?
What is flyash and bottom ash?
Fly ash mission by govt?
Can we use fly ash in dam?
What is geometrical standard deviation?
What is check dam?

I have lost them actually. Tried searching during second attempt but couldn't find them

MES survey is definitely better than CWC if someone is open to working out of Delhi.

Interview date -10/4/23(Afternoon)
Panel- BB Swain
Working in iocl panipat Refinery as a project engineer
College - Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology
Chairman
1-About college
Member-1
1.Working profile
2.Kind of work doing in refinery (I am mainly looking after the piping job)
3.Things related to piping job in Refinery
(Asked about diameter,Types of valves,Types of pumps and so on.)
4.Difference b/w centrifugal and reciprocating pump
5.Priming in pump
Member-2
1.Design mix
2.which aggregates should be used in concrete
3.Setting time of cement and how to use increase/decrease it
4.Hign performance concrete
Member-3
1.He gave me one drawing and asked about main reinforcement and distribution reinforcement
2.Minimum number of bars in square column and circular column
3.Minimum diameter of bar used in column
4.Group efficiency in piling
5.Methods of irrigation
6.which type of irrigation used in potato
7.Offshore structure
8.How calculate the discharge required for irrigation if area is given