From the Limited responses received for ESE 2021 Interview Marks, this is the Table and Chart, which you can see for yourself. Average(+6) and Maximum(+20) marks was higher this year compared to previous year.

Name:XYZ
Anant sir panel
Last person to enter
Around 5:10pm
Duration 15mins
Date: 08/03/2021

Chairman: read about my btech and mtech clg name and asked where are these college
M1:
tell me about flood routing
Which method we used
Difference between them
Practically which method is good
Define CV
Interrupted saying i did not prepare hydrology
Few questions related to practical based I was unable to hear then he switched to rcc.
Asked about few questions about two way slabs
M2:
Explain his questions in Hindi
Like why we laid pipe in zigzag manner
For water supply to 10storey building which method you will use and how will ensure about the pressure
About central water commission
How will you save water in home
And in your area
Technical term abot water saving
M3:
difference between slope and deflection method, moment area method and conjugate beam method
Difference between moment and couple
If the moment you calculate at 1section from one should side from other side what will be the moment

Last question what did you do after 2017

I gave my answer in Hindi..so they asked me questions in Hindi

No questions from DAF, Mtech, Current affairs, Famous personalities

Interview happened with Face shield face mask hand gloves. During interview they will say if you are not comfortable with mask you can remove that
Glass panel was there among everone
mask and faceshields are provided by UPSC

Full payment of Travel allowance was there, for IRCTC air tickets.

Only pen and documents you have to carry into reception..they will provide place to put your belongings

Chairman sir is helpful and said jane do na sir bachi ko itna practical based questions ata nahi hai and everyone smiled..

They gave sandwich tea coffee water

Interview order is according to Who registered first (First come first service)

Be careful about the chair, It has wheels and it is rotating.. you have to control it :)
They said if you don't understand questions then asked us.but first understand the question clearly before answering.

Name: ABC
Date: 08/03/2021
Chairman TC ANANT SIR
Morning session

Chairman ne sirf service aur profile puchi bas

2 cash crops,2 Zaid crops
Wheat base period
Can dam analysis be done by STAAD PRO
2 west flowing rivers
No of river basin in India
Name them
What is problem by taking excessive water from GWT
How can problem be solved
What is MDM method used for
What is your city famous for
What can you predict based on SCI-FI movies innovations in civil engineering future
What sci-fi movies you watch
what is DPR and CPR
Which states Narmada flows

This is all I can remember

Name: XYZ
Date:-08/03/2021
Chairman:- Anant Sir
Afternoon Session

Chairman
1.Why no Job?
2.Tell me about results of B.Tech Project

Member 1
1.Explain your project
2.Civil Engineering importance of your project
(IIT ke hoke aisa project karte ho😢)
3.Latitude and Longitude of Delhi
4.Traffic Sensor
5.Types of Spillways
6.Time of Concentration and use of Dicken's formula
7.Hydrograph for rainfall of duration 2Tc and Tc
8.Difference bw Pier and Abutment
9.Degree of Consolidation
10.Consolidation in detail
11.How excess PWP develops
12.Compaction and Consolidation diff.
13.All possible reasons for Differential Settlement and about Pisa Tower
14.Real life Field test for Soil
15.ILD and where is it used and it's significance
16.Which Software used in designing buildings
17.What is Subcritical Flow and real life examples

Member 2:-
1.Diff bw Subgrade and SubBase
2.Designing of Subgrade and SubBase
3.Tests before making Flexible Pavement
4.Triaxial test
5.CBR test in extra detail
6.English Bond and Flemish Bond
7.Modular Bricks and Nominal bricks diff
8.Pile load test in details
9.Under Reamed Pile and where is it used
10.Types of Failure in Foundation and which types of test

Member 3:-
1.Arc-GIS method in details
2.How to find capacity of Reservoirs
3.What is famous from your hometown

Name: ABC
Chairman- Anant sir
Duration 25 to 30 min
Date: 09/03/2021
afternoon session

First two members asked questions related to m.tech and metro as i have done m.tech in structure and working in upmrc.
M1-Design of water tank
Detail reinforcement of circular tank
Force acting on water tank
M2 type of pile used in metro
How underground station constructed
Length of agra metro project
Type of section used for elevated section and different type of section used by dmrc
M3 i think he was from water resource or hydrology
He asked qns from FM irrigation and hydrology
Notch and weir
Flood routing
Pan coefficient
Base period and crop period

Name: ABC
Date: 09/03/2021
afternoon session
Panel -Bharat Bhusan Vyas
Entry
Chairperson- Is college se ho ,2019 Passout ho shi hai
Chairperson - Kya kr rhe avi
Fire kaise lgta hai building me
Fire proof building kaise bnate hai
Fire Extinguisher kaise kam krta hai
Divyang Logo ke liye bharat sarkar ne scheme nikal hai btao
Ek aur koi scheme pucha
Mjhe dono ni pta tha
( Aap log itne bde post pe ja rhe ho ye sb janna chahiye)
cement ke type btao
Pozzolana kya hota hai
Kya cement aur sand ke jagah fly ash use kr skte hai
Grades of cement

Technical Member 1-
Elective subject koun sa tha
(Maine Dam wala subject bol dia)
Dam ke type
Arch dam kyo use krte hai
Dam ka foundation kaise decide krte hai
Dam ke liye soil investigation hoga ki ni?
Koun sa test krenge soil investigation me

Member 2 -
Koi road yojna pucha jante ho ni pta tha mjhe
Monorail jante ho?
Mass Rapid Transit system
Building code jante ho
Bituminous road ke upper layer ke liye kya test krte hai
Marshal test kaise krte hai
LL 40% PL 26% then soil type

Member 3 -
What is new version of Is 800 ( Means year)
What new amendments have been added
Types of steel section
Difference between plastic and slender section
Why Mp value is more than My value

INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE #1
Mine was on 8th march, I am here to tell you about order,
Basically it is first come first basis type in your slot (morning session and evening session), so mine was afternoon session ab there were 12 candidates to be interviewed, as expected there were 2 panels.
After checking at gates if you were ahead at waiting line then you get earlier entry and u will directed to reach at a place where baggage and mobile wallet have to be submitted, so the person who entered first gets lower number tag like no. 11th alloted to the first guy because 10 were already interviewed in morning batch, and this tag number is for seat seat no. In dv room in increasing order, and u r allowed to take your certificates folder, a pen and watch (if you you are having one) only to that seat, here after biometric n some signs, they check your 10th, 12th,degree,degree transcript, caste certificate, 2 passport size photo, and any other relevant document. (Here, safety kit offered, and wear mask and glovs from kit and a face sheet. During dv you may take off these except mask, but at the time of interview you have to wear facesheild and gloves back, told to take mask at chin tough) . And the 11th number candidate taken from dv place to the chairmen's office, at ouside office you have to wait for five more minutes until the bell rings, a guy opens the door for you, he will close the door also.

INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE #2
There is no first-cum-first serve basis. Everything is pre-determined. Your panel and the order in which you will be called is already fixed and you have no say over that.
At Gate no. 1 you will be asked for e-summon letter and you Aadhar card.
After coming inside, you will be given your COVID kit and a place where you can keep your belongings. Only taking the required documents will be allowed.
After this document verification will be done. You will be asked to sit in the pre-defined order.
Sandwiches, tea, water are available.
After that you will be called according to their order.

Necessary things to carry- Btech degree, X certificate (8 semester marksheets not required), aadhar, self attested photocopies, 2 photographs.
It was just like you are sitting on a dining table meant for 6 people.
Something like this..
Dotted lines represent glass panels

Name-Ankit Yadav
Date - 10/03/2021, Afternoon session
Chairperson- BB Vyas

what are the major 5 projects of NHAI in INDIA?(Since I m currently working in NHAI)
what is the need of NHAI?
why speed and delay studies are done?
methods of speed delay studies?
what is home interview method?
what is grand challenge mechanism in Bharatmala pariyojna?
why traffic volume studies are done?
what are the different methods of tunneling ?
what is pilot tunnel?
what is industrial corridor?
what is defence corridor?
how it is different from industrial corridor?

Member 1

Do u know abt FRC?
In what form Fibres are used in the concrete?
Do u know abt any stretch of projects u mentioned where FRC is being used?
what are hanger bars?
Are hanger bars used in Bridge deck?
How load is transferred by deck in arch bridge?
what are the major forces which are generated in arch?
what are the structural elements in building which are designed for fatigue?
how the rupture of pressure vessels occurs?
what is the pattern of cracks?

Member 2

What is castigilano’s theorem?
what are causes and preventive measures for piping in earthen dam?
what are the causes of slope failure?
what are the different method for preventing slope failure?
How is soil nailing done?
what exactly is the mechanism by which soil nailing prevents slope failure?
what are the practical conditions where slope failure due to sudden drawdown occurs?

Member 3

why Firozabad is famous for? ( glass making)
what are different consituent used for glass manufacturing?
Different types of glasses?
Jo bathroom mn andha sheesha hota he use kya kehte hn aur kese banta he?
Have u seen the manufacturing of plastic bottle?
how plastic is affecting the environment?
what are the major alternatives?
Have u seen any canal?
What sections are generally provided in canal?
How velocity is controlled in canal?

P.S. The approach in which questions were asked was quite practical , I have written the crux of questions.

And the order of the interview was roll no. Wise in their respective panel.

Date- 9/3/21
Civil engineering
Chairman - T C ANANT
Duration- 30 min
Btech - 2017 pass-out

ASKED ABOUT BIRTHPLACE , SCHOOLING AND COLLEGE.
didn't you get placement from NIT MEGHALAYA?
Water body there - BADA PANI is a place between Guwahati and Shillong .
About UMIUM DAM ?
What are the source of water in bada pani ?
What is your favourite subject

Member 1
Which different consultancies required to construct a building?
What is the slope of roof we provide in Shillong?
Have you seen a canal? Where?
Designing of canal ?
Have you heard optimisation in canal length ?
What is STP ( SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT)
How it works ?
Structural drawing and architectural drawing.
minimum wages of a labour as per govt rule? Tell me exact amount.
You have been a coordinator in ur college? Tell me what are the things you need to coordinate while constructing a building.
Draw reinforcement in a 2 way slab .
Minimum spacing between reinforcement
Shillong in which earthquake zone ?
How will you provide reinforcement in 2 way slab for earthquake (in same drawing which I hv already drown)

Member 2
You have been captain of cricket team,
What things you will consider while choosing playing eleven ?
What is Magnus effect?
What is the concept of swing and reverse swing ? How is it related to fluid mechanics?
What is doosra , Harbhajan singh uses that very well.

Member 3
Unwins formula?
Time lag ?
Drainage density?
Stream density?
Difference between them?
Which case have more peak ? Greater drainage density or less?
Which case peak will get earlier ? More density or less?
How do we separate base flow .
What is piezometric head?
Water hammer?
Surge tank?
Super critical flow and where it occurs?
Hydraulic jump?
Why we use spillway in dam
Types of canal? Ridge canal , contour canal
What is heaving in soil
What is normal consolidated soil , over consolidated soil?

Last candidate. Was called around 4 pm. Went in at 4.10pm approx.

Date: 10/03/2021
Panel: BB Vyas Sir.
Duration: 20-25 mins

No questions from hobbies, current affairs or DAF.

Chairman: General Civil Engineering, shear flow, torsion, normal questions bht hi basic.

M1: Earthquake Engineering based questions, Liquefaction, Tunnelling, all practical based questions.

M2: couldn't answer much from him. Asked many terms that I hadn't heard of.

M3: Questions from Mathematics based Structural engineering. Like differential equations.
Fire resistance of building.
Some terms in PSC I didn't know.

Chairman again: Strengths and Weakness.

PS: Some bonus points. Personal observations.

1. They had a list of questions already prepared from what I noticed. I don't know if other candidates felt so or not. Questions pehle se soch k rakkhe the unhone.

2. They were sitting quite far away. And there was no glass shield in this panel. Chairman had his own table. Others were sitting on just chairs. And we have a table and chair given for us.

Panel: TC Ananth sir
Date: 10th March morning
Last one to enter
Timing= 20-25min (12:35pm-1 1pm)

1.caveri river issue ( I from Karnataka)
2.shear wall
3. Fire safety design ( have experience of 2.5 years)
4. Safety measures in high rise buildings ( worked in 21 storey building)
5. Dead storage & it's % approx.
6. Live storage
7. How will you calculate wave pressure in dam
8. Column layout, provide stirrups reinforcement, hook length
9. Grade of concrete used in your site
10. Bunching of reinforcement
11. Penstock
12. Low speed and high speed turbine
13. Roles and responsibilities of your jobs
14. Quality control of concrete
15. Slump used in your site
16. Slump used in general construction like one storey or two story building without pump
17. How to Design a hydraulic structures at a place where no record is available of anything earlier
18. Torque and bending moment
19. how to design rcc mix

These are the some questions which I can remember now..
They also asked some new/application based questions, I haven't heard such names before.

Tc anant.

Cavity wall
Load bearing and non bearing wall
What you did in last 3 yr
What is nss(DAF)
What you did there.
Footing of staircase
How to test tank during construction
Type of earthquake accelerations
"Film creation, telescope.!!🤔
What do you do?"(DAF)
Influent effluent flow in river
Why s curve flat an infinity
How to separate a continuous storm
Type of cracks in buildings
Pacific ring of fire
Where horizontal crack comes
How cement sampling done
Example if brittle plastic ductile materials
Field test of aquifer permeability
How to do cost estimates
What precautions during construction a building near railway line.
Why welded lines?
What is base flow
Weight and specific gravity of cement bag
Where vertical acceleration is important?
What are diversion headwork

Why divide wall provided (avoid toppling)
M1- No, in terms of silt.
Me- don't know sir.
Where provided?
Where spillway provided
Why.


How will you counter any tilt in pile.
Which pile is suitable at which place


One was structure,RCC,eq specialist.
One knows fluid,hyd,irrig.
One knows transport,soil etc.

Chairman- B B Vyas sir
Duration- 20 min
Chairman- Asked about tunnelling, About technical textile, Civil Ethics

M1- Soil Mechanics basic questions
M2- diff between Ductility of structures and substances. How to test ductility of structures. Civil engg lab tests
M3- Soil and climate characteristics of coastal areas.. remedies for it, foundation
Job related questions

Rest all questions DAF related they asked.

Manas Tripathi
Interview on - 12-03-2021
Entered - 2:25 pm
Exit - 2:50 pm
Board - T C A Anant sir

Chairperson
Read the DAF, pointed out my college and job
1. what was you your job profile?
2. why did you leave your job?

M1.

1.What is this MHRD scholarship?
I replied that I am 4th sem student of Mtech program env at iitd.
Here chairman interrupted and pointed out that he missed this, and clarified that after the job i had joined mtech and then asked my thesis topic.
Now M1 continues..
2. What are your fav sub?
I replied geotech and env. (my mtech in env)
3.what was your thesis elaborate?
3. how is this useful?
4.How will you decide fine to industries?
5. Suppose if the damage done by industry is 25 crore should the fine be 25 only?
6. who should be responsible(pay) for rehabilitation?
7. How is you thesis different from EIA?
8. How can you determine the width of a river without going on the other side and doing just chain surveying?
10. What is BOD and COD and difference between them?
11. For industries which is more important BOD or COD?
11. Do you have interest in other subjects like fm, irrigation or hydraulics?
12. what is Unit fhydrograph and its assumptions?

Transfers to other members

M2
1. What are different types of pollution?
2. What are different noise pollutions?
3. What are different effects of noise pollution on humans?
4. Can you tell any other effects on human?
5. suppose you have to construct a school, how would you select site?
6. what is bearing capacity?
7. what is toughness index?
8. what is void ratio?
9. what all services you would provide in school?
10.what is flexible pavement?
11.components of flexible pavement?
12. what is use of subgrade?
13. what is other name of surface layer ?
14. what is corrosion and various ways in which it can occur ?
15. suppose you have to prevent corrosion of reinforcement kept at site, how would you do that ?

Transfers to M3

M3
1. Do you still play chess?
2. what is castling?
3. Min no. of moves for pawn to reach to rook of opposite end?
4. How to obtain fhydrograph of different duration?
5. how you determine valuation of a building?
6. what is depreciation?
7. how do you calculate depreciation?
8. two buildings having same life but different conditions at end of some period would depreciation be same ?
9. How would you calculate depreciation in this situation?
10. What is T beam?
11. why is it used?
12. what is L beam?
13. Show reinforcement details of the T beam.
14. show reinforcement in the flanges.
15. How development length is calculated, what is the formula?
16. How development length is related to dia of reinforcement, approx value?
17. show details of reinforcement in flat slab and its connection with the column
18. what is thin cylinder theory?
19. What is thick cylinder theory?
20. what is net safe bearing capacity?
21. suppose you have to design a 8 meter beam how would you decide depth of beam?

ok thank you.

Date: 09/03/2021
Board: TCA Anant sir
Duration: somewhere around 25-30 mins
Afternoon session

I was the first person to be interviewed after lunch. Anant sir's panel was running a bit late. Other panel had already started interviews at 1340 hrs, whereas my turn came at 1410 hrs. I was led to the interview by a friendly person who advised to remove my mask and shield for some time just before the interview as he had seen people fainting due to the heat and anxiety in the past🤦‍♂️.

Chairman started out by reading my DAF out loud. He read the name of my college, when did I graduate, and read the 3 position of responsibilities that I had mentioned in my extra-curricular.

Chairman:
1. What did you do after your graduation in 2019?
2. So you must have got MTech in the desired college on the basis of your GATE rank?
Clarified that I am undergoing training at IOCL.
3. Where is your training location? Is it Dehradun?
4. When did the training start and when will it end?

Over to member 1:
1. Nowadays, overhead bridges do not have the conventional retaining wall at the ends. They are now using small panels joined together, what is the principle on which this mechanism works?
2. Okay, so you mentioned about roofs... tell me what are the ways to reduce seepage and heat transfer through roofs in residential buildings.
3. Difference between OPC and PPC
4. Why does concrete deteriorate under sea water
5. What kind of cement can you use under sea water
6. What is the %age salt present in sea water
7. Can we use solar panels for heating purposes?
8. What are the different type of solar panels
9. Suppose you are AEE, and are sent to the site for completion of some work, what is the first thing you will do?
I gave some ans, but he kept on insisting on 2 words, 'you' and the 'contractor'.
I again gave some ans.
Again he started explaining me in detail that the design has been done, site had been cleared, contractor is finalised, now what is the first thing you will do.

Now Chairman intervened and said that let me make it simple for you, first of all you have to construct the basement and foundation. But by now I had realised that the M1 was not asking about this. He was looking for something else. So M1 still neglected the chairman and said " Vo sab to theek h, but sabse pehle kya karoge"

After grilling for about 5 mins, he finally gave up. I still don't know what he was trying to get out from me.

Over to Member 2:
You have a good educational background and an excellent GATE rank, I have high expectations from you.
1. Shear centre
2. Specific Energy and Specific Force
3. Basic difference between Rigid and flexible pavements
4. Flexural strength of M20 concrete
5. Tell me about some of the schemes run by the government on Pan-India basis in which there is significant Civil Engineering work involved.

Over to Member 3:
1. History of IIT Roorkee
2. Solani aqueduct, What is Solani
3. Upper ganga Canal system
4. Where is Madhya ganga canal system
5. Why are there so many Cross drainage structures between Haridwar and Roorkee
6. What was the previous name of Water Resource department in your college
7. From which barrage does Upper ganga canal originate
8. What is the apex body for Hydrology in India
9. What is CWPRS and where is it located
10. What is the difference between LSM and WSM
11. Drawings are really important for engineers. Tell me the number of drawings that you have to study at any construction site and their names as well.
12. What are the different type of Cross drainage structures that you know of.

TCA anant sir is pretty cool. He interrupted multiple times in between my answers to ask questions out of curiosity. He was always smiling and kept the environment of the room friendly.

I felt that 2 of the members, specifically member 1 and 3 were senior IES officers themselves, because they asked a lot of practical questions and from multiple disciplines.
While member 2 was more like a senior professor from a reputed college. His personality had some strictness, which reminded me of my college professors😅

Name: Amit Sharma
Date : 11/03/2021
Interview duration: 25 minutes
Panel: T C Anant

Chairman asked about soil characteristics of my hometown and nearby areas and some general questions about my background
Also asked me my favourite subjects

M1: asked basic questions about fluid mechanics

M2: asked practical questions about hydraulic pumps
(He got stuck on one question that I ended up not answering)

M3: asked questions about strength of material, gave me a problem to draw sfd, BMD,
Then asked about gravity dams, asked follow up questions, about embankment etc

Apart from member 2 everyone was cool

My interview started on 2:15 pm
One more thing, if you rely on made easy question answer booklet then you are in for a big surprise.
They asked me a question that was from given in made easy booklet, and I gave as it is answer but they were not impressed, asked more details.

they ask you to speak loudly so they can hear, but won't do the same, I had to ask them to repeat the question and stress on terms they were using.

If you can ask them to speak loudly without being rude or appearing oversmart, then that will really help.

Detailed transcript is attached below

10/3/2021
Afternoon session
TC Anant sir

Chairperson questions
1.Tell me about your work in Mumbai railway and Nhai.
2.Tell me about project of Nhai.
3.origin and destination of river Narmada.

Member 1
1.About flexible pavement and function of each layer.
2.Difference between National highway and expressway.
3 about tie and dowel bars.
4.How to design wearing course based on loading.
5.Method of toll collection.

Member 2
1.Draw diagram of water closet.
2.Function of traps
3.Wet and dry area.

Member 3
1.Largest river in the world
2.Biggest forest in the world.
3.Discharge of river Ganga and Narmada.
4.What is viscosity,use of viscosity in practical life.
5.Types of viscometer.
6.which water evaporates first sea or fresh water.
7.How to construct roads in cold climate.
8.How to construct structures near sea.

Name: Ravi lakad
Date :15/03/2021
Duration :25-30min

Chairperson: Smita mam (kuch yad he ke bhul gye engineering ka)
C: 1 .for recycling of the waste. For drinking what would you prefer?
2. Desalination ya recycled waste ?
3.fav subject
4 why soil as fav
5 What do you thing as tough subject and why?

M:1
1 we have to construct an embankment on soft clay how will u proceed?
2 consolidation
3 why it takes too much time
4 long dia pile
5 micro pile

M2
1.Pythagoras theorem
2.how will you use it in civil engineering
3 value of π and who invent it

M3
1. WTP in between how will you measure discharge
2. Aerobic and anaerobic digestion
3.septic tank

16/03/2021
Afternoon session
BBV panel
Hobbies cricket, basketball

Total practical questions and situational based question.
Duration :30 minutes

CH: UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES BASED QUESTIONS how to maintain them etc
M1:- construction management question and again geology based questions.
M2: why you want left previous job as pay scale is more than ESE and other practical question like slope stability etc difference between rock and soil
M3:- histrionic questions like height building in last 50 years in increasing order to till date
Why Taj mahal height comparison with other monument height. Why we don't generallly compare other monument with taj

Interview Date: 18/03/2021
Afternoon session
Panel: Smita Nagarajan Mam
1st Interview of the session

Duration: 25-30 mins

Chairperson:
Why did you leave L&T?
What is your Job profile with Town Planning Department?
Why there is a perception about town planning department that something they permit at first and them come to demolish?
Problems faced at Job and how did you rectify them?
Eco sensitive Zone

M1:
Do you know about IS 1888 and SP7 for EWS housing? standard?
What is the minimum size of room?
What is the minimum Height?
What is the height of that door? (pointing towards entrance door)
Fire safety Provisions in a high rise buildings?
Refuge area
Wet riser?
Pressure and location of wet riser?

M2:
What is the Work profile with L&T?
Specifications of Ballast?
Cu,Cc Values for Ballast?
Significant contribution made to your Job?
Methods to determine bearing capacity?
Sub ballast depth
Use of Geotextiles in Railway Lines?
Type of Foundation would be considered as a railway embankment?

M3
What is your role as Covid Warrior?
What are the average life of structure?
FSI/FAR
Built-up area
Permissible Values in your area
Salvage Value
Scrap Value
Will cost of demolition will be higher than scrap Value?
Book Value?