Name: Antineutrino

Date: 13/02/2026 , Forenoon , 4th one to Go

Key DAF Details: Doctor, Uruli Kanchan, Pune, Rural background, NGO, Flood relief

Board: Dr Dinesh Dasa Sir

Questions asked:
1. Welcomed me and made me comfortable. Directly started from my previous employment. Q. Do You know about BAIF ( it’s in Urulikanchan)
2. ⁠Why is cost of medical education high in India ?
3. ⁠Are private colleges becoming factories of minting money?
4. ⁠Do you know about social audit? Which organisation did it first?
5. ⁠What will you find if you do a social audit of 73rd and 74th Amendment acts??

Member 1 ( this was more of a discussion)
1. Why doctors are not going to rural areas? How to send them?
2. ⁠How can we improve elderly care in Rural Areas ( very specific about it)
3. ⁠How Can CSR be used
4. ⁠Education sector is highly regulated. So how can we ensure the education sector improves with private participation?
5. ⁠(again asked )the role of CSR ? How to include it in education and what can be the procedure?
6. ⁠How to make nursing sector more efficient ?
7. ⁠Why do you want be become a civil servant despite being a doctor?

Member 2
1. Tell me the positives and negatives of not allowing govt doctors to practice in private sector.
2. ⁠Why Marathi people are beating bihari people? Should they learn Marathi language?
3. ⁠You as a Station incharge, how will you stop this?
4. ⁠Health is a state subject. Should health services be devolved to the Panchayats?
5. ⁠how ?

Member 3:
1. You worked in flood relief, what are the reasons of urban flood, what governments are doing, what more should be done?
2. ⁠Case study: About the corruption/ political pressure and related follow ups.

Member 4 : very slow speaking and monologue
1. Gave one monologue about WTO and china. Asked one opinion based question about it.
2. ⁠Asked me if I know something in that field. I didn’t. So I said so. Then he stopped asking.
As it was already past the time as per them, so they stopped the discussion.

Mocks/O20 (If any): Quantel, Chanakya IAS, Sajal sir ( Saarthi IAS), Shankar IAS, Vajiram, Vajirao and reddy.
Most imp : Peer discussion with same people!

language of PT: English
Thank you!

Name: NM

Date: 20/02/2026

Key DAF Details: BTech(Computer), Gujarat, PSIR, AI, Junagadh

Board: Suman Sharma Ma'am
Chairperson
1. Read DAF entries regarding name, educational background.
2. Asked whether went for college placements
3. Mentions my graduation and AI summit. Draws parallel with investment summits where MoUs are signed but not materialised. Asks whether same will happen with AI summit?
4. Asked how AI summit can be successful?
5. Cross question with respect to how India can make AI summit successful
6. Mentions Trump. Do you think his working style is good?
7. Leadership qualities you like about Trump
8. Is it always good to delegate work to young people? (Follow up to last answer)

M1
1. As we see from budget in last few years, focus has been on infrastructure building. Do you think infrastructure has any benefits? What are they?
2. How employment is generated? What different roles?
3. North east is important part of India. Give me a blueprint for development of NE region
4. Would IMT project connecting to South-Asia also lead to betterment of region?
5. Do you know what Global Capability Center is?
6. What are its benefits?
7. Give one example of GCC.

M2
1. Nowadays comedian are famous for abusing comedy. Why do people pay and watch such vulgur comedy? What could be the reason?
2. Do you think Live-in relationships are good? What are the benefits?
3. How will live-in relationships affect society at large?

M3
1. What is plus in LGBTQ+?
2. What is status of Project tiger and Project Cheetah?
3. What is Five eyes alliance? What is its mandate?
4. Recently they were involved wrt India? What was it about?

M4
1. You belong to Gujarat and Gandhiji belonged to Gujarat. Do you know why was he not given Nobel Peace Prize?
2. Did Nobel committee regret/expressed any opinion later on?
3. Tell we how Junagadh, Hyderabad and J&K became part of India during independence time
4. There tension between USA and Iran. If tomorrow a war breaks out between them, what could be its implication on India? (gave hints on energy, diaspora)


Mocks/O20 (If any):
Vivek Sir (SymbiosisIAS), Nikhil Gowda Sir(InsightsIAS), Sriram's, Quantel(3), Upwise(2), MentorAID, Samkalp(2)

Transcript-
Chair - Sheelvardhan sir.

Chair-
1. U r intrested in nutrition. How do you manage ur nutrition with diet.
2. How much protein per kg of body weight required.
3. Is whey protein recommended? What are other plant based proteins ?
4. What is BMI changed with now by doctors?
5. What are anaerobic and aerobic exercise ?
6. Define north east for me briefly.
7. Importance is ok but what it is for India, you may chose to be poetic in ur response.
8. Which fighter from NE fought with Mughals in rivers and defeated them?

M1 lady
1. Scenario- two train tracks, one used and one not used for 10 years. 10 children playing on used track, 1 children in unused one. U r driver- no point of honking braking, tell me ur choice will u continue on the used track or change yr track to disused one.
2. I said bcz unused one wont be safe for train bczof poor maintenance. I will continue on the used one. Counter- Lest say it is perfectly maintained and safe to change the track.
3. Said then I will change the track, honk and try best to slow down to save the child- asked reason ?
4. So u will penalise the 1 doing legal thing and save the 10 children doing illegal thing ?

M2 -
1. Difference between Act east and look east.
2. What are we doing in act east?
3 In defence aspect ?
4 .We are selling whick defence equipment to whom in ASEAN ?
5. Connectivity projects ?
6. Why last year Indonesia president visit to India was in hullabaloo?
7. What is hyphenation ?
8. Were we hyphenated with Pak after Op sindoor?
9. Status now ?

M3-
1. You studied in Xyz, what it is famous for ?
2. It is also famous for naxalism ? What will u do as SP to end Naxalism ?
3. Are tribals paying extortion due to fear or support for naxal cause ?
4. What is Public Adm as per u?
5. Is DM rolemodel of indian pubad ?
6. Who is better administrator trump or xi ?
6. I gave a lecture in stanford abt indias energy landscape, they are critical of our coal usage ? Shd we move away from coal ?
7. What is per capital electricity usage of India. China and usa ?


M4-
1. In what ways China fuel ing insurgency in India via other neighbouring countries?
2. What should be our strategy to promote relations with our neighbours?

Chair - It was nice talking to u. You may go now .

Special mention- Utkarsh sir(mentoraid).
Mocks - 6-7 best samkalp and chanakya mandal pariwar, quantel ones are also good. Avoid PW.

Name: SKS
Date: 20/2/26
Daf: Mridangam, Music, Telangana, Developmental Activities in my District as a DC, IRS, Worked on Li ion battery technology.
Board: Sheel Vardhan Singh Sir.

Chairperson:

1. Such a long name. What do your friends call you?
2. You're a Mridangam player. How's it different from a Dholak?
3. Explain it to a layman like me in terms of size, shape, dimensions etc.
4. What wood is it majorly made of and where is it sourced from?
5. Sundar Pichai is doing a lot of sweet talk about how India must incentivise locating data centres here. Do you think there is any sinister motive?
6. Why are we talking about 'Planet' in the AI impacts? How will AI systems impact the Planet?
7. Now AI systems are concentrated in the hands of non sovereign MNCs. In this light do you think its alright to give them incentives to set up data centres here and potentially destroy our environment?

Member-1

1. What have family, school and the world taught you or for that matter everyone in the room here?
2. Do you think the world forces you to unlearn and relearn everything that family and school teaches?
3. If the world is not idealistic then should you bend your ideals to navigate through the world?
I said if at all we're put in some kind of a spot our actual character and personality kicks in which shall be the product of our value learnings during our childhood and in schools.
4. Narrated an incident and said what values do you think have kicked in the person in the incident.

Member-2

1. What is happening in and around Iran?
2. Do you expect a war or will diplomacy prevail?
3. What is the name of the Strait that Iran might choke and hamper the global oil supply?
4. Is US vs Iran war in the interest of China? Who will it support?
5. Does Israel have Nuclear weapons?

Member-3

1. What developmental activities have you worked on in your District?
2. How much Cacao do we import?
3. Where else is Cacao Plantation undertaken in India?
4. What was your role in this entire thing?
5. You worked on Lithium ion battery technology.
What are some other battery chemistries?
6. As a chemical engineer What among those you listed would you recommend for Indian energy storage problem?
7. Can we expect a Car with Sodium battery that runs for 2000km on one charge in 2 years from now?

Member 4

1. You are in NADT. How long is your training for? And what all are you taught there?
2. By the time you come out of the Academy will you be as good as CAs?
3. How much is the Direct tax collection this year? Why have personal Income tax collections increased so much of late?
4. How do you expect your work pressure is going to be when on field now that you're saying everything has become digital and faceless?

Chairperson:

Thank you. It was nice talking to you.

Name: OCEAN (INDIAN)
Date: 18th Feb 2026 Afternoon (4th to go)
Key DAF Details: Anthropology, Food processing and food safety, Cooking, Bengaluru, Dharwad, Karnataka
Board: Dinesh Dasa Sir (27 mins)

Chairperson: (introduced me to the board member and started asking questions)
1. What is the debt to GDP ratio of Karnataka?
2. "How do traditional diets serve as a natural defense against lifestyle-induced chronic illnesses?"
3. "Which one of the contemporary governments is providing the most effective governance for its citizens?" (Didn’t even remember what answer I gave)
4. "How do rural and urban populations serve as complementary pillars in the preservation and evolution of cultural heritage?"
Asked two more but not remembering!!!

M1-Male Member (Always had smile on his face. He was the one who asked many questions and also grilled)
Started with –Why did you choose food technology over other engineering streams? Did anyone force you to choose that?
1. What’s your view on regulation of food adulteration in India? Do you feel we are doing well?
2. Why even after knowing that Ultra processed foods are not good for health, why government is not banning them?
3. What is the recent Supreme Court ruling on Front-of –pack labelling?
4. "Are current food labelling regulations sufficiently transparent and accessible for the average consumer to make informed decisions regarding hidden ingredients and synthetic preservatives?"
5. What is the Antimicrobial resistance? What is government doing in this regard? How to curtail it?
6. "Analyze the pathways of pesticide contamination in the food supply chain and the subsequent techniques for residue reduction."
7. "What is the current FSSAI Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) for added sugar consumption in a balanced adult diet?"
He asked some more questions on food safety but not remembering.

M2-Male member
(Poker face, was looking very serious)
1. Do you cook? Tell me how these Chefs get their "Michelin-Starred Chef" Label?
2. Did you work previously? Tell me how ethics is important in administration as well as in workplace?
3. Which car do you like? (I replied- Sir I’m not interested in cars and bikes-don’t know what was running in his mind to ask this question)

M3-Male member
(Long monologues, at the end I was not getting what was his actual question)
1. Which approach do you think is most suitable for tribal administration? (Gave long monologue on present tribal administration and the problems tribal people facing in northwest parts of Pakistan)
2. Which are the developmental measures you take for the welfare of tribal people?
3. Which are the welfare measures even though they are needed but you don’t want to bring them to tribal areas?
4. Analyze the socio-political friction and security challenges arising from the deployment of central armed forces within indigenous tribal territories
5. Gave a long lecture on the India Pakistan border issue.
Given India's status as a formidable military power, what are the strategic complexities and geopolitical implications of a military intervention to reintegrate PoK into the Indian Union?"
M4- Male member
1. What is the naval base present in Karnataka?
No more questions

CHAIRMAN:
1. How many districts are there in Karnataka?
2. Which district in your state do you choose for the development of green field projects?
3. Which district in your state do you choose for the development new IT Hub?
4. Gave long monologue on Bengaluru issues and "Drawing lessons from the infrastructural bottlenecks in Bengaluru, what strategic frameworks should Hyderabad adopt to ensure sustainable growth as a global IT hub?"
Chaiman Sir-Your interview is over, You can go now
Mocks: Quantel, SriRam IAS, PW IAS, Ensure IAS, Vajirao & Reddy, Sankalp
O2O- Ashwini Mam (My degree Professor), Sidhir Sir (Anthro Mentor), Ateeq Sir (ARK Reflections IAS-HYD), Ravi Kapoor Sir

My experience: The board remained cordial. They are very eager to listen. Never interpret in between. More situation and analytical based questions, overall good experience.
(Some mocks were very grilling, overdone, and had more factual and outdated questions,)
Felt Sankalp and Ensure IAS mocks felt very real.
Did my part… Now hoping for the best !!!

Name: Steve Rogers
Date:13/2/26
Key DAF Details: ASO, Thrillers, Edutaining Posters, Poetry, Psychology, Tamil Nadu

Board: Honourable Lt. Gen. Raj Shukla sir

PT Language: English

Questions asked:

Chairman
1. You watch thriller movies. What movie did you see recently?
2. Do you know about Agatha Christie?
3. Whom do you know about thriller movies?
4. Then tell me about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
5. Then tell me about Rajesh Kumar
6. Can a thriller movie be made with love concept? How?
7. Is edutaining a real word?
8. What is edutaining posters?
8. How do you use it?
9. How can AI and Quantum physics be taught with edutaining posters?
10. Long monologue on how social media like Tik tok are being used by China. Do you think there's a chance of misuse by China?
11. Again monologue on how Trump supporters mostly come from Tik Tok and so the US companies wanted to own Tik Tok but the Chinese parent company put some restrictions on it. Do you think India should also create an app like that?

Lady Member 1
1. Do you know any one psychoanalyst from India?
2. Can you briefly tell us two lines of your poem?
3. (Since I recited two lines of my poem in Tamil) Can you please translate it to the members?
4. What do you know about India's soft power?

Member 2
1. Where are you currently working?
2. What's your role?
3. A short monologue on how files move slowly in government. How can we reduce it?
4. (As I don't digitisation to the earlier qsn) So are you not using eoffice in your office?
5. Then how can we improve this system ?
6. (As I told the nature should be shifted from rule based to role based and outcome based) Then rules not to be followed?
7. Tell me about the edutaining posters you created. How much did you do?
8. What was it's impact on others?

Member 3
1. A short monologue about the discovery of Tamil Brahmi inscriptions in Egypt. (It was on news that day). So how older are the pyramids? Is Tamil older then pyramids?
2. After 30-35 years in service, how you want to be remembered?
3. A short monologue about the recent scorecard systems. The criteria given are only quantitative but not qualitative. Aren't such criteria punishing officers who do qualitative work?
4. (Since I told it's relatively new system) It's an old system and nothing new about it.
5. Since you told love movies can also be made as a thriller tell me which is important - to fall thorough love or rise through love ?
6. Do you know about how the nature of the milk changes when kept at a particular height and length inside the pyramids (When I told idk to this, he insisted me to read a book on pyramids)

Member 4
1. (Continuing on the qsn how I want to be remembered) Don't you want to spend time on your personal life and family too?
2. (Since I told honesty empathy to the last qsn) So honesty and empathy only for work?
3. Being with optional of Psychology you might have judged about us. What was your analysis?
4. You know classical conditioning. Who are its contributors?
5. Do you know about Skinner?
6. How do you use conditioning?

The board was very cordial. Totally different experience from mocks.

Mocks:
Deepak sir (Republic IAS), NEXT IAS, PW Only IAS, Vajirao, Samkalp

O20:
Shubham Aggarwal sir (Vidyapeeth)

Multiple in person daily O2O sessions with Deepak Sir of Republic IAS (most realistic and helpful to approach the questions)

Date : 16th Feb 2026,
Afternoon slot, 4th to go
Keywords: Computer science, NIT, Temple Architecture, Chess, Maharashtra, Nanded, Corporate work experience
Chairman: Suman Sharma Mam
Board was very involved in conversation, actively listening, (They had tea break just before my turn).

Chairman:
Welcomed with smile, Read daf aloud
Good college and good experience
1. So you have interest in temple architecture. We have so much gold lying in temples Should government use it.?
Also mentioned such temple names.. I said Tiruananthpuram but missed the name, she said Padmanabhaswamy temple. I said yes Mam.
Agreed my reasoning but asked me to take stand yes or no. Multiple follow ups and asked me to counter my arguments,
It felt like a good start, as she was smiling at the end of it.
2. What is disruptive technology? Give some examples
3. You know DeepSeek? Was it disruptive
4. In next 5 years what would be the scenario like.. With DeepSeek in market and others also.

M1
1.Temple architecture -asked to compare North vs South temple architecture
2.Difference between Honesty and integrity
3.Why there is surge in chess recently in India
4. Chinas approach to middle east and Africa vs India's approach.. What can India do differently
- I talked about economic angle and diplomacy
5.He followed up with China opening Confuscious Institute, teaching their language, vs soft power of films, diaspora we have.. How can we have academic leverage
- I mentioned about IIT Madras campus opening in Tanzania, etc

M2
1.Why Nanded is important for Sikhs
2. What was the connection to Banda Bahadur and his contribution
3.Why batsman is now being called as batter now(random)
- I didn't know, he said to avoid gender bias now that we have women's cricket team. Everyone was interested in knowing this answer, even Chairman Mam.
4. Study of future what is it called
-couldn't come up with the term Futurology - later googled
5. Explain difference between Apathy sympathy and empathy
6. Morality and Ethics difference
7. Then why we talk about making AI ethical and not just moral.. Ethical AI explain

M3
1. In hindsight, If you had to redesign the 4 year course of btech into 3 years, how would you do it
- I mentioned software tools, frameworks, corporate ethics
2. Learnings from your corporate experience at Company, how will you apply them as an administrator in Sangli district of Maharashtra
-( Sangli is not mentioned anywhere in my daf, so just gave a brief background of Sangli - strong cooperative sector etc) and then application part)
3. Don't remember other question

M4
1.Data centers getting tax holiday till 2047, why it is necessary
2. Do you think India can achieve given our limitations on cooling, energy etc
3. Why infrastructure is important
- Talked about multiplier effect, logistics, socio-economic integration
4. Can we use GIs based system to coordinate projects, find most optimized routes ( I had mentioned this in my answer)
5. Have you heard of PRAGATI, what does it do
6. Importance of Ecommerce for rural women

Chairperson: Thank you, you may go now.

Overall it was a very good experience. Felt like a very normal conversation, no grilling, no factual questions. Panel was very warm and involved in the conversation.

O2O : Mahesh Bhagwat Sir( grateful for his initiatives that keep us updated.) Shubham Agrawal Sir ( A confidence booster just by talking to him)

Mock interviews: Vajirao Reddy, Maharashtra Sadan, Amigos, AKS La excellence and multiple online mocks arranged by upwise, nextIAS, pw etc

Peer groups and connecting with candidates with common daf points was also very helpful.

For future aspirants, just maintain consistency, declutter your mind and keep practicing no matter what.
On the interview day, close your eyes and remember what brings smile to your face, gather that positive energy before entering the room. I'm sure you will nail it!!

Name: Anshul Singh

Date: 19 Feb 2026 Forenoon (2nd to go)

Key DAF Details: PSIR, Convergent Journalism (Masters), F1, Cricket, Model United Nations, Bihar Caste Survey, Interest in Contemporary Indian Politics, Sports Editor, Delhi (East Delhi-Dilshad Garden)

Board: Sanjay Verma Sir (30 mins)

Chairperson:
1. How many interviews have you given before (Not counting earlier UPSC interviews since this was my first interview and second attempt)?
2. What were the shortest and the longest interviews?
3. Views whether Indian journalism in converging into a black hole?
4. What are the reasons responsible for the same?
5. What are some of the alternative media platforms that are emerging?
6. Why should I follow contemporary Indian politics?
7. Shouldn't I just save myself from all the noise present in Indian politics today?
8. What do you mean by democratic backsliding?
9. What are the two semi-finals you are looking forward to in the ongoing T20 World Cup?
10. Shouldn't India avoid playing Pakistan in the semis or finals as we can lose against them?
11. What is the one change that you would make in the current Indian line up? (Said Kuldeep for Arshdeep)
12. What is his (Kuldeep's) batting strike rate? [Only question I couldn't answer]

M1

1. What would you prefer A good neighbourhood first policy or India's good ties with great powers like USA? [Picked the former and explained why]
2. Don't you think it would cost India's relationship with USA and Russia?
3. What is online trolling?
4. Why is it becoming a huge problem lately and steps to curb it?
5. Do you think dissent is important in a democracy and why?

M2

1. Why do you think East delhi has problems like high crime rate and more crimes against women?
2. What steps do you suggest to improve?
3. We see a wave of cricket nationalism in India. What do you think should be done to promote other sports in India?
4. Ho can private sector role be increased in promoting other sports? [I said from CSR and even the Govt could form a Fund of Funds with collaboration of private sector for the same and he said that is a great suggestion]
5. Gave me a situation where riots have taken place due to a social media post and asked for the short term and long term measures

M3

1. Do you think Delhi's East and North East region could be compared to East of India in general?
2. Do you we should go ahead and do a caste based census when such a thing happens no where in the world?
3. Do you think caste is relevant today?
4. Why do you think no educational qualifications were adopted in the Constitution for the post of MLA and MP?
5. Don't you think we should amend the Constituion and include educational qualifications for MPs and MLAs now in the present scenario?

M4 (lady member)

1. What do you mean by 'Spiral of Silence?'
2. Do you think in India, with emerging issues of majoritarianism, such a trend is being witnessed?
3. What is the utility of conducting MUNs (Model United Nation) in schools and colleges when the UN is losing relevance?
4. Do you watch K-dramas or are aware about them? [I said I don't watch but am aware about some of them]
5. Why do you think GenZ in India watch so many K-dramas even when their reality is so much different than ours?

Board was really cordial and it felt more like a conversation than an interview. Board members were acknowledging my responses and reacting positively on some of the answers.

Mocks: Vajirao, Sankalp, NextIAS, Vajiram, Quantel, Unacademy, Upwise
O2O- Mahesh Bhagwat Sir (Detailed DAF analysis with potential questions), Sunil Oberoi sir (Best one, helping in opinion making), Ayush Sinha Sir (helping to control tempo and pace), Vinay Sir

Board was really cordial and it felt more like a conversation than an interview or a personality test. Board members were acknowledging my responses and reacting positively on some of the answers. Overall a great experience. Now, prayers and hope....

Name: Gagan

Date:19th Feb,2026 Forenoon session
First one to go.

Last attempt.

Key DAF Details: MBBS, Medical Officer, Sleep patterns, Malnutrition, Reflective Diary writing.
(Most questions were out of DAF)

Board: Honourable Suman Sharma ma’am
( Last time Shukla sir😔 and got too low marks.)

Half round table like format.

Two members were sitting just besides
me

Questions asked:

Chairperson:
Honourable Suman sharma ma'am

Greeted me with smile. Are you from this district? Said yes ma’am.
So, you left job in 2021 right? Said, yes ma'am.

🫳French PM’s visit to India.
What was related to health?
Will France benefit from Indian AI?

👉 Is there any other hub of pharma apart from Gujarat?

👉Why is Gujarat hub of Pharma?

👉Why is not India good in APIs production? We are good at Generic medicines.

👉Why the global trade has been disrupted?

👉In which sector you would advise to promote India's trade?

👉What is the contribution of MSMEs?

M1 : (lady member)
Serious look

Manufacturing sector contribution in India?

What are the problems of MSMEs?

👉How can you promote MSMEs as health secretary?

👉Women in MSMEs necessary?

She was closely observing how I was speaking.

M3:

Just left side of me
After sitting he deliberately observed my style of sitting and any foot movement.
After asking tricky questions they all looked at each other..Dekho kaise fasta hai ab! Like..

Tried to trap me by asking tricky questions.

👉What are the health challenges in Gujarat region wise?

👉So, Government is not aware of inequality?

👉Cough syrup deaths. Who can be blamed?

👉Should gujarat remove liquor prohibition?

👉As a Advisor to CM what would you suggest?

👉Liquor is available everywhere in Gujarat.
So do you think that there is corruption in the Government?



M4: very old age. Supported my answers.


👉Problems in Geriatric Care in India? Do you think we should promote?

👉Do you think India should follow Insurance based model from Western countries?

👉Robot vs cybort? Said don't know sir

👉Tiger reserves promotion? What are current status?

👉Do you think UN reforms necessary? How ?

👉Do you think India should follow two party system as it is successful in USA?


M4:

👉What is start up bridge?

👉Why is there sleep disturbances in people?

👉So, should India commercialise Sleep clinics?

👉What are the role of Incubation centre?Name any one

👉Is health sector is about business?

👉How do you visualise India at the Global stage?

Approx: 20 minutes

Chair person ma'am was writing countinously in diary.

Other members were writing something in DAF or diary by pencil.

Tricky questions against government. Tried to know balance of judgement.


Mocks/O20 (If any):
13 mocks given online.
PW only IAS gave the opportunity to have maximum mocks with them.
Vision ias -, and Samkalp best.

Unacademy - taught me to speak with humility.

Jice Academy - too much aggressive marketing.

Upwise arranged two online mocks.

Others online: Apti plus, Vajirao and reddy, GS score, PW only ias,

DAF analysis,: Shri mahesh bhagwat sir ips: Very nice person.

Offline - gave 3
Samkalp, Vision, Pw only ias.

PS: Interview was totally different from mocks. Just one question was repeated in actual interview. So, be prepare for random questions.

As last attempt and having experience of this journey I have observed that the pt is subjective. The marks variation are from 100 to 215. So, I would Like to advise folk to Score maximum in Mains. Take the optional which give you maximum marks.

In the Whole process, please don't waste too much time. If you spend 3 attempts and don't clear prelims please start back up options. The ones who pass after 6+ attempts might have financial backup. But if anyone without any financial backup spend 6+ years and even after multiple interviews, don't get selected then it would be too frustrated. So please guys give this exam with visionary decision.

In the overall process, thank you for my relatives, SPIPA Ahmedabad, and the State government of Gujarat for supporting me. Thank you very much.
Signing off.
Be sthitpragnya whether in success or failure. This what UPSC taught me in 6 years.

Board - lt.Gen Raj Shukla sir.

Date - 11/02/2026 Afternoon

DAF keywords- military school, marketing assistant, water conservation workshop, writing poem, latur, kitchen gardening.


Chairman-
1. From military academy how you landed in agriculture.
2. What is your role in agro marketing( job exp.).
3. Long monologue over trump and his maga campaign. And changing usa policy for manufacturing.
4. If you are advisor for pm what will your priority sector.
5. Monolog deue over farmers behaviour for resistance to structural change.


Member 1

1. Water conservation strategy for latur district.
2. What method you will implement there.
3. Recite one poem.

Memb. 2

1.discussion on water grid development , it's challenges and solutions.
2. Reason for delhi pollution and role of stubble burning.
3. What is government doing to tackle stubble burning.
4. How we can incentivised farmer for stubble mgnt.
5. What are difficulties in adoption.
6. Why farmer don't use new short duration crop varieties.


Memb. 3

1. What is bureaucratic red tapism. It's causes and how to tackle.
2. Case study - in your office a officer is most competent but currupt. How will you tackle it.

Memb. 4

1. Status of agri mechanisation.
2. Is it fesible in labour rich country like India.
3. Issue of farm labour availability.
4. Case study- as election officer how will you improve voting percentage.
5. Discussion on kitchen gardening and how will you promote it.


Mostly from DAF.

Mocks - samkalp, Maharashtra sadan, next ias, shankar ias and quantel,IDI delhi.

O2O- shri Ram sir, Mahesh bhagvat sir,Shubham Aggarwal sir (Vidyapeeth IAS), kanagraj sir (Agri optional). Deepak sir (Yukti ias). Asif sir (next ias), Utkarsh Shukla sir(mentor AID), Farees Rahman sir.

Special thanks - Shubham Aggarwal sir (Vidyapeeth IAS), vidhya probhadhani (kolhapur). Share india (smile foundation) and manobal foundation.

Name- Chhote Pandit
Date - 17th Feb, Afternoon session, 3rd to go
DAF keywords - Solar, Tadpole design, Military memoirs, Mental health challenge, Mechanical engineering, Geography optional, Dramatics, Lakhimpur, Jaipur
Board- Anuradha Prasad ma'am
Chairperson-
1. What is Solar Tadpole design Vehicle ?
2. What was your motivation behind this project ?
3. Was it a business idea as well or just normal project?
4. So what happened to the business idea?
5. Why wasn't it commercialised?
6. Which military memoir you last read?
7. What were your learnings

Member 1
1. Have you read any memoir on chinese war of 1962?
2. What were reasons for our loss?
3. Which law governs mental health in India?
4. It's salient features?
5. What changes were made in this act related to suicide?
6. What was Greenland issue? Why Trump wanted it?
7. Why he backtracked?
8. Which is largest island?
9. Why Australia is called continent and not island?
10. New technologies in Manufacturing.
Member 2
1. You lived in Lakhimpur UP as well as in Jaipur, what difference you see?
2. Tell me about people and culture and not geographical settings .
3. Does Demography change has any impact?
4. What should government do?
5. Views about changes in border areas like in Assam and what measures should we take?

Member 3
1. India has very low rank in Press freedom index. Is it just perception that media in not free or is it a reality?
2. Difference between El Nino and La Nina
3. Why trade winds weaken during El nino
4. Impact of both on India?
5. Which Dramatics play you used to do? Adaptations or original script?
6. Which one you wrote? It's theme?

Member 4
1.Meaning of your name?
2. Why more cyclones on Eastern side and less on western side?
3. Difference between landslide in Himalayas and in western Ghats

Chairman said Thankyou, your interview is over
Duration - about 25 min

Mocks- GS Score, Unacademy, Pw, Quantel ( keystone ias), Upwise( Rathod IAS), Vajirao and Reddy, Next IAS, Samkalp
One to one- Shabbir sir, Deb Sir ( edukemy), CMP
( All one to one were very good)
Special Thanks : Yatharth Dikshit ( AIR 411 , 2024 CSE) and to my peer group for regular discussions and refinement

Name -:)

Board - Suman Sharma ma'am (Nothing was asked from DAF and it was very random )

Date - 17 February

Golden visa laaye india to uski viability usse related aur questions and counter questions

Inland waterways viability

Sabrimala revisited

Himalayas no longer the barrier they used to be. . Elaborate

Enemy china or pak

Riparian principles and way forward for inter state water disputes

Present bid of India's membership to unsc as representative and counter questions

Defend bulldozer justice as representative of up govt

Diaspora ka use.

Reverse brain drain

Ferozabad se related child labour

Non traditional security threats.

Geopolitics and technology intersecting. What prompted the trendand illustrations


Novel laureates who not worked in india. Why.


Where are spaces where india and Bangladesh are competing.

Aravali.

How to minimise concerns of human rights violations in counter terrorism Operations..

Should govt go for full transparency ?

Lessons india can draw from GENZ protests in neighbourhood

Mocks and one to ones - Almost 20 (Though the interview went quite random, it helped me in staying calm and structuring answers)

Special credits - Smartwork Labs (Ankit sir), Anantham IAS (Ashish Sir and Rahul Sir), Study IQ (Abhishek Sir ).

Name: PS
Date: 20/2/26
Daf keywords asked: Cricket, Ministry of Road Transport, Civil Engineering.

Board: Sheel Vardhan Singh Sir.

Chairperson:

1. What role do you perform in a team?
2. Favourite cricket shot?
3. Are other forms of cricket losing charm bcoz of T20?
4. Zomato CEO controversy regarding 10 min delivery?
5. What is gig economy?
6. 3 things you will do to improve there condition?
Monologue on my previous answer

Member-1(Female member)

1. Ill effects of 10 min delivery? 2 points
2. Driverless vehicles- sustainable in India?
3. Electric Vehicles- asked me to give cons on environment
4. What are critical minerals?
5. Contribution of Renewable energy in total installed and production capacity.
6. EV charging stations and discussion about super chargers.

Member-2

1. Whicj are the 2 hostile meighbours of India?
2. discussion over it based on my previous answer.
3. Why do we need to cooperate with china only? Should we not cooperate with Pakistan?
4. 3 things to be done to improve relations with Pakistan?
5. Should we coope with pakistan?
6. benefits of cooperating with Pakistan?
7. 5 things for rainwater harvesting
8. Urban planning and rainwater harvesting

Member-3

1. Which civil engineering journal you read?
2. Which newspaper u read?
3. longest road network in the world?
4. difference between US and Indian roads?
5. Why indian roads have lesser quality?
6. talk over administrative will and corruption
7. Platform and non platform based workers.

Member 4

1. BRIEF US about Indo US deal?
2. Asked if final agreement has been signed yet?
3. Has india started purchasinf oil from venezuela?
4. Difference between Venezuelan oil and other oil?
5. Why india is purchasing?
6. what if india refuse to purchase? Will trump put additinal tariff again? Everyone Burst into laughter

Chairperson:

Thank you. It was pleasant talking to you.

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Name- xyz
optional- anthropology
interview date- 19/02/2026
panel of 5 members- lt gen raj shukla-chairman
daf keywords- iit bhu, ece, software engineer-currently working, jharkhand, data science project- cassandra event name, student mentor, listening to ghazal hobby
chairperson
Aaiye baithiye
Where are you working?
Member 1: A very disturbing incident from jharkhand today- i nodded- a woman killed for witch hunting
1. why witch hunting happens?- kept interrupting in between my points to explain each point thoroughly
2. How will you solve this if a case comes to you
Member 2.
1. what is the importance of data?
2. data is not very secure, why to bother so much about data then?
3. Any data breach incident you are aware of?
4. How to secure data?
5. why do we need mentors?
6. what you did as a mentor?
7. Were you able to understand their problem or pay proper attention to them?
8. why can't faculty be mentors?
9. Why suicides still happen?
10. A new rule has come regarding mentors, are you aware of that- i said no
11. he told the rule that if a suicide happens - mentors would also be held liable- what will be effect of this rule on mentors?
Member 3.
1. who was cassandra? Kept adding questions to this - like who cursed her? Why?
2. Lets talk more on witch hunting
3. Villagers don't come out as witnesses in such cases- what should we do? kept countering on my answers
4. Recently vinod gupta pleaded guilty , why?
5. what is govt doing to handle this?
Member 4.
who popularised ghazal? how and why?
1. why should we allow data centres in our country- it has so much energy footprint
2. I told about some climate smart solution exist for water cooling- Can you explain that technology?
3. jharkhand formed along with chattisgarh- why didn't it grow?
4. What are the land issues there for industries?
5. Are you aware of jadugoda?
Chairperson- Thik hai aap ja skte hai

Mock- vajiram & reddy, nextias, shankar ias, Quantel- rashika mam, unacademy, pw,
one-one- Aditi mam,don't recall some names, friends

16th, feb 2026. Afternoon last to go
Board - Dinesh Dasa Sir. (All male board)
DAF Keywords- Anthro, Andhra Pradesh, ECE, listening to songs.
Chairperson
1. Your hobby is listening to songs, Do you sing also?
2. IT sector contribution in AP's GDP has reduced from 3000 crores to about 300 crores after bifurcation. Why? and what steps is AP taking to bridge this gap?
3. Three capital issue- sir gave examples of Gujarath, MP where there are 3 centres of development and asked If you are the Chief Secretary to AP what will you suggest?
4. Among three tribal approaches- (integration, asaimilation, isolation) which one would be better suitable in this digital age?
5. Davos summit- investments to AP? Asked specifically about MoU with an AI based company.
6. Talked about Jallikattu and Sabarimala cases and asked why SC is intervening in these issues?

M1
1.You had good marks in Engineering. Why civil services?
2. Quantum computing and problems
3. AI summit
4. Milan exercise in Vizag, fleet review.
5. situation- how to encourage startups in my district if posted as DM?

M2
1. Situation- You are posted as DM in a tribal district with no proper connectivity. How will you use your ECE knowledge?
2. Situation- I had to choose whether Tribals will be relocated to a different place for their better development or they wouldn't be relocated?
3. When did u come to Delhi? Did you see any changes in Delhi air?
4. What is AQI? What are its components?
5. What is PM 2.5,10 what is the unit?
6. Which are secondary pollutants?

M3
1. If you are posted as a DM of your district what are the priority areas that you would work?
2. Talked about IIT coaching institues culture in AP and Telangana. What could be done?
3. Election funding.
4. Criminalization of politics
5. Temples control by state should it be done away with?

M4.
1. Farthest man made object in space. (Answered-Voyager-1)
2. How is it communicating with Earth?
3. Data centres and problems.
4. Problems of GCCs to Indian compnies like TCS, Infosys.

M3 again.
1. Asked about Tirupati Laddu issue and If I am posted as TTD EO what will you do?

Chairperson- Thank you. Your interview is over.

O2O: Thank you Anupam Sir(Smartworks). His guidance during both mains and interview was very helpful.The questions that were discussed in O2O have been repeated in actual interview as well. His approach towards interview was very insightful and helpful it helped me remain calm and confident.

Thank you Umesh Reddy sir and CSB IAS academy for your constant support,current affairs sessions and O2O.

Name- xyz
optional- anthropology
interview date- 19/02/2026
panel of 5 members- lt gen raj shukla-chairman
daf keywords- iit bhu, ece, software engineer-currently working, jharkhand, data science project- cassandra event name, student mentor, listening to ghazal hobby
chairperson
Aaiye baithiye
Where are you working?
Member 1: A very disturbing incident from jharkhand today- i nodded- a woman killed for witch hunting
1. why witch hunting happens?- kept interrupting in between my points to explain each point thoroughly
2. How will you solve this if a case comes to you
Member 2.
1. what is the importance of data?
2. data is not very secure, why to bother so much about data then?
3. Any data breach incident you are aware of?
4. How to secure data?
5. why do we need mentors?
6. what you did as a mentor?
7. Were you able to understand their problem or pay proper attention to them?
8. why can't faculty be mentors?
9. Why suicides still happen?
10. A new rule has come regarding mentors, are you aware of that- i said no
11. he told the rule that if a suicide happens - mentors would also be held liable- what will be effect of this rule on mentors?
Member 3.
1. who was cassandra? Kept adding questions to this - like who cursed her? Why?
2. Lets talk more on witch hunting
3. Villagers don't come out as witnesses in such cases- what should we do? kept countering on my answers
4. Recently vinod gupta pleaded guilty , why?
5. what is govt doing to handle this?
Member 4.
who popularised ghazal? how and why?
1. why should we allow data centres in our country- it has so much energy footprint
2. I told about some climate smart solution exist for water cooling- Can you explain that technology?
3. jharkhand formed along with chattisgarh- why didn't it grow?
4. What are the land issues there for industries?
5. Are you aware of jadugoda?
Chairperson- Thik hai aap ja skte hai

Mock- vajiram & reddy, nextias, shankar ias, Quantel- rashika mam, unacademy, pw,
one-one- Aditi mam,don't recall some names, friends

Name -:)

Board - Suman Sharma ma'am (Nothing was asked from DAF and it was very random )

Date - 17 February

Golden visa laaye india to uski viability usse related aur questions and counter questions

Inland waterways viability

Sabrimala revisited

Himalayas no longer the barrier they used to be. . Elaborate

Enemy china or pak

Riparian principles and way forward for inter state water disputes

Present bid of India's membership to unsc as representative and counter questions

Defend bulldozer justice as representative of up govt

Diaspora ka use.

Reverse brain drain

Ferozabad se related child labour

Non traditional security threats.

Geopolitics and technology intersecting. What prompted the trendand illustrations


Novel laureates who not worked in india. Why.


Where are spaces where india and Bangladesh are competing.

Aravali.

How to minimise concerns of human rights violations in counter terrorism Operations..

Should govt go for full transparency ?

Lessons india can draw from GENZ protests in neighbourhood

Mocks and one to ones - Almost 20 (Though the interview went quite random, it helped me in staying calm and structuring answers)

Special credits - Smartwork Labs (Ankit sir), Anantham IAS (Ashish Sir and Rahul Sir), Mahesh Bhagwat sir , Mahesh Bhagwat sir Study IQ (Abhishek Sir )

Name- नट
20 feb
Sheelvardhan sir 
4th to go.
Daf- hindi poetry, cricket, maths, UP (rest not asked)

Chairperson - 
1. When is hindi diwas?
2. Isn't it shame to celebrate hindi diwas in hindi land?
3. What do u feel about great nicobar project?
4. Which migratory species come at nicobar?
5. As a karuna ras poet, what does that species feel?
6. Excited or anxious About AI?

M1(lady)
1. Celebrating hindi diwas and forgetting hindi rest of the days? Like women's day!
2. What have u learnt from cricket?
3. Any more lessons?
4. And kept asking for more lessons.
5. Discussion on that.

Chaiman again-
1. If I ask AI to give me lessons will it not give me 70 more?(I said it's the process of imbibing which is important)

M2-
1. Who has won Bangladesh 
2. Who will he visit first India or China?(Said China)
3. Convince him to visit India.

M3-
1. Many btech taking humanities optional why yours maths?
2. Famous about district?
3. Why up in news?
4. Bulldozer justice Good?
5. Poets from shringar and karuna?
6. Lines of rashmirathi?

M4- 
1. Where are water contamination problems in India?
2. Who's responsible?
3. What will you do?

Chairperson - interview is over can go.

Experience - very friendly, cordial, ni grilling, logical flow of questions, more like conversation.

Mocks- many through quantel and upwise, next, sankalp, CMP, vision.
O2O- vidyapeeth shubham sir, Mahesh Bhagwat sir.
Peer interaction , senior guidance.

Thankyou.