Name: phoenixunleashed1708
Date of Interview: 17-03-2025
Board: Sanjay Verma Sir
Optional: Anthropology
DAF: Football, Irrigation Department job (civil engineer), IIT, Meditation,

Anthropology
1. Analyse the current issue of Tamil Nadu over Three Language formula. What can be the way forward?
2. What is the utility of anthropology for administrators?

Job: Irrigation Department
1. Tunnel collapse in Srisailam Left Bank canal. What are the reasons for it? What are the learnings from the issue? Is there any government scheme related to these?
2. Why do you think there is corruption in government departments? Is there corruption in Irrigation Department?
3. Output-Outcome framework. What is it? Can you illustrate in your field?
4. Have you heard about the Namami Gange project? What are its features?
5. Why civil services after having been associated for so many years?

IIT
1. Do you think opening so many IITs will dilute the brand of IIT?
2. IITs are offering so many other courses like MBA, etc. Do you think it is right, given IITs specialize in technical education?
3. History of IIT Kharagpur - why Kharagpur was chosen as site of IIT?
4. What is Kharagpur famous for apart from IIT?

Football?
1. How many referees in football?
2. How much does a player run in football? How much does a referee run?
3. Who is the most famous Indian footballer? Do you know Chunni Goswami? Can you compare the two?
4. You are cricket team captain, not performing well. Team is going for series. Will you step down as captain/player?

Meditation
1. You practice meditation. What type of meditation? How does it help you?

Overall, the board was cordial. The questions were mostly DAF based.

19/03/2025
Name :- गरुड़
Board - Sheel Vardhan sir
2nd to go afternoon shift

Daf- hindi and urdu poetry, quizzing, Delhi, voting system, corporate, blood donation.

Chairman sir (excited)
1. You read poetry. Tell me about what bahadur shah Zafar wrote about his situation in Rangoon.
2. Your favourite poet? Where was he born?
3. Tell me why is Ramdhari Singh Dinkar called Rashtrakavi
4. About other contemporary poets?
5. About social media as a platform? Do you know about the origin of instagram?
6. Is social media fake? Your opinion.
7. A law which you would like to remove
Thank you

Member 1 (Lady - smiling)
1. You made a project regarding the voting system in college. Can it be implemented in India? If not why.
2. You were a part of your placement cell in college. Tell me what your role was. How did you manage it.

Member 2 (sir- disinterested)
1. You have studied about imaging.
(No sir I have not)
Still went on to ask two questions about it lol.
2. Tell me about blood groups. What is the Rh factor?
3. Ok it seems that imaging is not your strong area. You've done quizzing, name a few quizmasters from India.
Thank you

Member 3 (sir-excited)
1. A quote on poetry by Wordsworth. Do you think it's true?
2. Nowadays poetry is being skewed more towards profit orientation. Your views?

Member 4 (lady- blank expression)
1. Tell me about a few events that have happened recently.
2. Should zelensky trust putin?
3. Tell me about 3 books you've read recently. What did you learn from them.

Thank you

Overall I felt I performed the worst on the questions posed by chairman sir. The rest was decent.

I felt it could've gone a lot better and was miserable but then while writing the transcript I realised that it wasn't as bad as I felt.

Thanks a lot to everyone in the group. It was my first attempt so I feel I have a lot to learn. I met some great people in the central hall. I hope everyone makes it, even if it's before me.
Whatever happens, happens for good.
All the best :))

Name - KL
Date - 19th March Afternoon session 3rd to go
Board Name - Sheel Vardhan Sir
Round table arrangement 2 Females
DAF Keywords - Geography optional and graduation, Water conservation essay, Disaster management club in college, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule University, Podcasts, Cricket, Uttar Pradesh
Chairperson - Very Good Afternoon and take your seat Mr.
Which is your favourite part from geography - physical, political, economic and then I said physical geography.
If god is about to destroy the whole earth and he chooses you to select one thing which you can save for this humanity then what will you choose from physical geography
Then he asked why uttrakhand is prone to disasters.
M1 (F) - Asked something about my district and famous poet from it
Asked his famous work.
Asked about water conservation how we can do it
Asked about why we are facing this issue
Asked about Jyotiba Phule and relevance of his work
M2(M) - Asked about rock cycle
Asked about environmental stress
Asked about threats to coastal areaz from disasters
Asked what are the recent disasters that have occurred
Rest not able to recall
M3(M)- Asked about resilience and who has most resilience
Asked about me are you a resilient person and asked an example where I had shown resilience
Asked about why India lost the test series against New Zealand by 3-0
Then Asked which is the most beautiful country in this world
Then again asked which is the 2nd most beautiful country in this world
Then again give me one more chance to change my answer on the 2nd most beautiful country question and then some lighter moments
M4( F) - Asked about podcast why do you listen and what podcasts you have listened to.
Then Asked if I had seen the recent podcast of PM or not
Then Asked about Arctic Ocean - threats, opportunities
Connected the previous question to Greenland and Trump's idea of acquiring it.
After this Chairperson said Thank you And your interview is over.
Overall Board was very cordial and they listened to my answers patiently
Atmosphere was very relaxed and no one was poker faced and everyone was passing smiles
Let's hope for the best.

Name - KL
Date - 19th March Afternoon session 3rd to go
Board Name - Sheel Vardhan Sir
Round table arrangement 2 Females
DAF Keywords - Geography optional and graduation, Water conservation essay, Disaster management club in college, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule University, Podcasts, Cricket, Uttar Pradesh
Chairperson - Very Good Afternoon and take your seat Mr.
Which is your favourite part from geography - physical, political, economic and then I said physical geography.
If god is about to destroy the whole earth and he chooses you to select one thing which you can save for this humanity then what will you choose from physical geography
Then he asked why uttrakhand is prone to disasters.
M1 (F) - Asked something about my district and famous poet from it
Asked his famous work.
Asked about water conservation how we can do it
Asked about why we are facing this issue
Asked about Jyotiba Phule and relevance of his work
M2(M) - Asked about rock cycle
Asked about environmental stress
Asked about threats to coastal areaz from disasters
Asked what are the recent disasters that have occurred
Rest not able to recall
M3(M)- Asked about resilience and who has most resilience
Asked about me are you a resilient person and asked an example where I had shown resilience
Asked about why India lost the test series against New Zealand by 3-0
Then Asked which is the most beautiful country in this world
Then again asked which is the 2nd most beautiful country in this world
Then again give me one more chance to change my answer on the 2nd most beautiful country question and then some lighter moments
M4( F) - Asked about podcast why do you listen and what podcasts you have listened to.
Then Asked if I had seen the recent podcast of PM or not
Then Asked about Arctic Ocean - threats, opportunities
Connected the previous question to Greenland and Trump's idea of acquiring it.
After this Chairperson said Thank you And your interview is over.
Overall Board was very cordial and they listened to my answers patiently
Atmosphere was very relaxed and no one was poker faced and everyone was passing smiles
Let's hope for the best.

19/03/25
Name : RaziaSultan
Board : Sanjay Verma Sir
Third to go, Forenoon session

DAF : PCOS, Singing bollywood songs, Roller skating, Pune, Anthropology

Chairman
Welcome, have a seat
1. Tell me the news in last 48 hours
Two good ones on sociology/society and 2 that upset you. Similarly for Economics
2. Tell me 3 great mass movements
3. Feminist movement, which phase did you like the most and why?
4. Name a feminist
5. A feminist from present
6. Bollywood song where the characters are roller skating.

M1
1. NEP issue, views
2. Follow up : Why don't we keep only 2 langauges what's the point of 3?
3. What can be a link language that would bridge the language barrier between North and South?
4. India has been very slow when it comes to sending spacecrafts. Then he said the spacecrafts of India are very slow compared to others. What do you think? Some follow ups can't recall.


M2
1. Surrogacy in India. Ethical issues, what to do about it?
2. Link Anthropology with Criminal investigation. A few follow ups.
3. Forgetting one more question


M3
1. Who is Gayatri Chakravarty. She received an award recently. What is the name of the award?
2. What is Performance budget?
3. If a certain sector is allocated a budget and if the budget is completely utilised. Can we say that the project was successful?
4. What are the problems with expecting mothers in India. Is there any scheme for it?
Follow up : How do we treat Post partum depression?
Be specific and tell me about the steps that you would take.
5. You have lived in Pune and Delhi both, what difference did you feel?
Some follow ups. Not relevant


M4
1. 'Jugaad'. You must have heard this word. What does it mean?
2. Jugaad runs in the blood of all Indians. Yet why are we not performing well on Innovation index?
3. You have done some research on PCOS. What was the outcome? What is the reason behind this issue? Why is it so prevalent? How do we solve it?
4. Your native place is Ghaziabad. Do you know the concept of NCR? Is the concept failing? Follow ups


Chairman
You have lived a decent life till now, you must have learnt a lot. Tell me one life lesson that you feel is closest to you.


Mocks taken -> ~10
O2O with Abhinandan sir, Ravindran sir, Utkarsh Sir, Satyam Jain sir

Date - 6 march
Board- Raj Shukla Sir
DAF Keywords- Delhi, computer science, football, agriculture, blockchain and machine learning


Chairman -
- I see you're from Delhi and a football enthusiast. Football isn't as popular as cricket in India. Why do you think so?
- recently many video are floating on social media about the poor image of india? reason behind that?
- rise of Artificial Intelligence globally, what role do you see India playing in AI governance?
- Why is agriculture called the backbone of the Indian economy even when its GDP share is decreasing?
- What is digital agriculture ? Do you think there is a need to integrate computer science and agriculture? How?
Here sir wants to hear about Open Source Digital Public Infrastructure for Agriculture.

Member 1
- Question related to sunita williams and his ancestral home in india?
- Blockchain in simple terms?
- Can you provide one real life use case in Indian governance?
- What is Green AI and India AI Mission ?
- Should India ban deepfakes or regulate them?

Member 2
- What urban agriculture (in relation to delhi)?
- Can it be implemented effectively in Delhi?
- Freebies in Delhi politics.
- Delhi Master Plan 2041?
- potential of Hyperloop technology in india

Member 3
- difference between natural farming and organic farming ?
- core leadership traits you admire in a civil servant?
- Why do suicide rates higher among men despite their perceived societal privileges?

Member 4
- why air pollution in delhi during winters. How blockchain or machine learning be used to solve this ?
- what is learning poverty ?
- about NEP 5+3+3+4 design. and 3 language formula.


Overall the interview experience was very delightful and board was extremely cordial. questions were largely based on my DAF and current affairs.. In a few opinion based questions, the board focused more on the reasoning I provided rather than the stand I took.

Mock - Vajiram, OnlyIAS, Chahal, Samkalp (All mocks were helpful in getting a good understanding of the interview process.)

One2one - Ravindran Sir (Vajiram), Mahesh Bhagwat Sir, Rahul Sir (ias pcs pathshala). O2O session with Mahesh Sir and Rahul Sir were helpful as they covered my daf very holistically. Although Rahul sir took one to one at very last momet but the session was very insightful.

Jai Hind

Name- Water
Date- 18th March
Last to go
Board- Dr. Dinesh Dasa Sir
Timing- 25 min
DAF Keywords asked- Maharashtra, Civil Engineering, Educational freelancing, Academic Counsellor, PSIR, Water Conservation and Watershed Management

Read my DAF and info.

Chairperson:
1. You have been preparing since long. Didn't you appear in state PCS
2. What's the result in state PCS?
3. So, your focus is UPSC?
4. What you have prepared for the interview?
5. What are civil engineering marvels which led to change in socio-economic status in the world?
6. What about Panama canal?
7. What's happening in the marine drive?
8. What's the importance of Atal Setu in Mumbai?
9. What's the major agricultural products of Solapur?

Dasa Sir left for washroom after his turn.

M1: (Cool and calm lady. She was listening to me carefully)
1. What's the percentage of thermal energy and hydroelectricity in India?
2. So, which one should we promote?
3. Can you tell me the current status of hydroelectricity in India, whether decreasing or increasing?
4. Why are we not enhancing hydroelectricity?
5. In country there is debate between caste and religion. Which one is important?
6. How religion is uniting force?
7. If focus on one religion, how others will unite?
8. What's the major dam is being built in China?
9. How will it affect India?

M2: (He was sleeping after his turn)
1. What's the role of Pakistan in destabilized Bangladesh?
2. How will it affect India?
3. You are from water stressed region. How will you address water challenge?
4. Recently train hijack in Pakistan. Who did this and why?
5. Dasa Sir intervened- which project is being built by China in Baluchistan?
6. 2-3 que unable to recall

M3: (He was nice guy, even supporting me while I was answering to other members as well)
1. About whip? Is it good or bad?
2. Baki 2-3 questions, unable to recall

M4: (aged lady)
1. What's the difference and similarities between Kautilya Arthashastra and Machiavelli ideas?
2. Do you know about Kautilya's Lokayat philosophy? You can say no if you don't know.
3. Why should we select you? Which abilities you have?
4. What you have done in water conservation?
5. What you have done as an educational freelancing?

Dasa Sir - your interview is over.

Board was cordial. Mostly from my DAF. Noone was in grilling mode.

Mocks appeared- Vajirao Reddy, Deepstambh Foundation (Amol Lanke sir), Mahesh Bhagwat Sir, Shubham Aggarwal Sir Vidyapeeth IAS, Vision IAS, Samkalp

Name - Sentilese
Board - Shri Sheelvardhan Sir
Date 5 March
3 to go in evening
Pointers asked - Tribal Documentaries, Moradabad, Physics
,NSS


Chairman
1 how many Tribal Documentaries have you watched?
2 Tell me the different tribes of Andaman, NE and mainland India?
3 tell me one unique problem of all these regions?
4 are u aware of Verrier Elwin?
5 tell me about his work?
6 I will name the border of india one by one you tell me the challenges and nature of border?
Pakistan
China
Nepal
Bangladesh
Myanmar

7 now tell me which you think is the most important border for india in future?


M1
1 so u were in nss- tell me what did you do and what u learn?
2 you are from Moradabad Division
Tell me where is Raza Library?
3 wht is Moradabad famous for?
4 how can we increase export from Moradabad ?
5 what happened in Sambhal recently?
6 if u were DM tell me what you would do to prevent it or to save lifes?


M2
1 tell me the difference between Loc and LAC?
2 Tell me things where tribes have contributed the most?
3 what are the reasons for such high contribution?
I said - handicrafts, national struggle and culture
4 tell me what has been the recent developments along the india china border?
5 tell me same with Myanmar and Pakistan?


M3 ( only factual)
1 he first said how will u feel if I tell you that I will not ask u any questions?
Than asked only factual ones
2 u said china is building dam near our border
Tell me everything you know about it
3 name of the Dam
4 tell me name of brahmaputra in china, Bangladesh
5 how many tributaries Brahmaputra have
Which is the largest ones
What is the length of brahmaputra
Name all dams on brahmaputra


M4 ( only phys)
1 which books you have read for physics in graduation and for optional?
2 why not have you read Feyman
Lecture?
3 tell me the what is nature of light?
4 tell me the recent developments in physics - Majorna, ITER
5 Tell me the concept of physics which has gone drastic change since  the birth of subject?
6 tell me the principal of physics we can use in administration?



Total time - 30 minutes
Physics graduation and optional
4 attempt, 1 introduction

Mocks many - Vajiram, Next ias , vision, Drishti, Sankalp etc


One to one help - shubham sir at Vidyapeeth helped me a lot to control anxiety of last minute,
Vajiram helped me to balance opinion, sri ram helped me to structure answers

Name - Sentilese
Board - Shri Sheelvardhan Sir
Date 5 March
3 to go in evening
Pointers asked - Tribal Documentaries, Moradabad, Physics
,NSS


Chairman
1 how many Tribal Documentaries have you watched?
2 Tell me the different tribes of Andaman, NE and mainland India?
3 tell me one unique problem of all these regions?
4 are u aware of Verrier Elwin?
5 tell me about his work?
6 I will name the border of india one by one you tell me the challenges and nature of border?
Pakistan
China
Nepal
Bangladesh
Myanmar

7 now tell me which you think is the most important border for india in future?


M1
1 so u were in nss- tell me what did you do and what u learn?
2 you are from Moradabad Division
Tell me where is Raza Library?
3 wht is Moradabad famous for?
4 how can we increase export from Moradabad ?
5 what happened in Sambhal recently?
6 if u were DM tell me what you would do to prevent it or to save lifes?


M2
1 tell me the difference between Loc and LAC?
2 Tell me things where tribes have contributed the most?
3 what are the reasons for such high contribution?
I said - handicrafts, national struggle and culture
4 tell me what has been the recent developments along the india china border?
5 tell me same with Myanmar and Pakistan?


M3 ( only factual)
1 he first said how will u feel if I tell you that I will not ask u any questions?
Than asked only factual ones
2 u said china is building dam near our border
Tell me everything you know about it
3 name of the Dam
4 tell me name of brahmaputra in china, Bangladesh
5 how many tributaries Brahmaputra have
Which is the largest ones
What is the length of brahmaputra
Name all dams on brahmaputra


M4 ( only phys)
1 which books you have read for physics in graduation and for optional?
2 why not have you read Feyman
Lecture?
3 tell me the what is nature of light?
4 tell me the recent developments in physics - Majorna, ITER
5 Tell me the concept of physics which has gone drastic change since  the birth of subject?
6 tell me the principal of physics we can use in administration?



Total time - 30 minutes
Physics graduation and optional
4 attempt, 1 introduction

Mocks many - Vajiram, Next ias , vision, Drishti, Sankalp etc


One to one help - shubham sir at Vidyapeeth helped me a lot to control anxiety of last minute,
Vajiram helped me to balance opinion, sri ram helped me to structure answers

Date : 18/03/2025
Board: Sheel Vardhan Sir's
Time: 25 minutes
Afternoon Slot, 5th to go.

Keywords:
Latur, Maharashtra, Ferguson, PSIR Optional, Indian Comedy Shows, Reflective Writing.

Chairman Sir:
Good Evening, be comfortable we are a very cordial board.

1. What Do your friends call you ?
(Listening to it, he cited a similar word they used in their college days.)
   2.Do you think te world has become a global village ?
3. Don't you think there are so many restrictions, we are only virtually connected not a global village in reality?
4. What is the difference between Immigrant and Refugee?
5. What are benefits of Immigration?
(Followed by he explaining it more after my answer)
6. Do you know Monalisa? What is it ?
    7.When it was created?
8. What are its peculiar features ?

M1.:
1. Seeked more explanation on my earlier point on immigration.
2. Don't you think authoritarian regimes also make people migrate?
3. What is famous from Latur ?
4. What is Latur globally known for ?
5. What is Reflective Writing?
6. How often do you write?
7. Do you re-read what you have written?
8. How has it helped you?
(Meanwhile Sheel vardhan Sir standing Up From his chair)
9. Are you employed ?

M2:
1. You have lived in Pimpari Chinchwad area and Pune also.
Which is more polluted?
2. What are the reasons for the Latur Crop pattern?
3. What are the causes of the Latur Earthquake?
4. Which important industries are there in Pune?


M3.
1. Have you read the 73rd CAA,? What is your opinion on that?
2. If you are made the DM for one day, what will you do for women empowerment?
3. What did you do in NSS camps?


M5:
1. You have lived in Pune. Why do you think so many foreign Students live in Pune? None of the institutions are in the top 300 if we talk about world level .
2. I cited along with culture also Pune is high in Ease of Living....then he talked about how a most traffic congested city like benglore is called as easy to live.

     3. so your hobby is watching Indian Comedy Shows..
. chairman Sir again intervened and asked which one show will you suggest to watch? (I said TMKOC)

4. Who is the director on TMKOC ?

    5. I am not really happy with the show. They have shown the characters of Babita and Daya in a particular shadow. What do you think about it ? The way they have portrayed different women?

6. Given you have Pune in your DAF...What is Puna Pact?

    7.Who won in Pune Pact ?           Gandhi or Ambedkar ?

Membe looked at the chairman sir.

Chairman Sir again:

1. If you are forced to migrate to one country(except INDIA) where will you go?

2. What do you think visa policy are getting tightened or liberalised?

3. Why would you go to that country you mentioned ?

Ok. Your Interview is Over. You can go. Thank You.

Mocks Given:
DnyanPrabodhini, Chankya Mandal, DeepStambh, Sankalp, Vajirao Reddy, Next IAS, Quantel,

O2O: IPS Mahesh Bhagwat Sir, Sri Ram Sir.,Khan Sir KSG.

Date : 18/03/2025
Board: Sheel Vardhan Sir's
Time: 25 minutes
Afternoon Slot, 5th to go.

Keywords:
Latur, Maharashtra, Ferguson, PSIR Optional, Indian Comedy Shows, Reflective Writing.

Chairman Sir:
Good Evening, be comfortable we are a very cordial board.

1. What Do your friends call you ?
(Listening to it, he cited a similar word they used in their college days.)
   2.Do you think te world has become a global village ?
3. Don't you think there are so many restrictions, we are only virtually connected not a global village in reality?
4. What is the difference between Immigrant and Refugee?
5. What are benefits of Immigration?
(Followed by he explaining it more after my answer)
6. Do you know Monalisa? What is it ?
    7.When it was created?
8. What are its peculiar features ?

M1.:
1. Seeked more explanation on my earlier point on immigration.
2. Don't you think authoritarian regimes also make people migrate?
3. What is famous from Latur ?
4. What is Latur globally known for ?
5. What is Reflective Writing?
6. How often do you write?
7. Do you re-read what you have written?
8. How has it helped you?
(Meanwhile Sheel vardhan Sir standing Up From his chair)
9. Are you employed ?

M2:
1. You have lived in Pimpari Chinchwad area and Pune also.
Which is more polluted?
2. What are the reasons for the Latur Crop pattern?
3. What are the causes of the Latur Earthquake?
4. Which important industries are there in Pune?


M3.
1. Have you read the 73rd CAA,? What is your opinion on that?
2. If you are made the DM for one day, what will you do for women empowerment?
3. What did you do in NSS camps?


M5:
1. You have lived in Pune. Why do you think so many foreign Students live in Pune? None of the institutions are in the top 300 if we talk about world level .
2. I cited along with culture also Pune is high in Ease of Living....then he talked about how a most traffic congested city like benglore is called as easy to live.

     3. so your hobby is watching Indian Comedy Shows..
. chairman Sir again intervened and asked which one show will you suggest to watch? (I said TMKOC)

4. Who is the director on TMKOC ?

    5. I am not really happy with the show. They have shown the characters of Babita and Daya in a particular shadow. What do you think about it ? The way they have portrayed different women?

6. Given you have Pune in your DAF...What is Puna Pact?

    7.Who won in Pune Pact ?           Gandhi or Ambedkar ?

Membe looked at the chairman sir.

Chairman Sir again:

1. If you are forced to migrate to one country(except INDIA) where will you go?

2. What do you think visa policy are getting tightened or liberalised?

3. Why would you go to that country you mentioned ?

Ok. Your Interview is Over. You can go. Thank You.

Mocks Given:
DnyanPrabodhini, Chankya Mandal, DeepStambh, Sankalp, Vajirao Reddy, Next IAS, Quantel,

O2O: IPS Mahesh Bhagwat Sir, Sri Ram Sir.,Khan Sir KSG.

Board: Sheel Vardhan Sir
Date 20.03.2025
Last to go in Forenoon session

All questions were from DAF
DAF Keywords: Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering, Football Club Barcelona, IES in Central water commission, Reading about reuse of waste in Civil Engineering, Watching TV series

Chairman

1. What is waste
2. ⁠Which TV series you have watched ? Have you watched Rocket Boyz
3. ⁠Which is your favorite
4. As a DM what are the 5 skills you will teach girl child in class 6-10 to make them resilient and future ready (he was looking for self defense)

M1 (Mam)
1. Why Football Club Barcelona
2. ⁠What are 2 news related to water sector (Talked about Indus and Brahmaputra)
3. ⁠How to resolve Brahmaputra dispute with China
4. ⁠What are issues in south india
5. ⁠Why Kaveri water dispute
6. ⁠Why we are not able to resolve this
7. ⁠Caste discrimination in IIT Bombay
8. ⁠How to resolve this dispute

M2
1. Why literacy rate of Haryana is low in comparison to Kerala
2. ⁠How to do water conservation

M3
1. Status of mass rapid transport system? What are the current data of electrification ? What are the future technologies
2. ⁠Issues in Green Hydrogen based Vehicles

M4
1. What to do if you want to scale Waste to wealth near a school
2. ⁠What to do if you want to scale that at college level
3. ⁠Have you read about Avionics and space
4. ⁠If you were NASA secretary, how would you handled Sunita Williams issue

Thank you

Coaching
Special Thanks to Shubham sir (Vidhyapeeth IAS), Utkarsh Shukla sir (Sriram IAS), Mahesh Bhagwat sir

Mock: NextIAS, Sriram IAS, Unacademy, Vision IAS, Vajirao and reddy, Satyam Jain sir one on one

20th March Forenoon session 
Sheel wardhan Sir 5th to go
All DAF based
Keywords: Taylor Swift, AI, Deep learning, IITD and Alumni, Goldman Sachs, Innovating healthier dishes, Diabetic Retinopathy, River Interlinking, UP, Children Home
Chairman Sir
You are a technology person you have worked in health sector you also listen to Taylor Swift and she is a great vocalist and a songwriter 
What are her sole written album (I said speak now but he said no it is red and fearless but it is true speak now but I said okay sir i will recheck)
He asked about what was the controversy about Taylor Swift with respect to record label (i told him about the big red machine labels controversy) 
Then he said you have worked in deep learning are you aware of the antibiotic named after a movie character (not able to recall).  
M1 (lady) 
First asked me about recent news Taylor Swift was for
Then about my summer undergraduate project (further sub questions) 
You seem to have worked in health but then also working in Goldman Sachs
She asked about is India becoming the diabetes capital and then about recent pm speech on obesity 
She then asked to give examples of my innovating healthier version (continuation of above) 
You also got Rani Jhansi award what is inspiring in her?
M2 (sir)
Asked why IIT is so low in QS ranking 
3 main alumni of IIT Delhi
Have you read any book of Chetan Bhagat 
Any contribution of non popular IITians 
River interlinking which you feel should be done 
Any examples from the world (I said no successful yet) 
Name of 2 rivers of china 
Application of AI in rural area as secretary if education / DM 
Best 2 public speakers currently 
M3 (Ma’am) 
About major conflicts in the world and then elaborate on any one (i elaborated on Ukraine Russia partial ceasefire) 
Then about tourism economy of UP 
Some more questions on tourism 
M4 (Sir)
Difference between common retinopathy and Diabetic retinopathy
What children want 
What nutritions are they lacking in 
Further on my sura project (about issues, nanotech)
Then further monologue on how Nanotech can be dangerous 
Then further details of my project
Chairman Sir: 
It was nice talking to you, you may leave now 
Mocks: 20+
O2O:5+
Best mocks: Vajiram, Next IAS, Unacademy, Nirnay IAS (Quantel ) these mocks were close to my interview
All the best to everyone

20th March Forenoon session 
Sheel wardhan Sir 5th to go
All DAF based
Keywords: Taylor Swift, AI, Deep learning, IITD and Alumni, Goldman Sachs, Innovating healthier dishes, Diabetic Retinopathy, River Interlinking, UP, Children Home
Chairman Sir
You are a technology person you have worked in health sector you also listen to Taylor Swift and she is a great vocalist and a songwriter 
What are her sole written album (I said speak now but he said no it is red and fearless but it is true speak now but I said okay sir i will recheck)
He asked about what was the controversy about Taylor Swift with respect to record label (i told him about the big red machine labels controversy) 
Then he said you have worked in deep learning are you aware of the antibiotic named after a movie character (not able to recall).  
M1 (lady) 
First asked me about recent news Taylor Swift was for
Then about my summer undergraduate project (further sub questions) 
You seem to have worked in health but then also working in Goldman Sachs
She asked about is India becoming the diabetes capital and then about recent pm speech on obesity 
She then asked to give examples of my innovating healthier version (continuation of above) 
You also got Rani Jhansi award what is inspiring in her?
M2 (sir)
Asked why IIT is so low in QS ranking 
3 main alumni of IIT Delhi
Have you read any book of Chetan Bhagat 
Any contribution of non popular IITians 
River interlinking which you feel should be done 
Any examples from the world (I said no successful yet) 
Name of 2 rivers of china 
Application of AI in rural area as secretary if education / DM 
Best 2 public speakers currently 
M3 (Ma’am) 
About major conflicts in the world and then elaborate on any one (i elaborated on Ukraine Russia partial ceasefire) 
Then about tourism economy of UP 
Some more questions on tourism 
M4 (Sir)
Difference between common retinopathy and Diabetic retinopathy
What children want 
What nutritions are they lacking in 
Further on my sura project (about issues, nanotech)
Then further monologue on how Nanotech can be dangerous 
Then further details of my project
Chairman Sir: 
It was nice talking to you, you may leave now 
Mocks: 20+
O2O:5+
Best mocks: Vajiram, Next IAS, Unacademy, Nirnay IAS (Quantel ) these mocks were close to my interview
All the best to everyone

Board - Sheel vardhan sir - last to go

DAF- Sikku kolam, cooking - Chettinad cuisine, Award on drone technology in agriculture, TamilNadu- Vellore district, PG( Agriculture), NCC
Mostly Daf based + IR

Chairman
Let's start a conversation told my name

1) What is it means sikku kolam?
Counter qn - what is the powder used to draw it
2) What is the difficulty in achieving our act easy policy - Physical/others

Member 1

1) You won article on drone ? Tell me how can drone be used and what is drone didi scheme..is it feasible ?

2) Do you saw any beneficiaries form drone didi scheme From TamilNadu aswell as vellore?

3) What do you think about farmers suicide? What can we do for it?

4) What do you think about MSP legalization?

5) If you have posted to reform or make a change ..what do you do to make agriculture efficient?

Member 3:

Continued with drone

1) Tell me what would you advice private fertilizer companies regarding fertilizer and pesticides manufacture?

2) Counter questions on that?

3) How would it specifically helps?

4) What do you done in RAWE( my ug internship)

5) What do you learn from it?


Member 4

Continued with agriculture

1)Monolgue on srilankan economic crisis and it is related with Agriculture? are you aware of it?

2) I said yes...and continued with organic agriculture?

3) Why sudden shift from that?

4) You are from vellore. Tell me more about it? I talked about cooking here?

5)Look you are interested in cooking. Tell me about cooking..what do you cook in Chettinad cuisine? I said a dish name? And member 3 interrupted and asked to recite the receipe ? And was keenly observing and asking doubts on recipes name?

Member 4

You are Ncc B and C certificate holder. Why didn't had idea of going to combined define service?

2) What do you spend most of the time in ncc?
I said parade and marchfasting?

3) What is the most important part in parade?

4) what is the quality you take for civil administration?

5) What do you think which is important..discipline or self discipline?

6) I said self discipline? counter qn why?

7) how will you ensure it?

chairman Again

1) If there is war between india and Pakistan..tell me 5 countries where india can ask help and why?

3) what are the countries leading on drone technology?

3) Tell me about integrated border checkpost?

4) Tell me a indian city which has high class infrastructure compared to other cities of the world?

Thank you ..it was nice talking to you..you may leave now...

Date - 18th March
Name - Lex Fridman
Board - IPS Sheel Vardhan Singh Sir
Time - 30 minutes - Last to go
DAF keywords - Economy, Library, Cricket, Cleanliness drives, Osmanabad, Podcast, Journaling, Wallstreet

Chairmen sir

Welcome to this intelligent conversation Mr. Lex

1) Do you know there is rise of new leader in South America and he is trying to change nature of Economy? ( I said Argentina and Anarcho Capitalism)
2) Then tell me what is it (anarcho capitalism)?
3) Who is the father of this ideology?
4) What is happening in the world regarding Tarrifs?
5) What do you think, tarrifs should be imposed countrywise, sectorwise or productwise? And why?
6) What would you suggest PM to minimise impact of tarrifs on Indian?
7) Not particular to India but what can be the best solutions to minimise negative impacts of tarrifs?
8) You like listening to Podcast, then tell us about last podcast that you listened and you found it very interesting? ( I talked about Lt Gen Raj Shukla sir's podcast on Ravi Kapoor channel😅)

M1 ( Lady member)
1) What did you do in cleanliness drive?
2) How was it's impact?
3) Are people still following the rules and keeping hygiene?
4) What are the different schemes of Govt of India for Startups?
5) Have you ever thought of starting your own startup?

M2
1) How do you established library in village? What were the challenges?
2) What is the current attendance in library?
3) Why will people read books from your library when they have lot of work at their farm and other stuff?
4) Don't you think that in the age of Internet, it is wasteful to open library with printed books? You should have given them e-books?
5) What type of books people should read printed or e-books?
6) Tell me something about your district Osmanabad?
7) Why this migration is happening?

M3 ( Lady member)
1) Why did you give books to women on spiritual stories, household etc?
2) What are your two favourite books and why?
3) You like playing cricket so which is the most memorable moment for you from Cricket history?
4) what type of Journaling you do?
5) What did you generally write in that?
6) Don't you think that it is better to talk with your friends to make your mind clear instead of Journaling?
7) How frequently you write it?
8) Why do you think startups are failing in India?
9) What suggestion would you give if I have to start a new startup?

M4
1) What is Anarcho capitalism? ( Repeated)
2) Do you think it can replace current economic system?
3) Do you know about DOGE? Do you think that such system is also required in India and why?
4) So US has Elon Musk to head DOGE, who do you think will be the best choice for India to head such dept?
5) Who is your favourite captain in cricket? And why? ( I said MSD and talked about one match where he used his leadership skills and calmness to win match which was almost lost by India)
6) Who is your favourite cricket player? ( I said Sachin)
7) Why not MSD then?
8) Do you know that market crash is happening in India and why is it happening?
9) There is one statement by our FM that this market crash is like melody for my ears? Why do you think she said that?
10) What were you doing since your graduation?
11) You were part of wallstreet fest, What is it and what was your role in that?
12) Do you know where this wallstreet is?
13) Why name of fest is wallstreet and not Dalaal street?
14) What would you prefer wallstreet or dalaal street?

Chairman sir - Thank you Mr Lex.Your interview is over now

Experience - very cordial board. Felt like they want to know me in detail. Everyone had a smiling face. Multiple laughs when questions about cricket were asked.

Mocks - Vajiram, Vajirao, Sankalp, Next IAS, SriramIAS, OnlyIAS (Online), Dnyan Prabodhini Pune, Unique Academy Pune, YTF Pune, Karmyogi IAS (Online), One to one with Avinash Dharmadhikari Sir.

Thanks to IPS Ketan Patil sir, IPS Mahesh Bhagwat Sir and my discussion group.

PT2024
Date- 18-03-2025
Name- a beam of sunlight
Board- Dr Dinesh Dasa sir
 Keywords from DAF- IIT Bombay, electrical engineering, nss, home gardening, teaching associate, Mumbai, Kota, Jhunjhunu, KLA company

DD sir
How is life?
1.IIT bombay used to give CSE and IT degree as Electrical Engineering degree, do you know about it?
2.Which sectors consume most power, What is the power consumption of railways, Vande bharat vs our other trains (rajdhani) which one consume more power?
3.How far above is International space station located?
4.Sunita Williams de docked around 10am today , how much time would it take to land on earth?
 
M2
1.Kota coaching industry is declining, what would you do as DM?
2.does Kota have drug problems?
3.What does KLA company do?
4.objectives and challenges to our semiconductor mission?
5.what is OSAT?
 
M3
1.what do you do in home gardening?
2.what is vertical farming, how did this concept come into being, how do we grow when there is no soil in vertical farming?
3.do you know any startups working in this area?
4.Jhunjhunu lie in which region, what is Shekhawati famous for?
5.why did shekhawati become hub for fersco paintings ?
 
M4
1.Mumbai has huge landfills, is it solution to problem or concentration of problem?
2.How would you solve landfill issues?
3.is cryptocurrency in circulation in Mumbai, is it banned in India, why are people investing in it?
4.is AI really intelligence or just knowledge, how is it different from google, how does google web search works?
5.which AI tool do you use, which AI tool in news recently, what is difference between grok and chatgpt?
 
M5
1.you have worked in nss iitbombay, why did you get award for exception contribution, how was your person growth?
2.how did you motivated volunteers for work?
3.you were teaching associate, what did you do and how was your experience?
 
 Mocks- Samkalp, NextIAS, Vajirao, Dharmadhikar Sir one to one(chankya mandal)

From my experience, prepare daf thoroughly and finally make a list of 20-25 most important questions from daf and repeatedly prepare them with your unique touch.
Thankyou community for providing transcripts

Messi
Date: 20/03/2025
Board: Sheelvardhan Singh Sir
DAF Keywords: Agra, Allahabad, Football, Personal Development Books, Automobile, PSIR
Afternoon session 2nd to go

Chairperson

1. So, you're from Agra - Suppose i am a foreign tourist and you are a guide - tell me all about Taj Mahal

2. Tell me about core features of Mughal Architecture

3. Why Charbagh gardens are built with a depth? Apart from flowers what else is cultivated over there?

4. Was Mumtaz originally placed in Taj Mahal or was she later entombed?

5. Tell me about the foundation on which Taj Mahal is built upon?

6. Since you've done your college from Allahabad, what is the longitude of Allahabad?

M1

1. Tell me 5 things about Allahabad that comes to your mind.

2. How is Allahabad after Kumbh? (I asked w.r.t? She said in general)

3. What is this Project Samvesh? (Paper Bag Project)

4. Did you prepare any datasets regarding their livelihood?

5. Is the project still going on?

M3

1. Tell me 3 books that you've read recently

2. Which book influenced you the most?

3. What is the meditation technique described in the book? (Book - The Monk who sold his Ferrari)

4. What is the the rank of Indian Football in International FIFA World Rankings?

5. Are we eligible for Football Olympics?

6. When did we thrive in Olympics? ( I said in 1950s and 1960s)

7. What was the best performance? And in what year?

8. What happened then? Why are we in this slump?

(I mentioned about that we are still not a sporting nation - then the member countered by talking about cricket and chess)

I mentioned that there exists in asymmetry b/w Cricket and other sports and other reasons for lack of performance in football)

M4

1. What is the govt policy on automobile sector?

2. No. of cars increasing vs Mass transportation. What is your opinion on it?

3. What is India's Neighbour first policy?

4. Is it a success or failure?

5. Is there any neighbourhood country with which India had good relationship throughout?

M5

1. Tell me about this chain-reaction event (mentioned in DAF)

2. Tell me the difference between chain reaction and sequential reaction.

3. How do you empower rural women (taking cue from Project Samavesh)

4. An anecdote about declining trust in society (unlike earlier times, a stranger going into a village will be looked with suspicion) - Asked me why?

5. As an IAS, How will you reduce such suspicion and increase trust?


Overall a cordial experience. Mostly on DAF but more towards factual side.
Nevertheless, i am thankful to the community for its critical role in interview preparation.
I am doing my bit by sharing my experience.

All the best

Mocks- Vajirao, Vajiram, Next & Vision (Faculty and Bureaucratic), and Officer's IAS
O2O - Bassi Sir Next IAS

Transcript:-
Date:- 20-03-2025
Chairperson - Hon Dinesh Dasa Sir.
Keywords:- Samsung, AI, Java, IOS, Music, Mathematics, IIT, Finance Sector(Job)
Order:- 2nd Person to go.
Chairperson:-

(Read my DAF, details about where i worked, studied, place of birth).
1. The District Court of California has passed a judgement in the past which had
significance for the tech industry. (Samsung is also affected by it). Do you know?
(Sorry sir)
2. Hint. Oracle vs Google.(Use of Java language sir).
3. Then he gave me more details about the judgement, how it was open source earlier
now oracle is asking for recognition. What steps google has taken in this regard?
(Kotlin sir).
4. Tell me how IOS development is different from Android?
5. Student Elections, in JNU and DU, there are elections held for various posts. He
shared his story when he visited JNU during the election and noticed long debates on
hillary and trump who should be the president. What is your opinion on student
elections?
6. How elections are there in IITs?
7. How is the IIT KGP election different from yours?
8. What are the recommendations of the Lyngdoh Commission? (Sorry Sir)
M1:- (Seems form Technical Bkg)
1. One subject from Maths, which is used in Artificial Intelligence? (Linear algebra)
2. Is Artificial Intelligence Accurate?
3. How does it generate results? What is the source?
4. If a dataset is the source then why do we call it intelligent? Any program can do this
given input produce an output? Why intelligent?
5. You worked in a capital Management Firm, its a financial company, your background
is maths and computing so why did they choose you? How will you justify your
appointment?
M2(Female):-
1. Are AI able to take care of diversities present in the society when generating results?
2. In government we have two different type of approaches, Saturation and Targetting?
What are those?
3. Education is a life long process? What do you concur with this statement?
M3:-
1. As a DM of your district what steps will you take for livelihood of people?
2. What is SAAS?
3. India’s Contribution to SAAS?
M4(Female):-
1. What is the relation between maths and music?



2. Maths helped you learn music?
3. What is Government and What is Governance?
4. In future, we moving towards less government or more?
5. If we moving towards less government, and more participation of other sectors, given
your background, you could have contributed better in private organisation, why you
want to join services when government is trying to reduce it in future?
Chairperson to M1 sir, Sir you want to ask something else.
Thank you.
Preparations:-
VisionIAS(Ankit Sir), MPOfficersAssociation(MPOA), Dr AR KhanSir(KSG), Sankalp,
Nextias(Dipin Sir), HardworkingHumanCommunity, StudyIQIAS, Mahesh Bhagwat Sir.
O2O:-
NextIAS(Bhavani Sir) (Bassi Sir), Sankalp(Taneja Sir), Vinay Sir(Insights IAS), MPOA.
Mocks:-
Chahal Academy, MPOA, Sankalp, Vajiram, Vajirao Reddy, Vision, Next.

20/3/2025
Name:Dasa Dasan
Chairman: Dinesh dasa sir
Forenoon 4th to go
DAF key words: Tamil Nadu, Deputy collector(Training), Tamil literature,football, cricket
Chairman
1. Good morning, how are u doing
2. What are the developments in last two decades changed the Indian cricket
3. To select a player what will you prioritize current form or legacy of that player
4. Is IPL is reason for decline of test cricket
5. Do we need seperate team for each 3 format
6. Do you know sector wise split up of tamil nadu gdp
7. So secondary sector 33%, is it higher or lower than national level
8. What are the reasons for this
9. Do you aware of Tamil nadu policy for removal of invasive alien species, can you explain it.
10.Is there any man animal conflict related to it.
10. Question about social progression in Tamil Nadu
(For some opinion related questions I tried to justify my view, but sir moved to next questions)

Member 1( poker face when all other members asking questions)

1. Do you know India's current spending for defence ( I took permission to guess)
2. When we have other development related issues do you think this much spending needed
3. Countries focusing on nuclear weapons, india also has its own what you think about it

Member 2 (Lady member always smiling)
1. You are football player, is there any news related to indian football team last two days ( sunil chetri call back to indian team)
2. Do you support this move( I opposed it and gave my opinion)
3. Thirukural translated in many languages, why it's getting so much importance.
4. You play both football and cricket but watching cricket only, why
5. Why Indians playing mostly cricket not football
6. Mam asked about blood donation related crime in Tamil Nadu ( I said sorry I'm not aware of it mam)

Member 3 ( male sitting very close to me, Always watching my hand movements)
1. You studied electrical engineering,do you remember what you have studied ( I said I remember some basics only sir)
2. So tell me how electrical engineering can be applied in civil services( i prepared very well for this question - but forgot to tell most important points in interview)
3. You are deputy collector, what you are currently doing now ( Training)
4. Tell what are the issues for the effective administration in Tamil Nadu from your training experience
5. Upsc is functioning very well, on the other hand there is always issues with state public service commissions, what you think about it.
6. You know your state fomer cm karunanidhi himself is a writer, he wrote many books, did you read any of them.
7. Long monologue about skill development, but sir didn't ask any question, after some pause he asked what are the specific schemes related to it. 
8. There is a cultural divide between tamilnadu and northern part of India, lack of integration, what your opinion on it.

Member 4( Lady member, nodding and smiling always)
1. You know dandi March, why gandhi took salt as a tool, what is the significance of civil disobedience movement
2.  Women empowerment is necessary, what are the schemes you think that are most important for women empowerment
3.  Mam asked about one term related to literature ( I said sorry mam I don't know)
4. You know oral traditions in literature, what is it
5. Why oral tradition came first
6. After oral tradition what came next in Tamil literature.

Thank you, your interview is over. You can go now. (Chairman always keenly observing me while answering)