Name - Dr Kar
Interview date -14.1.25 (3rd to go)
Board - Suman Maam
Optional- Medical Science
DAF- Kota- Rajasthan, Doctor, AIIMS UG, Working in UPSC CMS, Badminton and Animal shelter volunteering , PWBD-1 candidate

Questions-
I don’t remember them as per the members, so I’ll just list them down


1) features in NEP to prevent suicides in students and decrease coaching( as kota is my hometown )

2) Generic vs branded drugs

3) hippocratic oath or should we choose any other oath

4) explain sudan crisis in depth

5) Is UN anymore significant? Should we ban it?

6) Ways to reduce Veto power in UNSC

7) Badminton- ways to promote it and why is it not at the same level as that of cricket?

😍 should we ban Afg team in cricket as they dont have a female team

9) why so many AIIMS and IIT? Is it useful?

10) What is soft power diplomacy? Give examples

11) Gender Neutral or Gender Equality? Which is right?

12) Why are we low in Research? Even when funding in 1960s was lower but more research findings like ones done by MS Swaminathan, Homi Baba


I had attended 4 mocks - Study IQ, SriRam IAS, Vaijiram and Unacademy
They were quite useful because certain areas of questions were repeated.
(P.S - Being a doctor less questions were there from Medical field and cricket was out of box for me)

Date- 13-01-2025(last to go)
Board- BB Swain Sir
Optional- Law
DAF - UP, non fiction books, cricket, current international events.

Chairperson
1.every one is reading self help books why are u reading non fiction books?
2. name few recently read
3.tell me one case related to that
4. keshavanada bharti case

Member 1(lady member)
1. so u read chip war by Chris miller?
2. Geopolitics behind chip war?
3. Where India is all in this?
4. India’s role in different global groupings?
5. What about BRICS?
6. Why Trump want Greenland?
7. Which resources are found there?
8. Why so much chaos in geopolitics?

Member 2-
1. types of kumbh?
2. history of kumbh?
3. views on collegium?
4. recent resolutions of collegium?
5. how to reduce judicial pendency?
6. views on triple talaq?
7. majority provision of old criminal laws are in new laws, what was the need for new laws?

Member 3-
1. Your two weakness?
2. Was Ashwin decision of retirement an impulsive decision?
3. Favourite player?
4. Why Kohli ? Why Australian media obsessed with him?
5. You like reading books, so have u read any book of George Orwell?
6. How to harmonise RTI law and data protection legislation?
7.Do we need RTI 2.0 ?
8.Your views on judicial activism?


Member 4-(lady member)
1. Basic premise of chip war?
2. Why India suddenly wants to establish semiconductor plants?
3. Women empowerment?
4. Political representation of women will help in empowerment?
5. Views on women reservation act?
6. which article of constitution talks about special provision for women?
7. how many women in constitutent assembly? What about the role of Hansa Mehta?

Member 1 again-
1. Current status related to raising marriage age bill?
2. Views on raising age of marriage from 18 to 21?
3. Why child marriage still prevalent?

Member 3 again-
1.Why civil services over judicial services?
2.Do read that George Orwell book

Chairperson sir (who was busy on phone half of the time) interrupts- let him enjoy a bit, every one starts laughing

Chairperson sir- ok your interview is over. Have a good day.

Time- 32 minutes

Overall board was cordial and were keen to hear the opinion

O20- Ravindran Sir, Khan Sir
Panel Mocks- Vajiram & Vajirao (were good), Samkalp, Vision, Chahal.

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Date- 13 Jan, afternoon(1st to go)
Board- Sanjay Verma Sir
Useful daf Key words- Sociology, Vidisha, Electrical Engineering, Journaling, Poetry, Bhavna Yoga, academic head of NGO

Chairperson
Are you employed or studying?
What are you studying?
Create a team of 11 sociologist, atleast 5 of the should be Indian, 3 should be women, also chose a captain among them.
Don't you think Karl Marx will have problem of Weber being the Captain.
You write Journaling, do people develop this hobby with upsc prep?
How many times you are honest in your journals?
Do you have your collection?
Can AI creat your biography through this collection?
Have you written any poetry on engineering?
Have you seen 3-idiots movie?
What were your learnings?
What is the connection between Vidisha and Greece?( I said Helliodorous Pillar)
Have you visited that pillar?

Member 1
What is AI?
What can it do?
If AI is so useful why are people apprehensive about it?
Can AI be used in decision making?
What other things are famous in Vidisha?
Why Ashoka built Sanchi Stupa near Vidisha?
Vidisha is famous for one more important thing, a line?
What is significance of tropic of cancer?
Is it a real or imaginary line?
Which state has highest tribal population?
Name some tribes of MP?
Which districts of MP are Naxal prone?
How will you tackle Naxalism?

Member 2
Tropic of cancer is latitude or longitude?
You did Electrical Engineering, do you remember it?
What is the principle of transformer?
Why we step up or step down voltage?
What is the relation between voltage and current in transformer?
Have you seen any hydroelectric power plant?
Can u design a power plant?
Verbally tell it's parts.
What is a turbine?
How does it rotates?
Then he asked some concepts of mechanical engineering and asked if these were in my syllabus.( I denied)
What is Bhavna Yoga?
How is it different from Asthanga Yoga?
What is Yama in Asthanga Yoga?
What do you mean by replacement rate?
What is it?
Why 2.1?


Member 3
You worked in NGO, what was your role? For how many years you worked?
What was the age range of children?
What is the difference between response of 2nd standard and 10th standard student? To whom we should pay more attention?
What have you done for their emotional well being? What problems they faced?
If given a chance would you like to continue working?

Member 4
A long monologue on Atma Nirbhar Bharat
Shall we move towards indigenisation?
Why are we putting so much money in space?
What is the significance of docking mission?

Chairperson
How society is changed?
Name any 3 personalities who played a role in Indian society in past 50 years.
Don't you think movement by Anna Hazare was political rather than social?
What other role Indira Gandhi played in addition to being a role model?
Fundamental duties are not enforceable, how are they imp?
Impact of economic reforms in Indian society.

Suman Mam-
1. All the neighbours of india do not have perfect democracy. What are the reasons that india has been able to maintain its democracy?
1. Ques on india maldives. Why has Lakshadweep not been as successful as maldives in developing tourism industry?
2. What are problem faced by youth of up?
3. As chief secretary of up, what steps will you recommend.
4. What was social and economic impact of work from home ?

M1. Q1. As young officer, what is your vision and what work will you do ?

Q2. In women, Who are your role models?

Q3. Favourite part of history? I said gandhian movement?

Q3. Do you inculcate his values in life.

M2- Q1. We have thousand of universities. Why are we not at par with oxford etc.

Q2. Why are quality youth is Not joining job of professor.

Q3. What should we do?

Q4. How is india doing in science and technology sector? ( i said isro, he said that we know, then he prompted drdo and hal)

M3-

Q1. When was common wealth games held? Before 2010? ( related to my college address)

Q2. Why was world war 2 held?

3. Provisions of treaty of versailles

4. When was Great Depression

5, how did hitler rise? Was there a coup?

6. What is similarity in today’s germany and germany of that time?

7. What are challenges in ivc script deciphering

8. A new book that talks that india’s golden route should be talked of rather than silk route.

M4-
1. maldives- what was the problem?
2. What are points of friction between india and nepal?
3. Do you know of madheshi issue?
4. What is your view on rewriting of history?

Mocks - samkalp( online) ,vajirao and pwonly ias. They helped in practice but questions were not repeated.
Sessions of utkarsh sir were helpful, Solo mock drill(1-1) was the most useful as despite interview being on unpredictable lines , questions were repeated.

One to one with Satyam jain sir was also useful.

Name - Anonymous
Optional - Sociology
Keywords - Rampur, AMU, Economics ( graduation), Vollyball, old Bollywood songs, president of student union.

Chairman : B B Swain sir.

Chairman :- so you belong to Rampur , tell us something about it.
Then he told that rampur is also famous for Rampur greyhound dog breed.  ( Which I did not know, even when while doing research on rampur , never came across this. )

Then he passed on to another member.

M 1 ( Lady)
Said your name is beautiful.
1) why women in rural areas are coming more into workforce.
2) why young people are coming more towards government services in India.
3) what do you know about current situation in India's neighbourhood. ( I told all those things happened in this year and lastly told that situation is getting better cited eg of srilankan president visit India China agreement etc.)
Then she said but srilankan president was in China na, then I said yes mam but his first visit was in India only. Then she said oh okay then may be they want to take both India China in favour and then she laughed.
4) suppose you clear this exam, and appointed somewhere, your senior tells you to implement a scheme which you don't think is good for people and also people do not want it either, so what you will do ) and counter questions on this, laughed in the end.

M 2:-  your name is really good.

1) you were in student union, so tell us is it for personality development  only or something negative is also there?
2) who is your favourite music director ( in the past, as I mentioned my hobby- old Bollywood songs)
3) what type of leadership will you display when you become officer. gave options like autocratic, democratic, participative.

4) what is your locus control ? ( Mujhe smjh nhi aya iska mtlb to maine clarification mang liya, then he said ki you are self driven or someone else takes your decisions.

5) when you were president of student union, was lyngdoh committee recommendation implemented? ( Asked me about this committee because I mentioned in my answer regarding student union).

M 3 ( Lady)
1) how can we improve healthcare in rural areas?
2) how can we attract more doctors in rural areas.
3) what do you think about MGNREGA and it's benefits and issues.
4) what do you think about UCC.

M 5
1) elaborate more about Raza Library of Rampur.
2) some Mughal miniature paintings were stolen from the library, do you know about this. ( No idea).
3) you come from rural area, you must be inspiration for the women there, what more you would like to do for them when you become officer.
4) what is the recent judgement regarding AMU.
5) tell me honestly, do you think minority status should be given to AMU and why?
6) what challanges did you face when you were student union president?.
7) what strategy did you use to pressurize administration for getting work done while you were in student union.

Chairman:- ok thank you. You may go now.

Mocks : Vajirao, chahal, next IAS
All were helpful for gaining interview like experience and for confidence.
Special thanks to Anupam sir from Smartwork Lab for one to one, giving enough time and preparing me for overall DAF related questions, was extremely helpful.

Good evening, sir


Name: Kung fu panda
Key DAF details: Mechanical Engg, Anthro, Toastmasters, Consulting, Power sector, TT, Bihar, Mental health, Reclaiming public spaces for women, Digital divide, etc.
Board: Shri Sanjay Verma sir
 
Questions asked:
 
• Toastmasters - are you still active?
• How would you reboot Indian foreign policy wrt bangladesh, pakistan, myanmar
• Suggest an alternate political system for India
• Reclaiming public spaces for women - i think this problem only exists in north india, bihar and so on
• Mechanical engineering, do you remember anything?
• Online classes, NPTEL, MOOC - pros and cons
• Mental health issues faced by students; causes
• Bihar and bihari - problems, solutions, would it ever change?
• Connection between Mechanical engineering and anthropology
• Carbon dating - what, how?
• Your role model?
• Digital divide - short, medium, long term solutions
• Power sector problems - how to solve?
• Subsidies
• You took French, don’t know how to write hindi?
• Kota- did people attend school in Kota?
• Freebies - good or bad
• Would the electoral scenario wrt freebies ever change?


This is my interview transcript


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Philospher king
Tg: mythophoenix
Date-14/01/25
Raj shukla sir board
Keyword; cricket,rhymes,travelling
Optional :Psir

Chairman:
1- About my height
2- why didnt i become bowler
3- asked about my sugeries
4- asked about writing rhymes....then sir recite a doha....and asked meaning
( About moral dilemma of life)
5- 10 min discussion on this only
6- some discussion on ews only


M2-
1- some term i dont remember
2- cbam
3
counter on that ....


M3

1- global federalism
2- is it found similiarity in todays world
3- why un failed ?
4-what should be do then ?
Talked about minilateralism to be taken on global scale
5-any other solution -
Converstaion on functionalism
6- why sarc fails
7- why last 40 yrs wasted on dialagues no concrete outcome

M4 ( grilling mode )
1- indian ocean region
2- constituents
He was wrong and insisted to google it there
I Humbly accpeted that i will read on it
3-north south divide .....pressed me to recognise it as division in india
4- why neighbours drifting away - a 2-3 minute discussion


M5-
1- summarised m4 view
2-pressed me to accept that we as a fans should we felt ashamed of cricket performance of BGT
3- WHY IT IS SO ?
4- what should we do to correct it
5 - what kind of bowling i do
6- lengthiest article of indian constitution
7- 5 villages krishna asked for pandavas

Few question i dont remember



No daf ,more of a discussion
There were lots of myth about shukal sir , found him chill and cool

Gave many mocks but mostly in fever so cant comment on their efficacy
O20 with shivin sir was good on entry 7.
Sankalp was the closest with no tam jham ....just discussion

P:s was in fever for few days , so I was worried about lost time .....but in the end it was about you and how you respond

Name
Interview date 16 jan (FN )
2nd to go
Board : - Suman Sharma mam
Daf keywords:- Chemistry, Haryana, Stand up comedy, Agriculture
Optional:- Chemistry

Chairperson
First read my daf entries
• Why stand up comedy called stand up..
Follow up they even sometimes seat also still calling stand up...ok leave it.
•Then monologue on Trump 2.0
Is it good for multilateralism or a threat to it.
• opinion on phones getting smarter and humans dumb( i replied to some extent with examples)
You want to say we are a little dumb?(The chairperson and other members smiled here they were like ye yha fas gya 😂 ....I also smiled )

M1
• Carrier opportunities can be there for a person like you from a chemistry background other than civil services..can academics and industry can do something in it
•What is the Brand ambassador ( mentioned in my daf)
•Is BBBP scheme successful
Counter questions..but some districts like gurugram have seen a decline in child sex ratio..why this dichotomy after all urban people so educted
• You mentioned professor of practice..any other scheme to promote academic and industry collaboration

M2
• India' s contribution in chemistry field
Name of some chemistry scientist and their contributions
• High gold imports and that getting to temples..no use ...how we can use that gold
• Do you watch movies (I replied sometimes.. nowhere mentioned movies in my daf
Asked about "All we imagine as light "movie

M3
• Long monologue on India Is doing in the space sector...then asked is it worth spending so much on the space sector shouldn't we use this money on other important areas
also
•Farm to fork model is it possible
• Challenge to this model
• Then asked whether you read today's newspaper or able to have a glance due to paper work and all
Replied just a glance...but still asked
• Do you think the peace agreement will lead towards peace in Gaza.
What has been agreed
• coercive policy of Trump to end war ..is it better way to deal with such global problems

M4
• why Trump not happy with NATO reason for it
• Provision for Finance for NATO
• Organic farming should we have , what about our food security

• Asked about Dayanand Saraswati contribution (mentioned in my daf)
• Contribution of Arya smaj
• Other social reformer in last 200 years
• Contribution of Raja Rammohan Roy
• Contribution of Sardar Patel
• Which three states were not part of India at the time of independence of India
• Then how we integrated Hyderabad, Junagarh and Kashmir into India
• Why a separate way to integration of kashmir
• So now peace in Kashmir..so we have a plebiscite there as we promised
• Ok what about Goa ..what was the issue to integrate it. How we integrated Goa to India

Chairperson your interview is over.
Experience :-Coardial board.More like an interaction completely opposite to Mock interview. The chairperson was smiling and other members had serious expressions .

Interview date -> 13th January 2025, afternoon session (last to go)
Board -> B. B. Swain sir
Keywords -> Maharashtra, Pune, IT , computer science, India neighbourhood

Member 1(Mam)
You being the last candidate today, we give you the privilege to chose a topic from your daf.
Chose Maharashtra (had read enough basic material)
Mam asked me to give a brief on Maharashtra. She specifically asked to not give data based details
Had a 2-3 min conversation

Then asked a few questions on India's neighbourhood policy

Has demonetisation been able to achieve its goals?

Member 2
As you are interested in India's neighbourhood, give us a brief on India's Afghanistan policy

Some more follow up questions which I can't recollect

Member 3
Asked me about UPI( had mentioned it before during and answer

Asked what is Maharashtrian/maratha pride

Can SCO become an alternative to SAARC
(Had a discussion here)

We are focusing on making our cities smart, what needs to be done to make ours villages smart

Asked 2-3 facts, I cannot recollect the questions
Then also I was unaware of the answers so I very politely said so

Member 4(Mam)
Again gave me the privilege to chose a topic
This time I chose Pune for the same reason as Maharashtra
Briefly told about Pune

So pune is an IT hub and also it has a huge youth population. So where can the youth spend some quality time when they are not studying or working
Had a very brief discussion
She asked if a mystery box game sort was conducted in pune about which I was unaware
So I asked mam details about it

How should cities manage the huge waste being generated daily
Quoted the Swach initiative in Pune

Chairman
Again gave me the privilege to chose a topic
This time I said....Sir you can ask me any question, i am ready to answer

Member 1 i.e. the mam intervened and said... See you are a lucky girl, no candidate gets 3 privileges in one interview
To which I thanked the panel for giving me these privileges

Swain sir insisted i chose a topic and I repeated my answer again, when member 1 i.e. mam intervened again and said...
The kid might be tired, we should let her go(everyone agreed to it and we started laughing 😂)
Then Swain sir said ok, you interview is over and thank you

I thanked all the members and left with a very pleasant mood.
These are just few questions I could recollect.
Overall experience was very good. The board was cordial.

One to one mocks attended were:-
Unique Academy in Pune (helped gain details on Maharashtra region and Pune, also special sessions for PSIR helped a lot), Rahul Sir of IAS PCS Pathshala(helped generate points and add various examples on all daf based keywords, was able to directly quote these examples like Swach initiative in Pune), Satyam Jain sir of Understand UPSC(helped understand my level of preparation and especially acted as a major confidence booster), Nimish Sir(helped generate more points on India’s neighbourhood policy which I had mentioned as an area of interest)

Panel mocks attended at The Unique Academy Pune and Maharashtra Sadan in Delhi

Name:-Machiavelli
Date:-10 january 2025 (afternoon session)
Chairman of the board:- BB Swain
Daf keywords:- Psir, Uttarakhand, Uttarpradesh, Aipan art, teach for India, waste material project

Chairman:-
1. Tell me 5 differences between garhwal and kumaon region.
2. Why kumaon region has proximity with Nepal?
3. Was there any Gorkha invasion?

Member 1
1. What is creamy layer?
2. Is there concept of cream layer applicable in SCs or STs?
3. Diff between creamy layer and sub categorisation.
4. Significance of recent judgement on sub categorisation.
5. Tell me 3 internal and external threats.
6. What govt is doing for naxalism?
7. And for cyber security?
8. What will you do apart from government?

Member 2
1. What is learning outcome?
2. How we measure it?
3. How can we improve the learning outcome?
4. Do u know that there was a tunnel collapse in Uttarakhand?
5. Why it was in silkyara?
6. Was it the failure of administration?
7. Tell me the exact number of people who were struck and fir how many number of days?

Member 3
1. Concept of creamy layer is good or bad?
2. How can we ensure inclusive development?
3. Tell me various govt schemes for vulnerable sections of society?
4. War is not a solution. Then why we are spending so much on defence?
5. Tell me about Locke's state.


Lady Member
1. Why suicide rates are increasing?
2. How can we decrease it?
3. Different government schemes to curb suicides?
4. There is a population decline globally. What India should do?
5. Why western countries will accept our population?
6. Should India go for population decrease or increase?

Chairman Sir:- Mvl, you want to say something?
Thank you your interview is over. You may go now.

Mock interview:- Vajirao and Reddy, GS Score, onlyias, prepias(online)
One to one:- Dharmadhikari Sir, Satyam jain, Rahul ias pcs pathshala, prepias
Utility of mocks:- All one to one were really helpful.

Date - 09 January 2025, FN, 2nd to go
Chairman - BB Swain Sir
Keywords - History, Geography Optional, Jaipur, Alwar, Kota, Rajasthan, Hansraj, Rohingya, IR, etc

Chairman sir - Greeted and asked if I was comfortable
1. Why are we not giving refuge to the Rohingyas?
2. Does India has any policy or law to decide whom to be given refugee status?
3. Then asked to continue with other reasons for not giving refuge

Member 1
1. What is sacred geography? (No idea)
2. What are the issues related to population in India?
3. Elaborate on TFR and demographic dividend?
4. How to reap demographic dividend?
5. In which sector should we generate employment?
6. Asked that since our population is high, so don’t you think we will not be able to
subsume such huge population?
7. Asked how will we increase employment opportunities abroad for Indians?
8. Asked which country will need our population the most?
9. What is dependency ratio?
10. Is aged population only dependent?
11. What are the issues wrt interlinking of rivers?

Member 2
1. What is the genesis of Israel - Palestine issue?
2. List out neighbouring countries of Israel?
3. Do you know about Sakhalin islands?
4. Does these islands have any resource potential?
5. What is agniveer scheme?
6. Will we remove all those who were inducted through Agniveer after 4 years?
7. Opinion on ‘prohibition’ ? (I sought clarification)
8. Asked on loss of revenue due to this liquor ban?

Member 3
1. What is the issue wrt Rohingyas?
2. Elaborate on NRC and UCC?
3. A state has made a law on it, so does the state have power to legislate on it?
4. Asked which was this state?
5. Asked if college politics is good or not?
6. If it is good then why is educated youth not coming to it?
7. What is being done to tackle it?
8. What is the resource potential of RJ?
9. What are the issues in mineral resource sector?
10. Why is illegal mining happening?
11. Will you also do collusion with the illegal miners?

Member 4 (Lady member)
1. Water scarcity problem in Alwar?
2. What steps could be taken to tackle it?
3. Does ERCP passes through Alwar?
4. Asked on Vibrant Village programme?
5. Is it ongoing in RJ as well?
6. Then asked, what other programmes are there for this purpose in RJ?
7. What should we do to control road accidents?
8. Will we be able to solve the issue of accidents due to Gati Shakti scheme?

Overall, very cordial board. Conversation based interview. 90% from DAF, focussed a bit on contemporary and current issues.

Panel Mocks - PW (online); Samkalp; Study IQ
One on One - Shivin sir; Satyam Jain sir; a very good friend

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Date - 14 jan
Board - Shri Sanjay Verma Sir
Daf pointers - Physics, VIT, IIM B, IRS IT, Painting, Foosball(Table football)

Chairman - On which topic you wrote your mains essay ?
- Are you religious person?
- Can interfaith dialogue bridge gap between conflicting religious communities?
- Then why communal riots are happening?
- From enng to economics? Why this transition? Don't you feel economics is boring subject ?

Then sir told a long monologue that about recent economics situation.
- Coming back to religion. Can you relate economics with religion.
- religious beliefs hinder or promote entrepreneurship ?
- religious events influence regional economies? (his hint was towards Kumbh Mela)

Member1
- cost of foosball table ? what type of quality to look in foosball table?
- How physics play a role in foosball shots?
- Olympic me la dena chahiye isko ? (Then smiled)
- cancel culture promote accountability or curb free speech?
- you district is flooded. what sop you will follow ?
- You are engg. why you are not using technology in your solution ?

Member2
- Your IIM degree goes with IRS. Why you want to waste it by appearing again?
Then she smiled and said ye bad kahne ki baat hai.
- with rise of AI and automation, human decision making in supply chains is becoming obsolete?
- india supply chain bottlenecks?

Member3
- can you draw the last supper painting?
- Why is it significant ?
- Can graffiti be considered painting ?
- DON'T YOU THINK ITS vandalism?
- Lets move from painting to poverty. Do you think india is poor country ?
- Then why nfsa is providing food security to 80cr people ?

Member4
- 3 noble prize winner in physics ?
- govt scheme to promote scientific study ?
- what is digital twins?
- consider yourself FM, what will be your priority?

Chairman -Do you want to ask someting ? I said no. Then they asked do you want us to ask you something from your favourite area?

Your interview is over. Time - 28-30min


Mock iNTERVIEW= Samkalp, Vajiram, Onlyias, nextias - Each mock is okay okay types only.

Highly thankful to Rahul sir of ias pcs pathshala for his indepth daf session and help in refinement of the answers specially structuring the answer.


Overall it board was very cordial and polite.

Souvik:
Name:xyz
Board:B.B swain
Chairman:didn't ask any major question
Other members:
1.about ujjayanta palace in tripura
2.Neer Mahal and Rud
rasagar
3.Musical director from state of tripura
4.Impact of Bangladesh crisis on tripura
5.viksit Bharat and it's feasibility
6.major conflict zone of world and India's concern
7.cross question on above how conflict in Africa affect india
8.optional question:Meghalayan age what it is
9.how to develop infrastructure and connectivity in North East india
10.what can North East do in India's aspiration for viksit Bharat
11.define yourself
12.succesful person requires EQ or IQ?justify
13.geriatric care in 2047
14.major issues in state.how to develop entrepreneurship in tripura
15.agarwood industry in tripura
16. Why you are an incremental improvement type of a person(cross question on define yourself)
17.credibility of hindenburg
18.indias AI mission and recent restriction by usa on GPU export
19.what is narco terrorism
20.internal security problems of india
21.is terrorism and internal security problems or external
22.on football how to improve Indian football
23.why you took EOL from job to prepare.

89-90%questions were from what I prepared with bright sir and vikas sir.
One to one discussion worked more than panel mocks

Name- Tat Tvam Asi
Date and session of interview- 16.01.25 Forenoon 1st to go
Board- Sanjay Verma Sir
DAF- PSIR, Computer Engineering, Cooking, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Nanded

Chairman Sir
1. How are you doing today?
2. Which one of following you are more passionate about- PSIR or Computer Science?
3. What is Disruptive Technology?
4. Can you name one disruptive technology each from Political Science and Computer Science?
5. Can populism be a disruptive tech?
6. Karl Marx idea on economic justice (from previous answer)
7. Name 5 essentials for cooking
8. Are women forced to take up cooking?
9. Can you name some different types of Biryanis in India?
10. Name similar dish to biryani which involves rice which is popular in West Asia ( said pilaf/pulav)

M1
1. How will you address threats to organisation? (vague and open ended) ( tried to structure it as technical threats and HR threats) (loads of cross questioning)
2. Suppose you address such threats, still is organisation vulnerable to threats in future? (said threats can exist)
3. Can or Will? (said possibility of threats will exist)
4. What is Indo Pacific?
5. What is Soft Power?
6. How India can leverage its Soft Power in IP?
7. Whats is HADR?
8. Name two instances of HADR by India (SL and Turkey)
9. Is economic grants given to SL HADR?
(I retracted and said it is soft power)

M2
1. What are the reasons for flooding in Mumbai?
2. What is urban sponge? (previous answer)
3. Difference between Computer Science Engineering and Computer Engineering
4. How it is different from IT Engineering?
5. What is significance of Nanded? (Sri Huzur Sahib Gurudwara - Sri Guru Gobind Singh - Panch Takht)
Sir tried to confuse me with Guru Nanak and Nanak Jhira...Nanded obviously is related to Guru Gobind Singh...cross questions like have you visited, are you sure etc.

M3 ( Mam)
1. What is meaning of Vedant?
2. What are two most important values to become successful? ( rational decision making & integrity)
3. monologue on some reasearch and it found out one value which you have not mentioned...Are you aware of such research? Can you name that value?
(mentioned not aware of such research.......asked for making ......an ATTEMPT......not guess.....said Perseverance.....which was what mam was looking for)
4. What is relevance of soft skills for organisation?
5. If you are to choose between soft skills and technical skills? Give your reasons.

M4
1. Mention 5 sentences about Hyderabad
2. Is Hyderabad cosmopolitan city?
3. Indian Constitution is unitary rather than federal. Justify
4. What about taxation powers of state?
5. Name 2 things on which tax being imposed by state outside GST.

Thank You!

Your experience in interview-
Nothing like mocks.
More of conversation with all members.
Despite cross questions at times, they encouraged me to speak my thoughts.
Mentioning COVID Diplomacy would have been better than grants to SL

Utility of mocks or O2O (if any)- Samkalp, Vajirao Reddy, Next IAS, PW, SPM
1. All were relevant as most questions repeated from Mocks...Helpful in structuring answers
2. O2O Session with Bhagwat Sir was perhaps most useful as it was mostly DAF based
3. O2O with Ravindran Sir only allowed after Mock

Date : 16/01/2025, Afternoon
Name : Shiva
Board : B B Swain
Optional : Sociology
Key Words : Pochampally Ikat, table tennis, NEP, religion, society

Chairman:
1. How did you develop Interest in Pochampally Ikat?
2. Types of Ikat in India?

M1
1. Gave long monologue about Hyderabad. Asked me to add more.....?
2. Which unique food delicacy got gi tag from Hyderabad?
3. In which season is it consumed?
4. Status of Indian players in table tennis?
5. Why is scientific temper important?
6. Are Religion and scientific temper consistent?
7. Should we legalize Same- sex marriage?Your opinion?
8. How about rights of LGBTQ+ community?

M2
1. New Education Policy? Explain features?
2.Can you give some suggestions for improvements in Curriculum for school children?
3. Ur interaction with students during JEE Maths tutoring? How was it?(DAF related)
4. Due to the evolving digital technology, Is the impact of teachers decreasing in society?
5. Have you heard about Atal tinkering labs?

M3
Shall we have a rapid round?
1. Two positives and two negatives of Student council and elections?
2. Society and Culture? Explain symbiotic relationship?
3. What is negative feedback? Does it help in life?
4. Did you receive it in the recent past if any?
5. How many hours did you work in L&T?
6. Recently L&T CEO has made a statement regarding working hours, share your views?

M4
1. Give Sociological profile of India?
2. Monologue on climate change and asked about Permafrost thawing - how it impacts world?
3. Our government is doing Defence indigenization. But it is challenging in current geopolitical scenario. What about transfer of technologies from our allies? Should we go on with it or not? What do you choose and please justify?

Chairman sir : Thank you, your interview is over.

Close Mocks : Samkalp, Chahal
Others : Vajiram(Ravindran sir) and Ekam IAS
All the best!!

Name : Mesvin
Board:  Suman Sharma mam
Date: 16 january, afternoon (4th to go)
Daf keywords : IFS, mathematics, IIT Kgp, Sap labs, hackathon, football

Chairperson:
Welcomed me and asked about how should they call me and read out loud about my graduation course and job experience

1. Started telling about US-India relations and asked me about recent developments of relief from restrictions and some new potential restrictions (about nuclear entities and New AI export draft rules)
2. Name of entities which got relief and asked about what would be potential benefits
3. Asked about special exemption to India and china in new US AI export draft rules
( I said I read about it in newspaper however I couldn't understand it)

4. Told something about aboriginal tribes like jarawas and how can we justify to not integrate them in mainstream society unlike some mainland tribals
5. Recently some say 'doing nothing ' is also doing something. What do you understand by this?
6. Asked whether above statement has some relevancy with Indian foreign policy

M1
1.  The need to balance sustainability vs development and high carbon footprint as India has very high development needs
2. Why India not doing well in football

3. Why countries like saudi arabia, qatar are investing heavily in football and other sports?
4. Audience culture of drinking alcohol etc in stadiums are being allowed in Saudi.
Do you think saudi is diluting its islamic values for economy or is it modernization?
5. What is your opinion on Countries like england, south africa threatening to boycott cricket match with afganistan in champions trophy as they don't allow women to play cricket ?
6. India is playing with afganistan, do you think it is right?
7. India boycotted south africa in a final in 90's. Do u think it was a right decision then ?


M2.
1. Why there is rise of leaders with dictatorial tendencies in west ?
2. Why migrants from MENA region go towards europe but not rich countries in middle East?
3. Do you think there is xenophobia in western countries?
4. Based on this and considering our border situation, how should India handle its approach towards migrants?
5. Reconcile between importance of IPRs and reverse engineering done by countries like China?
Is reverse engineering okay to do?

M3
1. Why there are rise in suicides in IITs? (While mentioning recent event)
Long discussion
2. Is it due to over ambition or over pressure such unfortunate events are happening?
3.What is a hackathon and what is your experience and learnings from the hackathon you participated?
4. What are the challenges faced by startups?
Are there any issues with mentorship to startups , management of them ?
5.what do you understand by soft power diplomacy ? Any examples of such related to India.
6. What is circular economy?

M4.
1. Are IITs multidisciplinary institutes?
2. Do you think we should make them into as such?
3. Do we need more specialised clgs like IITs, medical colleges in states or should we convert them into multi disciplinary universities?
4. Applications of AI in agriculture
5. One more question and some discussion on drone and other tech usage in agriculture
6. A question on pesticide excessive usage which I can't recall exactly

Still I might have missed 1-2 questions
Found the discussion with the panel very productive.

Mocks: found vajirao reddy, next ias, forum ias, MACS useful. Also one 2 one with puneet sir (SOMP) in last days helped me in approaching few questions.
Articles related to IR and some contemporary issues shared in Mahesh Bhagawat sir group are helpful.

Board - suman sharma mam
Date - 15/01
Daf key words Rajasthan , cricket , mumbai Rest not relevant

Went in wished good morning took seat
Q1 - You are from Rajasthan so there was law related gig work in Rajasthan
Q2 what is your take on gig economy
Q 3 How much percentage gig economy
Q4 Mental health issue why rise now
Q 5 the issues you mentioned were ealier also why now
Q 6 what is your take airport development
M 1 why most busines man from Rajasthan running business outside Rajasthan
Q2 what policy measures would you prescribe to make them work in Rajasthan
Q3 how agriculture in Rajasthan lack of water availability
Q4 Why traditional methods (water harvesting and agri related )not practiced ?
Q 5 you stayed in mumbai take on dharavi redevelopment project
M 2.
Q 1 how effective UN peacekeeping
Q 2 despite great power allowing not able to take on work
Q 3 do you know confidence building measures
Q 4 do you know about environmental schdule
Q 5 except cow and other animals protection in wildlife schedule what about stray animals
M 3
Q1 Have heard about new summit in Rajasthan
Q 2 what is your take on investment
Q3 government is taking abroad for investment is government wrong in it
Q 3 tourism has been mostly related to few what new thing could we offer
Q 4 you played cricket what about recent changes in light of good performance in Australia (sarcastic)

M 5
Q1
Why so many universities in Rajasthan
Q2 heard that recently some universities got cancelled
Q 3 how about income inequality
Q4 measures required for it
Thank you
I said thank you adjusted the chair as it was before and left the room
Maybe one or two questions i am not able to recall
Utility of mocks - gave 4-5 vajirao and reddy was good question repeated
One on one discussion with puneet yadav sir from somp team was really helpful

SOMP Student
Transcript

BB Swain sir
Optional History
Hobbies - Kalbelia dance, Zumba , Sudarshan kriya
Background and optional in History

MEMBER 1-

Q1-Have you visited Taj Mahal ?

Q2-So Delegation went few years back what are the moods of Taj Mahal?

Q3-When did Agra became capital of Mughals ?

Q4-Have you visited PM sangrahalay do you know the changes in it ?

Q5- Describe Architecture of New parliament?

Q6-What is history of sengol ?

Q7- Is it relevant to have it in parliament now your independent opinion ?

Q8-So, you are a history student,tell me about freedom fighters of India?

Q9-Why was Gandhiji able to unite everyone?

Q10-When was Poona Pact signed ?

Q11-Why Poona Pact happened ?

Q12-what happened between 1932-1947 ?

Q13- What is 3D do you know about 4D ?


Member2-

Q1- So what is Kalbelia dance ?

Q2- How did you get into it ?

Q3- History of Kalbelia Dance?

Q4- difference between classical Kathak and Kalbelia Dance?

Q5-KUMBH timing and how are preparation going on ?

Q6-Softpower-Economy-of it




Member3-

Q1- Tell Population trends of world ?

Q2-Define in exact terms demographic dividend?

Q3-Why is it dividend ?

Q4-Some world leader said-“Lower Population’’

Q5-What is TFR ? What is it in India exactly ?

Q6-Is TFR even across India ?

Q7- what is Replacement Rate ?

Q8-What is delimitation & controversies around it ?

Q9- what is exactly delimitation?

Q10-What steps has Govt taken to address delimitation controversies?

Q11- when is fixation date of last delimitation?

Q12-When was last census?

Q13- when was last delimitation commission year?

Q14-You talked about lost freedom fighters any book you read ?

Member4-

Q1- what are the trends in students going abroad in general?

Q2- So, chairman of Rajya Sabha recently said “Students blindly going abroad what is the impact on India?

Q3- You heard about public sector companies what is the net worth they talk about?

Q4- What is Agniveer scheme & your opinions on it ?