Date of Interview: 26th April afternoon session
Board: Smita Nagraj mam
Optional: Kannada literature
Hobby: Following drone technology
Chairperson
- Why civil services after engineering?
- There is unemployment among engineers, but still why more people are entering engineering?
- Is it a failure of the govt or the problem with the people?
Member 1
- Questions were mostly related to mechanical engineering(my graduation)
- which is your favourite subject in mechanical engineering?(I said automobile engineering)
- how would be the future of automobile Industry?
- what are the challenges with e-vehicles?
- why recently e vehicles are catching fire?
- what technological solutions to be brought?
Member 2
- Who received jnanapeeth in kannada recently?
- What is the speciality of his works?
- What is he doing now?
- what are recent developments happening in drone technology?
- Do we have indigenously built drones?
Member 3
- what are the recent Infrastructure projects undertaken by the govt?
- what is the difference between e-vehicle and a hybrid vehicle?
- why are we not able to develop advanced battery technology. What challenges we have?
- what is urban mining? (I said I don’t know. He explained it to me and i thanked him)
Member 4
- you come from rural area, are you doing any community welfare activity in your village?
- Tell me any one such thing you are proud of.
- do you see any abandoned old age people in your village?
- how are they being helped. What measures have been taken?
Few questions I’m not able to recall but most of the conversation was around these topics.
Experience-very good. The board was very much cordial. Chairperson intervened and helped me when I was not able to understand a question asked by one of the members.
Utility of Mocks-Help us to get exposed to interview kind of environment. However questions asked in the interview may be entirely different from mocks.
Thank u🙏. All the best to everyone
Source: Forum IAS