Date of Interview: May 6, Morning session.
Board: RN Choubey Sir
Optional: Physics
Background: IISER
Hobby: Trekking
Your experience in Interview – Pleasant and calm interaction, seemed they were eager to hear my thoughts!
Utility of mocks (if any) – thinking on your feet, daf coverage and formal setup interaction.
Chairperson
- Made comfortable and said not everyone can answer all questions so it’s ok to not know answers to some questions.
- Tell me about yourself.
- Your weaknesses?
- Few years back, few SC judges complained against CJI.. Are you aware about it?
- What do you think about live-in relationship?
- Is it diluting family structure?
- What about the child between them? Is it unfavorable for the child?
Member 1
- Why not enough IISERs?
- Faculty-student ratio at iiser?
- Did you publish research paper in thesis? Why not?
- Why not enough nobel prize winners in India?
Member 2
- Is research as career option neglected in India? Is it necessary?
- Why more focus on technology than science?
- Who is only Indian in physics to win nobel in physics, excluding indian origin
- What is role of poland in Russia-ukraine crisis? (poland in daf)
- Has Ukraine announced it not joining nato before this crisis?
- Name the European countries who have shown eagerness to join nato recently.
Member 3
- What treks have you undertaken?
- What is electromagnetic induction?
- Who discovered it?
- Who formulated the whole theory?
- What it tells and represents?
- What act provides for lokpal and its functions?
Member 4
- What factors influence budgetary allocation to various sectors?
- Does manifestos of political parties influence it?
- How wine is made and processes involved? (district based)
- Electric steel in india? (district based)
- Your views on world as global village?
Chairman – We’ve asked everything we had to ask, would you like to talk/tell us about something?
Source: Forum IAS