My UPSC Interview 11/4/2013 which brot me back to Blogging after 2 long years !!!
I Am writing Only Questions here, so that they can be useful for others. Will write my answers and overall experience in sometime. Overall a good feel interview !
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Name: Naga Sathish
Name: Naga Sathish
Board : Alka Sirohi mam
Optionals : Geography and Public
Administration
Hobbies
: Watching movies and Cricket, Internet browsing, Reading Newspaper
Attempt : 1
Qualification: MTech CSE IIT Roorkee
Present Job : Software Engineer, Cisco
Systems, Bangalore
From : Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
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CP : So you watch cricket.. Tell 5 Cricketers who became
members of Parliament?
CP: Told 3.. But Gimme one more name
please…Clue: his Father is a former CM (I was clueless even then)
CP: Kirti Azad. Heard of him?
Passed on to M1
Passed on to M1
M1 : Sathish People say “Justice
delayed is Justice Denied”. Do you agree with it? What’s your opinion on it?
M1: What can be done to speed up our
justice delivery system?
M1: There are lots of Adjournments
of court cases… How to reduce them?
CP: There is no provision of Only 3
Adjournments anywhere. It is a recommendation of some committee. (as in my
answer I said there is some provision somewhere)
M1: How the judge of high court
appointed? (I blundered here, I forgot answer for this infact but finally gave
it)
M1: Is there any collegium system?
M1: What changes govt. is trying to
bring now to this system?
M1: You Studied in IIT Roorkee. It
had some other name in the past. Do you know it?
M1 : Who is James Thomason?
M1: When is IITR established and
what is the purpose of establishing it only in Roorkee and not in Allahabad or
somewhere else?
M1 : You watch cricket. Can you tell
me the weight of a cricket ball? (No Way i can ! :D )
M1: which newspaper do you read?
M1: Who is the editor of Hindu?
Passes on to M2.
M2: Guntur is very closer to
Vijayawada. Are they twin cities?
M2: You are from Vijayawada. There
are so many coaching centers for +2 in Vijayawada. Why is it so?
M2: Don’t you think syllabus in Govt colleges
is good enough to crack IIT-JEE? Isn’t the syllabus same for +2 and JEE?
M2 : If JEE questions are tough and
if they are asking something that is beyond the syllabus of +2, then there is
something wrong with the curriculum/syllabus of JEE? Don’t you think so?
M2: Andhra Pradesh has lot of
problems with Naxals. What is naxalism
M2: If you are saying this to be
Socio-Economic problem then, Why this problem is not there in Karnataka or
somewhere else(As here also many socio-economic problems are there ) and only
present in Andhra Orissa etc?
M2: Don’t you think Govt needs to do
more here? (Before he completed this question, CP passed it to next member)
Passes on to M3. He hampered my
confidence by asking many memory based ones
M3: Have you heard of K-G basin?
What is it?
M3: Why is nanotechnology getting so
much prominence?
M3: What is the fastest super-computer you are aware of?
M3: Not just in India Sathish. Think global. Do you know the fastest in the world?
M3: How do you measure the speed of SuperComputers?
M3: Have you heard of FLOPS? What is a FLOP?
M3: What is the fastest super-computer you are aware of?
M3: Not just in India Sathish. Think global. Do you know the fastest in the world?
M3: How do you measure the speed of SuperComputers?
M3: Have you heard of FLOPS? What is a FLOP?
M3: Do you think with nano size
experiments, we can change the fundamental properties of the materials? (He was
going indepth into this, i had to say couple of I donno's here )
M3: Have you heard of Visakha Case ?
(yes, sexual harassment one)
M3: Can you tell specific guidelines
given in that judgement ? ( I donno)
M3: What is IISER? (Donno :( )
M3: So many memory based questions
here….I never heard them before also… around 4 or 5 of them.. for all I said I
Donno
From here again i could answer few
satisfactorily.
M3: Have you heard of Kuchipudi
village? Where is it?
M3: Can you name some of the dancers
of kuchipudi?
M3: There is a specific character
which they depict for which these are famous. Do you know that character?
M3: Is there any award or something
associated with kuchipudi?
M3:
I was expecting if something like
PadmaBhushan or PadmaVibhushan is awarded to any of these dancers. Do you know?
M3: Who is the best fielder in
present cricket team?
M3: Is jadeja not a good fielder?
M3: Do you know where Suresh Raina
is from? (Again forgot :( )
Was feeling bit low after M3's grilling.. but M4 kinda rescued before Alka mam drowned my ship again !
Passes on to M4
M4: Why IIT Roorkee was established
in roorkee only (Yes repeated same question)
M4: What is the year of
establishment of IIT Roorkee?
M4: Do you know that when upper
ganga canal was built, people refused to drink/irrigate land with that water?
(Ooh.. i donno this)
M4: So, you are from Vijayawada
which is in Guntur district right?
M4: Then what is the hq of Krishna
district?
M4: This area is very close to
Telangana region. Can you tell me about the Geography of the region? (I dint
understand what he was trying to ask me )
M4:
What are the major products of Krishna District? (I told agricultural
products, he said something something about krishna district, hez very old, and
after telling whole story he said do you know? :-o i thot WHAT !!! Apparently
he was asking question, but i felt it to be like a story ! ).
M4: It is said that Krishna District
provides food to all southern states like Tamilnadu, Karnataka and even to
Maharashtra. Do you know why?
M4: Tell about your district
geography first, then Andhra Pradesh geography. (Before i answer this question
fully, moved on to next question)
M4: You also watch movies. According
to you who is the best hero in Telugu movie at present?
M4: What is his latest movie?
M4: What does the word “Dookudu”
mean?
CP Tookover from here
CP: Can you tell me what is ISDN? (Donno :( )
CP: Can you tell me the names of
TCP/IP Layers?
CP: There is no Session/Presentation
layer in TCP/IP Sathish (I corrected myself here, tcp/ip has only 5-layers).
CP: Your interview is over.. ohh
wait wait.. last question for you before you go… Gave 1 puzzle to solve. 9 dots
in 3x3 matrix. Have to join all of them with 4 lines without lifting the pen.
(My mind was already blank.. cudn't think of any logics here)
CP: Ok. Don’t worry. Try after you
go back.
CP: Your Interview Over ! Thanks !
You drew lot of blanks there mate. Seems like a stress interview, i think they were actually checking the body language rather than your actual answers. Best of luck!
ReplyDeleteyep.. even i felt it so.. i donno how the result would be.. :(
Deletehi.. myself manisha from gujarat..i m also m.tech in computer science preparing for UPSC...i want ur help and guidance..At present i m working as a lecturer
ReplyDeletewaiting for ur reply..my email id maniworld77@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteHi Sathish,
ReplyDeleteCan you please please share the strategy that you followed for prelims and mains..It would be really helpfull.ALL THE BEST FOR YOUR RESULTS!
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Nisha
Will do that nisha.. once i get some time.. Thanks for your wishes
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