This is a Mock Interview Conducted before interviewing UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) – IAS (Indian Administrative Service) exam, you can call it a training session before appearing at the UPSC Board, and this kind of interview is conducted to check the preparation of candidates and their confidence. The similar type questions that are being asked are also part of these interviews,
This Interview Panel is comprised of four to five interviewers or panelists who are Retired Civil Servants, professionals, and experienced in conducting such interviews, It is just prepared like cross-questions environment and answer section between candidates and panelists as make it easy for all readers to get and feel them also into the same candidates’ situation, so I am sure this will be helpful for all competitive exams candidates who are getting into it.
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This Mock interview was conducted earlier, so any govt officials or their Posts mentioned during this question-answer session holding any of govt offices are might be changed or retired at the time when you are reading this interview, so cross-check before appearing in any exam next future.
yeah please
good morning sir good morning please
take your seat thank you sir
are you more comfortable in english some
more comfortable in english okay so
as you’re aware that we are
trying to take whatever precautions
possible as far as covered is concerned
right and there is adequate distance
between me and you
so that you feel safe
and also we are removing mask only when
we are speaking otherwise we are wearing
masks you also have this opportunity if
you want to
remove masks and you feel comfortable
you can
or if you’re more comfortable with masks
i’m comfortable now okay and
you’re not showing any symptoms of
yourself right and you’re comfortable
yes sir okay then let’s start i want you
to introduce yourself to board members
yes sir so my name is varsha gehello i
belong to the airport district i’ve done
my graduation btec in electronics and
communication from modi university of
science and technology
, lakshmana
and you did it in 2015. yes sir
, you’re unemployed for five years now
um yes sir why was your university and
your education
inadequate to get you a job
and also
when i had campus placements
i
did had job i did and
got placement in
, two companies but i didn’t join the
companies i
came for the preparation of civil
services that was the reason why you
went for the b tech at all so
when i was in 12th
so there was a
even
the social environment was like , we
need to
have to get a good career and to get a
good if we want to have a good
professional degree we should either do
like engineering or mbbs such degree so
hence what i took btec as my
professional when was the last time when
you took a decision on your own so very
important decision not really what will
you eat and all so
when i came for this preparation of
civil services but then it’s a bandwagon
everybody goes for it it cannot be
independent decision
almost everybody goes so the , it was
my decision to not join the , company
in which i got placed and go for this um
but that
that is hardly an independent decision
that’s what my question is independent
of not just your family but independent
of the bandwagon that goes around in the
society any independent decision you can
take pride on so
in after my college in entire life if
you’re 25 years anything you believe
that you took an important decision
which you took on yourself which was not
as per the social norms and you that
shows that you’re not essentially
conformist so it was my decision after
10th to go for
the
take my science science as my subject
any good student takes science it’s a
social pressure
so i can say that i was
according to the perception at that time
as well as it was my decisions i was not
that against for not taking science or
not taking b tech as my graduation okay
anyways you have done electronics and
communication engineering yes you’re
comfortable with
the entire engineering part or you want
a specific area to
be discussed now so like um tell me a
very simple thing silicon germanium both
have valency four yes and we use it at
semiconductor carbon is also in the same
bracket but we do not use carbon and
semiconductor why
sorry so i will be able to answer for a
p-type semiconductor what kind of what
would be the doping material sorry so
you know i see engineering last last
scale ic engine is it the same as a
microprocessor or a microprocessor and
vlsi are ic are going to be different so
in ic engineering i see a integrated
integrated circuit yes sir very large
scale integrated circuit and
microprocessor
these are two
same things
these are different things so there are
different things what is the difference
between a blsi and a microprocessor so
microprocessor , like in our college we
study the microprocessor 8086
and
it it performs multiple tasks
, so it is used and you call it still
uses eight zero eight six to twenty
engineers
yes sir we studied in , zero eight six
in 2020 so in when we had the subject
microprocessors micro
we okay tell me how how do you do the
biasing in edge rate six so i’m not able
to recall it right now have you seen the
oscilloscope i’m sure you have
oscilloscope
that shows the waveforms yes sir yes sir
tell me the terminals on the
oscilloscope sorry sir so
version yes tell me about the
cryogenic engine cryogenic engine yes
sir sir it is
cryogenic engine is the one
which uses
liquid nitrogen as its fuel what is
quantum dots quantum dot sorry okay what
is project loon project loon so project
loon is a
initiative by google they will be having
hot air balloon kind of
devices for which they will be providing
internet services what are around that
region what are the objectives of nano
machine in india so nano mission ,
mainly focuses on the nanotechnology and
developing those nanodevices for various
functions tell me about a brief
information about the cloning process
chlorine process sorry okay valve never
is very important , in odapa reason why
it is so important so it’s near the um
mining area
so it’s a copper stone civilization and
it was developed near the
other name of our civilization other
name arthur
what is importance of yoga at the
cellular level in the body so yoga is a
process which
i’m not getting there okay
in between
and it was built for ,
it was it has a story behind it that why
it was built can i go forward with the
story no no what is carbon nanotube and
how is differ from the carbon fiber
sorry okay tell me about the
two lakes two canals or isn’t from the
artificial intelligence
so major reasons which can be counted
for the urban flooding are um
one of the major reason is the um
expansion of the cities which is taking
place , without
i i will say unsustainable expansion of
the cities like there are some um the
concept of sponge cities that is not
been taken care of during this expansion
like the storms drains
urban flooding
around this time sir okay tell me what
do you understand by technical recession
technical research
okay then , what do you understand by
this term bank run
what is bank run so bank run is when
bank gets
bankrupt
right
then ,
have we seen this phenomena in recent
times bank run
i can say of the npa crisis which are
taking place in the recently a bank
failed in india can you name the bank
it’s a pnb bank
that was pnp bank has failed no sir no
it’s not pn
it got np it was under the npa right
okay
we hear a word very often these days
this term vaccine nationalism sometimes
it is combined vaccinationalism what is
this so during the recent corona crisis
times each country is trying to develop
their vaccines for their
citizens what is wrong in that so there
is
there’s nothing wrong in that place yes
sir there’s nothing wrong but the thing
is that , there are some countries
which are developed nations then there
are some which are developing and there
are some which are underdeveloped so in
that case ,
this is a pandemic and in developed
countries they will , they are having
good technology so they would be able to
develop it much faster than um
the other nations you are not answering
my question i wanted to know
what exactly is vaccine nationalism and
why it is
considered to be not right so because we
are living presently we are living in a
globalized world
and if we cooperate even if we
coordinate more then our there can be
optimum utilization
every nation for itself no there is no
global cooperation as such yes sir okay
can you tell me about this circuit
dispute sir
dispute so circuit dispute is between
india and pakistan
circuit is a place near the
gujarat region and it is a mainly iran
ran like area
so
when any such maritime dispute is there
inland maritime dispute there is one
principle
a very well known principle that comes
into play what is that so it is , so
i’m not exactly remembering that
principle but it also took place during
, when india and bangladesh were having
issues over there my final question to
you india reorganized the state of
german kashmir into two new duties last
year
and india came out with its new map yes
okay
so three countries protested
one was china one was second was
pakistan
which was the third country
and why is that said during the
formation of
union territories of ladakh and kashmir
yes so another country was
foreign
sure about it
thank you
take your seat for sure
thank you sir
yes tell me how was the interview what
are the areas you believe that you
you’re comfortable and where you need to
improve yes i need to improve a lot and
i thought
okay i think so and , are you able to
are you in position to identify the
areas you need to improve yes definitely
so my
um that engineering thing was
i couldn’t brush it up right now
see that’s the last degree you have ,
written
so it makes sense to brush it up because
see you need to understand the dilemma
of the board members they don’t know
anything about you so they they need
something to crack the conversation for
that the best thing is about your
education and for the best last thing is
your last degree is the most important
thing so usually , one should , brush
up the last background subject as good
as possible yes see , basha you’re a
good candidate your personality is good
your
in general your appearance is good entry
is good the sitting posture by and large
is okay by and large i’m saying because
you have this tendency of clasping your
hands clasping hand is always
a no-no when it comes to interview
because it kind of shows the nervousness
and the the kind of things that’s going
on in your mind so
placing your hands like this is the best
way and besides , not only the clasping
thing you also have this tendency of
having a lot of hand movement and
moving your hands moving your hands is
again a problem because it indicates
that the candidate is short of words and
which is trying to supplement , the
conversation with the hand movements so
least hand movement is something we
always prescribe okay so you can work on
that yes otherwise sitting posture is
good voice level in general is good um
eye contact is also good and flow is not
that bad right so that way the bubble
communication thing is okay though i
still believe that
when you were speaking hindi you were
more comfortable i don’t know why you
chose english as your medium but there
despite having an english medium you may
have to appear in hindi so be ready for
that okay and i think you’re ready for
that actually
you’re insisting for english thing is
something i’m not yet very comfortable
it but then it’s your decision right
okay you can work on that on the
specifics
you also have this tendency of giving
long preface to your answer
right your answer should be crisp to the
point my gold standard is that i always
tell candidate that
please understand the intention of the
board member and make sure that you hit
the intention of the board member in
first sentence okay okay
at most ,
late most in the second sentence but
first sentence is the ideal thing okay
you have this tendency of giving a
little preface to your answers you can
avoid that right
you also
need to understand that
the communication here is a formal
communication and unfortunately unequal
formal communication right it’s not we
are not unfortunately the equal
contributors in this communication so it
means that
you should always allow board members to
interrupt you
but you cannot interrupt a board member
that’s a basic , golden rule okay so
you have this tendency that even when
the board member interrupt you want to
finish your
stuff right you can avoid that you can
stop stop the movement board members
speak even if you have very important
thing to speak just let the board
members finish that will be good right
other things , generally , okay
generally okay okay
you can brush up your
electronics things as much as you can
yes all the best
thank you sir