UPSC INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT 2020 - Part I

UPSC Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2019

Insight and a way forward 2020:

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Candidate Details

1. Name

NANDHINI B

2. Age

25

3. Marital Status

UnMarried

4. Total attempts in CSE (including this one)

3 ( 2017,2018, 2019) 3 mains & 1 PT

5. Optional Subject

Tamil Literature

6. Schooling Medium

English

7. College Medium

SSN College Of Engineering, Chennai

8. Medium chosen for Mains answers

English

9. Medium chosen for Interview

English

10. Home town/city

Chennai

11. Work-experience if any

Nil

12.Service preferences (Top-5)

IAS,IPS,IFS,IRS

13. Preference for the first states in top-3 zonal cadres.

Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Kerala

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Union Public Service Commission

INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT

Date: 20/03/2020 Forenoon Session.

Who was the chairman of you interview board?

Sathyavathi Ma'am

How long was the interview?

30-35min.

Chairperson:

Showed my photo and asked is this you?

Read out the DAF aloud

1.Why civil services inspite of engineering?

2.Who is your inspiration?

3.Local self government -which constitutional amendment?

How is working of local self government in TN?

4.What are the functions of Local self government?

5.Who is in charge when elected representatives of local self government is not present?

6.What about proxies in Local self government?

6.how the finances are devolved to LSG?

7.Are state finance Commissions formed properly?

8.Do you write short stories?

9.Why are you not interested in sports?

10.what do you do to keep yourself fit?

11.Do you think it is necessary to be fit?

Member1:

1.What was your role in your college symposium?

1.what is reverse osmosis?explain the process?

2.how desalination is done?

3.SEBI and it's objectives?

4.what is RTI?

5.How it is misused?

6.What is BRI?

7.who is a whistleblower?

8.what is our relationship with Malaysia lately?

9.Do you know about Kandi in Sri Lanka?

M2:

1.Was economy in a good or bad shape before Corona?

2.what should government do?

3.How to increase consumption?

4.Does spending on infrastructure really helps?

5.why there is no powers to local self government?

6.Are bureaucrats reason for non devolution of power?

7.what should LSG do to improve rural development?

8.Role of local self government in women empowerment?

M3:

1.what is covid-19? Explain about it to me?

2.How can computers be used to control Corona virus?

3.Is social media being misused?

M4:

1.what is paradigm?

2.why our relationship with Malaysia was affected?

3.which other country was critical about Kashmir?

4.Why were they critical?

5.Which organisation works for the welfare of Muslim countries?

6.Is India member of OIC?

7.Recent OIC meeting and it's importance to India?

8.what relation we have with UAE?

9.who are the largest trading partners of India?

10.What is ASEAN?

11.How many members are there in ASEAN?

12.How is India's relationship with ASEAN?

13.What is our trade relationship with Russia?

14.are we supplying missiles to Vietnam?

15.Why South China Sea is important?

16.Why do we need to counter Chinese influence?

17.What is our relationship with Russia?

18.What is BRICS?

19.what do you know about NAM?

21.Another Organisation where India is a member?

22.How do to know about the Chennai to Vladivostok sea route?

Chairman

Thank you Nandhini, You May leave now.

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Learn The Art of Notes making: UPSC CSE Strategy & Preparations 2019 - 2020

One of the most important concern of every UPSC aspirant is making notes.

Almost everybody makes Short notes for Exam Preparation, but only few are aware of the effective way of making notes.

1) How to take notes?

2) Digital or conventional hard copy method? If hard copy, note books or filing A4 sheets?

3) Only for current affairs or conventional subjects too?

4) How do I update my notes?

5) Is making notes really important? Cant I spend the time in studying another topics?

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Now let us break each and every question to arrive what is desirable.

Every aspirant who have given their exams whether prelims, mains or interview knows the importance of their personal notes. Our notes come handy to revise and re-revise what we have accumulated working day and night burning our midnight oil. Revision is the key to crack your exam and our notes are the Brahmastra to achieve it.

If you ask Tyrion Lannister on the importance of notes he will say

"An UPSC aspirant needs notes just like a sword needs a whetting stone".

So the time consumed in taking notes is never a waste.

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The next concern being to go digital or conventional, it all depends on each individual's comfort. People who have attended classes would surely have conventional hardcopies of notes. But nowadays many of the aspirants are using digital platforms like one note, ever note etc. The advantage of digital notes are being you can use it in your mobile, tablets and laptops or pc. Also you need not carry your books everywhere you go. You can utilise even 5 to 10 mins of your time while waiting for a cup of tea , food or bus or while in a commute or a commode (user's discretion) 😋.

Many of the aspirants have the opinion that using OneNote for taking notes of important facts and info is of great importance during revising for your prelims and mains. For eg. Books and authors in history, Committees and purpose, recent govt schemes, space programs etc. We will cover how to take notes efficiently using OneNote separately.

So be it digital or conventional notes, updating your notes is the most important. Never let your notes become outdated. Procrastination is the biggest reason for many notes going outdated. The greatest advantage while updating your notes is you get a glimpse of the topic once more. You become familiar with the current affair pertaining to that topic. This very often helps in eliminating options in your prelims.

Make your notes more interesting by adding maps, diagrams, bars and pie charts for statistics that you can use for mains. This will help you to retain things longer in your memory. Keep revising your notes regularly. According to Jim Rohn ,

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced everyday".

Lets make taking notes and revising it a part of those disciplines to achieve the success we desire. All the best.

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100 Days to UPSC Prelims: How to Prepare? Prelims Strategy, Approach, and Implementation

100 Days to UPSC Prelims Examination:

 Strategy, Approach, and Execution

Janu: "I could only score 70 marks in 3rd January’s Full Mock Test.”

Ram: “Oh. How many questions you attempted?”

Janu: “98!”

Ram:  “Ok. Not bad. You might not know but the topper of this test who has scored 115 has also attempted 98 questions only.”

Janu: “Oh I Think I have hit so many Questions with Guesswork and I Could not Eliminate two Options”

Ram: “Yes, you have to. But, you have to keep revising your basic material again and again. It is not only your guesswork, elimination techniques, but your knowledge base too, which needs to be Improved by Revising Regularly. ”

Janu: “Yes. But isn’t logical guesswork, elimination techniques more important these days?”

Ram: “They are important. But the knowledge base is the supreme requirement. Building on that further you can develop your logical guesswork, elimination techniques later on.”

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As it’s just next 100 days to UPSC Prelims of 2nd June 2019, conversations like these are quite frequent.

Working people who wants to become IAS officer will start their preparation in short period of time. Mostly two to three months are available for these students and therefore they have to prepare 100 days strategy for IAS Prelims to go through it. Here are some unique and special tips for the UPSC civil services aspirants to clear the exam in 100 days.

The time is ripe to get into the mood of intensive, focused prelims preparation. Some might feel that 100 days are still plenty enough. But every year we see aspirants saying that Feb, March, April went like the blink of an eye. So here we are just trying to make you realize the importance of the last 100 days.  Some of you might be first-timers. Some of you might be veterans of 2nd, 3rd attempt. Regardless of that, you know for sure, everyone is at square zero at this juncture. So, let’s see how you can go about it.

1.One-line strategy: READ, TAKE NOTES, Revise and Repeat. Read carefully between the Question lines since some Prelims questions are tricky.

2.Keep your booklist at optimum For Revision. ( Don’t Showcase your Buying Capacity while purchasing books for Prelims )Even if it is not perfect. Best way to have a realistic plan, is to have your plan divided into Monthly, Weekly, Daily plans. If you are having some issues doing it, don’t hesitate to Contact US.

3.Don’t ever forget ‘History’ and ‘syllabus’ of UPSC. Here, history is ‘Previous Year Questions’ of UPSC which gives you the areas to focus on.

Yes, we all know that UPSC is, after all, Unpredictable Public Service Commission! But, still, it’s better to start with something to focus on. And it has been proven time and again that about 10-12 questions are repeated from previous years papers directly or from the same topics from which questions have been asked before. So, better start analyzing them. Last One Week Before You should Dedicate yourself for Solving Old Question Papers of UPSC.

1. Never stay away from the newspapers and analyse them as per the given syllabus for exam.

2. Keep a track of the syllabus in your mind while reading any topic for IAS.

3. Do not leave the important topics which overlap again and again in the syllabus.

4. Always be careful about what you are reading especially the resources they must be authentic.

5. Avoid reading useless material just to cover single question which is having poor chances to be asked in the exam.

6. Don't wait for test series always !! Try solving numerous short tests/quizzes wherever possible mostly topic wise for better hold on test writing skills !!

7. Reading each questions carefully before answering that in prelims is an art. Start devising your own method to ensure you note down all micro details in that question before you start working out its answer !!

4.Additionally, make some micro notes of such important topics on which questions have been asked repetitively over the years. You can check an example of such micro-notes at Various Study Websites online. we would try to provide you One month Before Prelims 2019 Mostly by May-end.

5.For veterans, “Remember failure is a great teacher. But if you don’t learn the lesson, life will repeat the lesson for you.” So even if you are a warrior of 2-3 prelims, don’t hesitate to read new good quality material, don’t hesitate to join a new but good quality test series, don’t hesitate to change your strategy if it is not working, and most importantly, don’t hesitate to try once again because you never know, the year 2019 could finally turn out to be yours. ( Note To Self )

6. For first-timers, first of all, have a firm belief that I can clear the Civil Services Prelims in one shot. Once, you are determined to do it and have read primary sources, then start solving MCQs tests as early as possible. You can solve it either from Mock Question Sets or from a quality Test Series. It is important so as to get into that mode of solving MCQs with the limited knowledge that you might have.

Whether you are a newcomer or a senior aspirant, you should practice at least 10,000 questions between the time of notification being published and the day of actual UPSC Examination. You can Ask one of Vihara’s Mentor Who has given 4 Mains Consecutively From 2015.  "Practice Makes a man perfect"

On Exam Day Approach

On top of all these things, the most important thing is how you perform on THE  D - DAY  (June 02, 2019) which matters the most. We would write about how to put your best foot forward on THE D - DAY some time afterwards. 

UPSC Doesn’t Set Question Paper very Tough. It makes you feel the paper Tougher Because of Psychometric Paper Setting Method Being Followed by Question Setters.

It is all how you handle the Stress during that 2 hours of Prelims. Take your Offline Test series Very seriously and Utilize your 2 hours of Test time Completely. Never take any Tests/Quiz very lightly during this 100 days. ( We will write Article for CSAT later )

Try to avoid Group Studies or Group Discussions during this last 100 days, As It affects Decision making while attempting questions during prelims Exam on June 2nd.

"Ex. During Exam pressure you can't Recollect correct answer While attempting Questions on D-Day. you will get Reminded of Lot of answers from your friends while preparing with your Group of friends. It's our personal opinion. It's upto You to take it or not."

Let’s take a small example of the Last three years Question pattern 2016, 2017, 2018.

1.2016 heavily Loaded with Current Affairs ( Banker’s/ Scheme's Prelims :-P )

2.2017 and 2018 prelims have just broken many so-called institutes' Myths and Tricks-Dams. Because We personally Felt the pressure of Eliminating Techniques in 2017 & 2018 prelims. So Never Fall to the Trap of Standard mechanism to solve Prelims Questions. There is no Standard Procedure to Solve Prelims Questions.

3.For A B C D type questions Always take great care to attempt them. If you have never heard about that Question and options, It’s better to leave that Question. -2.66 marks play a major role in your Selection process.

4.There are no Ideal Attempts (Max No of questions to be Attempted ) in prelims. It’s Depends on your Accuracy and your Instinct. Always Try to Follow your instinct in Crucial Periods of marking the answer. 

5.While solving the test series, try answering the questions and then check if your answers are right. If not, check for the logic of your answering and rectify your thinking process. If you are not understanding how to do it. Please Feel Free to Reach to us, We will sort it Out. It would help you develop your own elimination skills and logical guesswork.

Till then, start revising all static, dynamic parts of the syllabus, solve as many quality MCQ’s as possible, gain a solid momentum and confidence in your preparation, stay calm, stay fit, stay healthy.

All the best wishes, Happy Reading at Vihara.

With Warm Love and Best Wishes,

Vihara Study Hall

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