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UPSC INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT 2020 - Part I

  • Writer: Root
    Root
  • Mar 22, 2020
  • 2 min read

UPSC Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2019

Insight and a way forward 2020:



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


Read more About Our Prelims Strategy here at:


UPSC 2019 Interview Transcript
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

Updated: Feb 28, 2019


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?

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.



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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