[UPSC Interview 2024] – Transcript #17: Sanjay Verma Sir Board, Anthropology Optional, Uttar Pradesh Home State, Chess Hobby

Date of Interview: 25/03/2025 (FN)
Board: Sanjay Verma Sir
Optional: Anthropology
Home State: Uttar Pradesh
Employee: Banking
Hobby: Chess
DAF: Delhi, UP,Geopolitical analysis, maths ,

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Chairman

1. Are you still in Bank?
2. Do you regret leaving the bank?
3. Aspirants have managed both work as well as preparation. Why not you?
4. Is open source intelligence misnomer?
Some monologue on intelligence leak issue of America and opinion

Member 1

1. what is the difference between Mental maths and maths?
2. tell name of 5 countries in Indo Pacific, middle east and north Africa
3. How do you anthropologically relate them?
4. What is the concept of Smart City?
5. Has delhi achieve any component of Smart City?
6. What is Gyanpeet award and recent awardee? ( I said that maam I am not sure about this but if you allow I can make a guess, She declined and went ahead with another question. Though I was thinking right)

Member 2

1. Is UN Failing to fulfill its mandate in two ongoing war?
2. If you were secretary general what would have been your approach?
3. will AI took over the world?
4. Where did the human originate? and timeline related to it.
5. 1960 budget as gamble of monsoon? and some long discussion on current dependence on monsoon.

Member 3

1. What is the concept of singularity?
2. Is quantum computer can be feasible? What is the difficulty?
3. What is Rare Earth Elements? Difference between rare earth mineral and rare earth elements? Why is it called Rare Earth

Member 4

1. IVC Script and controversy
2. Probable origin and recent research on it.

Overall Experience: Good and questions were mostly daf based.

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