[UPSC Interview 2025] – Transcript #72: Sheel Vardhan Board, PSIR Optional, Doctor

Date of Interview: 18/12/2025
Board: Sheel Vardhan Sir
Optional: PSIR
DAF Keywords: Doctor, PSIR, Geopolitics, Domestic politics
Interview Duration – 25 min

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Chairman

1. Have you ever been too rural India ?
2.What anxieties do you find in Rural youth ?
3.What 3 skills would you give’em to alleviate their anxiety ?
4. What’s Demographic dividend ? Is it not turning into a burden ?

Member 1

: Only 1 question
What health problems do you feel farmers involved in intensive agriculture face ?

Member 2

1. Is not US a declining power ?
2. Can India become a superpower ?
3. What are India’s potential ?
4. What India needs to do to become one ?

Member 3

1. Political parties in Andhra ?
2. What tussle is going on in the Congress party in Karnataka ? Should not Congress high command fulfill the promise which it gave to DK Shivkumar ?
3. What recent trends you observe in Indian Politics ? I said emergence of women as a vote bank, then the viva shifted towards women….
4. Should women be involved in development planing ?
5. Women can be corrupt as well ? Don’t you think ?
6. Ethical situation – you are a head of a development project and some major mistake happens. What will you do ?

Member 4

1. Do you watch movies ?
2. Why South Indian movies are doing well than Bollywood movies ?
3. Why in India, the craze about govt jobs is more ?

Difference between Mocks and real interviews ? Mock interviews are like viva, real interview flows like intellectual conversation, in mocks you can predict questions and rehearse them, here the questions are highly unpredictable…….you sit on equal footing with the board members…….round table and six same size chairs are placed and you are seated on one of them implies that it’s a conversation.