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Date of Interview:16 -09-2021
Board: Satyavathi ma’am board
Optional: Anthropology
Background: Mech engg
Home State: Rajasthan
Hobbies: watching historical documentaries, travelling, football
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Chairman
- Put face shield on lap, remove mask, put mask back on. Read out my DAF aloud
- So what have u been doing since you graduated in 2018?
- Are you product of kota coaching? How was ur experience?
- Would u like ur younger brother to join kota coaching institutes?
- Did u join upsc coaching? Why not? Why students join these coaching institute?
- Did u do iit coaching within school or apart from school?
- Do you think with only school education one can’t clear JEE What is the problem?
Member 1
- What historical documentaries have you watched?
- Name some Indian documentaries.
- Did u watch any on India’s Economic history?
- Asked questions on economic history of India.
- Bombay Plan.
- Watershed event in indian economic history? Why? What were benefits?
- Which PSU were liberalised? Was it a success?
- Issues faced by govt during land acquisition? Way forward?
Member 2
- continued with documentaries.
- Asked my why I like watching war documentaries.
- Talked about world war 2.
- Reasons. Consequences.
- Role of UN in preventing wars.
- Why Indian soldiers killed on both sides in world war 2?
- Asked azad hind fauj? Battle of kohima. Why japan invaded India? Why invaded from north east?
- Did US join world war 2 from beginning? When it joined and why? Why japan attacked Pearl Harbour? What was US response?
Member 3
- why rajasthan growing so much oilseeds in recent times? Why rajasthan becoming agragarian economy? Govt steps for the same.
- Why mech engg called evergreen branch?
- What is mechatronics and relevance? (Follow up Q)
- Opinion about whatsapp University and godi media.
Member 4
- talked about whatsapp issues and fake news etc (follow up question)
- Travelling hobby – difference between north and south india
- Why India has two football leagues. Name them.
- Which new state created after ww2 that could have caused world war 3?
- When was Israel created?
- Why it was named Israel?
- What is bani israel?
Chairman
Thank you for your interview is over.
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