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Interview Duration: 25-30 min
Board: M Sathyavathy Ma’am
Optional: Economics
Hobbies: Football, Running, Data analytics
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Chairman
- Tell me what are you doing after graduation. Where are you working?
- what’s the selection process
- why did you leave your job
- why are you suitable for CS
- Whats the administrative approach when you get posted to other states. Will your approach change?
Member 1
- why India despite having 1.3 billion population is not a sporting nation ?(daf)
- what can you do as an admistrator to give sports an edge ?
- how can electronics and Information & communication technology can help in administration
- other Work ex related questions
Member 2
- what’s the latest inflation rate (optional)
- what can govt do
- what is data protection act
Member 3
- what are the sports attributes that can help in pub administration
- why India has performed well in Paralympic but not so well in Olympics.
- What could be the reason ?
- do you know there was one ias officer who won the medal ? Who is he and why ?
Member 4
- What’s the difference between pace and speed of running (hobby)
- I think marketing is the biggest obstacle in achieving growth in agriculture? Do you agree and why
- what can be done for perishable items like vegetables
- what was the recent agitation by farmers about ?
My interview was fully based on daf and 1-2 optional questions
Utility of mocks: Took around 5-6 mocks and found it useful purely for practice and to get into flow.
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(This transcript has been posted by a community member of ForumIAS)