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Date of Interview: 23/02/2023 , Afternoon 5th to go
Board: Smita Nagraj
Background: Btech Mechanical from NIT Trichy, 2019
Home State: Telangana
Hobbies: Playing Cricket, Travelling
Optional: Anthropology
4th attempt, 2nd interview
Time: around 30 mins(but I feel it doesn’t matter at all)
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Chairman
- You are from Adilabad, then went to hyderabad, to trichy.. dont you like north india and you have travelling as hobby? jusitfy it
- Since you stayed in delhi after 2019, you must have joined coaching?
- Why didnt you join? you realised it is waste of time or you dont like it?
- As you enrolled in test series, does it really help? What about people who cannot afford?
- Difference between coaching institutes in Delhi and hyderbad?
- What did you learn from your college?
- If you are an introvert, how come you are confident now or whether you are faking confidence infront of us? (I said initially i want to fake my confidence but after conversing with you mam it is coming naturally)
- Why are you into this administrative stuff, You would have join politics?
- Why youth like you hesitate to join politics?
Member 1
- What suggestion would you give to person of age between 22-28 who want to travel solo all over india?
- I appreciate you used term ‘her’, then what will you suggest for girl who is interested in solo travelling?
- How will you rate your knowledge in mechanical engineering in scale of 1 to 10?
- Why did you rate such low? Do you think Nit trichy is failing to produce a good engineer?
- Why india is lagging behind STEM and people are packing there bags to fly to US?
- Solutions for this problem?
Member 2
- You mentioned that u came from backward district, how do you rate backwardness?
- Doesnt your district people feel bad that you pointed as backward?
- How did naxalism decreased in your district?
- You said thanks to telangana and central govt and YOu dont want to join politics?
- You come from JNV, then what is PM SHRI?
- What was the issue between telangana and Central govt regarding paddy during early 2022?
- What is this POlice merit scholarship? Why only to children of police personnel? DOnt you feel it is discriminative?
Member 3
- How did you prepare for this interview physically and Psychologically? he said i want answer from an introvert person bcs im also introvert
- Why air india ordered such bulky amount of planes? Dont they have it?
- DId you fly in Air india plane? ( I said i flew only once in my life that too in indigo)
- SO you persue your hobby travelling only by bus or train?
- There is death after life, but do you agree there is life after death? ( I said as per bhagawadgita there is transmigration of soul and death happens
only to body and not soul and also with progress of science i hope we will definitely hack death and become amar one day)
Member 4
- Throughout course of history, Humans are binary being, one is strong person while another is weak and strong always wins? Do you agree
- Then India focuses on vasudhaiva kutumbakam which values every one are equal? how do you balance it?
- You mentioned meditation earlier, then does it really helpful to strong as well as weak?
- DO you become strong then, or you are weak as you claimed earlier?
Chairman
- Anthropology study marriage, is it union between strong and weak partner? ( i said union between both strong in all aspect physically, mentally and spiritually)
- but practically speaking, our society accept one as strong and another as weak? ( i said if it is true then i suggest weak to do medidation and become strong like me)
Feeling – Felt more like conversation rather a question answer session
Utility of mocks – It depends on person to person and it just provide you confidence to speak infront of 5peoples
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