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Date of Interview: 23/03/23, Session – Forenoon
Board: M. Sathiyavathy Ma’am
( one female member + 3 male members)
Optional: PSIR
Home State: Uttarakhand
Background: Mathematics
Time Duration: 29 minutes
I was third to go
DAF keywords – Haridwar, Non fiction books, Cricket, Quiz
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Chairman
Ma’am read aloud the whole DAF, other members were taking note of the same.
1. What are you doing after graduation? Are you working?
2.You are from UK,tell me after Joshimath issue what will be the impact on tourism?
3. How will you promote tourism in Uttarakhand?
4.How will you bring change when even educated people throw rappers and garbage after eating something like chocolate?
5. How many districts in your state?
6. What is ODOP?
( I also mentioned about One district two product of Uttarakhand)
7. Tell me five districts and ten products of UK?
Member 1
1. How Mathematics can be used in cybersecurity like forensic etc?
2. Today is world meteorological day and asked a question
(Could not comprehend)
3.What is New pension scheme?
Member 2
1. Why PSIR after mathematics?
2. Tell me the tourism potential of UK?(long discussion on this)
3. Tell me what all places/ districts have you visited in Uttarakhand?
4. Chardham yatra Yojana and ensuing widening of roads what will be its impact?
5. How people will go to Badrinath when Joshimath’s road are badly impacted and broken?
Member 3
1. Who is (asked me the name of some quizmaster)?
2.Have you read this book( asked me some book whose name I don’t remember now)
3. Tell me name of five Indian mathematicians of prominence currently working in India?
4. Any mathematician of India you know?
5. Who is Manjul Bhargava?
(Follow up from previous question)
6.He is famous for what and any book written by him?
7. What is Karmakar theory?
8. What is Ramanujam number?
9. Tell me what is special about it?
10. Why Ramanujam died so young and what he used to do?
11. Have you watched the movie based on his life?
12. You read non fiction books, which books have you read recently?( told him three books)
13. Any other book from IR/ foreign affairs?(told him I am primarily interested in IR)
14. Have you watched the movie “ A beautiful mind”?( follow up from above as I told him about book by Sylvia Nasser)
15. What was John Nash famous for?(told about Nash equilibrium, game theory and Nobel prize in economics)
16.He was suffering from some disease, why mathematicians suffer from such diseases and become crazy( everyone in board was very curious and chairperson ma’am even interjected me)
17. Tell me some contemporary issues other than IR/ foreign affairs?
18. You follow budget ,tell me the size of budget of Delhi?
19. Tell me the size of budget of Union government?
20. How much has been the allocation for Science?
21. Tell me how recent bank failure will impact India?
Member 4
1. What are the exact reasons for SVB failure, give me four reasons? ( carry forward from M3’s last question )
2. There is global body for payment to transfer funds?Do you know about it?
3. What India is doing for making payment in local currency? (Like in case of buying oil from Russia?)
4. Tell me about the relationship of India with Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, SriLanka in one- one line.
Ok your interview is over.
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