[UPSC Interview 2022] – Transcript #268 : Manoj Soni Board, Geography Optional, series, exercising Hobby

Date of Interview: 28th March, forenoon session
Board: Manoj Soni sir
Background: Btech plastic technology
Hobbies: watching comedy series, exercising
Optional: Geography
Gautam Buddha nagar

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Chairman

1. Your picture has a moustache, why did you remove it?
2. Does it give a serious look?
3. What kind of comedy series do you watch
4. Which series did you watch recently
5. Have you seen standup comedy
6. What are cardiovascular exercises?
7. Do you do then or teach them too?
8. What does a plastic engineer do?

Member 1

1. Largest island in the world?
2. Which country has control over it?
3. A famous institute for plastic technology?
4. Where is it?
5. What courses does it teach?

Member 2

1. Latitude and longitude of UPSC bhawan
2. Latitude and longitude of Noida
3. What is India’s rank in happiness index, does it reflect true picture. Does having moustaches help with happiness?
4. Is ban on single use plastics good?

Member 3

1. Heard about the great Pacific garbage patch?
2. Ocean currents in great Pacific garbage patch?
3. Why is it formed?
4. Can oceans be cleaned by such initiatives?
5. What initiatives have been taken?
6. How is ocean cleanup funded?
7. How to manage plastic wastes?
8. Repo rate?
9. How does it impact?
10. Reverse repo rate?
11. How does it impact?

Member 4

1. India’s geography, two pros and 2 cons
2. Should India focus on maritime power or continental power?
3. Is China a maritime power?
4. Should we have unified studies for Himalayas?

Soni sir
Three policies of the government or schemes in the last 75 years which you feel we should change?
Should we remove socialism from the preamble?
Usa is a welfare state and not socialist
Chairman sir, your interview is over. Thank you.

Some other questions, I’m not able to recollect.
Experience – was very cordial. The conversation was natural.
No one interrupted that’s why the questions may not be as much as are asked in a mock. Even the questions asked randomly didn’t feel like that.
Mocks- 20+, most questions were around my daf so giving mocks helped in answering and presenting better.