[UPSC Interview 2023] – Transcript #158: Bidyut Behari Swain Board, Commerce & Accountancy Optional, Arunachal Pradesh Home State, JRF, writing Hobbies

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Date of Interview: 28-02-24 (forenoon)
Board: Bidyut Behari Swain
Optional: Commerce & Accountancy
Home State: Arunachal Pradesh
Hobbies: Writing (others not asked)
Daf- JRF, writing
Time- around 35 mins


Chairman

Tell me about Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura (I am from NE)

  1. Tell me about JRF
  2. How to boost our exports
  3. Why IAS first choice, why not IFS?
  4. If you were posted in a small backward district, what will you do to uplift its economy?

Member 1

  1. What is Organisation Theory and behavior?
  2. What is Financial Management?
  3. Group dynamics
  4. How to align individuals’ and organisation’s goals?
  5. Minimum Wages Act
  6. What are the measures in place to deal with stressed assests?

Member 2

  1. How will you audit a company’s Balance sheet and Profit&Loss Account?
  2. Tell me about e-commerce.
  3. Maslow’s need hierarchy
  4. Industrial relations

Member 3

  1. General Accounting Principals
  2. National Company Law Tribunal

Others

  1. What do you write? (Hobby)
  2. Did you take coaching?
  3. How did you prepare for this exam?

I’ve forgotton some questions.

Experience- very cordial board, listened very patiently, laughed together a few times.

Mock- Shankar IAS (only good for gaining some experience or feel of how interviews go, nothing similar asked)



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