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Date of Interview: 5 March
Board: lt.Gen Raj Shukla sir
Optional: Geography
Home State: Gujarat
Background: Computer Engineering
Last one to go in forenoon session.
DAF keywords: Gujarat, Surat, Diamond, Geography, Computer Engineering, Blood donation, AI
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Chairman
1. Where are you from? I said Gujarat
(Long monologue on Gujarat’s entrepreneurship culture)
2. what is special about Gujarat
3. why there is entrepreneurial spirit in gujarat? – I said risk taking ability
4. compare risk taking ability of Gujarati’s and Marwadi’s
5. compare with Parsis and sikhs
6. Are Parsis ethical in business?
Member 1
1. how Gujarat is having entrepreneurship in their culture
2. does community has a role in it or the government has a role in it
3. how to cultivate entrepreneurship in people
4. why Usa has more startups then gujarat
Member 2
1. What were you doing since 5 years
2. I think you dont have risk taking ability or entrepreneurship skills bcz u r preparing since 5 years
3. difference between lab grown and real diamonds
4. future of diamond industry in surat.
5. you took Sanskrit in 10 standard , do you know anything right now?
Member 3
1. how geography is influencing IR
2. how will you use your computer engineering in governance
3. what government is doing in resolving day to day problems through technology
4. how E governance is governing people and what are the new changes
5. various frauds are happening because of AI and other technology, how to resolve it
6. how to stop fraduent calls and unsolicited msgs and way forward
Member 4
1. What is crypto currency
2. what government is doing in it
3. what are trends in it
4. why people are investing in it
5. what are pros and cons
Interview lasted 30-35 mins and was more on opinion based rather than DAF based.
Mocks taken: Samkalp, Vajiram, NextIas, Vajirao, Onlyias, Quantel
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