[UPSC Interview 2024] – Transcript #44: Sanjay Verma Board, Physics Optional, Uttar Pradesh Home State, Vipassana, Running Hobbies

Date of Interview: 27th march, Afternoon
Board: Sanjay Verma sir
Optional: Physics
Home State: Uttar Pradesh
Hobbies: Vipassana, Running
DAF keywords: Vipassana, Running, Kushinagar, Kanpur, Kota, Delhi, Physics optional, Electrical engineering graduate

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Chairman

1 Some random physics book name(can’t recollect), have you read it?
2 Which physics books would you recommend to general public
3 Any documentary that you have watched about physics
4 Have you watched Oppenheimer? What do you think of his character?
5 Should he go to hell or heaven
6 Are you an atheist?
7 You have won bronze medal in interhostel where only 10 members participated and you consider it an achievement
8 How many newspapers did you read today? Which one? Did you see a big full page advertisement of ProMilk by mother dairy, what is it? why companies are selling this?
9 Simplest electrical machine and most complex electrical machine
10 Name few major Indian physicists post independence

Member 1

1 Who started Vipassana
2 What is the core idea of it
3 How do you practise it
4 Can it be practiced while running
5 How Coachings should be regulated and who should regulate it
6 What minimum standards would you prescribe as a DM for a district in which coaching are being run
7 Are we a consumption based economy? Any data to support it.

Member 2 

1 “Give a man a fish you feed him for the day, teach him how to fish you feed him for life” what does it mean
2 “Assault” and “battery” in law difference
3 BraMos Missile name origin
4 NDPS act full form
5 What’s the difference between narcotics drugs and psychotropic substances

Member 3 

1 Rate the places kushinagar, kanpur and delhi order in which they have prepared you for appearing in Civil services
2 What would you do in your district to prevent students like you to move from so many places
3 Defence indigenisation and Atma nirbhar Bharat has relatively slow pickup in country. Give some innovative ideas that should be implemented to improve defence indigenisation
4 How exactly will you promote research in this field
5 There are already 1.6 lakh Startups how would you use startup in defence indigenisations

Member 4 

1 What do you understand by Elasticity of time
2 What do you understand by “freezing gravity” recently done by china in a lab. What is the use of it?
3 Uses of magnets by ISRO
4 Difference between minor and major ports and how are they classified

Board was very cordial and encouraged me to answer.
One to One DAF discussions with Mahesh Bhagwat sir(thorough coverage of DAF topics), Venkata Mohan Sir at LaExcellance.

Many mocks through Quantel (Thanks to Vikram Bhai for arranging all the mocks on short notice), NextIAS, VisionIAS, StudyIQ, Vajirao and Reddy. etc