{"id":136067,"date":"2021-09-23T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T04:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=136067"},"modified":"2021-09-22T16:59:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T11:29:34","slug":"upsc-interview-2020-transcript-191-tca-anant-board-andaman-and-nicobar-home-state-psir-optional-reading-books-travelling-hobbies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2020-transcript-191-tca-anant-board-andaman-and-nicobar-home-state-psir-optional-reading-books-travelling-hobbies\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2020] \u2013 Transcript #191 :TCA Anant\u00a0 Board, Andaman and Nicobar Home State, PSIR Optional, Reading books, Travelling Hobbies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 07 Sep 2021<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> TCA Anant<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> PSIR<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> B.Tech in Petroleum Engineering, 2018 &#8211; IIT ISM Dhanbad<br \/>\n<strong>Working in<\/strong> Schlumberger (oil and gas firm)<br \/>\n<strong>Hobbies:<\/strong> Reading books and Travelling<br \/>\n<b>Home State: <\/b>Andaman and Nicobar\/ UT<br \/>\n<strong>Preference:<\/strong> Indian Foreign Services<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2020,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/#note3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>No introduction, no time to calm down or get acquainted<\/li>\n<li>Basic questions on what I am doing, what is my role in the company, what does it do, all this in a casual manner while flipping through DAF<\/li>\n<li>Where all I have actually lived? &#8211; no follow up<\/li>\n<li>From DAF &#8211; About an international organisation I worked with in university that facilitates student exchange &#8211; what did I learn from foreigner interns who visited India?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What is Quad? Who are the members? Is it beneficial for India?<\/li>\n<li>Did India do the right thing by aligning with the unipolar world leader (I respectfully argued that world is not unipolar and then defended the stance)<\/li>\n<li>With crude oil running out in next 40 years (I respectfully argued that not in 40 years) &#8211; he gave space for me to counter mid question by asking whether I agree or not (in both unipolar world questions and crude oil question)<\/li>\n<li>Assume oil ending in 100 years &#8211; paint a picture of that world without oil, how will it be?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Making handsome money &#8211; Why Civil services?<\/li>\n<li>Which book you read &#8211; it was an IR book so directed to another question on Indo Pacific and what it means, why important<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Asked about have you worked in any NGO in Mumbai? &#8211; said no, she didn\u2019t follow up<\/li>\n<li>Name any three Heath sector schemes &#8211; I named any random three, no followup<\/li>\n<li>How to handle COVID (took a moment for fake thinking &#8211; she further expanded the question in that time to clarify that I can also say what is being done)<\/li>\n<li>How to handle COVID in congested spaces &#8211; I explained Dharavi Model<\/li>\n<li>Out of the blue &#8211; what is Account? (I have zero background in the subject) &#8211; I looked surprised, she explained she just wanted to know my understanding of what accounting is &#8211; explained that simply, no follow up<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Name the Submarine that was grounded in an accident in Visakhapatnam (I can\u2019t recall Sir)<\/li>\n<li>Which tribe is going extinct in Port Blair (my birth place, also asked how did I end up being born there )<\/li>\n<li>Important monument in Port Blair<\/li>\n<li>Marine life of Andaman &#8211; I can&#8217;t recall Sir<\/li>\n<li>According to us, your firm, Schlumberger is not doing well, what is your opinion (perhaps a loyalty test: I defended my firm)<\/li>\n<li>Questions of Petroleum engineering &#8211; what is the use of Bentonite clay? What are it\u2019s alternatives? What is 80\/20 in bitumen? &#8211; didn\u2019t know that last two so said I can\u2019t recall sir, he said okay and pointed to Chairman sir to carry forward<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Chairman sir<\/strong> &#8211; pointed for me to leave, you can go now, done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Observations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>By design or inadvertently &#8211; the board didn\u2019t ask follow-up questions for any question at all. There was zero grillings on any stance.<\/li>\n<li>I tend to move my hands a lot while speaking, one board member was continuously watching that.<\/li>\n<li>M5 ended eye contact the moment I started answering anything confidently<\/li>\n<li>No in-depth questions on IR, nothing out of DAF, it did feel like the last interview of the day for them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>For full Interview Preparation Guide:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click Here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Current Affairs For UPSC Exam 2021:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/current-affairs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong>(This transcript has been posted by a community member of ForumIAS)<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Interview: 07 Sep 2021 Board: TCA Anant Optional: PSIR Background: B.Tech in Petroleum Engineering, 2018 &#8211; IIT ISM Dhanbad Working in Schlumberger (oil and gas firm) Hobbies: Reading books and Travelling Home State: Andaman and Nicobar\/ UT Preference: Indian Foreign Services To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2020,\u00a0visit this page Chairman No introduction,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2020-transcript-191-tca-anant-board-andaman-and-nicobar-home-state-psir-optional-reading-books-travelling-hobbies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2020] \u2013 Transcript #191 :TCA Anant\u00a0 Board, Andaman and Nicobar Home State, PSIR Optional, Reading books, Travelling Hobbies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":127925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8784,9886,8810,1679,1686,9244,7989],"class_list":["post-136067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public","tag-8784","tag-andaman-and-nicobar","tag-interview_transcript2020","tag-psir","tag-reading_books","tag-tca_anant2020","tag-travelling","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/TCA-Anant.png?fit=506%2C422&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}