{"id":181205,"date":"2022-04-26T14:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T08:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=181205"},"modified":"2022-04-26T10:30:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T05:00:23","slug":"upsc-interview-2021-transcript-77-m-sathyavathy-maam-board-commerce-accountancy-optional-punjab-pcs-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2021-transcript-77-m-sathyavathy-maam-board-commerce-accountancy-optional-punjab-pcs-service\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2021] \u2013 Transcript #77 : M Sathyavathy Ma\u2019am Board, Commerce &#038; Accountancy Optional, Punjab PCS Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 12th April, Forenoon<br \/>\n<b>Board:<\/b>\u00a0M Sathyavathy Ma\u2019am<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Commerce &amp; Accountancy<br \/>\n<strong>Service:<\/strong> Punjab PCS<br \/>\n<strong>Work-ex:<\/strong> Oyo, PwC<\/p>\n<p>Asked to remove the face shield and to lower the mask for verification, and then mask remained on throughout the interview.<\/p>\n<p>Chairperson read aloud my academic details, work-ex, hobbies, etc.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2021,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/#int2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Chairperson<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>So aren&#8217;t you practising CA now?<\/li>\n<li>Oh, so you are in state services, which service?<\/li>\n<li>Why did you receive this certificate of appreciation?\u00a0 (Awards: Certificate of Appreciation for my election work)<\/li>\n<li>Since now you have ground experience of elections, tell me 3 major challenges in our elections? Some follow-up questions on each challenge<\/li>\n<li>Monologue on low voter participation. How to increase voter participation?<\/li>\n<li>Isn&#8217;t it true that every person needs some incentive to perform their duty? Follow-ups on my answer<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We spend 2-3% of GDP on defence. Is it justified?<\/li>\n<li>Since you have been through process if both state public service commission and upsc. What&#8217;s the difference between the two?<\/li>\n<li>Who were the members of state psc?<\/li>\n<li>Tell me top 5 ranks of army (Knew only 2)<\/li>\n<li>Benefits of evm over ballot paper<\/li>\n<li>What is VVPAT?<\/li>\n<li>Why only Rs 1,2,5,10 denominated notes or coins. Why not 3 or 4 also?<\/li>\n<li>Do you invest in stock market?<\/li>\n<li>Intraday or Long term?<\/li>\n<li>Is investment in stock market good?<\/li>\n<li>Then why govt servants are not allowed to invest in stock market?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Difference between FIRR and EROR (Didn&#8217;t know)<\/li>\n<li>What is NPV<\/li>\n<li>Since you have worked in PwC. Why was PwC involved in an issue that impacted its goodwill and what lessons can we draw from it?<\/li>\n<li>Why did Oyo&#8217;s business model face challenges?<\/li>\n<li>Who wrote Vande Matram and what is the controversy surrounding it. (Didn&#8217;t know)<\/li>\n<li>Distance between my hometown and home district?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Don&#8217;t remember<\/li>\n<li>Impact of social media on students<\/li>\n<li>Why students spend less time in sports?<\/li>\n<li>What is self radicalization? (Didn&#8217;t know)<\/li>\n<li>What is Forensic Accounting? (Didn&#8217;t know this but mentioned that I hv read about Forensic audit)<\/li>\n<li>What are shell companies?<\/li>\n<li>What is Round Tripping?<\/li>\n<li>Why did you study so many subjects in Class 10?<\/li>\n<li>What did you study in environment?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What is Performance Audit?<\/li>\n<li>What is IndAS?<\/li>\n<li>Applicability of IndAS<\/li>\n<li>Three functions of ICAI<\/li>\n<li>Supreme Audit Institutions (Didn&#8217;t know)<\/li>\n<li>What is NFRA and trigger point for setting it up<\/li>\n<li>Recent amendments in ICAI act and concerns around it.<\/li>\n<li>What is audit plan and its advantages?.<\/li>\n<li>Cordial board, pleasant experience and some light moments as well. Towards the last leg, members had started looking at the clock, interview lasted for ~35 mins.<\/li>\n<li>Utility of mocks &#8211; Very helpful. 3-4 questions repeated. Helped in voice modulation, keeping answers crisp and in indentifying weak areas. One to one with Khan sir at the end was a booster.<\/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 2022:\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: 12th April, Forenoon Board:\u00a0M Sathyavathy Ma\u2019am Optional: Commerce &amp; Accountancy Service: Punjab PCS Work-ex: Oyo, PwC Asked to remove the face shield and to lower the mask for verification, and then mask remained on throughout the interview. Chairperson read aloud my academic details, work-ex, hobbies, etc. To view all IAS Interview Transcripts&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2021-transcript-77-m-sathyavathy-maam-board-commerce-accountancy-optional-punjab-pcs-service\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2021] \u2013 Transcript #77 : M Sathyavathy Ma\u2019am Board, Commerce &#038; Accountancy Optional, Punjab PCS Service<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8094,9389,8809,10713],"class_list":["post-181205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-8094","tag-commerce_accountancy","tag-interview_transcript2021","tag-sathiyavathy_board2021","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181205","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}