{"id":181207,"date":"2022-04-26T18:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T12:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=181207"},"modified":"2022-04-26T11:24:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T05:54:20","slug":"upsc-interview-2021-transcript-79-tca-anant-board-anthropology-optional-singing-sports-hobbies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2021-transcript-79-tca-anant-board-anthropology-optional-singing-sports-hobbies\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2021] \u2013 Transcript #79 : TCA Anant Board, Anthropology Optional, Singing, Sports Hobbies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 6 Apr, 9AM session<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> TCA Anant<br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\"><strong>Optional:<\/strong> Anthropology<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Background:<\/strong> HBTU, Kanpur (Edible Oil Technology)<br \/>\n<strong>Employee:<\/strong> (if any)- 1 year edible oil industry, data analytics freelance<br \/>\n<strong>Hobbies:<\/strong> singing, watching football and tennis, meditation<\/p>\n<p>Your experience in interview-<\/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<li>Entry: Cordial exchange of greetings, told to remove shield and mask<br \/>\nGiven wheel wali chair so it was not a good start as the chair moved as I was sitting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Chairman:<\/strong> Reading my DAF, no introduction asked<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What exactly was your engineering branch?<\/li>\n<li>What does an edible oil engineer do?<\/li>\n<li>Which oil is a good oil?<\/li>\n<li>what are types of refining?<\/li>\n<li>Is kacchi ghani a physically refined oil or just marketing?<\/li>\n<li>What is famous about Varanasi (hometown)? Name some of them.<\/li>\n<li>Is Olive oil the best edible oil?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 1:<\/strong> Mam was extremely cordial and always maintained eye -contact<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Has Varanasi finally arrived in terms of development?<\/li>\n<li>Completely motorizing the streets of varanasi, is it a good idea?<\/li>\n<li>what are two pressing issues in Varanasi?<\/li>\n<li>What is a GI tag?<\/li>\n<li>Are patents and GI tag the same<\/li>\n<li>what is a patent?<\/li>\n<li>Name any other GI tag product from varanasi?<\/li>\n<li>Is it given only for processed goods or agri products also included?<\/li>\n<li>GI tags from UP? Is Bhadohi Carpet given GI tag?<\/li>\n<li>Name some agri related GI tags from outside UP? (kadaknath chicken was my answer)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>you bave been good at studies, so why edible oil in engineering?<\/li>\n<li>You have worked in nellore, name one port in the city<\/li>\n<li>Why do we eat palm oil a lot?<\/li>\n<li>why coconut oil n kerala and mustard oil in north?<\/li>\n<li>Is migration good? : I used a harsh word double edged sword in place of pros and cons ( Gave the push -pull factors )<\/li>\n<li>Will you as migrant in Kerala cadre be called an asset?<\/li>\n<li>which oils should we eat ( repetition, here I feel they were curious and interview went little bit about their interests and not mine)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 3:<\/strong> Reading my expressions all through the interview<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>spoke so slowly : What are the reasons of smog in Delhi?<\/li>\n<li>how to fight stubble burning?<\/li>\n<li>Use of fly ash? Who is the biggest buyer of fly ash?<\/li>\n<li>what are its uses? Why not used in road making extensively?<\/li>\n<li>How is mustard oil refined<\/li>\n<li>Why chemical refining is avoided in this process?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 4:<\/strong> Maam was again cordial, added a Ji to my name..<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Who are the vulnerable sections in society<\/li>\n<li>what is government doing for disabled section<\/li>\n<li>What is govt. Doing for ST women?<\/li>\n<li>how an we improve our governance system?<\/li>\n<li>Can we have better women- centric policies<\/li>\n<li>have you learnt music professionally?<\/li>\n<li>My honest answer: It was optional subject along with Drawing. As soon as I got the opportunity out of drawing, I took it but eventually performed in school and college<\/li>\n<li>who is your fav singer and why?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Chairman:<\/strong> your interview is over. You may get up.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It was not on my strengths of opinion based questions but my weakness on graduation questions.<\/li>\n<li>My English was very normal and I was feeling thirsty in the interview room due to that shield and mask thing.<\/li>\n<li>Utility of mocks (if any)- Had given 1 mock&#8230;not much as they were focussed on CA but it was not asked in my interview<\/li>\n<li>Now only result will tell as they make everyone comfortable in the interview room<\/li>\n<li>This was my experience in my 1st interview\u00a0 in 3 attempts<\/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: 6 Apr, 9AM session Board: TCA Anant Optional: Anthropology Background: HBTU, Kanpur (Edible Oil Technology) Employee: (if any)- 1 year edible oil industry, data analytics freelance Hobbies: singing, watching football and tennis, meditation Your experience in interview- To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2021,\u00a0visit this page Entry: Cordial exchange of greetings, told&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2021-transcript-79-tca-anant-board-anthropology-optional-singing-sports-hobbies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2021] \u2013 Transcript #79 : TCA Anant Board, Anthropology Optional, Singing, Sports Hobbies<\/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":[8094,209,8809,1692,7973,1677,10704,9608],"class_list":["post-181207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-8094","tag-anthropology","tag-interview_transcript2021","tag-meditation","tag-singing","tag-sports_hobby","tag-tca_anant2021","tag-tennis","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181207","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=181207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}