{"id":225383,"date":"2023-02-07T18:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T12:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=225383"},"modified":"2023-02-07T16:02:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T10:32:45","slug":"upsc-interview-2022-transcript-35-lt-gen-raj-shukla-board-history-optional-hosting-quizzes-pencil-sketching-hobbies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-35-lt-gen-raj-shukla-board-history-optional-hosting-quizzes-pencil-sketching-hobbies\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #35 : Lt. Gen. Raj Shukla Board, History Optional, Hosting quizzes, pencil sketching Hobbies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 01\/02\/23 Afternoon<br \/>\n<strong>Board: <\/strong>Lt. Gen. Raj Shukla (Retd.)<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> History<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> IIT Madras<br \/>\n<strong>Hobbies:<\/strong> Hosting quizzes, pencil sketching<br \/>\n<strong>Your experience in Interview:<\/strong> No pleasantries to make the interviewee comfortable. Expressionless faces. Slight smiles at times. Entire board was attentive to the answers. Overall good experience.<br \/>\nUtility of mocks or O2O (if any)- Reduces the fear of facing the real board, expands the number of probable questions.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/#it2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Difference between hosting and participating in quizzes {DAF}<\/li>\n<li>Difference in skillset for quizzes and spellbee<\/li>\n<li>Agniveer programme: is it good (few crossquestions including militarisation of society)<\/li>\n<li>Why is USA an economic superpower?<\/li>\n<li>Like like USA, should not India also bring in talents from across the globe to work for India (few cross questions)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong>Member 1 <\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Questions on development &#8211; my graduation subject)<\/li>\n<li>Difference between economic growth and economic development (few cross questions like which should be given more importance)<\/li>\n<li>How to bring down inequality in society?<\/li>\n<li>What measures will you take to bring down unemployment?<\/li>\n<li>Is full employment possible?<\/li>\n<li>What are the types of unemployment?<\/li>\n<li>What is India&#8217;s current unemployment rate? How much is this per cent in numbers?<\/li>\n<li>How much is the educated unemployment in India?<\/li>\n<li>Relationship between unemployment and khalistan movement in Punjab?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong>Member 2 <\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>(questions on optional history and DAF pencil sketching)<\/li>\n<li>What do you mean by rewriting history?Do you agree with that? Any examples<\/li>\n<li>History is always written by victors. Elaborate<\/li>\n<li>What is your take on Malabar rebellion of 1921?<\/li>\n<li>Where the mind is without fear and head is held high, to that freedom let my country awake? What do you understand by this?<\/li>\n<li>What is the role of cartoons in society?<\/li>\n<li>Name any Indian cartoonist and his famous cartoon<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong>Member 3 <\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>(questions on Kerala and IR)<\/li>\n<li>What methods can be taken from Kerala&#8217;s promotion of tourism to improve tourism in India?<\/li>\n<li>What are the problems faced by migrants in gulf countries?<\/li>\n<li>What steps are being taken by the government to alleviate such problems?<\/li>\n<li>Name the latin american leader who came back to power recently after jail term over corruption charges? What are his contributions?<\/li>\n<li>What is BRICS?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong>Member 4 <\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>(12th standard science questions)<\/li>\n<li>What is the use of a transformer?<\/li>\n<li>Why does it take more time to cook food in higher altitudes<\/li>\n<li>What is the principle behind a pressure cooker?<\/li>\n<li>What is escape velocity? How much is it?<\/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 2023: <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: 01\/02\/23 Afternoon Board: Lt. Gen. Raj Shukla (Retd.) Optional: History Background: IIT Madras Hobbies: Hosting quizzes, pencil sketching Your experience in Interview: No pleasantries to make the interviewee comfortable. Expressionless faces. Slight smiles at times. Entire board was attentive to the answers. Overall good experience. Utility of mocks or O2O (if any)-&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-35-lt-gen-raj-shukla-board-history-optional-hosting-quizzes-pencil-sketching-hobbies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #35 : Lt. Gen. Raj Shukla Board, History Optional, Hosting quizzes, pencil sketching 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":[11255,7977,11254,11264,4493,11258],"class_list":["post-225383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-11255","tag-history","tag-interview_transcript2022","tag-pencil-sketching","tag-quizzing","tag-gen-raj-shukla","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225383","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=225383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}