{"id":230730,"date":"2023-03-17T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T14:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=230730"},"modified":"2023-03-17T09:59:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T04:29:49","slug":"upsc-interview-2022-transcript-178-smita-nagraj-board-sociology-optional-maharashtra-home-state-cricket-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-178-smita-nagraj-board-sociology-optional-maharashtra-home-state-cricket-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #178 : Smita Nagraj Board, Sociology Optional, Maharashtra Home State, cricket Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 24th February, forenoon 6th to go<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Smita Nagraj ma&#8217;am<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Sociology<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> Physics ( Fergusson college )<br \/>\n<strong>Profession:<\/strong> no work exp<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Maharashtra<br \/>\n<strong>Hobbies:<\/strong> watching cricket, playing tabla( no question asked)<\/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<h2><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>You are from Sindhudurg so tell me about history of Sindhudurg and how it is linked to current times<\/li>\n<li>Tell me, if someone speaks negative about personalities like Chatrapati shivaji maharaj then there erupts violence so do you think that our society has became intolerant?<\/li>\n<li>Suppose you are commissioner of one municipality and there is illegal encroachment you have given orders to evict it, then what will you do?<\/li>\n<li>Do you think laws favour powerful?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Member said that I read it somewhere during my graduation that Marathas knew how to destroy than to construct what are your views?<\/li>\n<li>What you think battle of Panipat was it defeat of strategy or defeat of diplomacy?<\/li>\n<li>Why India is not able to win test series in south africa?<\/li>\n<li>Which book you have recently or in last month? ( i told three thousand stitches by Sudha Murthy) then he asked what was it about?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>( he was in some grilling mood I thought)<br \/>\nInitially he told me you have good CGPA and academics is also good so you must be good in sociology too.. then he asked some concept related to sociology.. and I heard it for first time\u00a0and then he seemed little surprised<\/li>\n<li>Then he said ok and asked about tell me what are demographic challenges we are facing in India and is government doing enough to tackle those challenges? What other steps <a class=\"text-entity-link\" dir=\"auto\" data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityBotCommand\">\/policies<\/a>\u00a0we can take?<\/li>\n<li>Are we agriculture surplus or agriculture deficit<\/li>\n<li>What steps government taking for increasing oil production<\/li>\n<li>One or two more questions i might be missing<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Tushar you are from Fergusson college so tell me who were the founders of Fergusson college?<\/li>\n<li>Who was Fergusson?<\/li>\n<li>Tell me anyone famous personality from your college<\/li>\n<li>You have got inspire scholarship so suppose you have given opportunity to make changes in this policy what changes you will make?<\/li>\n<li>Is this scholarship helping students? Shall we discontinue it?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>There are incidents of corruption in Maharashtra what steps you will suggest to reduce it?<\/li>\n<li>Why south Indian movies are more successful than Bollywood movies?<\/li>\n<li>What was turning point in yesterday&#8217;s match ( IND vs AUS T20 women&#8217;s World Cup semifinal)<\/li>\n<li>Was last over bowled by India also turning point?<\/li>\n<li>What is current status of untouchability in Maharashtra? What steps you will suggest to reduce it?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Chairperson-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your interview is over, thank you<br \/>\nI said thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Overall feeling cordial board, mostly from DAF and opinion based. Few questions repeated from mocks<\/p>\n<p><strong>Utility of mocks- I<\/strong> gave around 10 mocks just to get my presentation body language posture correct. In my opinion around 5\/6 mocks would help to get acquainted with the formalities and also they help to improve presentation and structure of answers<\/p>\n<p>I felt chahal academy&#8217;s mock near to my actual interview. KSG especially one to one with Khan sir is also good. Apart from that vajirao and Reddy, unacademy were also decent.<br \/>\nApart from that I used to discuss with my peer group!<\/p>\n<p>All the best for others<\/p>\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: 24th February, forenoon 6th to go Board: Smita Nagraj ma&#8217;am Optional: Sociology Background: Physics ( Fergusson college ) Profession: no work exp Home State: Maharashtra Hobbies: watching cricket, playing tabla( no question asked) To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2022, visit this page Chairman You are from Sindhudurg so tell me about&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-178-smita-nagraj-board-sociology-optional-maharashtra-home-state-cricket-hobby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #178 : Smita Nagraj Board, Sociology Optional, Maharashtra Home State, cricket Hobby<\/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":[11255,11254,2043,11269,1691,1677],"class_list":["post-230730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-11255","tag-interview_transcript2022","tag-maharashtra","tag-smita_nagraj2022","tag-sociology","tag-sports_hobby","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":5,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698407989},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230730","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=230730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}