{"id":238266,"date":"2023-04-18T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T14:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=238266"},"modified":"2023-04-18T04:50:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T23:20:04","slug":"upsc-interview-2022-transcript-259-manoj-soni-board-geography-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-259-manoj-soni-board-geography-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #259 : Manoj Soni Board, Geography Optional,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of interview:<\/strong> 31\/03\/23 Forenoon; 35 minutes around<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Manoj Soni Sir<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:\u00a0<\/strong> Geography<br \/>\n<strong>College-<\/strong> BTech + MTech in EE; IIT Kalyanpur<br \/>\n<strong>Profession (if any)-<\/strong> worked at Qualcomm; currently unemployed<br \/>\n<strong>Other keywords:<\/strong> Varanasi; running; ghats; cricket; old people; Physical education<br \/>\nYour experience in interview-<\/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<p>Please enter; It is advised to wear MASK but you can remove it if you want &#8211; kept wearing it throughout interview<br \/>\n1. You live in varanasi, how does it feel like waking up in the morning everyday? &#8211; surprised by the first question but handled it i guess<br \/>\n2. Kashi Vishvanath corridor banane me administrative challenges? &#8211; told; Which act was used in land vacation? &#8211; said land acquisition act &#8211; sir asked again &#8211; a bit awkward moment &#8211; i retreated on my stance<br \/>\n3. what one thing you observe at ghats apart from being calm and serene? &#8211; sir himself told my prepared answer; i said life is transient, everyone has to die at one point &#8211; sir said vairagi nature <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji emoji-small\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/webogram.org\/a\/img-apple-64\/1f61b.png?w=750&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude1b\" data-path=\".\/img-apple-64\/1f61b.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Members<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Malacca strait geopolitics &#8211; told<br \/>\n2. old age people problems? Don&#8217;t you think older people are themselves responsible for their condition by not interacting with others? old age homes too costly or in poor condition? How do you improve it? &#8211; told<br \/>\n3. difference between lakes and lagoons &#8211; told wrongly;<br \/>\n4. india&#8217;s biggest lagoon &#8211; realised here &#8211; chilika lake <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji emoji-small\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/webogram.org\/a\/img-apple-64\/1f972.png?w=750&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\ud83e\udd72\" data-path=\".\/img-apple-64\/1f972.png\" \/><br \/>\n5. Can a lake have brackish and freshwater both &#8211; said don&#8217;t know exactly but there is a place where the both meet and do not mix<br \/>\n5. Arctic countries &#8211; related geopolitics &#8211; told<br \/>\n6. Physical education &#8211; difference in being fit, tough, resilient? What should a young and an old civil servant should have? &#8211; thoda hesitated but told<br \/>\n7. Tim Cook &#8211; MNC CEO or topmost civil servant &#8211; which would have greater impact? What would you choose? &#8211; told<br \/>\n8. Haridwar &#8211; many lineage history kept in record books. What could be its future application? &#8211; could only tell one<br \/>\n9. Difference in Varanasi in recent years &#8211; told few points &#8211; told but hesitated &#8211; non fluent repeated a word thrice &#8211; vocabulary gave up <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji emoji-small\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/webogram.org\/a\/img-apple-64\/1f972.png?w=750&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\ud83e\udd72\" data-path=\".\/img-apple-64\/1f972.png\" \/><br \/>\n10. What is qualcomm into? autonomous cars? Is their car in market? &#8211; told<br \/>\n11 What is snapdragon i hear about qualcomm? &#8211; told<br \/>\n12. World Bank head? said not know exactly &#8211; would like to guess &#8211; ajay bagga said &#8211; banga it is<br \/>\n13. Malacca strait discussion? Geopolitics around it. Who controls it? &#8211; told<br \/>\n14. Which is your favourite area in Electrical? &#8211; said communications<br \/>\n15. Future of communications? &#8211; drove conversation towards 5g<br \/>\n16. What is special and different about 5g? Difference between 4g &amp; 5g? &#8211; told<\/p>\n<p><strong>Utility of mocks or O2O (if any)-<\/strong> helped me cover DAF; gave aroud 10 &#8211; improved somewhat in communication but couldn&#8217;t improve much beyond a point;<br \/>\nChankya mandal pariwar &#8211; very helpful; Chahal; Only ias were close; O2O with khan sir; ravindran sir;<br \/>\n<strong>Members listened patiently &#8211;<\/strong> didn&#8217;t interrupt in between; questions were deep &#8211; felt they were testing something with each question<\/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: 31\/03\/23 Forenoon; 35 minutes around Board: Manoj Soni Sir Optional:\u00a0 Geography College- BTech + MTech in EE; IIT Kalyanpur Profession (if any)- worked at Qualcomm; currently unemployed Other keywords: Varanasi; running; ghats; cricket; old people; Physical education Your experience in interview- To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2022, visit this page Chairman&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-259-manoj-soni-board-geography-optional\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #259 : Manoj Soni Board, Geography Optional,<\/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":[11255,80,11254,11312],"class_list":["post-238266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-11255","tag-geography","tag-interview_transcript2022","tag-manoj_soni2022","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":5,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698192099},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238266","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=238266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}