{"id":238984,"date":"2023-04-21T09:08:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T03:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=238984"},"modified":"2023-04-21T09:08:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T03:38:05","slug":"upsc-interview-2022-transcript-266-smita-nagraj-board-geography-optional-uttar-pradesh-home-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-266-smita-nagraj-board-geography-optional-uttar-pradesh-home-state\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #266 : Smita Nagraj Board, Geography Optional, UTTAR PRADESH Home State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityBold\">Date of Interview: <\/strong>31st March, Forenoon (4th to go)<strong data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityBold\"><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityBold\">Board:<\/strong> Smita Nagraj Ma&#8217;am<br \/>\n<strong data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityBold\">Home State<\/strong>: UTTAR PRADESH<br \/>\n<strong data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityBold\">Optional:<\/strong> Geography<br \/>\n<strong data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityBold\">College:<\/strong> Digvijay Nath PG College, Gorakhpur<br \/>\n<strong data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityBold\">Profession:<\/strong> No<br \/>\n<strong data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityBold\">Hobbies:<\/strong> no ques asked<br \/>\n<strong data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityBold\">Experience:<\/strong> cordial board,&#8230; didn&#8217;t grill (unlike done in mocks)<br \/>\n<strong data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityBold\">Utility of mocks &amp; O2O<\/strong>: Get familiar with the environment and speak in front of elders&#8230;a few ques were similar (in Vision faculty mocks) but not exactly the same&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityBold\">NOTE:<\/strong>&#8212; The most anxious moments are those when You sit outside the board&#8217;s room&#8230;and wait when they call you in.<\/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>1. What have you been doing<br \/>\n2. Where do you live right now, in Delhi or in UP?<br \/>\n3. What is the NCR region &amp; why has it been created?<br \/>\n4. A long monologue on administrative difficulties people are facing in NCR&#8230;and asked should we create a new state taking the NCR region? (Follow ups)<br \/>\n5. What is your opinion on Bifurcation or trifurcation of UP?<br \/>\n(Follow ups)<br \/>\n6. What is Referendum and plebiscite and what is the difference between them?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Asked about an issue about which I wasn&#8217;t aware of&#8230;<br \/>\n2. Which are the countries where Khalistani uprisings are there?<br \/>\n3. Is it not our Diplomatic failure?<br \/>\n4.why riots are there in France nowadays (follow ups)<br \/>\n5. Who was Digvijay Nath<br \/>\n6. What is the philosophy given by Digvijay Nath?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. How UP impacts our relationship with Nepal<br \/>\n2. Are the borders of Nepal closed or what, and what is the political status of Nepal in present?<br \/>\n3. So Do we not close our borders<br \/>\n4. What is chicken&#8217;s neck?<br \/>\n5. What is your opinion on renaming places?<br \/>\n6. Is it not like we are eliminating or forgetting one aspect of the history by renaming places?<br \/>\n7. Whatever would be a populous demand, should the government follow that? (I&#8217;ve mentioned &#8220;populous demand&#8221; in two of my answers earlier)<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Why is the price of Gold increasing fast nowadays? (Follow ups)<br \/>\n2. Explain to me the system of Single Transferable voting<br \/>\n(A discussion on it)<br \/>\n3. Why is there a sharp increase in investment in Uttar Pradesh this year? (One follow up)<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>(He is from Northeast and the accent was a little different so I felt difficulty in comprehending the words, so I asked twice then answered)<br \/>\n1. You are against the bifurcation of Uttar Pradesh, so can we say that the division of Uttarakhand was a mistake?<br \/>\n2. A monologue on unstable nature and disasters of Trans Himalayan region&#8230;and then asked&#8230;should we construct roads and other infra there and large dams there?<\/p>\n<p>Then he turned towards the Chairperson&#8230;and the chairperson said to me &#8220;Thank you&#8230;Your interview is over..&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chairperson Ma&#8217;am and M-3 have smiling faces&#8230;others faces were expressionless&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But the overall experience was very pleasant and the board was very keen to hear me&#8230;they heard carefully and didn&#8217;t interrupt even a single time in between the answers.<\/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: 31st March, Forenoon (4th to go) Board: Smita Nagraj Ma&#8217;am Home State: UTTAR PRADESH Optional: Geography College: Digvijay Nath PG College, Gorakhpur Profession: No Hobbies: no ques asked Experience: cordial board,&#8230; didn&#8217;t grill (unlike done in mocks) Utility of mocks &amp; O2O: Get familiar with the environment and speak in front of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-266-smita-nagraj-board-geography-optional-uttar-pradesh-home-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #266 : Smita Nagraj Board, Geography Optional, UTTAR PRADESH Home State<\/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":[11255,80,11254,11269,2183],"class_list":["post-238984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-11255","tag-geography","tag-interview_transcript2022","tag-smita_nagraj2022","tag-uttar-pradesh","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698192168},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238984","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=238984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}