{"id":238986,"date":"2023-04-27T10:34:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T05:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=238986"},"modified":"2023-04-27T10:34:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T05:04:58","slug":"upsc-interview-2022-transcript-268-manoj-soni-board-geography-optional-series-exercising-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-268-manoj-soni-board-geography-optional-series-exercising-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #268 : Manoj Soni Board, Geography Optional, series, exercising Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 28th March, forenoon session<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Manoj Soni sir<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> Btech plastic technology<br \/>\n<strong>Hobbies:<\/strong> watching comedy series, exercising<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Geography<br \/>\nGautam Buddha nagar<\/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>Your picture has a moustache, why did you remove it?<\/li>\n<li>Does it give a serious look?<\/li>\n<li>What kind of comedy series do you watch<\/li>\n<li>Which series did you watch recently<\/li>\n<li>Have you seen standup comedy<\/li>\n<li>What are cardiovascular exercises?<\/li>\n<li>Do you do then or teach them too?<\/li>\n<li>What does a plastic engineer do?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Largest island in the world?<\/li>\n<li>Which country has control over it?<\/li>\n<li>A famous institute for plastic technology?<\/li>\n<li>Where is it?<\/li>\n<li>What courses does it teach?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Latitude and longitude of UPSC bhawan<\/li>\n<li>Latitude and longitude of Noida<\/li>\n<li>What is India&#8217;s rank in happiness index, does it reflect true picture. Does having moustaches help with happiness?<\/li>\n<li>Is ban on single use plastics good?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Heard about the great Pacific garbage patch?<\/li>\n<li>Ocean currents in great Pacific garbage patch?<\/li>\n<li>Why is it formed?<\/li>\n<li>Can oceans be cleaned by such initiatives?<\/li>\n<li>What initiatives have been taken?<\/li>\n<li>How is ocean cleanup funded?<\/li>\n<li>How to manage plastic wastes?<\/li>\n<li>Repo rate?<\/li>\n<li>How does it impact?<\/li>\n<li>Reverse repo rate?<\/li>\n<li>How does it impact?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>India&#8217;s geography, two pros and 2 cons<\/li>\n<li>Should India focus on maritime power or continental power?<\/li>\n<li>Is China a maritime power?<\/li>\n<li>Should we have unified studies for Himalayas?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Soni sir<\/strong><br \/>\nThree policies of the government or schemes in the last 75 years which you feel we should change?<br \/>\nShould we remove socialism from the preamble?<br \/>\nUsa is a welfare state and not socialist<br \/>\n<strong>Chairman<\/strong> sir, your interview is over. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Some other questions, I&#8217;m not able to recollect.<br \/>\n<strong>Experience &#8211;<\/strong> was very cordial. The conversation was natural.<br \/>\nNo one interrupted that&#8217;s why the questions may not be as much as are asked in a mock. Even the questions asked randomly didn&#8217;t feel like that.<br \/>\nMocks- 20+, most questions were around my daf so giving mocks helped in answering and presenting better.<\/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: 28th March, forenoon session Board: Manoj Soni sir Background: Btech plastic technology Hobbies: watching comedy series, exercising Optional: Geography Gautam Buddha nagar To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2022, visit this page Chairman Your picture has a moustache, why did you remove it? Does it give a serious look? What kind of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-268-manoj-soni-board-geography-optional-series-exercising-hobby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #268 : Manoj Soni Board, Geography Optional, series, exercising 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":[11255,80,11254,11312],"class_list":["post-238986","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":17,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703662231},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238986","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=238986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}