{"id":330789,"date":"2025-03-25T18:30:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=330789"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T06:34:08","slug":"upsc-interview-2024-transcript-2-sanjay-verma-board-mathematics-optional-telangana-home-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2024-transcript-2-sanjay-verma-board-mathematics-optional-telangana-home-state\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2024] \u2013 Transcript #2: Sanjay Verma Board, Mathematics Optional, Telangana Home State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date and Session of Interview:<\/strong> 25\/03\/2025 FN<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Sanjay Verma sir<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Telangana<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Maths<br \/>\n<strong>College (UG\/PG) &#8211;<\/strong> IITB<br \/>\n<strong>Educational background:<\/strong> BTech<br \/>\n<strong>Profession\/Work Profile<\/strong> &#8211; Goldman Sachs(9months) 9.Projects mentioned(if any) &#8211; Digital image processing(not asked), Smart irrigation project<br \/>\n<strong>Hobbies<\/strong>: Writing screenplays for short films<\/p>\n<p>IFS 1st preference<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/#it2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1) Why did you leave Goldman?<br \/>\n2) Hobby of screenplays, who are writing the screenplay of India?<br \/>\n3) Aren\u2019t private sector writing it?<br \/>\n4) What we are doing differently in last 10years that was not done before?<br \/>\n5) What are your primary sources for IR?<br \/>\n6)Any think tanks?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1) Importance of number 2025?(did not know)<br \/>\n2) Studied Sanskrit(any poets?) (did not know)<br \/>\n3) Full sloka of vasudhaiva kutumbakam (don\u2019t know)<br \/>\n4) India sending workers to Israel etc (opinion?)<br \/>\n5) Irrigation project &#8211; Schemes by jal shakthi ministry?<br \/>\n6) Freebies opinion<br \/>\n7) No conflict of interest between developed nation and freebies? International image due to this?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1) You are a techie and worked in finance? Did you do any course(No, worked in a math quant role)<br \/>\n2) What is pump priming?<br \/>\n3) What is happy harmones?<br \/>\n4) Mutual funds vs stocks?<br \/>\n5) Cancel culture?(Is it across board or specific political ideologies?)<br \/>\n6)Telangana, Ap performance after bifurcation? (Good or Bad?)<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1) Do you know RAND? (Don\u2019t know, he said \u2018as you are interested in IR, I thought you would know)<br \/>\n2) Russia Ukraine peace will happen? When? What do you think will happen? Why late? Mentioned shuttle diplomacy, is it good?<br \/>\n3) Even though wars are not being conclusive in recent times, why wars are happening?<br \/>\n4) Is the leader or the state institutions responsible for wars?<br \/>\n5) Who said \u2018we should take the krishna way\u2019?(Dont know)<br \/>\n6) What do you understand by it?(Mentioned mediation) (Is that the meaning? Said it is my understanding, I\u2019ll read about it sir)<br \/>\n7) Returning to Mam\u2019s qsn on sending people to israel, what happened with them? ( Will read about it )<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1) Recently an Indian shortfilm nominated for oscar? What is it and what is it about?<br \/>\n2) Will Uk rejoin EU? ( mentioned opposition to EU in europe itself, asked for examples)<br \/>\n3) Will EU disintegrate?<br \/>\n4) Who are the haqqanis? Whats the news about them? Should India engage with them?<\/p>\n<p><strong><ins data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityUnderline\">Chairperson:<\/ins><\/strong><br \/>\nThank you, your interview is over.<\/p>\n<p>Utility of Mocks or O2O (if any)<br \/>\nAround 8-9 mocks, one-on-one with Khan sir, Mahesh Bhagawat sir, Satyam sir.<\/p>\n<p>Felt the board members expected more from me and a person mentioned I expected you\u2019d know. Chairperson was trying to focus and trying to control his yawns. Overall experience was average. Not good not bad.<\/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 2025: <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 and Session of Interview: 25\/03\/2025 FN Board: Sanjay Verma sir Home State: Telangana Optional: Maths College (UG\/PG) &#8211; IITB Educational background: BTech Profession\/Work Profile &#8211; Goldman Sachs(9months) 9.Projects mentioned(if any) &#8211; Digital image processing(not asked), Smart irrigation project Hobbies: Writing screenplays for short films IFS 1st preference To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2024,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2024-transcript-2-sanjay-verma-board-mathematics-optional-telangana-home-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2024] \u2013 Transcript #2: Sanjay Verma Board, Mathematics Optional, Telangana Home State<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12062,12063,1680,12065,1819],"class_list":["post-330789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-12062","tag-interview_transcript2024","tag-mathematics","tag-sanjay_verma2024","tag-telangana","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330789","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=330789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}