{"id":333597,"date":"2025-04-22T08:36:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T03:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=333597"},"modified":"2025-04-22T08:36:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T03:06:01","slug":"upsc-interview-2024-transcript-102-sanjay-verma-sir-board-psir-optional-bhajans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2024-transcript-102-sanjay-verma-sir-board-psir-optional-bhajans\/","title":{"rendered":"UPSC Interview 2024] \u2013 Transcript #102: Sanjay Verma sir Board, PSIR Optional, Bhajans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 7th April 2025<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong>\u00a0 Sanjay Verma sir<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> PSIR<br \/>\n<strong>Keywords &#8211;<\/strong> Economics, Dogs, Bhajans, PSIR, Taiwan<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2024,\u00a0<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. 615, Does it ring a bell inside your mind? How many times have you boarded this bus?<br \/>\n2. Why humans have been successful in domesticating dogs but not cats to that extent?<br \/>\n3. Apart from Bhajans, what are some other forms of devotional songs\/music?<br \/>\n4. Make a panel of 6 people with whom you would like to have discussion over dinner?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. What is personal ethics and professional ethics? Difference between them?<br \/>\n2. How to resolve dilemma between personal and professional ethical values when they are in conflict with one another?<br \/>\n3. Which personal ethical values are dear to you?<br \/>\n4. What is the role of expectations\/desires in life? Is it good to have some expectations or bad?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Discussion on my educational background since Class 10th<br \/>\n2. Why you shifted from Economics to PSIR?<br \/>\n3. What do you consider yourself an expert in: Economics or IR?<br \/>\n4. Asked my service preferences and quizzed me on it as to IFS not 1st preference<br \/>\n5. What is the probability of conflict in Taiwan Straits?<br \/>\n6. What is the likelihood of conflict in Taiwan Straits?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. How can we promote Sanskrit language amongst youth?<br \/>\n2. What was your role as Student Representative?<br \/>\n3. What were the ethical dilemmas you faced as being Student Representative?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. What ethical dilemmas have you faced in real life?<br \/>\n2. How did you resolve those ethical dilemmas?<br \/>\n3. What would you do if your Boss is involved in corruption? Will you blow the whistle at expense of your own career?<br \/>\n4. Suppose you are Chief Secretary of a state where forest are razed to develop an IT park? What will be your course of action? Will you go ahead with IT Park or save forests?<\/p>\n<p>Chairperson intervened and said Your Interview is over and you can now leave.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall experience &#8211;<\/strong> Conversational style not a QnA session. But they were in grilling mode and were trying to pressurise me. Felt the overall environment was little hostile right from the start.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mocks &#8211;<\/strong> Samkalp, Only IAS, SriRam, Vajiram<br \/>\nO2O &#8211; Amit Sir (Forum IAS) &amp; Ayush Sinha Sir (Forum IAS) &#8211; Detailed DAF discussions and preparation strategies<br \/>\nShubham Sir (Vidyapeeth IAS) &#8211; One of the best O2O &#8211; discussed all aspects of my DAF. Made me ready for grilling session and maintain my calm and composure even in hostile environment.<\/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:\u00a0<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: 7th April 2025 Board:\u00a0 Sanjay Verma sir Optional: PSIR Keywords &#8211; Economics, Dogs, Bhajans, PSIR, Taiwan To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2024,\u00a0visit this page Chairman 1. 615, Does it ring a bell inside your mind? How many times have you boarded this bus? 2. Why humans have been successful in domesticating&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2024-transcript-102-sanjay-verma-sir-board-psir-optional-bhajans\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UPSC Interview 2024] \u2013 Transcript #102: Sanjay Verma sir Board, PSIR Optional, Bhajans<\/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":[12077],"tags":[12062,12091,12063,1679,12065],"class_list":["post-333597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2024","tag-12062","tag-bhajans","tag-interview_transcript2024","tag-psir","tag-sanjay_verma2024","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333597","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=333597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}