{"id":351587,"date":"2025-12-10T11:35:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=351587"},"modified":"2025-12-10T11:35:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:05:49","slug":"upsc-interview-2025-transcript-10-sheel-vardhan-board-history-optional-reflective-journaling-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-10-sheel-vardhan-board-history-optional-reflective-journaling-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #10: Sheel Vardhan Board, History Optional, Reflective journaling Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 08-12-2025<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Sheel Vardhan Sir<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> History<br \/>\n<strong>Hobby:<\/strong> Reflective journaling<br \/>\n<strong>Keywords in DAF &#8211;<\/strong> Agra, Delhi, London, History, Msc Public Policy, reflective journaling, mental health<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/#it2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Foundation of taj mahal?<br \/>\n2. \u2060Calligraphy at the entry of Taj mahal &#8211; what is it called?<br \/>\n3. \u2060If India is writing a reflective journal complaining about things from the past 10 years, what would it write?<br \/>\n4. \u2060Accent spoken in London is called?<br \/>\n5. \u2060Why trafalgar square is called Trafalgar?<br \/>\n6. \u2060Why are people so eager to post everything on social media these days?<br \/>\n7. \u2060Historical event you would want to change?<br \/>\n8. \u2060Historical figure you hate as an Indian? (I said Winston Churchill and before I could explain, he himself noted that it\u2019s because of the Bengal famine)<br \/>\n9. \u2060Historical figure you hate outside of India<br \/>\n10. \u2060History is called \u201citihaas\u201d, you know what that means?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Distinguish between policy, programme and project?<br \/>\n2. \u2060What impact had policy for common man?<br \/>\n3. \u2060Policy area India needs to work more in?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. What\u2019s sustainable development?<br \/>\n2. \u2060how many goals do we have?<br \/>\n3. \u2060goals of NEP for primary education?<br \/>\n4. \u2060which village do you belong to?<br \/>\n&#8211; As DM, what will you focus first in your village?<br \/>\n5. \u2060when does primary education level start?<br \/>\n6. \u2060India is encouraging entrepreneurship so much, it creates employment etc, but there is constant danger of failure &#8211; do you think it\u2019s good to have a back up plan?<br \/>\n7. \u2060what about the implications on mental health when it comes to failures in such risky endeavours?<br \/>\n8. \u20602 changes you\u2019ll make it current education policy of India?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. IQ vs EQ? Have you heard of Daniel Goleman?<br \/>\n2. \u2060Why civil services after studying abroad and working with Unicef especially as pay is lesser?<br \/>\n3. \u2060What can India learn from western bureaucracy?<br \/>\n4. \u2060what can western bureaucracy learn from India?<br \/>\n5. \u2060Gandhiji\u2019s Talisman\u2019s value for civil service?<br \/>\n6. \u2060How has reflective journaling helped you?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Differenc in education at Lady Shri Ram College vs University College London<\/p>\n<p>2. \u2060What are your thoughts on lateral entry?<\/p>\n<p>Interview ran for ~32 minutes. I have missed a few small details but nothing substantial.<br \/>\nOverall, the board was extremely cordial and patient. One thing stands out though, while a member was questioning, Sheelvardhan sir intervened politely with a question. Again, when another member was questioning, a member intervened with a 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 2026:\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: 08-12-2025 Board: Sheel Vardhan Sir Optional: History Hobby: Reflective journaling Keywords in DAF &#8211; Agra, Delhi, London, History, Msc Public Policy, reflective journaling, mental health To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025,\u00a0visit this page Chairman 1. Foundation of taj mahal? 2. \u2060Calligraphy at the entry of Taj mahal &#8211; what is it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-10-sheel-vardhan-board-history-optional-reflective-journaling-hobby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #10: Sheel Vardhan Board, History Optional, Reflective journaling 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":[12147],"tags":[12150,7977,12148,11922,12152],"class_list":["post-351587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2025","tag-12150","tag-history","tag-interview_transcript2025","tag-reflective-journaling","tag-sheel_vardhan2025","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351587","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=351587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}