{"id":352394,"date":"2025-12-22T16:35:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=352394"},"modified":"2025-12-22T16:35:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:05:05","slug":"upsc-interview-2025-transcript-62-sujata-chaturvedi-board-physics-optional-uttarakhand-home-state-trekking-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-62-sujata-chaturvedi-board-physics-optional-uttarakhand-home-state-trekking-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #62: Sujata Chaturvedi Board, Physics Optional, Uttarakhand Home State, Trekking Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 18\/12\/2025 Afternoon (23-24 minutes)<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong>\u00a0Sujata Chaturvedi<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Physics<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Uttarakhand<br \/>\n<strong>Daf keywords:<\/strong> Bits Pilani , Trekking, Fitness (Gym), Ngo,\u00a0 Uttarakhand, Physics wallah (1-2 Q asked from Daf)<\/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>The chairman read my name and said ok you&#8217;re from Uttarakhand.<br \/>\nIs this your first interview. I told her that is my 2nd interview<br \/>\nShe said I see you&#8217;re working in work from home also (I acknowledged it but she started to talk so I did not shared what I do exactly)<\/p>\n<p>How was your experience last time ? Are you better prepared this year<br \/>\nGave a monologue for a minute about how she keeps on hearing about the same repetitive motives of everyone about joining the civil services<br \/>\nTell me other reasons apart from the ones like diverse work , impact, challenging role etc<\/p>\n<p>Then asked about altruism. Do you understand it<\/p>\n<p>Then asked to choose between the quality of being generous and competitive.<br \/>\nAfter I choose generous and explained the reason<br \/>\nShe said but competitive people will be more successful ahead by using tactics etc etc<br \/>\nHad a brief conversation about success and why I felt generous would be successful in the entirety of life<\/p>\n<p>Asked about one shortcomings. (Told her that I tend to analyse more which delays decision)<br \/>\nBrief conversation on it for a minute<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>(Lady): What will you do if you&#8217;re made Pm for a week<br \/>\nAnd brief discussion on my responses<br \/>\nYou seem to be a fitness oriented individual. (But didn&#8217;t asked ahead)<br \/>\nJust said so you also worked in an Ngo<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s the role of Ngo (told her about the brief history and role)<br \/>\nWhat did you do (Told her about my project of guidance and counseling)<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>So you&#8217;re an Army Brat. Are you aware about the term (I said yes sir )<br \/>\nAfter that he directly asked a question about who is the general which also stays a general in other army of a country (what&#8217;s the name of that country) &#8211; question was not clear . So he rephrased it once (had no idea so accepted )<br \/>\nHe himself told that it&#8217;s Nepal<\/p>\n<p>Then a brief discussion on should gorkhas be included in Indian army (they have been excluded now)<\/p>\n<p>Is Physicswallah doing something abroad (Told them as far as i know it is currently working in domestic areas mainly)<br \/>\nIs there a future plan to go abroad (Told him I&#8217;m not aware about any such strategy or news)<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>(Serious look)<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s your take on Capital punishment? Do you think we should have death penalty.<br \/>\n(Chairman mam also was involved in the discussion &#8211; acknowledged my points too)<br \/>\nWhere can a person approach for capital punishment (Told him about Judiciary but wanted more so told about President pardon .. but wanted more so accepted that I&#8217;m aware of these provisions at present will read more)<br \/>\nCriteria for appointment of judges of Sc<br \/>\nHave you heard Paretos principle ( I said I&#8217;m not able to recall it )<br \/>\nSimilarly asked Parkinson&#8217;s law and Parkinson&#8217;s disease(similar answer as above)<br \/>\nMplads scheme what is it (told him about it then asked its full form &#8211; told that). Then asked what&#8217;s the corpus. Is it 100 crore (I said I&#8217;m not sure about the data as of now sir)<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Difference between Murder and Culpable homicide (but said wrong himself at start , later rephrased it to say murder and intent term )<br \/>\nGave a very complex sentence (from what I can recall it was about what&#8217;s the situation where one commits crime but cannot be punished (Even Chairman mam said hein? Ye kya complex chiz h sir)<br \/>\nI said I&#8217;m not aware about such provisions<br \/>\nStarted throwing random terms of legal importance:<br \/>\nDo you understand this &#8211;<br \/>\nMeans rea , Prima facie , Double jeopardy, And a few others as well (unable to recall other terms . Answered where I was confident)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall:<\/strong> Nothing asked from mocks or one to one (0 questions repeated <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji emoji-small\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/web.telegram.org\/a\/img-apple-64\/1f972.png?w=750&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\ud83e\udd72\" data-path=\".\/img-apple-64\/1f972.png\" \/>)<\/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: 18\/12\/2025 Afternoon (23-24 minutes) Board:\u00a0Sujata Chaturvedi Optional: Physics Home State: Uttarakhand Daf keywords: Bits Pilani , Trekking, Fitness (Gym), Ngo,\u00a0 Uttarakhand, Physics wallah (1-2 Q asked from Daf) To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025,\u00a0visit this page Chairman The chairman read my name and said ok you&#8217;re from Uttarakhand. Is this your&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-62-sujata-chaturvedi-board-physics-optional-uttarakhand-home-state-trekking-hobby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #62: Sujata Chaturvedi Board, Physics Optional, Uttarakhand Home State, Trekking 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":[12150,12148,8812,12159,9596,4662],"class_list":["post-352394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2025","tag-12150","tag-interview_transcript2025","tag-physics","tag-sujatha-chaturvedi2025","tag-trekking_hobby","tag-uttarakhand","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352394","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=352394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}