{"id":79727,"date":"2021-02-17T23:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=79727"},"modified":"2021-03-05T13:19:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T07:49:15","slug":"upsc-interview-transcript-22-bassi-sir-board-maharashtra-home-state-optional-political-science-film-tv-series-teaching-hobbies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-transcript-22-bassi-sir-board-maharashtra-home-state-optional-political-science-film-tv-series-teaching-hobbies\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview Transcript #22] :Bassi sir Board, Maharashtra Home State, Political Science Optional, Film, TV series & Teaching hobbies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interview Date:<\/strong> 17\/02\/2020, Forenoon, First to go
\nDuration:<\/strong> approx 30 min
\nBoard:<\/strong> Bassi sir
\nBackground: <\/strong>Graduation in Political Science
\nOptional: <\/strong>Political Science
\nEmployee:<\/strong> EPFO
\nHome State: <\/strong>Maharashtra
\nHobbies:<\/strong> Film, TV series, and Teaching<\/p>\n

After entering the chamber wished the CP and lady members and then the other 3 members. CP asked to seat.<\/p>\n

Chairperson<\/h3>\n
    \n
  1. (Called me by my father’s name. Politely told my correct name.)<\/li>\n
  2. You like to watch TV series. Any specific genre or everything? (Told everything)<\/li>\n
  3. Still, you will have some favorites, right? Tell me your favorite TV series? (Game of Thrones)<\/li>\n
  4. Give me an introduction to Game of Thrones. What is it about? (Gave brief introduction)<\/li>\n
  5. I want you to speak for 2 minutes on Game of Thrones.<\/li>\n
  6. Why those kingdoms are fighting among themselves?<\/li>\n
  7. What msg we get from this line of thought of fighting among ourselves. (Told United we stand and divided we fall)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Member 1<\/h3>\n
      \n
    1. So, You’re working in EPFO. Tell me how you decide the interest rates.<\/li>\n
    2. You have studied in Pune. Do you know about NDA?<\/li>\n
    3. What is the role of NDA in our nation-building?<\/li>\n
    4. What do you think is the advantage of training cadres of all three forces together?<\/li>\n
    5. You have studied IR. Tell me what is our relationship with Afghanistan?<\/li>\n
    6. How it is different from other countries? (Told we are more focused on the development of Afghanistan while others are more interested in their strategic interest. Bassi sir smiled)<\/li>\n
    7. Do we have our troops in Afghanistan? Should we send our troops there?<\/li>\n
    8. What is our official policy about sending troops to Afghanistan?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Member 2<\/h3>\n
        \n
      1. Have you heard about the merging of banks? Which are the banks been merged? What is your view about this bank merging? Is it good or bad?<\/li>\n
      2. Have you heard about Bank Nationalisation?<\/li>\n
      3. When did it happen? What exactly was done in nationalization?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Member 3<\/h3>\n
          \n
        1. You have done a certificate course in women and development. Tell me about the course, its duration, syllabus, and what you learned?<\/li>\n
        2. Tell from independence till now how do you see the development of women in the country in various fields like social, economic and political, etc.<\/li>\n
        3. So you have studied PSIR. Tell me about UNSC.<\/li>\n
        4. There are some countries that are demanding changes in UNSC. Can you name them? Why they are demanding the changes?<\/li>\n
        5. Okay, tell me why India is demanding a seat in UNSC and whether India deserves it? I want your view on this, not a yes or no answer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Member 4<\/h3>\n
            \n
          1. So you like teaching. What is the age group of children you teach?<\/li>\n
          2. You have studied Marathi in your school. Suppose u have to teach Marathi to non- Marathi how will you teach them? What methods you will adopt?<\/li>\n
          3. You watch TV series also. Tell me about OTT platforms.<\/li>\n
          4. Tell me the advantages and disadvantages of platforms like Netflix?<\/li>\n
          5. How should we regulate them? ( I told about censorship)<\/li>\n
          6. So, how censorship can be imposed? How the producers of films and tv series earn money by releasing their content on Netflix.<\/li>\n
          7. Suppose you are traveling in a car with your family. your passing by a small village where people are Protesting for some demands. you come across them, they are angry. How will you handle the situation? What will you tell them?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Chairperson<\/strong><\/p>\n

              \n
            1. Have you heard about BRI?<\/li>\n
            2. Tell me about it. (Fumbled here. So I asked for some time and started again.)<\/li>\n
            3. We were hearing about it a lot last year now we are not hearing about it much. What were the reasons then and what are the reasons now?<\/li>\n
            4. Is china back rolling the initiative? Thank you. your interview is over<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              (Overall very cordial interview. Had a good feeling at the end. Hoping for the best now)
              \nThank you Mahesh Bhagwat sir and all the seniors and friends for helping with the preparation.<\/p>\n

              For more interview transcript, visit the Complete IAS Interview Preparation Guide<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              Interview Date: 17\/02\/2020, Forenoon, First to go Duration: approx 30 min Board: Bassi sir Background: Graduation in Political Science Optional: Political Science Employee: EPFO Home State: Maharashtra Hobbies: Film, TV series, and Teaching After entering the chamber wished the CP and lady members and then the other 3 members. CP asked to seat. Chairperson (Called… Continue reading [UPSC Interview Transcript #22] :Bassi sir Board, Maharashtra Home State, Political Science Optional, Film, TV series & Teaching hobbies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"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":[1661,1659,1653,1681,1682],"class_list":["post-79727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-1661","tag-bs_bassi","tag-interview_transcript","tag-political_science","tag-teaching_hobby","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79727","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}