@NeyawnSir, Please shed some light on whether I can mention the following in my DAF-2:
1. Hobbies: Trekking in Karnataka (want to keep it as Karnataka only as I dont want them to go beyond)
2. Prizes/Medals: "State topper in Mathematics, class 12". Is this too silly to mention ?
Can you think of Western Ghats ?
@Neyawn yes sir, I have trekked the top 3 highest peaks in Karnataka, all lie in Western ghats. Also part of my home district lies in Western ghats range.
Sir, does mentioning "state topper in mathematics, class 12" in daf-2 looks too silly for interview board?
How r people so confident of clearing mains?I know some people who r preparing full fledged for interview.I m also preparing little bits but whenever I try to extend those interview study hours anxiety catches up and I start looking back at mains questions and answers again
@SunnyParasharwas it your first mains? :-)
Please pardon me for my naivety as I have not given any UPSC interview to date, but I wanted to ask why we need to prepare for a non-technical interview? Few basics are okay but not more than that I feel. That too when UPSC clearly mentions that interview is not a test of General or Specialised knowledge of candidates. A cursory reading of the interview syllabus and guidelines by UPSC makes me think that rather than looking for the answers, the folks are looking for the way we approach the questions.
For example- If I have to enter basketball as my hobby, why do I need to know the court measurements? In my school life, I was a district level player and neither I nor my teammates know the dimensions. On top of that, one of our buddies did the nationals camp and even then he did not know. So how does not knowing the dimensions or any other technical thing is bad?
This is what I feel : Ideally if a person does any task with interest or if he has achieved anything in a particular domain ( sport here) , then it's natural to expect certain facts about his task/domain. And an IAS / IPS would one day run the entire country/ state virtually as a Chief secy or Cabinet Secy and s/he is expected to know the tasks/projects he performs in detail.
Even if one is not an IAS, but an excellent team
manager in any organisation, i feel s/he ought to be aware of the
project his team is implementing in detail.
