UPSC IAS interview previous year questions – Part 4

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This is part 4 of the series. 

Name – Aman Mittal
Smitha Nagraj Mam Board
background – Btech CSE
optional – PSIR
job ex- none

chairwomen –
1. tell me something about yourself
2. Aman tell me is there any “aman ki asha” between india and pakistan
3. why despite india being so strong is not taking action against pakistan( why do we not act despite having leverage)
4. why china and USA supports pakistan
5. china consider india as a threat or nuisense
6. you read , why do you read motivational books? dont you have internal motivation? which areas you need motivation in?

M1 –
1. what type of music do you like? who is your favourite singer?
2. where all have your travelled?
3. why not pursue a career in btech? why IAS?
4. what are your cadre preferences?
5. are you a non- veg?
6. what are the problems of rural people? name any three

M2 –
1. recently a chinese women was arrested in canada.. tell me the issue?
2. tell me some history of Huwai?
3. which technology huwai is investing ?
4. tell me the issue of Siachin and sir’s creek?
5. tell me about the research you did?
6. is there a problem of plagarism and not new research?

M3-
1. what is 2g, 3g, 4g and 5g? is there any difference in speed of data?
2. what are artificial neural networks?
3. how can we use AI in climate change only?
4. which is more important AI or HI(human intelligence)?
5. is AI is used in Clean Ganga Mission?
6. how a desktop is different from smart phone?
7. what is difference between smartphone and a cell phone?

M4-
1. what is difference between philosophy of microsoft and apple?
2. what do you think of open source development and its future?
3. why there is lack of innovation in india?

Chairwomen –
1. Is government and administration is correct in molding public opinion through propoganda? ( i did not used the word propoganda in my answer, i said information campaign is necessary to bring positive behavioural change ex- BPBP and Swachh Bharat)
2. should we incentivise or penalise?

Thank you. you may go now.

 

overall experience was very good. Board was very cordial and lively. They listened very intently. My advice would be dont go inside with any preconceived notions just take the questions as they come.

Name: Kumar B
P K Joshi sir board, 20th February. AN.
B.tech EEE, MATHEMATICS optional.

Chairman:
What were you doing after leaving job?
you studied electronics and electrical. You worked in IT sector. Don’t you want to do these jobs?
suppose you are invited to a school. The 9th class students have studied arithmetic mean, but by seeing the harmonic table, they don’t want to study harmonic mean or geometric mean? How you will convince them?
a value increased by 22%, then 20%, then 26%. To find average increase in value which mean you will use?
what is a green building? Is current UPSC building is a green building?

Member 1
what is NFSA?
what is a welfare state?
don’t you think welfare state and rights of persons are contradictory?
you have done Vipassana meditation. How is it different from other meditations?
who taught Vipassana?

Member 2
what is Vedic mathematics?
any formula of vedic mathematics that you liked?
is these formulas helpful in practical application?
if they are quicker then why they are not taught in school?
don’t you think it will be difficult for students to do mental calculation?
assam is famous for one wildlife? Where?
where else one horn rhino is seen?
their population is increasing or decreasing?
in rhino vision exactly what strategies are taken to increase their population?

Member 3
what is time zone?
how many tone zones in India? In USA?
have you heard of p c mahalanobis? Who was he?
what did mahalanobis say about requirement of more timezones in India?
do you think we need more timezones?
how one timezone affects productivity of northeast?
give me one example where the corresponding constitution article is exactly opposite of what value we professed during freedom struggle?

Member 4
you stayed in Odisha, Assam and Bangalore. What is common to all of the three places?
you went to Canada. Where did you stay?
what did you like about Canada?
why Indians are not polite?
did you visit Niagara falls? Tell me the name of the waterfall in India which is similar or bit smaller than Niagara?
how you will use artificial intelligence in government? Give specific example.
how will you use AI in energy conservation?
what is smart home? Give one example.
can you retrofit this air conditioner into a smart ac which can integrate with the temperature sensor and accordingly change the level automatically? Tell me what changes need to be done?

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