{"id":357,"date":"2020-06-22T07:34:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T07:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/?p=357"},"modified":"2020-06-22T07:34:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T07:34:58","slug":"civil-services-examination-my-upsc-interview-by-ias-toppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/2020\/06\/22\/civil-services-examination-my-upsc-interview-by-ias-toppers\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Services Examination My UPSC Interview By IAS Toppers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cMy interview revolved around various topics which I had already mentioned in the Detailed Application Form.\u201d <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Anmol Sher Singh Bedi, IAS Topper 2016-17, 2nd Rank (1st Among Men)<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Mr. Anmol Sher Singh Bedi has secured the all-India First Rank among male candidates and the Second Rank in the overall list of successful candidates in the Civil Services Examination 2016-17. He hails from Amritsar, Punjab and holds a B.E. (Hons.) in Computer Science from the well-known Engineering college, BITS Pilani. He has secured distinction in BE (Hons.). Though he is a Science student from the beginning, he preferred Political Science and International Relations as his Optional subject. So far as his enviable success in the Civil Services Examination (CSE) is concerned, he considers a number of factors as the secret of his success, which are smart work, luck, destiny etc. The blessings of his parents and their constant support motivated him during his preparation for the CSE.<\/strong>
Here, Mr. Bedi gives an account of his UPSC interview to Competition Success Review.<\/strong> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Detailed interview<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My interview was conducted on March 22,  2017 in the forenoon session. The Board was\npresided by Mr. Chattar Singh. It also had 5 other members, apparently experts\nin different fields. I was the last one to be interviewed in the session. My\ninterview revolved around various topics which I had already mentioned in the\nDetailed Application Form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nhave written below arough outline of my interview. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chairman:\n<\/strong>Is this your photo?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chairman:\n<\/strong>So your name is Anmol?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>Yes Sir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chairman:<\/strong> You participated inARSSDC competition. What is this\ncompetition about?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>ARSSDC stands for\nAsian Regional Space Settlement Design Competition. This is an annual\ncompetition, where high school students generally from various countries across\nAsia submit their presentations, citing how they can create a space settlement.\nWe were asked to submit realistic and legitimate designs as to how we can\nachieve the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chairman:<\/strong> Were you alone or part of a team?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi:<\/strong> I was a part of 12-member\nteam, which consisted of seniors from class XI
\nand class XII. I was at that moment in class X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chairman:\n<\/strong>What was your role?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi:<\/strong> I was part of the operations\ndepartment, so I worked on how the space settlement would be stationed and what\ncould be the best location or how artificial gravity would be created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chairman:\n<\/strong>So you read Social Issues, what kind of issues\ndo you read?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>Sir, I like to read\non Social Justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chairman:\n<\/strong>What did you read recently on it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>I read the book\u2018Uncertain\nGlory\u2019 by Dr. Amartya Sen, where he has written about socio-economic\ninequalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chairman:<\/strong> What is capability approach?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>Sir,Dr. Amartya\nSen has come up with the idea of capability approach. He has stated that\ndistribution of resources directly to people may be fiscally unmanageable. So\nrather than providing resources to people, it would be better to enhance their\ncapabilities i.e. in terms of education, health etc. His approach can be\nunderstood via analogy of a bicycle. Rather than distributing bicycles to\npeople, it would be better to provide them bicycling abilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chairman:\n<\/strong>Good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chairman:<\/strong> What kind of places are there to see in Amritsar?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi:<\/strong> Harmandir Sahib, Akal Takht –\nTemporal seat of Sikhs, Durgiana Temple, Sitla Mandir, Wagah Border, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chairman:\n<\/strong>You are forgetting a very important place, which\nlies next to Harmandir Sahib?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>Jallianwala Bagh.\nThank you Sir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chairman:\n<\/strong>So you have been to these places before?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>I have been to all\nthe places before once except Harmandir Sahib, where I have been a number of\ntimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n1: <\/strong>What is the role of prime numbers in computer\nscience?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>They are basically\nused in cryptal analysis and cryptal algorithms. It is specifically used in\nprime integer factorisation problem. This problem is an NP problem, which means\nthat it takes polynomial amount of time to verify but a long time to solve\ncompletely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n1: <\/strong>Excellent!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n1: <\/strong>What is Turing Machine?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>Gave a standard\ntext book answer about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n1: <\/strong>Why has India not done well in football? What\nare the problems?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>First, football is\ngenerally found in spatially distributed localities like Goa, Bengal, Bangalore\nand is not found on pan Indian basis. Second, our country lacks in important\ninfrastructure not in terms of big stadiums but in terms of simple community\nparks. Third, we would require experienced coaches to give better direction to\nIndian football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n1:<\/strong> So why did India do well previously?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>Yes, India did\nextremely well before. We reached semifinals of Olympics in 1956. However after\nthat time, Europeans and South Americans have been able to professionalise\ntheir leagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n1: <\/strong>What are the problems faced by Indian Judiciary?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi:<\/strong> There are 3 crore cases\nleft in the lower judiciary and around 400 vacancies in the higher courts.\nLitigative environment has put a lot of pressure on judiciary. Judicial\nActivism is also often cited as problem in judiciary. The number of cases per\njudge is very high. However, judiciary is spearheading the campaign to\ndemocratise Indian Polity and has been fairly successful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n2: <\/strong>What do you think is required for the\ndevelopment of our country?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>Ma\u2019am, there are\nnumber of interesting narratives on development of our country. However I\nbelieve that social modernisation is an important way to India\u2019s development.\nWe have had so many social cleavages within our society leading to loyalties\nwhich somehow obstruct India development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n2: <\/strong>What do you think is specifically required for\neconomic development?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>Social\nModernisation is still the key to economic development. We also require\nstrengthening of our infrastructure, increasing output of industrial and\nmanufacturing sector, creating meaningful assets and pushing towards human\nresource development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n2: <\/strong>What is Public Debt?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi:<\/strong> Gave standard text book\ndefinition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n2:<\/strong>  What is\nexternal and internal debt?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>Gave standard\ndefinition and differentiated between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n3: <\/strong> What is\nData Mining?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi:<\/strong> It is all about finding\ninteresting patterns and correlations in a huge data set. It involves the use\nof statistics, probability, and regression to find important information in\ndata set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n3: <\/strong>What is Data Warehousing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>It is used in an\nenterprise. Here data is obtained from a variety of transactional systems, for\nexample pos terminals and\nmachines; it is stored in a big data server, where it is analysed by OLAP\ntools. Then it is sent to Data Marts where departmentalised data querying takes\nplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n3: <\/strong>Name two things that can improve India\u2019s IT\nIndustry?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>The first and\nforemost thing would be diversification. India is overly dependent on markets\nin USA and therefore it needs to explore markets in EU and China. Secondly, we\nneed to move towards higher innovation sector in IT industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n3: <\/strong>How will you connect Data Mining and Social\nNetworking?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>Gave the term\nSocial Media Mining and explained it by giving example of Indian elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n3: <\/strong>Name some important issues that you like to read\nin International Affairs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>India- China\nRelations, New World Order, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n3: <\/strong>Explain the issues between India and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi:<\/strong> Gave a comprehensive\nexplanation of all the issues. Starting from UNSC 1267, Afghanistan, NSG, UNSC\netc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n4: <\/strong>What is PPP?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>Purchasing Power\nParity or Public Private Partnership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n4:<\/strong> OK, explain some advantages and disadvantages\nof PPP projects?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>I explained a few\npoints like private sector financing of infrastructure projects, technology\naccess etc. Similarly, explained a few negatives that private sector may not be\nwilling to take as much risk as public sector takes, also difficult to regulate\nthe terms of contract, non uniformity in allocation of ppp may lead to arbitrariness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n4: <\/strong>What is BOT?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>Build Operate and\nTransfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n4: <\/strong>Define?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>The private sector\nbuilds the project, it operates it for a certain while and then transfers the\nauthority to public sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n4: <\/strong>Name the city, where maximum PPP projects are\nfound?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi:<\/strong> Sorry Sir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n4:<\/strong> Name the type math used in Computer Science?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>Discrete\nMathematics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n4: <\/strong>Why is cyber security required?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>We live in a\nborderless and permission-less world as far as cyber security is concerned. It\nis required to protect our critical assets, infrastructure, private information\nof citizens and financial information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member\n4: <\/strong>Give difference between Computer Engineering and\nComputer Science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>Gave standard text\nbook answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chairman:<\/strong> What is Economic Globalisation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi:<\/strong> Integration of national\neconomies is called Economic Globalisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chairman:\n<\/strong>What else is a part of it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>There is freedom of\ntrade in Goods and Services, Technology, Investment, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chairman:\n<\/strong>OK, give me advantages of FDI and some disadvantages?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol\nSher Singh Bedi: <\/strong>Gave standard\nanswer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chairman: <\/strong>Thank you, Anmol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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