Deepankar Singh UPSC Interview Transcript

Name: Mr. Deepankar Singh

Optional Paper: Management

Date of interview: 29 January afternoon

Interview board: Swain sir

Daf pointers: Lucknow, Gwalior, BTech (IT), MBA, Formula-one, financial markets, police, philately

Interview transcript:

Chairman: straightaway

• tell me the history of philately
• where is the philately museum in Delhi (exact location)

Than turned his chair away and started typing on the keyboard.

M2 (lady)

• I learnt to use computers after my graduation and now new technologies are coming up. How will you encourage the Indian people to become tech savy ?
• how to promote tourism in UP ?
• why do you want to join the services after such a great academic background?
• what are the pros and cons of having only government run schools in the country ?

M3 (seated closest to me on the right)

• how will you use technology in policing?
• what are the pros and cons of social media ?
• how is technology mis-used in Taiwan elections ?
• what is the smallest pair of whole numbers used to form a right angle triangle? (Weird question in between opinion based questions)
• what leadership style will you prefer in the services ?

Chairman turned back towards me.

M4

• how is cutting edge technology in formula-one used in day to day life ?
• comment on the financial markets in India
• asked me some random term

M5

• if there is formula one then there must be formula two formula three formula four, what are these?
• compare the economic condition of UP and MP ?
• why Indian PSUs are not performing as great as those of Singapore and Dubai?
• which PSUs of India are you bullish on and why?

Time – 30-32 mins

Assessment of the board: The lady was smiling whereas the other members were poker-faced so I don’t know how it went. The chairman turned away in the middle of the interview and started typing on the keyboard. The only mock I found closer to the actual exam in terms of seating was Samkalp. The mocks relevant to the board’s questions were – Testbook, Unacademy, Studyiq and Chahal. One to one with Khan sir and Ravindran sir was helpful.