Name: KR
Date of interview: 19th January 2024,Forenoon(last to go)
Interview board:B.B.Swain Sir
Education: Chartered Accountant, B.Com
WorkEx: Consultant Audit and Assurance Grant Thornton Bharat
Daf pointers: Temple visiting, community outreach and Welfare leaderships,Ajmer, Rajasthan
Interview transcript:
Entered chamber which had a round table with 6 members sitting around I entered and greeted gud Afternoon to all
Chairman sir
Good Afternoon ,Please be seated
So miss KR ,You are having hobby of visiting temples,can you please tell what type of temple architectures are there in India?
Then he asked to explain vesara style more and asked for examples And few cross questions with discussion
He then said thanku for giving me this extra information
Member 1
So I can see u have work ex and education around banking and Finance
Tell me
Q1)What do u think about status of Banks in India?
Q2)Why NPAs are Increasing in India?
Q3) How we can improve status of Banking failures ?
Q4) What are the issues with the MSMEs w.r.t Financing them from side of Banks and Govt?
Q5)Which Relaxations w.r.t loans were provided by Banks in COVID period?
Q6)Whats your opinion on the Frauds and Failures on part of Businesses of India?
Q7) As a Chartered Accountant, tell me where do u see our economy at 2047
Q8) What our country can do more for making it Developed Economy in Manufacturing?
Q9) What is ur understanding about Make in India
Q10) what major things u can think about when it comes to increase our Exports and Manufacturing sector contribution in GDP
There were few cross questions too over this theme only
And smiled saying well done
Member 2
Q1) What was time u came to UPSC Bhawan
I said 8:00 AM
He said and u must have got entry after 9 AM
And it was 12:50PM entered in for ur Interview
U must have been exhausted and had been waiting for so long
So what suggestions u would recommend to our management regarding this?
Q2) what is the pass percentage of CA exams ?
Becoming CA is very tough I know and when u have cleared it in first attempt and that too doing top at ur Branch level…whatwas pass percentage when u cleared ?Q3) What are the main reason behind such 90-95% failures despite huge coachings and study material availability?
Q4) what are the problems of students and what ICAI is doing for this
Q5) how did u managed to get through so quickly what u wud suggest others
Q6) why CAs are always named to engage in Frauds and Collusions with business class
Q7) where do u see CAs at ethics
Q8) what main things u would suggest to make CAs working ethically
Q9) what ICAI and Govt is doing in this regard
Q10)u have work ex as auditor ..what auditors need to learn in the current scenarios of frauds etc
Q11) How as CA u will help in Administration
Member3
Q1) so You are From Ajmer..tell me best things about Ajmer,? What it is known for
Q2) what’s importance of Khwaja ji dargah
Q3) is dargah also visited by Hindus
Q4) why so many celebrities go to dargah ?
Do they want to show something about their personality on media I mean just for show off or something else is reason
Q5) how Sufism is different from Islam
What was relevance of sufi movement
Q6)So I can see u have so many leadership positions and recited them from my DAF And asked what is motivating u to do so much things .?
Q7) whats driving force behind the idea that u want to remain on leading positions and inspire PPL And few cross questions
Member4(Lady)
Q1) So U said that u want to inspire by ur actions..tell me from whom u take inspiration ?
I mean is there anybody whom u follow for inspiration?
Q2) why do u think that u r ur own role model
Q3) which attributes of urs u will take into Civil services and why
Q4) what’s minimum marriage age in india
Q5)what do u think ABT this..I mean should age for marriage in case of females should be increased or decreased or to be kept 18
Q6)What do u think about sex education..should it be given or not?
Q7)And what about same sex marriages? Should they be allowed or not ?
Ok thank you
Chairman sir
He said ur Interview is over
When I was ABT to stand up he said wait sit again
Then He corrected me over one fact about vesara temple which I had said wrong and then i apologised saying will read about it more ..then he said no it’s ok this is not ur domain anyway
And said It was nice meeting You ..thank You
Time: 30 minutes approx
Mocks utility :
Just to boost confidence, 5-7 questions were repeated from mocks
What helped me more was listening to the O2O mocks by Satyam Jain sir ..I listened 15-20 mocks taken by him and made probable questions aligned to my DAF and prepared on them..