Your experience in an interview:

90% DAF-based, smiling but poker faces, some answers, and eye contact could have had been better from my side. Got out feeling nice but no clue how i performed.

Chairman asked to take off the mask if no COVID symptoms, I was experiencing a sore throat so kept the mask on

Utility of mocks (if any):

Vajirao – formal setting, closest to real interview, fixing mannerisms and boosting confidence

KSG – average mock but can be done as morale booster

Samkalp – my experience was not great but other people have had good experience

Chairman:

Asked to sit, told this is not a police interview, if you don’t know something it’s fine tell us and we will move on

Q1. Introduce yourself with your education and professional background?

Q2. Mainstream of tribals and  some followup questions?

Member 1 (Electrical degree DAF):

Q1. What are EM waves?

Q2. What is dual nature of partical?

Q3. Who gave this concept (didn’t know)?

Q4. Which equation describes dual nature of partical (couldn’t recall)?

Q5. Chairman asked here have you heard quote ‘god does not play dice’?

Member 2:

Q1. India’s stance in Ukraine Russia war?

Q2. Why do IMF and RBI give different projections?

Q3. Fuel as part of GST and counter?

 questions on that

Q4. Inflation target, has MPC failed in its objective to reign in inflation?

Q5. IoT and privacy concerns as IoT is about collecting almost all data?

Member 3:

questions on entrepreneurship and electrical (DAF)?

Q1. How to find which students are entrepreneurial?

Q2. Govt steps to promot entrepreneurship?

Q3. Every student is an entrepreneur and every entrepreneur is a student, what is wrong with this statement?

Q4. If family wants you to take up a job and you want to do a start up, what will you choose?

Q5. What is bioelectricity?

Q6. What is tree charger (didn’t know)?

Member 4:

guitar and drones (DAF)

Q1. Resonance in guitar and follow-up questions?

Q2. Security and administrative dimensions of drones?

Q3. Can we detect drones?

Q4. Can you tell me any recent events where drone attacks happened?

Chairman:

all right, this is all we wanted to ask, is there anything you would like to say

Mentioned how music helped me in personal growth and more appreciation of our culture.

Chairman said indeed music can lead to catharsis, your interview is over, all the best.