INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS

UPSC - Indian Statistical Service 2022

AIR 1 - Astitva Ranjan Srivastava
 PT Score: 124/200
 Date of the Interview: 19.12.2022 (First Day)
 Duration of Interview: 25-30 mins
 Interview Board: Smita Nagaraj Ma’am
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. from BHU and
B.Sc. from University of Lucknow
 Past working experience: Nil
 Home State: Uttar Pradesh
 Hobbies: Playing Table Tennis, Watching Movies

Chairperson:

1. You did masters in 2020, what were you doing for the last two years?
2. (Since I mentioned about my RBI Gr B selection) so what will you choose
between the two? (I said ISS because of its diversified nature of work.)
3. What are the health indicators for a society? How will you measure whether
any society is healthy or not?
4. What are the indicators of education level?
5. Suppose you have to take a sample from, say, class of MSc 2020 BHU and do
some analysis, then how will you proceed. Explain every step.
6. What are different types of sampling techniques? Which one is better?
7. Where can we use Non-probability sampling techniques?
8. What do you think of exit polls? Do they follow certain assumptions? How far
can they be trusted?

(I said since sample is not a true representative of the population in the exit
polls, hence it cannot be used to generalise for the whole population.)

Member 1:

1. (Continuing from exit poll question) You said that the sample is not a true
representative of the population in the exit polls hence it cannot be used to
generalise for the whole population. Let us say, I have done sampling
representing each constituency, booth and made it representative. Now will
you trust the results of this sample?
(I said still not sir. Because though we have reduced sampling error, however
non sampling error in the form of response bias is still present. Hence it cannot
be trusted.)
2. That's right answer, so what is the technique of handling this response bias?
(I said there is Hansen-Hurwitz Technique of handling non response. However,
he told me about Randomised Response Technique for handling non-response as
well.)
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3. What are the components of a time series?
4. How will you model a time series? Explain every step.
5. What is the model used by weather forecasting agencies? (Power series
regression)
6. What are the methods of selecting variables in regression analysis?
7. What is Principal Component Analysis? How to choose number of principal
components?

Member 2:

1. Who was the founder of Banaras Hindu University?

2. What is Time Use Survey(TUS)? What are its objectives?
3. How TUS is related to National Accounts?
4. Any survey conducted by NSO for poverty measurement? (CES)
5. What is BLUE?
6. What is Rao Blackwell Theorem?
7. What is completeness?
8. What were your specialization in Masters?
9. What is the contribution of Prof Mahalanobis in Multivariate Analysis?

Member 3:

1. What do you think is your greatest fear? (I said I haven't found it yet)
2. Suppose you are an statistics officer and your superior wants you to interpret
some result in a different favourable way. What would you do then? How will
you solve this situation?
3. Whom do you idealise (it may be your family member or some great personality
and why?
4. What are your views on dowry system in our country? What are some laws
related to this? How we can end this problem?
5. Any situation in your past that you faced where you think you handled very
well?
6. What is success according to you?

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AIR 2 - Bappa Saha
 PT Score: 114/200
 Date of the Interview: 19.12.2022 (First Day)
 Duration of Interview: 25-30 mins
 Interview Board: R.N. Choubey Sir
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. (Ag.) from IASRI and
B.Sc. from UBKV, West Bengal
 Past working experience: Nil
 Home State: West Bengal
 Hobbies: Gardening

Chairperson:
1. Tell me briefly about your educational background.
2. Have you heard about any Agricultural Insurance Scheme?
3. How statistics is used in PMFBY? How farmers’ claims are settled?
(Further discussions on the issues of PMFBY went on)

Member 1:
1. What is the model of RCBD (Randomised Complete Block Design)?
2. What is the difference between schedule and questionnaire?
(Few more sampling and design of experiments related questions)

Member 2:
1. Do you know how crop acreage and yield are estimated in India? Can you elaborate
the design used in it?
2. Questions on the design and crops covered under GCES (General Crop Estimation
Survey).

Member 3:
1. Tell me about the courses you had in your M.Sc. Why your degree is given in the
name of Agricultural Statistics?
2. Questions on Statistical Genetics which I had in my M.Sc.

Last follow up questions asked by Chairperson:

1. Suppose, you have been posted in West Bengal and found that there is some
scarcity in manpower and resources in Statistical System. Now, how would you
convince the WB govt. to provide more manpower and resources?
2. Questions on M.Sc. Research Project.

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AIR 3 - Sagnik Dey
 PT Score: 116/200
 Date of the Interview: 19.12.2022 (First Day)
 Duration of Interview: 30-35 mins
 Interview Board: Smita Nagaraj Ma’am
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. from IIT Kanpur and
B.Sc. from Ashutosh College, University of Calcutta
 Past working experience: Nil
 Home State: West Bengal
 Hobbies: HIIT Workout

Chairperson:
1. Questions on Football & basic interaction
2. Questions on Demography:
(i) What is Demographic dividend?
(ii) What statistics are to be collected from secondary data sources to
understand the demographic dividend?
(iii) What do you understand by dividend?
3. What are the merits and demerits of West Bengal as state wrt development,
poverty, etc. and how it is measured?

Member 1:
1. Comparison of SRS & 2-stage stratified sampling in case of large population.
2. Questions on CPI wrt DA:
(i) What do you know about CPI to understand DA?
(ii) Who releases CPI?
(iii) How CPI is adjusted to obtain the increase in DA?
3. What are SDGs and who implements it?
4. What is the difference between two stage sampling and double sampling
techniques?

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Member 2:
1. What are variable selection methods?
2. Which method among method of moments & MLE is better?
3. What do you know about efficiency?
4. What are the assumptions of one way-CRD?
5. What is multiple range test?
6. What will be the effect when,
(i) Assumptions of sum of treatments are violated
(ii) Assumptions of homoscedasticity is violated in errors
7. If we compare prices of different crops like tomato, wheat & batteries, will it violate
the assumptions of homoscedasticity? And what will be the test used to compare?

Member 3:
1. Questions on my hobbies.
2. Questions on time series and its components related to my project.
3. Asking meaning of my name.
4. Where do you want to see yourself in future years?
5. If we don't have data for certain variables how can we estimate it?
6. What are interpolation & extrapolation?
7. What are the measurement errors?
8. Tell some survey related questions on undernutrition. What type of data you will
collect and how?

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AIR 4 - Meghal Sharma
 PT Score: 136/200
 Date of the Interview: 19.12.2022 (First Day)
 Duration of Interview: 25-30 mins
 Interview Board: Smita Nagaraj Ma’am
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. from University of
Rajasthan and B.Sc. from The IIS (deemed to be
University)
 Past working experience: Nil
 Home State: Rajasthan
 Hobbies: Volunteering at events and Spirituality

Chairperson:
(I have done internship at Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Rajasthan)
1. What are your roles and responsibilities in your internship? Is it on daily basis? Or
working under some project?
2. Asking questions related to department of internship (Integrated Finance Unit)
(i) How is GDP compiled at national level and what are the different approaches
followed for the same?
(ii) What are some areas or sectors where states cannot find unit level data to
compile their respective state domestic products?

Member 1:
1. What are the different schemes or helplines that we have for protection of women
against harassment at work places?
2. How will you make people trust in data and statistics that we release?
3. How will you encourage your team mates to work efficiently and effectively for a
project as a team leader?

Member 2:
1. Questions on M.Sc. Project (Topic: Statistical Analysis of Cyber Crimes in
Metropolitan Areas)
(i) Which city or metropolitan area has maximum cybercrimes committed in
India over the years and why?
(ii) What are the different laws that provide protection from cybercrimes in
India?
(iii) Can you recall some cybercrime cases in recent past?
2. What is interpolation?
3. How do you estimate missing plot in randomised block design?
4. What is the CLT?

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Member 3:
1. What are your optionals in Paper 4? Why did you choose them? (I chose MVA and
SQC)
2. What is factor analysis?
3. What is the purpose of SQC?
4. What are CPI, WPI, and IIP? Who releases them and what are their respective base
years?
5. Why there is a need to change base year regularly?
6. More questions on my internship like
(i) What is State Domestic Product?
(ii) How do we estimate the GSDP at constant prices?
(iii) What are supra regional sectors?

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AIR 5 - Manisha Yadav
 PT Score: 106/200
 Date of the Interview: 19.12.2022 (First Day)
 Duration of Interview: 25 mins
 Interview Board: Smita Nagaraj Ma’am
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. from LSR, DU and
B.Sc. from Sri Venkateswara College, DU
 Past working experience: Nil
 Home State: Haryana
 Hobbies: Cooking and Meditation

Chairperson:
1. What are you doing for 2 years after your masters?
2. What are the new jobs in the field of statistics?
3. Why ISS?
4. What can you do to increase the reliability of citizens on govt. data?
5. If you get chance which department will you choose to work in? (I said
Education and Agriculture)
6. Then she asked me in education what specific department will you work in? On
what statistics related to education?
7. Is there any Index in India which gave data on performance or quality of
education in schools?
8. From where you can get data on employment and unemployment?
9. Name any 3 evidence based policies from current or from past.
10. Is there any govt. data in which there are gaps? Or like, for which data is not
present?

Member 1:
1. What was your elective subject in M.Sc.?
2. What is autocorrelation? Is it a problem? What happens if there is
autocorrelation in data?
3. What are time series’ components? How would you measure trend?
4. Is there any statistic or index number in India which uses moving average in its
calculation?
5. What are non-sampling errors? Give examples.
6. What are Type 1 error and Type 2 error? Which one is more serious?
7. Tell something about Rao Blackwell theorem.
8. What is the contribution of Prof. Mahalanobis in Multivariate Analysis? What is
the name of that statistic?
9. What is RBD?

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Member 2:
1. What is MLE? What is its physical interpretation? What does it mean to
maximize likelihood?
2. What is likelihood?
3. What is MLE of Uniform (0,theta). Then he asked why Xn is MLE why not 2Xbar?
Like what is the physical interpretation of Xn being MLE?
4. What is Poisson process? Give example of Poisson process.
5. What is Poisson distribution? When do we use it?
6. What are unbiased tests? Give some practical example of Unbiased tests.
7. Questions on Paired t-test. What is the difference between 2-sample t-test and
paired t-test?

Member 3:
1. What is transparency? How can you make data / results more transparent?
2. Have you ever faced leadership roles in the past? Like in your project or
somewhere? How does it go? How did you handle things? What did you learn?
3. Who was the first female President of India?
4. What is the role of President in the country?

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AIR 7 - Priyanshu Kumar
 PT Score: 130/200
 Date of the Interview: 20.12.2022 (Second Day)
 Duration of Interview: 25 mins
 Interview Board: Smita Nagaraj Ma’am
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. from Hindu College,
DU and B.Sc. from Patna Science College
 Past working experience: In-house Expert at Chegg
 Home State: Bihar
 Hobbies: Chess, Cricket

Chairperson:
1. In your DAF, you have mentioned that you are working as an SME at CHEGG. (It is that
profile in which you get paid as per the question you solve). So, I am curious how much you
earn in a month? (Few more questions were asked related to my job)
2. 10 years ago, did anyone think that statistics as a discipline will become so important?
3. What are you doing after completing your masters in 2020?
4. What is the role of ISS officers in India? What aspire you to become this?

Member 1:
1. What is skewed distribution? Explain in layman terms.
2. What is Kurtosis?
3. What are Autocorrelation, Multi collinearity and Heteroscedasticity? Please explain with
practical examples.
4. What is Gini Coefficient?
5. Have you studied stochastic process?
6. What is Poisson process? What is Brownian motion?

Member 2:
1. Which type of distribution (positively skewed, negatively skewed or normal) determine
income of the country?
2. Do you know about the Household Consumption Expenditure survey? Can any distribution
use to fit this type of data?
3. Why do you want to join ISS?
4. Any 2-life lessons from chess. (As chess is my hobby)

Member 3:
1. Do you have any idea about the ‘corporate offices data’ collection process in India? Who
collects the data of corporate companies?
2. What is the role of Ministry of Corporate affairs in India?
3. Do you have any idea about the Unemployment rate in India?
4. Explain briefly about the PLFS Survey.

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AIR 8 - Shalini Shekhawat
 PT Score: 130/200
 Date of the Interview: 19.12.2022 (First Day)
 Duration of Interview: 20 mins
 Interview Board: Smita Nagaraj Ma’am
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. from IIT Bombay and
B.Sc. from ICG, University of Rajasthan
 Past working experience: Senior Statistician at
Novartis, Business Analyst at CarDekho.com
 Home State: Rajasthan
 Hobbies: Playing sports and Meditation

Chairperson:
1. Questions about my work profile. (I have worked in 2 private firms so I explained what I did
in my job).

Member 1:
1. Questions related to linear regression like what are its assumptions, etc.?
2. What is multi collinearity? Which method is used if multi collinearity is present?
3. In long jump many players secure scores like 8m, 8.2m, 7.9m, 8.1m, 7.8m etc. but very few
secure 9m or above score. What would you call these scores? (I was player of the
tournament in my college and secured pole positions in many sports event like long jump,
shot put, etc. so I mentioned that in my DAF. Sir asked me a question which was mix of my
hobby and statistics.)
4. What are the different methods to treat outliers?

Member 2:
1. What is rule of law?
2. If you have to check effectiveness of some of the schemes in village then how would you
do it?
3. How would you check the effectiveness of Swach Bharat Mission in a village? What all
factors you would consider?
(Some more questions related to this were asked.)

Member 3:
1. Questions related to index number, ASI, and GDP were asked.

My advice: If you don’t know any answer then don’t beat around the bush. You can politely say that
you are not aware or not well versed with the asked topic. It will help you in 2 ways: (i) reflect
honesty and (ii) you will remain calm. Because beating around the bush will increase your heart beat,
BP, you will fumble few times and ultimately will shake your confidence.

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AIR 9 - Shreya Aggarwal
 PT Score: 130/200
 Date of the Interview: 20.12.2022 (Second Day)
 Duration of Interview: 20-25 mins
 Interview Board: Smita Nagaraj Ma’am
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. from Sri
Venkateswara College, DU and B.Sc. from Kirori Mal
College, DU
 Past working experience: Data Scientist at HDFC Bank
 Home State: Delhi
 Hobbies: Music (Vocal Music)

1. What was your profile at your previous organization?

2. Why do you want to switch from corporate to government sector?
3. Mention some of the principles of Official Statistics. How will you
maintain these principles? Give examples.
4. Are you aware of some controversies regarding National Statistical
System? What were they? What are your views on those controversies?
5. What according to you, is the best method of estimation and why?
6. Some questions on properties of estimator.
7. Do you know about vigilante justice? Your views on it.

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AIR 10 - Shravana Kumar Yadav
 PT Score: 134/200
 Date of the Interview: 21.12.2022 (Third Day)
 Duration of Interview: 15-20 mins
 Interview Board: Smita Nagaraj Ma’am
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. from IIT Bombay and
B.Sc. from BHU
 Past working experience: Senior Consultant at EY
 Home State: Uttar Pradesh
 Hobbies: Playing Badminton, Yoga

Chairperson:
1. What is NFHS? What are different components added in the latest NFHS survey?

Member 1:
1. How will you predict the cancer patient and what all data will you collect to develop
prediction model?
2. Explain different algorithms used to solve class imbalanced problem in the
classification problem.
3. Explain your research paper and follow up questions as I have published one
conference paper in the area of Machine Learning during my M.Sc.

Member 2:
1. What is Indian Official Statistical system? What are the roles of different ministries?
2. What is the role of CSO? What are the different sectors for which CSO has collected
and maintained data and different sectors where CSO is not collecting and maintaining
data?
3. How will you collect data related to IT sector?
4. Explain principle of sampling methods.
5. What is the difference between service and product?

Member 3:
1. How will you build ML model if assumptions of the model do not follow the given data?
2. What is difference between Logistic and Linear Regression? Why is Logistic Regression
better than Linear Regression? Can we use categorical features in Linear Regression
and Logistic Regression?
3. What is Simulation and use of Simulation?

Last follow up questions asked by Chairperson:

1. Would you like to share any other information about yourself with us before leaving?
2. What would be your preference if you get selected in ISS?

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AIR 11 - Harsha Chadha
 PT Score: 140/200
 Date of the Interview: 20.12.2022 (Second Day)
 Duration of Interview: 35 mins
 Interview Board: Smita Nagaraj Ma’am
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. and B.Sc. from
University of Lucknow
 Past working experience: Nil
 Home State: Uttar Pradesh
 Hobbies: Handlettering, Jogging

Chairperson:
1. What is SECC and what are your views on whether SECC should be conducted or
not?
2. What are the sources of data on poverty?
3. What are your views on the manipulation of data by statisticians?
4. What are the components of time series data?
5. Tell us about NFHS and PLFS. How errors can be minimized in surveys?

Member 1:
1. Questions from Multivariate Analysis, Inference and Sampling:
(i) About Hotelling’s T2, Wishart Distribution, and Non central chi-square
distribution.
(ii) About Logistic Regression, its example and where to use?
(iii) About Dummy variable regression
2. What is the difference between SLLN and WLLN? Tell us about CLT and how it is
related to Chebychev’s inequality?
3. What is Likelihood function and state the properties of MLE?
4. What is multi collinearity? How do you detect it and what are its solutions?
5. What is conditional distribution and Bayes rule?

Member 2:
1. What are DPSPs and why DPSPs?
2. Why Article 32 is called the Soul of the Constitution?
3. What is the definition of success for you?

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Member 3:
1. Questions on Hobby (Hand Lettering):
(i) Difference between script writing, calligraphy, hand lettering.
(ii) Draw something for us.

Last follow up questions asked by Chairperson:

1. What is evidence based policy making? Can you explain it with an example?
(I explained it by giving the example of MSP (Minimum Support Price). Then she asked
more questions related to MSP.)
2. Who decides MSP?
3. How MSP is calculated?

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AIR 12 - Mohammad Yahya
 PT Score: 130/200
 Date of the Interview: 20.12.2022 (Second Day)
 Duration of Interview: 15-20 mins
 Interview Board: R.N. Choubey Sir
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. and B.Sc. from
Aligarh Muslim University
 Past working experience: Nil
 Home State: Uttar Pradesh
 Hobbies: Introspection

1. Introduce yourself
2. How to assess chances of your selection?
3. How to plan survey in your district?
4. What are Linear and non-Linear regression?
5. What are the uses of ASI and PLFS data?
6. Discuss CPI vs WPI.
7. What is MSP?
8. Questions on basics about SQC.
9. Questions on my projects done in M.Sc.
10. What are Correlation, Rank Correlation, Multiple and Partial correlation
coefficients? And what are their limits?
11. What are ordered random variables?
12. Define Exponential distribution. What is the relation between Poisson events
and Exponential events?
13. What is Lifetime distribution?
14. Define Markovian process.
15. Tell something about Sustainable Development Goals.

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AIR 14 - Manu Singh
 PT Score: 130/200
 Date of the Interview: 20.12.2022 (Second Day)
 Duration of Interview: 15-20 mins
 Interview Board: R.N. Choubey Sir
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. from BHU and B.Sc.
from University of Allahabad
 Past working experience: Nil
 Home State: Uttar Pradesh
 Hobbies: Playing badminton and paper crafting

Chairperson:
1. Discussion on what I had in breakfast to make me feel comfortable.
2. Questions on my hometown.

Member 1:
1. Questions about my hobbies. What are the different shots of badminton?
2. Which statistical tool that can be used in badminton?
3. Suppose two players are playing a badminton match and you're going to play with the
winner of that match, what would you notice and how would you strategize your game?

Member 2:
1. Questions related to index numbers:
(i) What are the types of index numbers?
(ii) Give some real life applications related to index numbers.
(iii) What is the difference between WPI and CPI?
(iv) Define Purchasing Power Index, Producer Price Index, Inflation (current inflation),
etc.
(v) What are different rates like Repo Rate, Reverse Repo Rate, Cash Reserve Ratio,
etc.?
Member 3:
1. Why I chose M.Sc. in Statistics and Computing? And how it is different from core statistics?
2. What is data mining?
3. What do you know about Bayesian inference? What is the difference between Bayesian
and Classical inference?
4. What is stochastic process? Give some real life applications.
(He also gave me a case study to apply Bayesian inference and asked me about regression
analysis (case study) particularly logistic regression.)

Last follow up questions asked by Chairperson:

1. Is there anything else you want to share with us?

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AIR 15 - Shinde Sharad Panchu
 PT Score: 84/200
 Date of the Interview: 20.12.2022 (Second Day)
 Duration of Interview: 12-15 mins
 Interview Board: R.N. Choubey Sir
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. from S.R.T.M
University, Nanded and B.Sc. from Fergusson
College, Pune
 Past working experience: Nil
 Home State: Maharashtra
 Hobbies: Swimming

1. Questions from my DAF.

2. As you belong to Latur district of Maharashtra, can you tell us why it was in news in
1993? Any special event?
3. Government had done good for earthquake stricken places. What do you think
about this?
4. Konkan region is famous for mango so tell us how do you estimate its production?
5. What are CPI and inflation rate? How to calculate it? And state some differences
between WPI and CPI.
6. What is regression coefficient? What are its properties?
7. What is zero sum game? Explain giving examples.
8. Questions on Bayesian Inference, loss function, and two types of errors.
9. During COVID period there was an issue of migrant workers which you might be
aware of. Give some suggestions to curb such situation or if such situation arises
what measures would you take to handle it?
10. Last question if you want to discuss some issue or want to tell something.

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AIR 16 - Amit Kumar
 PT Score: 95/200
 Date of the Interview: 20.12.2022 (Second Day)
 Duration of Interview: 20 mins
 Interview Board: Smita Nagaraj Ma’am
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. from IIT Kanpur and
B.Sc. from Ramjas College,DU
 Past working experience: Nil
 Home State: Haryana
 Hobbies: Playing Cricket and Badminton

Chairperson:
1. Tell us about your academic background.
2. Questions on Hobbies.
3. What are the indicators of HDI? What other indicators could be added to it?

Member 1:
1. What is your favorite subject?
2. Which tests should be used to distinguish between two populations?
(Further cross questioning on applications of t-test in univariate and multivariate
data)
3. Define BLUE.
4. What do you know about Rao-Blackwell theorem?
5. Define UMVUE and how to find it?

Member 2:
1. Questions on Stratified sampling and PPS Sampling.

Member 3:
1. What is the significance of Index number?
2. Do you know about Trade Statistics?
3. Define Hamlet groups and FSUs.

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AIR 17 - Rahul Kumar Bagaria
 PT Score: 98/200
 Date of the Interview: 19.12.2022 (First Day)
 Duration of Interview: 15 mins
 Interview Board: Smita Nagaraj Ma’am
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. and B.Sc. from
Ramjas College, DU; Pursuing Ph.D from University of
Rajasthan
 Past working experience: Data Analyst at
Teleperformance Global Pvt. Ltd.
 Home State: Rajasthan
 Hobbies: Cricket, Cooking Rajasthani food

Chairperson:
1. Questions on my Ph.D. topic, its objectives and progress till interview.
2. What do you know about Data Crunching?
3. Questions on current events
4. Few questions based on my job.

Member 1:
1. Define WLLN, SLLN, and Convergence.
2. What is CRLB and Rao-Blackwell theorem?
3. What do you know about UMVUE?
4. Questions on Bayesian Inference theory.

Member 2:
1. Questions on Exploratory Data Analysis.
Member 3:
1. State some properties of Official Statistics.
2. Define distributions having Memory less property with examples.

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AIR 18 - Gaurav Bharti
 PT Score: 120/200
 Date of the Interview: 21.12.2022 (Third Day)
 Duration of Interview: 20 mins
 Interview Board: Smita Nagaraj Ma’am
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. from BHU and B.Sc.
from University of Allahabad
 Past working experience: SME at Chegg
 Home State: Uttar Pradesh
 Hobbies: Boxing

Chairperson:
1. What do you know about NFHS? Who conducts it? What are the results of NFHS?

Member 1:
1. So you have qualified GATE, in what sector would you like to do research?
2. You have mentioned boxing as your interest, in which category you belong?

Member 2:
1. What is the job of an ISS Officer?
2. What is GDP and GVA?
3. Do you know about NSC? What are its roles?

Member 3:
1. You have been working at Chegg and CourseHero, what did you do there? What
were the level of questions?
2. What is the interpretation of confidence interval? Why can’t we say 95%
confidence means 95% probability?
Last follow up questions asked by Chairperson:
1. Would you like to tell us something which we didn’t get to know about you through
this interview?

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AIR 19 - Vikas Rundala
 PT Score: 108/200
 Date of the Interview: 19.12.2022 (First Day)
 Duration of Interview: 30 mins
 Interview Board: Smita Nagaraj Ma’am
 Educational Qualifications: Integrated M.Sc. Statistics
from CURAJ
 Past working experience: Nil
 Home State: Rajasthan
 Hobbies: Photography

Chairperson:
1. Questions related to my internship in FOD, MoSPI.
2. What are the issues in data quality and suggest some ways to improve them?
3. Do you know some schemes which are for girls and women empowerment in
Rajasthan?
4. Based on my answer to above question, questions were asked about
Mukhyamantri Rajshree Yojana and related schemes.
5. Define inflation and stagflation.
6. What is the difference between fiscal and monetary policy?

Member 1:
1. What is Constitution and why does it required in a country?
2. What is flexible and rigid Constitution?
3. Some questions related to Social Justice, Judicial Review and Judicial Activism.
4. Can Government change anything in Constitution (Article 368)?
5. What is the role of Supreme Court in protecting fundamental rights? Do you
have any idea about complete justice?

Member 2:
1. Questions related to CPI, IIP and other indices released by MoSPI.
2. Discuss about CPI vs WPI.
3. What are the indices related to poverty and what is Multidimensional Poverty
Index?
4. Do you know which index released by MoSPI is fastest in the world?

Member 3:
1. Questions related to Inferential Statistics.
2. What do you understand by socio-economic surveys? Which sampling design is
being used by FOD to collect socio-economic surveys data?

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AIR 20 - Neha Singh
 PT Score: 140/200
 Date of the Interview: 20.12.2022 (Second Day)
 Duration of Interview: 20 mins
 Interview Board: Smita Nagaraj Ma’am
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. and B.Sc. from BHU
 Past working experience: Data Analyst at Accenture
 Home State: Uttar Pradesh
 Hobbies: Watching movies and webseries

Chairperson:
1. Questions related to my job profile:
(i) Under what project you are working?
(ii) Which type of modelling you are using currently in your project?

Member 1:
1. Tell me your preferred area in statistics.
2. What is BLUE?
3. What is Lehman-Scheffe theorem?
4. What is Rao-Blackwell theorem?

Member 2:
1. Questions related to ANOVA.
2. Questions related to Multivariate Analysis.

Member 3:
Situation based Questions:
1. So, if your senior told you to change the output of your result and put pressure on
you, then what will you do?
2. Any problem solving approach you used in your real life?

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AIR 21 - Deepti Tripathi
 PT Score: 110/200
 Date of the Interview: 19.12.2022 (First Day)
 Duration of Interview: 20-25 mins
 Interview Board: Smita Nagaraj Ma’am
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. and B.Sc. from
University of Allahabad
 Past working experience: Nil
 Home State: Uttar Pradesh
 Hobbies: Cooking

Chairperson:
1. Questions on my address proof, official and local identity name of my address.
2. What types of census are conducted in our country?
3. What are the types of health related surveys and their importance?
4. Questions related to Census 2011 and Census 2021.
5. What is non response error and how to remove it?

Member 1:
1. Questions from my DAF, about my hobbies and how do I follow my hobby?
2. Who is the inspiration of my life and why?
3. Share any difficult situation which I faced in my life.
4. Difference between sampling and non-sampling error, which one is serious and how to
overcome it?

Member 2:
1. In most of NSS Surveys, which sampling technique is used?
2. What is stratified sampling and 3 stage stratified sampling?
3. In ASI, which sampling technique is used for unit enumeration?
4. What is sampling multiplier?
5. Some questions on Population Projections and follow up questions w.r.t. Covid-19 cases.
6. Which subjects I studied in my masters and what are my two most favorite subjects?
7. Based on the responses of above question, he asked what is multi collinearity?
8. Tell us about Global Hunger Index. How to relate GHI with problem of multi collinearity?

Member 3:
1. What is CPI and which method is used for calculation of CPI? What is base year of CPI?
2. What are the other indices calculated in our country and what are their base years?
3. Do you know about the characteristics of good base year?
4. What is GDP and its base year?

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AIR 22 - Kondkar Vedant Anil
 PT Score: 116/200
 Date of the Interview: 21.12.2022 (Third Day)
 Duration of Interview: 10-15 mins
 Interview Board: Smita Nagaraj Ma’am
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. and B.Sc. from
University of Mumbai
 Past working experience: Worked as analyst in TCS;
Research Internship at RBI.
 Home State: Maharashtra
 Hobbies: Watching movies and reading screenplay

Chairperson:
1. Tell us about your work profile in TCS.
2. Questions on Clinical Trials:
(i) What is Placebo?
(ii) What are the different types of study design in clinical trials?
(iii) What are Ethical clinical trials?

Member 1:
1. What are the components of time series?
2. In ARIMA, what does ‘I’ stands for?
3. Who compiles CPI?
4. What is the base effect?
5. Do you know about Merchandise trade (data released by RBI)?
6. What is the PLFS data’s current trend?

Member 2:
1. What is the difference between MLE and LSE?
2. Define Minimal sufficiency.
3. What is the Bayes estimator for poisson distribution?
4. Tell us about Goodness of fit.
5. What is the difference between R square and adjusted R square?

Member 3:
1. What is Doughnut Graph?
2. What is Cause and effect relationship? Give any example.
3. What is Snowball sampling? Give any real life example.
4. Where do you get a screenplay to read?
5. Do you write screenplay?

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AIR 23 - KM Avantika Nishad
 PT Score: 132/200
 Date of the Interview: 20.12.2022 (Second Day)
 Duration of Interview: 20 mins
 Interview Board: Smita Nagaraj Ma’am
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. from DSMNRU,
Lucknow and B.Sc. from University of Lucknow
 Past working experience: Nil
 Home State: Uttar Pradesh
 Hobbies: Embroidery

Chairperson:
1. Where are you from?
2. Which survey is going on these days in UP in education?
3. How would you conduct survey?
4. To establish a school, what would be the first thing you correlate with?
5. After seeing my DAF she asked, Who got the lowest marks in your University and
why? (As I got maximum CGPA)
6. What do you think medical issues should be given preference while giving marks in
school?
7. Questions related to correlation.

Member 1:
1. Which law is recently passed for women empowerment?
2. Have you worked anywhere? (relating it with Women Harassment Act at
workplace). How much such acts are needed?

Member 2:
1. What is multivariate analysis about?
2. What is Hotelling’s T2 distribution?
3. Questions on poisson and exponential distribution.
(Told the member to not ask questions from MVA as it was not my choice in Paper 4,
then he asked me about my favourite topics which were Inference and Sampling
Techniques.)
4. Asking about type I and type II error by giving a patient and doctor example.
5. Give some real life examples of few distributions like discrete, continuous,
truncated, etc.
6. Tell us about efficiency and UMVUE of Bivariate Normal distribution.

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Member 3:
1. What is Index number? What are the tests of Index number? Which is the best
Index Number?
2. What are WPI and CPI?
3. What are the drawbacks of Laspeyre’s formula?
4. As you got so many medals and trophies, what was your main focus while studying?

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AIR 24 - Jyoti Singharia
 PT Score: 114/200
 Date of the Interview: 21.12.2022 (Third Day)
 Duration of Interview: 20 mins
 Interview Board: Smita Nagaraj Ma’am
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. from University of
Rajasthan and B.Sc. from Subodh College, University of
Rajasthan
 Past working experience: Rajasthan Subordinate Statistical
Services (Chief Medical & Health Officer)
 Home State: Rajasthan
 Hobbies: Bird watching and listening them, Cooking

Chairperson:
1. Questions related to my job:
(i) What is CMHO?
(ii) What is the difference between medical and health?
(iii) What is a Job Chart?
(iv) What are the reasons of having difference in real and recorded data of
women pregnancy?
(v) How do you feel or experience in your first government office?
(vi) Are you satisfied with your job?

Member 1:
1. Tell us about Snowball Sampling.

Member 2:
1. What are type I and type II errors?
2. Define efficiency and what is the most efficient estimator?
3. Define the terms: UMVUE, MLE, Null Hypothesis, Alternate Hypothesis.
4. What is Bivariate Normal Distribution and few theorems based on it?
5. Tell us about your hobbies.
6. How do you find time for your hobby being there in the government job?
7. What are the different types of birds? (Question based on my hobby)

Member 3:
1. What reports are there on the website of DES (Directorate of Economics &
Statistics), Rajasthan?
2. Which approach would you choose if you find/feel any data deficiency?
3. What kind of difficulties did you face in your office?
4. What kind of changes must be made to improve female’s hygiene in public places?

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AIR 25 – Gurpreet Singh
 PT Score: 76/200
 Date of the Interview: 21.12.2022 (Third Day)
 Duration of Interview: 20 mins
 Interview Board: R.N. Choubey Sir
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. from Panjab University,
Chandigarh and B.Sc. from Punjabi University, Patiala
 Past working experience: Nil
 Home State: Punjab
 Hobbies: Singing

Chairperson
1. Are you preparing for defence services also?
2. Give your interview in English. We won’t cut your marks on the basis of language.
3. How to ensure the privacy of individual?
4. What is the fundamental principle of confidentiality wrt data collection?
(I said unit level data and identity of informant should not be disclosed)

Member 1:
1. Questions on election of Sarpanch in Panchayat Elections.
2. How to ensure the confidentiality of voters?

Member 2:
1. Questions based on Game Theory.
2. Which is your favourite subject? (I said Econometrics)
3. Which model to be used to predict the sales of Baleno Car in Punjab?
4. How to handle problem of multicollinearity?

Member 3:
1. What is Land-Use Statistics?
2. Which sampling design is used in PLFS?
3. Which CPI is used to calculate DA of Central Govt. Employees? Who releases it?
4. Who releases Wholesale Price Index?

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AIR 26 - Kiran
 PT Score: 126/200
 Date of the Interview: 21.12.2022 (Third Day)
 Duration of Interview: 10-15 mins
 Interview Board: Smita Nagaraj Ma’am
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. from Hindu College,
DU and B.Sc. from KMC, DU
 Past working experience: Statistical Assistant at Public
Works Dept., Government of Delhi
 Home State: Delhi
 Hobbies: Listening Music

1. What are the measures of central tendency?

2. Which programming languages you have studied?
3. As I have worked in PWD, how the statistics is being used in the department?
4. Which index PWD releases every month?
5. Have you heard about Breathless song?
6. What is the difference between Canonical Correlation and Multiple Correlation?
7. Do you know about Principles of Official Statistics?
8. Define Data Cleaning, outliers and how to plan an experiment?
9. What is Orthogonality in LSD and RBD?
10. (Since I have also worked in DES) What type of work/project you have been
allotted there and what were the results?

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AIR 27 - Jai Prakash Sah

AIR 27 Jai Prakash Sah
PT Score: 70/200
 Dateo ofScore:
the Interview:
70/200 22.12.2022 (Last Day)
 o Date of the interview:
Duration of Interview: 30-35 mins
 o Duration of Interview:
Interview Board: R.N. Choubey 30-35
Sirmins
o Interview Board: R.N. Chaubey Sir
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. from Hindu College,
o Educational Qualifications:
DU and B.Sc. from Patna Science College.
o Past working experience: Nil
 Pastoworking experience:
Home State: Bihar SME at Chegg
 Homeo State: Bihar
Hobbies:
 Hobbies: Cooking

Chairperson:
1. Give us brief introduction about yourself.
2. How will you do malnutrition survey in school at district level?

Member 1:
1. What are the estimates of beta from my project work?
2. What is multi collinearity?
3. How did you identify multi collinearity in your project?

Member 2:
1. Give the definition of Probability with some examples.
2. What do you know about IIP?

Member 3:
1. Why did you use multiple linear regression model in your project?
2. What is logistics regression model?
3. If correlation between x and y is 0.5 then what would be the correlation between
logx and logy? Will it be same or different from correlation between x and y?
4. What is the name of distribution if infinite number of failures occurring before 1st
success?
5. When do we apply linear regression model in data?

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AIR 28 - Rishabh Singh Shyam
 PT Score: 70/200
 Date of the Interview: 21.12.2022 (Third Day)
 Duration of Interview: 25 mins
 Interview Board: R.N. Choubey Sir
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. from IARI-IASRI and B.Sc.
from PJTSAU, Hyderabad
 Past working experience: Nil
 Home State: Chhattisgarh
 Hobbies: Online Gaming, Playing Badminton

1. Kindly introduce yourself in a minute or two.

2. So, you are pursuing Ph.D. in Agricultural Statistics, what is the title of your research
you are working on?
3. Can you tell us how to validate a model? Suppose you have two datasets, how would
you validate both models?
4. What are the factors of socio-economic growth?
5. You have mentioned in your DAF that your hobby is astronomy. Can you tell me what
are the applications of astronomy? Any other application? Can you state few
organizations/institute which extensively work in area of astronomy using statistics?
6. Have you studied design of experiments? What are 23 factorial experiments? Can you
write the possible combinations of 23 factorial experiments?
7. What do you mean by confounding and why confounding is used?
8. What do you mean by skewness in any distribution? Can you draw a positive and
negative skewed distribution? Can you name positively skewed distribution? Any
continuous distribution which is positively skewed?
9. What do you mean by measures of central tendency? What are the different measures
of central tendency?

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10. What are the various applications of agricultural statistics?
11. What is Minimum Support Price? How government used it to support farmers? Which
organization release crop yield estimates?
12. How a Patwari uses statistics in field level experiments?
13. What is Land Use Statistics?
14. What are the different types of regression models? When do we use log-linear model?
15. Pick any one favourite commercial crop. Suppose coffee board has price data of coffee
of India and they want to build a regression (forecasting model) and suppose they want
to co-integrate Brazilian coffee market price data, world coffee market price data and
income elasticity data. What recommendation you will give to the coffee board and
what will be the specification of your model? Which regression model you would
choose in this case study?
16. What do you mean by ARIMA Model? What does the parameters of ARIMA models
signify?

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AIR 29 - Syed Adil Zahoor
 PT Score: 80/200
 Date of the Interview: 22.12.2022 (Last Day)
 Duration of Interview: 35 mins
 Interview Board: R.N. Choubey Sir
 Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. and B.A. from University
of Kashmir
 Past working experience: Accounts Assistant at RDD&PR,
UT of J&K
 Home State: J&K
 Hobbies: Watching and playing cricket

1. What is Goodness of fit and line of best fit?

2. What are measures of central tendency? Which one is best and why?
3. Questions about chi-square distribution.
4. How skewness is measured?
5. What is index number?
6. What is the difference between CPI and WPI? Who publishes CPI and WPI?
7. Questions about NITI Aayog.
8. Questions about my job profile.
9. How will you measure poverty in your district? Which method will you use and
why?
10. Since you have qualified for Junior Research Fellowship, why you have not
pursued research?
11. What is the probability of falling lamp/light?

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