(Late transcript sorry, but might be helpful for someone)
ESE 2025 Transcript
Branch: Civil
Board: Suman Sharma Ma'am
Date: 06/11/25 (AN)
Duration of Interview: 20 mins
Work Experience: NA
PG: NA
College: IITD (Grad: '25)
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Hobby mentioned: Story/Poem Writing, Chess, Movies
DAF Keywords: PRB, AR in Constr.
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Chairman
C:
1. Watching movies (hobby). What kind of movies do you watch?
2. They say cinema imitates life and life imitates cinema. Can you give an example of each?
Member 1
M1:
1. Why do sewers smell bad?
2. What can be done to treat the smell?
3. What kind of bacteria can be used to treat them?
4. What's better for anaerobic digestion? One stage or two stage? [Didn't know]
5. What's AQI?
6. What are the 6 parameters of AQI? (Trick question? I said there are 8 not 6, unless I messed up idk)
7. Why do we use chlorine at the end of water treatment if WTP has already done the work of contaminant/pathogen removal?
8. In water filters at homes do we use Chlorine? Why/why not? What do we use instead and why?
9. How do pollutants affect the structural components of monuments. Give the reactions involved.
10. You have mentioned working on PRB. What is a PRB? What contaminants did you work upon? What materials did you use? Can your PRB materials be extrapolated/altered for iron impurities in water?
11. Would a PRB be used for shallow groundwater or deep? How can you ensure it can be used for both? What considerations you would take into account?
Member 2
M2:
1. You are wearing spectacles. What is the engineering principles present in this (not optics).
2. Where are the bridge of your glasses? What are the forces present there? What is the "structural" equivalent of the stem of your glasses? Answer in single word. [Didn't know the last one]
Member 3
M3:
1. What are the components of concrete?
2. What is the field test you do to determine the ground before doing construction?
3. Difference between 3 types of cement: OPC, PPC, Slag
4. What would be the type of concrete used in hot weather vs cold weather. [Didn't answer properly]
5. What's the problem in using high heat cement?
6. What's used for mass concreting?
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Conclusion:
(How did you feel about the overall interview experience?
Any observations about the board members, tone, or key themes?)
Chairman Ma'am was very endearing. Probably the only one who was smiling throughout. M1 was not backing off with questions even when answered (mostly) correctly. M2 asked the fewest questions. Ma'am encouraged him to ask more but he said he is satisfied with my knowledge of structures (sarcasm much or what?). M3 had standard questions on materials and soil/geotech. Unlike M1, He wanted only technical terms to be used in the answers and was only satisfied if I explained things technically (the how rather than the what).
Mocks attended: None
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