1. Arnav ****
Pune, Maharashtra
B.E. Comp, worked as a software developer
Optionals: Mathematics and Forestry
Chairman: BHIM SEN BASSI
Hello Arnav
1) Aren't you feeling cold? Let me switch on room heater for you.
2) Ok. So you've worked as a software developer. What was your company's product?
3) On which platform your company worked?
4)So what's the difference between c++ and c sharp (as c sharp was the platform used by my
company )
5) Ok. So tell me things which you know about forests apart from whatever you've read in the
books.
6) What is fern. Tell me something about ferns.
7) Where do they grow?
8) What are orchids?
9) What are epiphytes?
10) You said that orchid is epiphyte. So they don't have roots, and their seperate existence as a plant so how do they propogate?
11) Have you seen any orchid?
12) Where in Konkan? What is Devrai?
13) Haven't you seen them in man made structures such as nurseries?
M1:
1) Ok. So you've worked as a volunteer for drought relief. What type of work you did? And in which region?
2) Why there is drought in India?
3) Can't we use drought resilient varieties in India?
4) There are many countries which have less rainfall than us, they manage water better. What can we do to improve our management?
M2:
1) So Arnav, there is a concern about dwindling numbers of birds and it is said that insecticides and pesticides are one of the important causes for it. How do you think they hamper the bird population? (I mentioned bioaccumulation and biomagnification).
2) There's minamata disease in Japan. Which metal is behind it?
3) So what is bioaccumulation and biomagnification?
4) What is living fossil? (I had used this word to describe ferns in Bassi sir's question).
5) Have you heard of "some unknown species"?
M3:
1) Can you recite a Sanskrit Shloka trusted with teacher? (Sanskrit topper in board exam hence the question)
2) Tell me the meaning as well.
3) You've been leader of personality development through sports. So what's the personality development? And how do you develop personality especially through sports?
4) Suppose you're playing badminton, now tell me how it'll develop your personality?
5) You mentioned watershed management in your answer to drought issue. Tell me what's Integrated Watershed management?
6) What's the difference between Carbon stock, carbon sink and carbon sequestration?
7) If there's large body of water, will it be a carbon stock or a carbon sink?
8) Tell me any 2, 3 international institutions working for ecology and wildlife.
M4:
1) What's JFM? What's the principle behind it?
2) What's the use of it for forester and forest dwellers?
3) Do you know any successful models of jfm in the country?
Chairman:
1) Tell me something about 'yellow vest'?
2) Why BREXIT is in news?
3) Why the BREXIT bill was defeated?
4) What's the stand of Northern Ireland and Scotland on it?
Thank you Arnav.
