INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE : IBPS PO X
Date — 8/3/2021
Venue — Hotel Lineage , Gomti Nagar , Lucknow
Slot and Panel — 2.30 p.m. / Panel 1
(Please bear with me as the answer is going to be a little long but I want to give you every detail so that you can feel what I experienced that day)
This was my second interview of my life , as my first interview was of RRB PO. At the time of RRB interview , I wasn't very nervous but this time I was a little bit. As I had done some mistakes in my earlier interview I tried not to repeat those.
I reached the venue at around 2.15 p.m. Some candidates were also there, standing at the gate as the gaurd was not letting us in because we reached earlier.
When I was on the gate I met a guy. We talked about Interview questions, preparation and many other things. At 2.30 p.m. we were allowed to enter and were led to a big hall. We sat there and was waiting for call of DV.
Another guy came there to sit and he was trying to open a water bottle , as soon as he opened the bottle , the water spill on pants of this guy sitting next to me. Water holding guy said “sorry , sorry" , then the guy sitting next to me said “Koi baat nhi bas interview panel ko ye na lage ki ye mai kya kr rha hu" (“it's okk just Interview panel don't assume what am I doing") 😅😅
We all were discussing then my turn came after 15–20 minutes. I went for Biometric identification and then for Document Verification. I didn't had the Covid Declaration form with my other documents because they didn't asked in pre and mains also, but for safe side I kept it with me in my bag in case they ask.
I presented all my documents before them but they asked first, “where is covid form ??”
I asked, “sir wo lgega isme ?”
I asked, “sir is that going to be needed?”
He said, “ bilkul, hm kaise maan le tmko fever nhi hai "( in a very light and funny tone)
He said, “ ofcourse, how do we know that you don't have fever "
I took covid form my bag and submitted to them.
There were 2 sir in DV panel. And a girl sitting next to me was also having DV. We all were laughing. He also said that “DV krane ke 10000 milte hai"
( 10k is paid to us for conducting DV) 😄😄
All the members of DV panel were retirees of a reputed bank
After having DV we were led to the place where Interview was being conducted. 6 – 7 candidates were there along with me waiting for our turn.
A boy came outside from Interview room and started eating biscuits that was there for refreshment for candidates. The sir who was calling out our roll numbers outside interview room, said to this boy, “aapka interview ho gya hai na , aap jayiye , yha rhenge to aur bacche disturb honge"
(“you had your interview , now go , if you will be here other candidates will get disturb")
To this the boy replied, “ ja rhe hai sir bs biscuit kha le “
( “Yes sir I am going just let me eat this biscuit “)
The atmosphere there bacame a little light and funny as we were laughing 😄😄
Now my turn came at 4.20 p.m. I entered the room. There were 4 male and 1 female member in panel as far as I can remember.
ME — Good Afternoon to all of you. This is Ankit Sharma.
M1 — Please sit
ME — Thank you sir
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M1 — Hme apne me kuch btayiye jisse hm apse fir usko lekr kuch puch sake
( Tell us something about yourself so that we can ask from it )
ME — I gave a brief introduction in hindi.
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M1 — Apne MCA nhi kiya ?
( You didn't go for MCA ?)
ME — No sir, Socha to hai krne ka but job ke baad krunga.
( No sir, I have plan for MCA but after I get a job )
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M1 — Okk, Father kaha kaam krte hai apke ?
( Where does your father works ? )
ME — Told
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M1 — (pointing towards ma'am) Ma'am aap ko kuch puchna ho to puchiye
( Ma'am you can ask if you want )
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F1 — CRR kya hota hai and uska percentage chal rha hai abhi
( What is CRR and what is its current percentage ?)
ME — I told them about SLR (Blunder!!)
They were shaking their heads and I didn't realise what was wrong
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M2 — Aap Montfort Inter College se padhe hai na ?
( You studied from Montfort Inter College , right ?)
ME — Yes sir
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M2 — Bada hi prestigious school hai wo to. Pehle uska kya naam tha ?
( It is a very prestigious school. What was it's name before ?)
ME — Mahanagar Boys' Inter College
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M2 — Galat
ME — * surprised *
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M2 — Mananagar Boys' School tha
ME — Yes sir but maine jb admission liya tha tb uska naam Mahanagar Boys' Inter College tha.
Yes sir now I remembered. But when I took admission it was Mahanagar Boys' Inter College
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M2 — Lekin apko history pta honi chahiya
(. But you should know the history )
ME — Yes sir
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M2 - Acha to ye btao , Mahanagar Boys' se padha hua wo kaun hai jo is waqt Yogi Adityanath ke government me bht powerful position pr hai ?
( Tell me who is the person who has also studied in Mahanagar Boys' and is also in a powerful position in Yogi Adityanath's government ?)
ME - I don't know sir
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M2 - School me Roll of honours ki list dekhi thi ?
( Did you saw the list of roll of honours in school ?)
ME - Yes sir
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M2 - Kiska naam tha sbse upar us list me ?
(Whose name was there on the top in that list ?)
ME - Yaad nhi sir, Passout hue kaafi saal ho gye.
( I don't remember sir, it's been a long time since I passout)
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M3 - Types of operating system btayiye panel ko
( Tell the panel about the types of Operating system )
ME - Told
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M3 - What are the parts of C Programming Language
ME - Told
(At this point I got so nervous that my mouth became so dry)
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M3 - Apne school me co - curricular activites me participate kiya tha ?
( Did you participated in co - curricular activities in school ?)
ME - Nhi sir jyada nhi sirf kuch drawing competition aur 1 ya 2 quiz competition.
(No sir, not very much. Just a few drawing competition and 1 or 2 quiz competition.)
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M4 - Apki hobbies kya hai jo apko krna acha lgta hai ?
( What are your hobbies you like to do ?)
ME - Sir Graphic Designing, Puzzle Solving and Cooking.
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M4 - Kya acha bna lete ho cooking me ?
( What dish can you cook the best in cooking ?)
ME - Poha sir acha bna leta hu.
Everyone started laughing
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M4 - Poha kaun khata hai yaar. Wo to itna boring hota hta hai.
(Who eats poha , it is so boring)
ME - (After hearing this I also started smiling) No sir poha ke to kayi versions hai to aap alag alag try kr skte hai .. Maharashtrian, Indori etc aur maine sb bna kr try kiya hai but mujhe apna version jyada pasand hai.
( No sir, you can't be bored with poha because it has so many versions like Maharashtrian , Indori etc and I have tried them also but I like my version the most.)
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M1 - Ye apka pehla interview hai ya iske pehle bhi diya hai ?
( Is this your first interview or have you given some earlier also ?)
ME - Sir RRB PO ka Interview diya hai abhi last month.
( Sir I have given RRB PO Interview last month )
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M1 - Kis date ko
ME - 22 Feb
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M1– Wha kaun kaun se questions the jinka answer aap nhi kr paye the ?
What were the questions which you were you not able to answer there ?
ME — Sir wha pr unhone mujhse pucha tha ki currency notes promissory notes hote hai ? Maine bola tha haan but baad me realize hua ki galat bol diya and ek dusra questions ye tha ki HTTP or WWW me kya difference hai ? Iska answer mai thik se nhi de paya tha.
Sir there they asked me whether the currency notes comes under promissory notes ? I said yes then later i realized that it was a wrong answer and second thing they asked was the difference between HTTP and WWW ? which also I couldn't explain nicely.
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M1– Aap Mahanagar Boys' se padhe hai , even though apke graduation me marks jyada nhi hai fir bhi aap aur acha kr skte hai. Take it as a suggestion, kuch basic cheeze apko pta honi chahiye thi kyuki aap bank join krne ja rhe hai (He was talking about CRR/SLR thing which I told wrong in 1st question). Hm apke ujjwal bhavishya ki kaamna krte hai and wish you all the very best. (He wished All the best with both the hands 👍👍 )
(You studied from Mahanagar Boys' even though you don't have such good marks in graduation but you could have done much better. Take it as a suggestion , there were some basic things which you had to know because you are going to join bank. We wish you a brighter future and all the best )
ME - Thank you sir. Thank you everyone. Have a nice day.
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This was all my interview experience. It was again a mix experience .. neither not so good nor so bad. I enjoyed that day
Fast forward to results.
I got 92 in Mains which was 13.5 marks above cutoff. And got 68 in interview. Final marks was 46.31 and was allotted Canara Bank
If you are reading this and preparing for an interview . My advice is Drink some water before entering the room and Be calm. Think in this way that as much as they are going to evaluate you, you are also going to evaluate them. It helps.
If you want read my RRB PO Interview experience , you can read it here.