INTERVIEW QUESTION BANK

ESSAR Shipping FAQs till 2019

• Tell me about yourself.
• Tell me about your family.
• Why merchant navy?
• Which side you want to join and why?
• What are your favourite subjects?
• Define Great Circle , Small Circle.
• State Rule 19, define vessel underway.
• Tango sound signal and what does it mean?
• Types of motors used on ships.
• What is clampmeter?
• Define Azimuth and Amplitude.
• What is Doppler log? Principle of working.
• What is echo sounder? Principle.
• IMDG Code, Stowage Factor.
• Hazards of carrying coal in bulk.
• What fuel does a ship use?
• MARPOL.
• Difference between SULZER and MAN B&W.
• Types of Engines.
• What is passage planning?
• Boiler mountings.
• PID Controller.
• Pros and cons of Automation.
• Oily Water Seperator.
• Rate your OLQ between 1-10.
• Pumps and types of pumps.
• Major Shipbuilding processes.
• What is an alternator?
• What is bearing clearance?
• Alarms on Boiler.
• Axial Vibration
• MARPOL Annexures.
• Ship Stability- COG,COB,Archimedes Principle, Centre of Flotation.
• Bridge Equipments (At least 15)
• What is intercooler?
• FO,LO Purifiers, Principle
• Define: Latitude, Righting Lever
• What is sparing pipe, Hause Pipe, Bitter end,Windlass, mooring winch.
• Difference: 2 stroke and 4 Stroke.
• RADAR
• Cargo hold preparation for grains.
• Blow through of boiler
• Sulfur content in the fuel.(MARPOL 2020)
• Explain Starting air line.
• Have you appeared for NDA or NCC?
• Hobbies.
• Types of welding.
• What is turbocharging?
• Cavitation of Propeller.
• Difference IHP and BHP.
• Difference Purifier and Clarifier.
• COLREG: Rule 5,2,1.
• Bending Moment
• Sewage Treatment Plants
• Types of Fire Extinguishers.
• ME Cylinder head mountings.
• What is crankshaft, Flywheel.
• LO System of engine and T/C.
• What is annealing.
• Types of heat exchangers.
• What is latent heat.
• Hydrophore Unit.
• Fresh Water Generator.
• Scavenge Fire.
• ISM
• Tappet Clearance.
• Refrigeration Cycle
• How to enter in machinery space or enclosed space?
• How would you like spend free time onboard.
• Why our company?
• Strengths and weaknesses. How could these be overcome?
• How was your school days?
• How would your teachers describe you?
• Who do you see your main competitor?
• Why should we take you?
 • Doing cargo operations on gas tankers what precautions you will take when carrying out this
process the static electricity complications in mind.
• Tank cleaning why do we do it and process.
• What are 3 positive character traits you have in you?
• How the climate change will affect shipping?
• ECDIS Navigation instrument.
• Life Saving appliances
• SOLAS and Chapters.
• Bunkering process.
• Life boat and life rafts. What is the use of life boat if we already have life raft. Capacity of both.
• What does a life boat consist of? (first aid, food supplies, etc)
• Discharge from ships.
• EPIRB and SART.
• Launching of life raft procedure.
• MARPOL in brief, tell about Annexure IV
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Questions asked by SYNERGY MARINE GROUP (DECK CADET)

1) Introduce yourself
2) Why do you want to join Synergy Marine Group?
3) Tell me about your course.
4) Why you want to Join Deck Side?
5) Why you want to become Captain?
6) What were your favourite Subjects?
7) Who taught you these subjects?
8) Tell me about COLREG
9) How many rules are there in COLREG
10) Explain Rule 5, Rule 7, Rule 9, Rule 13, Rule 15, Rule 19
11) What is Rule 30?
12) What is the night, day and fog signal of Vessel Aground? What is you action If you hear Fog
signal of vessel Aground?
13) Tell me about your family. What does your brother do ? Where do he live?
14) When did you pass Class 12th and Why did you join this course? What was your rank in
IMUCET? Why didn't you joined TS Chanakya?
15) What is Twilight? Types of Twilight ? Difference between Twilights ? What is the use of
Twilight in Navigation?
16) What was the IMDG Code of substance which exploded Beirut?
17) Tell me about Containers in detail.
18) What are the Stars mentioned in Almanac with their Hemisphere?
19) What is GM? Do we have negative GM?
20) Explain Grain Code in Detail.
21) What are your memories at College?
21) Hobbies? Sing a song for me.
22) What are your extra Curricular Activities ? How does extra curricular activities can be
helpful onboard?
23) When will you join the vessel?
24) How did you managed to get Scholarship in each semester? What amount of money you won
in each semester respectively?
25) Do you have knowledge about Computers? What software have you created?

Thank you.

Amitesh Amar
Synergy Marine Group
Deck Cadet Interview.

QUESTION BANK (SHELDON CABRAL BRAIN)

1. Why merchant marine?

2. Are your parents comfortable with this career?
3. Any other career options in mind?
4. State rule 2
5. State rule 5
6. Explain rule 6
7. Explain the overtaking situation
8. What is declination of CB
9. Tell me the phases of the moon
10. What is merpass and why does it have tables for upper and lower merpass?
11. Name any 3 navigational stars
12. What is a sextant and what can be measured using it?
13. Lights by a VNUC and VRAM
14. Lights by a vessel at anchor
15. Lights and sound signal by a mine clearance vessel
16. Lights by a bunkering vessel
17. Explain rule 19
18. State rule 14
19. In your own words explain overtaking with sound signals
20. Explain overtaking during restricted visibility

*Ropework* -
Bowline
Cow hitch
Bowline around waist
Bowline on a door's handle
Bucket hitch
Double Carrick bend
Single Carrick bend
QUESTIONS ASKED IN ESSAR INTERVIEW 2020 CADETWISE

1) Atishay Jain

• Introduction
• Achievements during college.
• Favourite subjects.
• How do you think you are good as a leader or a follower?
• Are you a good listener or good speaker? What do you think is good?
• Which side you want to join?
• How many parts are there in COLREG and how many rules?
• Name of rule 40 and 41.
• Tell me rule 8
• How do you think you will manage in this COVID onboard?
• What is dock water allowance and what is its formula?
• When a ship moves from salty water to fresh water, it will sink or float?

2) Viswajeet Kumar Singh

• Introduction
• How often do you visit village?
• What all things you saw during Ship Visit?
• Explain Oily Water Separator
• Will you join in pandemic situation? Will your parents support you in joining?
• Questions related to skills and interests mentioned in CV.

3) Bhavishya Rajoriya

• Introduction
• Differentiate between 2 Stroke and 4 Stroke Engines.
• State Rule 5.
• What do you mean by sound signal and range of that.
• How many parts and rules are there in COLREG?
• Are you ready to join in this pandemic situation?
• How your leadership qualities were used in academics?
• Total subjects you have studied at college?
• As ship becomes automated how your college study will help in this?

4) Machado Varun Vivan

• Introduction
• What are you doing towards your hobbies?
• What is electric arc welding? How it takes place?
• Types of Welding?
• Explain TIG Welding.
• How is COVID situation near you? Are you ready to join ship in pandemic?
• Explain how RADAR works?

5) Sumit Sharma

• Introduction
• Which side do you want to join?
• What have you seen on the deck when you visited the ship?
• Types of ropes used onboard.
• What is Duct keel?
• On which principle RADAR works?
• Why are you joining merchant navy?
• Do you want to join ship in this pandemic?
• Difference between celestial and terrestrial Navigation?
• Are you at your home in Allahabad?
• Did you complete the cross country race of 5km?
• Why should we hire you?

6) Shashwat Kumar

• Introduction
• Centrifuge
• Why sewage plant is required onboard?
• Sulphur 2020 and control of SOx emission.
• MARPOL Annexure IV
• What will happen if you discharge more than 15ppm oily water in sea?
• Precaution to be taken during COVID.
• Do you want to become Engineer?
• How would you run NGO?
• What do you learned as a volunteer at CPAA?
• Why Begusarai is industrial capital of Bihar?

7) Aditya Shekhar Singh

• Introduction
• Differentiate between 2 stoke and 4 stoke engines.
• Sulphur content 2020.
• Why merchant navy?
• Number of machineries having 4 stoke and 2 stroke onboard?
• Number of engines in Engine room?
• What did you learn at MDL?
• Do you know about difficulties onboard?
• Why did your marks reduced in class 12th?
• Why did you drop a year?
• What was your JEE Rank?
• Which side you want to join?

8) Deep Kesari

• Introduction
• Oily Water Separator.
• Sewage Treatment Plant.
• MARPOL
• Why merchant navy?
• Name the ship you visited? And which flag?
• Instruments that you saw while visiting deck side and engine side respectively?
• What is echo sounder? Principle of echo Sounder?
• Which side you want to join?
• Sulphur current criteria.
9) Anirban Mukhoadyay

• Introduction.
• What have you learned in college apart from studies?
• Tell me how are you hard working?
• Differentiate between 2 Stroke and 4 Stroke engines.
• Where 2 stroke and 4 stroke are used?
• Tell me about your favourite subjects?
• Can HFO be used in generator?
• What did you learn at MDL?

10) Aditya Kumar

• Introduction
• Tell us about what internship you have done during lockdown?
• What is an electric vehicle?
• How can we provide charging infrastructure for common people?
• You mentioned about district topper so why you joined merchant navy?
• What you learned in corporate skill development?
• Is teamwork going here in this interview room? How?
• How can you say yourself hardworking?

11) Jawed Alam

• Tell me about yourself.

• From which tracking point you went?
• Tell me the best things of Matheran.
• Which side you want to join?
• Working principle of gyro compass and echo sounder and their use.
• Tell me about gardening.
• Dock water allowance
• TPC
• When coming from sea to river draft will increase or decrease?
• Tell about your favourite machinery.
• Two difference between 2 Stroke and 4 Stroke.
• Working principle of cranes on ship you visited.
• Which type of ship it was?
• Types of hydraulic motors.
• Have you seen hydraulic machineries in your college?
• What have you done in workshop?
• Types of welding?
• What is MIG welding?
• Why inerting is required in MIG welding?
• What is arc welding?
• How arc welding is done?
• Electrode used in arc welding (name metal).
• Principle of gyro compass
• Types of hydraulic motors
• Why engine side?

12) Kumar Shanu

• Introduction
• MDL training
• Compression in the AC
• Basic ship construction steps
• Types of welding
• Density of dock water
• Hobbies
• DWA
• Annexure 1 of MARPOL.
• Are you ready to join the ship?
• How are you dealing with COVID?
• Had you appeared in JEE mains?
• You have improved semester wise a lot. How?

13) Marut Nandan

• Introduction.
• Tell me the books you have studied on finance.
• Tell me some of more books.
• What you have learnt from book India 2020?
• Give some examples, how can you justify yourself as a team leader?
• What is centre of gravity?
• What is metacentre?
• What is metacentric height?
• Tell me where the cargo is loaded in bulk carrier?
• What is deadweight of the ship?

14) Prashant Kumar

• Tell me about yourself.

• Why gradual decrease after10 th?
• In Prayaan,You were hospitality chief. How was that?
• Oily water separator
• Purifier
• Which side you want to join?
• Why merchant navy?
• What was your JEE rank?
• Do you want to join ship in this pandemic?

15) Yogesh Parashar

• Introduction
• MARPOL.
• All Annexures of MARPOL.
• Criteria of discharging garbage.
• Air pollution.
• How air pollution occurs from ship?
• Sulfur regulation 2020, what will happen from this?
• What have you studied in 1st class of celestial navigation?
• Definition of latitude.
• Hobbies.
• Latest book you have read.
• Tell me some more books you have read.

16) Ashish Kumar

• Introduce yourself
• Why merchant navy?
• Why engine side?
• What have you studied in engine side?
• Fresh water generator
• What is the heat source of freshwater generator?
• Oil purifier
• How are you helpful, give one example
• How are you self motivated, give example
• What do you do to improve your photography skills?
• Where you visited Ocean Hero?
• Why were you there in Chennai?
• Which test was there at VELS?
• Is it for all students or some particular student?

17) Aayush Kumar

• Introduction.
• Latitude.
• GMT.
• GM.
• Metacentre.
• Metacentric height.
• When did you start playing basketball?
• Which side you want to join?
• Angle of loll.
• Minimum GM requirements for Stability?
• Patna latitude?
• Questions related to CV.
• How and when do you perform Yoga?
• Science and technology. What have you made can you show it?