Hi, my name is John Kennedy and welcome to interviewing for B2B product management roles I'm really excited to give this webinar for product school. It's a topic. I've been wanting to talk about for a long time Today, we're going to be focusing on Being an interviewee. So, you know, if you today are thinking about You know going and finding a new role as a product manager. This is for you There's a whole range of topics I could talk about if we're going to talk about how to interview product managers if you're if you're looking for a product manager, but today we're really going to focus on on the the skills and some tips If you are an interviewee so briefly Look at the agenda. We're going to talk about some key questions You should ask yourself and get clear on before you start the interview process Or if you've already started the interview process some good questions to think about You know right now so that you can get clear on broad topics that will help you when you're interviewing as PM We'll talk about some general tips for interviewing the essential research that you should be doing on each company before you go and interview with them We're going to talk about behavioral interviewing as a process And what that looks like, you know, that's a frequently used interview Style and process at large companies and then why and how you should write 12 stories about your career And you know how that will help you in the in the interview process as well So a little bit about myself, you know, I'm currently head of product for AWS game tech for a product there You know, I've been building Cloud technologies for over 20 years now I've been a developer a systems engineer a software development manager solutions architects and the product manager I've also been a regional director for a series a startup You know, I've been on the leadership team for a field team in the series e2h, you know a later stage startup You know, obviously, I'm in a public company right now, and I've also been a founder I've also, you know being involved with products across a range of different, you know Functions or industries including machine learning and digital experience and gaming and a few others as well And you know over my time Building products. I've interviewed hundreds of Potential PM candidates for this presentation. I'm really going to focus on the experiences and the learnings. I've had Interviewing candidates at AWS and I've I've interviewed over 60 product manager candidates at AWS at Amazon And you know, I think that that's it's been great for me to bring together those learnings And I hope you're interested in learning what I've learned today. So The big questions you should ask yourself And we're going to go question by question in a second and bit as an overview What is a PM, you know the definition of a PM changes company and they all may say similar things about the role But the authority and responsibilities very dramatically in different companies It's important you answer this question yourself and know broadly What could be in the PM role before you start interviewing? What does a PM do best some of the best stories that you're going to you know form from your career I'm going to be linked to the the unique capabilities that a PM has So it's really important to be able to answer this question of what is a unique PM uniquely suited to do And then is there such a thing as a generalist PM or our PM is fungible between different product manager roles You know, this is somewhat of the philosophical question but But I think that if you think about this question and understand Where you know a company sees you as either a domain expert or a generalist PM It's going to help you in your interviewing. So first up What it's a PM This framework is by no means definitive This is something that I used to think about all the capabilities of a PM But there are plenty of other frameworks out there The way that I think about a PM is a combination of product strategy So can you go out and have customer conversations and bring it together into a Into a strategy which could be an Amazon style doc or an 18 month you know narrative or 12 month roadmap or a PowerPoint presentation But can you bring together all of those customer insights into a strategy? Program management, which is really about coordination and stakeholder management Can you coordinate all the projects going on around a product whether that be between engineering teams, you know on topics like compliance or security or whether it be between external stakeholders like partners or Other products you're coordinating with around the business and other functions That's a critical part of product management. Sometimes companies have dedicated program managers who they'll You know who will work with product managers, but often many those capabilities fall under the product management role so technical product ownership is really your the capabilities around the software development process, so you know Can you lead a sprint view a sprint planning a Stand-up a retro. Do you understand how agile software development works or the you know another framework that you're using? works, can you help engineers make prioritization decisions between two different technical solutions, obviously they own the solutions, but then can you help them make those decisions informed by by customer insight And then product marketing all the things like naming and branding and pricing You know and writing copy and working could be working with the marketing team or if you're early on Really driving the product marketing yourself in larger orgs Influence is going to be critical the ability to influence people in smaller orgs. Flexibility is going to be critical Grit the kind of attitude of jumping and owning it and just getting things done so Next let's talk about what a PM can do uniquely And you know the way that I think about this is customer insight if you were at Amazon You might call it a customer obsession and the way that I break it down is really into three stages, but These all happen simultaneously. These are happening continuously and all the time if you're a good PM You know, you're having customer conversations You're turning those customer conversations into strategy and voice the customer so you can go and share those insights with your engineering team Your marketing team leadership supporting functions like legal and finance and then executing, you know, based on that insight Getting things done working with the support team working with the BD team working on partnerships or or You know writing up strategy. So these things are things that uniquely a PM can do And you know, overall, I think like the if you had to really boil it down I would say that PM's help organizations make hard decisions with customer insights But you know, all of these all of these capabilities are kind of integral to that So for the third question is a peer is a BWPM fungible between domains You know, this is important when you're going to talk to an interviewer is you know Is their perspective on the role that you're interviewing for is it really important to have domain specific knowledge or you know Is are the general PM skills more important? I've had to switch domains multiple times in my career and be painful Cloud has been a constant theme But I've also moved as I said before between machine learning and you know E-commerce and gaming etc and each has given me a sense of respect for its experts and a sense of the common similarities in product management between all of those domains You know in a large company often, you know, the the philosophy is that you can just pick up a PM and put them somewhere else But important to know, you know to know your opinion on that and so you can talk about how your generalist PM skills Interact with your domain specific knowledge that you may have picked up along the way things like, you know If you're in an industry like health knowing the customer profile Understanding their typical problems in the sales cycle that's that's generally used in that industry to sell software or to go to market You know the marketing strategy, etc And then on the PM generalist PM side, you know all the skills we talked about a second ago. Can you can you? Write an 18 month plan. Can you gather an interpret? Metrics that you're gathering from the product and do you understand the software development process? So some general interview tips and you know anyone who's been interviewing for a long time Knows all of this. I'm absolutely sure but but good things to remember anyway interviewing is is by the numbers and when I say that I mean that the more interviews the better generally Interviewing is a skill, which means like when I start in the past when I've you know gone and had to Think about interviewing as an interviewee It's taking me at least three interviews before I've really hit my stride Because interviewing is actually a skill you lose while you're not interviewing So having lots of interviews is going to help you skill up You know, and you're gonna have better and better interviews each interview is a data point and You know, you're going to understand the salary Expectations and the role title expectations of your level of experience as you have more and more interviews And then obviously more offers more leverage. This has really helped me in my career negotiate offers as if I have a counteroffer So it's tempting to just you know, once you've scheduled your first interview to kind of stop there and for that to be the the the you know the thing that you wait for but It's so important to schedule lots of interviews so you can kind of gather the data and And skill up on interviewing which is a very distinct skill versus, you know, being a PM and then, you know getting leverage but Each interview also deserves research And each is an opportunity to learn about the business but all about also about how people think about, you know how PMs should operate and You know and trends this in the industry and these kinds of things So let's talk about all the research that is good to do before you go and talk to a company So, you know, the first thing that I I think about is what's the unique value? What are the three biggest problems they're solving for customers when you find this on their website, you know If you if you kind of look into their messaging You should be able to decipher What they think the problems are they're solving with their products or you know and how how they Solve those problems. Is it is it strictly products? Is it services? Is it a combination in solutions? It's really important to understand their you know Their idea of delivery and how they deliver value to customers even better is to try out their product This is not always possible with a bit of be, you know, SaaS product But if you can try it out, if not, you know Maybe watch a YouTube video of someone using the product or talk to someone who you know who who's used the product That's still very worth doing before you go into the interview process Secondarily knowing their go-to-market, you know knowing How they're doing enterprise sales or are they using marketing channels or do they have a channel sales team? Have they got a partnership network? Do they sell primarily through partners? How large is their market? You know as a PM your opportunity is really tied to their opportunity as a company So it just shows your professionalism to understand the size of their opportunity And that you've done good research and you care about your career by doing that research So understanding, you know, their TAM or the the size of their market, maybe their customer segment They're their optimal customer and then the competition they might have in their market So the final one how is their team structured is usually pretty hard to get a hold of but if you have an insider contact Or you're just really good at deep research is a great one to do as well You know, are they product-led are they primarily developing features to gain organic adoption or are they sales and marketing led? You know, what's the approach they take? How do they break down their product responsibilities?  We looked at before They primarily focused on strategy or they you know Or are they doing a lot of program management or a lot of product marketing or are there dedicated people for product management? product marketing and program management and Maybe even technical product ownership with people in the engineering team How did the product responsibilities break down and then how large is the product team versus the engineering team? Is it, you know, two p.m.s? to to six products with You know a hundred on the team on the engineering team or is it six p.m. So two products You know with 50 on the team It's really important to understand that balance because it'll give you an idea of the responsibilities that you'll be taking on And the ownership that you can have and the results that you can have for the business Alrighty stories are powerful We're now going to talk about why stories are really important as an interviewee To tell the story of your career So stories are memorable they're relatable they engage our brains because they encourage us to do the thing that our brains were designed to do Which is prediction You know the surprise of being wrong When you're being told a story it lists its emotions and we remember those emotions So when you get that prediction wrong, it really locks it into your brain as a learning so when you get to the interview stage you're probably there because The company has formed a picture of who you are and they want to confirm that and in average companies Your best bet is to help them confirm that but in the best companies They're looking for something unexpected that puts you ahead of the pack and at Amazon we would call that raising the bar Telling stories can be the most memorable way to explain what makes you unique and bar-raising And you know and one trick you can use to tell a compelling story is to include a surprise A surprise that could be a learning that you had During the story it could be something that's counterintuitive, but that will really lock it in in their memories Too many surprises seem makes you seem chaotic No surprises lists no emotions and makes the story unmemorable, but having a really good learning in a story will make it memorable Additionally the best way to bring the listener along is to make it relatable to them So we're going to talk about how you can form stories about your career But in the relation of those stories and the telling of those stories It's also really important to remember who you're talking to are you talking to a software engineer who's going to be really interested in the technical details Or are you talking to leadership who are going to be in interested in the impact to the business or more interested? I think they're both, you know, it's still worth telling all the important points of the story But important to remember who you're talking to So great Stories are powerful. What do we do with that? Well, first, let's talk about how an interview might ask you to tell a story behavioral interviewing Is a interviewing technique and process a lot of large companies are used to to interview perspective product managers behavioral interviewing is designed to elicit stories and You know as a primer The the behaviors that they could be Interested in, you know, for instance at Amazon, it might be the Amazon principle of ownership You know, there's a range of different behaviors that Companies could be looking for or it could be framed as a question about a skill like road mapping or hiring or data analysis You know, often these questions are open questions So let's talk about how to prepare to answer a behavior of a behavior a question that's that's asked as An open question and it's designed to elicit your Experience and your decision-making process and your adaptability and how you how you handle changes So When you're asked a question at one of these open questions that's really it's not Generally, they stay away from hypotheticals or we stay away from hypotheticals We're really asking for a really specific situation in your career The best way to answer the question is to answer With a structured story and a great way to structure a story is is the staff format So situation task action result the situation is all the context Around the story the task is the task you are given to do or you owned or you knew was the task The action is what happened, you know during the the period of the story and then what was the result? What was the impact for the business? When you're thought thinking about how to come up with with 12 stories You should have a filter on the the stories that you can come up with in your career And you know one of the filters should that you should have should be the impact If it's low impact, it's not worth telling the story the impact has to be high on the axis of business impact business metrics or the impact to your career or the impact to your team or the impact to the career of someone in your team or your manager That those the kinds of you know the types of impact that an interviewer is really going to care about It's also really important to filter on on stories that you Where you can really explain the detail where you were the main character where you are owning What was happening at least in some facet? Because you're going to have to explain the context and the trade-offs, you know, you're gonna have to potentially explain Disagreements that may have happened. So it's really important that you have the detail And that's one of the other great reasons. It's you know, another great reason to actually write it down and And and get that detail So I've I'm gonna give you a set of prompts to help you write these 12 stories But first I want to talk about an overall principle about writing these stories and that is Above the line behavior so You know, the term above the line behavior is in relation to Ownership and accountability that comes from a model of personal responsibility often used in leadership development and management training and personal growth It's typically represented by this horizontal dotted line You can see I've put across the page that separates positive above the line behavior from negative below the line behavior In response to situations and challenges and issues Above the line behavior includes taking ownership being accountable taking responsibility for one's actions It represents proactive solution oriented behavior where individuals Acknowledge their role in situations and take steps to address or improve their own behavior But hope below the line behaviors on the other hand include blaming others Making excuses denying one's role or responsibility It represents reactive or problem-focused behavior where individuals avoid taking personal accountability and instead deflect or evade responsibility The idea of kind of framing it this way and thinking about above the line behavior Is to encourage individuals and teams to live Above the line and choose to respond to a challenge in a way that promotes Personal accountability and ownership and positive growth Or a growth mindset It's about recognizing that while we can't always control what happens to us We can control how we choose to respond and when you're framing your stories when you're writing down your stories That that you can then use to to talk to interviewers and to answer questions It's really important to have the framing of ownership and to use the language of ownership Such as you know, I choose I prefer I will I can I did Explaining what you did and your ownership over the situation rather than language of blame You know, I have to I can't I must if only it wasn't possible That's all all of that language is really disempowered language So if possible, you should think about each of your stories in terms of your own growth And it's great to to share learnings you've had as you share stories So Right Let's get to the 12 stories. I've been having a lot of fun recently with chat GPT To the point where I've gotten really used to coming up with prompts And so what I've done is I've created 12 prompts For interview stories that you can use to form up these little star format stories that you can write down to You know to make sure that you've got the detail to make sure you're the main character Just make sure that those stories had impact And I absolutely do not suggest asking chat GPT to answer these for you The answer should be real and not from a simulated version of yourself That chat GPT hallucinates But you know The and the prompts that I'm going to give you a not definitive if you are interviewing for a specific company It's worth going to their website checking out what they see is a really important Important parts of their vision and then kind of coming up with prompts that relate to that But here's a here's 12 prompts That should be helpful To come up with an initial set of stories that you can write down ownership Great topic to begin with we're just talking about ownership, but it's great to have a story which really relates to ownership So a question that you might get is can you tell me about a time you owned an outcome over and above the responsibilities of your normal role And then an interviewer might dig into that with did you deliver Against that project and what did that uh delivery lead to what was the impact that come, you know for the entire company So, you know Being able to describe a situation we can really describe your own strong ownership So important just about for every interview that you ever do customers You know, have you ever gone over and above? Your role for a customer, you know, can you demonstrate customer obsession? What did you learn about the customer what what outcome was there for the customer? having some really customer oriented Stories is is great because that is as I said before really the key capability that a pm has over over anyone else Disagreements this is one, you know, it's kind of like the question You know, what's what what are your worst, you know, what what are your weaknesses? It's It's really hard personally to go off and answer this question But it's so important to have an example of this in case In case this questions asked, it's great if you've got a story that you can tell about this. So As an example, can you talk about a time when you disagreed with your manager? What happened? What have you done differently? And it really comes back to To ownership and the way that you think about disagreements And the way that you think about your learnings strategy You know, obviously, this is more of a this is more of a skill for a pm than a behavior Still really important to be able to talk about a time when you've owned a strategy or you've contributed to a strategy You know, what research did you do to come to that conclusion to build that strategy? Were your assumptions correct? You know, was that strategy net positive? Really important to think about all of those for a story that you form up around strategy technical this obviously varies between whether you're a pm or a pm but either way great to have a story in your back pocket about Talking about a time you helped a a technical team or an engineering team make a decision between two different options And going deeply into the solution that came up with in the trade-offs You know with that solution For large organization, you know stakeholder management Supercritical really for any of everyone, but it really comes to the fore for large organizations So having a story there is a is a great idea. What were the what was the greatest amount of Greatest number of stakeholders you've ever had to manage. What does best practice looks like in terms of stakeholder management? risk, so, you know Risk is super important for product managers always making priority decisions always having to act on on insufficient data Can you talk about a time that you have had to take a calculated risk? It's a really good It's a good prompt for you to come up with Something that shows How you take action in a situation, you know, what research did you do to show that you're not full hearty? You're still, you know, you're still still doing risk management, but you're able to move forward quickly trust so important to earn trust with your With your engineering team and with your leadership and with customers great to have have a story or a couple of stories around earning trust Data once again more of a skill than a behavior, but still great to have a story around this if you can often, you know You're going to be asked functional questions Skill-based questions and interviews so great to have a story around how you've been able to gather data interpret data You know take insights form a narrative around that data Big ideas as a PM, you know when you're writing strategy It's so important to be able to see the bigger picture and potentially You know bring a bigger idea to your greater team to inspire them to give them a direction for the future You know an ambitious idea that That takes important insights from customers In your industry and what's going on with the product development and and paints a picture picture of the future And then if you are interfering for a manager role Obviously really important to cover things like hiring and mentoring having stories here And can be really important less important for iC roles But if you're in an iC role or interviewing for an iC role where it's our individual contributor role where you are Thinking about leadership or management. These are really important as well so obviously or not obviously but hopefully on it obviously honesty is is crucial with all these stories you have to be able to Really honestly answer hard questions about these no one's asking you to reveal proprietary details, but you know It's crucial to earning trust that you're really Answer you're telling stories that are Fully formed where you can give the details and And really kind of give the nuts and bolts of how you acted and the learnings that you had in each of those situations Now apart from all of those stories that we're forming up Just as as a bonus round sometimes Companies will ask you impossible questions. I've specifically had the logistics question asked of me How would you organize logistics to most efficiently deliver large items the continental us? I think the important thing to remember here, whether it's you know This kind of question or the future prediction question or the pedophile question any of these types of impossible questions It's really just important to show your your Unique expertise and how you would apply that expertise to the impossible question and then step through the process That you would go through so these come your way I don't think it's critical to prepare for them But good to know that they exist so you're not thrown off and you know that when you hit with one of these questions You know, you can just use use your experience to explain how you would step through these questions Okay, bonus bonus round These are probably super obvious but worth Rementioning again get good sleep That's probably the most critical thing of all the preparation Know the schedule that really shows that you've prepared and you care about their time and then arrive early because Early is on time and on time is late All right, thank you for attending the webinar. Um, I'd really love your feedback And if you want to reach out and ask more questions, there's my there's my linkedin contact And uh, I hope that's that's helped


After four thousand years and several different iterations of Tom Cruise, we finally have a sequel to Top Gun called Maverick. Let's talk about it. I feel the need. The need to speed through this review because if you love the original Top Gun, you don't need to listen. I mean you're going. You're already there. So this is a review for the naysayers out there that thought the first Top Gun was incredibly overrated and don't get the appeal. I thought the first film wrote checks its body couldn't cash and now, all these years later, to come back to this character and see how they fleshed him out, to see some depth apply to him, to see Tom Cruise, Tom cruising all over this thing, I'm a believer. The first film is still not my cup of tea but this second movie, oh my gosh, this is an awesome film. You might be asking yourself Adam, Booby, what changed between these two pictures? What makes this one so great? Well for starters, the focus is on the right thing this time, Maverick and the Top Gun Academy. It doesn't play second fiddle to some garbage love story. Is there one? Yeah, there is. Jennifer Connolly does a great job. It also helps that it doesn't steamroll the picture. It just helps to flesh out Maverick's character a little bit more. And by a little bit more, I mean at all. Because in the first movie, he's just a cocky dude who, I mean that's it, that's really it. I went with a guy who had never seen Top Gun, he asked if I had to watch it going into this and I said well I don't know what this movie's about but I would assume no. Because not a lot happens in the first film, we know he's a kick-ass pilot, we know he lost his best buddy Goose and we know there's this raw sexual heat between him and Iceman. The Goose stuff is in play here because Maverick still hasn't moved on from the guy's death all these years later. He doesn't know how. To make matters worse, he's constantly reminded of his best buddy because he has to train his son Rooster. Got a couple birds going on and yeah, Maverick's taking him under his wing. Subscribe for puns. We have Maverick front and center not just as a badass pilot but also a kick-ass instructor showing these kids what it really means to feel the need for speed, how you have to act and react to situations on the fly. On the fly. We're doing it still. We don't have a shirtless volleyball scene, they upped the ante. This time a shirtless football scene on the beach. It's unbeatable. And the most critical element to get right, they completely exceed expectations on. And that is of course, plain porn. Some good plain porn. Since this is mostly practical effects with Tom Cruise flying one of these bad boys around for a while, proving that he's going to outlive us all still, I was to use a cliched phrase on the edge of my theater seat the entire time these guys were in the air trying to complete their mission. And again, unlike the first film, there is a focused narrative. It's not just guys trying to impress each other and pass the Top Gun Flight Academy. No no no. They have an actual mission here. A mission that they're being trained for. A very dangerous one with heavy stakes. Outside of the main protagonist TC, short for Tom Cruise, we have MT, short for Miles Teller, who honestly going in I kind of groaned about. I had no interest in seeing him in this film. He won me over. He had great chemistry with Tom Cruise. I believe the relationship. I believe the movie's PG-13. I think there was one F-bomb dropped because that's like the mandatory cool thing to do while still maintaining that PG-13 rating. This is a movie that you can take kids to like, you know, like a nine year old, a 10 year old. There's no problem in my book was showing him this. It is long. It's over two hours for sure. I felt it a little bit right around the half hour mark. There's a bar scene where we're kind of introduced to all the new recruits, you know, the new class of Top Guns. That scene felt far longer than it needed to be. Like we could have shaped 10 minutes off of that puppy, wouldn't have missed anything. Regardless of that, I have no complaints. This was an awesome film. Top to bottom. I want to see it again. Cinematography's on point. Scott would be proud. RIP.  We got Kenny Loggins back. We got the Top Gun theme song. Visually. Visually, it's stunning.  If you're not a fan, you're in for one hell of a treat. If you give this a chance, I think you're really going to be won over. A person like me who didn't think much of the first film, but still could understand and appreciate where people are coming from. God, this was so good. Can't wait to watch it again with the rest of my family. And now I'm just clamoring for a days of thunder too. Make it happen, Tom Cruise. Get behind that race car. Show us what you can do. We already saw you flying around at Mach 10. I mean, I don't think he did that. But still, he's back in that plane just like... No one does it like Tom Cruise. I'm sorry. He's one of the legends of old that doesn't ever seem to get old. All right. Have you seen Maverick already? Let me know in the comments what you thought about the film. I'm very eager to hear what you have to say. Again, I encourage you to subscribe to the channels. I post tons of movie related content each and every week. Make sure to hit that notification bell somewhere. It's swimming above, hanging out. That'll let these videos show up right in your feed. Now, if you excuse me, I'm going to go watch Maverick again. I'm actually going to go to bed. It's very late right now. Get up early for work. It's not quite as... Not quite as cool. Whoa, you made it to the end of the video, which means you're in the danger zone. Unrelated, there are tons of smears on these lenses. I don't know if it's going to pick up on camera, but I guess we're going to roll the dice. And you can roll the dice, too, by becoming a subscriber here. There's an icon of my face to click. It lets you subscribe to the channel. If you already are and really like what I'm doing, encourage you to become a Patreon. There's a dollar a month tier. You can do five, ten.  Besides the amount of money that I just said that it's going to cost you? You're helping out a creator. Someone that does this as a passion project. And you're saying, you know what, Adam? I like what you're doing. You're honest. You're trying to entertain. 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Hi everyone, Joe for JazmiceCaseRakes.com with another random number block randomizer for NT Basketball Picker Team 3, which is coming up in the next video. Two spots being given away as well for this two team random number block. That's how it works. So if you bought a full spot, you got a chance at a, well, Matthew and Gretchen, you got a chance at extra spots. Good luck. So that's our first of two dice rolls. First one is going to be four to one, five times, top two after five, one, two, three, four, and five. Matthew and Gretchen with extra spots. Thanks for grabbing full spots, both of you. Those symbols will help you differentiate it from your other spots. All right, Gretchen, congrats on winning that spot in the filler as well. Let's get those names in there. Now let's randomize you a block of numbers. Five into three, eight times, four names and numbers. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eighth and final time. Got Matthew down to Gretchen, just Matt and Gretchen this one. Five into three, eight times, four, the numbers, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and good luck. Eighth and final time. After eight, we got four down to five. After eight. All right, Matthew with four, Gretchen with six, Matthew with eight, Gretchen with two, three, zero. A chance at redemptions for those two teams right there. Matthew, you'll get live one of ones. Even if that redemption is a one of one, that'll still go to the redemption spot. Matthew, live one of ones will still go to you. Gretchen with seven, Matthew with nine, Gretchen with five. All right. And there you have it. I'll see you in the next video for that NT break, jaspyscasewrakes.com.


Welcome to the Hindu News Analysis by Shankar Iyer's Academy for the date 25th May 2019. Displayed are the list of news articles selected for today's analysis and their page numbers in Chennai, Delhi, Bengaluru and Thiruvananthapuram editions of the newspaper. The link for the handwritten notes and the time stamping of the news articles are provided in the description box and for the benefit of mobile phone viewers, the time stamping is also provided in the comments section. Now let us move on to the first news article. This news article states that this is the right time to carry out an oral assessment of the electoral process. The article has appeared on page number 9 in Thiruvananthapuram edition, 11 in Chennai and Delhi editions, 13 in Bangalore edition of the newspaper. The article is relevant in your prelims preparation in prelim syllabus in Indian polity and governance and it means in powers, functions and responsibilities of various constitutional bodies and important aspect of governance here electoral governance in this article and this analysis can also be linked to the salient features of representation of people act. Now the author of this editorial article is a former chief election commissioner of India. Now with the positive note, the author has appreciated the three election commissioners and 120 lakh staffs who worked to make this election successful. Now the main highlight of the general elections in 2019 or the elections for the 17th Lokshaba was the final water turnout. Now the final water turnout of this election general election 2019 is 67.11%. Now this is the highest water turnout recorded in the history of Lokshaba elections. The author states that this proves that the voter education program of the election commission of India is effective. This voter education program is called as systematic voters education and electoral participation program shortly called as SWEAP program. Now this program is the flagship or the most important program of the election commission to build a truly participative democracy in India by encouraging all eligible citizens to vote and to make an informed decision during the elections. Now this is done by voter education, spreading water awareness and by promoting water literacy in India. The program was started in the year 2009 as it was found by the election commission that the final water turnout at that period stagnated at around 55 to 60%. Now this water turnout has now improved to 67.11% and therefore credits are given for the election commission's initiative of SWEAP program. However there remain several questions on the election commission for the role played by it in this election. Firstly the author talks about the length of the election process that started from 11th April 2019 and ended on around 23rd May 2019. The first phase started on 11th April and the 7th phase was conducted on 19th May and the counting was conducted on 23rd May. Almost 40 days it has taken for the process. Therefore the author calls it a prolonged process. Now the reason for the prolonged process or why there were 7 phases was because of security purposes. Now adequate security arrangements have to be put in place primarily for the security of voters and the associated electoral tasks. The most pressing concern for the election commission is water security. For this personal from central armed police forces are required. But their numbers are not enough to conduct the elections in a single day. Therefore the forces are rotated from one place to another after the conduct of one phase of election so that there will be enough security arrangements in place in the other place where the next phase is to be held. Then the former chief election commissioner talks about three yams that is money, media and mafia and their role in this election. Here money means the money, drugs, narcotics, liquor, precious metals and freebies that were used to bribe the voters. To organize these cash to the electors or to organize these precious metals, liquors, drugs, narcotics to the electors for bribing, there is a requirement of organized criminals, organized cartels who the author refers as mafia. And the author also states that the media also played a very important role in this election. The author here listed the top five states with respect to the value of money for the seized money, drugs, narcotics, liquor, precious metals and freebies seized by the election commission. If you look at these top five states, first state is Tamil Nadu which accounts for around 27% of total money seized by the election commission during this election. This is followed by Gujarat, then Delhi, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh. These five states have accounted for almost 70% of the seized money by the election commission during this election. And the estimation of the seizure by the election commission in the 2019 general elections is around 3475.76 crores. This amount means it is an increase of 189% of the seized money value of 2014 general elections. The value of seizure in 2014 general elections is 1200 crore. The money seized shows that high amount of black money has played in this election and therefore the author says that the problem of black money is alive. Next, the author talks about the role played by the election commission with respect to the violations of model code of conduct. See, model code of conduct is a set of guidelines evolved by the election commission of India to ensure level playing field for all political parties and the candidates contesting in an election. The election commission can take necessary measures against the violators of this model code of conduct. Very recently, you should know that an innovative mobile application named or called C-Vigil was launched for citizens to report the violations with respect to model code of conduct and expenditure during the elections. The election commission has taken actions against the violations of the model code of conduct in a delayed manner or casually or carelessly states the other. For this reason, the election commission has faced criticism in both national level and also in the international level. But the author also acknowledges the difficulty in operationalizing the model code of conduct in the age of social media, particularly in a long election where there are many phases of election. Then the author talks about counting. Here, counting refers to counting of votes and counting of VVPAT slips and it also includes tallying in those VVPAT paper slips in five randomly selected polling stations in each assembly segment of concerned parliamentary constituency. Even here, the election commission proposed the counting of VVPAT verification slips in only one polling station in each assembly segment of a parliamentary constituency. To check whether it is tallying with the number of votes pulled. But only because of the intervention of Supreme Court, this number was raised to five polling stations in each assembly segment of the particular parliamentary constituency. This was advised by the Supreme Court for better water confidence and credibility of electoral process and also to ensure the greatest degree of accuracy and satisfaction. Also, this political parties requested the election commission to carry out counting of VVPAT slips before the counting of votes that are pulled in a polling station. And if mismatch was found in that counting, then VVPATs of all polling stations in a parliamentary constituency has to be carried out. This was demanded by the political parties. But the election commission rejected these demands of counting VVPAT slips first before the votes citing non feasibility. In all these matters, the election commission should have conducted wider discussions with political parties and should have taken these parties on board with it in the electoral process states the author. Then the author talks about the interventions by the Supreme Court. He is careful in calling them as interventions, not as interferences. Interference is a negative word, whereas intervention is a positive word. Article 329 of Indian Constitution emphasizes that the courts shall not interfere in electoral matters such as validity of law relating to the delimitation of constituencies or the law relating to the allotment of seats to such delimited constituencies made under Article 327 or 328. The Supreme Court has to intervene for six times after the announcement of polls schedule during this 2019 general elections. One of the notable interventions of the court was with respect to the stand taken by the election commission that it is toothless and powerless to act on hate speeches. The Supreme Court gave a deadline and after this rebuke from the Supreme Court, the election commission took according to the author strong and unprecedented action against some political leaders, debarring them from campaigning for up to three days by invoking Article 324 of Indian Constitution. But the author highlights the way the election commission acted on the complaints on Prime Minister and the party president of the ruling political party. By saying that there are no faults in the actions and speeches of the prime minister and the party president of the ruling political party, the commission has spoiled its reputation and the fearless independence it commands. The author also notes that the dissenting notes of election commissioners on matters discussed by them should be made public for more transparency. See the election commission consists of a chief election commissioner and two election commissioners. In the absence of oneness or unity among the three, then the decisions can be taken by a majority vote. But if one commissioner expresses dissent or difference of opinion, it will not change the result. So the author asks at least make public the reasons and explanations given by the commissioner who dissented with the other two members of the commission in the matters related to the particularly the violations of the model code of conduct. Finally, the author concludes the article saying that money power, paid news and fake news, communal polarization and hate speeches are serious challenges to the very foundations of our electoral system. And a democracy is only as credible as the strength of the institutions fundamental to its legitimacy. That is the credibility of a democracy is directly proportional to the strength of the institutions that are fundamental to the legitimacy of the democracy. Here by institution he means election commission. The election commission should be strong in ensuring legitimacy to the electoral process. The author hopes that the newly elected members of Lokshaba will take necessary reforms and course corrections and all the above issues. Whatever we have discussed to enable the world's largest democracy or democracy to become the greatest democracy in the world. Now the displayed practice prelims question will be discussed in the last session. Now let us move on to the next news article. The next news article discusses about the recent change in the standard of reference made for the basic SI unit that is kilogram which is the unit for mass. The editorial appears in page number 10 in Chennai and Delhi edition 12 in Bangalore edition 8 in Tiruvannathapuram edition of the newspaper. Now this editorial will be relevant in prelim syllables under current events of international importance and also under general science. The author of this editorial discusses about the recent change in the standard of reference made for the basic SI unit which is kilogram. We have compiled and listed the author's comments in a comparison format for your EC reference. Now the standard of reference that existed before May 20 is compared with the new reference system. Before 20th May a physical object was used as a standard of reference for measuring kilogram. It was introduced in 1889 you know before 130 years. The physical object was a platinum iridium cylinder which was used to define how much is represented by a mass of 1 kilogram. This cylinder was an alloy cylinder where platinum and iridium were in the ratio of 90 is to 10. Now after 20th May a more concrete and better definition of the kilogram has been adopted. Now this is in terms of a fundamental constant which is Planck's constant small h. Earlier if a mass had to be verified to match with a standard kilogram it would be placed on one of the pans of a common balance. While the prototype which is the platinum iridium cylinder would have to be placed in the other pan. So the mass would be measured against another mass. Now the very methodology of verification has been altered a kibble balance is used. Now this kibble balance balances mass against electromagnetic force in order to measure the mass of an unknown piece. So the very methodology of the verification has been altered. Earlier the measurement using the platinum iridium cylinder was less precise. Even scientists confirmed that there was a loss of physical weight of this cylinder of up to 50 micrograms. But with the Planck's constant which is involved in measurement using a kibble balance the measurement is known precisely. See all the constants are universal numbers. Here the value of Planck's constant is 6.626 into 10 power minus 34 kilogram meter square per second. As of May 20 the kilogram has joined a bunch of other SI units namely the second meter, ampere, kelvin, mole and candela. In the next part of the editorial the author tells that the history of measurement of the mass has taken a full circle. He tells that the kilogram is now defined once again in terms of universal constants. Now the author has quoted the timeline of events from a research publication. He tells that originally the definition of mass was in terms of what was then thought of as a universal physical constant. See in 1791 a universal physical constant which was presumed that time was used to measure the mass. Then in 1799 the mass was measured using a physical object and also a presumed universal constant during that time period. Then in 1889 a physical object was used to measure the mass. Now again in 2019 the fundamental physical constant is used to measure the mass. Thus the author tells it has reached a full circle where once again a physical constant is used in the calculation of mass. Now let us see in detail about different measurements used in those time periods for our knowledge. See in 1791 a universal physical constant which was presumed that time was used to measure the mass. At that time one kilogram was defined as the mass of one liter of distilled water at its melting point. Thus the density of water was the physical constant on which this definition was arrived. Then we saw in 1799 the mass was measured using a physical object and also a physical constant. So the kilogram came to be defined using a cylinder of platinum where for the first time a physical object was used for this purpose. But the mass was also defined as equivalent to the mass of one liter of distilled water at atmospheric pressure and at about 4 degrees Celsius. Now this 4 degrees Celsius is the temperature at which water has the maximum density. And then this method was replaced in 1889 when the scientific community adopted the international prototype of the kilogram. The prototype is a cylinder made of an alloy that is 90% platinum and 10% iridium. So the reference to the physical constant that is mass of one liter of water was abandoned. The author tells that now again we come back full circle and find that the kilogram is defined again in terms of a fundamental physical constant which is now the Planck's constant. The author finally comments that right now these definitions will look stable but when the scientists master the art of traveling at relativistic speeds that is close to the speed of light then we will have to redefine all these abstract definitions that we have at present to measure various SI units. Now let us see about base SI units, the symbols and the standards of reference that these base SI units have at present. See kilogram which is the unit of mass, its symbol is kg in small letters and its standard of references Planck's constant h. For ampere which is the unit of electric current, the symbol is capital A and its standard of references elementary electric charge. For kelvin which is the unit of temperature, the symbol is capital K and its standard of references Boltzmann constant small k. For mole which is the unit for amount of substance, the symbol is MOL in small letters and its standard of references Avogadro number Avogadro constant. For second which is the unit of time, the symbol is smallest and its standard of references CCM frequency. Now coming to meter which is the unit for length, the symbol is small m, its standard of references speed of the light in vacuum. Then candela which is the unit for luminous intensity, now the symbol is C small d. The luminous intensity of the monochromatic radiation of frequency is used as the standard of reference for measuring candela. Now displayed prelims question will be discussed in the last session. Now let us move on to the analysis of next news article. Now this news article is about RBI's proposal to create a liquidity buffer for non banking financial companies. The article appears in page 15 in Chennai and Delhi edition and 13 in Tiruvannathapuram edition and 17 in Bengaluru edition. Now the analysis of this news article will be relevant in prelim syllabus under current events of national importance and also under economic development. And the analysis will also be relevant to your main syllabus in GS paper 3 under Indian economy. The Reserve Bank of India has proposed to introduce a liquidity coverage ratio for large non banking financial companies in order to help in tackling the liquidity issues in the NBFC sector. Now let us see a small background on why RBI is proposing for a liquidity coverage ratio for non banking financial companies. See the infrastructure leasing and financial services shortly called as IL&FS is an infrastructure development and finance company that comes under NBFC category. See on 23rd May we have discussed about non banking financial companies in general and also the differences between NBFC and banks. Now come here see the IL&FS company collapsed financially last year. Now this triggered a series of defaults and financial problems such as difficulty in realizing profits, the difficulty in paying back the loans in across the NBFC sector. Know that NBFC sector is also called as shadow banking sector. Now because of the collapse the borrowing cost for the NBFC sector started to increase. Now this means when NBFC is in some financial problem so those who offer loans will offer only at high rates of interest because of the fear that the company is in the situation particularly in financial problems. Now all these simply means that the NBFCs are in short of money. The money supply is called as liquidity and the shortage in money supply is called as liquidity crisis. Now this liquidity crisis has affected the NBFC sector only at the medium level but it can affect the overall NBFC sector within a short period causing a systemic issue. Systemic here refers to the entire financial system. So to contain or manage this liquidity crisis the Reserve Bank of India has proposed for liquidity coverage ratio. The introduction of this liquidity coverage ratio has been proposed in the draft guidelines on liquidity risk management framework for NBFCs which also includes core investment companies. See the main aim of this liquidity coverage ratio is to provide a liquidity buffer to the non-banking financial companies to manage any sort of liquidity crisis. In the newspaper it is mentioned that the liquidity coverage ratio is proposed for all deposit taking non-banking financial companies and non-deposit taking NBFCs with an asset size of 5000 crore and above. See the LCR is proposed for all non-deposit taking NBFCs with an asset size of 5000 crore and above and for all deposit taking NBFCs irrespective of their asset size. Now to know their difference see deposit taking NBFCs means they can perform lending and also take deposits but the non-deposit taking NBFCs means they can perform only the lending activity. They cannot take deposits. They generally depend on banks for taking the deposits. Now let's come back to our discussion. See this liquidity coverage ratio will be implemented in a phased and a calibrated manner over 4 years starting from April 2020. A minimum LCR, a minimum liquidity coverage ratio of 60% has to be maintained by NBFCs by April 2020. Within 4 years that is by 2024 the LCR has to be increased to 100%. Now in this context let us see about how liquidity coverage ratio is calculated. Liquidity coverage ratio is represented by the ratio of stock of high quality liquid assets to the total net cash outflows over the next 30 calendar days. Now let's see what is meant by high quality liquid assets. See it is the liquid assets that can be readily sold or immediately converted into cash at little or no loss of value. These assets can also be used as a collateral to obtain funds when there is a liquidity stress. Collateral means something that can be pledged as security for repayment of a loan. So the ultimate aim of RBI is to make this stock of high quality liquid assets equivalent to the total net cash outflows over the next 30 calendar days. Net cash outflows is nothing but a non-banking financial company's cash balance which is the difference between cash inflows and outflows in a given period. So this liquidity buffer should be aimed toward 100% by 2024. There are many complexities in calculating the total net cash outflows of a non-banking financial company's. So the purpose of this liquidity coverage ratio is to prevent the NBFCs from potential liquidity disruptions or disturbances that are likely to affect the running of NBFCs because of the shortage of the liquid financial assets. So the NBFCs has to ensure to have sufficient high quality liquid assets in order to survive any serious or acute liquidity stress scenario that may last for 30 days. The ultimate aim of RBI is to maintain a stock of high quality liquid assets to a minimum of 100% of the total net cash outflows over the next 30 calendar days. This 100% is being planned to be achieved by the year 2024 as per the draft guidelines proposal of Reserve Bank of India. Now know that liquidity coverage ratio exists for the banking sector since 2015. The LCR was implemented and measured in 2011 but the 100% minimum was enforced only in 2015. That is LCR was implemented and measured in 2011 but 100% minimum was not enforced until 2015. So the 100% minimum became binding on banks only from 2015. Now the displayed practice problems question will be discussed in the final session. Now let us take our analysis to the next news article. Now the next news article is about higher education policy. See this article appears in page number 9 in Chennai and Delhi editions and 11 in Bangalore edition and 7 in Thiruvananthapuram edition. It will be relevant in prelim syllabus under current events of national importance and in public policy. And it means it will be relevant in GS2 in government policies and interventions for development in various sectors in education and also in issues relating to development and management of education. Now the news article discusses about the proposed new initiative by the government. Now here the Ministry of Human Resource Development is planning to launch an ambitious action plan to improve the quality and accessibility of higher education in India. Now this plan was named as ECUPE which is the acronym for Education Quality Upgradation and Inclusion Program. Now the article states that this plan is described as the implementation plan for new national education policy. The policy was promised by 2014 to 2019 NDA government and was not implemented even after 5 years of repeated delays and extensions. But a draft national education policy 2016 was released. The article states that the new national education policy is likely to be released as soon as possible in a week it says. See we already have national education policy of 1986 and revision of the same policy in the year 1992. Now we note that recently on 18th May we saw about Acharya Ramamurthy committee that was set up to review the national education policy of 1996. That day we discussed about the committees particular the Acharya Ramamurthy committee's view or recommendations on neighborhood schools. And we also discussed why common school system did not gain popular and complete acceptance in India. Or why it could not gain ground in India. Now let us see about this new plan ECUPE. See it is an acronym for Education Quality Upgradation and Inclusion Program. Now this plan is the central government's endeavor towards transforming the higher education system of India. Now it is expected that it will be carried out by implementing strategic interventions in the sector for a period of 5 years from 2019 to 2024. And the plan will be implemented with a vision to achieve quality, inclusivity and excellence in higher education. And to empower the institutions of higher education so as to contribute in a great way towards fueling the progress of the nation. Now this plan was devised to give a multi pronged boost to the higher education system in India. We read some statement that has you know multi pronged. Here multi pronged means having several distinct aspects or various elements. So this plan is having different aspects that can give a great boost to the Indian higher education system. Now so as to make the higher education institutions in India to be ranked among the global best institutions. And to make the higher education system to be ranked among the global best systems also. And the plan also aims to bring a transformational change in the higher education system over next 5 years. Now coming to the objectives, proposed objectives are to double the gross enrollment ratio in higher education. To resolve the geographically skewed or geographically distorted or the geographically biased access to higher education institutions. And also to achieve globally acceptable quality standards across the country. That means the quality standards of the higher education systems in India should be matching the international standards of higher education system. And to position at least 20 Indian institutions among the top global institutions. And also to promote research and innovation ecosystem in higher education. And to substantially improve employability of the students. And to promote the necessary framework for internationalization. Now this will result in better accreditation or better recognition of Indian higher education system at the international level. The plan also aims to carry out necessary governance reforms and also promoting the increase in investments in higher education system. Now the Department of Higher Education and the Ministry of Human Resource Development has constituted 10 expert groups to design and formulate this plan. And they will finalize the strategies and they will identify initiatives and also provide necessary estimate for investments that are required in this higher education system. And will finalize also the timelines for the implementation of various interventions. And now let us move on to the next news article. This news article is about banning a terror outfit which is based in Bangladesh. The news article appears in page 9 in Chennai Delhi edition, 11 in Bengaluru edition and 7 in Tiruvananthapuram edition. Now this news article will be relevant in prelims under current events of national importance, Indian polity and governance and public policy. In GS paper 3 under role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security. And also under security challenges and their management in border areas, linkages of organized crime with terrorism. Here terrorist organizations and terrorists are the non-state actors who create challenges to the internal security of India. So the news is that under the anti-terror law, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, the central government has banned this terror outfit which is based in Bangladesh named as Jamatul Mujahidin Bangladesh. And this terror outfit was allegedly involved in the 2016 terror attacks at a cafe in Bangladesh's capital city Dhaka. Now this organization was declared as an unlawful association by the Ministry of Home Affairs on 24 May 2019. A notification has been issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs which say that the outfit was planning to set up permanent basis within 10 kilometer area along the Bangladesh border in several districts of West Bengal Assam and Tirupuram. And in addition the notification also stated that the group of this terror outfit planned to spread its network in South India with an ultimate motive to establish a caliphate in the Indian subcontinent. Now we saw that this Bangladesh based terror outfit was banned under the anti-terror law named as the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act of 1967. Now this act is valid for entire India including the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Now the provisions of this act apply also to citizens of India who reside outside India and to persons who are in the service of government and wherever they may be. And finally to persons working on ships and aircrafts that are registered in India and they may be wherever and the law is applicable to them. Now there are three things. First unlawful activity is any action of an individual or an association that intends to bring session or secession of a part of the Indian territory from the Indian Union. Here session means the formal giving up of rights, property or territory by a state. Here state is India and secession means the act of withdrawing formally from a state. Now secession also means separatist tendency. Sometimes they say separatist tendency as secessionist tendency. So both these acts are considered as unlawful activities as per the provisions of this legislation. Next if an action of an individual or an association intends to disrupt the sovereignty and integrity of India then it is also considered as an unlawful activity. Also if an action of an individual or an association intends to cause disaffection or dissatisfaction against India then that is also considered as an unlawful activity. Now let us know about unlawful association. See if any association which encourages or aids the persons to undertake any unlawful activity or even if the members of the association involve in any unlawful activity then they are classified as unlawful association. Either the association or the members of the association involving in unlawful activity they are classified as the association will be classified as unlawful association. Now an association can also be declared as unlawful association under Indian penal code also by section 153 A of IPC. If the association encourages or aids persons or even if the members of the association promote enmity between different groups of India. That is if it encourages in promotion of enmity between different groups or aids those persons who promote enmity or if the members of the particular association promotes enmity between different groups of India then the association can be declared as an unlawful association under section 153 A of Indian penal code. Now this section deals with the offence of promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language etc. and doing acts that are against the maintenance of harmony in India. Now let us see about this unlawful activities tribunal under this legislation. See this tribunal can be constituted by the central government as and when it considers necessary to form such a tribunal. This tribunal has only member as per the provisions of the act and the central government cannot appoint any other person other than a judge of a high court as a member of this tribunal. So we just saw about what is unlawful activity what is unlawful association then we saw about unlawful activities tribunal. So under the provisions of this law whenever the center notifies any association involving in unlawful activities as an unlawful association the notification shall specify the grounds or reasons on which the notification is issued. So if you have seen in this news article that the Bangladesh based terror outfit is planning to construct permanent camps and other reasons are stated. Now these are the reasons mentioned by the center while banning this terror outfit as an unlawful association. So once it notifies see within 30 days of publishing this notification in the official cassette it has to refer this notification to unlawful activities tribunal. Next this tribunal shall issue a showcase notice to the banned unlawful association. Now this association has to reply within 30 days of receiving the showcase notice from the tribunal on the subject why the particular association should not be declared as an unlawful association in India. Now after receiving the reply from this association the tribunal has to decide on the notification within 6 months from the date of the issuing of the notification. So these are the basic stuff from the unlawful activities prevention act of 1967. The displayed prelims question will be discussed in the last session and with this we come to the end of discussion of the news articles. Next let us go on to the practice come revision session or the prelims questions discussion session. Now the first question has two statements and they are asking which of the statements are correct. The first statement the election for the 17th Lokshaba witnessed the highest water turnout in the history of elections to the Lokshaba. Now the statement is correct and 17th Lokshaba is the recent general elections 2019 was the Lokshaba elections for 17th Lokshaba. And this the water turnout in this election is the highest turnout recorded ever in general elections or in other way in the for the elections to the Lokshaba. And this time the water turnout was 67.11%. Now therefore the first statement is correct. The second statement systematic waters education and electoral participation program is a flagship initiative of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. And it aims to build a truly participative democracy in India by encouraging all eligible citizens to vote and to make an informed decision during the elections. Now this statement appears to be correct but the initiative is not the initiative of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting rather it is the flagship initiative of Election Commission of India started in the year 2009. One of the reason is to also to improve the water turnout in the year 2009 when it was when the program was started it was filled that the water turnout was stagnating around some 55 to 60 percentage. Now it has almost increased from that level to 67.11 in the recent election. Today's editorial was giving credit to this particular program of Election Commission of India. So the second statement is wrong as it is the program of Election Commission not Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. So the answer for this question is option A one only. Now the second question they have given SI base units and their standards of reference and they are asking to choose the correct pair. Now if you see the first pair they are given Kelvin. Kelvin is the unit of temperature and for Kelvin the Boltzmann constant is used as the standard of reference. So the first pair is correctly matched. Now the second kilogram which is the unit of mass they are they are saying it is standard of references platinum meridium cylinder. Now before 20th May it could be the correct answer but now it is not so because platinum meridium cylinder is a physical object which was replaced with Planck's constant which is now used as the standard of reference for measuring kilogram. So in order to make this pair a correct pair the standard of reference for kilogram should have been Planck's constant. So the second pair is incorrectly matched. Now the third third pair C mole is the unit for amount of substance and the standard of reference for that is Avogadro constant so that is correctly matched. So the correct pair is one and three so option C is the correct answer. Now the third question this question is with respect to liquidity coverage ratio. They have given two statements and are asking asking which of the statements are correct. Now the first statement says liquidity coverage ratio is the ratio of high quality liquid assets that a bank or a non-banking financial company has to maintain so that it can be converted into cash in case of liquidity stress. Now this is actually the definition of liquidity coverage ratio and therefore the first statement is correct. Now the second statement liquidity coverage ratio can be decided by each individual bank or a non-banking financial company. Now this statement is wrong. See only there is so bank of India which is the regulator here mandates or fixes the liquidity coverage ratio for both banks and non-banking financial companies. Now this ratio fixed by RBA is common for all the banks and common for within the non-banking financial companies. So the question asked for the correct statement so option A one only is the correct answer for this question. Now the next question is with respect to the unlawful activities prevention act 1967. They have given again two statements asking which of the statements are correct. Now the first statement this legislation was enacted in Indian parliament for effective prevention of certain unlawful activities of individuals and associations and related matters. The point is very straightforward and the statement is correct and that is the purpose of the legislation. The second statement this act is not applicable in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Now this statement is wrong because we saw this legislation is applicable in the state of Jammu and Kashmir also. We see many legislations not applicable in the state of Jammu and Kashmir because of the special provision for Jammu and Kashmir. But this legislation is an exception and this legislation applies even in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. So the second statement here given is wrong. So the answer for this question is option A one only. 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So here are those two random number blocks. Here's the Timberwolves, Wizards, and Celtics random number block and their results and the Lakers, Bucks, and the Hawks random number block as well. I told you Rex would be here. Here are those lists in person. So here's the full list. With random number blocks, zero gets any and all redemptions, even known one-on-one redemptions. While the one spot obviously gets any and all in person one-on-ones. There's that Timberwolves, Wizards, Boston one. Here is the Lakers, Bucks, and Atlanta random number block. Also with these there are unnumbered cards. So if we hit any unnumbered cards for the teams in a random number block, all unnumbered cards for the two random number blocks will be randomized as a lot or as a group to one person in the random number block as well. So here is the case. Pick your teams three and four are both from the same case, fresh case of City and Basketball. You can see 2020-1. Let's pop this open to figure out which six boxes we're going to do here and which six are going to be for picking team four, which is also now down to, it's down to four teams. Those four teams have been split up into two random number blocks. So we can run that back tonight, guys. So dice roll. I got my lucky dice back. I had a terrible throw earlier that bounced over and off the table. So one, two, three for the box on the left, four, five, six for the box on the right. Good luck to four. So it's going to be the boxes on the right. These will be for pick a team number four. So it's hard to write on boxes that are pretty much black, but I'm just going to write a four on the front here so you guys can see. There you go. Oh, I've done it a lot, Ben. I'm not going to do the dice thing. Like I said, nobody's going to invite me to their back alley craps game any time soon. There is our six boxes here. I'm going to pop out the packs. Rex, I only say that stuff because I know you're listening. I lash out at those that I love the most. You know it, but you got it, Nancy's pretty cool, right? Never been accused of that before, Rex. I agree, Mark. I agree. Remember guys, second half of this is in random number locks for pick a team number four. One of the random number locks. We're actually only selling eight spots and we're going to give away two. Well, go get your spots guys. See? I knew you would agree. Jersey number ant RPA? That's pretty nice. Well, let's see what we got here. First up, Atlanta Hawks. Pitch black, Trey young. I love the die cuts in Obsidian. They're so unreasonably cool. Atlanta Hawks is obviously a random number block. That is 19 out of 25. Spot nine, Anthony Liske. Actually, no, wrong. That's the wrong one. Sorry. Spot nine, Anthony Ramondi. This one's the right one. Yeah. Lakers, bucks, Hawks. 19 out of 25 right there. Congrats, Anthony. And JJ Reddick for the Dallas Mavericks just announced his retirement. Eric Jock and the Mavericks. 40 out of 99. You've got Paul George for the Clippers and Patrick Davis. That is 13 out of 99 Jersey number. PG 13. And Jalen Smith, rookie for the Suns, Phillip Nguyen. Mr. Goggles himself. We got for the Rockets, it's Eric Gordon. Houston Rockets, I Kapola. And another Trey young. This one's for the Hawks again, part of that random number block. I believe this is non numbered. So this will be a randomizer with any other non numbered cards for that random number block, which is Lakers, bucks and Hawks. All to one person at the end of the break. Our first auto from the six boxes is for the Pacers, T.J. McConnell. Indiana Pacers, Eric Josh. That is 40 out of 50. Volcanic signatures for the Pistons, Chauncey, Billups. David Bottarino, 95 out of 99. Joe Eston's retiring, good. There you go, David. That was box one. First up, for the Heat Precious, Ashua, David Bottarino. And the Heat. That is 66 out of 99. Reduce your fractions in two out of three. Right Ben? Can we pay him to retire? How about another Trey young die cut? Last time it was a pitch black. This one is the Eclipse die cut. Another one for the Hawks, part of that random number block. That is 46 out of 99. Jeremy Agno on that one. There you go, Jeremy. That is super special. Xavier Tillman for the Grizzlies and Sean Maddock. And Kendrick Nunn for the Heat. New Laker, David Bottarino in the Heat for this one though. And Alfred Payton for the Knicks. And David Bottarino. First auto of box two is for the Pacers again. It's Justin Holiday. Indiana Pacers, Eric Jock. That is nine out of 50. One off the jersey number. And Michael Porter Jr. Mr. Max Contract. Nuggets, Jonathan Addy. Very nice. 17 out of 35. Nuggets. He's the fourth rookie already. From 2018 class to get a Max Contract. Five year, $207 million. He joins Luca Trey. Luca Trey, Shay, and now him. Pretty incredible. Emmanuel Quickly, little IQ for the Knicks. David Bottarino, very nice. That is 23 out of 25. Nice low number IQ. And Kenyan Martin Jr. For the Rockets, Icapola. He killed it at the end of the year. 42 out of 50. Second half of the season was great for him. I don't doubt that either, Ben. Like I said, 18-19 might be one of the best classes there is. Patrick Beverly Clippers. Patrick Davis. He was Chad, and then his dad got the assistant coaching job at Missouri. Conveniently. And Derek Rose. For the Knicks, David Bottarino. You got Bobby Portis for the Milwaukee Bucks. Random number block. That's also the Lakers, Bucks, and Hawks random number block. That is non-numbered, so that'll be randomized with the Trey Young. And then it looks like we got a private signings autograph. Which is Xavier Tillman for the Memphis Grizzlies and Sean Maddock. So not specifically an Obsidian card, but nice private signings. Oh, that's right. I do remember that chat. And Marcus Camby. Denver Nuggets. Legend. Jonathan Audie. Again. That is 22 out of 50. He was 23, right? I think Camby was 23, or was he 22? He was 23? Actually, yeah, you can... Everybody loved Camby, Ben.  Okay, it looks like we got a patch auto in this one. Number four.  That is 33 out of 99. Reduce your fractions. One out of three. Oh, yeah. Loved it. Trey Young was remembering to go to UW2. Oh, that's crazy. John Wall, Houston Rockets, iCopola. I didn't know that part, Chad. That is 49 out of 99 for the Rockets, iCopola. And we got more PG-13 for the Clippers. Patrick Davis. So are you a Washington fan chat or a Wazoo fan? I feel like you would be totally against the Huskies, right? Dante DeVincenzo for the Bucks. That's part of that random number block. That's also non-numbered, so that'll be randomized to one person in the random number block. And Kristoff Porzingis for the Mavericks. Eric Jock. We've got Otto for the Lakers. And then Macklemore. Volcanic signatures. Los Angeles Lakers. That's part of that same random number block that we've been dealing with so far. 46 out of 75. Jeremy Agnell. Spot six. I thought you said you went to Wazoo. Because didn't you say go Cougs? In the chat, didn't you say, or was that somebody else? Somebody else in the chat was saying future Cougars earlier, I thought. And Ant-Man. Minnesota Timberwolves. Random number block. Jersey and Otto. What's the numbering? Solid color. Jersey, Otto, Orange, which I think... Is that a 25? That's out of 35. 34 out of 35. Jeremy Agnell. Spot four. And the spot he won. Just for buying one of the straight up spots. This is the little rooftop spot he won. 34 out of 35. Anthony Edwards. Rookie, Jersey, Otto. Jeremy. Pretty nice. Not too shabby. How about a third Trey Young die cut in this break? Hawks again in that random number block.  And that is 65 out of 75. Spot five. Robert Rumpel. We've got another Zach Levine here for the bowls. Matt Daniels again. That is 15 out of 99. You got McCall Bridges for the Suns. Filton Nguyen. Non-numbered. Zach Levine went to your high school. Gary Tran Jr. Raptors. David Badarino. Fallout title card. Which one? Obsidian one? Non-numbered Raptors. David Badarino. Was that up in Washington? And Devin Booker's Suns. Filton Nguyen. Non-numbered. First auto box five. Oh, yeah. It's Moses Brown on ex-autographs for the Thunder and Hung Young Chow. Bothell High School. Okay, cool. One out of ten. Ten minus one. Jersey number nine. Oklahoma City Thunder. Young Chow. And second auto. Dorian Finney-Smith for the Mavericks. And Eric Jock. That is 87 out of 149. And last box for us, guys. Moses is going to be good, Ben says. I don't know. Max Muncie's solo home run. I think. Kevin Durant. Brooklyn Nets. Patrick Nazaj. That is 28 out of 50. He's a big fan. Rob's very talented. Nice. Brooklyn Nets. Patrick Nazaj. Kevin Durant. And Kevin Love. Cavs. Shane Thorton. 58 out of 99. I think there's still down two runs in the bottom of the eighth, but obviously crawling back little bit by little. John Wall for the Rockets. Iacopola. Non-numbered. Tyrese Halliburton for the Kings. Roy D. Pietro. Nice. Non-numbered rookie there. And John Collins for the Hawks. That's also part of that random number block. The Lakers. Hawks, random number block. Another non-numbered card for that randomizer. And Brent Berry for the Rockets. Iacopola. 39 out of 50. And the last auto of the half case. Detlef Schrempf. Freakin' love that dude. Thunder. Young, young, chiao. 125 out of 149. Little Detlef love. Gotta find the Sonic's jersey it is. Good old Schrempf. Sonic's goes to the Thunder. And there you go, young, young. There you go, guys. So we've got two randomizers to do. There were no non-numbered cards for the Timberwolves, Washington, Boston. But they did get the big hit of the break. That Anthony Edwards, very nice. And then there was a couple of non-numbered cards for the Lakers, Bucks, Atlanta. Random number block, obviously. Quite a few die cuts of the Hawks there. But these are all non-numbered cards. So these are going to be randomized to one person in that random number block. So I'm going to have to copy and paste that over. And then we have to do the break credit randomizer as well. So here is the random number block for the Lakers. So here is that random number block, randomizer. And then to figure out how many people are in on the break credit. Remember, break credit was top four each, $100 in break credit, and buy two teams, one entry, four teams, two entries, so on and so forth. AJ Pollock, another home run. Wow. But now I think they're down to one run. Nine to eight. So I'm going to copy and paste the customer list over to a separate spreadsheet like this and alphabetize it. So Adam, thanks for getting in. David, with four, you've got two entries. With two gets one. I, Capola, with two, gets one. Patrick, with two, you get one. Phillip, with two, you got one. Sean, with two, you've got one. And everybody else looks like they got single teams there. Tyler, Shane, thanks for getting in. Roy, thanks for getting in. Petrit, Paul, thanks for getting in. Matt, Jonathan, James, all thanks for getting in. Hung, thanks for getting in. And Adam, thanks for getting in there. So there you go. So we've got seven names. Top four, $100 in break credit each. Pretty good odds there for you guys. Blue Jays and O's win tomorrow. And the Jays, Boso, Hodgson, Raiders, all are tied for the second world card. That's pretty cool, Chad. I hope that it just ends up like a cluster like that. So same dice roll for both randomizers, guys. Six, four, ten times. Good luck. Ten for the final time. Ryan Petalski on top. You're going to get all the non-numbered cards. Your name was on top in number nine, too. So ten times on the randomizer. Ten times on the dice. All non-numbered cards for those teams. So you can see Ryan and put a little note on the thing for all non-numbered cards for you. I'm not an SC fan, so. Was it an SC jersey? Evan, was it an SC jersey? And then for the break credit. Top four names after ten. Ten for the final time. David, David, Icappola, Eric, Jock. There you go. David in there twice. I know, right? David, $200 break credit. Icappola and Eric, both $100 break credit. Ten times on the randomizer. Ten times on the dice. And there you go, guys. That's the break credit giveaway. David, David, Icappola, Eric. Thanks to everybody else for getting in as well. And that's the break itself. 2020-2021 Panini Obsidian Basketball, six box, half case break. Pick a team number three. Jaspyscasebreaks.com. I'm Sean. Thanks for hanging out. See you next time.


Coming up on today's episode of the Pumpkin Patch Show. Firewall's next update gets some more details.  I give you my Red Matter review and GameSpot go hands-on with Ace Combat 7 VOR. So let's jump right in. So hey there everyone, I am Petrifying Pumpkins, I'll be your host today as always on the Pumpkin Patch Show and we have a fantastic show lined up for you today. Today I'm joined by my very special guest Karen, Karen say hello. Anyway Christmas is coming up very soon and I asked my niece actually what she was going to get for Christmas and she said that she was going to get a Nintendo Switch so that she could play Fortnite with all her friends.  My sister doesn't want me coming around the house anymore. I'm going to be spending Christmas alone this year. Anyway firewall zero hour. So on Friday just gone we got ourselves another update from Yeboy Shabs from First Contact Entertainment and he brought with him a couple of moist making bullet points. So the first one is that the DLC that's coming on the 18th which is very close now will include several different types of in-game content whatever that means. Now the word on the streets is that one of these types of contents will be a new map for us to run around in and if this comment by Hess is something to go by I think that may be the case. Now the next bullet point is that the update will bring a few fixes and improvements to the game that I'm sure we all appreciate including the much requested solution for getting rid of AFK players. So will it be vote to kick? Will it be an automatic kick after a certain period of inactivity? We will find those on the 18th. In the meantime let me know what you guys want to see in DLC number three in the comments below. Now I recently did a poll on my channel asking what kind of map you guys would like to see and let me tell you the results were as divided as American politics. But you want to know what I think? I think we should make snow maps great again and that we should build a wall around forest and jungle maps. Get them out of here. Moving swiftly on. Borderlands 2v or just chemo's and I'm one of these guys like this. I personally am having a good time with this but not so for a certain IGN reviewer who recently scored the game a whopping 3 out of 10. But that's fine because reviews are subjective. Everyone has an opinion. Anyone's entirely clear opinion. Well the reviewer in question turns out he lampooned things like not being able to jump or run or strafe and that you were forced to have blinders and of course if he actually just went to the sentence menu he could have disabled or unable to any of those things. The sentence is very comprehensive in that game. So this guy didn't even check the sentence for all these complaints and he put them into his review and he wrecked the game's score based on a lot of that. There were lies. Essentially basically even if they weren't intentionally lies they were he just filled that review with misinformation and he got paid to do that right. So I feel like IGN is certainly deserving of a lot of the flak that it's getting as a result of this review. Most noticeably from PSVR YouTuber and butcher of the English language, Polish Paul, he posted a thread over on Reddus after IGN pulled the review from their sites after the whole debacle ensued and they even pulled their score from Metacritic. But in that post on Reddit that Polish Paul made there was a comment from Dan Stapleton. He is the reviews editor over at IGN and I'll put it up on the screen and we can read it together because reading is fun. Hey everyone, IGN's reviews editor here. We're very sorry about this whole situation. It's never our intention to mislead our readers and viewers or misrepresent any developer's work. Obviously this reviewer was not careful enough in verifying his assumptions about Borderland 2 VR's movement and comfort options before writing his review. And we definitely don't want reviews based on incorrect information. As soon as the issues were brought to my attention last night I verified the problem and then pulled the review from the site and YouTube. The fact that this happened on a Friday evening made it difficult to pull it from everywhere at once and contacted Metacritic to have the score withdrawn. We started over with a different reviewer and hope to have a new factually accurate review up before the end of the coming week. Thanks for bearing with us. And I think IGN are dealing with this issue correctly. They've pulled the review from their sites and YouTube. They've withdrawn the score from Metacritic. They're getting a new person in to redo the review, hopefully right this time. And they also made an official statement about the whole thing over on their website which was pretty much the same thing as what Dan Stapleton posted on that Reddit thread. However, this should never have happened in the first place and the damage might already be done. I mean how many people who've seen the original review will actually go back and check the updated review or will even be aware that the original review was pulled in the first place? I'm guessing there'll be a lot of people who won't know anything about that at all and they'll just go by the original review. So I feel like if IGN had a dedicated viewer reviewer or at least some member of their team who actually had a bit of experience in the viewer department, this could have all been avoided in the first place. And we can only hope that the damage done to Borderland 2 viewer's reputation can recover. Speaking of review, I'm a professional reviewer. So last week, the good people over at Vertical Robots sent me a review code for Red Matter. So I checked it out. Red Matter is a VR first person puzzler game set on Ria, one of Saturn's moon. So the plot sees you working for a fictional country that is definitely not America and you're infiltrating a moon base belonging to another fictional country which is definitely not the Soviet Union. And your whole goal is to steal some sensitive information from this moon base. And that's all I'll say about the intriguing plot. I don't want to spoil anything for anyone. So the gameplay of Red Matter revolves around you using your two move controllers to unlock doors and gain access past security system in order to move deeper and deeper throughout this moon base. So the whole thing takes about three to four hours depending on how good you are at figuring out logic puzzles. And at a price point of around 30€ I found that the price was justifiable because I did enjoy the game itself. The visuals on show in Red Matter are on the high end of what you can expect to find on a PSVR game as well as the audio design and the voice acting. There are all of a high standard in my opinion. The puzzles themselves I find were generally met well for the majority of the game although I found towards the very end of the game the last couple of puzzles they were quite easy especially when you compare them to the puzzles that you could just complete it to get there. So maybe the puzzles were a bit unevenly designed maybe. My only other complaint then is that the movement took a bit of time to get used to. All your locomotion is controlled on one move controller including teleportation and stuff like that. And the movement itself felt a bit sluggish. I would have preferred if they went the roots of Skyrim and now Borderlands 2 with the way they do movement. You can get used to it. It's not a deal breaker. So overall I found Red Matter to be a highly enjoyable title and I'll give that a solid ace else of 10. Now speaking of solid, Namco demonetized my videos when they show Ace Combat 7. So Ace Combat 7 had some hands on previews lately and I want to focus on one that GameSpot did and they had high praise for the VOR portion of Ace Combat 7 that they got to try out. Now they did confirm that there was only three missions which is very disappointing as we all know but they still went into a bit of detail on how VOR works and how good it is. So Rob Handerly of GameSpot is the one who was playing Ace Combat 7 in VOR and he went on to say that it was one of the coolest VOR experiences that he ever had. Even though it did make him sick after playing this and even though he does claim to not suffer from motion sickness very much. So that's interesting. Now his co-worker pointed out that the fact that you're getting sick in Ace Combat kind of means that it's doing its job because if you were in the Pfizer Jazz in real life, if you were in the backseat of that thing and the pilot was spinning around and doing all this stuff you probably would feel a little bit queasy. That's not to say that everyone's going to be sick playing this or that there won't be comfort settings that'll sort that out or whatever but I think that sounds cool. I'm personally one of the people who never suffers from motion sickness so I'm very much looking forward to test in this house and see if it can do a number on me. So Rob went on to say that there were moments during his demo that it felt like an evolution of the flight sim genre and that PSVOR owners should be very excited. So that's a huge praise you know and especially seeing as it's coming from GameSpot. So it's great to see that these mainstream gaming outlets are covering these viewer aspects of these games and they're being positive about us. I'm very happy to see that always. Ace Combat 7 was one of my most anticipated games for 2018. Of course it slipped 2019 but it's early 2019. It's just a month away now at this point so we're very close, surprisingly close. It kind of snuck up on me so I hope you guys will be keeping an eye on that. I certainly will. What do you think about Ace Combat 7 Karen? Are you interested in flight sims? Excuse me I have to end this video right now but if you enjoyed this video then please consider doing all the usual shite to help me out. Thanks for watching and bye for now. I'll see you guys in the next one.