Overview
Candidates preparing for an interview can practise with an AI board at any hour in the Practice Studio, or book a real person. This page is about being that person. Students find you in the Studio's Real interviewer tab, filtered by the board they face, by language and by the kind of session. They book one of your open slots, their form (the DAF, the PIQ, their application profile) comes to you with the booking, and at the time you both join a video room with a shared whiteboard. Afterwards you fill in a scorecard on the criteria that board publishes, and it reaches the candidate as a report.
The interviews covered are the 75 the Studio knows the pattern of: the UPSC boards, every state commission that still interviews, the judicial services, banks, insurers and regulators, the SSB and the boards like it, PSU, BARC, ISRO and DRDO technical interviews, PhD and faculty interviews, B-schools, NID and NIFT, the US visa interview, and company interviews — Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Flipkart, startups, campus placements, consulting cases and product management. Each has a public page under Mock interviews, and so do you: once your profile is live it gets its own page, linked from every interview you take.
Signing up
- New to Tuition.in. On the sign-up page choose Interviewer. Interviewer is its own account type; you land in your interviewer console, on your profile.
- Already a tutor or an institute. You do not need a second account. Open Mock Interviews in your sidebar (under Schedule for a tutor, under Manage for an institute) and set up an interviewer profile from there.
- Signed in as a learner. Go to Join Tuition.in and choose Interview panellist. Your account becomes an interviewer account when you first save the profile.
Your console has four pages: the Dashboard (a setup checklist, the scorecards you owe and your next interviews), Sessions, Slots & Pricing and My Profile.
Your interviewer profile
The profile is what students choose you by. A live preview beside the form shows the exact card they will see.
- Name, headline and background. The headline is the one line that decides whether a candidate opens your profile: “Former member, State PSC interview board” says more than a list of degrees.
- Boards. The interviews you take. You only appear when a student filters for one of them.
- Languages. The languages you can conduct the interview in. Candidates sitting a Hindi-medium board look for this.
- Credentials. Each claim shows as Awaiting proof until our team has seen a document for it (a service order, an appointment letter, an alumni card), and then as a Verified badge on your card. Send the document by raising a support ticket with it attached; the team checks it and marks that one claim verified, and you are notified. You cannot mark your own claims verified.
- Your panel (optional). If colleagues sit with you, name them and their seat, so a candidate knows they are facing a board and not one person.
Publish puts you in the directory. It needs your name, a headline, at least one board, a language and at least one kind of session; until then the page lists what is still missing. Pause takes you out of the directory without touching interviews already booked.
Free, demo and paid sessions
You choose which kinds you offer, how long each runs and what the paid ones cost.
- Free session — 15 to 60 minutes. Each student gets one free interview per board every 30 days across all interviewers, so a free slot reaches candidates who mean it.
- Demo — 10 to 20 minutes, free or up to ₹199. A student can take one demo with you, to see how you work before booking a full interview.
- Full interview — 20 to 60 minutes, ₹99 to ₹20,000. The student pays when they book.
Opening slots
On Slots & Pricing, pick the kind of session, a date and a start time. A slot can be for one board or for any of yours. Repeat weekly adds the same slot for up to eight more weeks in one go.
- Your slots cannot overlap; one that would is skipped, and the page says which.
- Students can book a slot up to 15 minutes before it starts. You can keep up to 120 open slots at a time.
- Removing an open slot is instant. Removing a booked one cancels that candidate's interview; if they paid, they are refunded in full and told why.
For interviews with several rounds — a company's phone screen, loop and design rounds — the candidate chooses the round when they book, and your session and scorecard follow it. When a slot is booked you get a notification, and the interview appears under Sessions with the candidate's form and any note they left — the area they want pushed hardest, or the date of their real board. Read it before the day, the way a real board reads the DAF.
Packages and form reviews
Under Packages on the Slots & Pricing page you can sell two to ten full interviews at one price, and include a review of the candidate's form as a session of its own. You need paid interviews switched on, since candidates book your paid slots with the credits. Up to five packages can be on offer at once; withdrawing one never changes a package already bought.
- A package interview earns its share of the package price, less the fee, like any paid interview. It shows as Package credit in your sessions.
- A form review session shows as a DAF (or PIQ, or résumé) review. Instead of a scorecard you get the candidate's form line by line with a box for a note under each, then overall advice and the questions to prepare.
- If the candidate stops the package early, the interviews they had are charged at your single price and the rest is refunded to them; nothing you earned is taken back.
Running the interview
The room opens 10 minutes before the start: Open room on the session. You wait in a lobby where you can check your camera and microphone and read the candidate's form, then go in. The room stays open until 30 minutes after the booked end.
- Video tiles. You and the candidate. Any tile can be brought into focus, or switch to a grid.
- Whiteboard. Shared, with one pen. You start with it; hand it to the candidate when you want them to draw (“show me how you would organise the district”), and take it back after. When they ask for it, the pen button shows a red dot.
- Notes. Yours alone; the candidate never sees them. Useful for the follow-up you want to come back to.
- Code. In a coding round, a shared editor that opens in focus. You both see every keystroke and either of you can type — paste the problem in as a comment, and watch the candidate work. If you both type at once, the last change wins. What the candidate sees is in Coding, design & case rounds.
- Run, in the coding rounds whose real version runs code: the output shows to both of you.
- Mark this moment. Note something as it happens — “asked a sharp clarifying question” — and it appears in the candidate's report at that point in the interview.
- Side panel. The candidate's form, a guide to how this board runs and what it assesses, and the scorecard, so you can score as you go.
- If the candidate doesn't join, wait. Fifteen minutes after the start, Candidate didn't join appears on the session; the interview then counts as held and earns. Only someone who joined the room can report the other absent.
If the candidate agreed to a recording when they booked, the room shows REC and the interview is recorded for them to watch back. Only the candidate can see the recording.
The scorecard
The scorecard lists the criteria that board publishes — UPSC's seven qualities, the SSB's four factors, a bank panel's own list — so your marks land on the same scale as the candidate's AI boards and the two can be compared.
- Score each criterion from 0 to 10, in half steps, with a line on what you saw. At least three criteria must be scored.
- Add your remarks, the questions they should prepare before the real board, and what to fix.
- You can submit once the interview has started, and change it for 7 days after.
- For a company round, also give your call: strong hire, hire, no hire or strong no hire, as you would in a debrief. It leads the candidate's report.
Submitting completes the interview and tells the candidate their report is ready. It opens in their Practice Studio as a report, named as scored by you. After that they can rate you, and the rating and review appear on your profile.
Cancellations and refunds
- A candidate can cancel a free session or a demo any time before it starts.
- A paid interview cancelled by the candidate 24 hours or more ahead is refunded in full. Closer than that it is not refunded, because you kept the time, and it earns for you as if it had been held.
- If you cancel, by removing a booked slot, the candidate is always refunded in full.
- A slot a candidate cancels with 15 minutes or more to go opens again for others.
- A candidate can move a booking to another of your open slots up to 24 hours ahead, twice; you are told.
- Either side can report a problem until 7 days after the interview. While it is open, that interview's earning is held; the team decides from the room's record and both accounts.
Your Sessions page has a private calendar feed: add it to Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar and new bookings appear there by themselves. Each session also has Add to calendar, and you are reminded a day and an hour before.
Requests to publish
A candidate may ask to publish the transcript of an interview with you in the public library of mock interviews. It appears at the top of your Sessions page with the text as it would be published — your name and theirs taken out. Nothing goes up unless you agree, and the team reads it too. Decline and it stays private.
Earnings and payouts
Earnings in your console lists every paid interview with its price, the platform's fee and what you earn from it. An interview's earning counts once you have submitted its scorecard and is ready to pay out 7 days after the interview. Request sends everything ready, from ₹100, to your bank account by transfer, and you are notified with the bank reference when it is sent. The statuses, the bank account and what happens when a transfer fails are in Interviewer earnings & payouts.
Common questions
Why can't students find me?
Check three things: your profile is published (not paused), you have open slots in the next 30 days, and the student is filtering for a board you take.
Can a tutor or an institute take interviews without a new account?
Yes. Use Mock Interviews in your sidebar; your interviewer profile sits alongside your tutor or institute profile.
Do I have to use the scorecard?
Yes. It is what the candidate booked you for, and until it is in, the session shows under “scorecards due” on your dashboard.
What does the candidate see of my notes?
Nothing. They see your scorecard: the scores, your comments, remarks, questions to prepare and fixes.