Qualities desired from an aspiring MPPSC Interview Aspirant
Interview: What is expected from a Candidate?
The panel asks questions from the detailed application form (DAF) of the candidates. The questions will be on the candidate’s place of birth, hobbies, and issues of the home state, current national issues, and more. The members of the
panel observe how the candidate responds to each question. One needs to prepare questions on personal likings and home state very well.
The panel assesses whether the candidate is well versed with the socio-economic challenges in Madhya Pradesh. One should be acquainted with an appropriate level of knowledge about history, culture and other such aspects related to
Madhya Pradesh.
The candidates should not spend their time memorising facts and figures. Rather, it is suggested that they spend time knowing the other side of any issue. They should take a balanced approach to every issue rather than a parochial
approach. For State Service like PCS, one needs to be well acquainted with current developments in the State so as to fit in the requirements of State PCS Officers.
Qualities desired from the candidates
Qualities that demonstrate the ability of planning and problem solving:
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Effective Intelligence: This is the ability of a person to evolve solutions to practical problems. It is different from basic intelligence which is measured using the intelligence tests (Verbal and Non-Verbal). In
EI the assessor wants to see if you can solve day to day problems and cope with minor difficulties of daily life.
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Reasoning Ability: It is the ability of a person to grasp a given situation and arrive at a conclusion by rational thinking. In RA the assessors are looking for you receptivity, inquiring attitude, logical reasoning
and the ability to see the essentials of a problem.
- Organizing Ability: It is the ability to use resources systematically to produce effective results. In OA, the assessors are interested in seeing how you use the various resources to produce results.
- Power of Expression: It is the ability to put across one’s ideas adequately and with ease and clarity.
Qualities that demonstrate the ability of social adjustment:
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Social Adaptability: It is the ability of a person to adapt himself to the social environment and adjust well with persons and social groups. The assessor is interested in your abilities to adapt to the members of
the group, how you interact with them, with the assessor, are you tactful in your dealings with other etc.
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Cooperation: It is the attitude of an individual to participate willingly and in harmony with others in a group achieving the group goal. It is important to be a team player and one must not be selfish the group aim
and objectives should be most important as compared to individual aims and objectives. The assessors will be keen on seeing your team attitude.
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Sense of Responsibility: It is the thorough understanding of the values of duty, social standard and of what is expected of an individual and then giving it his energy and attention on own accord. The assessorsare
keen on knowing if you understand your duty as a child/student/citizen of a country and do you have a right sense of what is the social standard and know what is expected of you as an individual, and then do give your best energy
and attention towards it without anybody having to remind you or tell you.
Qualities that demonstrate the capabilities of Social effectiveness
- Initiative: It is the ability to originate an action. The assessors see if you take the lead in the right direction and sustain it till the result is achieved.
- Self Confidence: It is the faith in your own abilities to meet stressful and unfamiliar situations.
- Speed of Decision: It is the ability to arrive a workable decision quickly. There are two components of this, namely appropriateness of the decision and quickness in arriving at the decision.
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Ability to Influence the Group: It is the ability of a person to influence others in the group to achieve the objectives set by him/her. What is seen is, if you can convince others to do things willingly that you
want them to do without the use of any force.
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Liveliness: It is capacity of a person to remain calm and cheerful when faced with difficulties, and bring about a cheerful atmosphere in the group. What is seen is, if you get unduly worried or disturbed when faced
with difficult situations.
Role of mock interviews
“Mock interviews are like study sessions that build your ability to perform well and boost your confidence.”
What is a Mock Interview?
A typical mock interview is a practice interview held with a professional career counsellor or group of experts related or experienced in that particular field. A mock interview helps you learn how to answer difficult questions, develop
interview strategies, improve your communication skills, and reduce your stress before an actual interview.
How to Prepare for a Mock Interview?
- Be sure to take your mock interview as seriously as you would as actual interview. Get ready for the interview just as you would for an interview with an actual interviewer.
- Bring a notebook to take notes on what your mock interviewer tells you. Prepare in professional interview attire.
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You should also prepare answers to general interview questions before arriving. If you have a mock interview to prepare for a specific career field like civil services, one should carefully contemplate upon various aspects to give
his/ her best attemps in the actual interview.
Benefits of mock interviews
Practice before the actual test
The more you practice the various scenarios you could encounter on the interview day, the more you will be prepared. You’ll be able to show off all the research you’ve done on the service because you’ll know the information inside and
out. Instead of being startled by unusual interview questions, you’ll have an answer ready because you’ll already have heard them during the mock interview. You will also have plenty of time to practice consistent eye contact and
positive body language, as well as display confidence and enthusiasm.
Calming the nerves
MPPSC interview are stress-inducing. Under pressure, it’s a lot harder to present your best self. There are several tricks to help you calm your nerves, but none will serve you as well as solid knowledge, preparation and practice, Mock
interviews give you the opportunity to shake out those jitters during several practice runs.
Valuable feedback provide insights for improvement
When you play a role with someone who understands you, the position you want, and the industry you hope to enter, you can receive helpful feedback about what you’re doing right or wrong. Take that feedback and hone your interview
skills. Mock interviews with trained career specialists can be particularly valuable because they can give you tips on what hiring professionals in your field may be looking for, ways you can prepare, how to handle your nerves, and best
practices in following-up after an interview.
Confidence booster before the actual interview
Have you ever done well on an exam because you knew the material? Mock interviews are like study sessions that build your ability to perform well and boost your confidence. Studies suggest that the power of positive thinking and
self-confidence help aspirants to do better in interviews.
Questions to ponder
LIST OF MUST PREPARE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION QUESTIONS:
- Tell us briefly about yourself.
- Tell us about your hometown.
- What is the meaning of your name (First name/surname)?
- Tell us about your family
- Tell us about your friends
To answer questions related to self-introduction in Civil services interview, which is open-ended and straightforward, aspirants should prepare 30-40 second coherent responses. These questions are merely setting a baseline i.e. the
eminent MPPSC board will use the information you give to ask follow-up questions.
Questions on residence
QUESTIONS ON RESIDENCE:
- Tell us about the home state/district.
- The reason behind the name of state/district/city
- What are the achievements of your home state/district?
- Is there any law and order problem? If any, what are possible solutions
- Places you or your parents originally belong to. Is it different from where you are born and brought up?
- What are the differences & similarities?
- Any Historical significance of the region?
This may be the starting point of a candidate’s interview. For example, if you are from Bhopal, you may be asked about the historical significance of the city or name of few famous MPs from Bhopal.
Questions on background of parents/guardians
- Job profile, education background.
- What did you learn from them?
- How they motivated you in your preparation/life?
- Which subjects did you study during school/graduation and do you think they are relevant to life in administration?
- Which subject was your favourite/least favourite?
- Why did you choose ‘xyz’ college/school?
- Name of the school/college, any specific reason/history
- What kind of projects did you do during school/graduation/PG?
- Would you call yourself an average student? why?
- About marks obtained – why so high or low?
The basic educational qualification for the MPPSC exam is graduation. The questions in the MPPSC interview may be oriented towards your graduation subject or the latest trends in the same. However, if you dont’s know the answer to a
particular question, then trying to bluff your way out is not advised. It’s better to be humble and truthful.
Questions on current affairs
- What are today's headlines?
- Health & Nutrition
- Education
- Energy
- Economics
- Policies, Schemes & Social welfare
- Social structure/Social Issues
- Agriculture
- Bilateral and International Relations etc.
- Few important issues in the news about India/your state/your hometown in the last few months
Reading newspapers and following the daily news is important from the MPPSC Interview perspective as well. Try to avoid giving one-dimensional opinion/information unless the question is relatively straightforward. (E.g. what does the
term Petrodollars mean?)
Knowledge-based questions
Knowledge-based questions are the crucial parts that are asked to judge your awareness in the field. For instance, if you are an aspirant of MPPSC, you must be well aware of the job profile and central government policies. Few such
questions are listed below:
- When was the Indian constitution adopted?
- What do you know about DSP, SDM posts and duties?
- What is the role of the Central and State Government in recruitment, training, and service of Bureaucrats?
Questions on work profile
- Why do you want to become a Civil Service officer?
- Why do you want to leave your present job/why are you not satisfied with your present job?
- What do you expect from government service that you might get?
- What is your service preference? State reasons
Be prepared to answer questions about any gaps in your work history and how your previous experience is going to help in your career as an administrator.
Questions of hobbies
Sports and Hobbies in General:
- What is the origin of a particular sport?
- Explain the rules of the sport?
- Famous personalities that you like or know?
- What did you learn from it?
- You are a sportsperson. You come from a sports school. You have been doing sports regularly. Tellus, what according to you are the problems in Sports in India?
- Why do we need politicians heading the sports administration? Do we need that? Why not sportspersons?
- Khelo India Programme (KIP). Why do we need it?
- Do you know about some cricketers who have made some ugly comments at some show?
- So tell me why such comments. Do we need to book them for such kind of acts?
- India performed very badly in international sports. What are reasons?
- How psychological support is helpful in sports?
- Issues of drugs in sports?
- What is the difference between NCC and NSS?
- What is the head of NCC called? Who is his equivalent in Army?
- What is the personality development? And how would you develop personality especially through sports?
- What are all the activities you have done in NSS? What are all the precautions required in blood donation camp?
- Did you follow commonwealth games? What are the reasons for girls winning many medals?
- Tell me whether IPL is beneficial for the sport or not? Advance your viewpoints pro and against this?
- What is the reason for so much league cricket?
- You have many hobbies related to arts and literature. How do you assess the latest government efforts to promote arts?
- Name some culture promoting institutes? What do they do?
- Do you think the efforts by government in arts promotion are enough?
- If you’re in charge of sports department in your state, what steps will you take to promote sports?
- How can we revive sports like Kabaddi and kho-kho?
- Why does India not fare well in sports? What are basic issues which lead to such poor condition of sports in India?
- You are a good sport man. Tell me difference between team games and individual games?
- What lessons you have learnt from team games?
- Why today people not listening to classical music and dances?
- Are classical arts like music and dances dying?
- You do jogging, trekking, fitness. What do you understand by health? What do you think is the health condition in India? Do you know the number of children who are malnourished?
- How to convince people so they don’t protest against nuclear plants?
Meditation/Yoga:
- What is meditation? Why is it necessary?
- What are the various kinds of meditation and which one do you practice?
- What are the benefits of meditation?
- What is the relation between meditation and spirituality?
- Should meditation and Yoga be made part of the educational curriculum in schools and colleges?
- How is meditation different/same as Yoga?
- How will it help you with services?
- What is yoga?
- What is the Vipassana?
- You have read Sanskrit- how the word Vipassana has originated? How you do the Vipassana?
- Who is the founder of Yoga? What was his Ashtanga principles?
- Compare yoga with other physical exercises
- What are the 7 chakras and the 3 Nadis?
- Vivekananda talked about Gnana Yoga. What is it?
- Will you suggest meditation as a solution to mental health issues?
- You have done Vipassana meditation. How is it different from other meditations? Who taught Vipassana?
- Do you find any difference between yoga you practiced as a child and now?
- How did declaration of Yoga day contributed to world?
- Since you are practicing yoga and meditation, tell what is mindfulness?
- You do Vipassana. You are too young to do that. Why do you do it?
- But people get happiness from many things, some dance, some smoke. How is this different?
- Is Vipasanna your academic interest or you just practice it? What you get from practicing it?
- How Vipassana will help you in administration?
- If Vipasanna teaches you to remain neutral to external stimulants then how will you react to corruption situation?
- What is difference between Dhyan and Ekagrata?
- What do you mean by Vipassana?
- Is it possible for an administrator to remain detached during work?
- What is Rajyoga Meditation? Why it is called Rajyoga? From where did you learn it?
- Do you think in today’s scientific scenario there is place for Spiritualism?
- Have you seen lifestyle of people who teach Yoga? They live in such a grand manner, even their seminars are organized in Five Star Hotels, Don’t you think there is difference in what they preach and what they practice?
- These people show pictures like a person’s hand is cut for lying in one imaginary world where so called god punishes, what is the relevance of such things for an educated person like you?
- What is the difference between Kapalbhati and Bhastrika?
- What is Mandukasana?
- Which Mantra you recite before and after Yoga?
- What is Sudarshan Kriya?
- How yoga helps you? How much time you spent on Sudarshan Kriya?
- Name the some Yoga gurus in India.
- What is yoga? Explain different types of Yoga and Pranayama.
- Is there any limitation that who can perform Pranayama?
- What is Sahaja yoga?
- What benefits you got there after joining Art of Living course?
- What is the difference between yoga and meditation?
- How meditation helps you? When you started doing meditation?
- Why you do Meditation?
- You are an fitness enthusiast, what you do to keep yourself fit?
- How many asanas are there in Surya Namaskar? How many steps are there and name them?
- Is Surya Namaskar related to other religion also? Name the similar asanas in that religion if there is any.
- What is the difference between yoga and gyming?
- Which slogan is used in Surya Namaskar?
- What do you do for chest, shoulder exercise?
- What is the benefit of Surya-namaskar?
- When is yoga Day? What is the relevance of it?
- What is the difference between Yog and Yoga?
- What is mindfulness meditation?
- How did it help you in becoming a better person?
- Yoga and diplomacy: does yoga diplomacy has any economic benefits for India?
- Are Yoga summits good for promoting yoga?
- Who was Patanjali? Tell us about his works.
- What are Aasan, Pranayama, Mudra and other aspects of yoga?
- How did you learn Yoga?
- What is the effect of Yoga on mind, body and physiology?
- How is Yoga different from physical exercises, aerobics etc?
- Tell us about International Yoga Day. What was slogan/theme of this year’s Yoga Day?
- What is Yoga? Tell about origin of Yoga.
- What is effect of Yoga on mind, body and physiology?
- Yoga is being made into a commodity for sale. Comment on it.
- You have written Yoga as hobby, so I will ask you two asanas, tell me benefits of Bhujangasan and Shalabhasan?
- How did you start doing meditation?
- What is vipassana? What have you learnt? Why at such young age? Would you consider yourself as a spiritual person?
- How many times you went to Vipassana and where?
- What type of meditation you practice?
- You heard about vipassana, transcendental meditation, etc. how are they different? Why should one practice one over the other?
- Since you are spiritual, define IQ,EQ, SQ.
- How Meditation will help you in civil services?
Practice Questions
- What are the various kinds of meditation and which one do you practice?
- What are the benefits of meditation?
- What is the relation between meditation and spirituality?
- Should meditation and yoga be made part of the educational curriculum in schools and colleges?
- Who was Patanjali? Tell us about his works.
- What are Aasan, Pranayama, Mudra and other aspects of yoga?
- How did you learn Yoga?
- What is the effect of Yoga on mind, body and physiology?
- How is Yoga different from physical exercises, aerobics etc?
- Tell us about International Yoga Day. What was slogan/theme of this year’s Yoga Day?
Reading:
- What do you write? (Poetry, prose, etc.) In which language do you write?
- What do you like to read mostly?
- Who is your favourite author? Why?
- Which is your favourite book?
- What is the difference between a sonnet and a ballad?
- What do you think of regional writing in India?
- What do you think of Indian writers in English?
- Tell us something about the ancient poets through the ages in India (ancient, medieval, etc.)
- Can you talk about the role of poets in the Indian freedom struggle?
Painting/ Sketching
- What kind of painting do you do? (oil, watercolour, fabric, etc.)
- What is the difference between painting, drawing and sketching?
- Know about famous painters. (Picasso, Monet, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Hussain, Raza etc.)
- What are the different art movements? (Impressionism, fauvism, cubism, realism, romanticism, etc.)
- Tell us your opinion on artistic freedom of expression? What do you think of censorship?
- What measures can be taken to promote art in India?
- How did it originate?
- Why did you choose it as a hobby?
- Why didn’t you pursue your hobby as a career?
- Mughals contribution to painting.
- When was miniature painting introduced.
- So you do abstract painting? What does abstract mean?
- Name any famous abstract painter?
Practice Questions
- What kind of painting you do? (Oil, water colour, fabric, etc.)
- What is the difference between painting, drawing, and sketching?
- Tell us about the famous painters like Picasso, Monet, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Hussain, Raza, etc.
- What are the different art movements like impressionism, fauvism, cubism, realism, romanticism?
- Tell us your opinion on artistic freedom of expression? What do you think of censorship?
- What measures can be taken to promote art in India?
- What is water colors painting?
- What has contributed to sudden resurgence in the demand and price of Indian art? Is there a sudden change in Indian art or is it merely a perceptional shift?
- Why don’t you opt it as profession?
Music/Dance
- What is your favourite style of dance?
- Who is your favourite singer/dancer?
- Is classical music/dance declining?
- What do you think is the main difference between Hindustani and Carnatic classical music?
- Is Bollywood music/hip-hop culture overwhelming every other form of music in India today?
- Tell us something about music therapy.
- Evolution of music/dance.
- What is the State of folk music/dance in India today?
Dramatics
- What are the different forms of theatre?
- What do you know about the history of theatre in India?
- Which states in India have been traditional bastions of theatre?
- Know about NSD, Sangeet Natak Akademi, etc.
- Do you think theatre can survive the onslaught of films?
- Name a few eminent theatre personalities.
- What to you know about Bharatas Nratyashastra?
- What is the contribution of dramatics to the movie industry?
Playing Cricket
- Tell me about new development in cricket.
- Learning from cricket & use in admin.
- Who is the leading wicket taker in test cricket?
- Since you are interested in Cricket, what will you see in two players to be selected across all formats of the game?
- Cricket is very popular (hobby), how can we make other sports also popular?
- How does a cricket bowl spin?
- Compare Sachin Tendulkar and Virat kohli?
- What is the principal behind swing ball? How to bowl reverse swing? What is Ball tempering controversy?
- You play cricket, do you support women’s IPL?
- Why everyone is saying that IPL is spoiling Cricket?
- According to you, who is the best leg spinner in the world and in India?
- The sports movies which you have watched?
- What is googly? How to identify googly and off brake? What is Chinaman?
- Is IPL good for India? Should BCCI be exempted from tax liabilities? Don’t you think tax exemption amounts to wastage of taxpayers’ money?
- Do you watch IPL? Is it helping for improving Indian cricket? Don’t you think it is monopolizing cricket? What is role of TV in it?
- Tell me field positions in cricket.
- Who won recent IPL and who is the owner?
- Should we ban IPL as there are many malpractices in game?
- What law apply during bowling?
- Why BCCI is against the UDRS?
- Why cricket is getting much focus than other games?
- Why BCCI was against DRS? How does “Hot spot” technology work? Why no “Hot spot” technology in India?
- What is the size of Cricket pitch?
- What is the difference between captainship in ODI cricket and test cricket?
- Name the recent biopic on cricket.
- Tell us about recent changes in test cricket.
- What do you think about T20? Is it necessary or not?
- Why pink ball used in day-night Test match? Are day-night tests necessary?
- How cricket pitch is related to soil deformation?
- What is difference between spin and swing?
- Why cricket is regarded as a religion in India?
- Is IPL good for cricket? Do you think it facilitates corruption in the game?
- How many matches are there in recent India-S.A. series?
- Where did the Cricket originate?
- Why do the fast bowler have long run-up?
- Why do you watch cricket matches?
- Do you still play cricket?
- What have you gained after watching so many matches?
- Which technology is used to measure the speed of ball in a cricket match?
- Tell us about winners of recent BCCI awards.
- You play cricket, so are you a batsman, bowler or all rounder?
- What is India’s rank in Test Cricket, ODI and T20?
- What are the standard dimensions of cricket bat, ball, stump?
- Who is CEO of BCCI?
- Is better talent being left out during the cricket team selection?
- What is in-swing and out-swing in cricket?
- What is your view on women’s cricket? Who is the women cricketer who made a difference in semifinal in women’s world cricket?
- What all are the issues related to BCCI?
- Indian cricket team is on a winning spree and people say it’s because of the captain, What do you think?
- What is a chinaman bowler?
- Which is number one T20 term in the world?
- Should India and Pakistan play cricket?
- Do you think Lodha committee recommendation were implementable?
- Have you heard of “Duckworth Lewis”? How does it calculate target for team batting second?
- Tell us about Lodha Committee on BCCI Reforms? Who is he?
- Who is present Chairman of IPL?
- Name the present members of Committee of Administrators of BCCI. Who is its chairman?
- Tell us about Women’s Cricket World Cup.
- Why women’s cricket is not popular in India?
- Who is captain of Indian women’s cricket team?
- Tell us about recent achievements of Jhulan Goswami.
- Which team/player is your favourite? Why?
- What is your opinion about match fixing?
- Should betting be legalised or not?
- Tell us about recent changes in ICC financial rules?
- Why India dominates in ICC?
- Should India play cricket with Pakistan?
- Tell us about recent tournaments, Champions Trophy.
- What are upcoming series in cricket?
- Who is present coach of Indian men’s and women’s cricket team?
- Is cricket hampering other sports growth?
- Where next ICC ODI world cup will be held?
- Should politicians barred as cricket administrators? Why?
- Tell us about 100 ball cricket.
- Which form of cricket do you like and why?
- Why test cricket is losing popularity?
- Can you tell me what is the maximum runs a batsmen can score in a T20 match hypothetically (no extras counted)?
- T-20 cricket is seen as graveyard of bowlers. Do you agree?
- What is difference between Chinaman and googly?
- Tell me about day and night test match?
- Why pink ball is used?
- What are the security issues in day and night test match?
- You follow cricket, tell me what are the technologies used in cricket?
- How does bails flash? What is the technology used in it? How is it connected?
- Tell me the skills needed for a cricket player?
- Do u think cricket is a game of chance or skill?
- Tell me about Sledging. In IPL players from different nationalities are playing together, tell me its impact on their international games vis- a-vis sledging.
Practice Questions
- Tell us about Lodha Committee on BCCI Reforms? Who is he?
- Who is present Chairman of IPL?
- Name the present members of Committee of Administrators of BCCI. Who is its chairman?
- Tell us about Women’s Cricket World Cup.
- Why women’s cricket is not popular in India?
- Who is captain of Indian women’s cricket team?
- Tell us about recent achievements of Jhulan Goswami.
- Which team/player is your favourite? Why?
- What is your opinion about match fixing?
- Should betting be legalised or not?
- Tell us about recent changes in ICC financial rules?
- Why India dominates in ICC?
- Should India play cricket with Pakistan?
- Tell us about recent tournaments, Champions Trophy.
- What are upcoming series in cricket?
- Who is present coach of Indian men’s and women’s cricket team?
- Is cricket hampering other sports growth?
- Where next ICC ODI world cup will be held?
- Should politicians barred as cricket administrators? Why?
Cooking
- What do you cook?
- If you want to put a hoarding in your village to convince people to come and have food there. What will be the tagline you will use?
- What is the food culture of Pune?
- What are the Issues of adulteration and spurious products?
- Which agency is responsible for food standards? Can it punish offenders?
- How do consumers choose which food products to buy? What is behind the rapid rise of Patanjali products? Are consumers easily swayed by advertisements?
- You have mentioned food as one of your interests. Cooking or eating?
- Where did you cook?
- What do you cook?
- Which types of dishes you like to cook?
- How to cook one of the South Indian dish?
- How do you cook Daal Baati?
- You cook vegetarian,is it only because you eat only veg or something else?
- In what dishes you are good at?
- How will cooking help you in administration/ life?
- What is important – taste or presentation or nutrition?
- Tell us something about the specialty of cuisines of your region/state.
- Tell us about the influence of western cooking in Indian cuisine.
- Can you prescribe me a balanced diet?
- Can you tell us about the latest technology in the food industry?
- What are the different methods of cooking?
- Why are Western food and Chinese food so popular in India, but Indian food is not becoming so popular in western countries?
- What is a good calorie intake for a human being?
- What is your favorite dish?
- What is your opinion on packaged/processed food? What is FSSAI?
- Tell us about Maggi controversy.
- What shall be the optimum cooking temperature?
- How can the problem of malnutrition in India be tackled?
- Tell us something about the Mid-Day Meal scheme.
- Differentiate between baking/frying/roasting/poaching.
- How did you develop this hobby of cooking?
Practice Questions
- Tell us about the influence of western cooking in Indian cuisine.
- What is important – taste or presentation or nutrition?
- Tell us something about the specialty of cuisines of your region/state.
- How will cooking help you in administration/ life?
- Can you prescribe me a balanced diet?
- Can you tell us about the latest technology in the food industry?
- What are the different methods of cooking?
- Why are Western food and Chinese food so popular in India, but Indian food is not becoming so popular in western countries?
- What is a good calorie intake for a human being?
- What is your favorite dish?
- What is your opinion on packaged/processed food? What is FSSAI?
- Tell us about Maggi controversy.
- What shall be the optimum cooking temperature?
- How can the problem of malnutrition in India be tackled?
- Tell us something about the Mid-Day Meal scheme.
- Differentiate between baking/frying/roasting/ poaching.
Watching Movie/TV/Soaps/ Programmes of Different Genre
- Do you watch movies? Which one is your favorite? What did it teach you? (hobby documentaries)
- You watch movies.. what would a movie about gender equality include?
- Which is your favorite TV series?
- What is this Aerobat gaming?
- Do you think gaming can be used for teaching or it is just a waste of time?
- Is it good to make fun of people in stand-up comedy? How does stand-up comedy help?
- What is meaning of short film?
- What kind of genre you watch?
- You have also mentioned about a film-making competition, tell us about it. How many members were there in your team? How did you divide the work? What was your role?
- Where do you watch standup comedy?
- Who is your favorite standup comedian?
- Tell me lessons you have learned from 2 Bollywood & 2 Hollywood movies?
- What do you mean by critically acclaimed movies? Say some examples.
- Do you know the film which was nominated to OSCAR last year? Tell me name of the Director and the language of the film?
- Your hobby is rapping, tell me the recent movie, its actors, director and producer.
- Do you rap? Would you be comfortable in doing one right now? (Rapped for 2 minutes).
- So your name has both Arjun and Mohan (correlating to Mahabharata). And your hobby is documentary making. So if you are going to make a film on Mahabharata which character will you choose to make about. Why?
- When you make films on mythology, there is a chance that public may protest against you. What will you do then? If you are a civil servant how will you face such a situation?
- Freedom of speech has reasonable restriction. How will you apply these in films?
- Which movie you liked most in last one year. Provide reason for it.
- Have you watched Adoors movies?
- The mode of distribution and release of films and documentaries changed a lot. How and why?
- Which technology according to you brought huge change in film industry? Why?
- Who do you think is the real hero in the movie? I said the father of the two girls. Asked to justify it.
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- Don’t you think the girls were the real hero?
- Don’t you think the father did everything for his personal ambition?
- Make a case for the mother being the real hero in the movie.
- What is web series? How to check its authenticity? What is copy righted and copy lefted?
- Which kind of movies do you watch?
- Name your favorite movie and give reasons.
- How online platforms like Netflix etc. are influencing movie watching experience?
- Who are your favorite actors?
- What is parallel cinema?
- Why Hindi movies do not win Oscar despite bollywood being the biggest film industry?
- What are your views about censorship in India?
- Which two movies you watched recently?
- What type of movies do you watch generally, what kind of genre?
- Difference between Art films and commercial films.
- Can mainstream directors produce art films and become successful?
- Have you watched Article 15? What was it about? Was it based on real story? Should we show such movies? Are they authentic? Don’t they portray our country in bad light?
- What is role of social movie on society?
- Tell me about Movies based on cricket
- Is there an actor in India trying to do socially relevant movie through comical approach ?
- Do You know Satyajit Ray? Tell me his movies. What is his contribution ?
- Do you know Charlie Chaplin? Why is he adored ?
- Netflix and other digital platforms currently seem to be crossing the line in terms of content that they are bringing up. What is your thought on it? Should there be regulation on content?
- What is that line crossing which would amount to violations of content ethics? How do you select a movie for watching
Playing Volleyball
- Tell us about Volleyball game.
- Draw Volleyball ground and explain rotation. What is Libero?
- Tell something about current happenings and rule change in Volleyball.
- How many players each team have in beach volleyball?
Practice Questions
- How much time do you spend practicing Volleyball?
- How did you first get interested in Volleyball?
- Describe the teamwork involved in Volleyball.
- How many players are on a court and what are their jobs?
- How many points do you need to win?
- Tell us the name of famous volleyball players.
- What are the terms used in volleyball game?
- Why it is not popular in India?
- Is there any sporting association for Volleyball in India? Name if any.
Playing Chess
- You also play chess have you ever played at some state or national level? You Have Got some medals?
- Do you know some of the chess players from India?
- Name some attacking openings in chess.
- Name any chess-player from India. What is his world ranking?
- Who is the number one at present?
- What is castling in chess?
- How many queens can be in a game of chess?
- Who are the famous chess players in the world (men and women)?
- Why chess board have sixty four square blocks?
- Name some famous chess players?
- Where the game of chess originated?
- Tell us about FIDE.
- How many times Viswanathan Anand won the World Championship?
- Magnus Carlsen belongs to which country?
- Why Russians dominate in Chess?
- Tell us some terms used in chess.
- What is a Zwischenzug?
- Have you seen web series Queen’s Gambit?
- What did you learn from this web series?
- What is the name of protaganist?
- Why did she loose against Russian player in the Paris?
Practice Questions
- Where the game of chess originated?
- Tell us about FIDE.
- How many times Viswanathan Anand won World Championship?
- From which country Magnus Carlsen belongs?
- Why Russians dominate in Chess?
- Tell us some terms used in chess.
- What is a Zwischenzug?
Table Tennis/Lawn Tennis
- Tell me the greatest tennis player ever?
- Tell me 3 great names and compare.
- Who is the top Indian male player at the moment?
- What are grand slams?
- Name the major grand slams and the type of courts.
- Why is lawn tennis not very famous in India?
- Why do you think is the best Indian singles player?
- How would you promote lawn tennis in India?
- Are Indians physically weak for games like lawn tennis?
- What is the weight of tennis ball?
- What material is tennis ball made of?
Practice Questions
- Who have won recent Grandslam tennis men’s and women’s singles title?
- Who has won maximum number of Grandslams?
- Why India is dominating in doubles game in Tennis but not in Singles?
- Name some famous tennis players from India.
- Which Grand slam is oldest in the world?
- Tell us about types of court in tennis.
- What are specifications of a tennis court?
Playing Football
- Why Football is not as popular as Cricket in India?
- What is Hand of God?
- Tell something about Lionel Messi, Maradona, Cristiano Ronaldo.
- What is difference between football, soccer and Rugby?
- So your hobby is football why is India not able to win in olympics?
- If infrastructure is not there in rural areas how is north east performing well?
- Do tall players possess any inherit advantage in football?
- What are the attributes of good Centre Back?
- What is the science behind football manufacturing?
- How many hexagons and pentagons on football?
- What is complete football?
- Who is your favourite footballer?
- Do you know the signature move of Pele?
- What is futsal?
- Difference between football and futsal.
- Linkage between shrinking playing space and popularity of futsal.
- Why football? Enlighten me on the future of football in India
- What role does it play in the society?
- Why Football is not as popular as Cricket in India?
- What is Hand of God?
- Tell something about Lionel Messi, Maradona, Cristiano Ronaldo.
- What is difference between football, soccer and Rugby?
- So your hobby is football why is India not able to win in olympics?
- If there is no infrastructure in rural areas how is north east performing well?
- Do tall players possess any inherent advantage in football?
- What are the attributes of good Centre Back?
- What is the science behind football manufacturing?
- How many hexagons and pentagons on football?
- What is complete football?
- Who is your favourite footballer?
- Do you know the signature move of Pele?
- What is futsal?
- Difference between football and futsal.
- Linkage between shrinking playing space and popularity of futsal.
- What are dimension of football field?
- What is status of football in India and how it can be improved?
- What are various government initiative to promote football?
- Tell me about Pele and his health and financial issues.
- What is India’s current rank in football?
- Can you name Some states known for football?
- What is Swami vivekananda’s quote about football?
- Your hobby is Football, so which club do you support?
- So, currently what is their standing in PL Table.
- You follow premier league football , which teams you follow?
- Who is liverpool coach?
- Who is tottenham coach now and before?
- Who is man city coach now and before?
- What is the status of Barcelona in European league?
Practice Questions
- Since when you follow football and have you ever played football?
- Which Club you follow?
- What is full form of FIFA? Where its headquarters located?
- Who is chairman of FIFA? From which country he belongs?
- Recently, an Indian jurist joined FIFA governing body. Name that person.
- What is the standard size of football ground?
- Who won last FIFA World Cup? Who was runner- up? What was final score in that match?
- Where next FIFA World Cup to be held?
- What is current rank of India in FIFA ranking?
- Who has won recent Ballon d’or Award?
- Why football is so popular in South America continent?
- Name some famous Indian football players.
Playing Basketball
- At what level have you played basketball?
- Why Basketball is not famous in our country?
- What shall we do to promote Basketball?
- Tell 5 famous players of basketball.
- Have you tried playing basketball for Indian railways basketball team?
- What teams have you played for?
- Recently, a mishappening struck the basketball community. What was the tragedy?
Practice Questions
- Tell us about specifications of basketball court.
- What are the terms used in basketball?
- Why taller players are preferable in this game?
- Why is it not famous in India?
- Name some famous basketball players.
- Is there any sporting association for basketball in India? Name the organisation if any.
Swimming /Rafting/Paragliding
- Do you swim? Which principles apply while swimming? Explain them?
- Which is your favorite swimming style and what is your best time?
- Name some famous swimmers from India as well as abroad.
- Why India is not able to generate top swimmers?
- What is the Swimming pool size in Olympics?
Practice Questions
- What are the types of swimming?
- Who is Michael Phelps? How many medals he has won in Olympics?
- Name famous Indian players in swimming.
- Where is English Channel? It connects which countries?
- Why swimming is easier in oceans than in rivers?
Bike Riding
- What is this bike riding for a cause?
- What causes you have promoted?
- Which bike do you own? What is the capacity(cc) of the bike?
- What is your riders group name?
- Where do you assemble in the city? Doesn’t it create traffic problem for others?
- At what speed do you ride?
- 40-50Kms in a 373cc bike?
- When you are alone you ride 80-100kms? What is the speed limit on highways? Is that a highway or Express way in Bangalore? Are there no highway patrol controlling speed there?
- What are the equipments used for riding?
- Why don’t you wear a rider jacket?
Playing Kabaddi
- Is there any future of Kabaddi in India?
- Name the platforms Kabaddi has right now?
- Tell us about Pro-Kabbadi League and Kabaddi World Cup.
- Which sport similar to Kabaddi is famous in Maharashtra?
Practice Questions
- What are the terms used in Kabaddi?
- Tell us about specification of court used in Kabaddi.
- How many players are in the game of Kabaddi?
- What is India’s rank in Kabaddi?
- Where the last Kabaddi World Cup held?
Squash
- Top players in squash?
- Which country dominated squash?
Playing Hockey
- Why is Indian Hockey lacking?
- Do you think the style of Indian Hockey need to be changed as the game is changing on the international stage?
Ted Talk
- Which areas of ted talks you watch generally?
- Can you tell me about a talk that you liked?
- What is the procedure to give TED talks?
- You might be having lot of ideas to give Ted talks, share some ideas.
Hockey
- Why cricket dominate Indian sports?
- Why Hockey lost it’s popularity?
- What are other sports that has potential in your state?
- As a Sports secretary how will you promote sports?
- What is Khelo India and Fit India movement?
Following F1 Motorsport
- Can you tell me which Indian company currently has an F1 team (humbly told that it’s Formula E and not F1)?
- What is the current scenario of F1 in India?
- Any prominent Indian racers?
- Whats the future of F1 in India?
Puppetry
- Types of puppetry in South East Asia?
- No one watches it anymore, what is the future like?
Writing Letters to Editor of Newspaper
- How many letters published till now?
- Which letter you wanted to get published but it is not published?
Bharat Scouts and Guides
- You were in Bharat Scouts and Guides. What they do?
- What are all the activities you took part as a scout?
- How do you think scout movement can help the society?
Graphology
- Define it?
- Why its not a pseudo science?
- Brought in a comparison with astrology.
Pencil Sketching
- So you do pencil sketching? What do you sketch/ draw?
- Do you use colors? So just use pencils for drawing and shading?
- Are you doing anything professionally?
- How long have you been doing it?
- What is English pen calligraphy?
Recreational Cycling
- So your hobby is recreational cycling, whats the difference between other types?
- What type of cycle?
- What benefits did you gain?
- Any adventurous stunts in cycles?
- What happens if your safety in any activity is not guaranteed?
Rangolis
- Why do we make rangolis?
- Why on festivals?
Sudoku
- Which type of Sudoku do you solve? (Easy/ Medium/Hard)
- What is your source for Sudoku?
- How much time do you take to solve Sudoku?
Mentoring
- How is it different from coaching?
- Your interest in mentoring. Can you tell me what is that?
- Is Mentoring always one to one or can it be in large group too?
- What is the difference between coaching and tutoring?
Jogging/Walking/Running
- What are the differences between jogging and yoga?
- What is current World record of 100 m running?
- What are the differences between walking and Marathon?
- How many types of walking events held in last Olympic?
- Who is lead road actor in film Budhia Singh?
- How your running hobby helps you?
- How much do you walk?
- What is the distance of Marathon?
- Usually people prefer jogging, why do you prefer walking?
- What do you like about jogging? Have you run any marathon? What speed do you jog at?
- What is the difference between Judo and Karate?
- What are all the belts given in karate?
- What is aesthetic body building?
- What is one difference you can say between a long distance runner and a normal person?
- What are the differences between jogging and yoga?
- What is current World record of 100 m running?
- What are the differences between walking and Marathon?
- How many types of walking events held in last Olympic?
- How your running hobby helps you?
- How much do you walk?
- What is the distance of Marathon?
- Usually people prefer jogging, why do you prefer walking?
- What do you like about jogging? Have you run any marathon? What speed do you jog at?
- What are the benefits of jogging?
- Is jogging beneficial in early morning or evening?
- Are there enough jogging areas in your city?
- Why are people not taking care of good health and becoming obese?
- What is the difference between Jogging & Running?
- At what time, you start jogging?
- How much time you spent for jogging?
- Do you prefer jogging alone or with someone? Why?
- Do you interact with people/strangers who come across/pass by?
- What should be precautions taken while running?
- Are you fitness freak ? How long do you do jogging daily?
- What are the other benefits of jogging than physical fitness?
Practice Questions
- What are the benefits of jogging?
- Is jogging beneficial in early morning or evening?
- Are there enough jogging areas in your city?
- Why are people not taking care of good health and becoming obese?
- What is the difference between Jogging & Running?
- At what time, you start jogging?
- How much time you spent for jogging?
- Do you prefer jogging alone or with someone? Why?
- Do you interact with people/strangers who come across/pass by?
- What should be precautions taken while running?
Gardening/ Tree Plantation
- Do you know the different types of plants used for plantation?
- Which plants have you planted? From where have you collected those plants?
- What is van Mahotsava?
Coin Collection
- How many coins you have?
- What you understand from coins?
- Which is your oldest coin; describe it denomination, composition, period?
- What did you get from your hobby coin collection?
- What is numismatics?
- Should we be collecting coins in digital age when we can store images?
- What do you understand from coins?
- What are commemorative coins? Give some recent examples from India.
- Tell us about bitcoins.
- Tell me about other crypotocurrencies?
- What is the stand of RBI & Govt. on crypto-currencies?
- Which country has legatised cryptocurrency?
- Commerative coins released in 2020?
Listening to Songs/Music
- Do you listen music? Bollywood songs?
- I see you like listening to music. What kind of music do you listen to?
- How is Carnatic and western music different?
- Why do you like listening to music?
- What kind of music do you listen?
- Who is your favorite singer and why?
- Tell us Intellectual Property Right (IPRs) related issues in music industry?
- How do you see quality of today’s music?
- Do you play any musical instrument?
- How music can help in administration?
- What are different types of musical instruments?
- Which songs of Arijit Singh and Atif Aslam are your favourites?
- What’s India music?
- What’s DIY music?
Practice Questions
- Why do you prefer old songs and not the new? Why old is being said as gold?
- What is the difference between lyrics and music?
- What is your opinion about plagiarism and piracy of music?
- Who is your favourite singer/lyricist/music director and why?
- Do you think training is necessary for being a good musician/artist?
- Quality of music in today’s movies: improving or worsening?
- What is the impact of talent competitions like Indian Idol?
- What do you think about evolution in technology of music recording/composing?
- If you listen music in your phone and computer, then how do you download it? Isn’t it illegal?
- Difference between qawwali, ghazal and bhajans.
- Tell us about Sufi music and its significance.
- Which part of song you give the most importance – lyrics, melody, music or the voice?
- Why do you listen to music?
- Specify the types of songs or music you listen to, Hindi, classical, Ghazals, Filmy songs, Western Rock, Jazz Tell us difference between them.
- What are Gharanas and their significance?
Astronomy
- Are you aware about extraterrestrial life?
- Why the scientists are so excited about it? (Fermi paradox).
- According to you what are chances of extraterrestrial life? Is it 50:50?
- Are you aware about fast radio wave burst?
- Why there are so many radio signal/noise are coming to earth? (cosmic microwave background). What is the significance of these signals?
- How did you get interested in astronomy?
- Did you read Carl sagan’s book? And another 2-3 astrophysicists.
- Are you aware about scientists discussion of different forms of life in the universe?
- How will you detect life on other planets?
- Suppose life is a very different on other planets then how will you detect it? Then what is life?
- How will you define this is living thing and this is nonliving?
- I think radio waves may be signals of different form of life. What’s your opinion?
- What is dark matter? How will you detect it?
- What is dark energy? How will detect?
- What are impact of dark matter and dark energy on universe?
- What is Big bang?
- What is Hubble telescope? What Hubble had to do with big bang?
- What is black hole?
Playing Badminton
- How to play cross court shot in badminton?
- How to hold racket while hitting smash, and while playing a drop?
- Who is your favorite Badminton player?
- You play Singles or Doubles?
- You seem to take active interest in sports (badminton). Do you think sports is being encouraged enough for children?
- Do you think families have anything to do with discouraging sports?
- Do you think some sports get more attention than others?
- Generally sports bodies are headed by political leaders. Why do you think this is so?
- Some reports and allegations claim that sport persons are not treated well and not properly accommodated during national and international events, but the high officials of sports are given royal treatment, what is your take on that?
- You are playing badminton; now tell me how it will develop your personality?
- Tell me about best Indian badminton players at present.
- What is Badminton league (PBL)? What are its uses for Indian badminton?
- You play badminton, I have come from Africa, I don’t know nothing about Badminton, I want to play badminton, how will you teach me, about Badminton?
- Please tell dimensions of badminton court.
- Why badminton is less popular than cricket? What can be done?
- What are benefits of playing badminton?
- Who is your favorite player?
- How badminton can help administration?
- Do you know about Uber cup in badminton? Is it Individual or Team competition?
- Tell me about Grand slams in Tennis.
- Tell me about Indian badminton players who won Olympic medals. What resulted after their victories in Olympics?
- Tell me about Govt initiatives to promote sports.
- Why only women players excel in badminton and not men from India?
- Name a few badminton players. Who is their coach?
- Why is Gopichand famous?
- Where is Prakash Padukone from?
- So you play badminton at what level?
- Can you tell any success stories if badminton?
- Who are main competitors of India in badminton?
- What can India do to achieve higher success in badminton?
- Is badminton an expensive or cheap sport?
- Do u see badminton’s stature has improved?
Practice Questions
- Why do you like to play Badminton?
- Why it is called badminton and after whom?
- Tell us about rules related to badminton.
- What are the specifications of Badminton Court?
- Tell us about general information related to court length, Racquet and Shuttle specifications, Height of the Net. (Does this gives advantage to tall players?)
- Tell us about famous Indian Badminton players? And their recent achievements.
- Is it indoor game or outdoor game? For indoor, is there any limit for ceilings?
- Why Racquet is oval shaped, is there any rule for the shape, size and weight of the Racquets and Shuttles?
- Tell us about international player names, their ranking (top 3 men and women Singles and Doubles).
- Tell us about Indian player names, stadiums, famous teams.
- Tell us about Premier Badminton League. Which team won last edition?
- Why badminton is not so popular though is played by most of us? What can be done to make it popular?
- Why China dominates in this game?
- What are the health benefits of playing badminton?
- What is the role of P. Gopichand as a private coach and Indian team coach?
- Name are the recent important tournaments held. Who were winners?
Bird Watching
- Bird watching sites in Mumbai?
- How many bird species in Mumbai?
- How many bird species you can identify?
- Difference between kite, falcon and eagle?
- Do you think bird’s population is declining?
- What are probable reason behind it?
- What are the best places in India for bird Watching?
- Tell us about ebird.
Learning Languages
- So your hobby is language learning? How many languages do you know?
- Is Tamil derived from Sanskrit?
- But many words like Neer (Tamil – water) is derived from Sanskrit? What is your view? Learning Hindi should be easy for you right?
- What is the difference between language and literature?
- Where does grammar fit in? Language or literature?
- Why did you decide to study the German language? What can we learn from the Germans?
Teaching
- What and whom do you teach?
- What are the qualities of a teacher according to you?
- Which method of teaching do you prefer? Talk and chalk? Power point? Online?
- What are the traits of a good teacher?
- What kind of experience do you have in teaching? What is this Teacher’s Day? Why it is celebrated?
- What is Status of primary education sector? Are we successful in achieving quality education in primary? But still we see in many schools one teacher is teaching whole school. How to solve this?
- How do you teach blind students?
- What are qualities of good teacher?
- What do you teach?
- What are different styles of teaching?
- What are issues with present teaching methods?
- What is importance of 5th september?
- Please tell us about Draft New Education Policy 2019.
- Why do you like teaching the children ?
- What is your opinion regarding private coaching and tuition?
- What can we do to improve the education system?
- What will you do as a DM of a district to improve the education system?
- What all teaching experiences do you have till date ?
- How do you adjust the teaching methodologies while switching from school level to college level students ?
- Do you think that urban students require same kind of educational and teaching strategies as that of rural students?
- Suppose you are a school principal in a rural locality, then what will be your priorities for betterment of education in that area?
- How do you assess the Right to Education (RTE) Act with regard to its efficacy of fulfilling the objectives of the act?
- Did all your knowledge or information regarding teaching pedagogy in India comes from theoretical studies or some ground level experiences from rural, tribal and urban areas?
- What do you think is the reason that government schools are not able to teach children properly?
- Where were you teaching underprivileged children? What changes did you bring to make them understand concepts better?
- Did you try to change teaching methodology of the school teachers as well by talking to those teachers?
Practice Questions
- What teaching techniques do you use for effective learning?
- Teaching is considered as profession, how it can be a hobby?
- When Teacher’s Day is celebrated in India? Name the related personality after whom it is celebrated.
- Don’t you think there is need of change in Education policy? What will be your suggestions?
- Why teaching is known as noble profession?
Poetry/ Shayaris
- Tell one English poet and one Hindi/Urdu Writer you have been inspired by. (I said Nida Fazli)
- What is difference between Shayari and Ghazal?
- Why do you think poets should come to civil services?
- What makes a good poet?
- Greatest poet according to you?
- Tagore, the nobel made him great? Controversies regarding Tagore?
- When did you start poetry writing? Do you publish as well?
- Who is your favorite poet? Why? Quote some lines from your favorite poem of his.
- You have mentioned Urdu poetry? You read in Devnagri or Urdu script.
- What’s government doing to promote Urdu?
- What is the difference between shayari and wazm?
Practice Questions
- What do you write (poetry, prose, etc.)? In which language you write?
- Who is your favorite poet? Why?
- What do you think of regional poems writing in India?
- Tell us something about the ancient poets through the ages in India. (Ancient, medieval, etc.)
- Can you talk about the role of poets in the Indian freedom struggle?
- What is a Sonnet and a Ballad in English poetry?
- What are the various forms of hindi poetry? Which are based on verses?
- What is Chhand, Chaupai, Doha, Haiku etc?
- Tell us about poets like Valmiki, Vidyapati, Tagore, Nirala, Dinkar, etc.
- Who is considered as Rashtra Kavi?
- What is Chhayavaad?
- Is art of poetry and its readership on decline in modern times? Why?
- In the present instant age, are poems relevant as an artistic manifestation of human emotion and expression? How?
- What is the main difference between a poem and a poetry?
- Name some famous Urdu shayars, poets.
- Who is your favourite Urdu shayar? Tell us his famous ghazal, shayari.
Reading Newspaper
- Did you read today’s news? Tell us the main News?
- Which Hindi Newspaper do you read?
- Tell me the name of chief editor of Hindustan and Dainik Jagran newspapers?
- What is headline of today’s newspaper?
- Who is editor of The Hindu newspaper?
- What can you do to get more people to read?
- How reading newspaper helps you?
- How much time you spent on reading newspaper?
- Have you read newspaper in any vernacular language?
- Tell us something about Press Council of India? Who is its present chairman?
- Which is more effective; Print media or electronic media?
- Don’t you think e-paper should be promoted?
- Do you follow any e-paper?
- Which newspaper do you read?
- Why have you chosen this newspaper particularly?
- Why do you consider reading the newspaper as a hobby?
- Don’t you think that the television is a good alternative for a newspaper?
- Do you read any vernacular newspapers as well?
- How can this hobby be beneficial to you as a civil servant in the future?
- Tell us about Vernacular Press Act 1978.
- Please tell us role played by newspaper in Indian freedom struggle.
- Tell us name of major pre-independence newspapers.
- Tell me about fake news, how to control it?
- Do you think increased corporate ownership of newspaper has decreased its independence?
Practice Questions
- What is CMYK?
- How reading newspaper helps you?
- How much time you spent on reading newspaper?
- Have you read newspaper in any vernacular language?
- Tell us something about Press Council of India? Who is its present chairman?
- Which is more effective: Print media or electronic media?
- Don’t you think e-paper should be promoted?
- Do you follow any e-paper?
Solving SUDOKU
- What type of puzzles do you solve? How does it help you? Do you solve Sudoku?
- What type of puzzles? What is special with cubes? Does knowledge of engineering helps in puzzle solving?
- Solve a puzzle if a monkey climbs, a pole of 100m, 3m in one step and then slides 2m then how many steps will he take to reach top?
Practice Questions
- What is the meaning of SUDOKU?
- Where it was originated?
- Do you play other mind games apart from SUDOKU?
Photography
- What kind of photography do you do?
- You have photography as an interest. Do you know what depth of field is? How do you control it?
- What do you like to click?
- What’s the depth of field you use?
- What do you think had been the watershed development in this field?
- Portable cameras are okay, but don’t you think digital technology is a breakthrough?
- What is photography?
- Tell us about different types of cameras.
- Which is your favorite photograph till date and why?
- Tell us names of some famous photographers of world/India.
- How did you develop this hobby?
- What are challenges in photography?
- What is modern day photography?
- Are expensive cameras really necessary?
- Which type of photography do you do?
- Have you won any awards?
- What do you understand by shutter speed?
- You mentioned that street photography can communicate a story. How can story telling benefit administration?
- How portrait photography is different from other photography?
- Do you think coming of digital phone led to reduction of portrait photography?
- Which lens will you prefer for portrait photography?
- Which one do you like more, portraits or landscapes?
- Which lens will you use for landscape photography?
- How the photography changed in last decades with the advent Mobile with good camera ?
Practice Questions
- Famous photographers of world/India.
- Tell us about Different types of cameras, pixels. Their uses.
- Which is your favorite photograph till date and why?
Singing
- What is the difference between Classical and Carnatic song?
- What is Raga?
- What type of music do you like? Who is your favorite singer?
- You like listening to the classical music. Do you identify ragas? Is Bhoop the same raga as Bhoopali?
- Differentiate between Classical song and Folk songs?
- Can you name some important classical music singer that passed away last year?
Practice Questions
- What is the reason for decline of regional/folk music?
- What is Sur, Raag, Taal?
- Is classical music declining? Give reason.
- What is the main difference between Hindustani and Carnatic classical music?
- Is Bollywood music overwhelming every other form of music in India today?
- Tell us something about music therapy.
- Tell us about evolution of music, Sama Veda.
- What is your style of singing – light music, Ghazal, Bhajans, folk songs?
- Are you self-taught or have received some kind of formal training?
- Who is your Guru and in which Gharana you were trained?
- Have you participated in any competition at local or state level? Have you won any prize?
- What qualities should a singer possess? What are most important aspects of singing?
- Tell us about accomplished Indian/western singers, depending on your choice.
Acting/Theatre/Drama
- Difference between dramatics, drama and act.
- Did you read anything on dramatics?
- Tell me your favourite play and its author?
Practice Questions
- What are the different forms of theatre?
- What do you know about the history of theatre in India?
- Which states in India have been traditional bastions of theatre?
- What do you know about NSD, Sangeet Natak Akademi?
- Do you think theatre can survive the onslaught of films? Name a few eminent theatre personalities.
- You have directed 2 dramas? So tell me who said “All the World’s a stage”?
Playing Musical Instruments
- How piano produces tune?
- What is the difference between Piano and Harmonium?
- Do you have piano? Of which type? Name the famous song in which piano is used.
- Tell us recent technology used in Tabla and Guitar.
Practice Questions
- Which instruments you like to play most?
- What are the essential elements of Indian musical instruments and how is it different from western instruments?
- What is Guru-Shishya Parampara in learning musical instruments?
- Will electronic music overshadow traditional instruments?
- Traditional instruments like Iktara, Saranagi are losing patronage. Is it true? If so, what can be done?
- What type of guitar do you play?
- What is the difference between acoustic and electric guitar?
- How does guitar produce sound?
- Who is your favorite guitarist?
- From where did you learn it?
- Name the renowned guitarists
Trekking
- What challenges did you face during mountain trekking?
- So you trek, what was your last trek.
- What were the issues you faced in ladakh (High altitude) trek.
- Why pulmonary edema does happen at high altitude?
- What kind of adventure sports have you done?
- Which mountain have you climbed?
- Why to give yourself so much of emotional & physical pain?
- How do you use technology while trekking?
- Is trekking an adventure sports?
- How infrastructure can be improved in major trekking routes in India?
- Should adventure sports regulated?
- Tell about some famous Indian personalities in this field.
- How trekking has contributed to your personality?
- What is trekking? How is it different from walking, jogging? Is it to be done in mountains?
- Tell me about Trekking and its effect on environment and solution?
Gardening
- What do you do in gardening? Explain the procedure.
- You talked about transplanting. Do we transplant coriander?
Cycling
- What kind of safety measures do we have to take during cycling?
- What should be the optimum no. of gears for cycles?
- What is difference between cycling and mountain biking?
- Have you watched mountain biking? Where it is held?
- Tell me names of some famous cyclist.
- Suppose you are riding a bicycle from bottom to up on a hill? Then what is velocity ratio?
- Which Biryani do you like Chettinad biryani or Chennai Buhari?
- What is Kongunadu Cuisine?
Travelling
- Tell me something special about any of the places you visited in the past few years.
- Which part of your journey do you love the most and why?
- What is the farthest place you have traveled? Why did you travel there? Difference between that place and your hometown?
- Why you like travelling?
- Which villages/places have you visited in the past few years?
- What is difference between tourist and traveller?
- Tell us about your experience of travelling in North East India?
- Which place attract the tourist most?
- What are the economic effects of tourism?
- Where all have you travelled? How has it changed you?
- What is backpacking? Where have you been?
- What is the difference between travel and exploration?
- Where all have your travelled?
- What did you like most in A&N islands?
- Tell me something special about any of the places you visited in the past few years.
- Which part of your journey do you love the most and why?
- What is the farthest place have you traveled? Why did you travel there? Difference between that place and your hometown?
- Why do you like travelling?
- Which villages/places have you visited in the past few years?
- What is difference between tourist and traveller?
- Tell us about your experience of travelling in North East India?
- Which place attract the tourist most?
- What are the economic effects of tourism?
- Where all have you travelled? How has it changed you?
- What is backpacking? Where have you been?
- What are the prospects of tourism industry in India?
- Where did you travel?
- What is your most favorite destination?
- What do you make out of this hobby?
- Tell some names of historical travellers in India during ancient/medieval times.
- Is there any specific TV channel on traveling and which telecast company owns it?
- Have you heard about “Musafir Hoon Yaaron” programme?
- Which magazine is most famous in traveling field?
- Which city in India received maximum tourists last year?
- What precautions should a person take while traveling with family?
- Are travel agencies in India governed by law?
- Is there any national tourism policy? Tell few points of that policy. If you are asked to make a policy, what will be your priorities?
- Despite great cultural-geographical diversity why we are not able to develop tourism in our country?
- Why we receive very less foreign tourists in comparison to some tiny countries like Singapore, Mauritius?
- Do you think Indians are very responsible travellers? How?
- What is eco-tourism? Can it be a career? Why are you not looking for a career in this field?
Practice Questions
- What are the prospects of tourism industry in India?
- Where did you travel?
- What is your most favorite destination?
- What do you make out of this hobby?
- Tell some names of historical travellers in India during ancient/medieval times.
- Is there any specific TV channel on traveling and which telecast company owns it?
- Have you heard about “Musafir Hoon Yaaron” programme?
- Which magazine is most famous in traveling field?
- Which city in India received maximum tourists last year?
- What precautions should a person take while traveling with family?
- Are travel agencies in India governed by law?
- Is there any national tourism policy? Tell few points of that policy. If you are asked to make a policy, what will be your priorities?
- Despite great cultural-geographical diversity why we are not able to develop tourism in our country?
- Why we receive very less foreign tourists in comparison to some tiny countries like Singapore, Mauritius?
- Do you think Indians are very responsible travellers? How?
- What is eco-tourism? Can it be a career? Why are you not looking for a career in this field?
- How has tourism affected in Jammu and Kashmir?
Web Surfing
- What is Facebook? Do you think it is a distraction?
- What is Quora? How do you contribute in it? What about the authenticity of answers on Quora?
- Differentiate between Twitter and Facebook.
- Why Facebook was named Facebook and same for Twitter?
- Name the political persons who landed in controversy because of Twitter?
- What are current issues related to Facebook?
- Why Google can’t filter the content?
- What is cyber crime? Give example of cyber crime.
- What is cyber terrorism?
- What is cyber warfare?
- What is full form of Yahoo?
- Which websites do you visit?
- What is internet protocol?
- How internet can be used for development?
Practice Questions
- What contents do you look for during surfing?
- How does Internet surfing relaxes you as a hobby?
- How does internet work?
- What is client-server technology?
- What is full form of http and www? Why these codes are used?
Reading Novels/Books/ Newspaper
- Name 5-6 books you have read.
- What do you read? What kind of fiction?
- Why do you like reading short stories?
- Name any stories you’ve read.
- Which was the recent novel you read? Give us the gist in 2 minutes.
- So do you read newspaper, so which newspaper you read?
- What are today’s headlines?
- Which page of a newspaper do you read very first?
- Why civil service aspirants prefer the Hindu a lot?
- Which one is last English novel that you read?
- Which newspaper is your favorite?
- Which Novel you last read in Hindi and what did you learn from that?
- You read, why do you read motivational books? Don’t you have internal motivation? Which areas you need motivation in?
- Why English novels and literature is more famous in India?
- What kind of books do you read?
- Name some books you have read. Who are their writers?
- Why don’t youngsters now a days read something in vernacular languages?
- How do you choose a book to read? Do you read book reviews?
- Name the recent novel you have read. Who is your favourite author? What are the themes of that author’s novels? What are your takeaways from their writing?
- Why you read motivational books?
- Have you read novels of Rabindra Nath Tagore?
- Have you read any books on which movie has been made?
- Which is better, movie or book?
- Name the novels you have read.
- Did you like the novel God of Small Things?
- Which type of Novel you read? How do you read novel? e-book or Handbook?
- Tell me why should we read books?
- Which kinds of books do you like to read?
- Don’t you think ‘reading comics’ is a very childish hobby?
- Describe Munshi Prem Chand literature and his working theme. How his writing is useful to our society?
- Which is your favourite novel? What message did you get from it?
- What language you prefer for reading novels?
- Name the famous Hindi writer who wrote a story on chess.
- What is difference between fiction and non- fiction?
- Tell us about your favorite authors /novels?
- Standard and volume of literature in regional languages is declining. Do you agree?
- What should be done to promote Indian writers and literature?
- Tell us about Man Booker Prize and its recent winner, novel name.
- What are the reasons of success of Indian writers in English language, especially on a the backdrop of international acclaim?
- Name some famous Indian authors.
- What measures should be taken to encourage readership amongst youth and children?
- What do you like to read?
- Which was the last book that you read?
- What is the book about?
- What did you take away from this book?
- Which book is your favourite?
- What do you like about that book/series?
- Who is your favourite author?
- Why is he/she your favourite?
- Have you read book an anthropology?
Practice Questions
- Tell us about your favorite authors /novels?
- Standard and volume of literature in regional languages is declining. Do you agree?
- What should be done to promote Indian writers and literature?
- What are the reasons of success of Indian writers in English language, especially on a the backdrop of international acclaim?
- Tell us about Man Booker Prize and its recent winner, novel name.
- Name some famous Indian authors. What measures should be taken to encourage readership amongst youth and children?
Computer Games/Programming
- Which computer games do you play? Explain the Counter strike.
- What is flash player? Is flash player is used in computer games?
Practice Questions
- What is the benefit of playing computer games?
- It has been found that video games cause obesity, visual problems to children. Is it true?
- How do you play game, offline or online?
- Where do you get the games?
- Do you think you have violated the copyright of the game developer?
- What are the positive and negative effects of video games?
- What is the current video game market in India?
- Do you think that developing video games can become a profession?
- Video games are very addictive, how do you deal with it?
Volunteering for NGO/ Social Initiative
- What type of volunteering do you do?
- You participate in social initiatives. What do you do?
- What is your specific role in the group?
- Since you participate in social initiatives, tell me one initiative you would like to take as an administrator, which has a gender aspect within it.
- What were your volunteering activities?
- What qualities are needed to be a volunteer?
- How do you select the right people for volunteering?
- Tell me about a bad experience you have faced during your volunteering activities.
- You have worked in voluntary sector, can you tell me what your work profile there was.
- What did you learn from your work experience there?
- If our government is doing so much for welfare, why should we involve civil society in governance?
- Many NGOs are working in the same sector- like health, sanitation, how to improve coordination?
- Some NGOs are not doing good work. Suggest Measures?
- What kind of NGOs are you associated with? What services do you provide to this NGO?
- You have worked as a volunteer for drought relief. What type of work you did and in which region?
- What did you learn from your working with the NGO?
- Do you think your role has had any impact on the NGO?
- What was your role in the NGO?
- You will face similar issues as an administrator. How will you handle them?
- What are the operations of your NGO?
- What is the budget of your NGO?
- What is the funding pattern of the NGO?
- Corruption in private sector. How to curb it?
- What are the limitations of NGOs?
- Why many successful people later on join NGO?
- What kind of social initiatives do you pursue?
- Which NGOs have you worked with?
- How do you arrange funds for your work?
- Have you thought of crowdsourcing from outside?
Practice Questions
- In which NGO you worked for?
- Name some NGO who are working against child labour?
- What you have learned from working with NGO?
- Tell us about Act of Parliament which regulates financial transactions of NGOs.
- What is FRCA? Tell us about its provisions.
- Do you think some NGOs are involving in corruption? How?
Debating
- So you are a good debater? Do you agree “Parents are responsible for poor education of their children? Take a stand and speak. Who else has role in shaping in children education?
- Talk about need for inculcating value education in children.
- What are qualities of good debater?
- Who is your favorite debater and why?
- Have you ever joined any debating group?
- Should such debates be held in Indian election?
Practice Questions
- What is the difference between debate and declamation?
- What are the ingredients of a good debate?
- Which debate programme is your favorite?
- Do you watch parliamentary debates? Are they worth?
- How does debate help in one’s personality development?
- What is importance of debates in democracy?
- How do you think does debating help you once you become a civil servant?
- Why debates and declamations do not get much attention at school and college level despite being mentally stimulative?
- Why as a nation we are shy of debates?
Dancing
- What is your opinion about reality dance/singing shows? Do they have any negative implications?
- Name the famous folk dances of your state? Have you learned these?
- Do you practice dancing daily? How has it benefited you? Did it help in your exam preparation? How?
- Can you tell us something about Natya Shastra?
- What has dance taught you?
- What kind of dances have you performed?
- Difference between kathak and Bharatnatyam?
- Difference between Bharatnatyam and Odhisi?
- Name all classical dances?
- How did you learn dance? Did you perform on stage?
- What are the differences between Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam?
- What is the difference between Western choreography and Indian choreography?
Practice Questions
- How does dancing helps you?
- How many classical dances in India? Name their region and famous dancers.
- Do you like western dance?
- What is Samba? It belongs to which country?
- What is difference between Indian and Western dance styles?
- Who is your favourite choreographer?
- Why don’t you participated in any dance reality show?
Diary Writing/ Writing/ Blog Writing
- Your hobby is Creative Writing. What do you write?
- What is his style of writing?
- So you write as well, what do you write on?
- What is use of writing? Did you publish any article? Gist of the article?
- You write blog, what do you write about?
- Tell me some Advantage and disadvantage of diary writing.
- What kind of blogs do you write?
- What is you latest blog post?
- Who is your favorite blogger?
- How does blogging help in administration?
- What kind of poems do you write?
- How many poems have you written so far?
- What role did poetry play in freedom movement?
- Who is your favorite poet?
- Please recite your favorite poem.
- In which language do you write poetry?
- Can you recite an original work?
- Tell me about dastangoi.
- Do you go to mushairas?
- What is different in dastangoi?
- Origin of dastangoi?
- See that you write poetry, what else do you write?
- In which language do you usually write?
- Can you narrate one of the poems which is close to your heart? What kind of poem you write? Is it on romanticism, chayavaad, hasya etc?
- Shayari just as it sounds good, is it mainly related with urdu poetry?
- Tell me one sher of ghalib. Tell me one more.
- Complete this sher by Ghalib.
- What things you write in Diary?
- Why diary writing?
- Since how long you are writing; any famous diary writer (Anne Frank).
- You maintain a diary, so is there anything new in that, I mean you write because you want to reflect upon your day, you gain experience, anything different?
- So you maintain diary everyday, how many lines are there in your diary.
- How many lines do you write?
- Do you write everyday 26 lines
Practice Questions
- How dairy writing help you?
- Do you write it every day or just on special occasions?
- Which events you usually mention?
- Does anyone in your home knows about it?
- Do you write blogs? Why?
Here, the nature of questions varies depending on the hobbies you have listed in your DAF. For those who have listed sports as a hobby, the Panel has asked questions on famous sports persons or/and latest results. A few candidates have
also been asked to sing during the interview process.
Questions of personality
- What is your motive for becoming an officer?
- Prepare your positive and negative sides and convey them with explanations and examples.
- Question on Age/attempts
- Express your feelings about appearing in the interview round?
- What is your biggest achievement in life?
- What was the biggest challenge you’ve faced in life? How did you overcome it?
- Have you ever done anything ethically questionable?
Try answering the following questions based on practical logic:
Questions |
Answers |
How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it? |
Concrete floors are very hard to crack! |
If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it? |
No time at all, it is already built. |
If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have? |
Very large hands. |
How can you lift an elephant with one hand? |
It is not a problem, since you will never find an elephant with one hand. |
How can a man go eight days without sleep? |
No Problem, He sleeps at night. |
If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become? |
It will get Wet or Sink as simple as that. |
What looks like half apple? |
The other half. |
What can you never eat for breakfast? |
Dinner |
What happened when the wheel was invented? |
It caused a revolution. |
The Bay of Bengal is in which state? |
Liquid State. |
Twin babies are born in May. Their Birthday is in June. Why? |
May is the name of a place of their Birth. |
Questions on specific background
ENGINEERING:
- Your branch/current job description.
- Studies and surveys show that around 25% of aspirants cracking the Civil Services Exam are engineers and each year more and more engineers are appearing for the Civil Services Exam.
- What is the scope of X branch of Engineering in India?
- There is a lot of allegation on brain drain and subsidized education etc. what do you think about this, is it right or wrong and do we need any policies to attract them back etc.
- What do you think is responsible for the reduction in research?
- Why India has a very small number of great scientists and engineers in comparison to the USA and Europe?
- Why are we spending so much on ISRO missions while we have so much poverty in the country? Do you think it makes sense to go with such heavy investment in the space technology sector?
- Tell me a few disruptive technologies
- Instead of choosing a job or research, why did you choose civil service as a career option?
DOCTORS:
- What are the advantages of being a Doctor?
- One cannot pursue a medical career the way a doctor normally would if they become an officer. What is your take on that?
- You are already employed in a post with good prospects. Why then you want to join civil services?
- If you’re a doctor- why not go for Combined Medical services exam? After all, defence services directly need good doctors in war!
- Your education is wasted; your knowledge of medicine and all your effort will go in vain. What is your take on it?
- You are serving in a rural area as a doctor for the past X years. Why do you want to leave such a noble thing you are doing?
- You were working in the village but most doctors don’t want to work in rural areas. Why? How can we change that attitude?
- Do you think you can use your experience as a doctor in civil services?
- There are many doctors who have become good administrators, inspite when we look at the health indicators there is not much improvement.
SCIENCE:
- Why do you want to join administration after pursuing Science in your academics?
- How will you apply your knowledge of science in administration?
- I think you make a better specialist than a generalist. What do you say?
- As a policymaker, what would you suggest to attract the best brain to make a career in Science and contribute to R&D in pure science?
- Why is that despite one of the fastest-developing country today, Indian scientists are not getting Nobel prizes?
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Difference between science and technology? And which came first? Some applied questions can also be asked related to your particular branch of science. For example, if your subject is Physics, they can ask you what is the mechanism
operating in a fan that makes it rotate.
COMMERCE/CA/MBA/SSC-CGL TAX INSPECTORS/ASST.
- How will you use your knowledge of C.A./MBA etc. in civil services?
- What do you mean by tax havens?
- Why don’t all countries together take action against them?
- Name some tax havens.
- Difference between Double entry system and a double accounting system?
- Tell me any 3 major economic problems of India?
- The reasons for current slowdown of Indian economy?
- What are different policy interventions by govt. to ease the slowdown in economy
- Role and requirement of independent director?
- What is the requirement of cooling off period in the appointment of auditor?
FEMALE SPECIFIC:
- What is the importance of 8th march?
- Do you think that International Women’s Day Celebrations have got degraded to mere tokenism?
- If you were the SDM of a district and you had to organize Women’s Day Celebration, how would you proceed?
- Two women from contemporary India who have inspired you? why?
- What are the issues pertaining to Women and Child in your area? Specifically, women in general. Also suggest some remedies.
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I would like to ask you two questions in this regards- what do you think of reservation for women in parliament? And also, don’t you think that working women end up neglecting the family and their children? Should women not focus
more on domestic issues?
Overcoming the fears
POINTS OF REMEMBER:
Confidence is the most important
Recognize your potential. Those who are in the board of interview already know your potential. You have reached there by passing the Pre and Main Examination. So, go there with full confidence. Refuse immediately for questions that you
do not know during the interview. Do not answer wrongly or argue.
Arrive on time for interview
One should reach the venue well before the said timings. There are a number of checks and formalities before the interview. Thus, to keep peace of mind, reach early and do away with formalities at the earliest possible.
Give interview in the language in which you are comfortable
While entering the room some people speak the words ‘May I Come In’ and ‘Good Morning or Good After Noon’ in English. After this, if the board members start interviewing in English then they become uncomfortable. On this you can
politely tell the board members that we are more comfortable in Hindi. There is no objection to this matter. You can use a little English words during the interview.
Remember the basics:
It is advised to the candidates that one should know about the role, responsibility and one’s personal vision of joining the services. Do not greet the board members after entering the room. Do not dismiss any decision passed by the
state or central government. Can argue on that if there are shortcomings in it, then you should suggest its remedy. If there is a problem, then solve it in front of the board.
Plan and perform
- Maintain composure on interview day. Go for a light walk, breath!
- Read the newspaper of that day. You have to be ready for all surprises
- Remember the significance of the day, all your struggles and efforts are to be rewarded on this day.
- Don’t stress much upon who the board members are. If you have done the work in the past, it won’t really matter.
- Plan beforehand your journey to the venue of the interview to avoid unnecessary stress.
Your body must speak
- Be fresh and active
- Enter in the hall-greet the board with politeness and delight on the face
- Wait unless asked to sit
- Express thanks for allowing you to sit
- Maintain eye contact with members and try to engage others
- Maintain composure while sitting-not too much body movement or too little
- After the interview, greet all and walk out gracefully.
Acing the non-verbal communication
Look people in the eye….and smile
- Body language is an extermely important detail of proper job interview etiquette. Communication experts tell us that 80% of our communication with others is non-verbal.
- One of the best ways to connect with people and build trust is to look them in the eye. Eye contact is also important during a group interview.
Brush up on Body Language
- Be aware of what you’re communicating through your posture and stance-and make sure it’s good. For example, sitting with your arms and legs crossed sends a message that you are closed-off or feel defensive.
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If you keep your hands in your lap the entire interview, you could signal that you lack self-confidence. And, twirling your hair can make you look nervous or juvenile. Next, always stand up when someone else comes into the room.
Professionally, you lose respect and credibility by staying seated- it sends a weak and powerless message.
- Think your movements through ahead of time, so you’re not distracted (or distracting) during the interview.
Don’t step on the last 3 words of someone’s conversation
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Let your interviewer finish making their point, pause for 1-2 seconds; then, respond to their question or add to the conversation. Interruption in-between projects that you aren’t a good listener, which is a bad trait not only for
civil services but for life in general.
Smile
- Yes, a job interview is a high-pressure situation, but freezing up and looking nervous will lose you points in the few critical moments you have to shine.
- Smiling naturally (without pursing your lips tightly together) will make you appear confident, friendly, and approachable. Even if you’re not feeling it, fake it.
- A smile conveys that you’re someone who can get along with fellow employees, wow the boss, and impress the clients.
VIRTUOUS TRIAD FOR SUCCESS IN PERSONALITY TEST
- Greek philosopher Aristotle, who lived between 384-322 BC, once said: “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
- This is so true. All knowledge begins from self-knowledge. Therefore, Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement, but this is the toughest part of knowledge.
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Benjamin Franklinput it best:
“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.”
- Unfortunately, there’s no such thing as a universal answer to self-awarness. Everybody is different, and the only person that can teach you self-awareness is you.
The interview day: getting the basics right
Grooming
- Have an appropriate body language, the way you use your hands and legs.
- Don't slouch or sit on the edge of chair
- Don't sit like a robot
- If you want to use your hands, use both while speaking
- Don't clasp your hands project that you are under stress
- Avoid pointing fingers
- Nothing wrong if you can't or don't use your hands, you can communicate with face and words also
- Dress according to your physique, skin tone and climatic conditions
Gentlemen
- Wearing a tie, coat, suit etc. is not mandatory.
- Tucking your shirt in, wearing a belt with a pair of formal trousers, formal shoes are preferred.
- Though full sleeves are preferred, half sleeves can be worn if you feel you are short.
- Go with a clean shave and neat haircut.
- If you have a moustache, keep it well-trimmed.
Ladies
- Formal Saree/Salwar are preferred. Embroidered work is alright but avoid glitters on clothes.
- Avoid pointed heels for your footwear.
- Minimum makeup and jewellery (for your neck and hands)
- Avoid dangling earrings
- Groom your hair well so that hair does not fall on your face as you speak
- Use a mild deodorant /perfume based on your body type.
- More than anything, you should be comfortable with what you wear so that you don’t fidget with your clothes or accessories.
- Always wear a smile.
Way of Articulation
- Be humble, don’t be submissive.
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Always watch your tone while answering especially “I know the answer to these questions” and “I don’t know anything about these questions”. Candidates usually get excited when they know and have prepared on some answer and the tone
goes down when a candidate doesn’t know.
- Practice talking in front of the mirror.
- Maintain eye contact always.
- Practice as much as possible on how to articulate.
- Project yourself well with an optimistic outlook.
The Process
- The candidates have to surrender their mobiles phone as soon as they enter the MPPSC building.
- Then they are made to sit in a hall where their certificates were verified.
- After the verification they were made to sit in the inner circle, a glass chamber in the groups based on whichever board was to interview them.
- A person would escort the candidates to the interview chamber after the previous candidates’ interview is over.
- The candidates were not allowed to carry their watches, pens, files or any other belongings to the MPPSC interview chamber except their handkerchiefs.
The MPPSC Interview
- Don’t bother too much about the duration of the interview, time slot of your interview or the day/date of the interview. MPPSC is an unbiased body.
- Enter and exit from the Interview gracefully.
- There is a psychologist sitting on the board is a mere myth.
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Avoid mapping the location of the board in the MPPSC hall and also expect the members to be seated anywhere in the interview rooms. The board can be seated just a few steps away from the door or sometime you will have to walk in a
bit more.
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Don’t interact with other candidates who have completed their interview just before you. You can get stressed. However, it does make sense that you interact with those who have completed the interviews before the day of you
interview so that the trend of the board can be understood.
- Don’t panic when your turn comes.
- It is enough if you wish the board once.
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Interview usually start for a majority of the candidates who have previous work experience and others from hobbies, interests & extracurricular activities column, State basic educational qualifications. If the interview isn’t based
on the usual areas it could be based on Current Affairs based on last 15 days events.
Finally,
- There will always be factual questions. There will be many questions for which we don’t know the answers. These are only to test your psyche.
- Answer the opinion questions keeping in mind that you will have to satisfy the ego/need of the interviewer.
“Remember that you are going for personality Test and not an interview of knowledge; so be confident, if you can reach up to the third stage, you are just one step away from where you want to be in the rank list.”
Information about various posts under mppsc
Deputy Collector
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A Deputy Collector, often abbreviated to DC, is a State administrative Service officer in charge of revenue collection and administration of a sub-division (tehsil) in India. Since Deputy Collector are also empowered as executive
megistrates, the post is also referred to as the Sub Divisional Magistrate and the office-bearer works under the direction of a District Collector and assists him in day to day working.
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The collectorate plays a pivotal role in the District administration. The collector in the Cadre of I.A.S heads the District. He/she acts as the District Magistrate for maintaining Law and Order in his/her jurisdiction. He/she deals
mainly with Social Security Schemes, Land Matters and arms licensing etc. The Additional Collector/District Revenue Officer runs the Revenue administration under various enactments in the District. He/she is also designated as
Additional District Magistrate. He mainly deals with civil supplies, land matters, mines and minerals, village officers etc.
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Deputy Collectors/Deputy District Collectors is usually a tehsildars who report into the District Revenue Officer (DRO) who is also called the Additional District Collector and is the overall in-charge of revenue department for the
district, DRO in turn reports to the District Collector (also called District Commissioner) who is in-charge of overall management of the district across all departments. Deputy Collectors are hired through State’s Service Selection
Commission, whereas DRO and District Collector are usually Centre Civil Services employees appointed to the state cadre.
Deputy Superintendent of Police
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The rank of deputy superintendent of police or assistant commissioner of police (ACP) in the Commissionerate system was created in 1876 as the policy of Indianisation was introduced. It was originally a rank only held by Indians and
was equivalent to the assistant superintendent (a rank then only held by Europeans).
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Deputy Superintendents are now state police officers who belong to the provincial police forces, either direct entrant at that rank of promoted from the rank of inspector. Assistant commissioners of police, who are members of the
provincial forces, can be promoted to the Indian Police Service after limited years of service which varies from 8 to 15 years depending on the state.
- Deputy Superintendents are generally posted as circle officers in a district
Block Development Officer
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A government-appointed block development offiver (BDO) is the supervisor of the extension officers and executive officer to the Panchayat Samiti and becomes, in effect, its administrative chief. Power and function of Block
development officer. The Block Development Officer is the official in charge of the block.
Assistant Regional Transport Officer
Duties Include:
- To check the illegal playing of vehicles in this jurisdiction and Compounding/Challenging powers to streamline the traffic as RTO.
- Powers to issue (basic & National permits for goods vehicles, three-wheeler/stage carriage/ Taxi/Maxis as sanctioned by the STA/RTA)
- Power to the registration of vehicles (Taxi/Maxi/Personalized & Commerical vehicles)
- Power to issue a temporary permit for carrying out repair of vehicle.
- Power to issue a special permit under section 88(8) of Motor Vehicle Act, 1988.
- Power to convene the meeting of Stage Carriage joint time table and issuance of time tables
- To act as a Public Information Officer
- Licensing authority in respect of Driving/Conductor licenses
- Any other job assigned by the Head of Department.
Assistant Commissioner (Commercial Tax)
The responsibilities assigned are mentioned below:-
- ACs should periodically inspect the wards at least once a fortnight and point out the environmental deficiencies which come to their notice.
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They are to maintain individual files for the wards, wherein, inspection report and the action taken report on subsequent visits are to be retained. A similar file of inspections be retained by each CTOs. Whenever CCT and Addl. CCT
visits the wards, the records of previous inspection and compliance can be checked.
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While inspecting the wards, the ACs shall ensure that the records are properly stacked, so that the files do not get misplaced on various occasions and returned to the record room as soon as requisite verifications are completed.
- It is also expected that the ACs shall regularly monitor the enforcement and provide necessary guidance and clarification to the inspection teams whenever asked for.
- ACs should also periodically accompany the inspection teams in order to see that the inspections are done in a responsible and organized manner.
District Commandant Home guards
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Home Guards is a voluntary force, first raised in India in December 1946, to assist the police in controlling civil disturbance and communal riots. Subsquently, the concept the voluntary citizen’s force was adopted by several
States.
- In the wake of Chinese aggression in 1962, the Centre advised the States and Union Territories to merge their existing voluntary organization into one uniform voluntary force known as Home Guards.
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The role of Home Guards is to serve as a auxiliary Force to the Police in maintenance of internal security situations, help the community in any kind of emergency such as an air-raid, fire, cyclone, earthquake, epidemic etc. help in
maintenance of essential services, promote communal harmony and assist the administration in protecting weaker sections, participate in socio-economic and welfare activities and perform Civil Defence duties.
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Home Guards are of two types- rural and urban. In border states, Border Wing Home Guards (BWHG) have been raised, which serve as an auxiliary to the Border Security Force. The total strengh of Home Guards in the country is 5,73,793
against which the raised strength is 433803. The organization is spread over all States and Union Territories except Kerala.
Treasury Officer/Accounts Officer (Treasury)
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Chief Treasury Officers are posted in most of the treasuries situated at Commissioner Headquarters, and the district treasuries have been upgraded to Sr.Treasury Officer Level. The Treasury Officer is Head of the Office and Drawing
and Disbursing Officer of the Treasury and Sub-Treasuries under the Treasury.
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He is the immediate executive control of the treasury vests in the Treasury Officer. His duties chiefly consist of Authorising payments of all kinds of bills as are supported by proper sanctions; disbursment of pensions of State
Government pensioners as also Civil and Military Pensions of the Government of India; safe custody of stocks of stamps, opium and valuables in the treasury and maintenance of the initial accounts of all receipts and payments of
Government money in the treasury and sub treasuries of the district for use by the Accountant General.
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The responsibility of budget control has also been entrusted upon the Treasury Officers by a Govt. Order dated June 6, 1994. The work related to the Group Insurance Scheme of Govt. employees has also been transferred to district
treasuries. The Treasury Officer is also required to inspect the sub-treasuries in the district. He is responsible to the Government and the Accountant General for the validity of every claim passed by him for payment. For
day-to-day administrative purposes, he works under the District Magistrate.
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A Treasury is divided into two Sections, a Cash Section under a chief Cashier and an Accounts Section under an Assistant Treasury Officer. The Chief Cashier is in-charge of Cash Section and is responsible for the safe custody of
cash, stamp and other valuables which are kept in Double Lock. One set of keys of Double Lock is kept by the Chief Cashier and the other set of the keys remains with the Treasury Officer/Sr. Treasury Officer/Chief Treasury Officer.
In a Sub Treasury, one set of keys of Double Lock is kept by the Deputy Cashier and the other set of keys remains with the Sub Treasury Officer. The Chief Cashier is also in charge of the Single Lock. The Accounts Section keeps the
accounts of all Govt. receipts and payments and also the accounts of Personal Ledger Accounts, Govt. deposits and cash and credit limits.
Superintendent Jail
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The Prisons Administration System is an important part of the Criminal Justice System. The main objective of the Prison Administration is to provide all facilities to detained prisoners while protecting their human rights as per the
Madhya Pradesh Prison Mannual. Along with, for betterment of their life provision of Moral Education and Professional Training has also been made, so that prisoners here should not take prison as some Torture House instead they
should feel that this is some reformatory house for them, where they could get themselves improvised and can get entertained by the refreshment programs of prison.
District Basic Education Officer/Associate DIOS & the other equivalent Administrative Posts
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SA or the Basic Shiksha Adhikari takes care of the primary education in the government schools. She/he has a team of BEO (Block Education Officer) earlier known as ABSA to overlook the primary education sphere in the block. BEO
office is usually situated in a government school compound and she/he inspects the schools regularly. The schools usually have a staff of the principal (Pradhan Adhyapak), Teachers (Adhyapaks), Shiksha Mitra, PTI teachers of educate
the children. There is also an SMC or School Management committee of which the village elected head –Pradhan is also a member.
Assistant Director Industries (Marketing)
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The executive arm of the Industries Department, engaged in the implementation of government policies for all-round development of industries in the state and to make Madhya Pradesh a front runner state in terms of enterpreneur
development, providing a conducive environment for industrial production and investment.
- Role of the Directorate of Industries & Enterprise Promotion are:-
- To promote industrial development and generate employment by implementing programmes and schemes of the Government of India and State Government.
- To provide input for policy formulation for industrial development as well as up-gradation of infrastructure.
- Co-ordination with State and Central Government of policy issues and to frame guidelines for execution.
- Preparation of plans and budget proposals.
Assistant Labour Commissioner
- The functions of regional Additional/Deputy labour commissioners are
- Registration and renewal of shops and commercial establishments;
- Registration and licensing of establishments for the employment of contract labour;
- Registration and licensing for the employment of migrant labour;
- License to carry out Beedi making;
- License to the owner of Motor Transport establishment;
Senior Lecturer DIET
- Duties;: Teaching and Training the State Educational Research and Training Council and its units and in District Education and Training Institute. According to Govt. rule.
Designated Officer
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To ensure achievement of the objectives of food safety, it is advisable to constitute a separate department of food safety headed by senior secretary-level officer. There will be a Food Safety Commissioner in each State who
preferably will not be below the rank of the Joint Secretary of Government of India to plan, structure and implement the food safety initiative in the State. Under the Food Safety Commissioner, there will be a cadre of Food Safety
Officers/Designated Officers/Adjudicating Officers and Food Analysis.
Assistant Commissioner Industries, Statistical Officer
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The headquarters accepts three posts of statistics officers currently. Their main work is to coordinate and supervise the assistant/additional statistical officers in the headquarter and the regions. He also discharges the
pre-decided responsibilities, along with the statistical information received from the regions, he verifies and posts the statistical data received from assistant/additional statistical officers and transmitted it to a higher level.
He follows the instructions and direction of cane commissioner along with deputy cane commissioner and various officers.
Assistant Accounts Officer, (Treasury), Commerical Tax Officer, District Minority Welfare Officer
The compliation and analysis work are done by them is described as below:-
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Additional/Assistant Statistical officer at workplace coordinates with field officers and has to maintain a collection of records, compilation and pre-decided registers and have to transmit to a higher level. This statistics records
is predominantly done by them. They follow the instructions and direction of Deputy Cane commissioner and various officers time to time.
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The secretary, Minority welfare and charity, D.M. of district as survey commissioner sub-divisional officer as Assistant survey commissioner and District Mirority welfare officers as assistant survey commissioner has been declared.
Minority welfare Directorate:
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The directorate and its sub ordinate offices there are one post for the director, one for Joint director offices has been created in the year 1995. There is one post for director, one for Joint director, two for sub-director and one
for the financial officer as directorate level. There are zonal Minority welfare officer posts at zonal minority welfare officer posts at zone level is seven zones.
District Food Marketing Officer
- To implement purchase, storage and transportation of food grains as per the Government Policy.
- To ensure timely allocation, availability and distribution of essential commodities in the district.
- To ensure maintenance and safety of food grains during storage.
- To coordinate with other Departments in the district for implementation of various Government Policies.
Executive Officer (Panchayati Raj)
- He is also District Election Officer and conducts and superintends the general and bye-elections for Panchayats, Legislative Assembly, Zila Parishad, Panchayat Samities, Panchayats and Local Self Governments.
- The Madhya Pradesh District Panchayat Raj Officers Service is a gazetted service comprising Group ‘B’ posts.
Deputy Secretary (Housing and Urban Planning)
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The Town & Country Planning Department, M.P. is the government department for the preparation of Master Plan for cities and towns, along with the Zonal Development Plan. Department is also a technical advisor to all the Development
Authorities, Regulated Areas, Urban Local Bodies of the State of Madhya Pradesh. Other than this, the department is also involved in farming out the State Housing policies.
District Backward Welfare Officer
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For the welfare of backward classes, Backward Class Department has been established in 1995. At present, under this department, Backward Classes Welfare Directorate, Madhya Pradesh Backward Classes Finance and Development
Corporation and State Backward Classes Commission are established.
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Assuming secularism and democratic system as basis, all the citizens of India have been given the right of equality, marginalized and other backward classes of the society have also been given various provisions in Section 14, 15,
16, 335, 338, 339, 340 and 342 to uplift these categories in social, economic and educational terms.
Naib Tehsildar, District Saving Officer, District Panchayat Raj Officer, District Social
Orders of the State Government upon a Tehsildar as such, the principal duties of Tehsildar are:
- to collect land revenue, canal revenue, taqavi, cesses and other Government dues and perform other duties connected therewith in accordance with such rules as the Government may from time to time prescribe
- to see that the land revenue Jamabandies and Jamabandi of asamis of Gaon Sabha, are prepared correctly and in time;
- to see that action regarding assessment, re-imposition or revision of land revenue wherever necessary is expeditiously initiated;
- to see that wherever required by law, timely action for filing suits or initiating proceeding on behalf of a Gaon Sabha or State Government (which includes Collector) is taken;
- to keep in safe custody all Government money and property which may be placed in his charge;
- to supervise and test the land records work; in his Tehsil in accordance with the rules in the Land Records Manual
- to see that the rules in the Land Records Mannual Prescribing the duties of supervisor qanungos and lekhpals are properly carried out;
- to collect supplies for troops marching through the tehsil;
- to report to the Sub-Divisional Officer;
Welfare Officer
- Welfare officers in every factory wherein five hundred or more workers are ordinarily employed, the occupier shall employ in the factory such number of welfare officers as may be prescribed.
- The State Government may presribe the duties, qualifications and conditions of service of officers employed under sub-section.
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The conditions of service of a Welfare officer shall be the same as of other members of the staff of the corresponding status in the factory, provided that no punishment shall be inflicted on a Welfare Officer without obtaining the
prior approval of the Chief Commisioner.
Additional District Development Officer (Social Welfare)
- The Madhya Pradesh Harijans and Social Welfare Gazetted Officers Service is a State and Subordinate Gazetted Officers Service comprising Groups ‘A’ and ‘B’ posts.
District Handicapped Welfare Officer
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The District Differently Abled Welfare Offices are functioning under the control of the Welfare of the Differently Abled Persons (WDAP) Department at the Secretariat Level and under the control of the State Commissioner for the
Differently Abled at the State Level. The District Differently Abled Welfare Officer executes all the work related to the welfare and rehabilitation of the differently-abled persons as per the Orders of the Government under the kind
guidance and control of the District Collector at the district level.
Assistant District Employment Assistance Officer
- Functions of Employment Wing of the Directorate of Employment & Craftsmen Trainig, are- Registration of Job seekers:
- Once of the primary functions of the Employment Exchanges is the registration of the job seekers.
Notification of Vacancies:
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As per “Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959”, all Public and Act Establishments in Private Sector (having employees 25 nos. or more) are bound to notify their vacancies to the nearest Employment
Exchanges before filling it up.
Employment Market Information (EMI)
- Employment Exchanges are involved in the collection of Employment-related Market information.
- Redemption of various Statistical Returns to Govt. of India for compilation, for assistance in the national planning process.
Sub Register
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District Registrar is a District level officer under Registration and stamp department of commercial Tax. Role of District Registrar is mainly of supervision of Registering Authority (Sub Registrar in Madhya Pradesh). District
Registrar (DR) is an appellate court for the determination of the true market value of properties and stamp duties. He is also the collector of the stamp of a District. He is also the member Secretary of district level committee for
preparation of guidelines of a district or collector rate of properties.
Child Development Project Officer
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A CDPO is required to be a planner, manager & administrator, organizer & implementer, educator & communicator and above all a coordinator. CDPOs/ACDPOs are given job training and thereafter refresher training every two years for
effective delivery of services. The learning goals of this job training are:
- To provide easy access to CDPOs who cannot to do job training.
- To act as a guide & educator to the project team.
- To build leadership, motivation and team-building attitude.
- To improve the planning and managerial skills to implement ICDS project. To have the first-hand experience in supervision & monitoring of ICDs programme.
- To be able to manage supplies, equipment and services.
- To act as a good communicator for behaviour change.
How to face MPPSC Interview
MPPSC interview is a 30 mintues to 45 minutes exercise which can change your life. MPPSC Interview is of 175 marks. Being the last round, this would give one, an unassailable lead in MP’s toughest competition
exam i.e. MPPSC. Though the final rank list is prepared by taking the sum of MPPSC mains marks and interview marks, very often we see that interview high-scorers top the final selection list too.
MPPSC Interview preparation
Interview is a half-an-hour exercise which can change your life.
In this post, we present 24 golden tips for success in Interview.
- Start early! It is very important not to lose time. Start early. Don’t wait for the results of MPPSC Civil Services Main exam. Start polishing your personality as early as possible.
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Know your-self The most crucial problem with us is that we don’t know ourselves fully. A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the hearts. We know so many things, but we don’t know
ourselves. Try to know the different aspects of your personality, even hidden or unknown. If any of your personality traits does not suit an MPPSC officer, try to overcome that weakness. /
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Read your bio-data multiple times Most of the questions in Interview will be based on the biodata of the candidate. Copies of the Detailed Application Form (DAF) will be shared with each of the board members.
It is extremely important not to fumble on personal questions. Revise your bio-data many times and prepare well for questions from areas like hobbies, education, work experience, service-preference etc.
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Develop a positive attitude There are many myths and rumors about Interview. You might have bad experiences from previous interviews as well. But don’t let negative thoughts to ruin your chances. Don’t worry
about matters – interview board, position, questions etc. – which are beyond your control. Hope for the best.
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Don’t take Interview in a light spirit Be serious about the process and questions. Give respect to the board members who take your personality test. Never underestimate the persons in the board. They have
vast experience and knowledge. Don’t be too casual on serious questions.
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Develop self-confidence Everyone loves people with self-confidence. If you are sure about your beliefs, answers or solutions, express them confidently. But at the same time ensure that you don’t go overboard.
Remember that the line between self-confidence and arrogance is very narrow.
- Don’t lie Don’t say lies to impress Interview board. Never create fake facts in your bio-data. Very often they will catch you.
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Improve your communication skills Improve your command over the language for Interview. If you search for words in the 25-30 minutes MPPSC personality test, you may run short of time to express your ideas
completely. Listening to debates and news on television channels is one practical way to improve communication skills. Also, start talking with your friends in the medium for Interview.
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Get straight to the point Master the art of giving to-the-point answers. Very often, long answers can be condensed into crisp, but interesting statements. If you need more guidance on do’s and don’ts for
Interview, read our article on civil services interview which is given on our website.
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Don’t stop reading newspapers Candidates often stop reading newspapers once the MPPSC main exam is over. But, information about current happenings is very important for Interview, just like the MPPSC main
exam. Have a general idea about the major happenings for last one year. Also, be familiar with the headlines and stories of the newspapers on the interview day.
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Prepare well on your hobbies Very often this is the first question Interview board ask, many times in a light mood. Make sure you start well. Don’t give cliche answers. Hobbies help the interviewer to
understand the personalities of candidates. Keep practicing your hobbies till the last week before Interview.
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Go through your graduation text books MPPSC expects candidates to take their graduation seriously. As this is one area where the interview panel perceives the candidates to have expertise with. So, more
in-depth questions can come from this area.
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Learn to give balanced answers Your views should be balanced and impartial. This does not mean that you should not take a stand. Ideally, you should have stand – without any political or social ideology. Once
you take a stand on controversial topics, be prepared with your justification for the same. Don’t give sweeping generalizations without a proper base.
- Know your district and state Questions may be asked about the district and state. Collect details about your birth place. Know the problems in your village or city. Be prepared with solutions as well.
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Keep calm The questions may be from a wide area of topics/subject. You sometimes may not be knowing answers of many. If you do not know anything about a topic you are asked, then admit that you do not have
any idea. Don’t panic. Keep calm. Your emotional intelligence matters. Nobody knows about everything under the Sun. MPPSC board obviously knows that.
- Don’t compromise your moral integrity MPPSC not only measures one’s intellectual qualities but also social traits. Ensure that your moral integrity is sound.
- Maintain a positive body language Reinforce your spoken words through your body language. Avoid gestures which do not suit the occasion.
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Understand the real ‘MPPSC Interview questions’ Most of the questions forwarded as ‘‘MPPSC Interview questions’ on the internet are not questions asked in Interview. MPPSC says ‘The interview test is not
intended to be a test either of the specialised or general knowledge of the candidates which has been already tested through their written papers’. Read Clear MPPSC toppers interview section to know about
real Interview experience.
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Don’t be swayed by rumours Many MPPSC Interview candidates are seen to be carried about by the rumours about the personality test. Certain MPPSC Interview boards are seen are tight in awarding marks while
others are perceived as liberal. Though slight variations may come, in reality, all MPPSC Interview boards award high and low marks depending on the performance of the candidate on the date of MPPSC
Interview.
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Use common sense Sometimes MPPSC members ask questions which can be answered just by using common sense. But the stress on the interview day may hamper your thinking process. Realise that common sense is not
common. Expect some puzzles which require on-the-spot critical or lateral thinking.
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Dress neat The first impression matters. But it is not necessary to wear expensive blazers or suits for Interview. Be comfortable with what you wear. For gents, a light colored shirt and dark trousers should
give a professional appearance. A simple churidar or saree is recommended for ladies. Whatever you wear, in that dress you should look confident and neat.
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Re-check your documents We advice to carefully verify the documents before-hand to avoid last minute panic. Ensure that you have all necessary documents ready. Read our article – check list for Interview – to
know about the documents that should be brought in for Interview.
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Take mock Interviews Rehearsals help to avoid common mistakes. Good mentors and friends can find your strengths and weakness and suggest necessary suggestions. MPPSC toppers like Harshal
choudhary (2018 All-India Rank 1) has said that Sharma Academy mock interviews help. They also help to improve your consistency. At the same time, care should be taken not to lose your genuine
personality, because of the confusion created by different opinions from different people.
- Be yourself Don’t try to present before MPPSC board a fake personality. Don’t mug up ready-made answers for Interview. Be yourself and express your opinion.
MPPSC Interview questions
Interview is the last and final stage of the civil services examination. Here you can find some expected interview questions for Interview. We have categorise the Interview questions in several categories for
student's help find the below sample interview question for mppsc exam.
1.1 Personal Questions
- Q.1 What’s the meaning of your name?
- Q.2 What’s the meaning of your surname?
- Q.3 Tell us about yourself?
- Q.4 How would your friends describe you?
- Q.5 What is your roll number?
- Q.6 Why you want to become a civil servant?
- Q.7 Why should we select you?
- Q.8 Who is your role model?
- Q.9 who has been the motivating factor for you to opt for the civil services?
- Q.10 What is your aim in the life?
- Q.11 What is your personal goal in the life?
- Q.12 What will you do if you’re not selected?
- Q.13 What is your plan B?
- Q.14 How do you look yourself five year from now?
- Q.15 Give us an example of a situation where you acted honestly?
- Q.16 Give us an example of a situation where you acted dishonestly?
- Q.17 Which is your favourite newspaper and why?
- Q.18 Which is your favourite magazine and why?
- Q.19 Which is your favourite news channel and why?
- Q.20 Who is your favourite journalist and why?
- Q.21 Which is your favourite movies and why?
- Q.22 Who is your favourite actor and why?
- Q.23 Which is the latest book you have read?
- Q.24 Who is your favourite author and why?
- Q.25 Are you a religious person?
- Q.26 What is the difference between religion and the spirituality?
- Q.27 Are you a religious or a spiritual person?
- Q.28 Which games do you play?
- Q.29 what are the sites you generally browse on the internet?
- Q.30 How can you be an asset for the government?
- Q.31 What is your greatest strength?
- Q.32 What is your greatest weakness?
- Q.33 What is your view regarding your leadership skills?
- Q.34 If you are comfortable, please share a moment where you felt embarrassed?
- Q.35 Have you ever solved a particular problem with some out of box solution?
- Q.36 Do you consider yourself to be a risk taker?
- Q.37 How did you prepare for the Personality Test?
- Q.38 Did you join any coaching institute for the Personality Test?
- Q.39 What motivates you?
- Q.40 Who is your biggest inspiration?
- Q.41 What is the thing you hate the most?
- Q.42 What is the thing you love the most?
- Q.43 What is your favourite fruit and why?
- Q.44 If given a chance with whose life would you want to swap your life and please tell us the reason also?
- Q.45 Do you consider yourself to be an optimist? Why or why not?
- Q.46 If an angel comes to you and asks to make any three wishes, what those would be?
- Q.47 Can you share with us an example where you solved an ethical dilemma?
- Q.48 How do you deal with stress?
- Q.49 Do you consider yourself to be a satisfied person?
- Q.50 What makes you happy?
- Q.51 What’s your idea of entertainment?
- Q.52 What do you do in your leisure time?
- Q.53 What’s the difference between smart work and hard work? To which category you belong?
- Q.54 What’s your definition of success?
- Q.55 What, in your opinion, are the qualities of a good administrator?
- Q.56 Is honestly a subjective thing?
- Q.57 What are three things that are inevitable for success?
- Q.58 If you can plant one idea into my thought process/mind what would that be?
- Q.59 According to you, who is the luckiest person on this earth?
- Q.60 What are the headlines today?
- Q.61 What is your choice in terms of gender for your first child & why?
- Q.62 What is your favourite sport?
- Q.63 Who is your favourite sport person?
1.2 Hypothetical Questions
- Q.1 What will be your priorities if you are the SDM of your district?
- Q.2 What will be your priorities if you are the DSP of your district?
- Q.3 What steps will you take as the SDM if a communal riot breaks out in your area?
- Q.4 What will be the steps you will take as the SDM to improve the administration?
- Q.5 What’s your vision for an ideal district and ideal state?
- Q.6 Suggest certain steps to tackle the problem of illiteracy in your district?
- Q.7 Suggest certain steps to eradicate the problem of poverty in your district?
- Q.8 Suggest certain concrete measures to counter the menace of corruption in your district?
- Q.9 What will be your vision as the Prime Minister of India?
- Q.10 What will be your vision as the Chief Minister of your state?
- Q.11 What would be your plan of action if you are made the finance minister of India?
- Q.12 What would be your plan of action if you are made the defence minister of India?
- Q.13 What will you do if you are pressurized by your political superiors or the seniors to take a step which is illegal?
1.3 View Based Questions
- Q.1 In the light of the fact that smoking is injurious to health should smoking be banned all together?
- Q.2 Should the sale of liquor be banned and the country be made as dry?
- Q.3 Suggest certain reforms for the MPPSC examination?
- Q.4 Are you in favour of compulsory voting?
- Q.5 Are you in favour of reservation for women in the legislatures?
- Q.6 Do you think the entire affirmative action paradigm needs to be redesigned?
- Q.7 Has the reservation system been a success or a failure?
- Q.8 Do you think that the concept of creamy layer in the OBCs is justified?
- Q.9 Do you think the concept of creamy layer should be applied to the SCs and Sts as well?
- Q.10 What are your views on the sting operations?
- Q.11 What are your views on the paid news?
- Q.12 What are your views on the investigative journalism?
- Q.13 What are your views on media activism?
- Q.14 What are your views on the tribal by media?
- Q.15 What are your views related to the judicial activism?
- Q.16 Is astrology a science or superstition?
- Q.17 Is vastu a science or superstition?
- Q.18 What are your vies on the alternative methods of healing?
- Q.19 Please share with us your vision of harnessing India’s demographic dividend?
- Q.20 What’s your opinion about interlinking of the rivers?
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Q.21 Of late, there has been an increasing clamour that the laws meant for the protection of the woman, like the anti – dowry law, are often being misused to harass the men and their families. What are
your views about this?
- Q.22 Has secularism successful in India?
- Q.23 In your opinion is India a beneficiary or a loser in the context of globalization?
- Q.24 Professionals have a narrow point of view and know more about less, which gives them a disadvantageous position vis – a – vis the genaralists. Comment?
- Q.25 Do you think that if the civil servants are suitably compensated, the corruption would stop?
1.4 Questions related to IT
- Q.1 Suggest us some steps to achieve the target of e - governance?
- Q.2 Being an administrator tomorrow, how will you use the Information Technology for the better governance?
- Q.3 What do you understand by digital divide? How can you bridge it?
- Q.4 What are the hurdles in the way of e - governance in India?
- Q.5 Who are netizens? How are they different from the citizens?
- Q.6 What do you understand by the Internet browser?
- Q.7 What do you understand by the term social media?
- Q.8 What do you understand by the term micro blogging?
- Q.9 What do you understand by the term IP address and what is its significance?
- Q.10 What do you understand by cloud computing?
- Q.11 Who owns the Internet and all the information on it?
- Q.12 Please comment on the role of Information Technology in the field of medicine?
- Q.13 What’s the role of Information Technology in the judiciary?
- Q.14 What do you mean by a search engine?
Name a few.
- Q.15 How can we control the obscenity on the internet?
- Q.16 How IT can help in achieving the paperless governance?
- Q.17 State the steps required to start an IT revolution in the government bodies?
1.5 Questions on polity and Constitution
- Q.1 Speak negatively about the India political system for 3 minutes?
- Q.2 Tell us briefly about the various types of motions been used in the parliament?
- Q.3 Do you think the linguistic criterion of forming the states is a right criterion?
- Q.4 Do you think India needs more states?
- Q.5 What are the benefits and problems of small states?
- Q.6 In your opinion which is the most important amendment done to the constitution of India since independence?
- Q.7 What do you understand by the term minority?
- Q.8 What all minorities are being recognized by the constitution of India?
- Q.9 Do you think that the post of the governor should be abolished?
- Q.10 Do you think that it is the time for India to switch over to the presidential form of government?
- Q.11 What are your views regarding the opinion polls and the exit polls?
- Q.12 Should there be state funding of elections?
- Q.13 What is the meaning of the term delegated legislation?
- Q.14 What is double jeopardy?
- Q.15 What do you mean by Colourable legislation?
- Q.16 What are the different types of majority needed to pass bill in the parliament?
- Q.17 Is the prime minster of India the need of the government or the need of the states?
- Q.18 What is the national language of India?
- Q.19 Should the maximum age of the civil services be reduced?
- Q.20 Should there be any minimum educational qualification for a person to be a minister?
- Q.21 Should uniform civil code be applied to India?
- Q.22 Briefly tell us to significant recommendations of the second administrative reforms commission?
- Q.23 How can you justify the concept of the Rajya Sabha when its members are not elected by the people?
- Q.24 What are your views regarding section 377 of IPC?
- Q.25 What are your views regarding section 309 of IPC?
- Q.26 What do you mean by the basic features of the constitution?
- Q.27 Should we do away with such a lengthy constitution?
- Q.28 What do you understand by the concept of Lokpal?
1.6 Questions related to governance and public administration
- Q.1 What do you mean by the governance?
- Q.2 Pease tell us some of the important initiatives taken by the government of India in the field of e - governance?
- Q.3 What is the difference between the government and governance?
- Q.4 Is there any alternative to bureaucracy?
- Q.5 What is the contribution of bureaucracy, in the development of this nation?
- Q.6 What has been the impact of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation on the Indian bureaucracy?
- Q.7 What are the important problems being faced by the Indian bureaucracy?
- Q.8 What do you understand by the term social audit?
- Q.9 What do you understand by the term human resource audit?
- Q.10 How the corruption can be reduced in the bureaucracy?
- Q.11 What do you understand by the term decentralized planning?
- Q.12 What do you understand by the term participatory democracy?
- Q.13 What do you mean by the administrative law? How is different from the law of the land?
- Q.14 What do you mean by the term public policy?
- Q.15 What do you understand by the term citizen charter?
- Q.16 How the geography affects the public administration of any area?
- Q.17 How is public administration different from the business administration?
- Q.18 What traits of private organizations should be adopted in the public administration?
- Q.19 how the public administration can make more efficient?
1.7 Questions on economy
- Q.1 Speak negatively about the Indian economy for 1 minute?
- Q.2 What do you understand by corporate social responsibility?
- Q.3 What do you understand by repo rate and reverse repo rate?
- Q.4 Do you have an idea about what is the Gandhian economic model?
- Q.5 Do you think that the Gandhian economic model is relevant today?
- Q.6 What do you understand by the term the stock exchange? Why is it called so?
- Q.7 Can you name some regulatory authorities of India in the different fields? Please comment on their working.
- Q.8 What do you understand by the security transaction tax?
- Q.9 What is structured unemployment?
- Q.10 What is disguised unemployment?
- Q.11 Please differentiate between the budgetary deficit, fiscal deficit and the primary deficit?
- Q.12 What do you mean by balance payment?
- Q.13 What role doest the foreign reserve play in the economy of a country? What are the factors on which this is dependent?
- Q.14 What steps should India take to tackle the energy deficit?
- Q.15 Do you support Disinvestment?
1.8 Questions based on science
- Q.1 What is biometric identification? How does it work?
- Q.2 What’s the principle behind the working of a microwave oven?
- Q.3 What is the basic principle behind the particle accelerator used to find the Higgs Boson?
- Q.4 What is Higgs Boson?
- Q.5 What are the advantages and disadvantages of nuclear energy?
- Q.6 What do you mean by Green House farming?
- Q.7 It is claimed that Indian ancient Science was much ahead of the contemporary science. What are your views on this?
- Q.8 What do you mean by a supercomputer? How many super computers do we have?
- Q.9 What is the difference between an LCD and an LED TV?
- Q10. What is the difference between the GSM and the CDMA technologies?
- Q.11 What do you mean by biotechnology?
1.9 Questions on ecology and environment
- Q.1 What do you understand by the Greenhouse Effect?
- Q.2 What do you understand by global warming? What are its main causes?
- Q.3 What are the harmful effects of global warming?
- Q.4 What are the steps been taken by the Indian government to control global warming?
- Q.5 What do you understand by the term carbon footprint?
- Q.6 What are the carbon credits?
- Q.7 What do you understand by the term eco tourism?
- Q.8 What step can be taken to stop the melting of glaciers?
- Q.9 What is Kyoto protocol?
- Q.10 What is a green building?
1.10 Social Issues
- Q.1 Speak negative for the Indian social system for 2 minutes?
- Q.2 What are the reasons behind the crime against women in India?
- Q.3 Do you think that the problems being faced by the women in the rural and urban areas are different?
- Q.4 What do you understand gender neutrality? How can it be achieved?
- Q.5 Do you think that the men and women have different abilities of handling a particular situation? Who is better in your opinion?
- Q.6 Please tell us certain programs that have been started by the government of India for the upliftment of the women?
- Q.7 What do you mean by universalisation of the elementary education? Critically comment on the role of private sector in the educational system of India.
- Q.8 When it comes to the world class educational institutions, India is still lagging far behind. What are the reasons for this?
- Q.9 What do you mean by the Human Development Index?
- Q.10 Why is India such a low rank in the HDI?
- Q.11 What do you understand by consumerism? Is it good or bad for the country?
- Q.12 What do you understand by westernization of the society? Is it good for the country?
- Q.13 what is “Happiness Index”? How is it different from HDI?
1.11 Questions on foreign policy and India’s relations with the world
- Q.1 What are the major challenges the India foreign policy faces today?
- Q.2 What should be India’s priority areas in terms of foreign relations?
- Q.3 What do you think are the areas where the Indian foreign policy needs to be reviewed?
- Q.4 Do you feel that the current Indian foreign policy has remarkably diverted from the Nehruvian foreign policy? In your opinions is this shift a positive or a negative thing?
- Q.5 Is the NAM relevant today?
- Q.6 Is the SAARC relevant today?
- Q.7 Can you suggest a solution to Kashmir problem?
- Q.8 Should the line of control be transformed to the international boundary?
- Q.9 What do you mean by the Track 1 Track 2 and Track 3 diplomacy?
- Q.10 What step should be taken to tackle the recent Chinese excursion at the Sino – Indian border?
- Q.11 What is Look East Policy?
- Q.12 What do you mean by Look West Policy?
1.12 Questions on defence and strategic framework
- Q.1 What do you understand by the term geopolitics?
- Q.2 Can you illustrate how the geopolitics of the Indian subcontinent has impact over India’s foreign policy?
- Q.3 What are the major challenges to the Indian maritime security?
- Q.4 What steps should be taken to modernize our armed forces?
- Q.5 What do you have to say about the recent accusation of corruption in the armed forces?
- Q.6 Should private companies be included in the production of various defense requirements?
- Q.7 Who is a field marshal?
1.13 Questions on Geography
- Q.1 What is the total length of India’s border?
- Q.2 What is the total length of India’s maritime boundary?
- Q.3 How many islands does India have?
- Q.4 What are the prospects of the wind power energy in India?
- Q.5 How can India realize its complete hydel power potential?
- Q.6 What are the opportunities and challenges provided by the unique climatic conditions in India?
- Q.7 Can India be administered better if the states are based on the geographical divisions?
1.14 Questions on the judiciary
- Q.1 What do you think is the primary cause for such a huge pendency of cases in India? Can you suggest some steps to reduce it?
- Q.2 What do you understand by the concept of the fast – track courts?
- Q.3 What do you understand by the term rule of law?
- Q.4 What do you understand by the term Natural justice?
- Q.5 What do you understand by the term due process of law?
- Q.6 What are the challenges being faced by the Indian judiciary today?
- Q.7 What do you mean by the public interest litigation and who introduced this concept to the Indian Judicial system?
- Q.8 Have the consumer courts been effective?
- Q.9 What do you understand by the quasi judicial powers? In what authorities these powers are entrusted?
1.15 Questions on similar words and terms
- Q.1 Can you differentiate between debate, speech, declamation and discussion?
- Q.2 What is the difference between the All India Service and the Central Service?
- Q.3 Is there any difference between the renewable energy and non conventional energy?
- Q.4 Please differentiate between inflation, deflation and stagflation?
- Q.5 What’s the difference between recession and the economic slowdown?
- Q.6 What is difference between an epidemic and endemic?
- Q.7 What is difference between a militant and terrorist?
- Q.8 What is difference between a high commissioner and an ambassador?
- Q.9 What is difference between terms geostationary orbit and geosynchronous orbit?
- Q.10 What is difference between a copyright, a trademark and patent?
- Q.11 What is the difference between the twins and the clones?
- Q.12 What is the difference between growth and development?
- Q.13 Please differentiate between a biosphere reserve, a national park and wildlife century?
- Q.14 What’s the difference between the terms climate and weather?
- Q.15 What is the difference between the rule of law and due process of law?
- Q.16 What is the difference between the human rights and the fundamental rights?
- Q.17 What is the difference between a leader and a manager?
- Q.18 What is the difference between leadership, administration and management?
- Q.19 What is the difference between recession and depression?
- Q.20 What is the difference between FDI and FII?
- Q.21 What is the difference between cost push inflation and demand pull inflation?
- Q.22 What is the difference between Economy and economics?
- Q.23 What is the difference between Trade and Commerce?
- Q.24 What is the difference between Games and Sports?
- Q.25 What is the difference between Officer and Official?
- Q.26 What is the difference between a woman and a female?
- Q.27 What is the difference between Marriage and wedding?
- Q.28 What is the difference between Polity and politics?
- Q.29 What is the difference between Geography and geology?
- Q.30 What is the difference between Gadgets and Machines?
- Q.31 What is the difference between Fashion and style?
- Q.32 What is the difference between Drugs and Medicine?
- Q.33 What is the difference between Plan, Programme and Policy?
- Q.34 What is the difference between Accountability and Responsibility?
- Q.35 What is the difference between Administration and Management?
- Q.36 What is the difference between Author and Writer?
- Q.37 What is the difference between Anonymous and unknown?
- Q.38 What is the difference between Culture and civilization?
- Q.39 What is the difference between values, morals & ethics?
- Q.40 What is the difference between Leader & Manager?
- Q.41 What is the difference between Government and Governance?
- Q.42 What is the difference between decentralization, delegation, devolution, deconcentration?
- Q.43 What is the difference between Race and ethnicity?
- Q.44 What is the difference between the plebiscite and the referendum?
- Q.45 What is the difference between the civil service and public service?
- Q.46 What is the difference between the naxalism and maoism?
- Q.47 What is the difference between communalism and fundamentalism?
1.16 Weird Questions
- Q.1 What is so good about this morning?
- Q.2 Why you selected a particular color for your shirt for today?
- Q.3 How many times you cross your tie to make a tie knot?
- Q.4 If one square inch of your head contains 1000 hair, then what is the approximate number of hair on your head?
1.17 Questions on general awareness
- Q.1 What do you mean by meditation?
- Q.2 What do you understand by yoga?
- Q.3 It there any difference between the yoga and meditation?
- Q.4 What is ‘Classical’ about classical music or classical dance or classical singing?
- Q.5 What do you understand by white revolution, blue revolution, orange revolution, yellow revolution, pink revolution, rainbow revolution?
- Q.6 What do you understand by the term medical tourism?
MPPSC mock Interview
Interview is the last and final stage of the coveted civil services examination. After this stage, aspirants are selected for different positions in civil services. Here are a few mock interview for aspirants
for idea how the Interview is conducted.
How to prepare for MPPSC Interview
Being your preparation early, preferably within a fortnight or a month of completion of the main examination. Do not wait for the results of the examination. If you could not do so in this window of time,
then begin at the earliest. The first phase of preparation can start with a more purposive reading of newspapers and magazines.
Current Affairs and Social Issues The issues of national and international importance and even those of regional or local signification often from the nucleus around which the interview
revolve. Getting a good grasp of such issues is of essence. However, the focus in interview is not on mere facts and figures, but more on issues, their appreciation and analysis.
Such articles are often found in the editorial page of the top national dailies, which must be preserved properly and comprehended fully. To give a wider coverage to their preparation, aspirants must go
through a couple of national dailies. Similarly, one must read at least one good news magazine.
Note – making It should be very precise as well as concise. Once has gone through the article, one must reflect on it and ask oneself, is it of relevance to me? If yes, then is it worth
making a note or can I mentally summarise the essence of article and possibly remember it till the interview stage? Am I in agreement with what is stated in the article ? If not, why? Always en-deavour to
analyse the viewpoint expressed . Does the viewpoint conform to logic and reasoning? Is it falling within the constitutional and legal framework
How is it for the larger good of our nation and its people? Thus, develop your own perspective Identify the most important points which the article is emphasising upon. Note such three to five salient points
in a small note book/spiral pad/ memo page of your smart phone. Revise them whenever you catch a few moments of spare time during the day
Television Television too is an important aid for preparation. However, exercise discretion in what and how much television you should watch it is advisable to switch to prime time news on
national channels like, Doordarshan, Rajya – Sabha TV, Lok – Sabha TV, etc. look out for those programmes which carry views and opinion of eminent people. Listening to all India Radio ( FM Gold) and
programmes like News at Nine, Market Mantra ( economic news programme ) are equality good options
Internet Internet has emerged as a viable option for all of the above and more. Besides reading news papers, magazines watching/ hearing news programmes etc. internet resources are rather
valuable while working in areas related to one’s personal profile ( DAF). Further, good articles can easily be saved in soft form or important capsules of article be compile. However, beware, net surfing can
be addictive and at times a drain on your time.
Books This phase of preparation is also an opportunity to widen your horizons of thought by reading good books, particularly non-function. Target at least a couple of books per month. Books
authored by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, RamchandraGuha, Narayan Nikani. Etc. Which reflect on word issues, India and its society economy, polity etc. are definitely good value for time. Besides, do look out for
specific books pertaining to areas of your interest, hobbies, state of domicile, or even those connected with the discipline of your current job/occupation.
MPPSC Interview tips
For the interview you need not to prepare anything separately, it is that scoring area of Exam where you can get high marks with less hard work. Focussed areas should be:
- Biodata related questions
- Hobbies
- Academic Background and Job profiles (if working)
- Important Current happenings
It is not the test of your knowledge (already checked in Mains exam), but it is the test of Personality. How confident, polite and firm we are and how much conviction we have in our answers. Give some mock
interviews to check and if needed polish or communication skills as these marks can be proved to be very useful in getting you the desired rank and service.
MPPSC Interview marks
The interview test will carry: 175 marks.
MPPSC topper Interview
‘MPPSC Topper’s Interview’: Here you will read about MPPSC toppers, their strategy, planning and various aspects of exam from their angle. We are giving you a short overview of their preparation journey. This
will help you to understand MPPSC exam more clearly. We have 4 Toppers withus they are sharing their thoughts and expereinces about MPPSC Exam and Interview it might help you in your success.
MPPSC Interview videos
One of the best sources for Interview preparations without any cost is through watching mock interviews. Sharma Academy is preparing mock interview videos for aspirants to give them a idea of real Interview
environment. At Sharma Academy's you tube channel you will get lots of mppsc preparation material and excellent mock interviews and special tips and suggestions for cracking the interview phase of MPPSC.
MPPSC Interview in English
If you want to give interview in English then from starting to end you should go for English medium but if you want to give in Hindi opt for Hindi medium from starting to end. Some candidates give their
introduction in English but after that answer questions in Hindi and English. This practice should not be opted. Even if your medium in Mains exam was in English you can choose your medium for interview. But
it should be one language HINDI or ENGLISH.
Interview plays an important role in your selection and up gradation of post This is the most versatile part of the exam process where you can get high marks with comparatively less hard work. Areas of focus
: Bio-data , Hobby , academics and job profile if you are working. Current affairs and contemporary social issues and government policies. Rest everything about interview is unpredictable. So its better
prepare everything because it decides your selection & post.
MPPSC Interview coaching
Sharma Academy is the best coaching to prepare for MPPSC interview. Surendra Sharma sir guides the aspirant in a very systematic way. Interview is the last and final stage of the coveted civil services
examination. After this stage, aspirants are selected for different positions in civil services. It is very important not to lose time. Start early. Don’t wait for the results of MPPSC Main exam. Start
polishing your personality as early as possible. It is a better way to join a coaching for Interview preparation where you will get a group of students who are in same stage as you are. You will get practice
Mock Interview that will help you to face main interview and other hand you can discuss with your classmates about various current topics which is helpfull for detailed knowledge of subject.
MPPSC Interview coaching in indore
Sharma Academy is number one coaching for preparation of MPPSC Interview. Sharma Academy guides you about the 4 important steps for interview. Few steps he really focuses on are:
Step 1: Research Make sure you research the every thing you write in your bio data, About your city, state, if you are in job then have answer about current post and comapny also. By doing
this, you'll be more prepared to answer questions such as- Why do you want this position? It is extremely important not to fumble on personal questions. Revise your bio-data many times and prepare well for
questions from areas like hobbies, education, work experience, service-preference etc.
Step 2: Practice Before your interview, ask a friend to help you practice or you can make a group of friends who are in final interview stage for mppsc, Find sample
interview questions so that you can role play. While your interviewer may ask you questions that you haven't
practiced answering, the chances are high that you will have practiced answering some of them.
Step 3: Appropriate Dress The first impression matters. But it is not necessary to wear expensive blazers or suits for Interview. Be comfortable with what you wear. For gents, a light colored
shirt and dark trousers should give a professional appearance. A simple churidar or saree is recommended for ladies. Whatever you wear, in that dress you should look confident and neat. wear decent clothes
(but it does not influence your marks).
Step 4: Punctuality Imagine the poor impression made when a job candidate arrives late to an interview. To avoid this disaster, make sure you know exactly where the interview will take place.
Reach before 30 minutes from your given time and adjust your self their.
MPPSC Interview classes
Sharma academy provides the special classes for Interview, we focus all mains appearing students for their interview preparation. We tech several points to students regarding interview like-
- Dressing sense
- Body language
- Eye contact with interviewer during question asked
- How to answer the cross question
- What was the subject in 12th and graduation, why he choose this subject, which college for graduation they choose and why.
- Why he wants to appear mppsc exam
- Family background, father occupation
- If any gape between mppsc preparation and graduation then why it is happen all these are the general questions.
- If any student can't answer any question then how to answer that very cleanly.
- How to prepare resume and profile for Interview.
- If any student have some hazitation or fear of interview then we prepare the students for this situations.
- We focus every student, and convert their weak points into strong points for interview, so they can clear it easily.
MPPSC Interview Institute
Sharma Academy is the best coaching institute for MPPSC in MP, We make make student for all three phase of the mppsc exam pre main and interview.
- We provide digital education to student
- we provide free of cost tablet
- Having special package (MPPSC Foundation Course) for 12th passout students digital class room, free tablet, test series
- If any student can't ask their doubts or question in class room we have separate session for them personally we solve the queries of students.
- Doubt clearing session
- Subjective offline and online test series.
If any student wants to appear for mppsc and seeking the coaching class then only the sharma academy is the best class for mppsc in MP.
MPPSC Interview Panel
Interview is the last and final stage of the Selection in MPPSC Exam. Interview panel is the team who takes the interview of the candidate, mortally there are 3-4 members in Interview panel member.
- Honorable MPPSC Member
- Subject specialist (University Professor)
- Ex-bureaucrats (IAS, IPS officers)
- Psychologist
1 is Ho’nble chairman and other two members one might be lady member it depends on the Interview board's decision who will be other 2 interviewers.
MPPSC Interview Board
MPPSC Interview Board is the team who controls all the decisions of the mppsc exams we can say it is the same as mppsc board. There are few main team members. 1. Chairman, 2. Member 1, 3. Member 2, 4. Member
3, 5. Member 4, 6. Secretary, 7. Controller of Examination. Chairman is the first person under him many comity members role play and work.
MPPSC Interview Total Marks
Interview Test:The interview test will carry 175 marks.
MPPSC Interview Time
MPPSC Interview is the last and final stage of the coveted civil services examination. After this stage, aspirants are selected for different positions in civil services. Normally MPPSC Interview continues
for 20-45 minutes. But it depends on candidate and interview panel board members.
How to crack MPPSC Interview
Do not give wrong answer, simply say no or sorry if you don’t know the answer. -Be confident, polite and firm. -Take a stand on any topic if required but also respect the views of interviewer -if you know a
portion or part of answer, ask them to try or reply a bit before doing so. -show all your ethic here :P -wear decent clothes (but it does not influence your marks)
MPPSC topper Interview in English
MPPSC 2018 Topper Harshal Choudhary's interview sharing his thoughts for Sharma Academy teaching methodology, test series, lectures, notes and wishing good luck to all aspirants.
Click Here to watch full video of MPPSC 2018 Topper Harshal Choudhary
MPPSC Interview previous year questions
MPPSC Interview में विगत वर्षों में पूछे गए प्रश्न
- पहले MPPSC दिया है तो क्यों पास नहीं हुए?
- DC क्या होता है?
- आप सुपरवाइजर हैं तो आपके कार्य
- नेता के गुण
- सरकार, शासन, प्रशासन में अंतर
- इतिहास का कौन सा राजा पसंद है?
- आपने अपनी प्राथमिकता DC क्यों रखी?
- DC का ग्रेड पे कितना होता है?
- अगर किसी महिला को किसी ने अपने घर से बाहर निकाल दिया आप क्या करोगे?
- आप नायब तहसीलदार हैं, तो अब क्या बनना चाहते है?
- वर्तमान के ज्वलंत सामाजिक मुद्दे क्या है?
- भारत की प्रमुख समस्या।
- डायरी लेखन में क्या लिखती हो?
- आपको DC बना दे तो शुद्ध जल सप्लाय करने के लिये क्या करोगे?
- SDM क्यों बनना चाहते है?
- क्रिकेट का आपके चयन में क्या योगदान है?
- घबराहट तो नहीं हो रही है आप तो योग करती हैं नहीं हो रही होगी।
- DC के काम बताइये।
- ईमानदारी क्या है?
- क्या पढ़कर आए है?
- आप ARMY में क्यों नहीं गये?
- आपके पिता किसान हैं तो आप उनकी क्या मदद करते है?
- Maths से M.Sc. किया है तो त्रिभुज की विशेषताएं बताइए?
- शून्य और एक का गुणा।
- लोक सेवा आयोग क्या है?
- आपकी हॉबी क्रिकेट है, तो गुगली एवं कैरम बॉल में अंतर इनका प्रयोग किस-किस गेंदबाज।
- आप डी.एस.पी. बनकर क्या नया करोगे?
- पटवारी भ्रष्ट होते हैं आप नहीं है उनका तो यही नारा है पैसा दो काम लो।
- पिछले इंटरव्यू में क्यों चयन नहीं हुआ?
- इतिहास के तीन महान शासक बताएं व क्यों प्रसिद्ध है?
- DC और पटवारी और NT के कार्य एवं अधिकार।
- कितनी बार पीएससी दे चुके हैं?
- आप अपने गाँव के लोगों के बीच में बैठकर क्या-क्या सुझाव देते है?
- किस क्रिकेटर को कैंसर था?
- महिलाओं के लिए क्या किया जाना चाहिए? समाज के क्या दायित्व हैं? आप As a DC क्या करोगी?
- आपकी पढ़ाई में काफी गैप है क्यों?
- आप Office कब जाते है, कैसे जाते है?
- MA हिन्दी से क्यों किया?
- आपने निबंध किस Topic पर लिखा?
- आप विकास खण्ड अधिकारी हैं तो आपके कार्य क्या है?
- आत्मकथा और जीवनी में क्या अंतर है?
- पटवारी हो तो हड़ताल ही करते रहते हो, क्यों?
- क्या आप जागरूक है? हाँ तो कैसे?
- मनुष्य की परिभाषा क्या है?
- पढ़ाई के year का क्रम क्यों बदला है?
- अर्थशास्त्र के लिए कौन सी किताबें पढ़ी है?
- आपके पति क्या करते है?
- कलेक्टर का हिन्दी क्या है?
- Biodata Related प्रश्न
- आपके चश्मे का नम्बर क्या है?
- आपको DC क्यों बनना है पटवारी अच्छा नहीं है?
- आज के पेपर में क्रिकेट की खास न्यूज बताएँ।
- धर्म और कर्तव्य में किसे पसंद करोगे?
- DC बनने के बाद अंतरजातीय विवाह के लिये क्या करोगे?
- सेवा और लोक सेवा में अंतर।
- Crops को हिन्दी में बोलकर बताओ।
- आप ने B.Ed. क्यों नहीं किया?
- आप पटवारी है तो आपका ग्रेड पे कितना है?
- तीन अच्छाइयाँ एवं तीन कमियाँ
- तुम्हे महिला बाल विकास अधिकारी बना दें तो क्या करोगी?
- इतने सारे विभाग क्यों बदल रहे हो?
- DC का विभाग कौन सा होता है?
- आपके परिवार में कितने सदस्य है?
- आप ही बताओ भारतीय राज्यव्यस्था के बारे में।
- और कौन-कौन सी परीक्षा देते हैं?
- अच्छा आपका अर्थशास्त्र है तो इससे क्या पूछें?
- आपको DC या DSP बनाते है तो आप अपने घर को कैसे मैनेज करोगे?
- आपके जन्म दिवस पर और किस प्रसिद्ध व्यक्ति का जन्मदिवस आता है?
- DJ और DM की शक्तियों में अंतर।
- आपकी हॉबी क्या हैं कहाँ-कहाँ घूमे हैं आप पर्यटन में?
- नौकरी मिलने पर क्या आरक्षण छोड़ दोगे?
- कठोर दण्ड की व्यवस्था क्या जरूरी है?
- आपका चयन क्यों किया जाए क्या आप योग्य है?
- बालश्रम को कैसे रोकोगे?
- यदि आप को कोई भी जॉब मिले तो क्या आप कर लेंगे?
- आप लगातार क्यों असफल हो रहे है?
- ये आपका कौन-सा इंटरव्यू है?
- समाज सेवा कैसे करोगे उदाहरण बताओ।
- इतिहास क्या सिखाता है?
- क्या DJ, DM और DM, DJ को अपनी कोर्ट में बुला सकता है?
- योग की विशेषताएँ?
- लोकायुक्त के क्या कार्य है?
- आपका Ph.D टॉपिक क्या है?
- आप इस स्तर पर कैसे पहुंचे?
- असफलता को किस रूप में लेना चाहिए?
- आपने आगे पढ़ाई क्यों नहीं की?
- पुलिस में जाना चाहेंगे?
- सरकार को आप दो सुझाव क्या देंगे?
- आपके नाम से मिलते किसी व्यक्ति का नाम सुना है इसका मतलब बताओ?
- सजा, क्या लोगों को सुधारने का कठोर संदेश है।
- आप UPSC की तैयारी क्यों नहीं करते?
- आप अपने गृह जिले की पाँच विशेषताएँ बताइये?
- पटवारी बदनाम क्यों है?
- आपके पास एक हेक्टेयर खेत है तो उसमें फीट, स्क्वायर फीट क्या है?
- सूर्य के पुत्र यमराज और शनि के बारे में क्या जानते हो?
- प्रशासन में क्यों आना चाहते हो?
- गांव से है आप तो गाँव के दो गुण।
- वर्तमान जॉब से संबंधित प्रश्न?
- लिव इन रिलेशन आज के दौर में सही है या गलत?
- आपकी हॉबी टेनिस है तो खेल परिसर या कोर्ट की लम्बाई एवं नेट की लम्बाई बताइये।
- महिलाओं के लिए क्या करोगे?
- स्कूल से संबंधित प्रश्न।
- आप अभी क्या करते हो?
- ये आपका कौन सा प्रयास है?
- आपके जीवन की कोई ऐसी गलती, जिसे आप जिंदगी में दोहराना नहीं चाहेंगे?
- आप सिविल सर्विस के बारे में क्या सोचते है?
- आपने अभी तक शादी क्यों नहीं की?
- पिताजी के कौन-से गुण पसंद है?
- आपने B.com किया है तो वाणिज्य कर निरीक्षक को अंतिम प्राथमिकता क्यों दी?
- अगर आपको DC बना दिया जाये तो समाज के लिए क्या करोगे?
- भारतीय राज्यव्यवस्था में क्या पढ़ के आए हो?
- पहली बार में ही कैसे सफल हो गये Mains की परीक्षा के बारे में बताइये?
- अपने क्षेत्र के प्रमुख व्यक्तियों के नाम
- आपको कभी ऐसा लगा है, कि आप तनावग्रस्त रहे हो, उससे निपटने के लिए आपने क्या किया?
- आप PSC क्यों कर रहे हो?
- नेता के अवगुण
- आपका उच्च अधिकारी एक काम के लिए कहता है और उससे भी उच्च अधिकारी कुछ और कहता है, तो आप क्या करेंगे?
- आप अपने नाम की पाँच विशेषताएँ बताइये?
- ग्रामीण क्षेत्र में बालिकाएं शाला को बीच में क्यों छोड़ देती है?
- भारतीय संस्कृति को कैसे बचाया जा सकता है?
- आपके आदर्श कौन है?
- वाइड बॉल पर किस तरह से आउट हो सकता है?
- GST के पाँच-पाँच लाभ और हानि बताइये?
- Famous डायरी लिखने वालों के नाम बताओ?
- आप प्रोफेसर क्यों नहीं बने?
- आपने MA राजनीति विज्ञान से किया है, सामाजिक क्षेत्र से क्यों नहीं किया?
- आपने अपनी मुख्य परीक्षा में कोई सप्लीमेन्ट्री कॉपी ली थी?
- आपको क्या बनना है अफसर, नौकर, अधिकारी?
- आज की मुख्य खबर क्या है?
- नक्सलवाद की समस्या से निपटने के लिए आप क्या सुझाव देगे?
- सीटीजन चार्टर क्या है?
- आपने किया civil engg. है, आप उस field में काफी अच्छा कर सकते है, फिर प्रशासन को क्यों चुना?
- अधिकारी अच्छा प्रशिक्षण दे रहा है, किंतु वह अपने घर पर अपनी पत्नी को प्रताड़ित करता है, तो यह आप कैसे रोकोगे?
- क्या पढ़ के आये हो? - भारतीय राज्यव्यवस्था
- आपको अगर प्रधानमंत्री चुना जाये तो आप कालेधन पर कैसे कार्य करेंगे?
- तैयारी कहां से की?
- आपकी Hobby ट्रेवलिंग है उससे जुड़े प्रश्न।
- पहली बार में आप कैसे सफल हो गये MPPSC परीक्षा में?
- आप क्या पढ़ाते हैं, अन्य अलग पढ़ाने में आप क्या करते है?
- डिप्टी कलेक्टर के पद पर रहते हुए राजनीतिक दबाव को कैसे सामना करोगे?
- Job करने क्यों गये थे?
- लोकसेवा में कितने विभागों की सेवाएं है तथा कब लागू हुआ, हाल ही में शामिल सेवाओं के नाम बताएं।
- पिताजी क्या करते है। उनके कार्य?
- आप बीवी, बच्चों एवं परिवार पर कितना ध्यान देते हैं?
- आपके पदों की प्राथमिकता?
- नोटबंदी के फायदे।
- Job क्यों छोड़ा?
- Mains में कितने मार्क्स थे पिछली बार?
- सिविल सर्विसेस ने आपको कैसे आकर्षित किया?
- दलित की परिभाषा बताइये।
- पूर्व इन्टरव्यू से क्या सीखा?
- बेटा कितना बड़ा है?
- पुलिस का लक्ष्य क्या है?
- आपके नाम का मतलब एवं दो पर्यायवाची
- आपको कौनसा फूल अच्छा लगता है?
- N.C.C. का पूरा नाम बताइए
- बंटवारा, नामांतरण और सीमांकन क्या है?
- आपको कौन सी पोस्ट दी जाए?
- समाज की ऐसी क्या समस्याएँ है कि व्यक्ति आत्महत्या तक करने पर मजबूर हो जाता है?
- आपने होलकर कॉलेज से पढ़ाई की है बहुत कम लोगों को मिलता है कैसा अनुभव रहा?
- खुद पढ़ने के लिए टाइम कैसे निकालते हो?
- न्यू इण्डिया कैसा होगा?
- यदि मैं और आप रेलवे स्टेशन पर खड़े कही जा रहे हैं और इतने में कोई भिक्षुक रूपये मांगने लगे आप क्या करेंगे?
- आप फॉर्मेसी करके यहां क्यों आए?
- DSP बन के क्या पहला काम करोगे?
- भगवान पर फूल क्यों चढ़ाते है?
- दहेज प्रथा के अलावा और सामाजिक बुराईयां बताओ।
- आपने बी.ई. किया है और उसी फील्ड की रेलवे की जॉब में थे तो वो छोड़ कर क्यों आए?
- आपका विषय M.Sc मेथमेटिक्स है इस पेंसिल में कितनी केमिस्ट्री है बताइये।
- क्या आत्महत्या सामाजिक बुराई है?
- देशभक्ति और जनसेवा में किसे पसंद करोगे?
- क्या कारण है कि भारत में क्रिकेट का क्रेज अन्य खेलों की तुलना में इतना ज्यादा है?
- लोग पुलिस की डर के मारे इज्जत करते है या दिल से
- इतने अच्छे प्रतिशत है तो M.Sc क्यों नहीं किया?
- यदि मैं किसी बंद कमरे में फाँसी लगा लेता हूं तो इसमें समाज का क्या दोष?
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