Interview Test
Interview: 1
Year
: 2010
Candidate
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
Chairman
1. You Name; Roll no; Date of Birth
2. You have been working in this company.. Solution net Technologies.. What
was your project about?
3. IT (Income Tax) is today being computerized lot of e-facilities have come up
but it is still unwieldy.
What do you think should be done?
4. Your hobby is carnatic music – name the 4 people from the classical music
stream who have won?
Bharatratna
5. Now something about Tamilnadu (I really thought he was going to ask me
something about Nithyananda.. but it was goof).. Why is it in the southern
states… that actors put up a good image in cinema but when they come to
politics they are rouges but still people go and vote for these people?
Member – 1
1.
Define remittance
2.
Is remittance included in GDP
3.
What is the unit of percapita?
4.
How do you calculate per capita
5.
Why are poor poor?
6.
Why is your livelihood better than theirs?
7.
Are you aware of NREGA? How do they use computers in NREGA?
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Member – 2
1. What is SWIFT?
2. Who are the tri-murthis of carnatic music?
3. What do you know about Herbert Simon?
4. How did he revolutionize computers?
5. Have you visited MS Swaminathan foundation?.. What are their activities?..What
language is their site in?
6. Have you read this ------------ book
Member – 3
1. What is it that the Govt. of India has deprives of its citizens for long and is
taking efforts currently?
2. Define sanitation
3. What is the percentage of toilets in India?
4. Despite knowing the importance of toilets and having sufficient resources why
Isn’t the Govt. providing sufficient toilets?
5. Which is the longest river in the world (Nile)..what countries does it flow
through?
6. What is the source of river Nile?
7. How do you calculate the starting point of the rivers?
8. Compare raga of carnatic music and that of Hindustani music
Member – 4
1. You hobby is bharathanatyam.. name the other major classical dances in India
2. Give the major proponents of the other classical dances.
3. Name the major lakes in North America
4. What is this BT Brinjal Issue about…what is the GEAC
5. Who is new army chief?
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Interview: 2
Year
: 2010
Candidate
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
Optionals
: Sociology & Tamil Literature
Chairman
1. You Passed in 2006. Why you didn’t work anywhere? What is the reason?
2. You are bring money from your family, why you be a burden to your family?
3. Are you prefer IPS as first?
4. What are the steps you taken so far to join police service?
5. Why you want to join police service?
6. Do you know police reforms?
7. Do we need reform?
8. Why we need it?
9. How you say it?
10. Who is the Home Minister?
11. Who is Prime Minister?
12. Who is the Prime Minister before him?
13. Ok. I ask before the last term who is our Prime Minister?
Member – 1
1. Ok, Do you know Central Police Commission?
2. What are the issues going on Tamilnadu currently?
3. What is the Social issue currently going on in Tamilnadu?
4. Where it occur? Tell some incidents?
5. What are other districts affected by caste conflict?
6. Dou you hear the news of Nobel peace prize recently awarded?
7. The prize awarded to whom?
8. Why he is in jail?
9. Is it interference of internal affairs of china by the Nobel authority?
10. Do you know the name of the awarded?
11. Tell something about Tamilnadu?
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Member – 2
1. What RTI?
2. What is it impact?
3. What is it impact in Tamilnadu?
4. How much percentage of people engaged in AGRI in Tamilnadu?
5. You will guess it?
6. Tell any two national leaders those who inspired you lot?
7. Tell something about Subash Chandhira Bose?
8. Girish Carnad made a documentary film about Subash Chandhira Bose. Did you watch
it?
9. I asked many South Indians this question, but most of them didn’t watch it. What is the
reasons?
Member – 3
1. (He ask the question but I can’t understand it so I want him to repeat once more. But he
can’t get it, Chairmen convey it for me. But I can’t understand second time also. So he
ask the question third time) How you measure the
Electric motor efficiency?
2. As a Electrical Engineer you must know it?
3. Ok. How we measure the mobile phone efficiency?
4. Like wise how we measure the administrative efficiency?
5. Ok, What are the key factors to self evaluation?
Member – 4
1. What is Sovereignty?
2. Tell something about World Bank?
3. India brought many loans from World Bank, Is I affect our Sovereignty?
4. India is a Welfare State or not?
5. How you say it?
6. Is really India work for it?
Chairman
1. Last year one incident takes place in Naxalite area, do you know the incident?
2. Ok, you are posted in a Naxalite affected area, some Naxals killed your personal 40 or
50. Two days after that your police officer cached the accused. He has no arm, wants to
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surrender, but your officer in an emotional state shot down the accused. What will you
do in that Situation?
3. Enactment of Law impact society in any way?
4. But still we are have high crime rate? Is there any fault I Law?
5. Do you know a social acicest doing fast?
6. What is his motive?
7. Do you accept it?
8. Will you arrest him?
9. Did you travel any place across India?
10. What do you think about Delhi?
11. Compare Delhi and Chennai?
12. Where you Reside?
13. What is the nearest city to your village?
14. Then compare Madurai and Delhi?
15. Which city people is good in the sense of helping tendency?
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Interview: 3
Year
: 2010
Candidate
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
Chairman
1. What is the meaning of kaushik?
2. What is so special about Vishwamithra?
3. Have you read Ramayana?
4. Do you know where was Rama born?
5. Are south Indians “Rakshashas”?
6. What are Bharat IV standards? Give a brief ides.
7. Why do we refine petrol?
8. What is limit on sulphur content of petrol in bharat IV standards?
9. Which is better, changing engine or fuel?
10. Why is it better to change the engine?
Member – 1
1. Why dowry system is prevailing in south India?
2. Why there is dowry system in India then?
3. How can it be controlled?
4. Do you know what latex is?
5. What are the additives added to latex?
Member – 2
1. How can develop rural India?
2. Many talk about industrialization, can we introduce large scale industries in rural areas
for development?
3. Instead of introducing large industries, what else can be done?
4. Do you think, improving and increasing the cottage and small scale industries, will work?
5. What is mustard gas?
6. What is mustard?
7. Where is it grown in India?
8. What are its uses?
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Member – 3
1. What do you browse in the internet?
2. Any recent news about social networking sites, its problems?
3. How to prevent crimes like cyber bullying and data theft in social networking sites?
4. “I am getting too many friends request in social networking sites, what should
avoid them”?
5. What is dual use technology?
6. What is NCC’s motto?
7. What have you learnt from NCC?
8. Did they teach you to fly?
9. Did you shoot in NCC?
10. What Rifle?
11. What was the most difficult thing you experienced in NCC?
12. Why do you say that Rifle drill was the most difficult?
Member – 4
1. What is the difference between information and knowledge?
2. How do you prepare phosphate fertilizers?
3. Do you know India’s defense expenditure?
4. Do you think it is too high?
5. If it is high, why do you think so?
6. What can be done to reduce it?
7. Do you think localized production and indigenous technology will reduce the
expenditure?
8. Why not privatization of army or outsource it?
9. Why don’t you favor outsourcing of our fighting forces?
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I do to
Interview: 4
Year
: 2010
Candidate
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
Chairman
1. So you did your Degree in 2004 and are you doing now?
2. What do you find peculiar in this post?
3. What are the new innovations you can bring in your job?
Member – 1
1. If you are posted as an IAS what will you improve for the down trodden?
Member – 2
1. What is industrial Biotechnology?
2. In industries what is done with the waste? What are the harmful effects of land fill?
Member – 3
1. Where did you get the NCC B certificated from
2. How fast can you solve a 5 star Sudoku
3. What was the latest book you read?
4. What do you whistle classical or film movies?
5. What is the new skill development mission?
Member – 4
1. Throw some light on BT – Brinjal
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Interview: 5
Year
: 2010
Candidate
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
Optionals
: Geography & Tamil Literature
Chairman
1. What is your Name?
2. What do you mean by Selvarasu?
3. Have you achieved this objective/parent wishes? – I smiled. He told himself ‘not yet’
4. After next 10 year what will be your position?
5. In your job, after next 10 year what will be your position?
6. Do you have planned to continue the Government jobs up to retirement?
7. So, how can you achieve your parent objective
Member – 1
1. How do you control electricity theft?
2. Shall we privatize the electricity?
3. When Israel formed and what is the problem between Israel and Palestine?
4. What are the solutions for this problem?
Member – 2
1. Tamil Literature is your optional. Do you know about Bharathiyar?
2. Tell me two lines from Bharathiyar poem and translate to English?
3. For what Bharathiyar known for?
4. You are communication student. You are working in Panchayat development.
communication is useful for development?
5. When will communication be effective? Is it reaching all area equal?
Member – 3
1. What is UNO?
2. What is its objective? International peace
3. Has it achieved this objective?
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How this
4. What happened in Afghanistan and Iraq issue?
5. Tell me some other regional organization – SAARC, ASEAN
6. What are the countries in ASEAN?
7. Has this organization achieved their objective?
Member – 4
1. You have won prizes in poetry competition. Have you writing poem nowadays
2. You had worked in internal audit. What did you do in it?
3. External audit is there. What is the difference between internal audit and external audit?
4. External auditor are not doing proper audit by getting money from
organization, is not it?
5. Who is present CAG?
6. What is the difference between CAG and your audit?
7. Why are there so many audits like Internal audit, External audit, CAG? Is it
overlapping each other? Is it necessary?
Chairman
1. Have you visited any other state other than Tamil Nadu?
2. How many states are in India?
3. Tell me some North Eastern states?
4. What are the problems in North Eastern States?
5. What are the solutions for this?
6. Do you know about Nagaland problem? Which parts of other states they are claiming
for greater Nagaland? Tell me some leader’s name in this outfit.
7. Have you heard about Assam problem
8. When was the ULFA started? What is its objective?
9. Which movies last you watch?
10. Which actor you most like? Why?
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Interview: 6
Year
: 2010
Candidate
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
1. What is the relation between socio and history?
2. Types of monsoons in India, west Bengal, Tamil Nadu
3. Physiographic of Tamil Nadu,
4. Sociological problems in Tamil Nadu
5. What you will do to remove caste system
6. Burecracy difference between Weber and Marx
7. Where lies fallacy of Marxism
8. Individual contribution you can make to remove casteism
9. Nuclear energy.. is it really good?
10. France stopped nuclear how good then?
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Interview: 7
Year
: 2010
Candidate
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
1. Why did you select history and anthropology as option, instead of your engineering
subjects?
2. Are you really interested in your academic subjects?
3. Is the north India history dominates the Indian History?
4. Tell me about south Indian Historians?
5. Is Anna Hazara’s fasting is legal?
6. Did you get permission from your parents to study competitive exams in case if you
depend economically on your parents?
7. Will you seek permission if you are economically independent?
8. Did you smoke? What are the causes of smoking?
9. Media’s impact on smoking?
10. Causes for declining of the join family?
11. Present scenario of parent and children relationship?
12. What are the uses of IT in e-governance?
13. Will the e-governance reduce, corruption?
14. How was election process in Tamil Nadu?
15. Is Tamil Nadu, the only best administered state in India?
16. Do you know Ananda vikada?
17. What was today’s editorial in the Hindu?
18. Do you support reservation?
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Interview: 8
Year
: 2010
Candidate
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
Chairman
1. You do pencil sketching, what kind of sketching you do?
2. Good. You plan violin too
3. What is the difference between western violin and carnatic violin
4. Are you working in TCS?
5. What are you doing there?
6. What is a Google gadget?
7. Good. Ok tell me what is unique about upsc?
8. No, leave the functionality, something else, it is related to your public
administration….
9. In other words..?
10. It is a constitutional body, ok, Tell me the millennium Development Goals
11. No problem what are the targets
12. Ok Can you tell the numerical targets for each goal
Member – 1
1. What is the social media and impact of social media on the society?
2. Will it replace the present TV and other news media?
3. Technology is developing on one side but on the other side we have ill literacy. How to
solve this problem?
Member – 2
1. Now there are lot of virtual libraries on the internet. What is your view on that?
2. What you did as the placement representative of your class?
3. What is your achievement in that?
4. What will be the future of IT?
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Member – 3
1. Can you name some Indian violinists?
2. Can you tell the name of the two sisters performing violin shows?
3. What is practical difference between carnatic raga and Weston while playing Violin?
Member – 4
1. Tell me something about Thanjavur and its economy?
2. If you were the collector of Thanjavur district. What will be your top two Properties?
3. Why shouldn’t we convert land for industrial purpose?
Member – 3
1. What will you do if you were the PM of India for a day?
Chairman
1. (langhs) they will start sleeping
Member – 3
1. Many have the technique of sleeping while keeping their eyes wide opened. You know?
Chairman
1. What is referendum?
2. What is going on in UK?
3. What is the difference between the two
4. Which is best for UK according to you?
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Interview: 9
Year
: 2010
Candidate
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
Chairman
1. Your name is Nivas, sounds very different is it.
2. I will call you Nivas.
3. Nivas are you working anywhere.
4. When did you join
5. You are under training?
6. What training you are provide there
7. Tell me what is the reason for this shift from engineering to police
8. See you were working as a project engineer in water treatment plant as an engineer
and you were serving many people.
9. Police sometimes are not serving the people what do you say about this.
10. Is it being given in you academy,
Member – 1
1. So you are in training, what laws are you being taught.
2. Now tell me why confession B4 police is not accepted
3. Not required, tell me you are a DSP nad the Government doesn,t belive in your
statement do you want this to change.
4. Ok fine, will you support change in law that confession B4 police can be admitted
5. Tell me in Tamil Nadu the police are siding on any of the two parties AIADMK OR
DMK, why is this interference.
Member – 2
1. Tell me whatever you have read any book on period between 2 world wars.
2. Ok now carefully listen to this statement “The bristishers treated India like cows and
the French treated India like their mistress “What can you infer.
3. No you did not understand the meaning of mistress
4. You will to grow up to understand the meaning of mistress. By the way half you are
answer was right.
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Member – 3
1. So you are from VIT – a deemed university.
2. Tell me this deemed universities are good or bad
3. So no government seats in deemed universities
4. Tell me any 3 famous deemed universities.
5. That’s fine, don’ t you know of IISC, BITS pilani
6. You should have told no.
7. Ok do you think IITs are serving the purpose?
8. How many are there now.
9. Earlier it was 7, now is 15. Do you think this no is enough?
10. So what is the optimum no – can we have on in every state.
11. Though the IITs are good, may of the iitians go abroad and brain drain happens.
12. That’s after 1190 only
13. Do you think they have achieved their purpose
14. Then what the problem (member was helping me all through and finally when i said
research is not made practicable he and chairman gave a nod)
Member – 4
1
(This person was from north east – he was very emotional – I never was able to
satisfy him in fact I escaped from his question saying im now in training once I ve
field experience I can tell better)
2
This person asked ABT insurgency, he said in north east there are more security
personnel per person. What you will do to increase morale of police.
3
Ok this is the final question – is a unipolar world possible now? What is multi polar
world?
Chairman
1. Tell me some regional players.
2. Tell me some regional players.
3. I asked you about unipolar and you are answer is different
Member – 3
1. Came to my rescue he explained B4 cold war situation and present situation. also
told regarding multipolar you are answer is right.
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Interview: 10
Year
: 2010
Candidate
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
Chairman
1. Which part of globe is morning now (3.15)?
2. Number of time zone in USA?
3. About your name
4. Story of Murugan & Ganesh
5. Type of Mango given to Lord Ganesh?
6. What are you doing presently?
7. Which places in India you visited so far?
8. When did you come Delhi last?
9. Tell me the difference between last year and now of Delhi?
10. Which board & what happened in last interview?
11. There is one neighbour who keeps on gives us problems time and again. Because of
which our country not able to achieve the actual growth than what we are now, if that
neighbour is not there, we would have grown to a greater level than now. So that
neighbour is Pakistan. We have been talking for past 60 years with them but till now
nothing achieved. Is that the only solution? Is there no other alternative?
12. Is Pakistan parliament represent all sections of people there?
13. What is the name of parliament of Pakistan?
14. Why other than elite i.e low class & tribal people not represented?
15. Tell me 6 great events in the last 6 decades happened in India
16. Don’t you think 1991 LPG policy as great event?
17. Also land reforms after independence?
18. Do you know how much land a person in having in Pakistan?
Member - 1
1. What is the difference between Administration & Management?
2. Administration – process & management – result oriented do you agree?
3. Can you bring changes in administration while working within the frame work of law?
4. What are the changes made in administration in last 6 decades?
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Member – 2
1. Tell me the theories of Geography?
2. What are types of regions in world and in India? Not only climate based but also
cultural
3. Geographical & cultural basis of our federation? Is it correct & going well?
4. Tell me the features of Federation?
5. Federation vs Unitary? Which is better?
6. Features of Unitary in India?
Member - 3
1. Tell me the disputes with Pakistan (other than Kashmir)
2. What is EU?
3. Common things among EU continues?
4. Schengen agreement?
5. Which EU country want to become part of EU?
6. Criteria for joining EU?
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Interview: 11
Year
: 2010
Candidate
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
Chairman
1. What happens wrong in Bhopal gas tragedy?
2. Have you studied it in your college as case study
3. Whether union carbide is sole wrong doer in this.
4. Why came to government service after studying in chemical engineering
5. What is the scope of chemical engineering now a days.
6. Tamil Nadu already well in social indicators and good in investment climate and
industrial exposure so, what will you do if you are posted in such developed state
and what will be your priorities.
Member -1
1. What is unique is Tamil letters
2. What were the sounds absent in Tamil
3. What is the no of berth in a compartment
4. Differentiate dictionary encyclopaedia and directory
5. To days new regarding MCI
6. NRHS and nursing
Member – 2
1. What is famous in panruti
2. What is your favourite in Tamil literature
3. What is sangam
4. Silapatikaram why it is written in a secular form
5. Principles of silambu
6. Manimekalai why it is written in based form
7. What is sillaidai
8. What is the contemporary nadaga Tamil
9. Who wrote it
10. Where does he belongs to...
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Member – 3
1. What is to days significance
2. Chemical weapon and biological weapon
3. Tell me one example
4. What are famous auto industry in Chennai
5. What is meant by organic dyes
6. How do you dispose Chemicals and what is the handling procedure for chemicals
Member -4
1. What SPICMACY
2. What is the difference between insurgency and terrorism
3. What is naxaliasm
4. What is CBI
5. What is LCD and LED
Chairman
1. What is the issue regarding Sethu Samuthiram project
2. Why peoples are blocking such economic development project what is Ramsethu
3. What can be done to promote such development project and what you will do.
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Interview: 12
Year
: 2010
Candidate
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
1. Who is Safduarjung, since many places in Delhi are named after him?
2. What is your job nature in Bank?
3. What is the nature of an IAS officer in the entry level?
4. Give details of the US Healthcare bill?
5. Socio –economic problems in India?
6. About the internet banking frauds?
7. Name the Special Train for women announced?
8. Nature of security in bank, explain ATM
9. Analyse the immolation problem
10. Role of information officer in controlling the media?
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Interview: 13
Year
: 2011
Candidate
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
Chairman
1. Are you working presently?
2. What is the nature of consultancy you are doing now?
3. In what way you think that (5 Consultancy) would be useful to civil services
4. What are your service preferences? Why did you not opt for IPS?
5. What are the two major ills that are plaguing the administration? What are the
reforms needed to rectify them.
Member - 1
1. You are a chemical engineer. What are the natures of companies you have worked
in. What they manufacture and what are its uses.
2. What kind of phosphating chemical you manufacture. Is it magnesium phosphate or
zinz phosphate? Which one is better?
3. What is the appropriate phosphate coating thickness you maintain? What is the unit
of measurement? Is it in microns or GM/SQ. Inch?
4. What is the ideal bath temperature that you maintain?
Member - 2
1. One of the products you manufacture seems to be rodentified.
2. What are the steps you take to carefully dispose the effluent?
3. What is the technique you use to treat the effluent?
4. Do you know any latest technology in waste water treatment?
5. What is the ISO specification for environment related issues?
Member - 3
1. If you are an administrator What kind of benefits that you would give to organizations
/ regulation for the chemical industries in your area in order not to dispose untreated
effluents.
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2. What are the major health ailments that are caused due to chemical effluents?
Member - 4
1. You mentioned about 5s Techniques. Can you elaborate it & compare its
developments in Japan as well in India. You have mentioned your hobby as
collection of taglines. Name some taglines that have interested you & what is the
reason behind it.
2. Explain the purpose of taglines. Do any government organizations have taglines?
3. To what extent 5s Techniques & taglines can be used in administration.
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Interview: 14
Year
: 2011
Candidate
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
1. What type of books do you read?
2. Have you read books in your mother or any vernacular language?
3. Is there a book which has been of influence in your lift?
4. Do you support Any Rand’s concept of individualism?
5. What was Gandhiji want to go for rural development?
6. Why did Gandhiji want to go for rural development?
7. Why did India not develop along the lines of Gandhiji’s Model?
8. Do you support Gandhiji or Nehru model of development? Why?
9. Was modern technology the reason for the decay of the Indian economy in the 19th
century?
10. Do you think if we pursue the development of rural industries it would cause a decay
of urban industries?
11. Having studied French in school can you talk and communicate in that language?
12. What are green buildings?
13. Who planned the city of Chandigarh? Name few of his other buildings.
14. Which building do you admire the most? What features of that building did you like?
15. Name a few Indian architects
16. With cities becoming concrete jungles can you provide some alternative to it?
17. Can low – cost sustainable technology by used in the development of our cities?
18. Which is the last amendment to the Indian constitution?
19. Having had so many amendments in a short span of time can we re –write the
constitution?
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Interview: 15
Year
: 2011
Candidate
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
Member -1
1. What is system Engineering.
2. What is turbo charged engine
3. Where have you travelled, give me instance of a place you visited for pleasure,
4. Why is Harley Davidson so famous and what bike do you have (am a Mechanical
Engineering work experience required lot travel, my hobbies included travel and bike
touring)
5. What is crop combination (Geography optional)
Member – 2
1. What do you think about Delhi corporation being divided into 5 (news)
Member – 3
1. Tamil Nadu politics – comment. Who do you think will win the election, is corruption
going to be a deciding factor in the election.
2. One situational Question – You are IAS going to receive CM but on way you see a
person who is struggling for life having met with accident, what will you do.
3. What is your service choice in order and why that way (Mine was a conventional
order only – IAS, IFS, IPS)
Member – 4
1. Another Hypothetical Question – you an IAS officer, local politician is troubling you...
how will you handle him?
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Interview: 16
Year
: 2011
Candidate
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
Chairman
1. You are doctor and doing Managing Director am I right
2. Why do you leave Managing Director
3. Managing Director in which branch
4. If you want to serve people you can take Managing Director SPM (Social and
Preventive Medicine)... why did you take Managing Director (General Medicine)
5. Can we accept BT. Brinjal.
6. why Government opposes by.Brinjal
Member – 1
1. What is meant by Naxalism
2. What is meant by Regionalism
Member – 2
1. In
a
human
body
as
systems
you
will
diagnose
and
treat
that
him
accordingly...similarly in administrative system how will you Diagnose problems and
rectify them.
Chairman
1. I am hypertensive patient... can I go to mountain.
2. What is the principle behind pressure cooker?
Member – 3
1. How animals become extinct due to human activities (Sparrow)
2. What is meant by homeostasis.
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Member -4
1. What is the name of bird that become extinct (Kiwi bird)
2. Which drug causes death in animals but no in human.
3. Artificial milk.
Chairman
1. Tel about your state’s strength and negatives.
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Interview: 17
Year
: 2011
Candidate
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
1. Why civil services?
2. Importance of post mortem?
3. Why post mortem when the cause death is know like shooting for eg?
4. 1 year baby with accidental kerosene ingestion (1 spoon), mother insisting on no MLC
registration, what would you do?
5. Name 2 life style diseases?
6. Why myocardial infarction is more common in the young nowadays?
7. Why is it not the case in the west?
8. What is health?
9. Difference between physical and mental health?
10. Name 2 mental disorders?
11. What is schizophrenia?
12. What are the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
13. Who is the famous personality in house arrest for > 15 years and released recently?
14. Name some award won by Aung san suu kyi?
15. Why in house arrest?
16. Why USA not able to release her?
17. Which is the largest country in the world?
18. Which is the smallest country in the world?
19. Have you visited anganwadi?
20. What are the works carried out in anganwadi?
21. What are the functions of primary health centre (PHC)?
22. State of PHCs and anganwadis in Tamil Nadu?
23. What is your opinion on Binayak sen’s arrest?
24. Why were you given CM award in XII standard?
25. Why children of police personnel are given awards in Tamil Nadu?
26. What are the functions of police after a crime has occurred?
27. In what cases police can prosecute and deliver judgements?
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28. How can India reduce its dependency on fossil fuels?
29. Conventional and non conventional energy resources?
30. Define energy security?
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Interview: 18
Year
: 2011
Candidate : xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
1. Why a shift in career from engineering to administration?
2. West Asia peace process: America role
3. Iran’s uranium Enrichment Programmed; Sanctions; Role of Diplomacy; Chances for
pre – Emptive strikes.
4. Tax reforms in India; Contrasting US tax policy
5. Many factual questions from north east and Sikkim.
6. Earthquake Zonation; Earthquake resistant buildings; Reservoir induced Seism city
(RIS); significance of India ocean.
7. Except international issues and north east questions most of the questions relate to
my Bio data.
8. (Confused) PSA interrupts and says he is talking about Vendanta industries of
Orissa.
9. No I’ am talking about the word Vendanta?
10. What do you know about policies towards informal and formal migrants from
developing countries to European countries what policies have been taken towards
them?
11. What about USA?
Member – 2
1. These days there have been lot of talks about different regulatory bodies in India like
MCI, NCHER, etc. What is your take on it. Should
they be merged into one
integrated body or they should work as different bodies?
2. Have you have heard of IPR
3. Can you explain what it is?
4. Ok, these days lot of new companies are coming and talking up patents in agriculture
...have you heard of anything like this?
5. What effect does it have..?
6. Can you tell any specific example?
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7. (not very convinced) can you elaborate.
8. (again not very confident)
9. You have lived in Tamil Nadu. Andhra Pradesh is near to Tamil Nadu. In AP lot of
agricultural universities are working and producing creative agri – models but still
there are lot of farmer suicides. What is the reason?
10. No, But still there are lot of models being implemented. I want a specific answer why
in AP this problem is present.
11. Have you heard of Police Act?
12. (PSA interrupts, that is what Supreme Court has directed, and he is asking
something else.) When was the original police Act passed?
Member – 3
1. Yes now you are on track. Now tell me why was it passed by the Britishers?
2. Not only that, it was also passed to give the SPs enough powers to collect the revenue
from the people and SPs use to work directly under the DMs?
3. Have you heard of police Commissionarate system?
4. What system is in Tonk where you were born and what system is in Chennai.
5. These days powers of DMs have been diluted and SPs have been granted more power
for law and order. Do you think this relationship be diluted.
6. Yes you are correct (Pause of 2-3 seconds) yes you are correct (my confidence was
back. After giving some unconvincing answers for 1st 10 minutes finally something
concrete come out)
Member -4
(Drops in again)
1. (He explained me about secret ballot system in the Parliament for nearly 6 minutes.
Even after listening to him hard I could not make a word out it what he actually meant
and what they wanted from me. I had a horrific expression on my face he has a Bengali
accent.)
PSA
1. Do you remember when was the no – confidence motion adopted few years back for
what purpose?
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2. Yes, in that congress has X MPs and when secret ballot was done no one knew from
where extra MPs came out. It remained a mystery. Do you think this system of secret
ballot should be removed?
3. Don’s you think it will create lot of uncertainty in the system.
Member -4
1. xxxxx, I am not from technical background. You have written Robatics as you knobby.
Can you explain me what is a Robot?
2. Do you know about movie Robot?
3. What did you like in the movie?
4. I’ll you what was there in the movie. There was a robot which finally became
uncontrollable and then it was difficult to control it.
5. Do you think such intelligence should be given to Robots?
6. You mean man should drive the robots and robots should not drive man.
7. Can you tell how can be useful to society? Can you give some examples?
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Interview: 19
Year
: 2011
Candidate
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
1. Why no preference to IPS and IFS?
2. As a citizen, how do you expect police to be?
3. How many nuclear reactors are there in India? What was the first?
4. Taking in to account the catastrophe in Japan, do we need nuclear energy? What is your
view?
5. Do we need to proceed with Jaitapur?
6. What is 3G? Does it benefit common man?
7. How is local administration working in Tamil Nadu? Does it require any improvements?
8. Was the SHG movement is really doing well in Tamil Nadu? Or, is it just an eyewash?
9. Women are killed in Tamil Nadu? What would you do as an administrator?
10. About SIDDHA?
11. What are the other traditional treatments in India?
12. How does AYUSH differ from folk’s treatment?
13. Say about anything read by you?
14. Difference between public and private administration?
15. What is SCHEDULE 6? What are the constitutional mechanisms available with regard to
that?
16. Articles dealing with it?
17. Why don’s you go for teaching?
18. What is the health status of women? What are the schemes available? How to improvise
it?
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Interview: 20
Year
: 2011
Candidate
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
1. Meaning of my Name.
2. What are all the Rural development schmes?
3. What is Krishi vigyan Yojana?
4. What is National Knowledge Network? How does it function?
5. What is distance education?
6. How does IGNOU functions in respect of distance education?
7. What is Regional Planning?
8. Which is more effective – regional planning or national planning?
9. Whether your home town is a developed area or under developed area?
10. What are all the development oriented functions taken up in your area?
11. Compare Delhi and Chennai in terms of pollution?
12. Important dams or reservoirs in your area?
13. Where from Mettur dam gets water?
14. What is catchment area?
15. What is limited company?
16. How may satellites were sent through PSLCV c16?
17. PM’s award of excellence in public administration
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Interview: 21
Name
:
xxxxxx
Roll No.
:
xxxxxx
Board
:
xxxxxx
Year
:
2012
Duration
:
25 mins
Chairman
1.
Tell me your Name, Date of Birth and Roll No?
2.
You have done engineering from BITS Ranchi. Have you ever seen a washing
machine?
3.
What are the operations performed by a washing machine?
4.
I am giving u the name of countries. You have to tell me their capitals: Morocco,
Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Sudan, and Somalia?
5.
What is common amongst all these countries? Why were they in the news?
Me: Political unrest but she told it is dictatorship
6.
What is the cause of this unrest?
7.
What was the cause of Libyan crisis?
Member: 1
1.
Why some districts are performing better while others aren’t?
2.
What reforms would you suggest for District administration?
3.
How can we better implement the Govt. schemes?
Member: 2
1.
Have you heard about Steve Jobs?
2.
Tell me about his management style?
3.
Why he was so successful?
Me: Innovation
4.
How can u bring about innovation in the administration?
Member: 3
1.
Is India a democratic country?
2.
What do you mean by democracy?
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3.
What the tool people have in the democracy?
4.
What is the age of voting in India?
Member: 4
1.
What is right to recall?
2.
Can it be implemented in India?
3.
What is first past the post system?
4.
What are the alternatives?
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Interview: 22
Name
:
xxxxxx
Chairman
:
xxxxxx
Year
:
2012
1.
What’s your name?
2.
Your D.O.B?
3.
Your Roll No?
Member:1
1.
We have faced lot of security challenges in our country since independence, now do
you feel our country is secured in the present circumstances?
2.
How is the security situation now compared to post independence time…?
3.
What is rule of law…?
4.
Do you see rule of law exists in India…?
5.
If you are posted as an SP of a Naxal district, what will be your priorities?
6.
What all do you learn in geography…?
7.
How will you use geography in administration…?
8.
What are the different fossil fuels..?
9.
What is the difference between coal and oil & natural gas in terms formation…?
10.
Please name few islands in Andaman Archipelago.
11.
We see lot of English names for those islands. Why is it so…?
Member:2
1.
What is fuel cell?
2.
How does a photovoltaic cell function?
3.
What is photo voltaic effect?
4.
Which state are you from?
5.
Do you know Pondicherry
6.
What is Pondicherry famous for?
7.
What is that Auroville?
8.
Have you read Aurobindo Ghose’s Book?
9.
What is he known for?
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10.
What is diesel?
11.
There is a peculiar feature about diesel that differentiates it with other fuel. What is
that?
Member: 3
1.
You have been member of NSS, what all did you do?
2.
Did you attend any camp through NSS?
3.
What all activities did your team carry out in the camp?
4.
What did you learn from NSS and how will it be useful in administration?
Member: 4
1.
What is VAT?
2.
What is Lok Adalat?
3.
Do they take up both civil and criminal cases?
4.
Can you name few subjects that are dealt by Lok Adalat?
5.
What is biodiesel?
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Interview: 23
Name
:
xxxxxx
Roll No.
:
xxxxxx
Year
:
2012
Chairman You must be going for walking or jogging right?
Me Yes Sir.
Chairman Where do you go? In the nearest park right?
Me Yes Sir
Chairman How big is the park, very big or very small
Me Adequately big sir
Chairman What do you watch in the park?
Me Birds, trees, Flowers, Sir
Chairman What kind of birds do you see, name some?
Me Sparrows, Mynahs and cuckoos, etc. Sir?
Chairman what kind of flowers do you see?
Me Roses, Seasonal flowers from the trees now, sir.
Chairman What kind of trees do you find?
Me Neem tree, crotons….uhhhmmm(thinking so badly for tree names)
Chairman Is croton a tree?
Me Sorry Sir? It’s not a tree….nothing comes to my mind at this moment sir….
Chairman No problem. Tell me what are the measures taken to conserve trees in India?
Me Sir, we have framed a national forest policy, 1988, we have implemented
programmes like agro-forestry, social or community forestry, and recently we have
created CAMPA – Compensatory Afforestation Management and Protection
Authority.
Chairman What is COMPENSATORY Afforestation?
Me Sir, for development projects and for the need of timber, we have to clear forest
lands and trees. They must be replaced somewhere in order to maintain the
minimum number of forest cover. Thus the loss is compensated in a sustainable
manner sir.
Member:1 Your optional are geography and psychology; I would like to know about our
atmosphere. Can you explain me?
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Me
Sure sir, of the geographical pentahedral i.e., lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere,
human sphere and atmosphere, this atmosphere is very dynamic. It has different
layers like troposphere, stratosphere.
M1
Where is ozone?
Me
It is in the lower layers of stratosphere and above tropopause.
M1
What’s ozone hole?
Me
Due to CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, the harmful gases lead to the depletion
and formation of a hole in this layer (Actually it should have been CFC
EMISSIONS)
M1
What are GHGs?
Me
CO2, nitrogen dioxide (actually, its nitrous oxide),,,etc..Only these gases come to
my mind now sir.
M1
Is water vapor a GHG?
Me
Yes sir…water vapor is also a GHG
M1
In the HEP plants, water vapor is released into the atmosphere. Does this
contribute to GHG emission?
Me
Sir in HEP plants, steam is used to run the turbines to generate power. Then it is
cooled to liquid form and then only released out in streams. Even if a minimal
amount of vapor if released into the atmosphere, the hydrological cycle will take
care of it. It’s a GHG because it has the ability to hold heat in it. (Actually I made a
blender by saying steam being generated in hydro electric power project.)
M1
What are the effects of ozone hole?
Me
It will result in the entry of harmful UV radiations leading to chlorosis in plants i.e,
yellowing of chlorophyll pigments in leaves, skin cancer in animals and man,
melting of glaciers contributing to the increase in global sea levels too, sir.
M1
What are the rays from sun that reach the earth’s atmosphere?
Me
Sorry sir, cosmic rays reach us but, I am not aware of any specific rays from
sun..(Probably he might have had solar flares in mind)
Member:2 So, since 2006, you have not joined any job?
Me Sir, I have done my graduation in law after my zoology while simultaneously giving
my attempts since then. After my law, I have dedicated it fully for this exam from the
last year.
Chairman acknowledged it by saying the member 2 that I have done a graduation in
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law after 2006…
M2 Well you are a law student, can you explain land acquisition?
Me Sure sir, LA is the taking over of the lands by the Government, be it revenue or forest
land, for the purpose of DEVELOPMENTAL activities by providing appropriate
reparation to the people who were resettled by the same.
M2 What about the condition of the act?
Me Now the rehabilitation and resettlement part must be preceded before the onset of the
project. There is also an environmental aspect in it. Proper EIA must be done and also
the gram sabha’s consent is mandatory sir.
M2 What is land tenancy?
Me Sir, the landless farmers rent the land for a particular season by paying the rent in
cash or in gain form. This time period is considered as a tenancy.
M2 You are the co-ordinator of Tsunami rehabilitation program in your college. What is
that factor that contributed to the damage?
Me Sir, before the onset of Tsunami, the sea receded back first. It actually attracted
people to go towards the sea to watch this phenomenon with surprise. Even after the
onset of Tsunami waves, they got wonder stuck without running to sager places…this
is because of the LACK OF AWARNESS about these deathly waves.
M2 Do you think that the government was prepared for it?
Me No sir, even the Government is unprepared to it. We never expected Tsunami in
Indian Ocean region. Excepting the technical people, general populance is grossly
unaware of it.
M2 What are the measures taken by the government after this event?
Me After 2004 disaster, the parliament enacted a national disaster response force teams
are positioned along the coastal areas.
M2 Which institution is responsible for alerting such events?
Me Sir, it’s INDIAN NATIONAL CENTRE FOR OCEAN INFORMATION SERVICES at
Hyderabad that has placed DEEP OCEAN ASSESSMENT AND REPORTING OF
TSUNAMI buoys which deducts the sea waves and sends radio signals to this centre.
This centre in turn assesses the signals and alerts the coastal districts immediately.
Then the NDRF teams are set in motion and proper protocols are followed.
M2 Usually these plans are in papers. They are not implemented. For example, there are
fire extinguishers that never work when there is a fire
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Me Sir, the act itself provides for the periodical review of the preparedness plans, to
conduct mock drills along the coastal areas and also to create awareness among the
people.
Member:3 Which island contributed to the development of a theory by a nature biologist?
Me Mam, its Galapagos Island that belongs to Ecuador in Pacific Ocean, visited by
Charles Robert Darwin that led to his thesis: On the origin of species by means of
Natural Selection.
M3 Well, who is the Austrian Scientist who also worked on natural selection?
Me (I waited for a member, Madam herself told it was Mendel) I acknowledged by: Yes
mam, its Gregor John Mendel.
Member:4
Who was the person the contributed to the development of science in India?
Me Sir, there are many, I am fixed to mention one.
M4 Its Nehru
Me Oh …Yes Sir….(with gesticulation acknowledging Nehru’s contributions…)
M4 What is CSR?
Sir the commercial enterprises are earning huge profits from the society. They
must be in a position to shed some of their profits by giving back to the society.
This is CSR sir.
CHARIMAN xxxxxx you have done some social service before. What comes to your mind
when it comes to service?
Me Sir, if I am blessed with something which is not there with others and if they are in
dire need of it, I must be in a position to share them with them. This SHARING
part, I think is that what it means by service.
CHAIRMAN You mentioned about those who are in need, who are those needy? Are they the
rural poor…???
Me Sir, needy needs no region, no gender, no identity…they can be urban or rural,
poor or rich. The point is they must be in badly in need of something.
CHAIRMAN What are the necessities in a bureaucrat?
Me Sir, he or she must be neutral, balanced and ready to work. Not merely do the
duties but also work with a sense of responsibility
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CHAIRMAN Signed to share some more…)
Me Sir he or she must be compassionate to the people who are in need. Listen to
them and act flexibly.
CHAIRMAN So, you will break the laws…?
Me Negating by my gestures immediately) sir, I did’nt mean to break laws.
CHAIRMAN (breaking before I explain further )hum….all the best…your interview is over…
Me Thank your sir….thank your madam…thank you sirs….
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Interview: 24
Name
Board
Year
: xxxxxx
: xxxxxx
: 2012
Questions:
Member 1
You are from Anna University? What is it famous for? It was in news recently.
Member 1
No…No…Have your heard about Abdul Kalam? What does APJ stands for?
Member 1
You have done MBA. What is the difference between MBA and MBE?
Member 2
It is said that MBA is between MA and BA? What do you think.
Member 2
Do you think you can master the subject by having a master’s degree?
Member 2
Does government encourage FII?
Member 2
What if the FILs come and take the money and fly away
Member 2
Do you say euro zone crisis did not affect India? Don’t you know what happened
today?
Member 2
Why MBA borrow everything from other subjects? Why don’t it borrow from
orthopedics ophthalmology etc.
Member 2
(Back to FDI) what about FDI? In Aviation…What is its current status?
Member 2
What about FDI in banking?
Member 2
What are the subjects you studied in finance?
Member 2
What are the subjects you studied in Marketing?
Member 2
What are the subjects you studied in MBA?
Member 3
Why you have taken geography and Public administration as your optionals?
Member 3
Why shouldn’t you do MA in geography than engineering?
Member 3
Why public administration?
Member 3
Tell me about climate change
Member 3
Can you tell how it affects?
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Member 3
What is the difficulty in building Tibet railways? (i/e) in Lhasa
Member 3
What are the other problems?
Member 3
Do you know what is permafrost?
Member 3
What is the important thing that happened during Rajiv Gandhi period with respect
to Public Administration?
Member 3
What about Khap Panchayats? Don’t you think element of conservation will
dominate panchayats?
Member 4
What is EL Nino? Why it called so? What is the difference between EL Nino and La
Nino..
Member 4
What is lanino and what is the difference El Nino and La Nino?
Member 4
What is corporate social responsibility? What are its principles?
Member 4
You are saying about the deliverables of CSR…What are its underlying principles ?
Member 4
You are talking like a layman. If you are asked to give lecture on CSR, Is this all you
would tell? Speak like a management graduate..tell about the underlying principles
of CSR.
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Interview: 25
Name :
xxxxxx
Board :
xxxxxx
Optional
:
1.
2.
Public Administration.
Sociology
Questions:
1.
Tell about women’s reservation bill?
2.
Why it is needed?
3.
Reason for opposing it?
4.
Being an educated women, will u become a politician?
5.
Why?
6.
IAS or Politics which one u will choose?
7.
Why IAS?
8.
Will u be neutral?
9.
First Guardianship for women (from the day’s newspaper) ?
10.
Why it should be given?
11.
What is shares and debentures?
12.
What is the report of a system analyst called?
13.
What is talaq and its procedure, ur view of recent issue related to talaq?
14.
Is muslim marriage a contract?
15.
What is Mahr?
16.
When it started?
17.
Is it a respect or compensation?
18.
How much petroleum are we importing?
19.
What are the alternate sources of energy?
20.
What is global warming?
21.
What are green house gases?
22.
What is CFC?
23.
What is biodiesel?
24.
Difference between GATT and WTO?
25.
Difference between equity and preferential shares?
26.
What is the debt equity ratio?
27.
What is currency swap?
28.
Define finance?
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Interview: 26
Name
:xxxxxx
Optional
:Geography, Medical Science.
Hobby
:Yoga, Spirituality.
Year
:2012
Board
:xxxxxx (All other members were male)
Duration
:25 – 30 mins
Afternoon session and second person to be interviewed .
Ch- Ok. What is medical ethics?
Me
Madam , It is the set of principles which should be followed by the medical practitioner
during his life time.
Ch
I am a lay man. Now explain to me.
Me
Madam, it is the action of omission and commission done by a medical practitioner like
treating a patient without fear or personal favor , treating even a person form enemy
country
Ch
what is herd immunity?
Me
Mam, it is the presence of immunity against a disease among the large number of
societal members so that it prevents the occurrence and transmission of disease to the
unimmuned persons. This is used in polio control.
(Ch passed to m1)
M1
what is circadian rhythm?
Me
sir, it is a internal clock in which the normal physiological functions are timed and is
controlled by brain ‘s pineal gland.
M1
how it is useful for economic growth ?
Me
sir, by learning this we can calculate the active period of a person which the government
and industries can use for its development. For Eg . sir, active period can be calculate in
Jet Lge condition which is influenced by circadian rhythm.
M1
who is the first noble laureate
Me
Roentgen, Sir.
(He thought for a few minutes )
M1
trace the epidemiological pattern of india from 1900 to 1950, form 1950 to 2000 and from
2000 to present
Me
pardon sir
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M1
repeated the question
Me
sir, form 19900 to 1950 it was mostly poverty, famine and malnutrition related diseases.
From 1950 to 2000, it was mostly communicable disease. From 2000 onwards there
were emergence of more non communicable diseases due to sedentary lifestyle
M1
so you say that there were no communicable diseases problems during 1900 to 1950
You see plague had consumed more lives
Me-
yes, sir. These were present . But they were not reported and counted during those
days, sir.
M1
TN is known for TB reduction. Does the short term course treatment is introduced fist in
this state?
Me
sorry sir. I don’t known whether it is started in tamil nadu , sir.
M1
mention some new diseases emerging in india.
Me
sir, new emerging disease is swine flu and some other disease are there but they were
eradicated.
M1
ok What are the diseases eradicated in india?
Me
sir, yaws, guinea worm, small pox and in the next two years we will eradicate polio.
M1
repeat, the diseases emerging in india after 1980.
Me
sir, swine flu and HIV.
M1
any other virus?
Me
sorry sir, I don’t know
Me
ebola virus, you know?
Me
yes, sir Ebola morburg virus .
M1
yes, Is there any relation between small pox virus and HIV virus?
Me
Sir, after the eradication of small pox virus in 1980 , HIV virus was discovered.
M1
yes Do you know why this thing?
Me
sorry sir. I don’t know.
(ch passed to m2)
M2
You had taken medical science as optional. But most the personal of professional
background like BE, B.TECH etc won’t take their subject as optional. If you have given
one more chance whether you will take medical science as optional or any other
subject like Pub Ad or other?
Me
Sir I will take Medical science as optional even in hardship.
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M2
how is pattern in Medical science paper?
Me
sir, 1st paper is more of book oriented questions and 2nd paper is more application
oriented,k sir. Even a small disease is asked in a elaborate manner.
M2
ok .Why you took Geography as option al?
Me
after deciding Medical science as optional, searched for other optional. So I studied
NCERT books of all subjects. In that I found more similarities between Medical science
and Geography. So I took Geography, Sir.
M2
What are the similarities?
Me
Sir, Medical science, we study the structure , function and defect or disease in every part
of our body and, in Geography we study structure, function and defect external to our
body, So this complementary nature made interest within me about Geography .
M2
(laughed and said) it is the most diplomatic way of answering the question. I cannot
probe in this further.
M2
you have yoga as hobby. But recently when I asked a neurologist about doing an asana
for my spine problem, he discourage this. Why this ? is yoga not efficient? Why does
Allopathy dislike yoga?
Me
sir, we cannot say yoga is not efficient. Because it is included our government’s AYUSH
PROGRAMME . And in allopathy we prescribe meditation which is part of yoga. So yoga
is prescribed in allopathy, sir.
M2
ok. Then what about asanas ? you people are discouraging it.
Me
sir, the mechanism of asanas are relaxation of muscles and increasing blood flow to a
particular area. But this should be done under a proper guidelines otherwise more
worsening of disease and more problem to patient will occur than curing the disease.
M2
so your point is that it should not be done improperly.
Me
yes, sir.
M2
your other hobby is spirituality? What is you have something more elaborate like having
Medical science as optional , yoga and Spirituality as hobby. What is this spirit or
spirituality?
Me
sir, Spirituality is known about one’s own true inner nature and the basic qualities or
nature of human being.
M2
what is the basic nature of human being?
Me
sir, they are the inner qualities which every human being shall have.
M2
what are these inner qualities?
Me
sir, these are having humanistic approach, compassion, universalism. Rationality and
doing the duty without favor.
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M2
but you see most people in the world forget these things during self interest. Then how
can these things sustain?
Me
sir, self interest should be there to protect our own body. Without self interest we cannot
protect our own body, But this self interest should not damage the humanity.
M2
so, you say that self interest should be but upto a certain limitation.
Me
yes,sir
M2
ok. You are coming from Tamil Nadu. Let us speak about that. You see Tamil nadu is
less cosmopolitan except for Chennai. Do you see any possibility of cosmopolitination in
Tamil nadu?
Me
yes. Sir definitely it will become more cosmopolitan in near future.
M2
how?
Me
sir, TN has more number of engineering colleges and these produces more engineering
graduates, who shall go to other country for work through which cosmopolitan will
occur.TN people are nowadays learning Hindi so they can have jobs in northern part of
our country and take the northern part of our countries culture to TN. In this way
cosmopolitan will occur TN, sir.
(Ch passed to M3)
M3
let us speak about foreign policy india. Non alignment is the foreign
country. do you think we still follow this?
policy of our
Me
sir, if we analyse the basic feature of non alignment. The first is having independent
foreign policy without any external influence, still we have this so we are following Non
alignment. The second one is not having foreign military base in our country, still we
didn’t have any foreign military base in our country so we are following Non alignment.
Third one is against imperialism and colonialism. Though this has been suppressed new
form of imperialism i.e economic imperialism has emerged so we need to
Follow Non alignment. Sir in toto are following non alignment.
M3
what is the purpose of non alignment movement?
Me
to protect the interest of newly formed nations and prevent them from aligning with any
of the2 major power block namely ussr and to voice against colonialism.
M3
but we had a strategic alliance in 1971 with Russia. So we are aligned.
Me
sir, alignment is going to war along with other nation without asking why, if that nation
goes for war. But in Russia’s agreement we signed for defence procurement and joint
military exercise. so we are still following alignment, sir.
M3
so what kind of foreign policy principal should we have?
Me
sir, we should have non alignment on one hand pachasheel on other hand.
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M3
but we doesn’t have any friendly with relation with neighbors and rest of the world. Is
there any example of good relation with neighbor or rest of world to say our foreign
policy is success ? No good relation is there. So our foreign policy is a failure.
Me
sir, engaging both the isreal and Palestine simultaneously without having any friction
and engaging both usa and ussr simultaneously without having any friction, No country
in the world has done this expt us. So we have the most successful foreign policy in the
world, sir.
M3
ok, coming to the recent view of death penalty, How the death penalty should be given?
Me
sir, in my opinion we should not have death penalty in this civilized country. It is like
eradicating the patient rather than curing the disease. Because most person cannot
influence their own mind as in psychiatric patient then how about influence by external
factor. If we taken the example of kaseb, sir,he was indoctrinated in such a mannar that
he will reach heaven if he does this action. So we should rehabilitate these persons, sir
We should be humanistic approach in this, sir.
Ch (intervened)- then how to address more Kandahar and hostage crisis issues?
M3
how about maoist taking hostage of people and demanding release? First answer
madam’s quetion
Me
these are security and intelligence failure which we should address, madam.
should not be mingled with death penalty, Madam.
Ch
then how about money spend for them to keep in jail? Do
expenditure for this?
Me
don’t know, madam
This
you know much is the
Ch(to all board members and to me)- equal to the cost of for a siachin gacier . Then how about
Money spend for them to keep in jail? You said he had been indoctrinated. How you can change
him?
Me
madam, we should remove these indoctrination by our good counter indoctrination. And
a proper rehabilitation should be done. He should be evaluadted by a evaluation
committee for rehabilitative measures.
Ch
what is the drug for swine flu?
Me
oseltamivir or its trade name is Tamiflu, madam.
Ch
government recently banned the manufacturing of new Tamiflu by private companies.
Don’t you think this will affect the health care system? What should be the approach of
the government?
Me-
madam ,this is done to prevent usage of over the counter medication and development
of resistance to this scares drugs which will make the authority difficult to control this
disease. And another reason for this is, It will be easy for the government to procure the
needed drugs in case of emergency.
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Ch
yes. But then why should they ban the production? What approach should the
government follow?
Me
sorry , mam I don’t know.
Ch
Actually the government should allow the production and stop the distribution. Because
as you said the drug is a scares resource and government should have control over it.
Ok, final question to you.
Me
yes, madam
Ch
a car us traveling in a crowded area and another car is travelling in a crowed free road.
Which among these will consume more fuel?
Me
mam , it depends on the speed of the car travelling in crowed free road. If it travels
beyond optimum speed it will consume more fuel.
Ch
that car travel in optimum speed. Now tell me the answer.
Me
the car travelling in crowed area will consume more fuel, mam.
Ch
how?
Me
mam, the car in crowed area travels in 1st or 2nd gear for every which capacity is more
and fuel consumption is high. But when the car in crowdless area will travel in top gear
so it consumes less fuel.
Ch
explain it technically
Me
Mam, when the car in crowded area travels in1st or 2nd gear for every rotation in the
engine the wheel will rotate 1 or 2 times. But when the car is moving 4 th or 5th gear, for
every rotation in the engine the wheel will rotate 4 or 5 times by consuming the quantity.
So the car in crowded area will consume more flue, mam.
Ch
But in the city most the time we won’t move in 4th or 5th gear. So there other explanation
for this, Now Think and tell.
Me
sorry. mam I don’t know.
Ch
the car in the crowded area should start and stop frequently. That is the reason for
increased flue consumption.
Me
thinks for the information, madam.
Ch
ok, your interview is over .you can leave now.
Me
thank you, madam. Thank you,sirs.
Overall the boards was cordial, One member on right side didn’t ask any question. He simply
watched my response and the way of answering. Throughout the interview madam was
expressionless. Much of the time she spend her time in reading my main’s DAF.
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Interview: 27
Name
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
Year
: 2012
Chairman:
1. What is bioinformatics?
2. After finishing your degree did you pursue anything in bioinformatics?
3. If u posted as a collector in your district what will be the program that u will implement?(I said
pollution and polluter pays principle)
4. If pollution is not properly addressed do u think that is there any corruption?
5. If implementation is the problem, is the collector bribed or the people bribed?
6. Then what other issues will u try to improve in your district?
7. When u don’t have proper primary medical care facilities what is the point in improving
medical tourism?
Member 1:
1. You finished bioinformatics, did u study biothermics?
2. Who is the famous mathematician from your stat?(I said Ramanujam)
3. Who is Foreigner associated with him?(I said i’m unaware of it)
4. He asked do u know Hardy?
Member 2: (Lady member)
1.Where is Sivakasi?
2. Sivakasi is near your district right?
3. Is Sivakasi a separate district or part of some district?
4. What is the problem associated with Sivakasi? (I said Chid labour)
5. Tell me who is a child labour?
6. What kind of crackers r manufactured in Sivakasi?
7. You have studied history, did u study Indian history or world history?
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8. Who built Red fort and what is its significance? (I said Peacock throne and it was invaded by
Afghan invaders)
Chairman interrupted and asked who was the invader? ( I Said Nadirshah)
Then chairman consulted with other members whether Nadirshah was Persian or Afghan
invader but didn’t turn to me.
Member 3:
1. If you r posted as a collector, how will apply bioinformatics to improve Agriculture? (I said Bt
cotton and GM technology)
2. Can u apply this Bt cotton technology in any part of India?
3. Is there any Bt brinjal?
Chairman interrupted and asked which state is the leading producer of brinjal? He himself said it
is Tamilnadu when I said don’t know.
4. It is bioinformatics, what is the information that u possess?
Member 4:
1. There is a criticism that Bt crops destroy the fertility of the soil?
2. What is sustainable development?
3. In the long run how can the problem of environment be addressed?
4. Can u tell any one case that is associated with environment? (I said U.C. Metha) he rectified
it as M.C. Metha.
5. Do you know what is it related to?
6. Do you know which city is it related to?
7. There is a problem of surrogate mother in India, can we continue with it or ban it?
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Interview: 28
Name
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
Year
: 2012
Respected Madam,
I was the second candidate to attend the board on 4th April’s morning session. Before
the interview I got verified my certificates and had some fine discussions with candidates who
were going to attend xxxxxx board. At 10.30 am peon came and called my name. He escorted
me to xxxxxx board’s room. There I was made to sit outside the room for 10 minutes as
interview for first candidate was going on. After five minutes that guy came outside with his
hands on his head. That gave the impression that interview to him was not fine. But I didn’t
bother about that. Then after the five minutes I was called. Peon guided me inside the room. I
asked for the permission to enter the room and walked few steps and wished all the members
good morning. Then
Chairman asked me to sit and I obliged. Then interview was started.
Chairman: xxxxxx. You did Electronics and Communication engineering. Good.
Me. Thank You mam.
Chairman: Ok xxxxxx tell me the difference between LEO, MEO and GEO satellites.
Me: I told the difference with some help from mam.
Chairman: What are the advantages of Geostationary satellites.
Me: I said about navigation system, weather forecasting. Mam asked me what about spying. I
nodded my head positively.
Chairman: What is the communication satellite we are using?
Me: INSAT mam.
Chairman: Will you track these insat series?
Me: No mam.
Chairman: Do you know from where last insat satellite was launched?
Me: I said sorry mam.
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Chairman: Ok do you know SHAR
Me: Yes mam. It is Sriharikota satellite launching centre. It is near pulicat lake mam.
Chairman: Ok do you know why most of the satellite launching canters are located in the east
coast?
Me: I don’t know mam. But I guess mam?
Chairman: You are a tele communication engineer. You should know about it.
Me : Sorry mam. I think since earth is rotating from west to east, in the case of failure of space
module, it should fall in ocean rather than on main land. So in the case of Sriharikota any failure
would result in fall of space module on Bay of Bengal.
Chairman thought about it sometime and nodded her head. Then baton was passed to the
member sitting immediate right to me.
M1: Though India has huge bovine population India’s milk production is too low. What are the
ways to increase?
Me: Sir actually India is the top most milk producer in the world. Its the productivity we are low.
We can increase it by using cross breed varieties, increasing the healthcare facilities (veterinary
care) to bovine population as cross breeds are not disease resistant, and spreading awareness
about the opportunities to rural people and increasing the credit facilities and setting up of more
cooperative societies.
M2: Which is the oldest technical institute in India?
Me: Sir it is IIT Roorkee.
M2: What about CEG? I think it is more than 150 years old.
Me: I have referred it sir. Roorkee engineering institute was the oldest technical institute but
later modified into all IIT Roorkee.
M1: How women can be empowered through self help groups?
Me: Sir Government itself giving money to self help groups to start businedd like food
processing. It improves financial literacy and politically it also empowers women for example in
Kerala through Kudumbasree programme many women are contesting in Panchayat elections.
M1: Ok. It is the final question from me. There is lack of transparency in the functioning of
NGOs? How can we correct it?
Me: We can audit them through CAG sir.
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M1: But there are too many NGOs are there?
Me: We can increase personnel in CAG sir or those ngos doing other than what they intended to
do can be banned and we can perform social audit. sir
M3: Tell me about administrative relations between centre and states?
Me: I couldn’t tell any meaningful thing
M3: Ok tell me about legislative relations between centre and states.
Me: Here also I couldn’t tell any meaningful thing.
M3: Atleast tell me about 7th schedule
Me: Sorry sir. I couldn’t recollect.
M3: It is the question from your own background. You should know about it. Ok tell me how
many schedules are there in the Indian constitution.
Me: Sir 12 schedules
M3: What is the 12th schedule?
Me: Sir it is related to municipalities
M3: What is the 11th schedule?
Me: It is related to Panchayats sir.
M4: K have you read Arthasastra?
Me: Yes sir but only small things. It is written by Kautilya. We call him Chanakya sir.
M4: What it tells?
Me: It tells about how country should be ruled, how administration should be done and how one
should have external realtions.
M4: Ok what it tells about corruption?
Me: sir in the water we cannot identify whether fish is drinking water or not. Similarly we cant
identify whether Government officials in the Government are indulging in the corruption or not
sir.
M4: Then dose it mean corruption is existing in the Indian administration?
Me: After a pause I said yes sir. It can be reduced if we work with the conviction that it can be
abolished.
M3: What are the 5 parliamentary committees to control the Indian administration?
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Me: I have told only two committees. ie PAC and committee on PSUs.
M3: He told about only estimates committee.
Me: I told him “thank you for enlightening me sir”
M4: Do u know basic Indian history?
Me: With hesitation i said “Yes sir”
M4: Which Indian dynasty you have liked the most?
Me: Sir it is the Mugal dynasty which I liked the most. Especially ruled by Akbar.
M4: Why?
Me: Because he was a secular king sir. He gave equal opportunities to Hindus and Muslims and
other religions too.
M4: Anything specific about him?
Me: Sir he started Din-i-illahi religion sir.
M4: Anything other than this?
Me: Sorry sir.
M2: You are talking with elders and children. What are the things you will talk with elders?
Me: Sir I will talk about normal things. Sometimes I will give advice to avoid taking tobacco..
M2: Will you do this thing to everyone or only relatives and neighbours.
Me: Sir mostly for relatives and neighbours
M2: Do you know there is an act for protecting senior citizens?
Me: Yes sir. But I don’t know the exact name
M2: Do you think the act is right?
Me: Sir the act is right thing sir. Nowadays most of the children are not taking care about their
parents.
M2: What do you see about the future of children because of increasing nuclear families?
Me: After liberalization more and more families are getting nuclear. Children may not know
about the values and they may increasingly turn to violence that can be seen in recent cases.
M2: There is a gap in the professional courses and working in the industries? How can we
decrease it?
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Me: Sir it is true there is a gap between professional courses and industries. Nowadays
especially in tamil nadu professional courses are mainly concentrated in IT sector. Their needs
a balance. It can be solved by giving in plant training right from the first year. Further colleges
itself started to give industry related courses. For example recently IIT madras started course for
metro rail technology. There was a huge response. Many students didn’t get the seat.
M2: Why many students are opting for MBA?
Me: Money, ambition and parental pressure sir
Chairman: Do you know who is the Nobel prize winner presently in India?
Me: With a bit of hesitation I said “ Mother Teresa mam”
Chairman: No no. She is living. She was recently awarded the Noble prize.
Me: Sorry mam.
Chairman: Its today news. She is Tawakkul Karman.
Me: Yes mam. She is an Yemeni national. She was the forefront in the protest against the saleh
Government.
Chairman: You should have said “pwaceful and non-violent protests”
Me: Ok mam.
Chairman: Do you know what is fascism? who established it?
Me: Yes mam. The Government that favours particular race, ethnicity, religion and having
nationalism.
Chairman: Ok good. Who established it?
Me: Mussolini mam. He was one of the leader of axis power in world war two.
Chairman: Where?
Me: Italy mam.
Chairman: Do you know why some people are calling Anna Hazare as a fascist?
Me: Mam possibly, it is said that he was supported by some right wing organisations.
Chairman: No sasi. There is some other reason.
Me: Mam may be because he wants the Government to establish what he says only mam.
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Chairman: Good ok. Have you read about 6th century bc thinkers?
Me: Sorry mam.
Chairman: Ok sasi. Your interview is over. You can go now.
Me: I said thanks to mam and other members and came out of the room.
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Interview: 29
Name
: xxxxxx
Chairman
: xxxxxx
Year
: 2012 (afternoon session)
Second person to attend interview
Four men member and one woman as board chairman
After taking seat
Chairman:
1. Aeronautical engineering, then why IAS
2. What is gyro?
3. What is avionics?
4. What is instrumental landing system?
5. How it is working and how it is different from others.
6. What is green house effect?
7. What are all green house gases?
Member1:
1. What are the social problem existing?
2. How you solve that problem
I explained for female infanticide and poverty
3. Based on DPSP of constitution
4. Nrega how it empower rural people
Chairman : in mnrega lot of scam there.
Member2 :
1. Manipur why problem existing?
2. Which country supporting insurgent group in Manipur ?
3. Why Manipur asked Independent ?
4. Why China claiming north east state ?
5. Why China disturbing India ?
6. Explain Google search engine why it is popular
7. What is Google ? ( Cricket )
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Member3 :
1. What are different religious worship places famous in Nagapattinam ?
2. Why Portuguese built velankanni?
3. Tell about paid news ?
4. Why it is there ?
5. How to curtail and power of press council of India ?
6.Who is Chairman of press council of India ?
Member4 :
1. China is banning some website, India can apply same thing
2. In India some people are thinking democracy is not viable and failed. What is your
opinion.
3. After Mangalore crash India planned thread mil type runway in table top runway.
Do you think it will work out ?
4. Who is the authority controlling the regulation of aviation in India?
Chairman:
1. What is GER?
2. In a four sided paper, If one corner is cutted slightly then how many side will be there
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Interview: 30
Name
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
Year
: 2012
Chairman
1. Were you in Delhi before?( Yes,took coaching in vajiram)?
2. Are the question asked from their notes?
3. A famous mathematician from your state?
Member1:
4. What the reason for power shortage in T. N and give some solutions to solve it
5.Giving free power to farmers, what is your view ?
6.What do you know about the recently announced industrial policy of T. N in the budget?
7. Why the cinema stars are entering politics in Tamil Nadu?
Member2:
8. What is your stand on nuclear energy? why there is protest in koodakulam?
9. What are the concerns other than safety in the nuclear reactor?
10. Where are the Tamils residing (migration) other than India?
11. Why they are problems wherever Tamils are going ex in Malaysia, Singapore...
Member3:
12. What is ecology ? Have you heard about human ecology?
13. Difference between ecology and environment
14. Your views on inter caste marriage. Maharashtra Govt recently announced Rs. 12,00 for
inter caste marriage
15. Can inter caste marriage help in eliminating castes
16. Where did British Government introduce reservation first? (He told answer, its in madras
presidency)
17. What are the steps to tackle corruption
18. What can be the role of Lokpal in eliminating corruption
19. Lokpal itself may turn as a corrupt body. What is your view?
Chairman
20. Supreme court recently scrapped licenses in the telecom sector citing a reason
What’s it? (Auction)
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21. Can’t corruption occur during auction?
22. What actually is the problem in 2G SCAM?
23. Can Supreme Court transgress in the policy purview of the legislature?
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Interview: 31
Name
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
Year
: 2012
Most of the question were specific to my academics and cadre preference ( I hade given IFS as
my first preference)
Member1
:
* What is development? How does it differ from growth?
* Does balanced growth mean the same as development?
* It says that you were an RBI young scholar, what is the role of the RBI?
* What is IBRD?
* Is IBRD a part of the World Bank Group or the World Bank?
Member2
:
* It is said that Kerala is “ God’s Own Land ” (Country rather), why is it called so?
* Does that mean all the areas are God’s own hinterland?
Member3
:
* what is the speciality of March 21st ? (Spring Equinox)
* Does the equinox date change with the leap Year?
* What is the speciality of March 23rd ? ( the hint given was Navarati and the Hindu
new year?)
* There are two perspectives towards IITs opening new courses in diverse fields. One claims
that opening up such courses is necessary, the other states that IITs should be restricted to
their mandate. What is your opinion?
Lady Member :
* You have said that you studied in Turkey, what are the similarities between the two regions ?
* How would you explain Sufism to someone who doesn’t know what it is?
* What would be the policy that you would adopt towards the region?
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Member4
:
* Why is Turkey known as the ‘ sick man of Europe’?
* Who introduced the reforms and modernization in Turkey?
* What is IBRD?
* As a keen observer of India’s politics and economy, why do you think Kerala despite all its
social developments lagged behind in economic progress?
xxxxxx sir
* What do you think about the recent news about military generals getting arrested in Turkey
and the rise of moderate Islam in a predominantly secular country?
* Do you believe the Indian diplomacy caused an embarrassment by interfering in a domestic
dispute in Norway?
* Why do you think India’s neighbors have a negative attitude towards India? Is it because of
India’s big size?
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Interview: 32
Name
: xxxxxx
Year
: 2012
Board
: xxxxxx
Questions:

Does the school in which you work have good? (I worked as a teacher in a primary
school)

Are there schools present in every village in TN?

Why students are drop out from school?

In which case higher number of drop outs – boys or girls?

What are the steps needed to reduce drop outs?

Say something about Anti-brahmin movement?

What are the castes the prominent leaders of Anti-brahmin movement belonged to?

TN is an industrialized state. what are the types of industries in TN?

What are the major problems faced by industries in TN?

What are the steps taken by TN govt to mitigate power shortages?

About power shortage in Salem District ....(My home District ) and other districts...

Srilankan issue – an overview.

When did the Tamil people go to Srilanka?

About recent UNHRC resolution. Whether India’s stand is right?. Is it due to domestic
compulsion?

What steps are needs for the development of Salem district?

As a collector of Salem district, what will be your primary focus?
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Interview: 33
Name
: xxxxxx
Graduation
: Homoeopathy medicine
Board
: xxxxxx
Optional
: History & Sociology
Year
: 2012
Duration
: 25 minutes
Questions:
1. Importance of the pharmaceutical industry of India?
2. About recent patent issue?
3. Product and process patent which is good ?
4.How Govt’s recent action on patent which is good?
5.Domestic violence act?
6.What is your opinion on live-in relationship?
7. Relation between law and society ?
8. Why civil services? how your medical knowledge will help in administration?.
9. Specialty of homoeopathy?
10.Different between formal and informal transaction of business.
11.Native river linking programme. whether it is a new or old concept? pros and cons?
what is your view?
12.Do you have all syllabi in Tamil at school level?
13. Samacheer kalvi thittam? present condition and your view?
14. Why there is decrease in rural population ? Causes for migration?
15. Different types of urban local self government bodies?
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Interview: 34
Name
: xxxxxx
Roll No
: xxxxxx
Board
: xxxxxx
Year
: 2012
Time
: 25 mins
Chairman:
1. Tell me your name, date of birth and roll no.
2. You have done engineering from BITS Ranchi. Have you ever seen a washing machine?
3. What r the operations performed by a washing machine ?
4.I am giving u the name of countries. u have to tell me their capitals: Morocco, Algeria, Libya,
Tunisia, Sudan, Somalia?
5.What is common amongst all these countries? why we they in the news?
me: political unrest but she told it is dictatorship?
6. What is the cause of this unrest?
7. What was the cause of Libyan crisis?
Member1
1.Why some districts are performing better while others are not?
2.What reforms would u suggest for dist administration?
3.How cam we better implement the Govt schemes?
Member2
1.Have you heard about Steve jobs?
2.Tell me about his management style?
3.Why he was so successful?
me: innovation
Member3
1.Is India a democratic country?
2.What do you mean by democracy?
3.What the tool people have in the democracy?
4.What is the age of voting in India ?
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Member4
1.What is right to recall?
2. Can it be implemented in India?
3.What is first past the post system?
4.What are the alternatives ?
Dear madam,
such were my Questions:
What is the relation between sociology and history?
Types of monsoons in India, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu?
Physiographic of Tamil Nadu?
Sociological problems in Tamil Nadu?
What will do to remove caste system?
burecracy diff between weber and marx
Where lies fallacy of Marxism
Individual contribution u can make to remove casteism
Nuclear energy, is it really good ?
France stopped nuclear... How good thing?
Thanking u
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Interview: 35
Name
:xxxxxx
Chairperson : xxxxxx
Year
: 2012
The interview questions are as follow. Whenever the question is based on my answer for
the previous question, I have explained the answers also.
Chairman:
1.
What is your area of interest? ( I said Tamil folk songs)
2.
What are the topics in which you have written songs?
3.
Have you performed on the stage?
Member1:
1.
Which is called as rice bowl of TN?
2.
Why Chennai is called as Chicago of India?
3.
Why there is no many freebies in TN. What is the poverty level?
4.
Whether people are able to get 2 meals per day ? (I explained abut universal PDS)
5.
Do you support freebies? (i said “people should not be given with fish but they should be
taught how to catch he fish” people should be equipped to earn for their needs)
6.
Now I taught the people to catch fish and they are catching fish. What will you do now? (I
said performance based incentive can be given)
7.
You are from village background. What is the role of women in panchayats?
8.
What is the role of panchayats?
9.
What about MNREGA ? ( I explained about it and the agri labour shortage it creates in
agriculturally intensive district)
10.
What would be the solutions? (i explained
about ministry of rural development’s plan to
engage laborers in farmer’s field)
Member2:
1.
MNERGA laborers are engaged in which activities? (I said they are engaged in asset
creating activities)
2.
Is asset creation is mentioned in the act? (I said “yes, but what type of asset to be
created is not defined)
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3.
Then what should we do? ( I said “it has to be defined. Panchayats should be allowed to
select the asset to be created based on their requirements)
4.
What is the allocation for MNERGA in the budget?
5.
Define fiscal deflect?
6.
What is the role of CPSU?
7.
Tell me the amount of dividend paid by CPSU?
Member3:
1.
You studied in one of the reputed institution i.e., Tamil Nadu agricultural university. What
are the accreditations of TNAU?
2.
What are the varieties developed by TNAU?
3.
What is GM Crop?
4.
Explain the process of development of GM crop by taking any agricultural crops as an
example (I explained the process by taking Bt cotton as an example)
5.
Why Bt cotton is not supported by the farmers? ( I explained that the bt. Cotton is
effective against only 2 pests namely Helicoverpa armigera and Spodoptera Litura which
are bollworms but susceptible to other pest especially mealy bug. But farmers when they
sow the bt cotton they expect that there should not be any pest and when they find the
other minor pests, they are telling that bt cotton is not effective.)
6.
If bt cotton is not effective against mealy bug then why should we cultivate that ? (I said “
bollworms are the major loss makers. Once we manage to control them, others can be
controlled easily)
7.
So you are supporting bt cotton ? ( I said yes)
8.
What are the different sources of electricity?( I said thermal, hydro, wind, nuclear, energy
etc.,)
9.
Do you support nuclear energy?
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Member4:
1.
Why people are agitating in Koodankulam?
2.
What is the role of NGOs I the agitation?
3.
Explain how the music evolved over a period of time with the help of technology?
4.
What would be the impact of e-books? Whether there would be libraries? I said “yes
because there would be people who wish to read the printed version” but the opposed
and said if everything is digitized and no printed version then there would be no library, I
agreed with him.
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Name
Board
Year
:xxxxxx
:xxxxxx
: 2012 (FN Session)
Chairwoman
1.
What have you been doing after your graduation?
2. What are your service preferences? Please tell us why you made those choices.
3. Why would you like to join the foreign services?
4. With regards to diplomacy, India’s epics have some relevance to it. What is it?
5. The questioning moved to the person sitting on her right.
6. With the exit of the US from Afghanistan, what do you think would be the future of
the country as well as India’s opportunities there?
7. What do you think are India’s challenges in terms of our foreign policy?
8. Pakistan has been making peace overtures recently. What do you think India should
do?
9. The person sitting diagonally opposite to him questioned me next.
10. Do you think your ambition is in conflict with the country’s ambition?
11. If a country maintains friendly relations with its neighbours but is hostile to its
citizens, what would you call that?
12. There exists a negative image about civil servants in the media and the public eye.
What do you have to say about that?
13. India once has bigger role in hockey. Why do you think that has come down now?
14. Have you read any works by Jane Austen?
15. What do you know about the Sethu Samudhiram Project?
16. What is its mythological significance?
17. Why there an opposition to it?
18. Have you studied American Literature?
19. There was a poem by Robert Frost whose last lines were very popular .Which one is
it?
20. It captivated the mind of an important person in India. Who was it?
21. How did he make them memorable?
22. Have you studied Julius Caesar?
23. There is an important oration there.
24. What significance does it hold in diplomacy?
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Interview: 37
Year
:
2012
Candidate
:
xxxxxx
Board
:
xxxxxx
Optional
:
Geography, Medical Science.
Chairman
1. You are from............Chennai
2. Ok. What is medical ethics?
3. I am a lay ma. Now explain to me.
4. What is herd immunity?
Member – 1
1. What is circadian rhythm?
2. How it is useful for economic growth?
3. Who is the first noble laureate?
4. Trace the epidemiological pattern of India from 1900 to 1950, from 1950 to 2000 and
from 2000 to present?
5. Repeated the question?
6. So you say that there were no communicable diseases problems during 1900 to
1950. You see plague had consumed more lives?
7. TN is known for TB reduction. Does the short term course treatment is introduced
first in this state?
8. Mention some new diseases emerging in India.
9. Ok. What are some new diseases eradicated in India?
10. Repeat, the new diseases emerging in India after 1980?
11. Any other virus?
12. Ebola virus, you know?
13. Yes. Is there any relation between small pox virus and HIV virus?
14. Yes. Do you know why this thing?
(Chairman passed to M2)
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Member – 2
1. You had taken Medical science as optional. But most of the persons of professional
background like BE, B.Tech etc won’t take their subject as optional. If you have
given one more chance whether you will take Medical science as optional or any
other subject like PudAd or others?
2. How is the pattern in Medical science paper?
3. Ok. Why you took geography as optional?
4. What are the similarities?
5. (laughed and said) it is the most diplomatic way of answering the question. I cannot
probe in this further.
6. You have yoga as hobby. But recently when I asked a neurologist about doing as
asana for my spine problem, he discouraged this. Why this? Yoga not sufficient?
Why does Allopathy dislike yoga?
7. Ok. Then what about asanas? You people are discouraging it.
8. So your point is that should not be done improperly.
9. You other hobby is spirituality? What is this? You have something more elaborate
like having Medical science as optional, Yoga and spirituality as hobby. What is this
spirit or spirituality?
10. What is the basic nature of human being?
11. What are these inner qualities?
12. But you see most people in the world forget these things during self interest. Then
how can these things sustain?
13. So, you say that self interest should be there but up to a certain limitation.
14. Ok. You are coming from Tamil Nadu. Let us speak about that. You see Tamil Nadu
is less cosmopolitan except for Chennai. Do you see any possibility of cosmopolitan
in Tamil Nadu?
15. How?
(Chairman passed to M3)
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Member – 3
1. Let us speak about foreign policy of India. Non alignment is the foreign policy of
our country. Do you think we still follow this?
2. What is the purpose of non alignment movement?
3. But we had a strategic alliance in 1971 with Russia. So we are aligned.
4. So what kind of foreign policy principles should we have?
5. But we don’t have any friendly relation with neighbours or rest of the world to say
our foreign policy id success? No good relation is there. So our foreign policy is
a failure.
6. Ok, coming to the recent view of death penalty, How the death penalty should be
given?
Chairman
1. (Intervened) – then how to address more Kandahar and hostage crisis issues?
Member – 3
1. How about Maoist taking hostages of people and demanding release? First answer
madam’s question.
Chairman
1. Then how about money spend for them to keep in jail? Do you know how much is the
expenditure for this?
2. (to all board members and to me) – equal to the cost of spending for a siachin
glacier. Then how about money spend for them to keep in jail? You said he had been
indoctrinated. How you can change him?
3. What is the drug for swine flu?
4. Government recently banned the manufacturing of new Tamiflu by private
companies. Don’t you think this will affect the health care system/ what should be the
approach of the government?
5. Yes. But then why should they ban the production? What approach should the
government follow?
6. Actually the government should allow the production and stop the distribution.
Because as you saqid the drug is a scares resource and government should have
control over it. Ok, final question to you.
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7. A car is travelling in a crowded areas and another car is travelling in a crowed free
road. Which among these will consume more fuel?
8. That car travels in optimum speed. Now tell me the answer.
9. How?
10. Explain it technically
11. But in the city most of the time we won’t move in 4th or 5th gear. So there are other
explanations for this. Now think and tell.
12. The car in the crowded area should start and stop frequently. That is the reason for
increased fuel consumption.
13. Ok, your interview is over. You can leave now.
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Year
:
2012
Candidate
:
xxxxxx
Board
:
xxxxxx
Chairman
:
xxxxxx
1. Tell me about your working experience in bank
2. Tell me about your graduation and post graduation.
3. What is the actual problem involved in Mullai Periyar issue and what can be the
solution?
4. Why incidence of actors becoming politicians is more prevalent in Tamil Nadu?
5. Whether actors can become politicians and vice versa?
6. Dr. Manmohan Singh is the best PM of India. Intercept it in all possible ways.
Member – 1
1. What is the difference between Task and Duty?
2. What is the scope for agriculture in future?
3. What are the recent developments in agriculture?
4. How can the irrigation requirements for agriculture in India can be reduced?
Member – 2
1. What are the articles related to agriculture in our constitution?
2. How many fundamental duties are there at present?
3. By which amendment fundamental duties were added?
4. What is the article dealing with fundamental duties?
5. Which is the country that is giving highest subsidy for agriculture?
6. What is your opinion on providing subsidies to agriculture?
Member – 3
1. Whether importing food grains will help in improving food security?
2. What are the provisions related with agriculture in WTO?
3. Tell about the various subsidy boxes in WTO?
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4. What do you meant by Sanitary and Phyto Sanitary measures?
5. What do you meant by Bio-safety Protocol and Explain?
6. What do you meant by Most favoured Nation status?
7. Whether all members of WTO are entitled to MFN status?
Member – 4
1. What is Kyoto Protocol? What are the provisions?
2. Where is Kyoto?
3. What is the main impact of Climate change?
4.
How much sea rise will be there due to Climate change?
5. What is India’s stand on climate change?
6. What are the provisions of Durban Platform for Enhanced Action?
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Interview: 39
Year
:
2012
Candidate
:
xxxxxx
Board
:
xxxxxx
Chairman
1. What is your name?
2. You have won 1st prize in essay writings. What is this essay and whether during
college or school days? The essay was about “Social Justice in Medical Education”.
3. What do you mean Social Justice?
4. What are the constitutional provisions related to social justices?
5. What are the Government initiatives to ensure political, economical aspects of social
justice?
6. Don’t you think that we are moving out of socialistic aspects?
7. What do you mean Juvenile Justice?
8. What is the age limit of the juvenile Justice?
Member – 1
1. Why we need separate discipline of Public Administration rather than including in
Political Science?
2. Have you watched the Budget? Tel some aspects....
3. Do you support cash transfer method & why? I don’t support that proposal and
substantiated.
4. What is the controversy in 5% service tax to the hospitals? I explained....
Another member interrupted
Even though it affects the people ultimately, we are taxing the cars also/ I clarified with
the difference in luxury & life issue.
Member – 2
1. Tell me about nutritional security issue? Talked about balanced diet & fortification...
2. What is the problem with polishing the rice?
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3. Why do some people prefer boiled rice rather than raw rice? nutritional awareness
programme?
4. Why we should go for fortification rather than nutritional awareness programme?
Member – 3
1. Say constitutions provisions related to civil servants?
2. What is the importance of the provisions?
3. Discuss the changing role of District Collector/
Member – 4
1. Answer my 2 questions A) what reforms do you suggest in the health sector? B)
What is the problem with private health sector & how it can be regulated towards propeople?
Chairman
1. What do you mean by JE in medicine? Japanese Encephalitis.
2. Which part of India is the most affected one by JE?
3. What is the causative agent, the mosquito & host of the virus?
4. How will you manage a case of JE?
5. Is there any vaccine production for JE in India?
6. The last one... Where is the National Institute of Virology?
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Interview: 40
Year
:
2012
Candidate
:
xxxxxx
Board
:
xxxxxx
1. What is Spoofing?
2. If you win Rs.5 crore in lottery, what will you do?
Member 1
1. How is primary health care in Tamil Nadu relative to other states?
2. What steps have been taken in this regard?
3. What are the 2 major health problems in Krishnagiri? (the place where I worked)
4. What interventions have been taken for them?
Member 2
1. What is blogging (my hobby)
2. What was the last blog you wrote?
3. What is jasmine Revolution what role did face book played in it?
Member 3
1. Theories of work motivation (Psychology – my optional)
2. How did you motivate you PHC staff (primary health centre)
3. If you were a DM and flood comes what will be you are priorities and how will you
manage.
Member 4
1. Why there are so many educational institutions in Tamil Nadu?
2. DO THEY SERVE the society.
3. What was the major issue last year regarding deemed universities.
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Interview: 41
Name
:xxxxxx
Year
: 2014
Board
: xxxxxx
Subjects
: Public Admin, Geogarphy
Hobbies
: Online Computer Gaming, Cooking
Working as
: Assistant Manager in Indian overseas Bank
College
: PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
Chairman
1. Who is principal in your college now?
2. Which dept he is?
3. What is famous in Coimbatore?
4. Name some textile mills in Coimbatore?
5. Famous area near Coimbatore?
6. Tell me something about Tirupur?
7. Any issues in Tirupur? (asking about current problems)
Member1:
1. Why states often asking for financial aid from centre? Is there any provision really?
2. Asked something about centre state relations?
3. Tell me the article that deals with financial emergency?
4. Consequences of financial emergency?
5. Role of banking in Indian Financial System?
Member2:
1. Do Banks give loans only on compulsion by Government?
2. Banking in rural areas and problems?
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Member3:
1. What is NABARD?
2. Tell me about its functions?
3. What is NHB? and
4. What do they do?
Member4:
1. What is credit and debit?
2. What do you do in bank?
3. How you clear cheques?
4. Do you know Agni 5?
5. Tell me about it?
6. Tell me about our deterrent policy? Whether increase in Agni 5 range increases the
deterrent capacity?
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