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Posted By On 17/06/2013 @ 10:22 am In Studyplan | 43 Comments
This is a guest article written by Mr. ANOOP SHETTY, who secured 3rdrank in Indian Forest Service exam and 140th rank in Civil Service Exam(He cleared both exams in 2012 and that too without coaching.)
1. About yourself2. About your College3. About your place4. About your hobbies5. Opinion Based Questions6. General Advice:7. My IFoS Interview8. My Civil Services Interview (2012)
Dear readers, Here is a list of Basic framework of what question should beprepared. This post is based on my personal experience and informationcollected from friends and seniors.
About yourself
1. What is your roll number?2. Tell me about yourself?3. What is your height/weight/age etc.?(these are trying to make you
fumble….keep cool)4. What is the meaning of your name or surname?5. Famous persons having same birthday or year6. Why you want to join civil services?7. Why your first preference is IAS or IPS or IFS?
About your College
1. Refresh your knowledge about the branch of your graduation. Alsoupdate your awareness about recent developments in your branch.
2. Collect information about the university/institute where you aregraduated from?
3. Collect information about UPSC members, their service and cadre4. You can also expect some questions regarding your optional subject
5. Why you have chosen this optional?6. Why you want join even after higher education. Don’t you think you
should contribute in your field of specialization? (If you have done postgraduation or Ph.D.)
7. Why don’t you continue in research? (If you are from sciencebackground)
About your place
Collect complete information about your home state or state of residence, infollowing sectors:
1. History2. Politics3. Culture4. Tourism5. General statistics (census 2011)6. Recent developments and current affairs7. Personalities8. Development9. Social problems
Here are some example questions:
1. What is special about your place? (village/city/district/state)2. Tourist or historical places around your native place?3. Tell me five positives and negatives about your place? (native
place/district/state/place of graduation)4. What are the major problems in your district/state?5. Historical importance of your native place/any place in your city?6. General statistics about your district/state? – population, population
density, literacy, economic importance, health etc.7. Famous personalities of your state and district? (in the field of art,
literature, sports, social workers and leaders)8. List chief ministers of different states? (Especially North Eastern
states)
About your hobbies
Collect complete information about your hobbies…
Personalities associated with the hobbyImportance of your hobbyInformation about it in historical perspectiveYour activities related your hobbyBenefits of your hobbySometimes there will be some unexpected questions regarding yoursports interests. They may say “Oh! You play volleyball, then I’ll askabout basketball/cricket”. A sweet smile is sufficient to deal with such
questions.
For example if your hobby is ‘reading books’:
1. Which kind of books you read, fiction/nonfiction?2. Name of the last book you read? Who is the author of that book? What
that book is about? How is that book? Name other books of the sameauthor?
3. Who is your favourite writer? Why?4. Who won Nobel (literature), Man Booker, DSC prize, Jnanpith award
this year?5. Which sports/games you play?
For example if your answer is volleyball
1. National and international events in volleyball2. Who won Olympics, world cup etc3. Different rules and regulations of volleyball4. Specifications regarding court size, net width and length etc.5. Which is your favourite position in volleyball6. Captain of Indian team7. Top players of Indian team8. Who is your favourite player? Why?9. Recent developments in volleyball
Opinion Based Questions
Build your opinion about different issues of national importance: some ofthe general issues are listed below:
1. Multiparty system vs. Two party system2. Prime ministerial system vs. presidential system3. Coalition politics arguments for and against4. Regional parties and their importance5. Naxalism and Indian policy towards naxal control. What need to be
done?6. Rivers, river water sharing, river linking, river tribunals etc.7. Basic concepts of statistics and their applications mean, median,
mode, AM, GM, HM, Standard deviation, coefficient of variation8. Geography of your home state and district.9. Euthanasia/mercy killing10. Honour killing and Khaps11. Tribal issues and tribal development12. Recent legislations and new policies13. Politics of your home state14. Water conservation and water harvesting with special focus to your
state15. Juvenile and juvenile justice16. Capital punishment/ death penalty arguments for and against and
other related issues17. Important wars of India e.g. Buxar, Panipat, Plassey, Anglomysore,
AngloNepal, AngloAfghan, IndoPak, IndoChina etc.18. Acts passed before independence regulating acts, 1909 Act, 1919
Act, 1935 Act etc.19. Concept of Left, right and centre.20. Communism, Socialism, Capitalism21. Maoism, Marxism, Leninism22. Communalism23. IsraelPalestine problem. India’s relation with Israel24. IndoChina relations25. IndoPak relations26. IndoUS relations27. IndoRussia relations28. Recent international developments29. Development vs. environment.30. How to balance development and environmental protection31. Sustainable development32. Demand for new states: pros and cons33. Small state vs. large state34. Terrorism and measures to control terrorism in india35. Poverty: causes for poverty, its estimation, measures to be taken36. Corruption: Causes, measures to control corruption37. Biodiversity and its conservation38. Mining, mining in forests, illegal mining and related issues39. AFSPA: arguments for and against40. Publicprivatepartnership: pros and cons.41. Rural problems and rural development42. Food security and related issues43. Direct cash transfer: Pros and cons44. What is lacking in sports administration in India?45. Police reforms46. Indian intelligence47. FDI, inflation, importexport etc.48. Agricultural credit and Agricultural insurance49. Web regulation, social media pros and cons, IT act, etc.50. Famous writers and theatre personalities of your state51. Pardoning power of president and its importance52. Protection and promotion of regional languages53. Environmental issues54. Recent central govt. programmes/schemes, bills, ordinances, acts,
policies etc.
General Advice:
1. Do not try to bluff them. Be straight and humble.2. If you are not sure about the answer then tell them that “this is the
answer….but I’m not sure”. If you don’t know the answer, but you are
guessing then tell them that it’s a guess or ask for their permission toguess.
3. Whatever you say, say it confidently. Do not lie. Even if you lie, do itconfidently.
4. Smiling face is always desirable (it indicates you are not nervous)5. Do not talk negative. Be optimistic. Show that you have constructive
thinking.6. Do not get excited. Keep calm. Do not lose your patience.7. Interview should not be taken as a questionanswer session. It is a
friendly conversation and healthy discussion.
My IFoS Interview
v. Interview score: 205/300v. Board: IMG Khanv. Background: B.Sc. (Agriculture), M.Sc. (Agriculture) and pursuing
Ph.D. Belongs to Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka.v. Duration: 2025 minutes
Chairman:
1. Many Agricultural graduates are coming into IFS and civil services.Don’t you think they should continue in their field and contribute to theresearch in agriculture?
2. Don’t you think you are wasting your degree by coming into IFS?3. You have studied in both south India and North India. Tell me what is
the difference between North Indian and south Indian agriculture?4. What about the difference between North and South in terms of water
availability?5. You know forests are destroyed and converted into agricultural land.
What should be done?6. There are large plantations of trees in your area. But only one type
trees are planted in a large area. Do you think it’s good? Why?7. Why you want to join IFS?
Member 1:
1. What would you do if you become IFS?2. Why some sections of society are left out? Why they are not in the
mainstream? What should be done?3. What is Right to Education?
Member 2:
1. Why some tribal groups (“Medhis” –it was probably ‘Siddhis”) nearbyDharwad area are roaming on the roads. Why their lives are affected?
2. Which was the first vegetable to be domesticated?3. Name the crop which was first to be domesticated? Where it was first
domesticated?
Member 3:
All questions were based on hobbies
1. What was the last book you read? ANS: ‘Pax Indica by ShashiTharoor
2. How is Shashi Tharoor as a writer?3. Are you on Twitter?4. What is this “Yakshagana” (My Hobby)5. Tell me other outdoor activity you do other than Volleyball and
athletics?6. For outdoor photography you have to walk a lot. Are you interested in
trekking?7. Have you trekked all around Dakshina Kannada?8. Have you been to Agumbe? ANS: ‘No’9. Have you heard about Agumbe?10. What’s special about it?
Member 4:
1. What were you doing after 2009? ANS: Ph.D.2. What’s your research area in Ph.D.?3. Tell me about your research findings till now?4. When are you completing your Ph.D.?5. You are getting ICARSRF. How much do you get?
My Civil Services Interview (2012)
v. Interview score: 190v. Board: IMG Khanv. Service Preference: IPSIASIFSv. Background: B.Sc. (Agriculture), M.Sc. (Agriculture) and pursuing
Ph.D. Belongs to Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka.vi. Duration: 2530 minutes
Chairman:
1. Are you doing Ph.D.?2. When are you completing Ph.D.?3. What’s your research topic?4. So you are working on tomato breeding. In Europe they grow
tomatoes in polyhouse and transport from Spain to UK n’ all. Weproduce large quantity of tomato, why can’t we export to Europe?
5. Is there any GM variety in Tomato in India?6. Relation between GM crop and organic farming?7. Are we producing tomatoes organically?8. Do you recommend organic farming in India?9. You have mentioned your mother tongue as ‘Tulu’. Where it is
spoken?
10. Whether ‘Tulu’ has script?11. India has huge diversity in languages? What needs to be done to
promote regional and neglected languages?12. There was news about a language which is spoken by only one
person. Do you know the region where that language is spoken?13. Which schedule of the constitution has provision for languages?
Member 1:
1. Name some of the recent varieties released by UAS, Dharwad (Univ.where I graduated from)?
2. You know red chillies. Do you know long chilli variety introduced fromBrazil?
3. Why ‘Kisan Mela’ is required? Don’t you think it’s a waste?
Member 2:
1. (He read some statistics from a survey made by India Today regardingcorruption in India) So, how to control corruption? Tell me in points.
2. Tell me what is the basic thing in controlling corruption?3. In 1960’s Secretary for John F. Kennedy has told ‘China is the biggest
threat to the World’? Though Russia was the biggest threat to USA atthat time, what may be the reason that made him to say that?
4. Tell me why many are against Israel? Tell me in historicalperspective?
5. Why China is ahead of India in grabbing opportunities around theworld? E.g. In Srilanka, Maldives, Africa. Why are we lagging behind?
Member 3:
1. (He read some statistics regarding income disparity explainingpercentage of millionaires and poor in India) Why this incomedisparity exists in India?
2. Which country has highest population?3. So China does not have such disparity despite having highest
population. Why India has such income disparity?
Member 4:
1. What is lacking in sports administration?2. (Based on my answer) So you are saying we are not doing well?3. Which sports you play?4. You know recently IOC has decided to drop boxing from Olympics.
What do you think about that? (I corrected it as wrestling. He nodded)5. Do you know about housing problem in police service?6. Have you ever had an encounter with Karnataka police? (Everybody
laughs at the use of word ‘encounter’)
At the end chairman says ‘thank you anoop’. I thanked everyone and
started walking towards the door. Then chairman stopped me and said, “Wehave not asked you why you gave IPS as first preference. It’s up to you tothink and decide”. Everyone started laughing. I too smiled and walked out.
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