my interview questions

[prakashr]

Interview was on 24th march, chairman was Prof. E. Balagurusamy.

CM: You had the tea? You had the water?
Tell us something about yourself.
You graduated from the IIT; you must have got good campus placement, so then why you want to enter civil services?
Can you tell us how your education will help you in this career?
Your 1st preference is IAS, and your 3rd preference is IPS. Suppose you do not get the IAS, which I wish do not happen, then you may have to join the IPS. Tell me what are the qualities that a police officer should have?

1st member:
Your 1st preference is IAS, 2nd is IFS and 3rd is IPS. How do you justify these choices?
Tell me what are the main crops grown in your home district?
you know what the importance of cumin seeds(from the answer) is in our national economy? where it is used?
Do you know about the green revolution? Have you heard of it?Tell me what is it? Tell me how it happened? Ok when did it happen? Ok what is the status of our food production now? Are we self sufficient? Have you heard of any other revolutions in agriculture other than green revolution, anything in pulses?Ok you were telling about self sufficiency, is it that we are not self sufficient or people do not have money to buy?

2nd member:
We hear that inflation rate is going down. Recently it has dropped from 2.43% to around 0.4%. Is it good or bad for our economy? How is it good? Will it be good if have negative inflation rate?
We have lot of black money in the economy. Suppose you are the Finance Minister of the country, how will eliminate this? Tell me 4 policies for this? (I could not give a convincing answer to this..discussion went on this question for 2-3 mins)

3rd member:
What is sustainable development?Ok, suppose you are DM of certain area, how will you ensure sustainable development of multipurpose river project? But the people are mentally disturbed when thrown out of their land, what will you do for this?
Tell me what are qualities you have for which you should be selected?
Ok tell me how will you use your education background in civil services?
Tell me how will you use your EE background? Tell me how will you use them in police service?

4th member:
As you have mentioned about the power sector, tell me about the situation of our power sector? What are the problems which we are facing? What can be done about this?
time these T&D losses are called theft & dacoit losses. Do you agree with it? How will you prevent the theft losses? If a person is paying bribe to the electrician for theft, what can you do then?
Ok, can you tell what percentage of different sources of power is? Percentage of thermal, hydro and all…
What are problems associated with the coal based plants? What can be done for the ash?Are we doing this?
Do we need nuclear energy? Do you know the future projection of nuclear energy in terms of percentage?

CM:
Are we doing something on nuclear energy? Why now, why not earlier?Why we had sanctions? Is Indo-US nuclear deal good for us? Do we need to be afraid on anything?
Take any card from this and read what is written on it. Explain it.
Ok your interview is over. How do you assess your interview? Were you nervous? Do you want to change any of your answer now? Now you can ask any question from any one of us. Have a chocolate.

It was over within no time. Questions were thrown without me finishing the answers.

[sagarjit]

thanx for sharing...............

[shashank_aum]

prakash can i knw wht were ur optionals....

[prakashr]

optionals: electrical engg + maths

[kushal]

Thanks for sharing your interview

[sanjeev]

Thats very nice of you Parkash for sharing the questions which will guide the future students. If all the candidates share their question as has been done by you, it can create a very good pool of questions for all times to come. This is what is called SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (in respect of this site). this is how others too can help.

[pshivareddy]

Hi Prakash,

thanks for sending valuable information to all.I have choosen maths as my opitional,could u please help me to prepare for maths that is really a great help for [********email ID deleted*******] is my mail id.

Thanks,
Shiva Reddy

[raghavendrak]

Hi Prakash,

I have a doubt in preferences could you please clarify the same?

It is like if we select 1st preference IAS 2nd IPS and 3rd IFS. I opted for home state also.
If i didnt get IAS in my home state and thr are vacancies in IAS for other states. At tht can i go for IPS home state posting. Do they allow for this?


If we select 1st preference IPS and 2nd IAS. will we get definately home state provide we got good rank? Where can we get the details of all vacancies cadre wise & reserved and unreserved wise?

Please clarify the above.

Thanks in advance

[anushans]

thts mind blowing session u had mr prakash but anyways tel us how u did share ur feelings at moments of those toughest questions were asked if i would have been there then it would like a dumb session..well thanks a lot for sharing the information..and all the best for ur future