Personal Questions
Q: What's the meaning of your name?
Q: What's the meaning of your surname?
Q: Tell us about yourself.
Q: How would your friends describe you?
Q: What is your roll number?
Q: Why you want to become a civil servant?
Q: Why should we select you?
Q: Who is your role model?
Q: Who has been the motivating factor for you to opt for the civil services?
Q: What is your aim in the life?
Q: What is your personal goal in the life?
Q: What will you do if you're not selected?
Q: What is your plan B?
Q: How do you look yourself five years from now?
Q: Give us an example of a situation where you acted honestly?
Q: Give us an example of a situation where you acted dishonestly?
Q: Which is your favourite newspaper and why?
Q: Which is your favourite magazine and why?
Q: Which is your favourite news channel and why?
Q: Who is your favourite journalist and why?
Q: Which is your favourite movie and why?
Q: Who is your favourite actor and why?
Q: Which is the latest book you have read?
Q: Who is your favourite author and why?
Q: Are you a religious person?
Q: What is the difference between the religion and the spirituality?
Q: Are you a religious or a spiritual person?
Q: Which games do you play?
Q: What are the sites you generally browse on the Internet?
Q: How can you be an asset for the government?
Q: What is your greatest strength?
Q: What is your greatest weakness?
Q: What is your view regarding your leadership skills?
Q: If you are comfortable, please share a moment where you felt embarrassed.
Q: Have you ever solved a particular problem with some out of box solution?
Q: Do you consider yourself to be a risk taker?
Q: How did you prepare for the Personality Test?
Q: Did you join any coaching institute for the Personality Test?
Q: What motivates you?
Q: Who ls your biggest inspiration?
Q: What is the thing you hate the most?
Q: What is the thing you love the most?
Q: Which is your favourite fruit and why?
Q: If given a chance with whose life would you want to swap your life and please tell us the reasons also.
Q: Do you consider yourself to be an optimist? Why or why not?
Q: If an angel comes to you and asks to make any three wishes, what those would be?
Q: Can you share with us an example where you solved an ethical dilemma.
Q: How do you deal with stress?
Q: Do you consider yourself to be a satisfied person?
Q: What makes you happy?
Q: What's your idea of entertainment?
Q: What do you do in your leisure time?
Q: What's the difference between smart work and hard work? To which category you belong?
Q: What's your definition of success?
Q: Why you have chosen this optional?
Q: How would your optional help you in the administration?
Q: What, in your opinion, are the qualities of a good administrator?
Q: Is honesty a subjective thing?
Q: What are three things that are inevitable for success?
Q: What are the three things to be avoided to avoid failure?
Q: If you can plant one idea into my thought process/mind what would that be?
Q: According to you, who is the luckiest person on this earth?
Q: What are the headlines today?
What is your choice in terms of gender for your first child & Why?
Q: What is your favorite sport?
Q: Who is your favorite sport person?
Hypothetical Questions
Q: What will be your priorities if you are the OM of your district?
Q: What will be your priorities if you are the SP of your district?
Q: What steps will you take as the DM if a communal riot breaks out in your area?
Q: What will be the steps you will take as the DM to improve the administration?
Q: What's your vision for an ideal district and ideal state?
Q: Suggest certain steps to tackle the problem of illiteracy in your district?
Q: Suggest certain steps to eradicate the problem of poverty in your district?
Q: Suggest certain concrete measures to counter the menace of corruption in your district?
Q: What will be your vision as the Prime Minister of India?
Q: What will be your vision as the Chief Minister of your state?
Q: What would be your plan of action if you are made the finance minister of India?
Q: What would be your plan of action if you are made the defence minister of India?
Q: What will you do if you are pressurized by your political superiors or the seniors to take a step which is illegal?
View based questions
Q: Do you favour the idea that no candidate should be given the home cadre if he gets selected for an All India Service?
Q: In the light of the fact that smoking is injurious to health should smoking be banned all together?
Q: Should the sale of liquor be banned and the country be made as dry?
Q: Suggest certain reforms for the civil services examination.
Q: Are you in favour of compulsory voting?
Q: Are you in favour of reservation for women in the legislatures?
Q: Do you think the entire affirmative action paradigm needs to be redesigned?
Q: Has the reservation system been a success or a failure?
Q: Do you think that the concept of creamy layer In tho OBCs is justified?
Q: Do you think the concept of creamy layer should be opplled to the SCs and STs as well?
Q: What are your views on the sting operations?
Q: What are your views on the paid news?
Q: What are your views on the investigative journalism?
Q: What are your views on media activism?
Q: What are your views on the trial by media?
Q: What are your views related to the judicial activism?
Q: Is astrology a science or superstition?
Q: Is vastu a science or superstition?
Q: What are your views on the alternative methods of healing?
Q: Please share with us your vision of harnessing India's demographic dividend?
Q: What's your opinion about interlinking of the rivers?
Q: Of late, there has been an increasing clamour that the laws meant for the protection of the woman , like the anti-dowry law, are often being misused to harass the men and their families. What are your views about this?
Q: Has secularism successful in India?
Q: In your opinion is India a beneficiary or a loser in the context of globalization.
Q: Professionals have a narrow point of view and know more about less, which gives them a disadvantageous position vis-a-vis the genaralists. Comment.
Q: Do you think that if the civil servants are suitably compensated, the corruption would stop?
Questions related to IT
Q: Suggest us some steps to achieve the target of e-governance?
Q: Being an administrator tomorrow, how will you use the Information Technology for the better governance?
Q: What do you understand by digital divide? How can you bridge it?
Q: What are the hurdles in the way of e-governance in India?
Q: Who are netizens? How are they different from the citizens?
Q: What do you understand by Internet browser?
Q: What do you understand by the term social media?
Q: What do you understand by the term micro blogging?
Q: What do you understand by the term IP address and what is its significance?
Q: What do you understand by cloud computing?
Q: Who owns the Internet and all the information on it?
Q: Please comment on the role of Information Technology in the field of medicine.
Q: What's the role of Information Technology in the judiciary?
Q: What do you mean by a search engine? Name a few.
Q: How can we control the obscenity on the internet?
Q: How IT can help in achieving the paperless governance?
Q: State the steps required to start an IT revolution in the government bodies
Questions on polity and Constitution
Q: Speak negatively about the Indian political system for 2 minutes?
Q: Tell us briefly about the various types of motions been used ln the parliament.
Q: Do you think the linguistic criterion of forming the states is a right criterion?
Q: Do you think India needs more states?
Q: What are the benefits and problems of small states?
Q: In your opinion which is the most important amendment done to the constitution of India since independence.
Q: What do you understand by the term minority?
Q: What all minorities are being recognized by the constitution of India?
Q: Do you think that the post of the governor should be abolished?
Q: Do you think that it is the time for India to switch over to the presidential form of government?
Q: What are your views regarding the opinion polls and the exit polls?
Q: Should there be state funding of elections?
Q: What is the meaning of the term delegated legislation?
Q: What is double jeopardy?
Q: What do you mean by Colorable legislation?
Q: What are the different types of majority needed to pass a bill in the parliament?
Q: Is the prime minister of India the head of the government or the head of the state?
Q: What is the national language of India?
Q: Should the maximum age of the civil services be reduced?
Q: Should there be any minimum educational qualification for a person to be a minister?
Q: Should uniform civil code be applied to India?
Q: Briefly tell us to significant recommendations of the second administrative reforms commission.
Q: How can you justify the concept of the Rajya Sabha when its members are not elected by the people?
Q: What are your views regarding section 377 of IPC?
Q: What are your views regarding section 309 of IPC?
Q:What do you mean by the basic features of the constitution?
Q: Should we do away with such a lengthy constitution?
Q: What do you understand by the concept of Lokpal?
Questions related to governance and public administration
Q: What do you mean by the governance?
Q: Please tell us some of the important initiatives taken by the government of India in the field of e-governance.
Q: What is the difference between the government and governance?
Q: Is there any alternative to bureaucracy?
Q: What is the contribution of bureaucracy in the development of this nation?
Q: What has been the impact of liberalisation. privatisation and globalisation on the Indian bureaucracy?
Q: What are the important problems being faced by the Indian bureaucracy?
Q: What do you understand by the term social audit?
Q: What do you understand by the term human resource audit?
Q: How the corruption can be reduced in the bureaucracy?
Q: What do you understand by the term decentralized planning?
Q: What do you understand by the term participatory democracy?
Q: What do you mean by the administrative law? How is it different from the law of the land?
Q: What do you mean by the term public policy?
Q: What do you understand by the term citizen charter?
Q: How the geography affects the public administration of any area?
Q: How is public administration different from the business administration?
Q: What traits of private organizations should be adopted in the public administration?
Q: How the public administration can be made more efficient?
Questions on economy
Q: Speak negatively about the Indian economy for 1 minute?
Q: What do you understand by corporate social responsibility?
Q: What do you understand by repo rate and reverse repo rate?
Q: Do you have an idea about what is the Gandhian economic model?
Q: Do you think that the Gandhian economic model is relevant today?
Q: What do you understand by the term the stock exchange? Why is it called so?
Q: can you name some regulatory authorities of India in the different fields? Please comment on their working.
Q: What do you understand by the security transaction tax?
Q: What is structured unemployment?
Q: What is disguised unemployment?
Please differentiate between the budgetary deficit fiscal deficit and the primary deficit.
Q: What do you mean by balance of payment?
Q: What role does the forex reserve play in the economy of a country? What are the factors on which this is dependent?
Q: What steps should India take to tackle the energy deficit?
Q: Do you support Disinvestment?
Questions based on science
Q: What is biometric identification? How does it work?
Q: What's the principle behind the working of a microwave oven?
Q: What is the basic principle behind the particle accelerator used to find the Higgs Boson?
Q: What is Higgs Boson?
Q: What are the advantages and disadvantages of nuclear energy?
Q: What do you mean by Green House farming?
Q: It is claimed that Indian ancient Science was much a head of the contemporary science. What are your views on this?
Q: What do you mean by a supercomputer? How many super computers do we have?
Q: What is the difference between an LCD and an LED TV?
Q: What is the difference between the GSM and the CDMA technologies?
Q: What do you mean by biotechnology?
Questions on ecology and environment
Q: What do you understand by the Greenhouse Effect?
Q: What do you understand by global warming? What are its main causes?
Q: What are the harmful effects of global warming?
Q: What are the steps been taken by the Indian government to control global warming?
Q: What do you understand by the term carbon footprint?
Q: What are the carbon credits?
Q: What do you understand by the term eco tourism?
Q: What steps can be taken to stop the melting of glaciers?
Q: What is Kyoto protocol?
Q: What is a green building?
Social Issues
Q: Speak negatively for the Indian social system for 2 minutes?
Q: What are the reasons behind the crime against women in India?
Q: Do you think that the problems being faced by the women in the rural and urban areas are different?
Q: What do you understand gender neutrality? How can it be achieved?
Q: Do you think that the men and women have different abilities of handling a particular situation? Who is better in your opinion?
Q: Please tell us certain programs that have been started by the government of India for the upliftment of the women.
Q: What do you mean by universalisation of the elementary education? Critically comment on the role of private sector in the educational system of India.
Q: When it comes to the world class educational institutions, India is still lagging far behind. What are the reasons for this?
Q: What do you mean by the Human Development Index?
Q: Why is India at such a low rank in the HDI?
Q: What do you understand by consumerism? Is it good or bad for the country?
Q: What do you understand by westernization of the society? Is it good for the country?
Q: What is "Happiness Index"? How is it different from HDI?
Questions on foreign policy and India's relations with the world
Q: What are the major challenges the Indian foreign policy faces today?
Q: What should be India's priority areas in terms of foreign relations?
Q: What do you think are the areas where the Indian foreign policy needs to be reviewed?
Q: Do you feel that the current Indian foreign policy has remarkably diverted from the Nehruvian foreign policy? In your opinion is this shift a positive or a negative thing?
Q: Is the NAM relevant today?
Q: Is the SAARC relevant today?
Q: Can you suggest a solution to Kashmir problem?
Q: Should the line of control be transformed to the international boundary?
Q: What do you mean by Track 1 Track 2 and Track 3diplomacy?
Q: What steps should be taken to tackle the recent Chinese excursion at the Sino-Indian border?
Q: What is Look East Policy?
Q: What do you mean by Look West Policy?
Questions on defence and strategic framework
Q: What do you understand by the term geopolitics?
Q: Can you illustrate how the geo politics of the Indian subcontinent has its impact over India's foreign policy?
Q: What are the major challenges to the Indian maritime security?
Q: What steps should be taken to modernize our armed forces?
Q: What do you have to say about the recent accusation of corruption in the armed forces?
Q: Should private companies be included in the production of various defense requirements?
Q: Who is a field marshal?
Questions on Geography
Q: What is the total length of India's border?
Q: What is the total length of India's maritime boundary?
Q: How many islands does India have?
Q: What are the prospects of the wind power energy in India?
Q: How can India realize its complete hydel power potential?
Q: What are the opportunities and challenges provided by the unique climatic conditions in India?
Q: Can India be administered better if the states are based on the geographical divisions?
Questions on the judiciary
Q: What do you think is the primary cause for such a huge pendency of cases in India? Can you suggest some steps to reduce ii?
Q: What do you understand by the concept of the fast-track courts?
Q: What do you understand by the term rule of law?
Q: What do you understand by the term natural justice ?
Q: What do you understand by the term due process of law?
Q: What are the challenges being faced by the Indian judiciary today?
Q: What do you mean by the public interest litigation and who Introduced this concept to the Indian judicial system?
Q: Have the consumer courts been effective?
Q: What do you understand by the quasi judicial powers? In what authorities these powers are entrusted?
Questions on similar words and terms
Q: Can you differentiate between debate, speech, declamation and discussion?
Q: What is the difference between the All India Service and the Central Service?
Q: ls there any difference between the renewable energy and non conventional energy?
Q: Please differentiate between inflation, deflation and stagflation?
Q: What's the difference between recession and the economic slowdown?
Q: What is the difference between an epidemic and endemic?
Q: What is the difference between a militant and a terrorist?
Q; What is the difference between a high commissioner and an ambassador?
Q: What is the difference between the terms geostationary orbit and geosynchronous orbit?
Q: What is the difference between a copyright, a trademark and a patent?
Q: What is the difference between the twins and the clones?
Q: What is the difference between growth and development?
Q: Please differentiate between a biosphere reserve, a national park and wildlife century.
Q: What's the difference between the terms climate and weather?
Q: What is the difference between the rule of law and due process of law?
Q: What is the difference between the human rights and the fundamental rights?
Q: What is the difference between a leader and a manager?
Q: What is the difference between leadership, administration and management?
Q: What's the difference between recession and depression?
Q: What's the difference between FDI and Fll?
Q: What's the difference between cost push inflation and demand pull inflation?
Q: What is the difference between Economy and economics?
Q: What is the difference between Trade and commerce?
Q: What is the difference between Games and sports?
Q: What is the difference between Officer and official?
Q: What is the difference between a woman and a female?
Q: What is the difference between Marriage and wedding?
Q: What is the difference between Polity and politics?
Q: What is the difference between Geography and geology?
Q: What is the difference between Gadgets and Machines?
Q: What is the difference between Fashion and style?
Q: What is the difference between Drugs and Medicine?
Q: What is the difference between Plan, Programme and Policy?
Q: What is the difference between Accountability and Responsibility?
Q: What is the difference between Administration and Management?
Q: What is the difference between Author and Writer?
Q: What is the difference between Anonymous and unknown?
Q: What is the difference between Culture and civilization?
Q: What is the difference between values, morals & ethics?
Q: What is the difference between Leader & Manager?
Q: What is the difference between Government and governance?
Q: What is the difference between decentralization, delegation, devolution, deconcentration?
Q: What is the difference between Race and ethnicity?
Q: What is the difference between the plebiscite and the referendum?
Q: What is the difference between the civil services and public services?
Q: What is the difference between the naxalism and maoism?
Q: What is the difference between communalism and fundamentalism?
Weird questions
Q: What is so good about this morning?
Q: Why you selected a particular color tor your shirt for today?
Q: How many times you cross your tie to make a tie knot?
Q: If one square inch of your head contains1000 hair, then what is the approximate number of hair on your head?
Questions on general awareness
Q: What is the difference between Group 'B' service been recruited by the UPSC and a Group 'B' service being recruited by some other recruiting agency?
Q: What do you mean by meditation?
Q: What do you understand by yoga?
Q: Is there any difference between the yoga and meditation?
Q: What is 'classical' about classical music or classical dance or classical singing?
Q: What do you understand by white revolution, blue revolution, orange revolution, yellow revolution, pink revolution, rainbow revolution?
Q: What do you understand by the term medical tourism?
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