Sunday, May 10, 2009

IAS 2008 Interview Transcripts #23

MY INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

Balaguruswamy board : Interview serial order: 1st . date 11th April FN
Duration:42 mins


Lady member: so,mr.jeevan, I see that you are an active sports person…..what is cross country?


LM:what is the difference between production & productivity?


Chairman:Why did you select two totally unrelated subjects for the main examination? Don’t you like your engineering subjects?


LM:so what are checks and balances?


LM:is there a perfect seperation in the indian context?


LM:can you tell me any country in the world where there is clear seperation of powers?


LM:so, what is anthropology?


Member 3: so whats the difference between sociology and anthropology?


Member 3:so can you say that sociology is close to history?


LM:but you said that sociology is the mother subject of anthropology……how can anthropology have more subject content than sociology?


LM:what is the relation between deficit and recession?


Member 3:can you name a few tribes from anywhere…..from your state for instance…..


Member 3:if I say that “there is a black cat in a dark room that you are searching for……..” which academic discipline will you relate it sociology,psychology,philosophy,anthàto?ropology?


Member 3: ….and if I tell you that” there you are searching for a black cat in a dark room that doesn’t exist….”then?


Member 4:you have completed your engineering four years back.what have you been doing all these years?


Member 4 :preparing?......so do you agree when I say that you have indulged in personal investment but a national waste?


Member 5:so what are the books you read?


Member 4: so you are fond of races…..do you know the distance of the longest race in the olympics?


Member 5:so you are from hyderabad…..do you know any of the popular badminton players from hyderabad….


Member 5: name three social problems……


Me:sir, casteism,child labour and discrimination against women….


Member 5:so what is the origin of casteism?


Member 5:if you were to define caste through class, how would you define it?


Member 5:give me a definition in two


Member 5: what do you understand by 2G and 3G phones?


Member 5: why was it(3G) news?


Member 5: so what is this amateur nature photography?


Member 4:what is the principle on which camera lens works?


Member 5:what is the resolution of your mobile phone?


Member 5:so what is this CDMA technology……which is better CDMA or GSM?


Member 5(interrupts):I don’t know any of these technical details you tell me which is better, a GSM phone or a CDMA phone?


Chairman(intterupts): ok Mr.jeevan please pick up a card and read it out loudly


Summary of it “don’t do something that you cant do and don’t but don’t restrain from doing something, just because someone doesn’t trust you that you can do it”


Asks meaning and asks…..apply it to a District collector or DSP and explain……


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