Civil Servant (IAS/PCS)

As of now, the IAS interview panel consists of eminent personalities from different fields and is headed by a chairman. Unlike the IAS Mains and prelims examination, the interview stage has no fixed format or pattern and the panel is free to ask candidates questions from technical, academic as well as non-academic fields. To help you understand the type and style of questions being asked in the IAS interview, we have listed some of the important ones below: 1. Tell me about yourself? Or Give a brief Introduction about yourself. 2. Why do you want to become IAS Officer? 3. Tell me about your positive and negative strengths. 4. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking? 5. What will you do if I run away with your sister? 6. Interviewer ordered a cup of coffee for the candidate. Coffee arrived and was kept before the candidate. What is before you? 7. What happened when the wheel was invented? 8. What if one morning you woke up & found that you were pregnant? (asked a female candidate) 9. Where Lord Rama would have celebrated his "First Diwali"?

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