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Civil Service Interview Essay

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SHARING EXPERIENCE SOME PERSONAL FIRST- HAND ACCOUNT Interview is more than Personality Test The journey to civil services is not an easy one; it is always challenging and full of excitement. The exam - widely believed to be India 's toughest - grill aspirants on topics ranging from current affairs to critical reasoning. One has to make efforts up to his / her potential and even sacrifice many things in order to achieve such a wonderful goal. During this journey, one learns many valuable lessons for whole life. The whole examination of civil services has been divided into 3 stages, Prelims, Mains and Personality Test (Interview). If we focus on the last 2 or 3 years ' trends of selection in civil services then it becomes clear that …show more content…

However these do not attract as wide publicity as attracted by the civil service interviews. The purpose of this article is not to go into details of genesis of this inscrutable anomaly. Idea behind the write up is to acquaint one with the wider idea behind the last ritualistic step in any mainstream recruitment process i.e. interview or more correctly called 'Personality Test '. I personally have the experience of appearing in civil service interview thrice and once for another administrative post of APFC (Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner). Though success still eludes me in civil service arena, I believe that certain help can definitely occur to aspirants if I can help in developing an elementary idea about the interview process. As said 'Last but not the least ', interview 's importance has never been negated by any successful aspirant. Relative importance of interview has further increased after the changes that were introduced last year. From this year onwards, marks in personality test will be awarded out of a total of 275 marks. Maximum marks in theory papers in Main examination have been kept at 250 each. Before the changes were introduced, evaluation was done out of a total of 300 marks in both interview and each theory paper. So in simple mathematically terms, interview is 10 % more potent in scoring marks for final rank …show more content…

An interview consists of systematically trying to find out the information, skills or views; a candidate has for the job for which he has sought the selection. Oral tests can gauge intangible qualities of character like, smartness, alacrity, emotional stability, confidence and fortitude. Relative importance of these qualities may be decided by the recruitment agency as per the need and demand of job. The technique of an oral test is that of a natural purposive conversation intended to reveal the qualities of the candidate. Probably that is the main reason why, UPSC prefers to call it personality test. Oral

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