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DAF based Question Sets

Personality Based Questions
  1. Tell me about your personality.
  2. What are your achievements?
  3. Tell us about most embarrassing moment in your life.
  4. Tell us about major accomplishment in your life.
  5. What keeps you busy nowadays?
  6. Meaning of your name.
  7. Tell me something about yourself.
  8. What are famous places of your district?
  9. Tell something about your hometown. Tell us about famous personalities from your hometown.
  10. What are the similarities between home state and Delhi?
  11. What is occupation of your parents?
  12. Should your state be divided into four states?
  13. Tell us about industries in your state. Name the World heritage sites in your state.
  14. Who was 1st CM of your state? Tell me something about incumbent Chief Minister of your state.
  15. How do you plan metro in Chandigarh?
  16. Which industry/special thing is famous in your hometown?
  17. What is sex ratio of your state and why it is so low?
  18. In which state sex ratio is more than 1000 and what is the condition of sex ratio in tribes?
  19. Tell us about Precipitation and rainfall pattern of your state.
  20. Tell us about works of Samrat Ashok.
  21. What are the famous places in and around your city?
  22. What is your height in cm, feet and inches?
  23. In your state, what is being done by state govt. for betterment of girl child?
  24. Name the landfill sites is Delhi.
  25. What is the meaning and significance of your name and surname?
  26. Name the person belongs to your native place in film industries.
  27. Tell us about growth of your village? How will you improve economy of your village?
  28. Name the famous tourist spots in your state.
  29. Is there any Smart Cities near to your town? If yes, how far?
  30. Do the SWOT analysis (Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats) of your state.
  31. Why don’t you choose profession of your parents?
  32. Tell one event occurred on the date of your birth.
  33. Why do you feel that you should be selected?
  34. What is the one quality in you which makes you different from others?
  35. Tell us about your family.
  36. How do you keep yourself motivated?
  37. What life has taught you?
  38. Who is an ideal citizen? Are you an ideal citizen?
  39. What is the population of your district? What is the main profession of your district (In which profession most of the people are working)?
  40. Tell me one instance where you have shown leadership abilities.
  41. Tell us five important qualities of a leader.
  42. Tell us three good qualities of an administrator.
  43. Tell something about history of your district
  44. What were you thinking when sitting outside the room?
  45. How do you handle nervousness in some situations?
  46. Who is more inspirational your mother or father?
  47. What encouraged you to join civil service?
  48. You did your 12th in 2009 and graduated in 2014, was there a year gap and why?
  49. Don’t you think that RPS is challenging job?
  50. Why civil services? Did you get inspired?
  51. Who was your favorite teacher? What did he/she teach you?
  52. What have you done after your graduation?
  53. What have you been doing so long in the exam? And why? Don’t you feel the need for doing something different? How do you keep yourself motivated and positive?
  54. Tell us about your schooling?
  55. When did you decided to go for civil services and what motivated you?
  56. There is a notion that doctors and engineers from publicly funded institutions like IITs don’t opt for their respective graduation subject careers? Don’t you think it is a loss to the exchequer?
  57. Tell me about your education experience
  58. What are the characteristics of a good leader?
  59. What is the influence of your mother on you?
  60. You have one minute to convince me why should we hire you for this job? What are your qualities?
  61. Any demerits with full time preparation
  62. You are your best friend. Substantiate.
  63. How your manager and your team members review about you
  64. Is it good to prepare for civil service without working?
  65. I’m disturbed to hear from you that civil service is the most prestigious job in India. Why do you think so? What about doctors and teachers?
  66. Can a person just mug up the content prepared by coaching institutes and clear UPSC? Does it not affect the quality of students who get selected?
  67. Difference between moral integrity and financial integrity and give examples of both from your personal life.
  68. While honesty is important, is it also important to be seen as honest? What is your take? How can you do this especially in today’s world with the media?
  69. Are you impulsive or calculative?
  70. If someone is impulsive, how can that be justified?
  71. What is emotional intelligence? Can it be measured? Having emotions is a good quality or bad quality.
  72. Would you rather be nice or firm?
  73. I see a gap of 6 years after your degree so you haven’t utilized your expertise of your field?
  74. Civil service has so many challenges, still why do you want to come?
  75. Would you like to be a team leader or team member?
  76. You have taken subjects English and Sanskrit earlier. Can you tell me the similarities in grammar of these two languages?
  77. Tell me thoughts coming to your mind in one and half minute.
  78. Why don’t you want to join politics? Why only civil services?
  79. What qualities of Doctors/Engineers/Lawyers are useful in civil services?
  80. Where you will see yourself after 20 years, professionally as well as personally?
  81. What are yours extrinsic and intrinsic motivations to join civil service?
  82. One thing/event you are proud of that you did during job – and 1 thing/event you are not very proud of?
  83. One good and bad experience in your professional career.
  84. How can a person who works as an LD Clerk can change the country in next 3 decades?
  85. What was the happiest moment of your life?
  86. Did you take coaching? Which subject you found toughest to understand while preparing? Why so many engineers as civil aspirants?
  87. What if you don’t get selected, what will you do? If not selected next time as well then.
  88. Tell me four principles in your life. What will you do if you not able to use these principles in field?
  89. How will you use your knowledge of your graduation when the mob is out there doing violence?
  90. How will courage help you in civil services? It is very rule bound and there is no scope of any innovation? Do you mean to say that all civil servants are lacking in courage?
  91. Tell me about yourself for two min but nothing from DAF?
  92. Introduce yourself with your educational background and work experience. What have you been doing since graduation?
  93. Civil servants are seen by people as elites? What is your opinion about this?
  94. How will you tackle corruption in lower bureaucracy?
  95. Do you agree that corruption in India started because of British authorities and civil engineers? Do you want to ask us anything?
  96. After doing Engineering, were you never interested in pursuing a career in Engineering?
  97. After 70 yrs of independence, service delivery lacking, why?
  98. What role we as bureaucrats have in ensuring public service?
  99. How do u rate current service delivery?
  100. In how many years will you think the service delivery going to improve?
  101. How do you think you can deliver better services and reduce corruption?
  102. If you penalise the bureaucrats, will it have a deterrence effect?What else is needed? Is people’s awareness important? How to make people aware about it?
  103. What are your qualities apart from good student?
  104. Why did opt for civil service rather opt for self employment?
  105. What are your service preferences? Why RAS as first choice?
  106. Do you think technical domain will help you in generalistic civil services?
  107. There are people much more experienced than you and know tricks of the game. If they happen to your subordinates, what will be your approach? They may dope you.
  108. Why people don’t want to work and how will you motivate them?
  109. Tell me difference between ‘Tell leader’ and ‘Sell leader’?
  110. Your name is **XYZ**. Any other great personality of same name?
  111. What do you know about his academic records?
  112. Should a person who has failed 10th exam be a role model for youngsters?
  113. Coming back to leadership. Let’s assume that you have qualities of a leader but still you commit a mistake. How will you respond?
  114. Whatever measures we take corruption prevails in the country...How we should address Corruption?
  115. Whose tie is this? What’s the brand of tie you are wearing?
  116. Does your name justify your personality?
  117. Why people from technical background are coming to this general job? What are benefits?
  118. You are 21 and graduated in 2019 only. Don’t you think that you should do some research, gain some experience in a job and then appear for Civil service exam?
Situational Questions
  1. Suppose you have been made Dist. collector in your own district. What steps would you take to change mindset of people towards Girl Education.
  2. Tell me a situation. Your boss asks you to something illegal. Will you do?
  3. Ok if he asks you to do something which is legal, but not gives you in writing. Will you do?
  4. Ok suppose if he ask legal thing to do but you conscience don’t allows you to do, will you do
  5. There is a situation. Your neighbor continuously try to abuse you and will try to harm you. Will you allow your children to play with him?
  6. Situation: if you are an RPS and there has been an ambush, how would you deal with it
  7. Imagine you are an administrator. The people working under are you are engaged in some unethical activity. What would you do? Your boss is also unethical. Then what would you do?

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