WHAT KIND OF #IAS UPSC BOARD SEEKS DURING INTERVIEW NEEDS ?
Union Public Service Commission chairman D.P.Agrawal finds it worrying that a bulk of the candidates who apply for the competitive civil services examination are not equipped enough in their understanding of the country’s issues.
Addressing students of the Kerala State Civil
Services Academy here on Wednesday, he
warned them that there would soon come a time when a balancing mechanism would be put in place that would value the candidates’ general knowledge over subject proficiency.
He said it was impressive how well students
scored in their optional papers — where they put in more effort to raise the overall score at the expense of neglecting their reading of general issues in the country and the world over. The candidates should to be well-read, he said adding that learning by rote had entered the interview process as well.
Dr. Agrawal recalled previous instances where candidates had even made up hobbies, butwhen the interviewer probed further it became starkly apparent that the answer was not honest.
“Even hobbies are tutored for you by coaching centres,” he lamented, expressing his reservations about the flourishing of coaching centres across the country.
“They can brainwash and demolish you completely,” he said. It was imperative that students were honest, appeared as themselves for the test and the interview and not a false, coached version. Hobbies and educational achievements were what lent the candidate their personality and good training should be able to hone that personality, he said. The next paradigm of examinations would delve deeper into the subject and no amount of learning by rote would be able to get the candidate across the line, Dr. Agrawal said.imperative he said, adding that it was difficult t model a Physics paper into a history one or vice-versa he
advised aspirants to be lucid during interviews, especially if they planned to do so in
their regional languages. There had been previous episodes where what the candidate was
articulating got lost in translation durininterviews. Translators were picked carefully, he
assured. He said the UPSC was pro-language
because they believed that being adept at
languages can grant the candidate with more
knowledge, culturally.
Mr. Agrawal said he was relieved that 7.l people applied last year, even though there had
been reports of how the
bureaucracy was
increasingly placed at the mercy of political powers.
Union Public Service Commission chairman D.P.Agrawal finds it worrying that a bulk of the candidates who apply for the competitive civil services examination are not equipped enough in their understanding of the country’s issues.
Addressing students of the Kerala State Civil
Services Academy here on Wednesday, he
warned them that there would soon come a time when a balancing mechanism would be put in place that would value the candidates’ general knowledge over subject proficiency.
He said it was impressive how well students
scored in their optional papers — where they put in more effort to raise the overall score at the expense of neglecting their reading of general issues in the country and the world over. The candidates should to be well-read, he said adding that learning by rote had entered the interview process as well.
Dr. Agrawal recalled previous instances where candidates had even made up hobbies, butwhen the interviewer probed further it became starkly apparent that the answer was not honest.
“Even hobbies are tutored for you by coaching centres,” he lamented, expressing his reservations about the flourishing of coaching centres across the country.
“They can brainwash and demolish you completely,” he said. It was imperative that students were honest, appeared as themselves for the test and the interview and not a false, coached version. Hobbies and educational achievements were what lent the candidate their personality and good training should be able to hone that personality, he said. The next paradigm of examinations would delve deeper into the subject and no amount of learning by rote would be able to get the candidate across the line, Dr. Agrawal said.imperative he said, adding that it was difficult t model a Physics paper into a history one or vice-versa he
advised aspirants to be lucid during interviews, especially if they planned to do so in
their regional languages. There had been previous episodes where what the candidate was
articulating got lost in translation durininterviews. Translators were picked carefully, he
assured. He said the UPSC was pro-language
because they believed that being adept at
languages can grant the candidate with more
knowledge, culturally.
Mr. Agrawal said he was relieved that 7.l people applied last year, even though there had
been reports of how the
bureaucracy was
increasingly placed at the mercy of political powers.
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