SUPARCO (My test & interview)
Written test was held on 21-06-2011 for the post of Junior Assistant-II (Admin) SPS-3.
Total number of candidates: 70 approx.
Test was MCQ based.
Test duration: 1 hour (60 minutes)
Total questions: 60
Each question carries 2 marks.
Negative marking (0.5 deduct for each wrong answer)
Distribution of questions:
English (grammar, complete the sentence): 20 (40 marks)
Pakistan studies: 15 (30 marks)
(That section was mostly about the dates of those events: Quiad’s fourteen points, Nehru pact, Cabinet mission, Liaquat-Nehru pact, Quaid-e-Azam resignation from Congress, RCD, and Announcement of partition plan)
Computer (MS Office + simple hardware): 25 (50 marks)
Interview
Total 16 candidates were declared successful in written examination and called for interview.
After passing the written examination, my interview was held on 22-06-2011 in SUPARCO HQs, Karachi (scheduled on 10 : 00 am but due to the busy schedule of board it took place at 4:20 pm)
Firstly there was a practical test on computer about proficiency in MS Office 2007.
After that all candidates were took to the headquarters’ building for interview.
There was a selection board constituted for the interviews at SUPARCO HQs.
The selection board was consisted of 5 members including Director (Establishment), a lady psychiatrist [possibly Manager (Psychology)], chief security advisor and two members of SUPARCO.
I entered in the room of Director (Establishment).
The chairman of selection board which was the Director (Establishment) welcomed me and directed to have a seat please.
He asked me about why I want to join SUPARCO?
Tell us about why temperature goes down when we move upward in atmosphere? (Completely a different question as the interview is about the post of Jr. Asstt-II Admin.)
Where do you stand yourself in general knowledge?
Ok, let’s talk on PNS Mehran attack. Tell me what was that?
(There was a dialogue on this issue; the security advisor also participated in that discussion)
Then the two members of SUPARCO asked me that do you work on MS Office?
Tell me about if I want to justify my text without using mouse what should I have to do?
If I want to undo anything what would be the shortcut key, so as for copy & paste too?
Can I work on MS Excel while using MS Word?
Then the psychiatrist asked me what do you think about team work? Rate yourself as a team player from 1 to 5 (As 5 stands for excellent and 1 stands for lower level).
Psychiatrist: If your officer assigns you a work which you do not want to do then what would you do?
Psychiatrist: My last question is that what will cause you to leave SUPARCO?
Then the chairman said, “ok beta, thank you”.
I replied “thank you sir” and walked outside the room.
(Duration of interview: 17 minutes)
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