CSS interview 2017
 

Please mention all important areas of css interview 2017 which were discussed during the interview session.

Interview 2017
 

AOA, Hope everyone is doing good. I am writing this post to give the readers an outlook of my interview. I had my interview on 21st Dec. 2017 & I was the 1st to appear before the panel at about 10.00 am. It took almost 35min. They were 5 members and environment was very professional and comfortable.
Optionals: Political Science, Journalism, Gender Studies, Business Admin., Indo-Pak History
Chairman:
Mr.Chairman started the interview by saying welcome and asked me to take seat.
Then he started off by asking about climate change(smog issue plus initiative taken by India to curb it plus environment friendliness of power projects in Punjab Pk),
Asked a question about infrastructure (road) project going on in my area,
Questions about media-that do I think media is portraying its role in positive manner or in standard way (The electronic media plus journalists) -- the pros and cons of online journalism – fairness doctrine.
About political science—what problems would arise if there are no geographical boundaries and leftist/rightist approaches.
Ms. Nargis Sethi
Articles in constitution regarding media,
From where executive derive powers,
In context of current interaction of COAS with Senate, do I think that Pakistan is fully ready to respond to security concerns/challenges from outside/neighbouring countries,
If I am appointed head of FPSC what changes would I recommend?
3rd member(Ahmad Farooq)
Statement: If management is done by management it will result in management,
2 conflicting ideologies during inception of HR as subject,
Clash of civilizations- a scholarly work or authored due to specified political motivations.
4th member (Maj Gen.)
UNSC-I don’t know exactly but he asked my about certain chapters 7 or 8 of security council’s agenda or something related,
Balochistan—what’s going on there,
Farari camps.
Last member
Asked a very long question but the theme was that Pakistan has a very negative image over the World, how would I counter such image,
Continuation of the same issue that image regarding violation of women’s right plus children and human rights violations, how to counter such things.

Marium i am going to opt political science,business adm,gender studies and indo pak history in 2019..can u plz suggest me some books that u have studied..

Marium i am thinking to opt pol sc, bus adm, gendr stdz and indo pak history in 2019 attempt.can u plz suggest me books for these subjects that u have studied.

Madm Nargis asked about constitution (like principles of policy etc), Chaiman sahb asked generic EQ questions, as well as one Current Affairs question (effects of Afghanistan's security situation on Pakistan), Ahmad Farooq sahb asked intellectual questions from subjects and fav. books and Khatak Sahb asked about US civil war and situation based question (how would you end terrorism if you're in-charge of security). Environment was encouraging, and they gave me 45 mins.

[QUOTE=Rana Ammar;1053273]Marium i am thinking to opt pol sc, bus adm, gendr stdz and indo pak history in 2019 attempt.can u plz suggest me books for these subjects that u have studied.[/QUOTE]

Ammar I didn't use any specific books except for business admin. because it was my own subject. They were Fundamentals of HRM by Decenzo, Financial management by Brigham, Management by Stephen Robbins & principles of marketing by Kotler.
For Political science I downloaded some notes from this forum & except that I used to make my own notes keeping in view the trends in past papers & the syllabus.
For Indo Pak history I used these websites: historypak.com, storyofpakistan.com, anicentpakistan.info.
For Gender studies I just kept syllabus with me and made my notes using different websites and research articles.
Just be sure that you stick to the syllabus and do go through the past papers specifically the mcqs because most of the time they are repeated.

1000 Hours of study
 

Sister,
Do you think 100 hundred hours of study for subject of 100 marks and 200 hours of study for subject worth 200 marks is adequate to pass CSS with flying colors,assumption is someone already possess vast amount of vocublary and a writing style that could be compared with Dawn regular writters.
Secondly,if you can give me an idea how many words you wrote before appearing in CSS(20k,40k,60k)?
Advice will be sincerely appreciated!
Regards,
Sawan

Thank you very much for letting us know about your interview experience. Interview isn't an easy task. Every candidate, no matter how much one is good, certainly faces difficulty. Our prayers are with you.

The interview panel listens you well and allows you to speak. Except Mr. Ahmad Farooq and Ms. Nargis Sethi (who can unsettle you), rest of the members are easy going.

Most of the questions asked invite the opinion of the candidate, based on the current affairs topics. However, my experience of 2012 was relatively better.

In my case, they related to influence of Saudi Arabia, South China Sea, Junagarh (the question I dropped this time), Colonization of Japan, Whether Pakistan should adopt balanced growth or unbalanced growth, role of Statistics in current Census, Economic growth of Pakistan, Whether Gwadar/CPEC is a game changer or will result in colonization by China, politicization of bureaucracy, whether Faizabad issue was handled well or not, merits and demerits of internet etc. Rest was about my profile and prior job experiences.

@amin shah sir your optional subjects?