Originally Posted by mechrose37

As far as my experience is concerned,it was the psychological this year which played a decisive factor in interview marks.I have unshakable resolve that key to getting good marks in Viva lies in good psychological.I tried to behave gently and elegantly in Viva and portrayed myself as a genuine lover of art,humane,a book lover,gentle,compassionate,confident and optimistic fellow in my Psychological Viva and written.Besides,one must fill psychological traits forms intelligently and they must not depict that one possess a dual personality or one is attributing qualities to oneself which one never possess.
I had average written marks.Also my interview with Panel did not go well.Mian Sb and Saud Gohar Sb frowned at my answers.Geography was my subject and I was unable to answer anyone of four answers which RBD asked yet I obtained 208 marks.It happened as my psychological interview went exceptionally good and I handled all the questions very well which were thrown to baffle me.

Holder of position No 11 which is blind fellow wrote in his form that one of his bad qualities was that he was a habitual drunkard !He performed with excellence in group task and gentlemen was honoured with 229 marks.
A highly talented girl who got 685 in written got only 145 in interview.She performed brilliantly in command task and she possessed the best of conversation skills.Unluckily,she was not being given a chance to speak in group discussions and in a fit of disappointment and frustration she raised her hands while seeing panel.The act was done to imply that why she was not given the chance to speak and this particular act might have sealed the fate of exceptional candidate.
Another friend who got very good written marks went so bossy in command task.His arrogant attitude was trembling on the margin of rudeness and all of us were astonished.He also got less score.
Another candidate came late in both days and was taken to task by psychological panel.

One must carry himself with elegance,passion,human dignity and confidence in psychological interview.30 to 40 minutes are too less for panel to judge and evaluate the caliber of candidate as he might be under stress and might perform less than his abilities.So panel is dependent on the reports of psychological panel who are expert psychologists and have observed the candidate for full two days.

Originally Posted by DEADLYDOCTOR

Psychological assessment is no doubt very important.

But respected SIR,Mr. Bhagwandas himself said it in CSA during his visit that the panel is not giving any importance/weightage to psychological assessment this year and they are making their own assessments during interview only.

Ask anyone from 39th commons.Bhagwandas visited CSA in mid of february(16 or 17) at end of lahore phase 1 interviews .

So mechrose37 and nasr khan ,i am sorry to say your analysis are good but chairman's statement is not supporting it. Rather his statements at CSA are negating your analysis.

On the contrary panel was also asking questions from psychological per forma,asking many questions and even criticizing aspirants to maximum extent.It happened in islamabad phase 1,then panel changed their approach in next phases and psychological per forma questions were only discussed in which aspirants had answered differently or awkwardly or weakly.

Originally Posted by mechrose37

I had average written marks.Also my interview with Panel did not go well.Mian Sb and Saud Gohar Sb frowned at my answers.Geography was my subject and I was unable to answer anyone of four answers which RBD asked yet I obtained 208 marks.It happened as my psychological interview went exceptionally good and I handled all the questions very well which were thrown to baffle me.

Originally Posted by Syeda Bukhari

If this is the case brother then i must tell you that i performed very well in my interview with the psychologists. I answered all the questions very well and didnt drop a single question, when i came out i was very happy. But got 140 in the interview dont know what happened... I also believe that psychological assessment is of much importance... Might be my luck didnt work this time

Originally Posted by umarabbas

Dear Syeda,

I appeared in 2010. i had a marvelleous psychological interview. but my interview was a disaster. and they still awarded me 155 (if i were in the panel, i would make sure to fail a candidate who performed like me).

initially i could not understand as to why things went they way they did. i put it on luck and bla bla. but unbiased analysis later revealed many of my short comings to me.

this time (if i pass 2012 Insha allah) i would try to tackle the interview in a different manner than the way i did the last time.

P.S: I got 155 while Mr BD told me, "Look Son! if we had bureaucrats like you, then Khuda Hafiz hay hamaray mulk ka"

Any body, who thinks/charges/says that the panel is biased or has a prejudice. well may be they are right. but then every human is biased. If you like somebody's clothes, you are being biased. likewise the same goes for comments/answers/discussions etc. the panel at the start may be unbiased but at the end of the day, the score awarded is certainly under biased opinions/conditions.

every aspirant should concentrate/focus on his/her weaknesses, go through the entire process of Interview in a step by step manner to find out the REAL reasons of his/her failure/poor performance. it did work for me and i know now for sure what and where something went wrong.