Types of questions asked at the UPSC interview

• Relating to your name. Any famous personality who has a similar or same name or surname.
• Your career choice. Why you want to opt for the civilservices.
• Your Hobbies. Why you pursue such a hobby or questions related to your hobby. So reasearch well on your hobby.
• Hot topics of recent days like the Bird Flu and Tamiflu, Office of Profit, Sahara airlines deal and the growing airlines,Terror attacks in India, India US Nuclear deal, Commonwealth games, Saurav Ganguly etc. Keep reading and watching the news. If the recent headlines have something to do with your subject then specially revise those portions. For example if you are a veterinary doctor, Bird flu may go on to other animal diseases that can infect men. If you are an MBBS, then you might be asked about human to human spread of epidemics or any other epidemics and precautions etc. You may even be asked about the influence of MNC or drug manufacturers responsible for the spread of fear etc. If you are from an economy background, the same topic will veer towards the economic implications of the Bird flu.
• How you are going to use your specific knowledge(like if you are a doctor, lawyer, engineer etc) in the services.
• Situational questions. Like If you were the collector/SP of Varanasi, what would you do after the Bomb Blast?
• Choice of services. The order of your choice of services can raise questions too.
• About your institution and related.If you have studies at IIM you may be asked about the rising salaries, if from IGNOU then even about Indira Gandhi and so on.
• From your form. You must go through the form you have filled because most questions will arise from there. If you have changed subjects, mentioned anything out of the way, watch out for questions on them. Interviewers take cue from the form you have filled.