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UPSC interview questions on Bureaucracy and lateral entry

Real questions UPSC interview boards asked on Bureaucracy and lateral entry, CSE 2021 to CSE 2025.

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Real questions on Bureaucracy and lateral entry

476 questions in 335 interviews mention lateral entry, bureaucracy, civil servant, IAS officer.

  • You are surrounded by IPS officers, so why have you chosen IAS as first preference? Aren't they your role models?

    HR / MotivationService Preference ChoiceAbout you
    Member 2 · Dinesh Dasa board · CSE 2023 · Candidate: Uttar Pradesh

  • Why do higher authorities mostly not have bureaucrats as top leaders, and why are many of them from lateral entry?

    Static GS / OpinionWhy / reasons
    Member 2 · Dinesh Dasa board · CSE 2023 · Candidate: Uttar Pradesh

  • What role is played by civil servants in society?

    Static GS / OpinionDefine a term
    Member 3 · Dinesh Dasa board · CSE 2023 · Candidate: Uttar Pradesh

  • What is the role of the bureaucracy?

    Static GS / OpinionDefine a termFollow-up
    Member 1 · Dinesh Dasa board · CSE 2023 · Candidate: PSIR optional

  • Which of these should a civil servant be?

    Ethics / PhilosophyEthics & ValuesYour opinionFollow-up
    Member 3 · Dinesh Dasa board · CSE 2023 · Candidate: PSIR optional

  • Don't you think such a talented pool is paid less? Why so?

    Static GS / OpinionCounter-questionFollow-up
    Chairperson · Raj Shukla board · CSE 2023 · Candidate: Anthropology optional

  • In Japan, young civil servants are leaving their jobs and shifting towards start-ups. What is your call on that?

    Static GS / OpinionYour opinion
    Chairperson · Raj Shukla board · CSE 2023 · Candidate: Anthropology optional

  • Give one example each of civil servants being ethically right but morally wrong, and morally right but ethically wrong.

    Ethics / PhilosophyEthics & ValuesGive an exampleFollow-up
    Chairperson · Dinesh Dasa board · CSE 2023 · Candidate: Haryana, Anthropology optional

  • With the use of technology in governance, the number of civil servants should have decreased, but it did not happen. Why is that?

    Static GS / OpinionWhy / reasonsFollow-up
    Member 3 · Dinesh Dasa board · CSE 2023 · Candidate: Haryana, Anthropology optional

  • You are a mathematics student; then why do you want to become a civil servant?

    DAF: Education Background (Mathematics optional)About you
    Member 1 · Raj Shukla board · CSE 2023 · Candidate: Kerala

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How often it comes up

Share of each year's interviews with at least one question on it.

14%

CSE 2021

13%

CSE 2022

12%

CSE 2023

13%

CSE 2024

14%

CSE 2025

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