Importance of PIQ Questions that can be asked by IO

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Importance of PIQ Questions that can be asked by IO 

We are going to take you through a self learning session about your preparedness to face the Competitive Interview.

Here we go:

1.       What is your full name including Surname.

[ In Tamil Nadu, we normally do not use surname, we add an initial before our name that stands for Father’s name. In North India it is their name and followed by surname ( Caste name)

E.g: Somnath Sharma,  Hem Kumar Gupta, Narender Singh Modi,

Rajesthan: Kambir Singh Chohan,  Vir Singh Rathore

Punjab: Sohan Singh Cheema,  Hardeep Singh Dhillon

Tamil Nadu R. Manivannan, K. Sunder, 

See Kerala    Akshay Kumar Nair,  Abjeet Manon.

If a tamilian has to use the full name including his surname (family name)

Chinna samy Jayavel Semba Gounder.

Mohan Rajakumaran Mudaliyar

Somasundram Ramamoorthy Iyangar.

Karnataka  Gopinath Gouder

Hemakumar Lingayat

I was grilled for 10 minutes on why we do not use our family and caste name?

Coming to Siblings. Their Likes and Dislikes, Jobs, department, salary, Rank/ Desination. Company, If studying , name of the institution, Course/ subject taken, Their performance, Why he or she is better than you are not as good as you in academics?

Your achievements----Field- date/year, what was the level you achieved.

If sports be sure you know the rules, regulations, who have done well in that sport, their record, why you like them.

If hobby Say stamp collecting : How many stamps do you have?

Why are you collecting it?

What is that thing that makes you collect?

How much you have spent so for?

What is the difference between a first day cover and  a special Cancellation.

What is the theme of your collection?

a)      Have you entered your collection in any competition, if yes when and where, if not why not?

b)      Have you been to any Stamp exhibition?

c)       Which is the costliest Stamp in the world?

What is the single name given for this hobby?

How did you start with it?

What are you going to do with collection?

What is the name of the latest stamp released, when and what is the specialty about it?

What is the highest denomination of Stamps released in India?

What are the different shapes of stamps released India, World as on date.

Now you can see the depth of knowledge that you should have about your hobby.

If you say you were the best Shot in firing during your NCC days.
Can you answer these questions?

a)      What are the weapons you have handled so far?

b)      What was the bore of the weapon?

c)       In which country was it manufactured?

d)      Describe the various colours in the shooting target and its dimension.

e)      What is the maximum effective fire that the weapon can fire?

f)        What is muzzle velocity?

g)       What is the difference between a GUN and a RIFLE?

h)      What do you understand by Rifling?

i)        Why is it used?

j)        What type of explosive is used in the cartridge?

k)       How does a Self loading rifle function ( SLR 7.2 or Insas 5.56)

l)        Name the record holders/ medal winners for India in the last Summer Olympics.

m)    Name the Defence Persons who have won Olympic medals in shooting competition, and which event?

n)      What are the various position used in firing competition?

o)      What do you understand by Clay pigeon shooting?

p)      Have you watched this event in Olympic Elimination round competition, How do they carry out selection?

Let us now move on to Reading as Hobby.

a.       Tell me how many books have you read in the last six months?

b.      Name the books and Authors?

c.       Which author you like most and why?

d.      Name the various book that author has written so far?

e.       Tell me in brief about the last book you have read?

f.        In your busy schedule, how do you find time to read these books?

g.       How much money you spend on purchasing these books?

h.      How do you get the money for it?

i.         What do you do after having read the book?

j.         Do you visit your school/ college library?

k.       If you have been purchasing the books why have you not used your college/ Local District library?

l.         What is Kindle, how good are bad when compared to an actual book?

m.    What is the difference between hard bound and paper back?

If you say internet watching / social media is your hobby.

a.       When was first internet used and for what purpose?

b.      What is WWW stands for

c.       What are the different social media one can use in Internet?

d.      How does the Face book work in connecting people?

e.       How many friends you have in facebook?

f.        What ideas do you exchange with them?

g.       How much time do you spent on computer/ browsing?

h.      What are the sites that you watch?

i.         Tell me two things that is Good and Bad about using computer.

j.         Who owns Face book?

k.       Who owns Google?

l.         Who is the CEO of Google?

m.    Tell me the colours Used in the LETTER GOOGLE?

n.      What is the real meaning for GOOGLE/ what does it stand for?

o.      What are the different net browsers?

p.      Which one is better and why?

q.      What is a blog?/ Who is a Blogger?

r.        What is e commerce?

s.       Why have Amazon/ Flip kart become so famous?

t.        Who is the owner of Amazon/ Flip kart?

u.      Who is the father of Computers?

v.       Tell me something about Bill gates.

w.     There could be n number of questions so be well prepared.

x.       You better write down the answers for all the above questions, even if not asked you will become more knowledgeable.

y.       This knowledge can be used in GD, and Indl Lecture topics.

z.       Once a candidate was asked How many hours do you spend on Internet browsing, DO YOU WATCH PORN Videos?