Top 10 Tricky IAS Interview Questions with Answers [ Updated List 2021]
Question 1:- A cat has three children, the name of their children are January, February, and March. What is the name of that cat?
Answer: YEAR
Question 2:- What looks like half an apple?
Answer: The second half APPLE.
explanation: If the candidate was feeling the pressure inside the interview hall, he/she cannot answer these types of tricky questions. Never put down your confidence level.
Question 3: Can you tell, in which STATE is the Bay of Bengal?
Answer: In the liquid STATE.
explanation: This is a hypothetical question so without confusion candidates should give the answer for these types of questions.
Question 4: What can you never eat for your dinner?
Answer -> Lunch and Breakfast.
explanation: IAS interview questions will be mostly asked to test your brain, so think twice before you give the answer.
Question 5: What will you do if I go with your own sister?
Answer -> I cannot find a better life partner for my sister than you.
explanation: Rather than losing the temperament, answer the question politely without overthinking the situation.
Question 6: Two twins Adarsh and Anupam were born in May, but their birth date is in June. How is that possible?
Answer: Because May is a Place Name.
explanation: Once again here the answer is already available in the question asked, so listening to the question deeply will help IAS interview attendees easily answer this question.
Question 7: Peacock is a bird that doesn’t lay eggs. Then, how peacock’s children are born?
Answer: The female peacock eggs and not the male one.
advice: You should have some general knowledge before approaching the IAS interview hall otherwise it’s hard to answer these types of questions.
Question 8: Interviewer ordered a cup of coffee for the candidate. Coffee arrived and was kept before the candidate. what is before you?
Answer: Alphabet ‘T’ comes before ‘U’ and therefore T is before U.
Explanation: Generally, a candidate would answer this with ‘Coffee’, however knowing that the panellist had ordered the coffee only to create the scenario whereby he could invoke this question needs some innovative thinking. The perfect answer to this question would be to completely ignore the coffee and look for an explanation in some other place. The candidate, who got selected, said ‘Tea’ is in front of him, and gave the explanation that alphabet ‘T’ comes before ‘U’ and therefore T is before U.
Question 9: You are driving along in your car on a wild, stormy night, it's raining heavily, when suddenly you pass by a bus stop, and you see three people waiting for a bus: An old lady who looks as if she is about to die; an old friend who once saved your life and the perfect partner you have been dreaming about. Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing very well that there could only be one passenger in your car?
Answer: The candidate, who cracked his interview with this question said, he would give the car to his friend and tell him to drive the old lady to the hospital, while he waits at the bus stop with his perfect partner.
Explanation: Although quite uncommon, but interview panel is known to use such questions to test the moral fibre of the candidate. This question is essentially one that put the candidate in a moral dilemma of sorts with respect to the decision. On one end, the candidate being a good person would want to save the life of the old lady, which requires medical attention, secondly, he can choose to repay his friend for saving his life by saving him from the storm and thirdly the perfect partner can also be a big priority for the person. To answer such questions, candidates need to think outside the box and expand the horizons of their thinking.
Question 10: If 2 is a company and 3 is the crowd, then what will be 4 and 5?
ANSWER: 4 and 5 there is always 9.
Many times a brilliant student gets doomed logically in a sea of aptitude and in mathematical problems that he may gets confused with easy problems due to overthinking. An I.A.S. must maintain a balance between overthinking and thinking. Here is the question the interviewers checked the same thing
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