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• He/she should be confident of being selected.

• He/she should be transparent, truthful and have an attitude of not
hiding anything.

• Opinions about teachers, friends, family members, boss & colleagues

should be expressed freely and honestly not diplomatically.

• Do not treat any questions as tricky or asked with an aim to push you

into a corner. Please consider in such situations that the IO wants to

know the answer out of curiosity. Examples:

o Why your marks fell? (Honest answers are the right thing to do;

in 99% cases the real reasons are incompetence or lack of com-

mitment; the popular reasons given like: bike accident, grand-

mother’s illness, candidate’s illness are invariably false & do not

help your cause at all).

o Why you got backlogs?

o Why did you quit the job?

Poor Strategy for Preparing for Interview

Most coaching academies coach aspirants to learn the questions likely to be

asked and rehearse diplomatically good answers. This is a very poor strategy

because candidates who go with this strategy often perform badly because

of the following:

• If unprepared questions get asked the candidate gets stumped and
panics. Such a situation almost always occurs.

• The rehearsed answers are invariably not all honest and consistent
with the candidate’s personality.

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