Common Questions:
Interview questions can be divided broadly into the following categories:
1. Based on school syllabus
2. Personal questions
Based on your interests and hobbies
Based on your career goals
Personal (family related)
3. General Knowledge questions
4. Hypothetical questions
About Hobbies:
If your hobby is painting, then you should know at least the name of various type of paintings and the basic difference between them.
If you hobby is classical dance you should know the various forms of classical dance.
If your hobby is western dance you should know various forms of dance available like salsa, tango etc
If your hobby is reading novels you should be aware of few good novelist, prize, Indian novelist etc.
Now a days T 20 is the new concept in cricket. If you are saying cricket as your favourite game, then you should be able to answer a question “ which format u like most – test / one day / T20). As said previously, interview goes normally in the way you let it go or the way you want it to go.
You should not tell interviewer the long list of your interests as this will give them wide scope of questions.
The best way to prepare for such questions is to think about three of your hobbies/interest, or anything you are passionate about. And then try to answer questions as mentioned above.
Based on your career goals:
What you want to be is a very important question and you should be very clear regarding the same. It is not like that you should choose a field from engineering or medical line only. You can select any field, whichever you like social service, army, painter, novelist, architect, historian, lawyer etc. The only thing is that you should be able to answer the following questions:
Why you want to become say doctor?
What it is about?
How can you contribute to the nation?
What are the things you like about this job?
What are the things you dislike about this job?
Common questions asked in the NTSE Interview
Q 1: Tell me something about yourself.: (Your answer should be brief and focused)
Q 2: What are your hobbies?: (Your hobby should be specific – your hobby should not be "watching TV", but it should be watching discovery channel or sports channel etc. Your hobby should be specific and clear. In case your hobby is visiting new places and traveling, then you are inviting lots and lots of questions about geography, history, physical and chemical processes).
Q 3: Which is your favourite subject?: (Whichever subject you choose, go through the NCERT book of class VIII and class IX again – few chapters, if your IX class have been already started..) In case you are interested in History, Geography or any subject like that, there is no harm in proposing that subject as your favourite subjects. NTSE is not only for science students.)
Q 4: Who is your favourite teacher and questions related to the subject that particular teacher teaches?:
Q 5: What is your aim?: (Your answer should also explain why you have selected it as your aim)
Q 6: How you would be able to serve our country by being that?
Q7: What are your strongest points?
Q 8: What are your weak points?: (Even if you have weak point, then you should not declare it as if you are really weak. Everyone has some weakness, so to focus on your weak points should not be your concern. The answer should be such that you admitting that no one is perfect, but any weak point is not good enough to stop you to accept challenges!!) technically speaking the weakest point comes from your strongest point.
Q 9: If your hobby is any particular game, then what are the various laws of the game?
Q 10: Name 2-3 favourite players of National and International level. If your favorite game is cricket, then style / technique of the player should be the reason of you choosing any favourite player of yours. A technical explanation will give you an edge.
Q 11: Apart from being good in academics, in what other activities you participate in your school?
Q 12: If you get NTSE Scholarship, how you will use the money?
(Some student says that they will put in a bank to be used during higher studies. You decide what you will say.)
Q 13: How many hrs you study daily? What is your daily schedule?
Q 14: Define Democracy (based on current affairs).
Q 15: Apart from school books, do you study any other book / magazine?
Q 16: How you prepared for the NTSE Exam?
(Do not mention the name of coaching institute as such)
Q 17: Tell me something about your parent’s job. Who is your role model?
Q 18: Anything you would like to ask from us (at the end of the interview)
(If you ask anything, your question should be very clear).
Prepare your answer keeping these points in mind:
Do not feel nervous. Getting nervous brings your performance down.
If you don’t know anything, reply “no” politely/calmly. Do not say wrong things (or a blunder). If you are putting your guess, then you can say that Sir, I feel….
You should be in a calm and confidant mood.
Interviewer is well aware of the fact that a 8th class student can be very intelligent but normally not matured enough to tackle pressure.
Sometimes interviewer intentionally asks you some questions which are certainly not a part of your course. The Interviewer just wants to see your approach and not the formulas. Interviewer wants to see, how specifically you study. You should analyse and propose your solution with your current level of knowledge.
There can be infinite questions so you can not prepare for each and every question. You have to be mentally strong and confident to face the interview.
Lot of students tells astronomy as their favourite subject or astronomer as their aim. If choosing astronomy, then be prepared for some tough question session.
Do not argue with the interviewer. There exist lot of difference between arguments and discussion.
Most important thing:
Be Confident and Be positive.
Most of the questions would be based on academics
Few questions for the Interview:
Tell me something about yourself.
What is your favorite topic in maths, science and social science ?
What all preparations you have done for the Interview?
What are known as suicidal bags of cell ?
Why is cell called structural and functional unit of life
What do you mean by Globalisation?
What do you feel what are the major problems India is facing today?
What is the difference between various types of rocks and give example of each ?
Which plateau in India is made of sedimentary rocks ?
Mention 5 rivers each of central highlands and deccan plateau. How these rivers are different from the rivers of the Gangetic plain?
What is the role of Nehru in freedom of India ?
What was the role of Rajendra Prasad and Nehru in framing the constituion?
Give the achievements of Akbar, Sher Shah Suri , Aurangzeb, Cholas, Shah Jahan ?
What was the aim of Din-i-ellhi ? Was it related to Kabir?
Questions about various social organisations and there role during indian independence movement like the Brahmo Samaj
Problems from Maths and various puzzles
You should know various definition in maths like integers, rational numbers, composite numbers, prime numbers and their properties.
How we convert one form of energy into another? Can heat energy be converted to electric energy ?
How does desert cooler cool the room during summer ? How it is related to humidity?
What is heat ? What is the difference between heat and energy?
What is difference between heat and temperature ?
What is pressure and how it is different from force and stress
Give one example of reflection and one example of refraction in the room and the effect
What are resources and its various types. According to you which resources you consider most important and why?
What is sound? Does frequency is associated with only sound waves?
Cna you calculate the frequency of the needle of the watch? Calculate for all the three.
Why Sky is blue in day and black in nite but leaves are always green?
How can a mixture of sand, common salt and camphor be separated.
What is the difference between ionosphere and troposphere? How ionosphere is related to ozone layer?
Which type of mirror are most common in ure home?
How do we measure the age of the rock and that of the earth as well?
India does not have much Uranium and therefore we have to depend on Uranium supplying countries for power generation. does nuclear power can be produced strictly by uranium only?
Mention the largest magnet you have ever seen.
How do you separate sulphur from a mixture of iron and sulphur ? How you will separate camphir and dry ice?
What are alloys ? Why alloys cannot be called Solution ? What is the main difference between elements and alloys? What are the characteristic of the alloys?
What is a mixture? Gives its types and the exmaples
What is valency ? What can be the maximum valency
What is specific gravity? Can it be less than 1?
Give one example of electromagnetic wave
What is the wavelength of the visible light? What is audible frequency? Like bats can hear much more than what we can, similarly some organism can see what we cannot see?
What is Solution? Can you prepare solutions of 5 types given from the various objects present on your table right now?
Write electronic configuration of Na and Cl.
What are acids and bases ? Name any two acids which you can find easily in your home
What is the relation between charge and current? If you carry a charge with you does it means current is flowing?
Define Physics and Chemistry. What is Biology? What is study of cells known as?
Do you have invertor in your home? The battery of invertor has which acid?
How you will differentitate between metals and non metals
If you want to prepare electricity using turbine at power plant, which would be your favourite process - evaporation or boiling? and why?
Why there is so much difference between hearing capacities of a man, bat and a dog?
Lungs also release waste and so does kidney. What is the difference between them?
Which organ of your body is most important in terms of daily functioning? leave the option of heart
Define Cell wall and Mitochondria ?
What is the difference between tissues and muscles
Carbohydrate is made us op C,H and Oxygen. Similarly kerosene oil is made up of C,H and Oxygen. Why we feel uneasy if we consume little bit of kerosene oil?
What is the difference between living and non living beings?
Suggest measures to overcome the shortage of water? When everybody knows that we should save water, then how come so much of water is wasted every day?
Shortage of water is related to Global Warming?
What is difference between green revolution and white revolution?
What is the difference between gree house effect and green revolution
What is the difference between soap and detergent. How it contribute to water pollution?
is there any difference between enzyme and hormone and a catalyst?
What are the various sources of energy available to human being?
What are prokaryotes and eukaryotes? Give one example each
Does humans are also the part of the food chain? if yes then the increase of population must be just the shift in the food chain and should not be a worry?
Why urinals at Bus stand has such a bad smell?
What is the temperature of a human body? Does all animals have the same body temperature?
What do you mean by adaptation? Give any two examples
What is the difference between civics and economics?
How society and civics are inter related?
What is caste census and its effect?
What are fundamental duties and rights?
What do you think how corruption can be removed?
Can you map the area under control during Alauddin, Akbar, Aurangzenb and Britishers? Define the major event between reign of these rulers.
What would have happened if India would have achieved independence in 1857?
Who is your favourite PM of India? and Why?
Who according to you is the greatest ruler of India?
Why Indian rulers from the ancient time were not intersted in going to other countries for campaign?
In India we are still using various rules framed by the britishers and still we criticise Britishers for anti Indian laws before the independence?
Why in India, English is preferred than the Hindi or regional languages. For example it would be tough to find good books in English at graduate and post graduate level and neither the students studying Hindi or regional langauge.
What is the difference between developing and developed country?
What is pole star? Draw its approximate location
Name any two rivers of Africa other than river Nile.
You like reading Atlas? Have you ever find anything interesting in Atlas, after which you feel bit happy and excited?
Define the position of the sun
What are asteroids?
What is the average rainfall of your region/city?
Can you tell what is the climatic region of your region/city?
Name any two type of tides.
Who discovered proton? What was the contribution of the Rutherford?
Give any two alloys of Tin and Aluminium
Give one example of folded mountains.
Western Ghats are continuous while Eastern Ghats are broken. Why?
Yous hould know the capitals of all the states of India and major countries of the world.
What were he policies used by the Britishers to take control of the various states of India?
What is difference between state and a society? A citizen should prefer a state or a society?
In real life every process involves physics, chemistry and maths. Give any 5 exams as such. Can you explain all of them using the process of breathing?
What is the difference between gene and a chromosome?
Who was the founder of Buddhism and Jainism?
How Buddhism is fundamentally different from Jainism?
Buddhism followers are now very less in India. Why?
Name 10 Freedom fighters of India. Not more than 2 from one state.
Except our neighbours and Gulf countries, give example of a country which is Islamic?
Which region of India is most prone to earthquakes?
What do you mean by Rabi and Kharif crop? Give one example of each.
What is the capital of Mauritius and Maldives?
How you will detect the presence of carbon di oxide? and oxygen
Give any 4 different type of microorganism which causes diseases in human beings and give one example for each
What are fat soluble vitamins? Does there exist fat soluble and water soluble proteins also?
Define proteins and how they are different from vitamins?
Give name of any two lakes in Southern India and two lakes in Northern India. Give example of one lake on the coast of India.
What are the difference between latitudes, longtidues and equator? locate them on the map
What is IST?
What is Home Rule Leage in Modern History?
What is indigo dye? And its significance in our Modern History
How handful of Britishers managed to defeat the Nawab of Bengal? Give some information about battle of Plassey
Who were the main warriors in the 1857 war of independence?
What were the gains from the 1857 war of independence?
Who is your favorite scientist?
What is the volume of the earth? How much water can be filled in the sphere of the size of the earth?
If earth is rotating then why we are not feeling the spinning of the earth?
Give some information about the Rajya Sabha.
You should know about your school. Founder / Principal / Achievement if any
What is Municipality ?
Give some information about the Panchayat system in India.
How many supremecourt are there in India and High Court in your state?
Indian agriculture is dependant on monsoon. Monsoon is a local wind or a seasonal wind or a permanent wind?
Why sateliites does not fall on the earth surface?
What is ecosystem?
What is Biosphere reserve? Name any 5 biosphere reserves in India.
What is UNESCO?
Who is supreme? PM or the Parliament?
What are CFC?
What is the basic geographical feature difference between Mumbai Delhi and Chennai? Kolkata and Chennai are smiliar?
TN receives most of the rainfall in winter?
Square root of the number is always less than the number?
Which state has the maximum numbe of Lok Sabha seats in India?
What is a Map and a scale?
Who wrote the book "Discovery of India" ?
Give any two contributuons of Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Define Democracy
Give any two example of communicable disease.
Define the unit of any quantity.
How images are formed in our eye?
Why the oscillations of the simple pendulum keep on moving with same rate?
And there can be 100's of such questions. Go through the study material properly.
Just go through the first few chapters of class IX and no need to go through the remaining IX and X class syllabus.Be at your best!
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