Sevakar IAS Ethics based enrollment test

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Total questions: 30

Subject: Ethics and moral values of civil servants

Time duration: 60 minutes

Note: After submission, Sevakars have to self-attest your total number of correct answers from the displayed answers on the screen. This score has to be imprinted in your application form by yourself morally.

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1. Why do you want to pursue civil service?

a. To serve the society

b. To live a settled life

c. To gain power

d. All the above

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2. Who is/are the main reason for prevailing corruption in India?

a. Citizens of India

b. Government officials

c. Political parties

d. Corporates

e. All the above

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3. Do you believe a determined leader can evade corruption in India?

a. No, a leader alone cannot do

b. Yes, a leader can

c. Corruption cannot be removed at anytime

d. There is no corrupt less leader

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4. After being assigned as an IAS/IPS or other more responsible government roles, you may be pressurized to involve in corruption in all your activities, what will you do?

a. I will resign my job as I cannot be honest there

b. I will stay honest courageously and sustain in my job despite of any pressure

c. I will neither involve in any corrupt practices nor question any wrong happenings in my work place

d. I will get bribe money only from rich people and give that to the poor people

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5. What do you mean by the term 'Perfection' in everyday life?

a. Attaining 100% perfection is possible and it is the key for success in any activity

b. Thriving for perfection makes one being themself better everyday

c. Perfection does not exist at all, hence we should not try for it

d. If we can't be perfect in any thing, we should giveup any such activity

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6. Is speaking truth all the time a preferable character for a person irrespective of circumstance?

a. Yes, despite its consequences

b. No because truth brings many problems

c. It is not possible and desirable

d. Sometimes some lies that bring goodness to many can be spoken

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7. What kind of personality you are?

a. I wish to be honest but I am not bold enough to be like in all the places

b. My honesty depends upon the people, places and circumstances around me

c. Honesty is normaly not appreciated in our society thereby I will be flexible

d. Being honest is a pride, it gives me satisfaction

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8. In elections, if you feel that no candidates fulfilling your expectations then what will you do?

a. I boycott such election as elections are meant to choose best among the worst

b. I search for every individual candidate's profile in election commission webpage thereby vote one of them

c. I vote for NOTA as it fulfills my duty and it prevent others not misuse my vote

d. I vote asusual the same party whom I conventionally prefer

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9. What is your view on people getting money from political parties to cast their vote for them?

a. I will get that money from one party I like and vote for them as whoever party gets into power going to do same corruption only

b. I will collect money from all the parties then I vote based on my preference, because those are illegally earned corrupt unaccounted money from the people

c. I simply deny those money as receiving it also a corrupt practice; it encourages those candidates to do corruption when they get into power

d. I deny those money. Further I create awareness to people not to receive it, alongside I will also raise a complaint against those political parties to the election commission of India

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10. How will you show your respect when you hear our 'National Anthem' ?

a. I standup immediately to show my respect to nation irrespective of the place and situation

b. I personaly respect it but standing up all the time is not possible as it depends on situation

c. Standing up is not a mandatory rule hence it's my comfort to standup or not

d. I don't feel standing up is the only way to express patriotism

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11. What is your opinion about the concept of reservation practiced in education and employment in India?

a. It must be abolished as it creates inequality among citizens of India

b. Economic status based reservation is preferable rather than present caste based classification

c. Reservation is meant for securing marginalized individuals right, hence it shouldn't be taken away anytime

d. The present reservation system is more satisfactory hence no need of revision

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12. Your perspective over certain claims against using violence during police investigation process:

a. Violence must be avoided at any stance as it's against human rights

b. Violence is only needed in cases of investigating hard core criminals

c. Crime rate can be reduced only if people have fear over the police

d. Mix of people friendly and strict policing devoid of violence in the most possible situations is the preferable mode

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13. Who is/are the reason for prevailing poverty in India?

a. Individual themselves as they fail to improve their skills to earn better in this competitive world

b. Government's mistake as it has not facilitated essential basic amenities equally to everyone

c. Corporates blunder the resources of the region and left the people of the land without any benefit sharing

d. All of the above

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14. The all-time most sensitive debate over learning new languages, choose your point of view

a. Mother tongue alone be encouraged in all ways as learning of other new languages could erode the existing one

b. Languages must be seen as skill, learning it would create wide window of educational and employment opportunity to an individual

c. Rather than we adopting new languages, we have to spread our mother tongue in other places

d. Learning new languages or to avoid it is purely an individual right of preference as per their need hence no political or ideological insistence be placed to decide such preference

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15. Does India need national language?

a. Yes, it is required to unify nation under one umbrella and also to represent our nation in international arena with single identity

b. Not needed as the pride of India itself in its multifaceted character

c. In view of bringing faster development as like China, it is possible only if one language rules the nation

d. We can adopt one national language only for the purpose of representing international arena but inside India there should not be one language

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16. What do you mean by gender equality?

a. Treating male and female equal in all socio, economic and political activity

b. Male gender has to empower every woman to bring them equal

c. Female gender cannot match with male gender in all activities because of their biological restrictions

d. None of the above clearly explain gender equality

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17. Women empowerment:

a. Women are already well empowered in India, it's time to think about men empowerment

b. Men have to allow women to excercise their empowerment, then only it is possible

c. Women have to do all the care taking work at home and men should active in generating revenue. Accepting and performing well in this societal traditional role is the real empowerment of both gender

d. Unless women empower themselves there won't be any empowerment for them

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18. Caste system in India, what is your stand ?

a. India resembles unity in diversity hence every individual has the right to safeguard and use it to identify themself as like religion.

b. Caste system produces discrimination among us, thereby it should be abandoned

c. Caste system is an essential component to determine one's occupation, without it society may disfunction

d. Every caste has underpinned with certain fair traditional practices which tells India's cultural heritage to the world, hence caste without any form of discrimination is preferable

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19. What is your opinion on religious conversion?

a. It should be completely banned as most individual practicing conversion for their situational benefits which distort societal fabrics by creating imbalance among pre-existing religious composition.

b. Every individual has a right to follow any religion, hence conversion cannot be banned but their all the government benefits they got so far for their previous practiced religious means must be taken away

c. In India, religious conversion is being more politicised rather than an individual right centric approach

d. If conversion is not being forced from any external factors and it's purely based on their own belief then it should be permitted and no previously enjoyed benefits are taken away

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20. When a beggar approaches you for money, what would be your response?

a. As begging is illegal in India, I warn them not to do further, otherwise I will complaint to concerned authority about them.

b. I will give money or food to them as for some reason they were pushed into such way of living which is undesirable even by themselves.

c. I won't encourage begging because beggars are mostly the lazy people who don't wish to go for job hence prefer this new way of looting money

d. I will ask them the reason for begging thereof I try to resolve their problem to lift them from such hardship life

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21. The practice of men or women after marriage forcefully involving their partner into act of sex, your stand on this Marital rape?

a. It is not right to use the term marital rape until a couple is in a marriage bond and there is no meaning of talking individual right in the bedroom

b. Mostly women are dramatising these concepts as a tool to threaten their partner and their family under domestic violence

c. Rape is a rape, no matter an individual is married or not. It is a clear violation of individual right, should be severely punished upon proving in the court of law

d. Proper counselling must be provided to couple. Only if a couple ready for divorce, then severe punishments can be awarded, otherwise it would collapse the family system all together

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22. Should Third gender be assigned with separate toilet in all public and private premises as like men and women having separate one?

a. Every gender by nature having unique characters and bodily anatomy. Hence in view of every individual right to privacy seperate toilets be provided

b. Third gender in most cases undergo 'Sex reassignment surgery' to fix their gender either male or female. Hence there is no need of seperate toilet

C. Separate toilet is needed as any of the gender accessing another genders toilet in public places might create discomfort but creating such toilet cannot be made mandatory in concern with the impractical applicability due to financial and other limitations

d. Third gender people are not being recruited in most of the work places and they are of minority hence this debate is not needed

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23. Do you think 'Specially abled people' in our society are deprived of their basic right to access public spaces in comparison with others?

a. No, government has facilitated all the necessary requirement for their easy access example bus transport

b. Yes there were not enough facility available for them to ensure free access

c. Specialy abled people not asking for any special facility for their access to public places as they don't like any special attention on them in public places. It is one other way of discrimination.

d. Every individual here faces challenges of either mental or physical inability, therefore societal understanding and acceptance of other needs and helping each other ensure everyone's better life.

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24. Your view on bureaucrats resigning their government post, therein entering into active politics:

a. It is welcomed that bureaucrats entering in the politics but not before completing their full tenure period of their job

b. In an Individual perspective it's everyone's right to choose their field of service either civil service or politics based on their satisfaction level

c. It must not be encouraged as it leads to favoritism and corrupt practices even during service tenure itself in favour of political parties.

d. No matter whether it is civil service or politics, if the purpose is purely to serve the public then it is acceptable

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25. If killing someone is an inhumane act, then how would you justify killing of birds and animals for the purpose of food for human sustenance

a. Killing of any life can't be justified in any means

b. It is not wrong as it is the nature call of survival of the fittest

c. Killing of rare species is definitely inhuman as it leads to extinction whereas human food based species like fish, broiler, goat etc is legal to be killed hence not wrong

d. It is the process of nature's food chain, otherwise the enlarging population of those species may make earth space competitive to each other, hence preference based killing of species be acceptable

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26. In reference to the chess game irrespective of gender bias, you wish to represent yourself as which among the pieces in relevance to Indian polity:

a. Soldier (Civil servant)

b. Bishop (Minister)

c. Queen (Prime Minister)

d. King (President)

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27. How are you looking at the criticism over Indian judicial system related to the quote 'Justice delayed is justice denied':

a. Even though the process might get delayed in some occassions but justice surely served as 'hurried justice is the buried justice'

b. For the country like India with largest population, serving justice immediately requires huge human and technological intervention which is on process

c. It is partially right as the delay in justice are only suffered by the economically poor people, whereas the privileged strata of the society enjoy faster justice

d. All the above

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28. Indians from northern states migrating for employment to Southern states, your perspective over such occasions of hatred violence incident happen against them.

a. When many people migrate another state for employment it reduces job opportunity for native state people

b. Migration must be strictly banned by southern states as it may lead to erode own traditional cultural practices. But violence at any form cannot be justified

c. Migrate people normally in any place slowly empower themself and conquer the migrated place and rule the native people

d. It is either north or south, all are Indians and everyone have the right to practice legaly permitted profession anywhere inside India.

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29. How do you view Indians in search of job migrating to developed countries?

a. When many people migrate another country for employment it reduces job opportunity for citizens of their country hence it must be stopped

b. Migration must be strictly banned by developed countries as it may lead to erode their own traditional cultural practices. But violence at any form cannot be justified

c. Migrate people normally in any place slowly empower themself and conquer the migrated place and rule the native people therefore it should not be allowed

d. Government must facilitate more abroad employment opportunity so that it could improve many Indian standards of living and Indian economy as whole

e. Brain drain must be contained in a way government must create more employment opportunity inside India itself

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30. If you have visited temples, you might come across the word VIP dharsan, like that in many public places VIP culture is in practice:

a. This practice shows the deep rooted societal discrimination based rich and poor class division which should be removed at any cost

b. Money based identifying an individual as the VIP is the blunder. Rather it is acceptable if the VIP is identified based on their societal contribution

c. VIPs are very busy individuals who contribute lot to our National economic growth hence giving preference to VIPs in saving their time is acceptable

d. VIP culture can be practiced in private spaces alone not in the public places as everyone are the citizens of India

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Disclaimer: The answers for these questions are solely based upon Sevakar IAS institution fixed keys on our discretion. These answers may differ from individual perspective. Further the purpose of this exam is for our enrollment process and not to judge any individuals ethical and moral standards.

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Disclaimer: The answers for these questions are solely based upon Sevakar IAS institution fixed keys on our discretion. These answers may differ from individual perspective. Further the purpose of this exam is for our enrollment process and not to judge any individuals ethical and moral standards.

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