For UPSC CSAT Paper II (decision making) and General Studies Paper IV (ethics).
Prologue Sources of Complaint From Anonymous/ pseudonymous From Whistleblowers Oral Complaints From Civil Society From Media Reports Classifying the complaint types #1: Vigilance Angle #2: Administrative Angle #3: Criminal Angle Case studies Prologue In the previous article we checked [...]
Prologue Conduct rules Difference: Court vs Departmental Proceedings Conduct rules: Examples #1: Conduct Rules4 Office Life #2: Conduct Rules4 Public Life #3: Conduct rules4 Financial Life #4: Conduct Rules4 Personal life Cases studies Seeking written order when unnecessary Disobeying [...]
Prologue Functions of Pension department Pensioners' Portal Functions of DoPT Recruitment /Appointment boards Recruiting agency vs Personnel agency Reservation in recruitment Training Administrative Vigilance UNCAC Integrity Pact Stability of Tenure Commercial Employment RTI related work Joint Consultative Machinery (JCM) [...]
Prologue Functions of department Administrative Reforms Sevottam Service Delivery National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) E-Office CPGRAM: Online Redressal Governance Knowledge Centre National E-Governance Conference Record Retention Schedule (RTI) Misc. Functions of DARPG e-Sugam Aarogyam Awards/conferences United Nations Public Service Awards [...]
Prologue Essay-ish / Abstract Questions Ethics Case Studies / Role playing Questions Disobeying an informal order Returning unspent money Misleading for good purpose Private matter of Public employee? Political neutrality Political neutrality Part.2 Salary hike vs Team spirit Holding [...]
Few weeks back, UPSC had uploaded Ethics case study sample questions for the GS paper IV click me. Continuing on that line, here are some more sample questions on "ethics". Although this article itself is full of not-so-ethical-behavior, because I [...]
Prologue Three Questions on Theory/Definition/Essay 1. Ethical human conduct 2. Definitions 3. Inspiration Three Case studies Case study#1: sexual harassment Case Study#2: Cheater friend Case Study#3: Bogus Sarkari hospital Prologue Finally, UPSC has uploaded a sample paper for GS4 [...]
Subordinate’s report Batchmate Project review Sports chairman Project Deadline Water supply Bribe Bad answer Good answer In the previous article, we saw the Decision Making questions asked in 2011’s paper. click me Now let’s check the 2012’s questions- with [...]
Important: CSAT 2012 official answerkeys have been uploaded on www.upsc.gov.in/exams/answerkeys/index.htm#PageTop Prologue Decisions Decisions Bad answers Good answers CSAt 2011: Decision Making Qs Boss did not inform you about meeting Local thug Can’t finish project Earthquake corruption Boat hire blackmail [...]
What is Ethics? What is Rule of Law? Two Viewpoints in Fighting Corruption 3 Factors behind Corruption in India Politics and Ethics Election =Mother of corruption Criminalization of politics Election reforms already in process Election Funding Three Patterns of [...]