Sometimes, a candidate relies on one aspect of answer, and he forgets the other fall out of the problem. A candidate should take a comprehensive approach so that his answer is perfect; for example :
Question : It has been lately observed that students with technical, engineering or computer backgrounds prefer to go for services in management and administrative fields, like civil services. How do you feel about it?
Answer :Without prejudice to the students in humanities, I would like to say that the students with technical, engineering, science and computer background possess sharp minds and focussed approach. They can make maximum contribution in other fields like administration and management because of their technical know-how. They are, in fact, an asset to management and administration.
Analysis : Here the candidate has chosen to analyse only one aspect—that is the quality or attributes of the persons with technical know-how. However, he comfortably forgets to analyse the other factors, such as social responsibility and their fields of specialisation, where they could have made substantive contributions. According to us, his answer should have been :
“The students with technical, engineering and computer backgrounds have sharp minds and focussed approach which they can employ for good in the fields of management and administration. But if we take a broad view, we can see that our country has scarce resources to train every student in these fields of specialisation. It simply means that the money spent on their costly education by their parents and the government has gone down the drain. If at all these students dreamt of entering management and administration, they should have opted for humanities and other specialised courses such as M.B.A. By gaining a technical education, they have simply played a role of ‘a dog in the manger.’ I should also like to emphasise that some technical and computer knowledge is not the sole preserve of only the technocrats. Even a common student with arts background too understands it. As it is, computers have entered almost all aspects of our life, so knowing them is not at all a difficult job. Another aspect that we should give a thought to, is that a manager or administrator ought to know how and where to get things done, than he himself getting down to work with a set of pliers and screw-driver. It would have been advisable that these candidates had entered in their fields of dream profession and leaving the seats in the technical institutions for those who want to make a career in it.”
Question : It has been lately observed that students with technical, engineering or computer backgrounds prefer to go for services in management and administrative fields, like civil services. How do you feel about it?
Answer :Without prejudice to the students in humanities, I would like to say that the students with technical, engineering, science and computer background possess sharp minds and focussed approach. They can make maximum contribution in other fields like administration and management because of their technical know-how. They are, in fact, an asset to management and administration.
Analysis : Here the candidate has chosen to analyse only one aspect—that is the quality or attributes of the persons with technical know-how. However, he comfortably forgets to analyse the other factors, such as social responsibility and their fields of specialisation, where they could have made substantive contributions. According to us, his answer should have been :
“The students with technical, engineering and computer backgrounds have sharp minds and focussed approach which they can employ for good in the fields of management and administration. But if we take a broad view, we can see that our country has scarce resources to train every student in these fields of specialisation. It simply means that the money spent on their costly education by their parents and the government has gone down the drain. If at all these students dreamt of entering management and administration, they should have opted for humanities and other specialised courses such as M.B.A. By gaining a technical education, they have simply played a role of ‘a dog in the manger.’ I should also like to emphasise that some technical and computer knowledge is not the sole preserve of only the technocrats. Even a common student with arts background too understands it. As it is, computers have entered almost all aspects of our life, so knowing them is not at all a difficult job. Another aspect that we should give a thought to, is that a manager or administrator ought to know how and where to get things done, than he himself getting down to work with a set of pliers and screw-driver. It would have been advisable that these candidates had entered in their fields of dream profession and leaving the seats in the technical institutions for those who want to make a career in it.”
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