Interview Guideline for ISSB

The candidates should take advantage of the following helpful hints:

1.    The candidates should enter in Interview Room with faith in ALLAH and Self Confidence.

2.     While answering questions, he should speak in a natural way.

3.    The answer of the candidate should be relevant.

4.    The candidate should avoid using the words “beg your pardon”. He should try to answer the question as soon as if is put to hum.

5.    The candidate should be get confused if a complicated question

Is put to him . He should not pause for a long time.

6.    The candidate should not be unnerved under any circumstance. He should maintain the balance of his mind to the very end.

7.    When talking to the Chairman and members of the Board, the candidate should look into their eyes. He should also be keen, lively and cheerful while talking to them.

8.    The candidate must be courageous enough to admit his mistake if the Board points out to that end. The spirit of honest owning his mistakes will enhance the prestige of the candidate in the eye of the Board.

9.    The candidate should also not try to be over clever in answering questions. He should taste only what he knows correctly. He should not attempt hazard guesses. If he does not know about a thing correctly, he must own if gladly and should not bluff.

10.                       Whenever the candidate avails the chance of describing his own accomplishments of good family links, then he should convey it in a most tactful and subtle manner.

11.                       While undergoing an interview, the candidate should not inculcate the spirit of criticizing and finding fault with others. The candidate should know that he has not come to the interview to win a verbal battle but to avail a happy conversation.

12.                       The candidate must listen and observe. If the other man wants to talk, he must extend him chance. He must be an attentive and enthusiastic listener. He must know the occasions of listening and answering.

13.                       Before appearing in an interview, the candidate should make a perpetual practice in the art of interview. For this purpose, he should win the co-operation of his friends, colleagues and family members.

                                              Subjects for Interview

Usually, the subjects for the interview are given below:

1)    World History

2)    Indo Pak History

3)    Geography

4)    General Knowledge

5)    Current Affairs

6)    Physics

7)    Chemistry

A Example interview are given below

Candidate: Assalam-o-Alaikum        

Chairman: Wa Alaikum-us-Salam. Please take your seat.

Candidate: Thank You, Sir

Chairman:  What are the categories of modern war?

Candidate:  Sir, the categories of the modern war are;

Total war, limited war, local war, cold war etc.

First Member: Will you please furnish some elaboration one “total war”?

Candidate:   Sir, the total war carrying on the conflict with all the resources and all the weapons of mass destruction without any limitation to its nature and geography. No distinction is made between the military and civil population. There is seldom any respect for the rights of neutrals, morals or human rights, etc. Such a war usually, engulfs the entire world and develop into a global war.

Second Member: Will you please give some detail on “Limited War”?

Candidate:  Sir, the limited war is restricted in many ways. It may be limited in its means of objects and locations. It represents a war in which weapons of war or destruction are not used against the home front. In this category, there  may be restriction on the means of fighting , but locally is not limited.

Third Member: What is “Cold War”?

Candidate:  Sir, cold war is mainly a political rather than a military affair. It precedes a formal declaration of war. It refers to a condition of international dispute somewhere between negotiation and war itself. It is , in fact, a dangerous situation where relations among nations have become strained and the next step in the worsening plight can lead  to armed war.

The participant nations is the cold war are, indeed in political and economic conflict except by the exercise of mutual restraint. Total war has not ensued. It is with all possible means, short of war conflict except by the exercise of mutual restraint, total war by which a country aims at uprooting the existing balance of power. It makes utmost attempts to weaken the enemy by winning over his possible allies, overthrowing constitutionals authority through 

subversion and infiltration, confusing his beliefs and undermining his economy. The cold war, on account of division of the world in two blocs, following divergent policies, has acquired a worldwide range. Each block is seeking to reach, before war becomes inevitable, such a position that it can be won with the minimum period of fighting.

Third Member: Please tell us, also about “hot war”?

Candidate; Sir, at a time when a country finds it difficult to settle an international dispute, then it starts a conflict to solve that issue which is called “hot war” or a “shooting war”

Chairman:  That will do, Please.

Candidate: Thank You Sir, Assalam-o-Alaikum

Chairman:  Wa Alaikum-us-Salam