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(BBC-US)   Civil service jobs are highly coveted in India. They're picky, so you have to pass a test to be a candidate. A test that takes three years of studying for ten hours a day   (bbc.com) divider line
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toddalmighty [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 4:28:09 PM  
And like the others, she had her sights set on eventually becoming a bureaucrat.

Go big or go home.
 
FlashHarry [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 5:27:16 PM  
Great Britain: "YOU'RE WELCOME."

/ducks
 
johnny_vegas [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 7:30:37 PM  
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elvisaintdead [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 7:59:47 PM  
"when the British ruled the Punjab....."

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Flowery Twats
2023-02-05 8:51:17 PM  
Sounds like she did the needful...[ducks and runs away]
 
H31N0US
2023-02-05 8:57:15 PM  
So just like the last few hundred years? It's always been a coveted gig.
 
drewogatory
2023-02-05 9:01:33 PM  
Aren't Indian schools so competitive that US Ivy's are basically backup schools?
 
H31N0US
2023-02-05 9:06:01 PM  

drewogatory: Aren't Indian schools so competitive that US Ivy's are basically backup schools?


Yes but no.

The IITs are great and uber competitive schools, but if some high caste kid gets accepted to IIT and Yale, they'll go to Yale.
 
Fano
2023-02-05 9:44:37 PM  

toddalmighty: And like the others, she had her sights set on eventually becoming a bureaucrat.

Go big or go home.


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Fano
2023-02-05 9:45:13 PM  

H31N0US: drewogatory: Aren't Indian schools so competitive that US Ivy's are basically backup schools?

Yes but no.

The IITs are great and uber competitive schools, but if some high caste kid gets accepted to IIT and Yale, they'll go to Yale.


Princeton. It was always Princeton.
 
trialpha
2023-02-05 9:53:52 PM  
This only raises the question: do any of these civil service jobs actually require that level of intellectual prowess? I'm assuming not, and this brutal test is merely a weeding out method.
 
drewogatory
2023-02-05 9:57:09 PM  

trialpha: This only raises the question: do any of these civil service jobs actually require that level of intellectual prowess? I'm assuming not, and this brutal test is merely a weeding out method.


The harder the test, the bigger the bribe.
 
Fissile
2023-02-05 10:04:05 PM  
Why don't the Indians just do the modern thing like here in the US where nearly all gov official are nepotism or crony hires?
 
johnny_vegas [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 10:09:49 PM  

Fissile: Why don't the Indians just do the modern thing like here in the US where nearly all gov official are nepotism or crony hires?


Now do Russia!!!!
 
Craw Fu
2023-02-05 10:22:44 PM  

trialpha: This only raises the question: do any of these civil service jobs actually require that level of intellectual prowess? I'm assuming not, and this brutal test is merely a weeding out method.


The benefit of a government job is that you don't have to show up for work and you won't get fired for 25 years.  https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/01/11/376557395/indian-man-a-no-show-at-work-for-25-years-finally-gets-the-ax

CSB time, after reading this story, I asked my HR rep how long before I would get fired and was told one week. :-(
 
Fano
2023-02-05 11:15:08 PM  

Fissile: Why don't the Indians just do the modern thing like here in the US where nearly all gov official are nepotism or crony hires?


Ho ho ho. This is now the nepotism cronies push each other out of the way. We're talking about a nation of a billion people, and they invented the crab pot
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Snarcoleptic_Hoosier
2023-02-05 11:58:00 PM  

trialpha: This only raises the question: do any of these civil service jobs actually require that level of intellectual prowess? I'm assuming not, and this brutal test is merely a weeding out method.


If you post a job and get 40,000 qualified applicants, you have to start the filter somewhere
 
SBinRR [OhFark]
2023-02-06 12:02:17 AM  

FlashHarry: Great Britain: "YOU'RE WELCOME."

/ducks


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Well, now you've done it.
 
FlashHarry [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 7:03:47 AM  

SBinRR: Well, now you've done it.


Fun fact: my dad was born in India.
 
jjorsett
2023-02-06 8:54:31 AM  

Snarcoleptic_Hoosier: trialpha: This only raises the question: do any of these civil service jobs actually require that level of intellectual prowess? I'm assuming not, and this brutal test is merely a weeding out method.

If you post a job and get 40,000 qualified applicants, you have to start the filter somewhere


Just draw names from a really big hat.
 
Fear the Clam
2023-02-06 9:21:00 AM  
<csb>
For a little while I was an analyst for NYC and was required to take the civil service exam. They hadn't run it in a decade or so, so no one was sure what would be on it, so analyst union had courses in generic government stuff, like how to calculate the costs of hiring someone and writing and evaluating RFPs. So that's what I study.

Test day comes and it's not about government procedures at all, but careful reading and logic. It's all in multiple choice format with compound answers, so of course all you have to do is eliminate any part of an answer to discard it. I do logic puzzles for fun, so I had a great time.
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H31N0US
2023-02-06 10:35:56 AM  

Fissile: Why don't the Indians just do the modern thing like here in the US where nearly all gov official are nepotism or crony hires?


I'd love to see Lauren Bobbert take any test where the answer isn't AR-15, or Because Baby Jesus.
 
Catsaregreen
2023-02-06 12:26:48 PM  

H31N0US: Fissile: Why don't the Indians just do the modern thing like here in the US where nearly all gov official are nepotism or crony hires?

I'd love to see Lauren Bobbert take any test where the answer isn't AR-15, or Because Baby Jesus.


Please show us where Lauren BoEbert touched you.
 
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