FPSC English Lecturer Interview Experience 05-2022

Explanation

. Chairman's Part

• He said, "How are you?"

• He asked, "Is this your first appearance in the interview?" When I told him that it was my second appearance and that I was already an SS, he asked:

• Why do you want to become a lecturer?

• Why has Higher Education not yet achieved its objectives?

• What has the BS system improved so far? Which system is better, MA or BS?

• Which field do you prefer, Linguistics or Literature?

• What kinds of books do you read? What was the last book you read?

• What is the theme of The Metamorphosis?

• What is a novel?

• What is a novella?

• What is the difference between a novel and a drama?

• Questions about Hamlet.

Note: This was a "no sorry" part. I tried to answer all the questions.
Then he said, "Introduce yourself."
After my introduction, he asked me to go to the board and give a demo on the topic I had prepared.

 SS-1 Part (on my right)

• He praised my fluency and then asked, "How do you teach communication?"
• How many times have you used technological tools to help students listen in class?
• Can your students speak English? I said they cannot speak fluently, but they are improving.
• Is the fault in your students or in your teaching method? I said the problem was in my method.
• He said that he had stopped working on their communication because they would not be able to speak. Have you reached that point too? I said no, I am still working on their communication skills and believe they will improve.
• How do you improve your students' vocabulary?
• What are determiners?
• What is discourse analysis?
• What is implicature?
• What are allophones?
• What is doublethink?
• What is doublespeak? I said it was Newspeak. He nodded and asked, "So, what is Newspeak?"
• What is the contrast between Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World?
• What is your favorite play? I said Hamlet.
• Why do you like it? I said, "It is mainly about revenge."
• What if the play had progressed in the opposite direction?
• What is the difference between cohesion and coherence?
• Write a sentence using "I had better gone."
• Which is your favorite poem?
• Why does he say, "one too like thee swift and tameless..."?
• What caused Shelley's melancholy?
• What was the name and author of Ten Thousand Sixty-Six? I paused, then he smiled and told me it was a famous work. I said something about the Norman Conquest because I did not know any other answer.
• A romance with four important and famous characters? It was a riddle, and I did not know the answer.
• Who was King Arthur? If I say he did not exist and was fictional, what would you say?
• What is a question?
• What is a tag question?
• Two more Linguistics questions, which I do not remember.

Note: This was the "sorry" part. I said sorry to 4–5 questions, which I do not remember except for the question about implicature mentioned above.

SS-2 Part (on my left)

• What is tense?

• What is "swimming"?

• He asked me to write a sentence containing the word "swimming." He then asked whether the sentence was complete. I said no because the helping verb "are" was missing.

• How many tenses are there? Then he returned to that sentence again.

• What is the difference between "I have worked hard" and "Have I not worked hard?"

• What are helping verbs?

• What is the function of helping verbs?

• He asked some other technical questions about that sentence.

Note: This was another "no sorry" part. I answered all the questions, but he countered each answer with technicalities. The problem was that I could not hear his voice properly, so I requested him to repeat the questions.
Closing
The Chairman said, "Okay, Naveed Khan, you may leave now."
The interview lasted 35 minutes.

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