This technique is based on the theory of free association. The candidate is made to talk or span up freely and through this free association, the interviewing officer assesses the eligibility of the candidate to become on average officer. He does not expect the candidate to be a “ know well” or a “ walking encyclopedia”, but he is only trying to find out if the individual has a receptive mind, which can retain issues in his mind. Is he a person , who keeps his eyes and ears open and is he a person, who keeps himself posted and almost events and happenings around him.

5.         The conduct of interview is as follows. The interviewing officer would already have the candidates bio-data with him. With this in hands he would try and find out the details of candidates family background, educational background his extra curricular activities, interest in sports , hobbies and the like. Questioning on those in details if necessary, he would access the candidates as to whether he is a person with clean clear and healthy attitude and whether he is a person who wants to improve himself as the life goes on, whether he is a person who appends his time usefully and thus he generally portrait the image of  an individual with an inquisitive attitude for e.g., amongst two candidates one has the hobby of stamp collecting or photography and the other has none. It goes without saying that the former has a more creative mind.

6.   There after, he would find out the general knowledge of the individual. Mind your general knowledge should not be mistaken for general awareness. General awareness encompasses your whole attitude and way of life of which GK forms only a small part. He would probe the candidate by asking questions on various national and international issues and on aspects in which the candidates has special interest in current affairs. This is to find out how done his interest in this aspect. Whether it is a casual and peripheral interest or whether he is a serious student of that particular interest with the will to learn and improve himself.