Annual Performance Appraisal/Assessment Report (APAR) MCQs/Quiz/One Liner/Short Notes/Objective Questions. Useful for cracking LDC Exams(IPO Exam/PSS Group B Exam). About Six Questions were asked in the previous year Inspector Post exam 2019.
Instructions issued by the Directorate and Department of Personnel and Training (DOPT)
1. By which authority is the Annual Performance Appraisal Report (APAR)
written?
Answer – Government servant to whom he reports ie Reporting Officer
2. What is the Need of Annual Performance Appraisal Report (APAR)?
Answer – To improve the achievements of government policies and programs
by improving the performance of its employees.
3. What is included in self assessment done by a government employee?
Answer –
1. Details of his duty and the charges fixed for the same
2. Achievements against each of the targets earmarked for the same
3. His achievements and obstacles faced by him in achieving the goals
4. Before recording the assessment in your APAR to the reporting and reviewing officers What is the minimum work experience required to be a government employee?
Answer – 3 months old
5. APAR is to be written in general?
Answer – Every financial year (April 1 to March 31)
6. There may be such a situation that for a period of one year for a government employee Should more than one APAR be written during the year?
Answer – yes
7. If a reporting officer is in the process of transfer, what he should do?
Answer – He should write the APAR of the employees under him at the time
of transfer.
8. Period during which there is no Reporting Officer to write the APAR. Who will write the APAR?
Ans – Yes, the APAR will be written by the reviewing officer, subject to
the condition that it will be valid for the entire period of the report.
9. Where a reporting / review officer retires, for the subordinate
employees how long should the APAR be written?
Answer – Within 1 month of his retirement
10. If the close relative of a
reporting officer is from that subordinate employee
Whose APAR is to be written by him, and then his APAR should be written
by the reporting officer Can be done?
Answer – No
Note – APAR review of such employee will be written by the reviewing officer
11. If a Reporting/Reviewing Officer is under suspension, when the APAR
is written/reviewed If the reason has become, then in how much time it can be
written/reviewed by the officer attached with the inside can?
Answer – 2 months from the date of suspension or within 1 month from the
date on which the report is pending, whichever is later
12. A record of any action given as a result of the disciplinary
proceedings and placed in the APAR document of the employee concerned, from the
above statement Is it True?
Answer – S
13. What is the overall grading for the employee based on?
Answer –
1. Work Output
2. Personal Attributes
3. Functional Competence
14. To determine the grading of the APAR?, What is the allotted
weightage for assessment of work eligibility?
Answer – 40 : 30 : 30
15. From whom in the column of APAR related to submitting the annual
return of immovable property is related?
Answer – By Self Assessment
16. Columns belonging to Scheduled Castes / Scheduled Tribes in the APAR
Who has been kept out?
Answer – Group “A” Officer
17. What Can the reporting officer specify in the column “Integrity” of
the APAR?
Answer –
1. Beyond Doubt
2. Since the integrity of the officer is doubtful, a secret note
is attached.
3. Not watched the officer‟s work for sufficient time to form a
definite judgement but nothing adverse has been reported to me about the officer.
18. How long should a reporting officer give his report to reviewing
officer?
Answer – By 30th June
19. APAR should be completed by a Reviewing Officer And by what time
should the appraisal from CR be sent to the accepting authority?
Answer – By 31st July
20. Disclosure to the officer reported upon where there is no
accepting authority should be informed?
Answer – 1 September
Note – If there is an authority than by 15th September
21. Within how much time a government employee Receipt of
representation, if any, on APAR?
Answer – Within 15 days
Note – Application to competent authority where there is no accepting
authority – September 21
Note - Application to competent authority where there is any accepting
authority – 6th October
22. For which officer's case there is a need to write APAR?
Answer – For Govt Servant appointment on contract
23. APAR will be written in the case of Chief Controller / Controller of
Accounts?
Answer – to be written by the Financial Advisor and reviewed by the
Secretary of the Ministry/Department of the Government.
24. APAR of a Vigilance Officer
working on a full time basis Will it be written by?
Answer – By the Secretary of the concerned Ministry / Department
25. Against any adverse remarks
by the Government servant in his APAR
By which authority will the application be scrutinized?
Answer – Higher Officer of Reviewing officer
26. Investigator of applications
against any adverse comments in the APAR
Can the authority give the decision?
Answer –
1. Can reject the application.
2. Can reduce comments and make necessary action
3. Can eliminate comments.
27. Where the authority dealing with applications against any adverse remarks may decide to eliminate the comments, it will update the already entered rating in the report Can the statement be true or false?
Answer – False
28. APAR should be maintained by
the Higher Officer of the appointing authority, from the above statement Is it true
or false?
Answer – False
29.Under Right to information to APAR of Government servants as per the provisions of the Act. if the public officer is satisfied that the public disclosure is beneficial for the public, is the statement Correct or Wrong?
Answer – Correct
30. After how much time the APAR relating to the deceased employee can
be destroyed from the date of his death?
Answer – After 2 years
31. After how much time the APAR of the retired government employee can
be destroyed after his retirement ?
Answer – After 5 years
32. After how much time the APAR of an officer can be given on his
written request ?
Answer –
1. 2 years after his retirement
2. After 2 years from the date of final order on disciplinary
proceedings against him
whichever is later
33. Retaining the original APAR documents for the purpose of promotion,
etc.
Should be sent by the authority, is the statement true or false?
Answer – False
34. A Government servant on his representation against adverse comments in his APAR, Within how much time from the date of dismissal of appeal against rejection/rejection can be made?
Answer – Within 6 months
35. The competent authority for considering adverse remarks under
the existing instructions may consider the representation, if necessary, in
consultation with the reporting and/or reviewing officer and shall decide the
matter objectively based on the material placed before him within a period of _______________from
the date of receipt of the representation.
Answer – Within 30 days
36. If a government employee is given 8 to 10 grades in the APAR, for his promotion. How much emphasis will be given to him and at what rate?
Answer –
1. Score – 9
2. RATE – OUTSTANDING
37. If 6 to 8 grades are given in the APAR of a government employee for
his promotion, then How much will he be given for the purpose and what rate
will it be given?
Answer –
1. Score – 7
2. Rate – Very Good ( VERY GOOD )
38. If 4 to 6 grades are given in the APAR of a government employee, How
much will he be given for the purpose and what rate will it be given?
Answer –
1. Score – 5
2. Good ( GOOD )
39. If a government employee is graded 4 or below in the APAR, How much emphasis will be given to him and what rate will he be given for the purpose of ?
Answer –
1. Score– 0
40. Distribution of blank
APAR Forms to all concerned is ?
Answer – Till 31st March
41. By when the Self-assessment should be submitted to the reporting
officer?
Answer – Till April 15
42. Punishment imposed on a Government servant as a result of disciplinary action, Will the record be kept in its APAR?
Answer – Yes
43. APAR is written according to the financial year from when to how
long every year?
Answer – 1st April to 31st March
44. If the employee is transferred to another office during the year Relevant
periods are to be reported by the concerned reporting officer, whether Is the
statement Correct?
Answer – Yes, it is.
45. If the reporting officer is transferred during the year, he should Within
3-5 weeks from the date of transfer to the date of his transfer. The APAR of
the staff should be given, is the statement correct?
Answer – Yes, it is.
46 . The period taken for the calculation of 3 months for writing the APAR is more than any earned leave taken be deducted?
Answer – 15 days
47. Within how much time the
application will be disposed of by the competent authority?
Answer – Within 1 month from the date of application
48. When does Communication of the decision of the competent
authority on the representation by the APAR Cell be given?
Answer – 15th November
49. End of entire APAR process, after which the APAR will be
finally taken on record?
Answer – 30th November
50. Premature retirement according to APAR
assessment, Which rule of the Fundamental Rules, the government has the
absolute right to retire officials prematurely on sufficient grounds?
Answer – FR 56 (j)
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