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UPSC IAS IPS Strategy

Intro
Five Part article series on How to approach UPSC Civil Service IAS/IPS Exam: Prelims, Mains and Interview
Books
Tips on Notes-making, Standard reference books, Yojana Kurukshetra etc. Explained here
Prelim-Mains-Interview
Detailed Strategy for General Studies, science-tech, yearbook, economy, history, polity, IR-Diplomacy with booklist, free study material given here.
Doubts
Basic doubts regarding Coaching, Working professional, time Management and Non-English medium
Backup
Some guidelines for adopting career backup plans incase you can't make it to UPSC

SSC CGL

GK / GA
How to approach General Awareness for Tier-I, explained here with free study material download.
Maths
How to approach Maths, Quantitative Aptitude, Trigonometry, Geometry for Tier I and II? To-the-point strategy n tips given here +free study material
Reasoning
General Intelligence and Logical reasoninig for Tier I of SSC-CGL exam: booklist, tips shared here.
English
How to tackle vocabulary, grammar and comprehension for Tier I and II.

SBI PO

GA/Computer/Marketing
strategy booklist for approaching General Awareness, Computer, Marketing, Current Affairs in SBI PO 2013, includes free material as well!
Reasoning (High)
strategy booklist for approaching Higher Level Reasoning in SBI PO 2013
English (Descriptive)
strategy, free studymaterial, essay list for the SBI PO English MCQ and Descriptive paper!

Others

CAT (IIM)
Ragtag strategy on get 90+ percentile in CAT-prometric test.
LIC AAO
Strategy for the upcoming LIC Assistant Administrative officers' exam with free studymaterial, jobprofile.
CSIR
Studyplan + Free study material for CSIR combined Administrative services (CASE) exam
State PSC
How to approach RAS, MPSC etc explained here
CAPF
How to become an Assistant Commandant in BSF, CISF, CRPF: strategy, booklist, free studymaterial provided here.
RBI
RBI Grade "B" Officer studyplan, strategy, booklist and free download material is provided here.
SSC (FCI)
Food Corporation Grade III exam
SPIPA
For getting admission in SPIPA, Ahmedabad, which provides free coaching for IAS exam.(Gujarat Only)
ACIO
Assistant Central Intelligence Officer recruitment: booklist, strategy

UPSC tips

India Yearbook
how to efficiently utilize INDIA Yearbook for UPSC prelims, mains, interview= explained in this 6 part series article.
5 Levels
Explains five types of players in UPSC competition and why daydreamers fail in this exam.
100 Days
Why you can't succeed with vague strategies in UPSC Prelims, explained here.
Newspaper?
How to read The Hindu/Indianexpress quickly and efficiently in less than one hour for Current Affairs?, explained here.
Art of Aptitude?
3 Cardinal Rules on How to approach Aptitude section in any competitive exam.
Quotes
Motivational and inspirational quotes for competitive exams.
Essay Tips
How *not* to write an Essay in UPSC Mains exam, explained here
IR
How to prepare India World + International relations (IR) topic, explained + free download material
Stat
Approach to Statistics and Graphs portion of General Studies Mains Paper II+free study material
R.T.I
How to file R.T.I application to UPSC? explained here

Analysis

CSAT'12
Analysis of the GS-Prelims paper and how it broke the backs of Coaching classes.
GSM-12
Analysis of the General Studies (Mains) Paper I and II of 2012 and how they (again) broke the backs of Coaching classes.

Edu Tech

Auto NoteMaker
Mrunal's Autonotemaker for quickly taking notes out of PDF files and Webarticles (Win XP only)
Hindu Reader
How to use Google Reader to efficiently read The Hindu online, for Free!.
OneNote
Learn to use Microsoft Onenote software to organized your notes on computer, quickly and efficiently!
Archive
Monthly Archive Index page of everything I've published so far. (In the old articles, ignore advice written before Jan 2012, because UPSC trend has changed a lot.)

[Analysis] UPSC CSE-2012: Final Rankings in Individual categories SC, ST, OBC, PH plus final cut offs after mains and interview

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  1. Prologue
  2. Overall Final cutoffs
  3. Highest & lowest scores in written and interview
  4. Overall Vacancies
  5. Final Ranking: Scheduled Castes (SC-Non-PH)
  6. Final Ranking: Scheduled Tribes (ST)
  7. Final Ranking: Other Backward Classes (OBC-Non-PH)
  8. Final Ranking: General Category (Non-PH)
  9. Final Ranking: PH1
  10. Final Ranking: PH2
  11. Final Ranking: PH3
  12. Final Ranking: PH(1,2,3 combined)

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[Economic Survey Ch13] Human Development (Part 2 of 3): SC, ST, OBC, Minorities: welfare schemes, 12th FYP targets

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  1. Scheduled Castes
    1. Scholarships: Higher Education (SC+ST)
    2. Protection of Civil Rights
    3. Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY)
    4. Manual Scavenging
    5. 11th FYP: SC welfare
    6. 12th FYP: SC welfare goals/targets
  2. Scheduled Tribes
    1. Constitutional provisions
    2. States without ST communities
    3. PESA 1996
    4. PESA: problems?
    5. Forest Rights Act 2006
    6. Ashram Schools
    7. 12th FYP: ST welfare

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[Economic Survey Ch13] Human Development (Part 1 of 3): HDI-2012, HDR-2013, Poverty lines, Aajeevika, Tendulkar, Sreesanth, Saxena, Sengupta

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  1. Prologue
  2. Human Development Index (HDI)
    1. HDI=Geometric Mean
    2. HDR: last three reports
    3. HDI index 2012
    4. Tie in HDI?
    5. Experimental Indexes
      1. #1: Inequality adjusted HDI (IHDI)
      2. #2: Gender Inequality Index?
      3. #3: Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)
  3. Poverty
    1. Tendulkar vs Saxena?
    2. Saxena vs Sengupta?
  4. Rural Infra
  5. Urban Infra

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[Topper's Interview] Chandrashekhar AIR-470/CSE-2012: Public Administration & Sociology

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  1. Bio
  2. Coaching
  3. Inception
  4. Information
  5. Study Momentum
  6. Hours
  7. Strategy: CSAT (Aptitude)
  8. Strategy: GS
  9. Mains 2013
  10. Optional Subject: Sociology
  11. Optional Subject: Public Administration
  12. Optional Subject in Mains 2013?
  13. Compulsory papers
  14. Essay
  15. Previous Attempts
  16. Insecurity about “Profile”
  17. Career Backup
  18. Family and Friends
  19. Interview
  20. Marksheet
  21. Wisdom
  22. Bogus marketing propaganda

Bio Name CHANDRASHEKHAR NAYAKA L Roll number

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[Economic Survey Ch12] Sustainable Development, Climate Change (Part 3 of 3): PAT, RPO, REC, Cap-n-trade

  1. Climate financing
    1. Taxation
    2. Subsidies
    3. Funds and Technology Transfers
      1. International Funds
      2. Desi Funds
    4. Market Based
      1. PAT
      2. RPO
      3. REC
    5. Cap n Trade vs Carbon Tax
  2. Green National Accounts
  3. Clean Energy challanges
    1. Nuclear
    2. Wind Power
    3. Solar Power
  4. Mock Questions

Climate financing

In all

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[Economic Survey Ch12] Sustainable Development, Climate Change (Part 2 of 3): SVA-GRIHA, Bachat Lamp Yojana, SEEP

  1. Industries
    1. Eco-industrial parks (EIP)
    2. Steel
    3. Cement
    4. Thermal Power
    5. Vs Solar power?
    6. Coal gasification
  2. Transport
    1. Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Programme
    2. Rail freight
    3. Water-Borne Freight
    4. Public transport
  3. Green Building Codes
    1. Energy Conservation Building Code
    2. ADARSH
    3. GRIHA
    4. Sva-GRIHA
  4. Electrical appliances
    1. Bachat Lamp Yojana (BLY)
    2. Super-Efficient Equipment Program

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[Economic Survey Ch12] Sustainable Development, Climate Change (Part 1 of 3)

  1. Prologue
  2. What is sustainable development?
  3. India and GHG
  4. India and Sustainable development
  5. National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC)
    1. Solar
    2. Energy
    3. Water
    4. Agro
    5. Green India (forest)
    6. Habitat
    7. Knowledge
    8. Himalayan Ecosystem
    9. Hill Areas
  6. Hill areas: challenges and solutions
  7. Sustainable Agriculture Development
  8. Coastal Zone Management
  9. Forest and Tree Cover

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[EnB] Doha COP18/UNFCC: Extension of Kyoto, Green Climate Fund, AAU issue, challenges exaplained

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  1. Prologue
  2. 3 COPS under UNFCC
  3. 17th COP, Durban (2011)?
  4. 18th COP Doha (2012)?
    1. Kyoto extended
    2. Kyoto Mechanism Continue
    3. Agreement for 2020
    4. Review
    5. CA$H
    6. Misc outcomes in DOHACOP11
    7. 1.Gender balance
    8. 2.Vulnerable junta
    9. 3.LDCs
    10. 4.Web registry
    11. 5.PR
    12. 6.Forestry
    13. 7.Capture n Store
    14. 8.Tech transfer
    15. 9.-ve fallout
  5. Problem/Challenges @DohaCOP18
    1. No CA$H
    2. No Compensation

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[EnB] COP 11 – Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Hyderabad 2012 Outcomes, Bushmeat, Empty Jungle syndrome

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  1. Intro
  2. COP Conferences under CBD
  3. India and CBD
  4. COP11(HYDCBD)
  5. Logo
  6. COP11(HYDCBD): Outcomes/ Agreements
    1. #1: CASH
    2. #2: Ocean
      1. #2a: Ocean: Protected Planet 2012
      2. #2b: Ocean: Research
      3. What is Marine Litter?
    3. #3 Online forum
    4. #4: Bushmeat
      1. Empty forest syndrome?
    5. #5: Champions and their pledges
      1. Maldives: Biosphere reserve

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[Topper's Interview] Shefali Singh (AIR 336/CSE-2012) Geography and Sociology

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  1. Bio
  2. Coaching
  3. Inception
  4. Information
  5. Momentum
  6. Hours
  7. Strategy: CSAT (Aptitude)
  8. Strategy: General studies
  9. Mains 2013
  10. Optional Subject #1 (Geography)
  11. Optional Subject #2 (Sociology)
  12. Optional Subject in Mains 2013?
  13. Compulsory papers
  14. Essay
  15. Previous Attempts
  16. Insecurity about “Profile”
  17. Backup
  18. Family and Friends
  19. Interview
  20. Marksheet
  21. Wisdom
  22. Bogus marketing propaganda

Bio Name SHEFALI SINGH Roll number 9727

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