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UPSC IAS IPS Strategy

Intro2IAS
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.
Mains2013
Strategy, Booklist, Free Studymaterial for the upcoming Mains 2013
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!

RBI

RBI Officer Prelims
After long wait, RBI has notified 98 vacancies for 2013, this article provides strategy
RBI Officer Phase II
RBI Grade "B" Officer Phase II (Descriptive) exam strategy, booklist and free download material is provided here.
RBI Assistant
Strategy, booklist, free study material, cutoffs, previous paper for RBI assistant Exam

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.
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 Feedly (alternative of Google Reader) to efficiently read The Hindu online, for Free+list of important RSS links for UPSC Exam!.
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.)

[RTI] No. of students failed in Compulsory Language Paper in Civil Service Mains 2010 Exam

All Courtesy Mr.Alok Kumar Singh‘s email and his RTI application
—copy pasting—

Some time back I filed an RTI query regarding cut off and no. of failed
candidates in CSM-2010. They gave reply. I want to share this
information to you and if you want you can share on your blog for
benefit of larger public.

Language                    No. of candidates failed
Assamese                                 1

  
Gujarati                                    1
Hindi                                       318
Kannada                                   4
Malayalam                               4
Marathi                                    96
Tamil                                        1
Telugu                                     20
English                                   819

Screenshot of the RTI reply

RTI reply

Recommend Book for Compulsory English language paper

This is really sad, 819 students failed in the easiest of all papers: Compulsory English language. Although it doesn’t require any special practice, just check the old papers online. But still if you want to a have book: use Compulsory English For Civil And Judicial Services by A. P. Bhardwaj (Tata Mcgraw Hill publication)
 

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8 comments to [RTI] No. of students failed in Compulsory Language Paper in Civil Service Mains 2010 Exam

  • sagar

    Hi Mrunal,

    What is the minimum passing marks in Compulsory/English language papers?

    Thanks
    Sagar

  • S B

    Pls can i know approx how many students wrote marathi compulsory paper and tamil and Hindi Compulsory paper .. is the figure 96 correct in case of marathi bcoz it defies all statistical rationalising. eg As far as my info goes Tamil and marathi candidates are approx about the same number. then how only 1 candidate fails in Tamil and 96 fail in marathi… do u have any data regarding the latest 2011 exam ….. i have been a victim of these as i was failed in my marathi compulsory paper in my 3rd attempt eventhough i had cruised past it in my previous 2 attempts…..Awaiting ur reply soon

  • SAI IAS

    Sir i know English, Tamil, Kannada and Hindi to speak fluently, but to write a paper i am not well worse in the indian languages. Because my mother tongue is Tamil and my native is Bangalore so i know Kannada and i studied in CBSE where i got 65% in Hindi. Sir i am confused what to take, PLEASE help me

  • Abhi

    Hi Mrunal,
    Do any best book available in the market according to the syllabus of history(optional mains)?. I know we have to refer standard books but i want to know any book written according to the context of the syllabus? hope you will reply back.
    Thanks in advance
    Abhi

  • Abhi

    Hi Mrunal,
    Do any best book available in the market according to the syllabus of history and political science(optional mains)?. I know we have to refer standard books but i want to know any book written according to the context of the syllabus? hope you will reply back.
    Thanks in advance
    Abhi

  • peter

    Hi mrunal, could you also please provide the cutoff mark for 2010 mains exam. I wanted to know the cut off mark of the last guy called for interview. I appeared and got 860 exactly from ST category

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