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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.)

[Alert] Aspirants from Gujarat : SPIPA IAS Study Centre’s Admission Exam Notification is out

SPIPA is a Gujarat Government sponsored IAS study Centre in front of ISRO Office. Once upon a time in Mumbai Ahmedabad, yours unfaithfully was also part of it. They give admission based on an entrance test, and today they have announced the notification for admission in 2013-14 Batch.

  1. Who can take admission in SPIPA?
  2. Available Seats
  3. Exam Fees
  4. How to Apply for SPIPA IAS Study Centre?

Who can take admission in SPIPA?

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Minimum Requirements

Domicile
  1. Mother Tongue of the candidates should be Gujarati or
  2. 1st Degree of Graduation from Gujarat or
  3. Ordinarily a residence of Gujarat will be entitled to apply for admission.
Education Must be Graduate or Post Graduate.
Job This is a full time course and candidates are not allowed to join any job or out side study.
Fees There is no Coaching Fee. But candidates have to pay following amount as Deposit :

  1. Library Deposit: Rs. 2200/-
  2. Training Deposit: Rs. 1000/-
  3. Hostel Deposit: Rs. 1000/-

Available Seats

General Category 48 Seats
Scheduled Caste 16 Seats
Scheduled Tribe 16 Seats
SEBC 16 Seats
Physically Challenged 03 Seats
Blind Candidates 01 Seats
Total 100

Exam Fees

Entrance Exam fee is Rs. 100/- for General Category
Rs. 50/- for SC/ST/SEBC category Candidates.

How to Apply for SPIPA IAS Study Centre?

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Registration Dates: 6/6/12 to 26/06/2012
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For studyplan / tips on preparation, I’ve posted a separate article.
You can read it on following link (but it is in Gujarati Font)
How to Prepare for SPIPA Entrance Test? Click Me

10 comments to [Alert] Aspirants from Gujarat : SPIPA IAS Study Centre’s Admission Exam Notification is out

  • darji vivek

    notify us if any updates

  • krupali nakar

    Thanx sir,you have given wondnrfull information regarding spipa n ias. Sir i am in f.y.b.com plz guide me hw should i prepare for spipa entrance????? Plz guide me.

  • nishith

    hello sir,
    i appericiate your effort to provide such important information.
    sir i have finished my B.E. in june -2012
    i want to give next spipa exam.
    so can you provide me information about how to apply for it with dates details.
    my bday is 08/11/1991. thats why i could not apply for last tim as i am not 21.
    so now when should i apply n how.?
    i m vry thankfull if u provide me such info.
    thank u.
    nishith kayasth

  • dishant

    hy sir my name is dishant
    i am in last sem of my engineering.
    i want to give the enterance exam of spipa for civil services training programme (ias,ips)
    so can u pls give me the date of next upcoming enterance exam nd also give me the guidance about the preparation
    i really thankfull if u provide me suchinformation pls..

  • Venus

    hello sir , my name is Venus.
    i am in tybcom
    please give me information about upcoming entrance exam .
    and how to prepare for spipa.

  • kalpen

    When will come spipa’s entras exam and it’s form?
    Give all the information of spipa.

  • riddhi

    sir i wanna ask that in spipa… any questions are repeated or not from old exam papers ????

  • Ravan

    One request to Mrunal Sir,

    SIR NOW THE SHUTTER HAS BEEN CLOSED TO EXAMINATION PROCEDURE, CAN U PLZ REQUEST UPSC TO MAKE AVAILABLE 2012 PRELIMINARY CUT-OFF MARKS.. THANK U..

  • Sonu

    Hello,sir right now i am doing an MCA.and i want to join IAS training but i don’t know that the entrance exma date and the IAS exam Training duration, so please tell me.

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