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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] SSC CGL Tier 1 held on April-21-2013, download question paper

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  1. Introduction
  2. Maths
  3. Reasoning
  4. General Awareness / GA-GK
  5. English
  6. Appendix: download link for SSC CGL 2013 (Tier 1) paper

Introduction

  • SSC CGL 2013 was to be held on 14th and 21st April.
  • But 14th April exam was cancelled. Now that exam will be held on 19th May 2013. (Hence it is no longer

    Click To Continue reading [Analysis] SSC CGL Tier 1 held on April-21-2013, download question paper

    • [Answerkey] History, Polity Questions of UPSC CPF/CAPF 2012, Analysis and Cut offs

    1. Analysis
    2. Cut offs for CPF/CAPF 2012 Exam
    3. History: Internal breakup
    4. Ancient
    5. Medieval
    6. Modern
    7. Polity internal breakup
    8. Polity-Static
    9. Polity- Current Based
    10. Rights Issue
    11. Environment Biodiverity
    12. Geography
    13. Economy, Yearbook
    14. International Relations, Persons in News/Sports/GK
    15. Science
    16. Aptitude

    With this article, I conclude the Answerkeys for CPF/CAPF 2012 exam

    Analysis

    Click To Continue reading [Answerkey] History, Polity Questions of UPSC CPF/CAPF 2012, Analysis and Cut offs

    [Analysis] General Studies (Mains) 2012 Paper 1 & 2: Topicwise Analysis, future approach for UPSC IAS IPS exam

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    1. Difficulty
    2. Conspiracy theories
    3. History (Freedom Struggle)
    4. Culture
    5. Polity
    6. Yearbook
    7. Public Health
    8. Environment (NOT Geography!)
    9. [PIN] Persons in News
    10. Diplomacy
    11. Economy
    12. Science Tech
    13. Statistics and Data Interpretation
    14. Topicwise Breakup for Paper I and Paper II
      1. Length of the paper: GS1 (2011 vs 2012)
      2. Length of the paper: GSM2 (2011 vs 2012)

      15. Click To Continue reading [Analysis] General Studies (Mains) 2012 Paper 1 & 2: Topicwise Analysis, future approach for UPSC IAS IPS exam

    [APFC] Answerkey for APFC 2012, with Explanation, sources and analysis for All 4 series A,B,C,D Booklets

    Comments closed, because New Forum created: www.Mrunal.org/forum To the APFC aspirants, Discussions via webpage comments= difficult, because every time you’ve to scroll down the page. It becomes hard to keep track of comments made by others. Therefore, I’ve created a separate forum, to make it convenient. For the APFC interview preparation, goto following thread and

    Click To Continue reading [APFC] Answerkey for APFC 2012, with Explanation, sources and analysis for All 4 series A,B,C,D Booklets

    [Analysis] General Studies Preliminary Exam 2010 Paper

    1. History
    2. Science
    3. Geography
    4. Polity
    5. Mental Ability
    6. Broad analysis
    7. What was not asked?
    8. Conclusion
    9. What is safe to skip
    10. Where to concentrate energy?

    History Ancient 0 0 Medieval Gupta Cave paintain 1 Bhakti Cult 1 Third Battle of Panipat 1 Buddhism’s decline 1 Modern Pondichery’s occupation 1 Karachi session 93 1 Bombay Menifesto

    Click To Continue reading [Analysis] General Studies Preliminary Exam 2010 Paper

    [Topicwise-Analysis] General Studies paper-1 (Mains) 2010

    1. Marks distribution (out of 362)
    2. % wise importance given to each topic
    3. History
    4. Development,Policy-making,Administration,Yearbook etc
    5. Polity
    6. Geography,environment and disaster Management
    7. Science and Tech
    8. Art,culture and sports
    9. Economy
    10. People in News
    11. Conclusions
    12. On the side note, here are the brief answers for the frequently asked questions:

    Marks distribution (out of 362)

    Click To Continue reading [Topicwise-Analysis] General Studies paper-1 (Mains) 2010

    [Analysis] CSAT Paper I (General Studies) 2012

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    1. Overall Breakup
    2. History
    3. Polity
    4. Environment & Biodiversity (enb)
    5. Geography
    6. Economy
    7. Science & Technology (S&T)
    8. Yearbook stuff
    9. Current Affairs vs Static
    10. 4TF type of question
    11. Authentic Answerkeys! (lolz)
    12. Make your own answerkey
    13. Why Cut-offs talk is useless
    14. Start preparing for mains
    15. Was the CSAT-paper Tough?

      16. Click To Continue reading [Analysis] CSAT Paper I (General Studies) 2012

    [Analysis] Essay topic trends in last 19 years (1993-2011) for UPSC civil service IAS exam

    Trouble viewing the charts and tables?  Download the pdf file by clicking me I’m classifying all the essays asked in last 19 years, into 8 broad topics.Topic [bracket shows # of questions asked so far] 1.    Economy (India vs Bharat theme) [12]2.    Education [11]3.    Culture [18]4.    International issues [13]5.    Philosophy [15]6.    Polity & Administration

    Click To Continue reading [Analysis] Essay topic trends in last 19 years (1993-2011) for UPSC civil service IAS exam

    [Topicwise Analysis] Aptitude paper II of CSAT 2011

    Table of Contents Introduction 1 Reading Comprehension 3 LR & DI (Logical reasoning and Data Interpretation) 4 Reasoning 4 Data and GRaph interpretation 4 Quantitative aptitude / Mental ability 5 Conventional mental ability 5 English language (No Hindi questions here) 5 Decision Making (no penalty for any question) 5 Conclusion (again not looking for debates)

    Click To Continue reading [Topicwise Analysis] Aptitude paper II of CSAT 2011

    [Topicwise Analysis] General Studies (GS) 2011 CSAT Prelims paper

    1. Introduction
    2. Broad analysis
    3. History
    4. Polity
    5. Geography
    6. Climate change-biodiversity
    7. Science and technology
    8. Economy
    9. Social economical development, rights issue, empowerment etc
    10. Current international affairs
    11. Public policy or yearbook stuff
    12. Person in news, sports and awards
    13. Conclusion

    Introduction

    CSAT 2011 exam was taken on 12 June 2011. There were 100 questions worth 2 marks each.

    Click To Continue reading [Topicwise Analysis] General Studies (GS) 2011 CSAT Prelims paper

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