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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.)

[Decision Making] Official Answers for CSAT 2012′s Decision Making Questions

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  1. Subordinate’s report
  2. Batchmate
  3. Project review
  4. Sports chairman
  5. Project Deadline
  6. Water supply
  7. Bribe
  8. Bad answer
  9. Good answer

In the previous article, we saw the Decision Making questions asked in 2011’s paper. click me Now let’s check the 2012’s questions- with the official answer key for CSAT 2012, uploaded by UPSC on http://www.upsc.gov.in/exams/answerkeys/index.htm#PageTop

Subordinate’s

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[Decision Making] What answer did UPSC like for CSAT 2011? non-evasive, non-pliant, upright

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Important: CSAT 2012 official answerkeys have been uploaded on www.upsc.gov.in/exams/answerkeys/index.htm#PageTop

  1. Prologue
  2. Decisions Decisions
    1. Bad answers
    2. Good answers
  3. CSAt 2011: Decision Making Qs
    1. Boss did not inform you about meeting
    2. Local thug
    3. Can’t finish project
    4. Earthquake corruption
    5. Boat hire blackmail
    6. Vaccine for Gram Pradhan
    7. Homeless Thieves
    8. Dowry

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[Reasoning] Logical Connectives (if, unless, either or) for CSAT, CAT shortcuts formulas approach explained

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  1. Difference: Syllogism vs Logical connectives
  2. Standard format: logical connectives
  3. Logical connective: if then
  4. Logical connective: Only IF
  5. Logical Connective: UNLESS
  6. Logical connective: otherwise
  7. Logical connective: When, Whenever, every time
  8. Logical Connective: Either OR
  9. Demo Q: Only if: bored TV brother (CSAT 2012)
  10. Demo Q (If, then) Professor Headaches (CAT’98)
  11. Demo Q: Either or:

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[Trigonometry] Type#4: Questions based on Trig and Algebra combo

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  1. Algebra: 3 formulas
  2. Trigonometry: Formulas
  3. Case: Only trig formulas
  4. Case: Combo of Trig + algebra formulas
  5. Mock Questions

Before moving to the next topic of trigonometry, I would like to quote the tweets of SSC chairman’s official account:

What SSC chief said

  1. In SSC CGL 2013, the Maths will be of

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[Trigonometry] Type#3: Complimentary Angles related Questions and approach for SSC CGL

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  1. What is complimentary angles?
  2. SIN vs COS
  3. SEC vs COSEC
  4. TAN vs COT
  5. Multiplication chain (tan and cot)
  6. Finding unknown angle
  7. The half angles
  8. Summary
  9. Mock question

What is complimentary angles?

  • If you add two angles (A+B) and if their sum is 90, then they’re called complimentary angles.
  • For example, 60

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    • [Trigonometry] Type#2: Table based questions, memorization technique, approach explained for SSC CGL

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    1. Introduction
    2. Table based Questions
    3. Case1: finding value
    4. Case2: multiplication chain
    5. Case3: finding angle
    6. Mock Questions

    Introduction

    For SSC CGL trigonometry, there are mainly four types of questions

    1. Height and distance: and it has five subtypes. We already saw how to solve them. If you haven’t seen it, click on my youtube

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    [Reasoning] 4-Statement Syllogism: Approach, Techniques, explained for SBI PO (High level reasoning) and UPSC CSAT paper 2

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    1. Introduction
    2. Recap: 2 statement
    3. Complimentary case
    4. Approaching 4 statement syllogism
    5. Case#1 : Stick, lamps, power, dresses, shirts
    6. Case#2: Bird, Horse, Tiger, Lion & Monkey
    7. Case#3: Bench, Wall, House, Jungle, Road
    8. Case#4: (Complimentary Pairs): Cups, Bottles, Jugs, Plates & Tables
    9. Case#5: (Complimentary Pairs): Chair, Handle, Pots, Mats & Buses

    Introduction

  • SBI loves asking

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    • [Aptitude] LCM, HCF, GCD: Basic concept, calculation, applications explained

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    1. Introduction
    2. What is Prime number?
    3. What is LCM?
    4. LCM4 EXam
    5. How to find LCM using Prime-Factorization?
    6. LCM of two numbers (56, 96)
    7. LCM of three numbers: (12,15,20)
    8. LCM of prime numbers
    9. LCM of co-prime numbers
    10. What is HCF or GCD?
    11. HCF finding: Prime Factorization
    12. HCF of two numbers (4, 6)
    13. HCF of

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    [Trigonometry] Introduction, Types of Questions, Shortcut for memorizing 30,45,60 for SSC CGL CDS

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    1. Introduction
    2. Types of Trigonometry Questions
    3. Trig: Height and Distance

    Introduction

  • From outside, trigonometry may look lengthy, boring, difficult, tedious and frustrating. But it doesn’t change the fact that trigonometry as a topic important for SSC exams (CGL, FCI, CPIO etc.) and CDS exam (Combined defense services).
  • In CGL-2012, at both Tier I

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    • [Trigonometry] HnD Type #1: One Building One Angle finding height, distance or hypotenuse

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    1. Introduction: 1 building 1 angle
    2. Approach: 1 building 1 angle
    3. Mock Questions

    Introduction: 1 building 1 angle

    Starting the series of “Trigonometry –>Height and Distance(HnD)–> Five types of Questions. 1st and most easiest of all height n distance questions is “1 building 1 angle”. Here are example questions (all solved in the

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