UPSC IAS IPS Strategy IntroFive Part article series on How to approach UPSC Civil Service IAS/IPS Exam: Prelims, Mains and Interview
BooksTips on Notes-making, Standard reference books, Yojana Kurukshetra etc. Explained here
Prelim-Mains-InterviewDetailed Strategy for General Studies, science-tech, yearbook, economy, history, polity, IR-Diplomacy with booklist, free study material given here.
DoubtsBasic doubts regarding Coaching, Working professional, time Management and Non-English medium
BackupSome guidelines for adopting career backup plans incase you can't make it to UPSC
SSC CGL
GK / GAHow to approach General Awareness for Tier-I, explained here with free study material download.
MathsHow to approach Maths, Quantitative Aptitude, Trigonometry, Geometry for Tier I and II? To-the-point strategy n tips given here +free study material
ReasoningGeneral Intelligence and Logical reasoninig for Tier I of SSC-CGL exam: booklist, tips shared here.
EnglishHow to tackle vocabulary, grammar and comprehension for Tier I and II.
SBI PO
GA/Computer/Marketingstrategy 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 AAOStrategy for the upcoming LIC Assistant Administrative officers' exam with free studymaterial, jobprofile.
CSIRStudyplan + Free study material for CSIR combined Administrative services (CASE) exam
State PSCHow to approach RAS, MPSC etc explained here
CAPFHow to become an Assistant Commandant in BSF, CISF, CRPF: strategy, booklist, free studymaterial provided here.
RBIRBI Grade "B" Officer studyplan, strategy, booklist and free download material is provided here.
SPIPAFor getting admission in SPIPA, Ahmedabad, which provides free coaching for IAS exam.(Gujarat Only)
ACIOAssistant Central Intelligence Officer recruitment: booklist, strategy
UPSC tips
India Yearbookhow to efficiently utilize INDIA Yearbook for UPSC prelims, mains, interview= explained in this 6 part series article.
5 LevelsExplains five types of players in UPSC competition and why daydreamers fail in this exam.
100 DaysWhy 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.
QuotesMotivational and inspirational quotes for competitive exams.
Essay Tips How *not* to write an Essay in UPSC Mains exam, explained here
IRHow to prepare India World + International relations (IR) topic, explained + free download material
StatApproach to Statistics and Graphs portion of General Studies Mains Paper II+free study material
R.T.IHow to file R.T.I application to UPSC? explained here
Analysis
CSAT'12Analysis of the GS-Prelims paper and how it broke the backs of Coaching classes.
GSM-12Analysis of the General Studies (Mains) Paper I and II of 2012 and how they (again) broke the backs of Coaching classes.
Edu Tech
Auto NoteMakerMrunal's Autonotemaker for quickly taking notes out of PDF files and Webarticles (Win XP only)
Hindu ReaderHow to use Google Reader to efficiently read The Hindu online, for Free!.
OneNoteLearn to use Microsoft Onenote software to organized your notes on computer, quickly and efficiently!
ArchiveMonthly 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.)
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- Food Chain
- What is Trophic Level?
- Type of Food Chains
- Ecological Pyramids
- Types of Pyramids
- Food Web
- Why is Food web important?
- Energy Flow in the Ecosystem
- 2nd law of themodynamics
- Connection: Trophic level vs Energy flow
- Energy=Unidirectional
- Nutrients/Material=Cyclic
- DDT and Biomagnification
- Biotic Potential.
- Carrying Capacity
- Interspecies relations
- Predation vs Parasitism
- Free download
Click To Continue reading [EnB] Trophic Levels, Biotic Potential, Bio Magnification & IGNOU Material on Environment and biodiversity (free Download)
- Introduction
- Controversies: Gadgil report
- Contro: “NO” to Dams in Kerala and Karnataka
- Athirappilly Project: Why problem?
- Adar Tribal displacement
- Gundia Project: why problem?
- Contro: R.T.I. stonewallingTM
- Contro: Committee pe Committee.
- Contro: Angry Kerala Government
- Contro: Mining mafias spreading baseless rumors
- Contro: Creation of separate authority (WGEA)
Introduction
In the last three articles,
Click To Continue reading [EnB] Gadgil report on Western Ghats: Why Controversies, Athirappilly, Gundia Projects: Explained (Part 4 of 4)
- What is Gadgil Panel?
- Ecologically Sensitive Zones (ESZ)
- Western Ghats Ecology Authority (WGEA)?
- Hierarchy
- Structure
- Functions
- Zonal recommendations
- General recommendations
In the last two articles, we saw
- Western Ghats: overview of physical geography and biodiversity: click ME
- Threats to the biodiversity of Western Ghats: click ME
Now moving forward:
What
Click To Continue reading [EnB] Gadgil Panel report on Western Ghats: recommendations, Ecologically Sensitive Zones (ESZ), WGEA (Part 3 of 4)
- British Raj Exploitation
- Era and Approach
- What is Sacred Groves?
- Fisheries
- Exotic Species=BAD4Biodiversity?
- Mining in Western Ghats
- Why Mining =BAD 4Biodiversity?
- Sand Mafias
- Thermal power plants=bad 4Biodiversity?
- Transport and Communication
- Farm Houses + Resorts= Bad 4Biodiversity?
- Gardens
- Construction (Allied) =Bad 4Biodiversity?
- Monoculture Plantation=Bad?
- Tribals
In the previous article, we saw the overview
Click To Continue reading [EnB] Western Ghats: Threats to Biodiversity, Monoculture Plantation, Exotic Species, Sacred Groves (Part 2 of 4)
- Introduction
- What is Western Ghats?
- Administrative Regions
- Western vs Eastern Ghats
- Western Ghat: Forest
- Western Ghats: Rivers
- West Flowing Rivers
- East Flowing rivers
- Western Ghats- Other Names
- Agriculture
- Western Ghats: Biodiversity
Introduction
[EnB]=environment and biodiversity. Western Ghats has been in news because of Gadgil controversy.The whole topic is made
Click To Continue reading [EnB] Western Ghats: Physical Geography, Biodiversity Overview (Part 1 of 4)
These terms are from The Hindu S&T, Nov.2012
- Cold Climate=Big Body size
- Migrantwatch and Seasonwatch.
- Bactrian camels and heavy-chain antibodies
- Ross Sea: Marine Protected Zone
- Lake Vida
- Chromatophores
- Hedonic Scale Method
- Brevetoxin-2
- Mock Questions
Cold Climate=Big Body size
For most species of animals, body mass increases the closer you get to the
Click To Continue reading [EnB] Bergmann’s Rule, Migrantwatch, Seasonwatch, Ross Sea Marine Protected Zone, Lake Vida, Chromatophores
- What is Aichi Target?
- Strategic goal A
- Strategic Goal B
- Strategic Goal C
- Strategic Goal D
- Strategic Goal E
Let’s recap what we learned in previous episode.
Earth Summit led to=>
- Biodiversity protection: CBD (Cartagena+ Aichi+Nagoya)
- Reverse Climate Change: UNFCCC (Kyoto+ Copenhagen)
- Sustainable Development: Agenda 21, RIO+20
COP-10 under CBD
Click To Continue reading [EnB] Aichi Targets for Biodiversity Protection under CBD
- What is UNEP?
- Earth Summit?
- What is the connection between UNEP and Earth Summit?
- Kids of Earth Summit
- What is CBD?
- What does CBD want?
- Objective#1: Protect Biodiversity
- Where is the money?
- How does CBD work?
- Mock Questions
What is UNEP?
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
An organization under United Nations. (1972)
Click To Continue reading [EnB] Convention on Biodiversity (CBD): Prologue to Cartagena, Nagoya, Aichi, COP-11
- What is IUCN?
- What is IUCN Red List?
- Limitation IUCN red-list
- What is CITES?
- Why illegal trade of wildlife?
- How does CITES work?
- Appendix
- What is Conference of Parties?
- Criticism, limitation of CITES
- #1: No police of its own
- #2: Non-Native Species
- #3: Appendix are Counterproductive
- #4: Not Comprehensive
- Mock questions on Environment
Click To Continue reading [EnB] IUCN, Red Databook, CITES Agreement : Meaning, Features, Mock Questions for CSAT
- Environment and Biodiversity
- Geography:internal breakup
- Physical Geography
- World Geography
- Indian Geography
Environment and Biodiversity
1. Consider the following statements :
- The Planning Commission of India in its environment performance report, released on 26th July, 2012, ranked Himachal Pradesh as top State in the country on environmental performance index.
- The World Bank
Click To Continue reading [Answerkey] Environment, Biodiversity & Geography Questions UPSC CPF/CAPF 2012 All booklets
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