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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.)

[Tech] How to protect yourself from Online hacking, frauds, phishing? Internet and Netbanking Safety Tips

netbanking precautions

This guest article, not directly-related to competitive exams but yet important for everyone who uses Internet. It’s authored by same Mr.Krapesh Bhatt, who had earlier wrote about the salient features of IT Act. (click me if you did not read it)

  1. Introduction
  2. Hardening Operating System:
  3. Use a good paid antivirus & Firewall:
  4. User

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[Tech] UPSC e-Hallticket Error: "page you are looking is not found" don’t worry

Many of you are getting the error on UPSC hallticket page

The page you are looking is not found

First: There is nothing wrong in your computer, webbrowser or internet. There is no need to goto cybercafe or friend’s internet to try again. Because there is nothing wrong in anyone’s internet or computer. The problem

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[Tech] Deleted Notes from Computer, How to recover?

Question from Sanjeev Mishra

I had made all my notes digitally on my computer in folders for prelims and mains GS. But, by mistakenly one of my friends deleted that entire folder. I had arranged all the important notes and topics in that(including many of your posts).

I suggest you try to recover

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Negative Marking in the Prelims. : The Most Dangerous Thing

While emailing to a friend, I wrote this, and posting it on blog as well, for the use of others who’re working for 2010/11.

In prelims, its very tempting to attempt all question, sometimes we feel we’ll get them all correct & that its just 0.33 marks to lose,but in reality we generally end up

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[Computer]Recovering your system with free Kaspersky Rescue Disk.

Situation :

You are done trying safe mode, system restore, system recovery and all those tricks in your bag but your computer is still messed up. Then there are 2 reasons

  1. Hardware
    1. Dust on fan/RAM chip / Hardidsk/Motherboard (clean with Vacum cleaner)
    2. Some device is damaged (go to mechanic)
  2. Virus.

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[Computer] Removing BIOS password of Acer laptop, without removing CMOS battery or using crack softwares

Restting BIOS Password of laptop (with out removing battery or dangerous tactics) The trick is NOT about

1. Using some crack software from unknown makers. 2. Removing the CMOS battery by opening the laptop’s mother board.

We are going to use the legit software of Phenix motherboard from official Acer website to flash the BIOS

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[Software] Outlook 2010 Template for saving time in emailing

Shortcut to Outlook 2010 Template for saving time composing routine mails

You are in a job that requires you to send mails frequently, and you want to save

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