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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.)

Some insights on medical tests /checkup for UPSC IAS/IPS civil service exam

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Today Manikandan Soundararajan will throw some light on how medical tests are actually conducted for IAS/IPS exam and share his UPSC interview experience with us. By the way, medical-standards are given in this PDF file click me

  1. Medical Checkup
  2. Medical tests conducted
  3. Doctor’s final report
  4. Interview: Outside the Hall:
  5. Procedures
  6. Profile of the

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[Polity] Judicial Impeachment, reforms, Judicial accountability Bill,Sri Lankan CJ Impeachment

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This is a Guest Article by Shiva Ram

  1. Judicial Accountability: intro?
  2. Judges Impeachment: India
  3. Justice Soumitra Sen impeachment
  4. Justice P Dinakaran impeachment
  5. Reforms necessary
  6. Judicial Standards and Accountability(JSA) Bill
  7. National Judicial Oversight Committee
  8. Sri Lankan Chief Justice Impeachment
  9. Mock Questions

Judicial Accountability: intro?

Judicial Impeachment is an ongoing issue in a lot

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[Diplomacy] WIPO Treaty for Visually Challenged, Patent vs Copyright difference explained

This is a guest post by Manikandan Soundararajan.

  1. What is WIPO?
  2. What is this agreement?
  3. Why treaty for Visually Challanged?
  4. Difference: Patents vs. Copyrights?
  5. Salient features of the Agreement:
  6. Positive Implications:
  7. [Yearbook] educating visually challenged

What is WIPO?

  • WIPO= World Intellectual Property Organization
  • UN agency
  • HQ: Geneva, Switzerland

    • Function of WIPO?

  • I

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    • [Science] IPCC- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Meaning and functions

    Guest article by Mr.Arpan Gupta

    1. What is IPCC?
    2. The Structure of IPCC
    3. IPCC reports: how are they prepared?
    4. Why important?

    What is IPCC?

  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • H.Q in Geneva
  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for the assessment of climate change.
  • It was

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    • [Science] Answerkey to Mock Q GS II by Tushar (Science & Tech Portion only)

    Few days, I had uploaded the Mock Questions for GS Paper II framed by Tushar. (Click ME) He has provided the answerkeykey to the “Science & Tech” portion of that question paper. Here it goes,

    1. Modified Embaraer EMB 145I aircraft.
    2. Accelerated Technology Assessment and Commercialization (ATAC)
    3. Project Ahaar / BASIX-AAHAR
    4. HuGaMMA Report.
    5. MCA-21.

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    [Diplomacy] Liancourt Rocks/ Takeshima/ Dokdo Islets Dispute Between Japan and South Korea

    This article is contributed by Mr.Varoon Bakshi

    1. Whare are The Takeshima or Dokdo Islets?
    2. Background History
    3. Reasons for the dispute
    4. American angle
    5. How to solve this problem

    Whare are The Takeshima or Dokdo Islets?

  • These islets are located in the Sea of Japan and are a bone of contention between Japan and

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    • Mock Qs for General Studies (Mains) Paper 2: Science n Tech, Foreign Relations, International Affairs by Tushar

    This is contributed by Mr.Tushar of IIT Delhi

    1. India Foreign relations
    2. International Affairs
    3. Science and Tech
    4. International organizations/Events

    India Foreign relations

    1. Do you think that India should conduct ASAT (Anti satellite test) to gain bargaining position in the formulation of space code of conduct that is going to be framed and

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    [Yearbook] Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF)

    A guest article by Mr.Manikandan

    1. What is it?
    2. What are the activities undertaken?
    3. Resources- where from?
    4. Timeline
    5. Why is it news?

    Universal Service Obligation Fund

    What is it?

  • There is a ‘Universal’ associated so obviously this must be one amongst the inclusive development strategies of the government.
  • Here the idea

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    • [Science] Bionic Eye

    Guest article by Sarath Chandra, For GS (Mains) Paper II

    1. BIONIC EYE
    2. Examples of Bionic Eye Implants

    BIONIC EYE

    The implants are said to be capable of completely restoring sight to blind patients, but only if their blindness was caused by a faulty retina, as in macular degeneration (suffered by millions of

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    [Studyplan] Kashmir Administrative Services (KAS) General Studies (Mains) Exam by JKPSC topicwise booklist strategy & tips

    This is a guest article by Mr.Shoaib Noor for the benefit of Kashmir Administrative service (KAS) aspirants.

    1. KAS Prelims 2012: Brief analysis for result
    2. KAS Mains 2012 :Introduction
    3. KAS General Studies Paper 1
      1. Modern History of India and Indian Culture
      2. Current Events of National Importance
      3. Current Events of International Importance
      4. Statistics

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