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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.)

[Rights issue] Education: Government schemes, organizations, SABLA, NPEGEL, Jalmani, Bal Shree, mock questions

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  1. Introduction
  2. Constitutional provisions abt. Education
  3. Scheme: Food
  4. Schemes: infra/Services
  5. Organizations
  6. Schemes: CASH/scholarship/award
  7. Mock Questions

Introduction

  • List is not exhaustive. Article is written mainly keeping the MCQs worthy information and skimming the rest.
  • Article is subject to revision.

    • Constitutional provisions abt. Education 15 Right Prohibition of discrimination. 21/A Right Free and compulsory education

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    [Polity] Delegated legislation: meaning, advantages, criticism explained

    this article is mainly for the upcoming CSIR CASE exam. By the way, they’ve uploaded CSIR halltickets, click me.

    1. What is Delegated Legislation?
    2. Advantages of Delegated Legislation
    3. Lack of Time
    4. Lack of Expertise
    5. More flexible
    6. Anti-Arguments
    7. Safeguards
    8. #1L Parliamentary Safeguards:
    9. #2: Judicial Safeguards:
    10. Mock Questions

    What is Delegated Legislation?

  • MP/MLAs make the

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    • [Polity] Inner Line Permit (ILP) issue in Manipur: Background, implications, controversy explained

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    1. What is Inner Line Permit (ILP)?
    2. What’re the Implications of ILP?
    3. Why ILP in MiNA but not in Manipur?
    4. Pro ILP arguments for Manipur
    5. #1: competition increased
    6. #2:social problems
    7. #3: Valid demand
    8. Anti ILP argument
    9. The case of Meghalaya
    10. Persons in News: Manipur
    11. MCQs

    What is Inner Line Permit (ILP)?

  • If

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    • [Rights Issue] Jarawa Tribes, Human Safari, Buffer Area, Tribal Commission, 13th Schedule

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    1. Who are the Jawaras?
    2. What is Andaman Trunk Road (ATR)?
    3. Human Safari?
    4. Road: To shut or Not to Shut?
    5. Dancing Video controversy
    6. Buffer Zone Case Chronology
    7. Tribal Commissions
    8. Mock Questions

    Who are the Jawaras?

  • They are tribal people living in the South Andaman islands. (approx. just 400 of them left)
  • Anthropologists believe

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    • [Polity] Citizens’ Charter Bill 2011: Salient Features, Issues, Criticism explained

    1. What is a Citizens’ charter?
    2. Components of a Citizens’ Charter:
    3. Advantages of Citizen charter?
    4. Indian Experience
    5. Recommendations of 2nd ARC:
    6. Citizens’ Charter Bill 2011: Salient Features
    7. Grievance Redressal Mechanism:
    8. Penalty
    9. Criticism
    10. Mock Questions

    Citizens’ Charter & The Right of Citizens’ For Time Bound Delivery of Goods & Services & Redressal of Their

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    [Rights Issue] Socio Economic Caste Census (SECC) 2011: Purpose, Benefits, Features, Deprivation index

    1. SECC-2011: WHY needed?
    2. Census Difference: Regular vs SECC
    3. Confidential?
    4. BPL: SECC vs Planning Commission
    5. Poverty: UN Definition
    6. Poverty Line: India
    7. Tendulkar
    8. SECC-Players involved
    9. Procedure
    10. Data collection
    11. SECC: Methodology
    12. #1: Automatically Excluded
    13. #2: Automatically Included
    14. #3: Deprivation indicator
    15. 7 deprivation indicators:
    16. Followup
    17. SECC Advantages?
    18. SECC: Criticism
    19. Mock Questions

    SECC-2011: WHY needed? #1:

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    [Polity] Lobbying: Meaning, pro-anti arguments, Nira Radia, Gulam Nabi Fai, Wal-mart

    1. Introduction
    2. Why is it called Lobbying?
    3. How is lobbying done?
    4. Lobbying in USA
    5. Lobbying in India
    6. Lobbying vs Bribery
    7. Controversies related to Lobbying
    8. #1: RadiaGATE
    9. #2: Gulam Nabi Fai: Anti-Kashmir lobbying in USA
    10. #3: Wal-Mart Lobbying: FDI in Multibrand Retail
    11. Lobbying: Pro arguments
    12. Lobbying: Anti-Arguments
    13. Mock Questions

    Introduction Lobbyist?

  • Lobbyist is a

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    • [Polity] Crime and Criminal Tracking Network Systems (CCTNS): features, Benefits

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    1. Crime and Criminal Tracking Network Systems(CCTNS)
    2. What are the advantages of CCTNS?
      1. Benefits to Senior police officers
      2. Benefits to Investigating Officers
      3. Benefits to Citizen
    3. Future ahead: CCTNS
    4. Current Progress of CCTNS
    5. Bureau of Police Research and Development(BPRD)
    6. What is National Police Mission (NPM) ?
    7. Mock questions

    Let’s first see

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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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    [Polity] Juvenile Justice Act: features, Controversy post Delhi-Gangrape, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)

    1. What is Juvenile Justice Act 2000?
    2. Features of Juvenile Justice Act
    3. Special Juvenile Police Unit
    4. Why in News/Controversy?
    5. Pro arguments (= reform needed)
    6. Juvenile Justice in other countries
    7. United Kingdom
    8. United States of America
    9. Australia
    10. PIL in Delhi Highcourt
    11. Anti-arguments (no reform needed)
    12. Reforms initiated
      1. UP
      2. Kerala

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