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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.)

[Public Health] Current Affairs 2012-13: Government schemes, Policies, Yearbook stuff (Part 1 of 3)

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  1. Prologue
  2. Constitutional provisions
  3. FR
  4. DPSP
  5. Duties
  6. 7th Schedule
  7. Bills/ Laws
  8. Draft National Health Bill 2009.
  9. Transplantation of Human Organs (Amendment) Bill, 2009
  10. PCPNDT 2004
  11. NCHRH Bill 2011
  12. Draft Mental Healthcare bill, 2012
  13. Draft DNA profiling Bill, 2012
  14. Policies
  15. National Population Policy 2000 (NPP)
  16. National Blood Policy, 2002
  17. National Policy on NDPS 2012

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[Public Health] Current Affairs 2012-13: Diseases, Drugs and Research (Part 2 of 3)

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  1. Universal Immunization program (UIP)
  2. India Declared Polio-Free
  3. Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP)
  4. Polio Virologist dead
  5. BIBCOL
  6. Integrated Vaccine Complex
  7. Penta-valent Vaccine
  8. JEEV
  9. Vector control
  10. Blindness control
  11. Leprosy
  12. Iodine
  13. AIDS control
  14. NACO
  15. NACP phases
  16. One
  17. Two
  18. Three
  19. Four
  20. Bridge Population
  21. Mother to Child
  22. AIDS: 12th FYP Goal
  23. Truvada
  24. Truvada: Issues/concerns
  25. OraQuick Home
  26. Red

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[Public Health] Current Affairs 2012-13: Mock Questions (Part 3 of 3)

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This is the third and last article, on Current affairs related to Public Healthcare.

  1. Part 1: Polity, laws, policies, bills, yearbook (schemes)+ any current affairs related to that. click me
  2. Part 2: Current affairs related to major diseases (AIDS, TB, Cancer, Heart), and other misc. science tech stuff from Hindu related to Healthcare. click

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[Space Tech] Current Affairs Compilation 2012-13 for SSC CGL, UPSC CSAT

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  1. Prologue
  2. The Basics
    1. Basic: What does ISRO do?
    2. Basics: ISS
    3. Basics: Tiangong and Shenzhou
    4. Basics: Atlantis Space shuttle
    5. Basics: Soyuz spacecraft
    6. Basics: spacewalking
    7. Basics: Dragon capsule
    8. Basics: Anti-satellite missiles
  3. Space programs: India
    1. India’s Launch Vehicles: PSLV vs GSLV
    2. India’s Satellites: IRS vs INSAT
    3. ISRO’s 100th mission
    4. India’s own GPS:

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[Policy] Science Technology & Innovation (STI) Policy 2013: Salient features, highlights, criticism

  1. Timeline
  2. SRISHTI
  3. Key features of the STI policy 2013
  4. #1: Cash power
  5. #2: Manpower
  6. #3: Business
  7. #4: Climate change
  8. #5: PPP
  9. #6: IPR
  10. #7: Participation
  11. #8: Public awareness
  12. Criticism
  13. #1: private sector =no social good
  14. #2: Indian private sector is lazy in research
  15. #3: no lesson from past
  16. #4: No structural /

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[Defense] Current Affairs compilation 2012-13: missiles, joint exercises, operations, organizations

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  1. Intro
  2. Defense exercises
  3. Missiles, weapons and vehicles
  4. Agni
  5. Aircraft destroyer
  6. Cruise
  7. Navy / Submarine
  8. Anti-Tank
  9. Tanks and artillery
  10. Rifles/ uniforms
  11. Indian Radars and Sonars
  12. Aircrafts
  13. Helicopters
  14. UAV/Drones
  15. Submarines
  16. Navy Ship
  17. Coast guard ships
  18. Coast guard vs Navy
  19. Navy: New bases
  20. Blue water navy
  21. Defense PSUs
  22. FDi limit
  23. Exhibitions
  24. Paramilitary forces?
  25. Important organizations

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[Hindu Sci-Tech] Public Health, EnB related: Virtopsy, Vomitting Larry, Hydrogel, Mauritia (Jan Feb 2013)

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  1. Gardasil and Cervarix
  2. Vomiting Larry
  3. Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP)
  4. Virtopsy
  5. Health communication
  6. COPSS Award
  7. Mauritia
  8. DNA as a storage device
  9. Hydrogel
  10. Saliva functions
  11. Banana peel
  12. Bio-inspired technology
  13. Lizard : Adhesives
  14. Velcro: Maroolimatthai
  15. Porcupin: Surgical Patches

Gardasil and Cervarix

  • names of the new HPV vaccines made by GlaxoSmithKline.
  • The Health activists say it

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    • [Hindu Sci-Tech] Space, IT related: KSLV, Luna Glob, Black Beauty, COMET, SKA, SAGA-220 (Jan, Feb 2013)

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    1. Telescopes
    2. #1: Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
    3. #2: Solar telescope, Solar winds
    4. Space mission related
    5. #1: Luna Glob
    6. #2: KSLV-1
    7. #3: Pishgam
    8. IPK
    9. Black Beauty
    10. IO: the moon of Jupiter
    11. COMET online monitoring system
    12. India’s IT Development: SAGA 220
    13. Ubuntu
    14. petabytes
    15. MillatFacebook (MFB)
    16. Direct-to-Home (DTH) movie release

    Telescopes #1: Square Kilometre

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    [Science] TheHindu Dec12: Asteroid Mining, GRAIL, MoonKAMs, Liquiglide, Oraquick and more Science-Tech for UPSC CSAT

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    1. Space related
    2. Asteroid Mining + Space Station
    3. Mercury Messenger
    4. GRAIL
    5. MoonKAMs
    6. Ebb and Flow, Sally Ride
    7. Science-Tech
    8. LiquiGlide
    9. Plastic light bulb
    10. Nuke Desalination plant
    11. MakerBot Replicator
    12. Switchblade Drone
    13. Element 113
    14. Biology
    15. Biological Plough Redgram
    16. Handheld Dental X-ray
    17. Why skin itching during wound healing?
    18. OraQuick Home
    19. Parkinson’s disease
    20. Dogs in Mudumalai Tiger

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    [Science] No Touch Breastscan, Chemin, TLS, CFL vs Tubelight choke etc from The Hindu S&T, Nov 2012

    1. No Touch BreastScan (NTBS)
    2. CheMin
    3. Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS)
    4. Gale Crater
    5. Volcanic Activity in New Zealand
    6. Step-Throat and Salt water gargaling
    7. Why no Choke needed in CFL?

    No Touch BreastScan (NTBS)

  • Imaging device, based on thermography, to detect brast cancer.
  • Increased metabolism in cancer cells leads to increase in temperature.
  • The NTBS

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