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Five Part article series on How to approach UPSC Civil Service IAS/IPS Exam: Prelims, Mains and Interview

Tips on Notes-making, Standard reference books, Yojana Kurukshetra etc. Explained here

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

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!

[Strategy] Jammu Kashmir Administrative Service (JKPSC): Prelims, Mains, Cut off by Shoaib Noor

This one is a guest article by Mr.Shoaib Noor

STAGE 1: PRELIMINARY EXAM
Paper I General Studies:
Paper II: Optional Paper
How to Choose the Right Optional:
STAGE 2: MAIN EXAM
Paper VII: General English
Paper VIII: English Essay
STAGE 3: INTERVIEW: 250 MARKS
About the Author

The Combined Competitive Examination is

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[Strategy] Mathematics : Strategy, Topicwise Booklist, Sample Answers for UPSC (Mains) Exam

Introduction: Maths as an optional subject
General tips for preparation:
General tips while attempting the paper:
Paper 1: Topicwise Booklist
Paper 2: Topicwise Booklist
Model Answers for UPSC Maths Paper

I’m merely copy pasting the article of Prakash Rajpurohit (AIR 2/ CSE 2010).

Introduction: Maths as an optional subject

Before starting with

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[Strategy] Electrical Engineering: Topicwise Booklist for UPSC (Mains) Exam

I’m merely copy pasting the article of Prakash Rajpurohit (AIR 2/ CSE 2010).

Introduction

EE paper now a days requires covering of almost entire syllabus. The approach is to read from the textbooks and practice their solved examples and previous year papers of IES(both E&T and EE) and CSE. Also most of the topics are

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[Strategy] Gujarati Literature for UPSC Mains Exam: Previous Papers, Topicwise Booklist

This set of 4 videos, should clear most of the confusion regarding how to prepare Gujarati Literature, topicwise booklist etc. Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0A116218CF7AB117

Q. Where to find the previous years’ paper? Answer: This book “Gujarati Sahitya Paper 1 ane 2 by Hiren Dave, Akshar Prakashan”. He has provided papers from 2001 to 2009.

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[Strategy] How to spend 9 Months? To those failed in CSAT 2012 and want to reappear in 2013

First Task: Back up plan
Other competitive Exams
PG Degrees via Distance Learning
Why IGNOU’s Distance Learning Programs?
IFS, IES, Statistical Services
Pick up some Activity
Second Task : UPSC attempt for 2013
August to November 2012
January to May of Next year (2013)
Coaching or no Coaching?

To those failed in

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[Strategy & Studyplan] Sociology Mains Paper 1 & 2 for UPSC IAS Exam Recommend Booklist

Sociology Paper – 1 by Kshitij Tyagi (AIR 148/2011)
Sociology Paper I: Topicwise Booklist
What’s the Difference between Old and New Haralambos?
How much time does it take to finish the Sociology Syllabus?
Conclusion
Sociology Paper II by Tanvi Sundriyal (AIR 6/ CSE 2009)
Paper I and II : Emphasis ?
How to
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[Strategy] How to prepare India Yearbook for UPSC Civil Service Exam

Ok this is an old article. New article on How to prepare India Yearbook 2013 is given on separate page, click ME This article is originally written by Palak Mathur, I’m merely copy pasting.

What is India Yearbook?
Four sittings
Important Chapters in India Yearbook
How important is [Yearbook]?
Download Link for India
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[Strategy] How to prepare Current Affairs from Newspapers in Less than one hour for UPSC IAS IPS CSAT Exam

This article is in response to many panic mails that I receive, “help! It takes more than 4 hours just to read The Hindu.”

Why is it important to read the newspaper?
Can’t I just use Chronicle, Civil Service Times or Pratiyogita Darpan?
What are profile-based interview questions?
Location-based questions
Academic background based
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[Strategy] Anthropology Study-plan and Booklist by Dr.Vijay (IAS) for UPSC Civil Service (Mains) Exam

This article, is a compilation of gems given by Dr. K.Vijayakarthikeyan (AIR 22 / CSE 2010) on the IOforum. At present, He is an IAS officer in Tamilnadu cadre.

Disclaimer
Advantages of anthropology
Getting started with Anthropology
Preparation of anthropology (mains)
Useful books
About these Books
Tips for anthropology preparation
Importance of diagrams
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[Strategy] Political Science for UPSC Mains Exam with Booklist and tips by toppers

Question from a reader I’m from chennai. I have choosen my optionals as geography and political science. But when I approached the coaching centres, they told me that they are not offering political science as it is not a good optional in terms of scoring and popularity .They are manipulating me that pub ad is

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Mrunal { I really appreciate your input Mr.Born to kill } – [Result] UPSC CAPF Assistant Commandant (AC) 2012 result announced (and PET tips)
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