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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!

[SBI PO] Halltickets, English Objective and Descriptive paper, Essays, precis practice and free study material

SBI Hall Tickets
English Breakup: MCQs
English in SSC CGL vs SBI PO: Similarity
English in SSC CGL vs SBI PO: Difference
English Breakup: Descriptive (50 Marks)
Letter writing
Precis
Essay writing
Why Essay is extremely important?
Essay: fundamental principles
Essay: Grabbing the fodder points
Appendix: download links
Appendix: big list
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[Studyplan] LIC AAO Administrative Officer 2013: Topicwise booklist, Free studymaterial, previous years paper, cut offs

Overview of LIC AAO 2013 Exam
How is LIC AAO 2013 different from previous exams
Approach: Reasoning for LIC AAO 2013
#1: Chart based
#2: Analogy, Odd man out
#3: Math ops
#4: syllogism
#5: coding n series
Peripheral
Tip on Computer based Tests
Approach: Maths, Quantative aptitude for LIC
How is
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[Approach] UPSC 2013 General Studies: Prelims + Mains for Civil Service IAS IPS Exam

edit: March-15-2013, Government has put this “controversial” notification of UPSC on hold. therefore, this article is also on hold.

Prologue
What is not changed?
Prelims approach
What about the current affairs?
Mains Exam: Change of format
Language, medium and literature
GS1: Culture History Geography
GS2: Polity, Yearbook, IR
GS3: Economy, Environment, S&T, Agro,
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[Study-plan] SBI PO General Awareness (GA), Computer, Marketing, Economy Topicwise preparation strategy, free studymaterial

General Awareness: SSC-CGL vs SBI-PO
SBI Priority order: ECM approach
Economy for SBI PO
Economy: Theory
Economy: Current
#1: India Yearbook
#2: Economic Survey 2012-13
#3: Magazines
#4: Newspapers
Computers
Marketing
Misc.GK
Data interpretation
English
Appendix #1: download links
Appendix #2: List of questions from previous exams
Q. Economy: Theory
Q. Economy:
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[Studyplan] SBI PO Reasoning (High Level): Topicwise Approach, booklist, strategy, Cutoffs

The structure of SBI PO Exam 2013
Reasoning: Topicwise breakup SBI papers
Reasoning: SSC vs SBI
Reasoning approach: Higher Level
3 Statement Syllogism
Reasoning Approach: Usual topics
1. Eligibility Test
2. Math Operations+Inequality
3. Sitting arrangement
4. Non verbal
5. Data Sufficiency
6. Input Output
Reasoning: Peripheral Topics
1. DBT: Direction Based Test
2. Coding Decoding
3. Dictionary
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[Studyplan] SSC-CGL English Vocabulary, Grammar and Comprehension: preparation strategy, tips, booklist, analysis

Introduction
Topic-wise breakup for SSC-English (tier I and II)
Overall: SSC-English (Tier 1 And 2)
Vocabulary?
How to improve vocabulary?
Vocab: Basics
How-to approach Norman Lewis?
Vocabulary: Advanced
English Grammar: Approach
1. Task #1: Active Passive (voice) and Direct-Indirect (speech)
2. Task #2: Sentence Correction+Improvement
Comprehension + Sentence Arrangement
Recommended Book
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[Studyplan] SSC-CGL Logical Reasoning, General Intelligence: preparation strategy, approach, roadmap, booklist

Reasoning, General Intelligence (Tier 1)
Breakup : Last three years’ papers
Priority order
Task #1:Series
Task #2: Arrangement-Direction tests
Task #3: Non-verbal
Task #4: Coding-Decoding
Task #5 remaining stuff
Book for Reasoning?

In the previous articles we saw how to approach

General Awareness for Tier I Click me Maths / Quantitative Aptitude

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[Studyplan] SSC-CGL: Maths, Quantitative Aptitude, Algebra, Trigonometry: Approach, Booklist, Strategy, Free Studymaterial 2013 for Combined Graduate Level Exam Tier 1, 2

Introduction
#1: Getting the conceptual clarity
Breakup: SSC-CGL Tier I (2010, 2011, 2012)
Breakup: SSC-CGL Tier II (2010, 2011, 2012)
#2: Practice
Choice of Quantitative Aptitude Book?
Books for Maths/Quantitative Aptitude
Download: NCERT Maths Textbooks
Download: Blank answersheet

introduction

Competitive exams are meant for real-men and women. This is no country for

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[Studyplan] SSC CGL 2013 (General Awareness) Tier-1: Booklist, approach, free study material for Combined Graduate Level exam

This article only deals with General Awareness part. The approach to Maths, English and reasoning, covered in separate articles.

Introduction
General Awareness (Tier I)
Topicwise Analysis: 2010, 11, 12
Indian Polity
Indian History + Culture
Geography+Biodiversity+Environment
Economy
Science
CRAP (Misc.GK, Sports, PIN etc.)
Final Touch to preparation
Summary: Plan for SSC-CGL (GK)
Free
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[Studyplan] CSIR Combined Administrative Service Exam (CASE): Booklist, Strategy, Studymaterial Download PDFs

To those readers with Public Administration/ Management as their optional subject in UPSC/RAS/PPSC/KAS etc. here is a good opportunity: CSIR Administrative Officer Gr-I

Scheme of exam
CSIR Paper I
1. Reasoning (20 Qs)
2. Maths (20 Qs)
3. Constitution of India (20 Qs)
4. General Awareness
Paper II: CCS+HR+Management+PubAD
1. Topic #1: Central Civil
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