UPSC IAS IPS Strategy Intro2IASFive Part article series on How to approach UPSC Civil Service IAS/IPS Exam: Prelims, Mains and Interview
BooksTips on Notes-making, Standard reference books, Yojana Kurukshetra etc. Explained here
Prelim-Mains-InterviewDetailed Strategy for General Studies, science-tech, yearbook, economy, history, polity, IR-Diplomacy with booklist, free study material given here.
Mains2013Strategy, Booklist, Free Studymaterial for the upcoming Mains 2013
DoubtsBasic doubts regarding Coaching, Working professional, time Management and Non-English medium
BackupSome guidelines for adopting career backup plans incase you can't make it to UPSC
SSC CGL
GK / GAHow to approach General Awareness for Tier-I, explained here with free study material download.
MathsHow to approach Maths, Quantitative Aptitude, Trigonometry, Geometry for Tier I and II? To-the-point strategy n tips given here +free study material
ReasoningGeneral Intelligence and Logical reasoninig for Tier I of SSC-CGL exam: booklist, tips shared here.
EnglishHow to tackle vocabulary, grammar and comprehension for Tier I and II.
SBI PO
GA/Computer/Marketingstrategy 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! RBI
RBI Officer PrelimsAfter long wait, RBI has notified 98 vacancies for 2013, this article provides strategy
RBI Officer Phase IIRBI Grade "B" Officer Phase II (Descriptive) exam strategy, booklist and free download material is provided here.
RBI AssistantStrategy, booklist, free study material, cutoffs, previous paper for RBI assistant Exam
Others
CAT (IIM)Ragtag strategy on get 90+ percentile in CAT-prometric test.
LIC AAOStrategy for the upcoming LIC Assistant Administrative officers' exam with free studymaterial, jobprofile.
CSIRStudyplan + Free study material for CSIR combined Administrative services (CASE) exam
State PSCHow to approach RAS, MPSC etc explained here
CAPFHow to become an Assistant Commandant in BSF, CISF, CRPF: strategy, booklist, free studymaterial provided here.
SPIPAFor getting admission in SPIPA, Ahmedabad, which provides free coaching for IAS exam.(Gujarat Only)
ACIOAssistant Central Intelligence Officer recruitment: booklist, strategy
UPSC tips
India Yearbookhow to efficiently utilize INDIA Yearbook for UPSC prelims, mains, interview= explained in this 6 part series article.
5 LevelsExplains five types of players in UPSC competition and why daydreamers fail in this exam.
100 DaysWhy 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.
QuotesMotivational and inspirational quotes for competitive exams.
Essay Tips How *not* to write an Essay in UPSC Mains exam, explained here
IRHow to prepare India World + International relations (IR) topic, explained + free download material
StatApproach to Statistics and Graphs portion of General Studies Mains Paper II+free study material
R.T.IHow to file R.T.I application to UPSC? explained here
Analysis
CSAT'12Analysis of the GS-Prelims paper and how it broke the backs of Coaching classes.
GSM-12Analysis of the General Studies (Mains) Paper I and II of 2012 and how they (again) broke the backs of Coaching classes.
Edu Tech
Auto NoteMakerMrunal's Autonotemaker for quickly taking notes out of PDF files and Webarticles (Win XP only)
Hindu ReaderHow to use Feedly (alternative of Google Reader) to efficiently read The Hindu online, for Free+list of important RSS links for UPSC Exam!.
OneNoteLearn to use Microsoft Onenote software to organized your notes on computer, quickly and efficiently!
ArchiveMonthly 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.)
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Note: This article is only for Gujarati students.
- શરૂઆત
- Who can take admission in SPIPA?
- Available Seats
- Exam Fees
- How to Apply for SPIPA IAS Study Centre?
- Structure of the SPIPA Entrance Exam
- Stage 1: objective Test (Multiple Choice Questions)
- Stage 2: Essay + Interview
- Booklist for SPIPA entrance Test
- મફત માં
Click To Continue reading SPIPA entrance Test preparation : Strategy, Booklist, Old papers
@For those candidates who’ve chosen “Hindi” as their Compulsory Indian language paper.
In 2010′s Mains exam, 318 candidates failed in this paper. (according to UPSC reply in RTI)
Now the question asked by many, which book to refer for Compulsory Indian Language Paper (Hindi)
Since I’ve no idea about the book (in my case it
Click To Continue reading [Q] Book for Compulsory Hindi Language paper in UPSC Mains Examination
Question from a reader: can u plzz tell me what is to be prepared from economic survey.?
You don’t need to mug up data or numbers from Economic Survey of India 2012-13. Just some basic information scattered around in it. For example: I’m copy-pasting a few sentences from the Economy Survey Report Chapter 13, Human
Click To Continue reading [Yearbook] Employment, Health and Insurance schemes from Economic Survey 2012, +Mock Questions
Aditi Asked in Comments
creamy layer obc cum in general category or not
2012 notification seems to be silent over this issue, but if one goes by the notification in 2011, the rule says
Candidates belonging to OBCs but coming in the Creamy Layer and thus not being entitled to OBC reservation should indicate
Click To Continue reading [CSAT App Q] Creamy Layer OBC = General Category
Mr.Manjunath wishes to share this with everyone (copy pasting his email):
Hi Mrunal,
I am writing my experience with the UPSC’s online application. If you feel this is useful, you can share it with your followers which would help them.As you know there are 2 parts that we need to fill for completing the application.Part
Click To Continue reading [Guest post] Donot use credit card for CSAT Online application fees
Finally UPSC notification for Prelims (CSAT) 2012 is out
Last date to fill up the application : 5th March 2012
Do read the following PDF File religiously, thoroughly and carefully before filling application.
(On the link, Right click and Save As)
http://www.upsc.gov.in/exams/notifications/2012/csp/upsc%20civil%20services%202012.pmd.pdf
Most people don’t go through the notification, then they make mistakes in
Click To Continue reading [Notification] CSAT 2012 Examination notification is out
Courtsey Mr. Velmurugan for bringing this :
UPSC has uploaded all the question papers of 2011′s mains examination, Use right click>Save as for required papers.
Essay General Studies Paper I Paper II English Language (Compulsory) Indian Languages (Compulsory) Assamese Bengali Bodo Dogri Gujarati Hindi Kannada Kashmiri Maithili Manipuri Malayalam Marathi Nepali Oriya Punjabi Sanskrit
Click To Continue reading [Question papers] of all optional subjects 2011 Mains Exam
From my side:
- Protectionism / WTO : Which way to fix Economic recession?
- Evaluate India’s activity as a non-permanent UNSC member.
- Critically Examine India’s Land swap deal with Bangladesh. Can we replicate that solution for China and Pakistan?
- Evaluate the pro-cons of India acquiring mining and farming assets abroad.
- What should be
Click To Continue reading [Mock Questions] For GS Mains and Essay
Sanjay asked,
can u plz tall me the imp cases which we ve to study like kesavananda bharati case etc regarding polity plz also tell the brief sources frm which i can easily understand the cases.i downloaded the above mentioned case bt that was abt 800 pgs verdict in most law language which
Click To Continue reading [Polity] The crux of Kesavanand Bharati & Golaknath case
The panic mails, I’m recieving after the article in The Hindu about ‘possible change in mains exam from 2012″
My answer:
Since 2007, I’ve been hearing following rumors. (BUT NONE OF THE FOLLOWING RUMORS ARE IMPLEMENTED BY UPSC)
- UPSC is going to scrap down optional subjects
- UPSC is going to reduce the upper
Click To Continue reading [Q] Possible change in 2012 mains exam? Will there be optional subjects?
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