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UPSC IAS IPS Strategy

Intro2IAS
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.
Mains2013
Strategy, Booklist, Free Studymaterial for the upcoming Mains 2013
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!

RBI

RBI Officer Prelims
After long wait, RBI has notified 98 vacancies for 2013, this article provides strategy
RBI Officer Phase II
RBI Grade "B" Officer Phase II (Descriptive) exam strategy, booklist and free download material is provided here.
RBI Assistant
Strategy, 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 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.
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 Feedly (alternative of Google Reader) to efficiently read The Hindu online, for Free+list of important RSS links for UPSC Exam!.
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.)

[Statistics for GS] Continuous Data Series: Find Standard Deviation, MD,QD,Median and Mode (Youtube Videos)

  1. Continuous Data : Find Mean (Average)
  2. Continuous Data: Find Median
  3. Continuous Data: Find Mode
  4. Continuous Data Find Quartile Deviation (QD)
  5. Continuous Data Series Find Mean Deviation (MD)
  6. Continuous Data Find Standard Deviation
  7. Ready Reference Chart
  8. Statistics Video Series

Continuous Data : Find Mean (Average)

This video explains, how to find mean- both

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[Statistics for GS] Discrete Data: Find Standard Deviation, Mean Deviation, QD, Mean,Median and Mode (Youtube Videos)

  1. Discrete Data- How to calculate Mean Median and Mode
  2. Discrete Data-Find Quartile Deviation
  3. Discrete Data- Find Mean Deviation
  4. Discrete Data- Find Standard Deviation (SD) and Variance
  5. Ready Reference Chart
  6. Statistics Video Series

Discrete Data- How to calculate Mean Median and Mode Discrete Data-Find Quartile Deviation Discrete Data- Find Mean Deviation Discrete Data-

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[Statistics for GS] Ungrouped Data: Mean Median Mode,QD,MD and SD (Youtube Videos)

  1. Introduction to types of questions and Data Types
  2. Ungrouped Data- How to find Mean Median Mode
  3. Ungrouped Data How to find Quartile Deviation
  4. Ungrouped Data-How to find Mean Deviation
  5. Ungrouped Data- How to find Standard Deviation and Variance
  6. Ready Reference Chart

[Statistics for GS] Ungrouped Data: Mean Median Mode,QD,MD and SD

Introduction

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[Statistics for GS] How to Draw Pie Chart in UPSC GS Mains Exam? (Youtube Video)

Pie Chart Drawing involves 5 steps

  1. Find Total
  2. Find Percentage
  3. convert Percentage into degree
  4. Arrange data into ascending order
  5. Plot and label the data on a circle.

This youtube video explain it in detail: http://youtu.be/wSacZLQjqvE

For more videos on Statistics for General Studies: go to my playlist Click ME

 

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[Statistics for GS] Finding Missing Frequency in a Continuous Series (UPSC Mains)

This question was asked in UPSC GS Mains 2011 Calculate the missing frequency From the following data. It is also given that The average number of tablets to cure fever was 19.9.

No. of tablets No. of Persons cured 4-8 11 8-12 13 12-16 16 16-20 14 20-24 ? 24-28 9 28-32 17 32-36 6

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[Statistics for GS] Average Share Price after 5 Months (UPSC 2011)

Question from UPSC GS Mains 2011

An Investor buys shares worth Rs.1200, in a company each month. During the first five months, he bought the shares at a price of Rs.10,12,15,20 and 24 per share. After 5 months, what is the average price paid for the shares by him?

Answer and Explanation in this youtube

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[Statistics for GS] Wrong Observations to Correct Average (shortcut Method) Qs from GS Mains 2011

This was asked in 2011′s UPSC GS (Mains) Exam:

Q. The Mean of 200 items was 50. Later on it was found that two items were wrongly read as 92 and 8 instead of 192 and 88. Find the Correct Mean.

Similar Question had earlier appeared in 2003′s Mains Exam.

Q. Average of 12 observation

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[Youtube] Aptitude PnC – Number of Handshakes and Invitations in a party, and Solved APFC questions

These questions keep reappearing in Aptitude segment of any competitive exam. XYZ number of people were invited in a party, how many handshakes were done etc. etc. These two videos should clear the concept.

Concept #1 : Handshakes after Party + Readymade Formula

At the end of a party, every person shook hands with other

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