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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.)

Polity: Archive of all polity articles written for UPSC, State PSCs, Group discussions and interview.

Polity means Indian Constitution and allied topics. for the Static (theory part), the recommended book is Indian Polity by M.Laxmikanth. Same book is available on Hindi under the title Bharat Ki Rajyavyavastha. Below, is the list of polity related current affairs articles published so far.

91 comments to Polity: Archive of all polity articles written for UPSC, State PSCs, Group discussions and interview.

  • karan

    I have a doubt pls help,

    discretionary grants: the money for this comes from where, is it Consolidated fund of India/ state? I search laxmikant page 13.11. but nothing is given?

    • Jareena

      Money comes from the Discretionary grants to consolidated fund of India/State

  • Simran

    Mrunal, can i request you to please put dates with your articles….if that seems inconvenient, please put articles month wise so that we know which one is relevant for the 2013 exam…..incase we miss any news, we will know that since u put it in say, jan 2013, we should not skip it.

    • Guru

      The dates are already there buddy just at the start of every post there will be tabs check the dates there!!!!

  • Lake.Chaitanya kumar

    what is the meaning of the term ” congress of presidential form of government”

    • shivendra

      in usa there is presidential form of govt…..there national assembly is named as congress.

  • neelima

    act of parliament , by executive order, constitutional amendment, statutory order, by enforcement . please explain the difference in all these terms

  • divya sharma

    sir,please givf e the listof current flagship programmes of govt of india

  • tarun sharma

    define colorable legislation

  • arvind singh guleria

    sir, u r really great mentor…though virtual….yet for student like us without no institutional coaching…..i wish for ur happy,healthy….and prosperous life…

  • Sukhbir singh

    Hello Sir, I am appearing in UPSC -2013. only 15 days are left for the exam. I have only revised twice syllabus. Please suggest me on which topic i should focus more in these last 15 days.

  • Rajib Mridha

    I absolutely love your blog and find many of your post’s to be exactly I’m looking for.
    Would you offer guest writers to write content for you personally?
    I wouldn’t mind writing a post or elaborating on a number of the subjects you write regarding here. Again, awesome website!

  • manu tiwari

    today i have gone through this blog first time.i liked it a lot and now i will make it as integral part of my study.thank you so much for creating such a valuable plateform.

  • chirag

    Mrunal Sir some of the pictures in the old articles are not ther please check and try to fix it …thns

  • ARCHNA

    thanx for this wonderful blog

  • neha

    do i need to study ncerts before starting laxmikanth

    • Naveen Sharma

      hi Neha,
      i think yes you need to go through atleast once with normal reading and than one serious reading through NCERT books before starting any standard books indeed laxmikanth.

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