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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.)

[R.T.I] APFC-2012: No. of Applicants Categorywise, Jim Yong Kim Booklet “D”, Answerkeys (Not given)

i-RTI

Regarding the APFC-2012 exam, I had filed this R.T.I last month and received reply today. Here it is

  1. No. of Applicant for APFC Exam (Categorywise)
  2. No. of Rejected Applications in APFC exam
  3. Answerkeys for APFC exam
  4. Wrong answer options for Jim Yong Kim questions
  5. Decision regarding Wrong answer in “D” booklet

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[APFC] Answerkey for APFC 2012, with Explanation, sources and analysis for All 4 series A,B,C,D Booklets

Comments closed, because New Forum created: www.Mrunal.org/forum To the APFC aspirants, Discussions via webpage comments= difficult, because every time you’ve to scroll down the page. It becomes hard to keep track of comments made by others. Therefore, I’ve created a separate forum, to make it convenient. For the APFC interview preparation, goto following thread and

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[APFC] Accountancy – Basic Study material for APFC/EPFO exam

  1. Basic Accounting
  2. Trial Balance and Computers
  3. Financial Statements of Profit and Not for Profit organisations
  4. Partnership Accounts
  5. Accounting for Share and Debentures
  6. Analysis of Financial Statements
  7. Elementary Cost Accounting

To the APFC/EPFO aspirants, who have accountancy topic in the syllabus.

Here is the basic study material from National Open School (NOS)

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[APFC] Those who forgot their registration id : How to get the halltickets?

Those who have forgot their registration id and password for APFC (Asst. Provident Fund Commissioner) Exam, Here is an important tip from Mr.Vishnu

Go to this link:

http://upsconline.nic.in/ora/forgot_registration.php

and retrieve your registration id and password to your email id.

[Aptitude-Videos] Probability and PnC questions from APFC Exam 2002 and 2004

Introduction

My Youtube Channel is : www.youtube.com/user/TheMrunalPatel These videos should also benefit the CPF, SSC,IBPS,ACIO and CSAT/UPSC aspirants, apart from the APFC candidates.

  1. Probability of only one person getting selected
  2. Probability of getting same letter from two words
  3. Probability : Bags and Balls, Probability of getting ball of a particular color
  4. PnC: Four

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[APFC] don’t worry if you didnot get acknowledgement email after registration +Helpdesk numbers of UPSC

To all the APFC candidates who have technical troubles regarding Registration and or didnot recieve any acknowledgment email from UPSC.

I’m copy pasting a few helpful posts:

vishnu said in readers’ comments upsc will make the link active when it uploads the hall tickets….as the transaction is successful you dont need to worry just prepare

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[APFC] How to Approach English Section (Part A) of Assistant Provident Fund Commissioners’ Exam? Topicwise Analysis and Booklist

APFC exam structure
  1. Structure of APFC written exam
  2. Part A: English: Topicwise Breakup
  3. Verdict
  4. How to approach the English Section of APFC Exam?
  5. Sentence Correction
  6. Vocabulary: Synonyms, Antonym and Idioms
  7. Expanding Vocabulary through Newspaper reading
  8. Where to get practice for English section of APFC exam?
  9. Booklist for APFC Exam (English Section)
  10. Warning

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[APFC] Download Previous Years Question papers 2002, 2004 for APFC Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner’s Exam

  1. Mr. CSL80
  2. Blog Farmers
  3. Download Links for APFC papers
  4. How to prepare for APFC Exam?

Before you download the previous years question papers of Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner’s Exam (APFC), read this: Mr. CSL80: He’s a veteran member of Pagalguy forum. Most of the information on internet regarding previous years’ question papers

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[Economy] Social Security: Meaning and Laws in India for APFC exam

Social Security : Constitution of India

Important topic particularity for Asst.Provident Fund Commissioner (APFC) Exam

  1. What is Social Security?
  2. History of Social security
  3. Social Security in India
  4. Social Security: Constitutional Provisions
  5. Concurrent List
  6. Part IV Directive Principles of State Policy
  7. Difference between Organized and Unorganized Sectors
  8. SOCIAL SECURITY LAWS in India
  9. Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 (ESI Act)
  10. Employees’

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[Studyplan] Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner (APFC) by UPSC

  1. Readymade books for APFC exam
  2. Cost Factor
  3. Paper 1 General English
  4. Paper 2 General Studies
  5. Two rules to crack this exam

Important Updates:

19 September Accountancy Study Material Added: CLICK ME 11 August

  1. For Videos containing explaination of Aptitude questions of earlier APFC exams: Click ME
  2. The Previous Years’ Question papers

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