Know about How to study for the UPSC civil services exam correctly.
UPSC exams are one of the toughest exams of India and preparation of these exams takes a lot of hard work and dedication so basically in this article, you will know about how you study for UPSC exams so that you can crack it easily.
First, you should know about the UPSC(union public service commission).
UPSC(union public service commission) is a central government recruiting agency in which they recruit civil servants by taking several examinations the civil servants like (IAS, IPS, defense, forest, etc) generally recruited by the UPSC also the promotions, transfers, pension, and all other means come under the regulation of UPSC.
What are the exams which UPSC takes?
UPSC takes various examinations like.
- Engineering service.
- Combined geo-scientist.
- Combined defense.
- CISF.
- NDA&; NA.
- Civil services.
- Indian forest exam.
- IES & ISS.
- Combined medical services exams.
- Central armed police force.
- Stenographer.
These are the exams that UPSC conducts every year.
How to study effectively so that the civil services exam can be cleared
People have made a lot of assumptions about the civil services examinations that the syllabus is too vast to cover and it is very hard to read all the things in one year. That is all excuses if UPSC is taking the exam each year it means the syllabus can be covered in a year because a lot of people have done this.
Let's see in the step by step that how you can study for UPSC.
🔵TIME MANAGEMENT.
Time management is the most crucial part of life not only in the exam if you know to manage your time you can achieve anything in your life.
As per the exam point of view than reading for 6-7 hours a day is more than enough to crack any exam. in the beginning, you cannot study for 6-7 hours as it is very hard to concentrate during the first time what you can do is set a target for day example:- if you want to complete three chapters a day like “our pasts” from history and “The earth and the solar system “ from the geography you have to complete the task on that particular day only.
🔵KNOW ABOUT THE EXAM PATTERN.
The UPSC civil services exam pattern deals with three stages:-
🔸Preliminary exam.
The preliminary exam is a qualifying exam and based on MCQ multiple choice questions as this exam are the first stage and every aspirant has to clear this stage to appear in the mains exam the marks of this exam are not added in the overall result.
The preliminary examination consist of two papers.
⬢Paper-1
General studies
This paper is mainly focused on general studies and contains question from (History, Geography, Polity, Economy , General knowledge and current affairs).
⬢Paper-2
Aptitude.
This exam is only a qualifying exam you can pass this exam with 33% of marks and question mostly come about mental ability, decision making, math’s, logical reasoning, etc..
🔸Mains exam.
The mains exam is a theoretical exam in which aspirants have to write 7 papers based on that their selection is done. Let's see the following exam in detail.
No of Papers | Types | Subjects(Topics) | Marks |
Paper 1 | Essay | Two essays should be written from the options in 1000-1200 words | 250 marks |
Paper 2 | General Studies–I | (Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society) | 250 marks |
Paper 3 | General Studies -II | (Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International relations) | 250 marks |
Paper 4 | General Studies -III | (Technology, Economic Development, Bio‐diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management) | 250 marks |
Paper 5 | General Studies -IV | (Ethics, Integrity, and Aptitude) | 250 marks |
Paper 6 | Optional subjects-I | Economics Geography Indian History Philosophy Political Science Psychology Public Administration Sociology Law Agriculture Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science Botany Chemistry Mathematics Statistics Medical Science Physics Zoology Anthropology Geology Civil Engineering Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Commerce Management Assamese Bengali Bodo Dogri Gujarati Hindi Kannada Kashmiri Konkani Maithili Malayalam | 250 marks |
Paper 7 | Optional Subject-II | Same as the subject choose option 1 | 250 marks |
Total | 1750 | ||
🔸Personal interview.
The last step to get through this the exam is the personal interview it is of 275 marks and this interview is taken by senior civil services officers the P.I mainly focus on the personality of the aspirants and the question will be asked about
🔵GET THE SYLLABUS.
So this is the most important part of the preparation of the CSE exam as many aspirant what they do is they use Smartphone or laptop during their study hours to see the exam syllabus and doing they somehow get distracted and this is the the main reason why your syllabus is not getting completed.
The first thing you should do is take out the print out of the syllabus and keep in front of your eyes if your reading a chapter or anything related to the exam because of some time people read the irrelevant thing that is not given in the syllabus.
🔵GET THE RIGHT STUDY MATERIAL.
Choosing the right study material will decided the selection of you in the civil services exam if you choose the wrong books and study material then it may cause a huge loss in the exam.
So I have collected the data from internet and this is the best study material for the civil services exam.
Essay | Read newspaper daily watch news, know about the current affairs about national and international. |
English | Lucent English |
General Studies-1 | |
History | NCERT t History from 6th to 12th Additional books:- Ancient India by RS Sharma Medieval India by Salish Chandra. Modern India by Bipin Chandra. |
Social Science | NCERT Social Science 6th to 12th |
Art & Culture | NCERT Art and culture class 9th |
Geography | NCERT Geography Class 6th to 12th Additional book:- Certificate Physical & Human Geography (Oxford) by Goh Cheng Leong |
General Studies-2 | |
Polity | NCERT Polity 7th to 12th Note:- Class 9th to 12th books are the most important. Additional books:- Indian Polity by M.Laxmikant. |
General Studies -3 | |
Economy | NCERT Class 9th to 12th Indian Economy by Sanjiv Verma |
Science | NCERT Class6th to 12th |
Environment | NCERT Class 12TH |
General Studies -4 | |
Ethics | Ethics in Governance, ARC Report Lexicon by Chronicle Publications The Book on Ethics, Integrity & Aptitude published by Access Publication |
The optional subject book list can view by this source (1).
🔵HOW TO STUDY FOR PRELIMS
The prelims exams are the first exam and It only deals with the MCQ types question so if you want to start studying for prelims exams please keep in the mind that the overall syllabus is the same so if you start studying in the mains point view then only you van clear the prelims.
Also, the prelims exam have 2 papers the first one is about general studies and second one qualifying if you want to clear the prelims you need to be more focus on general studies because of the the cutoff is decided by this exam only the second paper for qualifying only with minimum of 33% marks.
🔵HOW TO STUDY FOR MAINS.
The whole civil services exam is based on this the mains exam and many people don’t know about this how they can study in a way to complete the syllabus.
🔸Make a time table.
I know it is very hard to be on schedule and follow the time table but if you want to secure a high rank you have to do this make a short time table of about 5 days or 7 days and try to achieve the goal if you successfully get it then increase the time table duration and in that way, you can reach the goal.
🔸Start making notes.
Making notes is the most vital part of this exam, if you are simply reading things without making notes about the topic you are going to end up gaining nothing so whenever you read any topic write down the main points about it.
🔸Read Daily newspapers.
If you not doing this then start reading the newspaper from today onwards because the important questions come from the dynamic part(Current events) Whether it is the paper of essay, polity, history, environment about 50% question will come from the current affairs and reading the newspapers will solve this problem.
There are many newspapers but the best of them is The Hindu, THE INDIAN EXPRESS and etc also you can buy monthly magazines from VISION IAS, and CHRISTI IAS.
🔵JOIN A COACHING INSTITUTE IF YOU CAN
Not everyone can join a coaching institute for civil services because some of them have time and money problem but if you feel that joining the coaching classes helps you in improving your studies then you should.
🔵DO SELF STUDY.
Maybe joining coaching can give you the best environment but do not depend totally on that whether you join coaching or not but without self-study you cannot win this game. Doing self-study about 5-6 hours a day is sufficient to prepare for the civil services exam.
🔵START A DEBATE.
Debating with others helps in gaining confidence, personality development and others get to know about your opinions in a particular thing. You can practice this with your friends on any topic related to national and international or any small topic you like.
🔵JOIN THE TEST SERIES.
From the past few years the test series of different competitive exams are serviced by various coaching institute you can take online and offline test series easily with affordable fees.
🔶Why should take test series?
Test series show you the reality about you that how much have you study and where do you stand among the people, also, you take test series because it helps to practice you various time before the main exam.
🔵JOIN MOCK INTERVIEWS.
If you have fear about interviews that because of it you cannot be get selected in the civil services exam then you should join a mock interview test where you will get the same environment as the real one and you fear and anxiety level will decrease and you can gain much confidence.
🔵REVISION
The last and the most important thing in UPSC Is that if you don’t revise what you have studied in so many days you cannot reach your goal. So whenever you complete your first chapter you should revise it once to clear the concepts.
At last few days before the exam do not make new notes or follow any new books because this will create more doubts a will can result in confusion in the topics.
The UPSC civil service is very responsible job in which you have to always think about the goodwill about the people so practice well and clear the exams.
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