There is a common advice that comes around that NCERT books should be considered for IAS preparation and we do wonder why it is so… There is an urge among many students to unveil the secret behind the relevance of NCERT books over high level books, available for civil services exam. Be it the IAS toppers, IAS aspirants, IAS Coaching Institutes, seniors (preparing for IAS) and others, all are of the view and convey that thorough knowledge of NCERT is a must.
To answer this common question that every student encounters, we have come up with the relevant reasons for considering NCERT books and not the other books like State level or books based on CCE patterns.
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UPSC exam, undoubtedly, is full of cut throat competition and each aspirant has one just one goal: “to clear the exam”. At Paradigm IAS Academy, we suggest that this spirit is good but it shouldn’t be at the cost of the student’s overall health and well being. Many a time’s students ignore the insurmountable pressure on them and keep going on with the preparations. This more often than not leads to stress and ultimately highly decreases the capability and capacity during the days when exam is nearing.
Stress is the silent enemy that erodes you from within mentally, physically, emotionally and intellectually. This emotion has the power to wear and tear your bodies thereby reducing the productivity and efficiency. And no one wishes to witness such situation. There is a tremendous need that students should be wise at devising strategy to manage stress, anxiety and depression; thus, preventing themselves from poor performance in the exam. Paradigm IAS Academy shares simple tips to keep stress at bay:
For Best UPSC classes in Pune or Best MPSC classes in Mumbai visit:http://paradigmiasacademy.in/ Since the introduction of Ethics Paper in IAS Mains General Studies as GS Paper 4, Civil Services aspirants are in a dilemma. As ethics is not a subject taught in schools/ colleges, it is quite natural from the candidate’s point of view to ponder about the questions to be asked from the ethics. But there is no need to be fear and if properly handled, this could be a scoring subject.
Ethics as a part of IAS Mains has much wider dimensions. Ethics has its roots in Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology and Public Administration. If you will see the UPSC syllabus then it has been mentioned that this paper will include questions to test the candidate’s attitude and approach to issues relating to integrity, probity in public life and his problem solving approach to various issues and conflicts faced by him in dealing with society. Questions utilize the case study approach to determine these aspects. The main thing that is being tasted in this paper is candidate’s attitude and approach .This paper also tastes the Integrity, Problem solving approach and Probity in public life. The questions include case study to taste these things. Paradigm IAS academy experts suggests that treat ethics as separate paper like other optional subjects. Go through the previous year paper of ethics asked in IAS exam, this will give you idea about what the UPSC exactly seek from candidates through this paper. Try to make an opinion about various things that is happening around you. Devote time on this paper. Practice makes a man perfect so try to take mock paper of ethics in examination like condition. Toppers who scored well in ethics paper was serious about this paper, and didn’t take this lightly. For IAS coaching in Pune or IAS coaching in Mumbai contact Paradigm IAS academy. Compulsory paper of English and any other Indian language and one essay paper are compulsory for civil service main examination. Its nature is of qualifying nature so often candidates think that hey easily can write them and clear these papers. But after each result actually we see that many students are unable to clear language papers. Even some candidates await there result positively and actually they did very well at there exam but finally language papers create a big hurdle. We at Paradigm IAS academy teaches the student that never underestimate these language papers and do not neglect them. Here their importance is more. Without qualifying these papers, you cannot at mains. Therefore, they cannot be neglected. These are considered as first step to clear mains. Therefore, be perfect with grammar, essay writing, precise writings.
The students who are getting good marks in essay can definitely get success in mains. Essay paper plays important role in getting good rank. This paper is for 200 marks. One Who writes good essay can get upto 140 marks. This makes great difference between an ordinary student and an extra-ordinary student. To write essay one should have comprehensive thinking. While preparing, don’t prepare a few topics. Prepare general way. Select topics like global warming, social change, and development-oriented topics, globalization, terrorism, democracy’ and prepare on these’ topics in general way. Particular topics won’t be asked in the exam. But whatever you have studied can be used in anyway while writing essay. Read all the topics of essay at least once, and then select which topic you feel comfortable. Then take last page of your answer booklet and note down all the points you know so that you will not forget the main points while you writing the essay. Then arrange the points in accordance with their importance and there should be continuation of paragraphs. . . As being the best IAS classes in Pune even the best IAS classes in Mumbai we teaches the student that always write common language, don’t use complicated words and don’t bring optional concepts into the essay.’ Essay paper also marks the assessment of your personality. Therefore be careful while choosing the topics and while writing the essay paper. For best upsc classes in pune or best upsc classes in Mumbai visit paradigm ias academy. Compulsory paper of English and any other Indian language and one essay paper are compulsory for civil service main examination. Its nature is of qualifying nature so often candidates think that hey easily can write them and clear these papers. But after each result actually we see that many students are unable to clear language papers. Even some candidates await there result positively and actually they did very well at there exam but finally language papers create a big hurdle. We at Paradigm IAS academyteaches the student that never underestimate these language papers and do not neglect them. Here their importance is more. Without qualifying these papers, you cannot at mains. Therefore, they cannot be neglected. These are considered as first step to clear mains. Therefore, be perfect with grammar, essay writing, precise writings.
The students who are getting good marks in essay can definitely get success in mains. Essay paper plays important role in getting good rank. This paper is for 200 marks. One Who writes good essay can get upto 140 marks. This makes great difference between an ordinary student and an extra-ordinary student. To write essay one should have comprehensive thinking. While preparing, don’t prepare a few topics. Prepare general way. Select topics like global warming, social change, and development-oriented topics, globalization, terrorism, democracy’ and prepare on these’ topics in general way. Particular topics won’t be asked in the exam. But whatever you have studied can be used in anyway while writing essay. Read all the topics of essay at least once, and then select which topic you feel comfortable. Then take last page of your answer booklet and note down all the points you know so that you will not forget the main points while you writing the essay. Then arrange the points in accordance with their importance and there should be continuation of paragraphs. . . As being the best IAS classes in Pune even the best IAS classes in Mumbai we teaches the student that always write common language, don’t use complicated words and don’t bring optional concepts into the essay.’ Essay paper also marks the assessment of your personality. Therefore be careful while choosing the topics and while writing the essay paper. For best upsc classes in pune or best upsc classes in Mumbai visit paradigm ias academy. Selective Study is the key!Paradigm ias academy is one of the best IAS Academy in pune, we provides various courses like IAS, UPSC, MPSC.
When it comes to IAS Exam, syllabus is undoubtedly vast and grasping all the knowledge is definitely a herculean task. We don’t mean to scare you; rather we aim to build the understanding among students that they can’t grasp all the knowledge and even if they do, it’s difficult to retail it until the exam. So, why not ease it? And the solution for it is to be “Selective”. Being selective is much useful in preparation how it makes one comfortable. When students see the vast syllabus while preparing, they find themselves bugged up. That means if they sit for preparing simply without making any selection, the syllabus would never seem to end. One needs complete one year to read whole syllabus and then too there is no surety that they would be though at each topic and not forget what all they have grasped. By that time exams are on the head, candidates are not fully prepared in each topic and after reading the entire syllabus they are not even in position to tackle anyone question perfectly. Therefore, Paradigm IAS Academy vouches for selective study as it is extremely important in civil service preparation. One should know what to study, what to be given more importance, what not to be studied and so on. Also, they should take at least 3-4 previous year question papers and thoroughly study the topics that appeared in them. This gives an insight into the topics that are frequently taken up in questions. It also lets you know the topics on which analytical questions are coming as well as the topics on which short questions are coming. Isn’t this far easier than taking up every topic in the same manner. By going through previous year question paper one can understand what to study in current affairs. This makes one to be selective while reading newspapers. Otherwise one has to spend more time on newspapers. Most of the toppers follow strategy of being selective. It is not wise to waste time in reading which is not required for the exam. One should have proper approach towards study the optional subjects to get success at mains. For Best IAS coaching in Pune enrol into Paradigm IAS Academy or visit:http://paradigmiasacademy.in/ Exclusive skills for presenting answer Strategy for the exam deals with the collaboration all such points that get you closer to your aim. These points may include certain skills, good preparation, time management and several other factors. One of the important skills desired for clearing the exam is to present the answer well. Lengthy answers that don’t explain the point are a big NO while short answers that seem incomplete also don’t make any sense. To perfect this skill, read further:
Students are often heard saying that Question paper was very easy and the exam had gone quite well. Yet they fail to clear the mains. Why? Reason being, that when the question paper is given they never try to read full question. If they come across the words they know they start writing answers. In this hurry they often tend to even write the wrong answer. And here they make the mistake. The advice here is to first study questions properly and understand them well as to what has been asked rather than blindly starting to write the answers. Next important part is to think what to be written for that answer. Write to the point answers. While writing 60 marks answers follow one strategy. When you read question, take always last page of your answer booklet and start writing the points what all to be included in that answer. Because while writing suddenly you may forget the points, these points give hints to continue the answer and elaborate it further. All study after the prelims exams until the exam date. But, in Civil Servicemain exam only studying is not important. But here it’s important that how one is using his knowledge to write particular paper within three hours. What one writes during these three hours makes one topper and another failure. Here, volume of subject matter studied is not so important as how you are using your knowledge to write particular answer. Therefore while studying, always think what type of questions may be asked from particular topics and what points to be included to make different from others. Don’t repeat the paragraphs. If graphs, pie-charts, flow charts are required draw them to make examiner know what you have written. Always follow word-limit in order to answer properly while completing the exam on time. If you think you know more about that answer and start writing more on that answer, you wouldn’t be able to complete the paper within a given time. Always try to give positive points. Don’t mention anybody’s name. Mention the points that make your answer different from others. Apprehend the difference between the successful and failure candidate Students often delve into the thought that why one of their friends cleared the exam and they couldn’t; considering the fact that they both used the same study material for preparation. There would surely be n number of common factors that that were considered by both the successful and unsuccessful candidate while preparing but at the same time there is something unique that made one successful.
We know that all the candidates are having books, all the candidates are dedicated to work and most of them attend coaching institutions, take guidance from seniors and friends but what not necessarily all succeed. Students say they studied for 18 hours and still they couldn’t make mains. Others say they studied only for 8-9 hours and could make mains. Why these differences? The difference between successful candidates and the failure candidates is same as difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary persons. One who is able to make mains never counts the hours and how many books he/she has read. But they are very clear on what they have to read, what not to read, how much to read, how to use when required writing the answers.Civil Service exam never wants one to be ideal. It requires creativity, innovativeness within the candidates, who lack to use his/her knowledge properly they feel tough to clear the exam. Before starting the preparation, acknowledge these points and find out properly what to read, what not to read, what types of question are asked from particular topics. Mere guidance from others won’t work; you ought to put your own strategy as their strategy might not be suitable for you. So strategies well and work smart to achieve success in mains. Cracking IAS seems difficult and owing to this many times students jump on to the difficult tasks and topics thinking that it would be of utmost benefit in getting through. The clear answer to this is “No”. Knowing what not to read is as important as the knowledge of what all to study.
To perfect this part, first go through General Studies syllabus thoroughly and try to be foolproof with the syllabi. If you know syllabus, 20% of your work is over. It helps you what to read and what not to read. Don’t neglect the added syllabus. Always questions will be asked from the new syllabus. Try to think what type of questions may come from particular topic. What is the relevance of particular topic in today’s life? This year there is change in the syllabus of General-Studies and also optional paper. Don’t get tense when somebody says there is change in syllabus. Civil Service exam tries to select candidates who are creative and innovative and aware of day to day life. Accordingly, syllabus has been changed. Hence, don’t panic rather step ahead with the confidence which is possible when you have grabbed the important part of the syllabus thoroughly. Objective– To create a clear understanding among aspiring students about civil service examinations. UPSC is not an easy nut to crack. But once you are equipped with the blend of dexterity, sheer knowledge and apropos training, success won’t seem distant. The three pronged examinations comprise of preliminary – mains and interview tests; all of which require a different set of preparation. Moreover, the addition of Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) in 2011 has totally changed the complexion of the prelim exams and so do the revised pattern of the Mains examination in 2013. And to blow away the persisting confusion and to solve the queries of the Civil Services aspirants, Paradigm IAS Academy has initiated the concept of weekly seminars.
The seminar is conducted by top Civil Services trainers to provide the insights as well as tips and tricks to all the candidates aspiring to write the Civil Services examination. This might seem like a general guidance but this is what illustrates the technique of handling the exam. Time management and intelligent preparation are important aspects and proper guidance could help surpass all the hurdles that keep one from clearing the exam. The seminar; apart from fetching the basics, also inculcates focused approach and motivated mindset which again is very essential. A wide range of topics are covered each week. So, attend this UPSC Free seminar every Saturday and reap maximum benefit. Venue– Chandrasheel Building, 3rd floor, Near Deccan rendev, Opposite MGM hospital, Ghole Road, Pune Time– 12:30 PM More details Visit on – paradigmiasacademy.in |