Wednesday 24 July 2013

2014 CSE exam aspirants

For those appearing in Civil Services Exam 2014, focus just on mains preparation as the preliminary exam would be held pretty late next year, i.e 24 August 2014. The gap between mains and prelims is less than 4 months ( starts 14 Dec 2014) , so focus on making notes and completing your preparation for the optional as well as static parts of GS. The time after prelims should be spent only on current GS and revision.

UPSC time-table for all exams next year can be seen at:

http://upsc.gov.in/exams/calendar/2014/approved-ANNUAL%20PROGRAMME-%202014.pdf


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  1. Abhimanyu25 July 2013 at 09:33

    Thank you Ma'am !

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  2. Naresh26 July 2013 at 23:07

    Your profile looking amazing with a Btech from IIT and post graduation from IIM.congrats on it. . I do not possess such an excellent educational background as yours, and I am really happy to see a person with such huge reputational accredition chooses civil services instead of so many exciting opportunities avialable elsewhere. It is good to see, someone chooses civil service as a choice rather than being the only way out. Choice over here, I mean, some one who has an equal or more than equal opportunity but wishes to choose civil service instead of it.We don’t come across aspirants like this that very often. I have 3 queries about UPSC.I hope, i'm not taking too much of your time regarding this...

    1) How much of weightage is given for educational background in selecting a candidate. I’m not asking this question not out of any insecurity. I have a moderate educational background with a B.com from a reputed college in chennai. I too had dreams of making in to big B-school, but unfortunately my father fell ill during that time and he eventually passed away after a year my college got over. Right from my college days I’m working full time. Don’t think otherway around as I’m whining or complaining about life. I'm not worrying too much about it. Since, nothing could be done about it. My query is, I know, educational background is given weightage to some extent as it is logical to give the due respect, the candidate deserves. Though, I may not possess it, I appreciate that effort of UPSC. How much do you think, this weightage plays an important role in assessing the candidate ? and what a person like me should do as an alternative to fill this vaccum ?

    2) I request you to kindly upload your marksheet and give a brief analysis of how commerce optional paper 1 and paper 2 have performed incomparison to other optionals. Is the scaling down of marks has been done to all optionals ? or is some optional like history or socio was given any benefit or exemption from scaling down of marks ?

    3) How do you suggest to improve a person's english in a concrete manner. I have downloaded all the english NCERT books and reading it. I have downloaded BA and MA english literature syllabus of delhi & madras university. I plan to read novels of charles dickens, Jane austen and others from a public library. I have just finished getting catalogue informations about these authors and hope to finish the BA syllabus of delhi university. I need to say the syllabus of DU for BA eng lit is amazing. I have also bought barrons word list, Norman lewis - word power made easy. Arun sharma's CAT material and working on it. I don't find any english tutors to guide me. Whoever is good, look to demoralize me, since I am doing it to get in to bureaucracy. I hope you could give me some inputs to improvise my english. sorry to bother you, but i hope you will definitely understand the significance of the queries, I have posted.
    Thanks in advance

    with regards

    Naresh Kumar . A

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    1. Divya28 July 2013 at 06:14

      The answers to questions are:

      1. Background does not matter in UPSC process.. The personality test looks at you as a person and is not a cumulation of your degrees...There are large number of instances of simple BA background candidates scoring 240 and IIT-IIM candidates scoring less than 150..So, you should not worry on this count at all.

      2. I had scored 250 in commerce this year...Commerce has performed well this year but this is a factor which is not under your control..You should try to excel in whatever optional you choose and you would be lucky in one or the other attempt if you are good at it...( For eg: Pub Ad did very badly this year, but was doing good in the past few years)

      3. Your english seems good enough to me to crack the exam...You should read NCERT books, History books like Ramachandra Guha, Bipin Chandra etc, Foreign Policy books as these would help you in dualistic manner, i.e. increasing knowledge as well as improving english..Dump the english lit books for now unless you are choosing it as an optional...

      Any further queries are welcome..

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    2. Naresh1 August 2013 at 20:41

      Thanks a lot maam... I will stop reading English lit books and will concentrate more on books mentioned by you. Thanks a lot for your guidance. Your answers have cleared the confusions in my mind and i am feeling great and confident and looking forward to succeed in CSE exam 2014. Thanks a ton for it.

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  3. Unknown27 July 2013 at 10:55

    Respected Madam,

    1. As syllabus of Gs Mains is becoming more and more dynamic, What part of static GS can be prepared now besides History(NCERT),Geography(NCERT),Economics(NCERT) and Polity(Laxmikanth)?
    2. Can you give any guidance for "Mechanical Engineering" as optional ?

    With Regards

    Mridul

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  4. Anonymous7 September 2013 at 00:14

    Thanks for sharing information and it is Very helpful to the aspirants who are preparing for the CSE what they should focus on the information is very genuine and good,keep on updating...

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