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Prelims2018

Prelims 2018 guidance

An introduction:

It's october! So it's 8 months more to ink the OMR's for 2018 CSE aspirants. It's the right time to start preparing for prelims 2018.

First as you know there are 2 papers. 
Each weigh 200 marks
paper1 (GS) = 100*2 and the paper2 (CSAT) = 80*2.5.

My kind advise is to practice CSAT PAPERS as much as possible. Because, it's actually an qualifying paper for correcting paper1 (33% to qualify) .

Coming to paper 1,

You gotta note some important things to KNOW from newspapers ,

• Govt. Schemes,
• SciTech. - the next generation techs,
• Environment- Pollutants,NGT's reference,other environmental org.
• International relations - All news_ esp. Neighbouring countries.
• Ecology- all news.
• INT. Trade & Economic org. - reports & activities.

Next of the things to STUDY includes

HISTORY :

ANCIENT - Art & Architecture , lifestyle/culture.

MEDIEVAL - Important TERMS/WORDS used by those days.

MODERN - All important events after1857 till 1947. 

GEOGRAPHY:

MAPS - All locations mainly western countries are important. Mountains in and around india and landforms are important.

PHYSICAL/POLITICAL - From NCERT's is best .

ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGY :
Basics from shankar's book , can also refer your own academy's notes/NCERT's(science/bio.).

POLITY:
Complete entire lakshmikant's polity. should be mugged up with units 1 to 7 also powers,term of office,... of all major posts in the book.

How do a civil service exam aspirant read newspaper

How do a civil service exam aspirant read newspaper

A demo with 27-september-2017 THE HINDU newspaper

Being a CSE aspirant , My perception of reading newspaper got too much highly levelled. Although I attempted CSE twice by completely omitting the newspapers I got paid for that. Later when I realised I should read newspaper I was experienced with a lot of questions the way UPSC shoots at its dreamers. Now young aspirants who meet me, they wanted to know the method of reading NEWSPAPERS.

Learning the habit by self is very good, but for a serious aspirants like me who will only realise later, it’s a waste of 1 attempt , 1 year , 1 lakh rupees (coaching fees), waste of current affairs materials(as in 2017 those materials became completely waste).

Now I ask the youngaspirants to solve the 2016 CSE prelims question paper . If you are decentenough to score and gain that year’s prelims cut off I’m damn sure you canstart reading newspapers on your own . The others please have a personal friendto discuss the day’s newspaper events (can be done in tea breaks).

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2016 UPSC CSE mains question papers - GS

MAINS =1750 marks

General studies => 250*4=1000 marks

GS PAPER 1 >> CLICK HERE

250 marks - Indian Heritage & Culture,History & Geography of the world & society.

GS PAPER 2 >> CLICK HERE

250 marks - Governance,Constitution,Polity,Social Justice & International Relations.

GS PAPER 3 >> CLICK HERE

250 marks - Technology,Economic development,Bio-diversity,Environment,Security & Disaster management.

GS PAPER 4 >> CLICK HERE

250 marks - Ethics,Integrity & Aptitude.

Of balance 750 marks - 500 goes to optional papers , 250 goes to ESSAY paper

extra papers are 

*COMPULSORY ENGLISH (PAPER A) & *COMPULSORY INDIAN LANGUAGE (PAPER B)
These both are of 300 marks each but both are only for qualifying (25% or 75marks) . 

sample answer

As few followers mailed me some answers, i replied them with additional points. for those who needs idea about SHORT NOTES writing for upsc-cse mains answer, i hereby upload a sample.

1.write short notes on the following in about 150 words each:[-2010]

a)cultural relativism and subsequent violation of human rights.

anthropology session 2

iP's ANTHROPOLOGY NOTES FOR UPSC CSE OPTIONAL

- 2nd session

here are few demo questions which was shooted up in previous year's papers.

i put these in my second session because this subject is taught by me only on one perception - cracking optional paper in UPSC CSE mains. So i thought my fellow mates to analyse questions before they keen to know and frame answers . This kind of question first answers next session will have maximum 5 questions one day .

The answers on the next few days.

today i'd like to put up PAPER 1 questions.

first lets start with compulsory questions from section A.

1.write short notes on the following in about 150 words each:[-2010]

a)cultural relativism and subsequent violation of human rights.

b)importance of chronology in prehistory.

c)oncogenes

d)segmentary lineage and territoriality

2.write short notes on the following in about 150 words each:[-2011]

a)Synthetic theory.

b)Neanderthal man.

c)Fieldwork tradition in Anthropology.

d)Cultural materialism

3.write short notes on the following in about 150 words each:[-2012]

a)How 'natural selection' acts on variation?

b)Ways of acquiring a spouse in simpler societies

c)Post-modernism in Anthropology

d)Relative dating methods

e)Adaptive radiation in context of evolution

aspirants can e-mail your answers to ipstudycircle@gmail.com with subject anthropology mock1

the test discussion will be done via youtube video or posted in my blog

iP's ANTHROPOLOGY NOTES FOR UPSC CSE OPTIONAL

 

i.P's 7pmmocktest.blogspot.in

" anthropology is the science of man " - kober(1948)

The anthropology for civil service exam optional deals with the most elegant study of the subject. although going depth into the subject is not a better prespective to study, we should study good enough in physical anthropology concepts like evolution of homosapiens,theories of lamark,darwin,..etc and social anthropology concepts like caste,tribes/tribal settelments , .. etc.

In this blog (7pmmocktest.blogspot.in) i've given my entire study notes on day to day basis of upsc cse - anthropology (optional)

if beginner : you should know about the paper first than the subject.

there are 2 papers for the subject . Each paper is worth of 250 marks.

the paper 1 consist of  8 questions in 2 sections (section A & B)  > you should attend 5 questions of which 2 are compulsory and 3 is of your own choice from rest 6 (atleast 1 qn from each section).

This paper(1) deals with physical / biological anthropology and also questions used to pop up from archeological anthropology as well.

the paper 2 also consist of  8 questions in 2 sections (section A & B)  > you should attend 5 questions of which 2 are compulsory and 3 is of your own choice from rest 6 (atleast 1 qn from each section).

This paper(2) deals with socio-cultural anthropology and also questions used to pop up from linguistic anthropology as well.

Now, let's see what is anthropology!

anthropology is simply known as the study of evolution of man and his work.

yet "anthropos" in greek known as man and "logos" is known as science. , so anthropology can be termed as science of man and his work.

"Anthropology deals with man as a social being" - Boas (1930)