Civil Services Exam Preparation Strategy

Syllabus coverage : Most important thing is to cover the complete syllabus of EE CSE whole heartily. You can refer to portions of standard books mentioned by Prince Dhawan sir in his blog . This approach is exhaustive and put you in a more confident state. But this approach takes a lot of time. it will take around 14 months to prepare by this approach.  Alternatively You can refer to printed study material of Made Easy. Since Made easy study material primarily targets ESE, You will have to be more selective. For example in Power electronics some topics are part of ESE but not of CSE, Be careful of that. Also some syllabus has to be covered from ESE electronics study material e.g. Digital communications. Throughout the process of syllabus coverage keep an eye on Syllabus mentioned in CSE notification. Dont try be master in EE, be professional as EE is just 2/7 part of the game 😉. Questions practice:  There is no limit to it practically. Following are few things which sho...

GS-1 broadly covers – Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society. Get familiar with all the topics and sub-topics by writing them many times – they should be  strongly etched in your memory. Keep a copy of the syllabus always with you no matter where you are.

UPSC conduct Civil services exam annually to recruit officers for IAS, IPS, IRS, IFS, Railway Account services etc. there is not single strategy to crack this exam. It has three stage i.e. Preliminary exam, Mains and finally personality test (and not interview 😊 ).  Beauty of this exam is that although there is a defined syllabus at least for first two stages, but practically it covers everything about this great  civilization  sub-continent size. Here I will try to share my experience of successful journey of CSE preparation.  Preliminary Test I have picked the topics from syllabus only. I will give study material to be referred for each topic. since everythinf covered in PT is also part of mains exams keep that in mind. Current events of national and international importance. one news paper preferably India Express. dont invest more than 1 hour daily on this. Yojana and Kurukshetra > only selected articles Monthly magazine by reputed coaching Insti...