i am in std 12 science in cbse board at ranchi want to preapare for civil services. I want to do graduation from arts stream from kolkata/bhu/or from any oher university ftom where the session will compleated in time. please suggest me what subject i opt in graduation which help me in prelm. & main
The syllabus of UPSC is more humanities oriented, hence if you are wholly and solely focused on this exam, then you can choose various subjects like political science, geography, economics, history, sociology, economics, or even law as a subject is equally good, these all comes under syllabus of UPSC exam as well as are present in the list of optionals, it helps to a large extent in UPSC if your graduation subject is your optional as you must be aware that UPSC has such an extensive syllabus and syllabus of optional paper itself is nothing short of graduation level, hence with your graduation subject you will be already acquainted with the relevant knowledge and you just need to go through it on a regular basis to strengthen it further,and accordingly apply the same into practice in the form of answer writing, some of the initial things you can do even from college days is to download the UPSC syllabus and learn it by heart as you'll get to know what to read and what to skip, secondly develop the habit the newspaper reading on a regular basis, this is highly recommended and it should continue till the day of your interview, such is the relevance and importance it holds, even board members that will interview you want to test your level of awareness pertaining to various aspect happening in the country or outside, and lastly, NCERT are the foundation of UPSC, when it comes to study materials start with these always, and then move towards standard book, also keep resources minimal, read one book many a time instead of many book one time, later on as you'll be progressing you can go through previous year paper in official website of UPSC, practice mock papers and test series, you can refer toppers' answer sheets available online for answer writing purposes, these are the few minute details yet important ones that I shared with you.
UPSC is a 3 stage selection process involving Prelims, Mains and Interview which tests your personality test. Prelims has 2 Papers namely General Studies and CSAT.
General Studies has Current Events, History of India and Indian National Movement, Indian and World Geography, Indian Polity and Governance, Economic and Social Development, Environmental Ecology, Biodiversity and Climate Change and General Science.
CSAT has Comprehension, Interpersonal skills including communication skills, Logical Reasoning and Analytical ability, Decision making and problem solving, General Mental Ability, Basic numeracy and Data Interpretation.
Regarding the subjects that you can pursue in Graduation, Candidates who studied, Political Sciences, Life Sciences are the ones who were most shortlisted for Mains. This has got nothing to do with subject preference but mostly because the topics covered in these streams are also beneficial for studying Prelims and Mains. SO you can study Political Sciences or Life Sciences.
