Hello there

Good to see that you want to become an IAS officer so I want to tell you that there is no any graduation degree which will help you more or less in your UPSC CSE preparation.

So you can go with any stream and then can start your preparation from the first year of graduation. Do that thing which excites you which interests you and in which you can give much time without getting bored because at the end interest matters.

If you'll ask with me that which degree will help you in your UPSC CSE preparation I will suggest you to go with Bachelor in Arts as its most of the syllabus concerned with UPSC CSE syllabus and will surely help you.

Best of luck!

Thank you!

Hi

If want to become an IAS then yes starting the preparation in your graduation itself is a good idea as in this way you will get more time for preparation. Also, many of the UPSC rankers like srushti Jayant Deshmukh  had prepared for upsc during their graduation itself. One important thing is that you will have to maintain balance between college studies and  studies for upsc preparation and to maintain balance you can divide your time table into two parts i. e one for college studies and other one for upsc preparation and 2-3 weeks before your college semester exams, you can keep upsc studies on hold, so that you can prepare well for your college exams.

Follow the below tips to prepare well for your UPSC  examination :-

-------------) To start your preparation  first of all understand the examination pattern and go well through  syllabus :-

>>>> Examination pattern :- UPSC examination has 3 stages listed below :-

• prelims exam :- it is objective paper and is of qualifying nature , there are 2 papers in prelims

• Mains exam. :- it is descriptive /written examination . There are a total of 9 papers in Mains examination

• Interview :- After qualifying mains, you have to go through interview round, and it is more of test of your personality rather than knowledge.

To know exam pattern in detail visit :- https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc

>>>> syllabus :- In prelims, your paper 1 general studies  1 in which  you have History, Indian Polity, Geography, Environment, Current Affairs, Science and technology, etc. Your paper 2 in prelims is general studies II or CSAT in which you have reasoning, Maths, English, Hindi, etc. Similarly, you can check the complete syllabus of both prelims and mains at

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias-syllabus

-----------) Top books which you can follow for UPSC examination preparation are listed below subject wise:-

HISTORY

*NCERT XI (Ancient & Medieval)

*NCERT XII (Modern Indian History)

*Facets of Indian Culture Spectrum

*From Plassey to Partition - A History of Modern India

Indian Art & Culture

*Indian Art & Culture - Nitin Singhania

Polity

*NCERT IX-XII

*Indian Polity M Laxmikanth

Geography

*NCERT VI X (Old Syllabus)

*NCERT XI, XII (New Syllabus)

*Certificate Physical Geography G C Leong

World Atlas

Economics

NCERT XI

*The Indian Economy Sanjiv Verma

*Indian Economy by Ramesh Singh

*Economic Development & Policies in India Jain & Ohri

Environment

*Class XII Biology (last 5 chapters)

*Environment by Shankar IAS Academy

International Relations

*NCERT XII (Contemporary World Politics)

*Current Affairs ( read newspaper )

To get the complete list of books go through

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/books-for-upsc-ias

------------) Discipline is the key to crack UPSC, so you need to make a routine/ time table and follow it .

------------)Read newspaper like the Hindu or Indian Express  and magazines like Yojana, Kurukshetra, Economic and Political Weekly  to keep yourself updated with the current events and issues.

------------) take short breaks in between your studies, studying continuously can be brain tiring and it becomes difficult to focus and study with concentration, so take breaks to relax and refresh your brain otherwise you won't be able to retain whatever you read.

------------)Choose your optional subject wisely , choose the subject you have interest in.

------------)Make short notes for each subject, these will be your life saviour and will help you in your revisions a lot as syllabus is wide

-------------)Set daily goals like I have to cover these many topics today, weekly goals like I have to  cover these chapters this week and practice their questions too, by the end of this week and similarly set monthly goals to cover the syllabus and meet them without any fail.

------------)Revise :- there's no point of preparing for the exam if you couldn't recall anything in the UPSC Examination so you should stress on revision as well.

------------) Your mains examination is in written, so you need to work your speed and also work on improving how to present the knowledge you have on paper, so answer writing practicing should be your priority

------------)Solve previous year question papers and mock test papers ;- You should solve these , it will give you idea of types of questions asked and their difficulty level and will help you a lot.

------------)Also work on your communication skills and personality development as it plays an important role in your interview round.

For more tips go through

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-upsc-ias

Thankyou