What should be the first step to crack UPSC Examinations
What should be the first step to crack UPSC Examinations?
It is a time-consuming journey to carry out IAS preparation. the correct ignition to start your IAS preparation can help you fulfill your ambition. every year lakhs of students appear for UPSC civil service examination but less fraction of students can qualify for it.
IAS examination has a very vast syllabus that makes it difficult to approach and qualify but along with that, a student’s strategy plays a vital role to guide the preparation and correct direction. many individuals start with their preparation but a lack of consistency and appropriate strategy makes them lose their potential and ultimately failed to achieve that target.
so here this article is to help you out and minimize your weaknesses for the IAS examination and gives you a kickstart to ensure positive results for the upcoming UPSC examination.
UPSC examination is not an examination that can be qualified with your bookish knowledge whereas it requires your personality development and conceptual clarity of different aspects. the interview session of the IAS examination is a critical path where the assessment of overall personality is done. UPSC examination requires an overall requirement of a well-groomed and knowledgeable individual to have credentials and sustainability for Public Services. Apart from interviews, it is required for the candidates to be updated and constantly acquire information on the latest happenings within the countries and beyond to secure good marks in prelims and Mains examination.
Here we would provide the beneficial strategies and suggestions to initiate with you UPSC CSE Examination.
Start the journey with us!
Ignite yourself
- before initiating your preparation for the IAS examination it is required to be mentally prepared and physically well.
- be precise and set your effective goals and manage your time accordingly.
- go through the examination pattern of UPSC examinations and understand the perspective of learning.
- prepare yourself by acquiring an overall knowledge of UPSC civil service examinations.
- go to the latest updates and notifications on the official website for the UPSC examination.
- if you are a working professional then you need to be determined to balance your work with your studies or to make decisions related to quitting your job. we would suggest that the use of online resources can help you create a balance.
Prepare schedule
- A schedule for effective preparation would help you to manage your time and allocate subjects for every day.
- it will create a well-organized pattern of learning with a daily routine.
- it will provide you the ease of preparation as you will be able to streamline your important topics and divide them into sub-topics to cover within time.
Go through the syllabus and examinations pattern
- It is important to understand the syllabus for the upcoming UPSC examination before setting for it.
- you need to refer to the official website for the updated syllabus of prelims and Mains examination.
- go through the topics and subtopics and devote appropriate time to each of them for completing within your time of preparation.
- the examination pattern would help you to analyze the importance to be given to each subject as well as the process of learning.
the links are provided on our website to download the syllabus and examination pattern for the UPSC examination.
Good Knowledge of Current Affairs and News bulletin
- Reading newspapers is quite a difficult task nowadays, so on our website, you can get the News Bulletin of the everyday news that you can go through during your UPSC IAS preparation.
- knowing the latest news and reading the headlines of newspapers can help you get a good grip on the current affairs for the year of your preparation about the country and the world.
- you must know all the current affairs as well as the General Knowledge section for UPSC preparation with the hope to achieve desirable results in prelims and mains examinations.
Select your Optional Subject Wisely
- You must select the optional subject for UPSC Mains examination concerning the factors like the following:
- interest in the relevant subject
- academic background or prior knowledge of the relevant optional subject
- overlapping nature with general studies paper
- coaching facilities
- resources of preparation for relevant subjects
Give relevance to your NCERT books
- NCERT books are the key to your IAS preparation. it ranges from class 6 to class 10 for relevant subjects required for the UPSC examination.
- it consists of the basic knowledge and important concepts of all the subjects in prelims and mains examinations.
- many questions are asked in NCERT textbooks.
- it is the best resource to start with your IAS preparation that can help you acquire conceptual clarity and in-depth knowledge of relevant subjects.
Practice More
- You need to be very particular with your practicing time.
- solved as many questions as you can see from the previous year’s question papers as well as company question papers.
- read the prescribed books and solved practical questions in NEET related to the relevant concepts.
- allow yourself to revise consistently the important concepts.
- make short notes to refer quickly before relating to the next topic.
- It is important to practice writing because the IAS Mains examination is descriptive in nature. you need to have clarity, and interpretation of relevant concepts in your answers with minimum words.
- make proper notes of relevant subjects for IAS prelims and IAS Mains examination is that you can refer to the time of examination.
- you need to take online test series or offline tests conducted in different coaching institutes to check your flow of knowledge and familiarize yourself with the actual pattern of examination.
- solving the previous year’s question paper can help you analyze the examination pattern as well as the difficulty level for the UPSC examination.
These are the initial steps of your IAS preparation that can lead you towards being a successful IAS officer in qualifying upcoming UPSC examination.