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In life we sometimes meet few people who though meet you by chance and yet left indelible impact on your life journey and have positive impact on your thought process. I consider myself one of the fortunate man who has been provided such an opportunity to meet several such personalities. One  such personality  is our teacher  Upendra sir , away from coaching  “mandi” of Rajendra  nagar who make students love sociology. I have used word love rather than teaching, because this is what seems a fit and anybody whom I met has same thing to say, if he ever met Sir . Though, I must confess that I wasn’t lucky enough to attend his lectures due to my official duties but yes, due to his kind gestures, I had few interactions with him in the course of preparation for mains 2011 and following discussions on tests. When I first met him, my voice was almost blocked and I thought of him as some colonel of NDA.  So followed the discussion which started by lambasting asp...

         When UPSC  announced for introduction of CSAT in November 2009, there was   widespread   anticipation about its structure and  content until it finally conducted the CSAT prelims on 12 June 2011. What perhaps UPSC has thought about its introduction was that it would lead to reduced dependency of aspirants on coaching. But we saw that with its introduction, a new range of market players emerged who boasted about being 100 percentiles or 10 times CAT qualifier. Sometimes it creates confusion in my mind and any other aspirant preparing CSAT for first time that why they are showing their Management aptitude credentials for CSAT as business and administration require entirely different aptitude which is rooted in their basic concept of profit and public service respectively. So, straight forwardly those of us who are preparing for CSAT, please make it clear that this is CSAT  and not  CAT and don’t get carried a...

PAPER – II The best thing about paper 2 is that at the first glance it appears to be a GS paper and this itself is the biggest trap set by UPSC.AS IT IS CONCERNED WITH INDIAN SOCIETY and issues and problems concerning it,so that is the reason for their inclusion in syllabus but as unit 1 (topic- 3 rd ) paper-1 suggest ,there is difference in sociological and comman sense interpretation so it has to be reflected when you attempt the answer and there should be application of sociological theories while answering the problem. What generally haapens is that during course of writing answer our common-sense overpowers sociology and then we complain of poor marks in paper –ii. Secondly there are problems in interpretation of questions itself as UPSC weaves question in such a masterly language that even if we miss one word in question,entire meaning and understanding is changed. As far as references are concerned there are variety of them available so best thing is have your ow...

Sociology is something which matched with my temperament and sometime it becomes difficult for me to differentiate between sociological thought process with  my own sphere of thought  which may be called as  “common-sense” in sociological dictionary but  seems very sociologically relevant.            Coming straight to the references which I used in civil services preparation in my mains exam, let me update that I was a graduate in economics and political science so many topics like those of Marx, political sociology, research methods topics of paper-II were those with which I was aware of and only needed sociological perspective. This myth which I stated in above line was broken once I got hold of HARALOMBOS & HOLBORN  (as per advice of Upendra sir during Mains 2011) as it presented seemingly aware topics in entirely new perspective ie sociological. Secondly it matters less  what you referred...

जैसा की पिछले पोस्ट में पीसीएस से संबन्धित जी०एस० और निबंध व हिन्दी हेतु मेरा अनुभव था उसी परिप्रेक्ष में optionals जो की 800 नंबर के होते है, के बारे में कोई एक-ही strategy नही हो सकती क्यूकि विभिन्न optionals का sylabbus और लोकप्रियता भी आवश्यक निर्धारक है। मेरा स्वयं का अनुभव लोक प्रशासन व समाजशास्त्र तक सीमित है और समाज कार्य के प्रश्न पात्रो का भी अवलोकन किया है।      विषय ( OPTIONALS )- पीसीएस में यह अच्छाई है कि सिलैबस सीमित है और प्रश्न प्रायः उसी से आए है और सेक्शन  A वा B का विभाजन मेन्स में काफी मदद करता है। जैसे साइमन का  decision- मेकिंग है , लोक प्रशासन में LIKERT,Mcgregor नहीं है। बेहतर ये होगा की पिछले 5 वर्षो के प्रश्नो को अछि तरह से लिख के तैयार कर ले और किसी से चेक करा ले। जो लोग आईएएस की तयारी कर रहे है या mains दिया है , उनको ये समस्या होगी की यूपीएससी में अब 200-300 शब्दो के उत्तर लिखने होते है और पीसीएस में 600-700 शब्दो में लिखना है। इसे आप इस तरह से tackle कर सकते है की उसके उत्तर में case studies का , example...

          यू0पी0पी0सी0यस0 द्वारा आयोजित अधीनष्ठ सेवाओ की तैयारी हेतु दो स्थितिया होती है। पहेली जब आप के आई0ए0यस0 के समस्त मौके समाप्त हो गए हो तथा दूसरा जब आप साथ-2 तैयारी कर रहे है। 2012 से चूकि उ0प्र0 में भी सी0सैट0 लागू हो चुका है , इसलिए प्रेलिमस की तैयारी कुछ विशेष अंतर नही है। लेकिन कुछ अंतर है , जैसे पीसीएस में गणित क ज्यादा प्रश्न , हिन्दी के प्रश्न होते है। लेकिन मूलभूत अंतर यह है कि यूपीएससी अनल्टीकल तथा बेसिक प्रश्न और उनका उपयोग पूछता है तथा एमसीक्यू  प्रश्न होते है। जबकि पीसीएस में factual तथा सिंगल ऑप्शन प्रश्न ज्यादा होते है। मेरे व्यक्तिगत 2011 के पीसीएस MAINS अनुभव के आधार पर निम्नांकित संसाधनो का उपयोग लाभकारी होगा। जो कि बहुधा समस्त English/ हिन्दी माध्यम के optional के लिए उपयोगी होगी। सामान्य अधयायन (प्री+मुख्य परीक्षा) – शिल्पी या अरिहंत प्रकाशन के प्रीवीयस पेपर       1- upper पीसीएस- प्रीलिम्स GS       2- upper पीसीएस mains GS       3- lower...

    It has been over ten years since I started reading  THE HINDU  (TH) in my good old days in Raebareli when you get it a day after print. In winter's that could be 2-3 days old and when you get it, you feel like getting medicine after many days. Sometimes my colleagues in office remarked why i took them home when they are of no use being old ones, perhaps what they are can be best understood by the one who appears in mother of all exams i.e. civil services exam of  UPSC  and even-more after 2012 mains exam. So this is how I/We can make best possible use of TH or any other newspaper... The FRONT page gives you glimpse of what all mattered yesterday to the globe and the nation, it is of  less importance as normally it becomes just a narration of various statements ,which is analysed inside in editorials. moving on to, next Pages 2/3 which covers specific regions/nation and makes you aware of current local issues which may not b...