Completed B.Tech in mechanical engineering, presently working in a MNC. Preparing for UPSC 2013 exam. Can anyone suggest me the optional subjects which are not related to engineering or maths subject?

Hi all,
I am a mechanical engineer presently working with a MNC at bangalore.
I am preparing for UPSC 2013 exam. I need your help to select the subjects for the mains exam.

I have completed B.Tech in Mechanical stream . But right now i don't have much interst in technical stuff.
Can you suggest me what subjects can i opt without any engineering or maths subject.

Please give your open opinions.

Waiting for your replies.

Good luck.

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It is strange that as a mechanical engineer you want to take Mechanical subject as your one of the optional subject .

I don't know why but it is not good for you because as you are a mechanical engineer so that you have enough knowledge of mechanical engineering .

It is easy for you to prepare the subject because most of the subjects related to mechanical you already knew so your time is not wasted .

But as you don't want to Mechanical and Maths as your optional subject then you will select the subjects based on your interest .

You can select any two subject from the below list .
Agriculture
Management
Animal Husbandry & Vetinary Science
Anthropology
Botany
Medical Science
Chemistry
Philosophy
Civil Engineering
Physics
Commerce & Accountancy
Political Science & International Relations
Economics
Psychology
Electrical Engineering
Public Administration
Geography
Sociology
Geology
Statistics
Indian History
Law
Zoology

So based on your interest select any two from the above list .

But once again i suggest you to take mechanical as one of your optional subject .

Because as you currently working as a employee so i think you have no time for the preparation so that you should select those subjects in which you take minimum time .

Be careful while choosing the subjects .

best of luck

Hi Aspirant,

Friend you should choose the subject of your desire in which you are keen interested to study.

I don�t know why you don�t want to choose the subject related to engineering.

You completed engineering from mechanical and UPSC include the mechanical subject in the list of optional subjects for mains exam.

Here I write the list of optional subject which you can choose

Agriculture

Animal husbandry & vetinary science

Anthropology

Botany

Chemistry

Civil engineering

Commerce and accountancy

Economics

Geography

Indian History

Law

Management

Mathematics

Mechanical engineering

Medical science

Philosophy

Physics

Political science & international relations

Psychology

Sociology

Statistics

Zoology

You can choose any subject of desire.

If you want to choose non engineering subject then you can choose the history and psychology subjects.

These are good subject for the preparation of civil exam.

You can also choose the subject of geography and public administration.

But final decision should be your own.

So be careful in the selection of optional subject.

It will impact your overall performance.

Best of Luck�

dear friend,

as you said you are from Mechanical Engineering so i would advice you to select your core subjects like Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering. Because you must have knowledge of these subjects which will be helpful for you to crack the exam.

but if you really want that you can't go with your core subjects then i will advice you to select History and Geography as your optional subjects.
because these subjects are easy to learn and easy to crack. Most of the participants choose these subjects as optional subjects.


Good Luck.......

dear friend,

as you are a mechanical engineer than you should choose mechanical engineering as your main subject in mains examination.

because you have proper knowledge about mechanical engineering so you can prep[are it easily and it will be helpful to you in your examination.

but if you don't want to take it as your optional subject than don't worry ,you have many other choices also ,

you can take any two subjects in the list given below.



Optional subjects:

Commerce and Accountancy,
Economics,
Electrical Engineering,
Geography,
Geology,
History,
Law,
Management, Mathematics,
Mechanical Engineering,
Medical Science, Philosophy,
Physics,
Political Science and International Relations,
Psychology,
Public Administration, Sociology,
Statistics,
Zoology Agriculture,
Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science,
Botany,
Chemistry,
Civil Engineering.


The following combinations are not allowed together as optional subject.

Combination of two literatures in
the above list.

Political Science & International

Relations and Public Administration

Commerce and Management

Anthropology and Sociology

Maths and Statistics

Agriculture and Animal Husbandry

and Veterinary Science

Management and Public

Administration

Animal Husbandry & Veterinary

Science and Medical Science

Any two branches of engineering.





good luck @@@@@@@@@

hi

If you do not want to choose the mechanical subjects, then i want to tell you that you are doing a big mistake.

You have done your graduation from the mechanical engineering stream which is one of the best engineering stream in the engineering.

If you choose machanical engineering for the UPSC exam then you can give the IES (Indian Engineering Service).

Which is only for the candidates who are from engineering.

If you do not want to go with mechanical engineering then i would like to tell you that you can choose any of the subjects given below;

*Geography

**History

***Physics

***Chemistry

****Management

*****Agriculture

******Economics

*******Philosophy

*********Law



Thank you........

it is nice that you are mechanical engineer.
according to my view,
you have to select math and subject related to mechanical engineering so that you can easily crack exam.
or choose easy optional subject such as history, geography etc.

good luck...................

hi,when it s theory mark ll be reduced bt in case of problms exact ans ll increase ur score..
all the best