How helpful are chronicle's and magazine's in Civils preparation? Suggest few best chronicles and magazines for same.

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tell me how helpful are chronicles and magazines in civils preparation? suggest best

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Hello,

Civil services chronicle is a good magazine and you must read/study all its issues. But, it is not sufficient alone. You must also read Pratiyogita Darpan, a good nwspaper like The Hindu or The Indian Express and other magazines like Yojana, Kurushetra, Science Reporter etc.

Thanks,
goyalk

Here's the best magazines:

CST = Civil Service Times
PD= Pratiyogita Darpan

These magazines provide you information on current affairs, truckload of coaching class advertisements on every second page and useless clich�d topper interviews.
In the 90s era, magazines were important because preliminary exam used to be current affairs heavy (sports, awards, places and persons in news etc). Nowadays not so much.
Besides, the level of current affairs questions in the mains examination, requires that you follow the newspapers rather these magazines. However magazines still have some utilities because

1. Helps you fill up the gap in your notes. e.g. if some topic was not covered in newspaper, or in case you missed noticing some important development.
2. Saves you the trouble of following sports related News everyday.

But keep in mind the magazine publishers cover the news-item is still from the 90s mindset. They throw just way too much names,dates and numbers at you. So it�d be better if you just noted down keywords in separate diary (especially for science-tech part) e.g. We are not interested in knowing the exact height and weigh of satellite, we only need to know its function or use.

Each magazine has following structure

1. National affairs
2. International affairs
3. Science-tech
4. Economy
5. Persons and Places in news
6. Some �filler� articles for the sake of filling pages, because they couldnot find more coaching class ad sponsers..
7. Usually doctored and ghost written topper interviews

Friend, magazines and chronicals play a major role in the preparation of UPSC Examination.These magazines helps us to know about news of national and international level, new appointments, new books & their authors, sports activities, awards and person in news.You can take the help of following magazines in this regard: # Competition Success Review # Pratiyogita Darpan # Yojana # Outlook # India Today