How to select optional subjects for UPSC Civil Services Exam?

How to select optional subjects for UPSC Civil Services Exam?
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You Can Use the following Subjects


UPSC Main Examination - Optional Subjects
General Studies
Essay
English Qualifying
Indian Languages
Mathematics
Agriculture
Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science
Botany
Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Commerce
Economics
Electrical Engineering
Geography
Geology
Indian History
Law
Mathematics
Management
Mechanical Engineering
Medical Science
Philosophy
Physics
Political Science
Psychology
Public Administration
Sociology
Statistics
Zoology
Anthropology
Arabic
Assamese
Bengali
Bodo
Chinese
Dogri
English
French
German
Gujarati
Hindi
Kannada
Kashmiri
Konkani
Maithili
Malayalam
Manipuri
Marathi
Nepali
Oriya
Pali
Persian
Punjabi
Russian
Sanskrit
Santali
Sindhi
Tamil
Telugu
Urdu




Main Examination - Optional Subjects

Paper-I	One of the Indian Languages to be selected by the candidate from the 22 languages included in the VIIIth Schedule to the Constitution (Qualifying Paper)	300 Marks
Paper-II	English (Qualifying Paper)	300 Marks
Paper-III	Essay [in the medium you choose]	200 Marks
Papers IV & V	General Studies (300 Marks for each paper)	600 Marks
Papers VI, VII, VIII & IX	Any two subjects (each having 2 papers) to be selected from the prescribed optional subjects (300 marks for each paper)	1200 Marks
Total Marks for Written Examination		2000 Marks
Interview Test [in the medium you choose]		300 Marks
Grand Total		2300 Marks

Hi,

UPSC Civil Services Exam provides a list of optional subjects for Main Exam as follows:

Optional Subjects:

� Agriculture
� Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science
� Anthropology
� Botany
� Chemistry
� Civil Engineering
� 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
� Literature of one of the following languages:
� Arabic, Assamese, Bodo, Bengali, Chinese, Dogri, English, French, German,
Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri,
Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Pali, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi,
Tamil, Telugu, Urdu.



You cannot select the following combinations of subjects:

(a) Political Science & International Relations and Public Administration;
(b) Commerce & Accountancy and Management;
(c) Anthropology and Sociology;
(d) Mathematics and Statistics;
(e) Agriculture and Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science.
(f) Management and Public Administration;
(g) Of the Engineering subjects, viz., Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering
and Mechanical Engineering�not more than one subject.
(h) Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science and Medical Science.

Suggestion:

You can select optional subjects based on your qualification. The subject in which you are most confident can be selected and can write for the Main Examination. So that you can score well and easily pass through Civil Services Mains Exam.

All the best�

Hello Friend !!

How to Select Optional Subjects in UPSC Civils Exams :

Firstly, you need make a variance that in which subjects you are good enough and in which you aren't.

Select the subjects for the examination in which you are fair enough to answer many.

And the subjects which you fee tough, leave those for optional subjects.

And also, please do not leave those subjects which has more weight-age in the examination.

This can reduce your over all score.

Here are the List of Optional Subjects :

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

Subject Combinations are not allowed in UPSC Exams are :


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.


Combination of two literatures.


I wish you a very good luck for your career !!

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Hi Aspirant,

Friend it is really good and serious question for preparation of civil service exam.

Several candidates are confused to take decision about the selection of optional subject.

You should choose the optional subject very carefully because your success is depends upon these subject.

Here I am giving you some tips for the selection of optional subject. Hope it will be helpful for you.

You should choose only those subjects where you are confident and well familiar from the core of subject.

The exam standard is very high and you will have to deep study of subject, so you should have great interest in subject and eagerness of study.

Don�t choose those subject which are unfamiliar and you are not interested.

You should try to choose combination of subject which are useful for the study of other subject.

You should give first preference to your interest to choose the subject.

Here I am providing you the list of valid optional subject by UPSC for mains exam.

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

Best of Luck�

Dear

The candidate are confused to take decision about the selection of optional subject.

You should choose the optional subject very carefully because success is depends upon these subject.

you should only those subject in which you are interested. and confidential.

You should choose combination of subject which are useful for the study of other subject.

List of Optional Subject:

Agriculture
Economics
Geography
Botany
Animal husbandry
Indian History
Anthropology
Civil Engineering
Commerce and Accountancy
Management
Physics
Law
Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
Medical Science
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Statistics
Goology

Best of Luck