When to choose our mains optional subjects? After prelims or before prelims?

When to choose our optional subjects? After prelims or before prelims?
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Dear

According to me you should selected your optional subject before the preliminary exam even it should selected when you thinks about the civil service exam and start the preparation for the exam. Preparation of the civil service exam is a long process not the short path. So you select your subject earlier and start the preparation.

Upsc give the subject list and select your optional subject from the list:-
Agriculture
Management
Animal Husbandry & Vet nary
Science
Mathematics
Anthropology
Mechanical Engineering
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
Zoology
Any language subject
Following subject do not took together
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
Best of luck for the exam

Hello there,

Initially, before prelims when you apply for the exam you are asked to fill in your tentative optional subjects(this is just to put an estimate on the number of people who opt for different subjects.)

Once you've cleared your prelims, you are supposed to fill another application form for the mains, that is when you have to fill the exact optionals that you want for the exam.

Cheers!!

Hi

UPSC exams has three stages;

i)Preliminary Exam

ii)Main Exam

iii)Interview

I am not sure about that the subjects are choosen before or after the preliminary exams.

But from my point of view the Subjects are choosed before the preliminary exams.

For more information about the exams you can visit the UPSC website:http://www.upsc.gov.in

You should make the choice of Mains Optional Subjects before your Prelims/CSAT exam.

First,this helps in adequate preparation of the Mains exams as it is very subjective & vast in nature.

Secondly,the time between the results of Prelims and Mains exam is very less and it becomes very difficult

to prepare optional subjects well in such a short time period.

So one should select the optional sujects of the mains exam before hand and simultaneously prepare for

Prelims and Mains exams.

Prelims exam is simpler compared to Mains exams which far more tough & vast.

Prelims exam is only a qualifying exam to shortlist candidates for the mains exams.

The marks of the Mains Written and Interview score is considered to prepare the final Merit list.So to secure a good rank in the CSE

one must do well in the Mains Exam and interviews.

Dear friend,

you have to fill the optional subjects at the time of application form of prelims
examination.

you have to fill the optional subjects in the application form of prelims examination.

infect first you should choose the subjects and than think about the examination.

you can choose the subjects as your optional subjects in the list given below.


Optional subjects:

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


Literatures:

Arabic, Assamese, Bengali, Chinese, English, French, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,Konkani, Marathi, Malayalam, Manipuri, Nepali,Oriya, Pali, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Sindhi,Tamil, Telugu, Urdu.


But always remember the following combinations not allowed 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 literature.




good luck@@

Dear Friend,

As far as i am concerned you should choose the MAINS Optional subjects before the preliminary exam instead of choosing it after the prelims.

This is because if you choose the optional subjects before the prelims then you will have ample time to prepare well for the MAINS Exam too but if you go to choose the optional subjects after the prelims then you have just 90 days to prepare.

So , I Advise you to choose the optional subjects before the preliminary examination.

This is the information i have to the best of my knowledge regarding your query. Hope the information will help you to the extent you want.

hi,
UPSC EXAM CONTAINS THREE STAGES;-
PRELIMINARY EXAM
MAIN EXAM
INTERVIEW

before prelims you have to apply your optional subject.
if you have cleared prelims,then you have apply real optional subject in for mains exam.
i hope you understand it.

thank you........

dear friend,

according to mine knowledge you have to choose optional subjects before the Civil Services Prelims exam because while filling the forum you are asked to select optional subjects for Mains.

you must choose optional subjects on the basis of your knowledge in the subjects and your interest in the subjects. because it will be beneficial for you for preparation and cracking the exam.


Good Luck....

you should choose optional subject before mains exam.
Because, the question standard for optional subject is that of honours degree level, that is higher level than bachelor's degree and lower than master's degree.
Preliminary exam is conducted on may month.
Result on last week of July or 1st week of august
Mains exam is on october month.
So time gap between prelims and mains is hardly 4 months. Within this time gap, you cannot prepare for 2 optional subjects in the standard of honor's degree level. Plus in these 4 months you have to concentrate more on current affairs, which forms 70% of questions in General studies paper.
So it is impossible to study optionals after mains.
Take a firm decision on optionals well in advance before prelims and start preparing. ALL THE BEST