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    What should I study during my College for civil Services exam?

    I am am engg. student(2 sem). What should I study at this stage for the prep of upsc. Or I shod wait few more year n conc on engg. . My main aim is to crack upsc. Plz suggest

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    Re: What should I study during my College for civil Services exam?

    Dear, first complete your engineering. Concentrate on your engineering & don't take in backlogs.

    Because to appear in civil service, you must be a graduate from recognized university.

    You belongs to technical course, so, after completion of your technical course in engineering, you can appear in civil service exam.

    In your final year also you can apply for this exam.

    You must not have any backlogs & must have passed your graduation with engineering.

    Age limit is 21-30 years .There is also upper age limit reservation available to SC/ST, O.B.C candidates.

    Indian Civil Service exam consists of three phases.

    1)Preliminary exam
    2)Main exam
    3)Interview

    If you are so much interested in civil service then concentrate on these topics:-
    Geography
    Indian history
    National movements
    General Ability
    Current national & international events
    General science
    Comprehension
    Economics
    Reasoning
    Decision Making
    Indian polity and government
    English language

    And for interview phase make your English communication skill effective.
    Try to pronounce each & every word correctly.

    You can also read some effective books for civil service exam.

    NCERT � Ancient India, Medieval India, Modern India
    Yojana
    World Focus
    Science and Technology in India � Spectrum
    Constitution of India by Bakshi
    The Economic Times, Business Standard

    good luck

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    Re: What should I study during my College for civil Services exam?

    Yes I think first complete your graduation and then you can always dedicate and streamline your efforts to only civil services preparation as because engg and civil services preparation differ as for civil services you have to study social sciences and general knowledge to a very large extent.So,for the time being it's too early to start the same.Study engg and with that you can apply for IES(Indian Engineering Service) from 4th year itself.After completing graduation,you can apply for IAS,IES and other upsc exams.Good Luck!

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    Re: What should I study during my College for civil Services exam?

    u can start ur preparation now itself. but for 2-3 hrs/day.

    CIVIL SERVICE exam has

    preliminary exam
    main exam
    interview

    for prelims

    paper 1 general studies
    paper 2 english,reasoning,aptitude

    for main u have two optinal subjects.

    first u prepare for prelims
    collect model papers for english. down Load NCERT books for ENGLISH from www.ncert.nic.in
    refer R.S.AGARWAL for reasoning & aptitude.
    understand each & every topic in aptitude & try to solve problems.

    at the same time dont forget ur studies. it is very important.

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    Re: What should I study during my College for civil Services exam?

    refer some books of MCQ series as mentioned:
    General-Science.jpg
    General Science (MCQ Series)
    Language: English

    Geogrpahy-and-Environmnet.jpg
    Geography & Environment (MCQ Series)
    Language: English

    Indian-Economy-Indian-Year-.jpg
    Indian Economy & Indian year book

    Indian-History.jpg
    Indian History

    Indian-Polity.jpg
    Indian Polity

    Other books are
    -General Mental Ability Logical Reasoning & Analytical Ability (MCQ Series)
    -Data Interpretation & Data Sufficiency (MCQ Series

    for more books visit upscportal.com/civilservices/books

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    Re: What should I study during my College for civil Services exam?

    Hello friend,

    If you want to take my suggestion then I would like to tell you that
    whatever you are doing right now,do it from your core of your heart.

    First you have to acquainted with the Civil service exam
    The pattern of the exam etc.

    The Civil service exam has three parts
    1)Preliminary exam
    2)Main exam
    3) Interview
    you have to give focus on some particular subjects viz.

    History
    Geography
    General Ability
    Current Affairs
    General Science
    Comprehension
    Economics
    English
    Reasoning etc
    you will get the details about civil service exam attached below.
    Attached Files

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    Re: What should I study during my College for civil Services exam?

    being a college student u need to work upon ur general knowledge
    current affairs
    history-indian+world
    geography
    politics
    psychology
    economics
    basic sciences
    mathematics
    reasoning
    these will help u crack upsc

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    Re: What should I study during my College for civil Services exam?

    Dear friend,
    As of now you can concentrate on your engineering course as they require lot of hard work.
    But as you are so eager to crack the Civil Service exams ,you should keep studying the ARTS subjects such as INDIAN HISTORY,GEOGRAPHY AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION,as these form the core of the Preliminary and Mains exams.
    Also keep yourself updated with all sorts of general knowledge and current affairs.

    This will be enough for you as of now.
    Good Luck.

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    Re: What should I study during my College for civil Services exam?

    dear you are a engineering student that's great but after completing your engineering you can apply for civil service exam bcoz for this exam you will have to graduate from recognized university.

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