Tips to Prepare for Civil Services Examination

Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) conducts the civil services examination every year in India. If you have chosen Sociology or History as your optional subjects for the exam, then this article will help you find the appropriate resources required to prepare for it. Fortunately, your BA 1st-year sociology book can aid your preparation for the sociology optional paper. But if history is your optional paper, then B.A. History books can cater to the preparation.

You can be an IAS, IPS, or IFS officer after clearing the UPSC exam. But as the syllabus is huge getting the right kind of guidance and selecting the best books makes all the difference.Apart from your hard work and dedication, your books and study materials also play a very important role in clearing the exam.

Finding the best books that aid your preparation could be a tedious job. Asking thousands of people for suggestion may not always lead you anywhere. But buying books online can save much of your time. The reviews help you to narrow down the list of publishers and land the best book available for your optional papers.

Here are some tips which you can follow to kick start your preparation. 

• Buy your books online: Get your copy of BA history books, or BA 1st-year sociology book, from an online store. Choosing the best book can be difficult. But the best part about buying books online are the reviews. Buying online can save you from buying the wrong publisher.

• Consistency is the key: As the preparation is very lengthy and overwhelming, aspirants need to be fully committed to the preparation. The only way you can fully commit is by self-motivating themselves. If you are self-motivated in really being the officer, helping the people of your country, then you can keep going with the preparation for long. 

• Practice: Practicing answer writing is the only way to clear the cut-offs of the main exam. Nowadays, all the exams are MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions) based. But in the UPSC mains exam, it is the opposite way round. You have to write answers of 250 marks on each paper. So, you can imagine how much practice is required to score well in this paper.

• Keeping yourself updated with the current affairs: Reading newspapers is equally important for those who want to clear government jobs exams. Questions from current affairs are the favorite part of the UPSC department to ask in the exam. Even if a direct question does not come, providing examples from current affairs always carries the brownie points for the candidates.

Thus, these are some of the crucial points for someone who is planning to write the UPSC or any other civil service examinations.

Lastly, a candidate should be determined enough to believe in themselves that they can crack the exam. For reference, you can always listen to the officers who themselves achieved this and motivate the coming generation to take this leap of faith and focus on the preparation. Don’t worry, and all the very best for your preparations.