UPSC Anthropology Books 2021 - Best Anthropology Books for UPSC IAS, Preparation Tips

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If your focus is only directed towards appearing for UPSC exam, then it's best you go ahead with humanities stream, so you can choose subjects as per your preference, for example with UPSC it helps if you do your graduation in subjects like political science, public administration, history, geography, economics, even law  is great choice, as there  is overlap of general studies with optional papers as well, however I would like to emphasis if you're not sure and you want to go for back up plans such  as medical, commerce, engineering etc you can go ahead with option also, in upsc people from diverse backgrounds  qualify this exam, so let's say you're not sure, and you're an engineering aspirant, you can go ahead with BTech, and also earn few years of experience if you want to explore your domain further and after that also you can appear for UPSC, there are candidates who have had relevant years of work experiences and then appeared for UPSC, so the choice differs from person to person, and one thing remember that no matter which stream you choose in 11th or graduation, you'll be eligible to appear for UPSC as there is no set criteria of belonging to specific stream, but yes the subject combinations at 10+2 and graduation of humanities do help to a  large extent.

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If you want to become IAS then first of all you need to complete your graduation in any discipline from a recognized university, and you can also apply in final year, you need to be 21 years old as well, 11th is too early to start the preparation, right now your focus should be on studies and thinking more about what discipline you want to pursue your graduation, if you choose humanities then it'll become comparatively easier to deal with as you'll anyway  covering the core part of UPSC syllabus, some of the things which you can do initiate the preparation is firstly be acquainted with the syllabus, go through it and previous year paper to understand what are the demands of exam, what all areas are to cover  while studying, start off with NCERTs and the move towards other standard books and keep resources limited, revision is the key here, this is something you can do in gradual manner from college itself, but it isn't recommended at all that you go through these steps right now as you're in 11th, so focus on studies and doing well in it.

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For IAS and CDS, it is necessary to complete graduation. However according to the criteria for CDS, it is mandatory for a student to have a degree in Engineering along with physics and mathematics as mandatory subjects in Class 12th specially for Air force. Thus, it is suggested for you to take PCM in 12th as it will keep your options for all the career possibilities.

You can refer these links for UPSC CDS and UPSC IAS for more detailed information: https://competition.careers360.com/exams/cds

https://competition.careers360.com/exams/upsc-civil-services-exam

I hope this helped you.

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see cutoff score fluctuate every year and it depends on certain factors like number of applicants, students category, choice of stream and som on. electronics and communication is the second most demanding stream after computer science. based on previous years statistics of cutoff , at this score you have less chances to secure seat in any of the nits in ece stream. so try to bring score above 95 percentile in next sessions exam, nits has 50% seat reserve for domicile candidates, remaining seats  fills by AIR rank.

To know about complete list of probable college name, based on your score, category please use Careers360 college predictor tool,

https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

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To become an IAS Officer you must complete 12 th standard and should do graduation from any stream from any recognised University or any affiliated College. You can do B.A. General or B.A. Honour degree. But doing B.A. honour would be preferable.

To get more information about this go through below given link.

https://www.careers360.com/careers/ias-officer

Hope this helps you.

Good Luck!!