UPSC IAS Exam Analysis 2021 - Prelims trend Analysis, weightage, Cut off

Hello,

For beginners who are completely new to the domain of economics, go through NCERTs book for gaining the understanding of the fundamentals, the content is written is easy to understand language, and there are many good creators in YouTube as well who have uploaded these lessons as well, so if you're someone who feel more comfortable in understanding concepts through audio-video medium, you can refer this, other than that personally I have found Indian Economy by Ramesh Singh to be a great book as all the topics are covered in elaborative manner, and the language too is easy to comprehend, you can also refer Indian Economy by Sanjiv Verma which is equally a good option, other than this supplement your preparation with budget and economic survey, you can go through yojana magazine, and the economic edition of pratiyogita darpan too is quite good, if you have time you can go through that, even the regular book which comes out every month is pretty good for preparation of any compeitiive exam.

For civil service exam you need to graduate as per eligibility criteria for exam

if you do m.a then it's not problem you go for it and make focus on subjects liks which is in IAS exam like history , political science, geography etc

and learn it you can go on upsc website download your optional subject previous year question papers and try to solve it

If you need more you go on byju's IAS ,vision etc website and attend sessions which is conducted by him

Hi

You can choose any of science ,commerce or arts stream based on your interest after your 10th for your 11th and 12th and then for graduation if you want to become an IAS officer.

This is because,

to become an IAS officer you need to clear UPSC civil services examination and to be eligible for UPSC  examination there is no compulsion to have done 10+2 in a particular stream , also there's no compulsion to be a graduate in a particular subject, all you need to be eligible is that:-

you should be a graduate in any discipline and 21- 32 years old  , so you are free to do 10+2 and graduation in any subject.You can check upsc eligibility criteria at https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias-eligibility-criteria/amp

But yes,

choosing Arts or the humanities in your 11 and 12th and graduation can be really helpful for your UPSC  examination, this is because in Arts you will be learning subjects like history , polity etc which are a part of the UPSC syllabus so it will help you in your upsc examination.

To help you further here's a brief of your UPSC exam pattern

UPSC civil services examination has 3 stages listed below :-

******prelims exam :- it is objective paper and is of qualifying nature , so you just  need to at least qualify it to be eligible for mains examination, the score /marks obtained by you in your prelims examination is not added up or used in your final merit. Your prelims exam consist of 2 papers: -

-) general studies 1

-) general studies II ( csat )

You get 2 hours for each paper

******Mains exam. :- it is descriptive /written examination . There are a total of 9 papers  which are listed below:-

-) compulsory indian language.

-) english

-) essay

-) general studies I

-) general studies II

-) general studies III

-) general studies IV

-) optional I

-) optional II

The compulsory indian language and english are qualifying in nature . You just need to qualify them. The marks obtained by you in these two papers will not be counted towards merit list.

******Interview :- After qualifying mains, you have to go through interview round, and it is more of test of your personality rather than knowledge.

For detailed information , go through

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc

Thankyou