Hello,

Some of the best books for UPSC Civil Services are mentioned below:

For General Studies Paper II

Analytical Reasoning – MK Pandey

Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning– RS.Aggarwal

English Comprehension - Yojana, Kurukshetra, Frontline and the newspapers like Indian Express, The Hindu

For General Studies Paper I

Spectrum’s A Brief History of Modern India, by Rajiv Ahir

India’s Ancient Past, by R.S. Sharma

Indian Polity, by Laxmikanth

Introduction to Constitution of India, by Durga Das Basu

For Current Affairs - Manorama Yearbook, Yojana Magazine

Hope this helps!

Cut off marks for both prelims and mains are decided by UPSC after the result of civil services exam but before declaring the final result the cut off marks are released and it is the marks of last candidate who gets selected based on the number of vacancies for respective categories.

the reason behind the difference between cut off marks in various coachings is that they prepare their own answer keys and they release the cut off on the basis of comparison between previous year's results.

ALWAYS GO FOR THE OFFICIAL CUT OFF THROUGH THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF UPSC.

goodluck

Congrats on getting good marks in 12th. So, as you told you gave JEE this year but your rank is not so good for admission in IIT or NIT and you want to become an IAS officer. According to me, you should take admission in graduation in whichever field you want either it is engineering or b.sc from any good university like DU and other many options are available instead of dropping one year. Civil services wants only degree as eligibility. It's not necessary that degree should be from IIT or NIt. So take admission and start preparing for civil services.

Good luck for your future and best wishes

Hello Garima,you can not directly apply for IAS officer just after cpassing class 12 board exams.You have to go through a lot.Firstly,you have to get a degree,be it any degree such as B.Com,B.A honors,B.tech and then you have to prepare for UPSC exams and then if you get selected,they will call you for the interview round and then there's a lot of procedures and at last,if you clear all of them,then finally,you get to become an IAS officer.Keep studying hard.

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Hello Akshay!

The Sarath Chandra IAS academy is in Vijayawada offering UPSC and IAS coaching.

According To Student Reviews, Sarath is a highly qualified individual who is exceptionally good at academics. His passion for teaching lead him to creating this academy, where he takes great care in mentoring IAS aspirants. He motivates the students and encourages them to put in extra efforts which ultimately provides results. 

The batch size is 40-50 and notes, the study material is provided offline, the fee structure and infrastructure is also good.

All the best!

hello aspirant,   To become a civil servant that is there are totally 3 services INDIAN CENTRAL AND STATE . This popular civil service category of IAS comes under category group A - which comprises 24 services like IAS IFS IPS IRS .. are top most indian services . To become an IAS officer or any other cadre of group A one has to appear for Civil service examination conducted by union public service commission .This exam is conducted in three phases

1. PRELIMINARY - CONSISTING OF TWO OBJECTIVE TYPE PAPERS(GENERAL STUDIES PAPER 1AND 2(popularly know as civil service aptitute test CSAT)

2.Main examination consisting of nine papers of coventional essay type, in which two papers are qualifying and remaining 7 papers are counted.

3. These two phases are followed by INTERVIEW (PERSONALITY TEST)

If you qualify in all the three phases you will be a civil servant and your choice of your service depends on your rank , that is , the more you are ranked the more there are chances of you selecting your most preferred cadre.

all the best.

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