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If you are still in your intermediate second year i.e in your class 12 then I won't recommend you to start your UPSC preparation right now because class 12th is very important  and in this year you need to work hard to score well in your 12th board examination so that you can get admission in a good college for your graduation. If you want to become in IAS officers then you need to clear UPSC civil services examination and to be eligible for that you need to be at least a graduate so what you can do is start your preparation for UPSC during your graduation if you can manage with it otherwise after completing your graduation.

Anyway,

If you still want to study for UPSC preparation in your to 12th itself then I would recommend you to first complete your 12th board examination syllabus and then what you can do is start with class 6th - 12th History Civics geography books .

Follow the below tips to prepare well for your UPSC  examination whenever you start your preparation ( during graduation or after it) :-

-----------) To start your preparation  first of all understand the examination pattern and go well through  syllabus :-

>>>> Examination pattern :- UPSC examination has 3 stages listed below :-

• prelims exam :- it is objective paper and is of qualifying nature , there are 2 papers in prelims

• Mains exam. :- it is descriptive /written examination . There are a total of 9 papers in Mains examination

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

To know exam pattern in detail visit :- https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc

>>>> syllabus :- In prelims, your paper 1 general studies  1 in which  you have History, Indian Polity, Geography, Environment, Current Affairs, Science and technology, etc. Your paper 2 in prelims is general studies II or CSAT in which you have reasoning, Maths, English, Hindi, etc. Similarly, you can check the complete syllabus of both prelims and mains at

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias-syllabus

---------) Top books which you can follow for UPSC examination preparation are listed below subject wise:-

HISTORY

*NCERT XI (Ancient & Medieval)

*NCERT XII (Modern Indian History)

*Facets of Indian Culture Spectrum

*From Plassey to Partition - A History of Modern India

Indian Art & Culture

*Indian Art & Culture - Nitin Singhania

Polity

*NCERT IX-XII

*Indian Polity M Laxmikanth

Geography

*NCERT VI X (Old Syllabus)

*NCERT XI, XII (New Syllabus)

*Certificate Physical Geography G C Leong

World Atlas

Economics

NCERT XI

*The Indian Economy Sanjiv Verma

*Indian Economy by Ramesh Singh

*Economic Development & Policies in India Jain & Ohri

Environment

*Class XII Biology (last 5 chapters)

*Environment by Shankar IAS Academy

International Relations

*NCERT XII (Contemporary World Politics)

*Current Affairs ( read newspaper )

To get the complete list of books go through

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/books-for-upsc-ias

- ---------) Discipline is the key to crack UPSC, so you need to make a routine/ time table and follow it .

----------)Read newspaper like the Hindu or Indian Express  and magazines like Yojana, Kurukshetra, Economic and Political Weekly  to keep yourself updated with the current events and issues.

----------) take short breaks in between your studies, studying continuously can be brain tiring and it becomes difficult to focus and study with concentration, so take breaks to relax and refresh your brain otherwise you won't be able to retain whatever you read.

-----------)Choose your optional subject wisely , choose the subject you have interest in.

----------)Make short notes for each subject, these will be your life saviour and will help you in your revisions a lot as syllabus is wide

----------)Set daily goals like I have to cover these many topics today, weekly goals like I have to  cover these chapters this week and practice their questions too, by the end of this week and similarly set monthly goals to cover the syllabus and meet them without any fail.

----------)Revise :- there's no point of preparing for the exam if you couldn't recall anything in the UPSC Examination so you should stress on revision as well.

----------) Your mains examination is in written, so you need to work your speed and also work on improving how to present the knowledge you have on paper, so answer writing practicing should be your priority

----------)Solve previous year question papers and mock test papers ;- You should solve these , it will give you idea of types of questions asked and their difficulty level and will help you a lot.

----------)Also work on your communication skills and personality development as it plays an important role in your interview round.

For more tips go through

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-upsc-ias

Thankyou

Hello aspirant.

Hope you are doing well in your life. See for the preparation of upsc you don't need to have something any specific graduation or specific subject. For upsc you can choose any subject according to your preference and can give exam according to that only.

For ease many people choose bachelor in humanities subject as it coincide with most of the upsc syllabus. But you can do your graduation from any stream in which you feel good.

Best of luck!

Good luck!

Dear aspirant !

Hope you are doing great ! Agriculture is a good subject as an optional ,also you must work hard for it but many toppers took subject like hindi, political etc ,and you decided to take a different subject ,however I am not saying that you won't qualify with this optional I am just want to say you will find some difficulties in this subject.

And for daily writing practice as all of experts says attempt mock test as many as you can .Go to different coaching ,attempt their daily sets ,it will help you a lot .

Here is everything about upsc 2022 ,you can once visit here;

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias-application-form .

Hope it helps you!

Thank you!

Have a nice day!

Hello there

Hope you are doing well. It's a very good to listen you're going to start preparing for upsc cse exam along with your studies.

So coming to the question for giving upsc cse exam as you must be knowing that there's no any specific stream. So if you want to do bachelor in arts do BA hons in that subject which you want to make your optional subject in upsc cse mains exam. It will be helping you as the subject you studied for 3 years then definitely you'll be having edge upon it and you can excel.

Hope it helps!

Thank you!

Dear aspirant!

Hope you are doing well ! It is not possible to do two different things at a time ,If you want to become an IAS officer also then for that you have to do a lot of hardwork and have to leave your art passion for sometime , if you become an IAS then there will lot of responsibility on your shoulder ,you will not able to time time for other thing.So choose one ,choose best!

Hope it helps you!

Thanks!

Hey Aspirant,

It's so good see that you have already decided to become an IAS officer at this age.  Now if you have decided to pursue engineering degree I still believe that you should not compromise with college so you don't need to drop an year , just go for the best college you are getting at this rank. And prepare for your UPSC CSE exam .

For your reference I am providing you with a link to predict a college through JEE Mains rank

https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?utm_source=qna&utm_medium=jee_cp

I hope this helps!!

Hello there

See to become an IAS officer you need to qualify the civil services examination conducted by UPSC (Union Public Service Commission).The exam is conducted to recruit various civil servants in different sectors of the government such as IAS IPS IFS and other Central government services of allied services.

To be eligible for UPSC CSE examination you need not to be any specific graduate from whatever stream you are you can give this exam so just worked on building a strong Foundation read standard books related to it master the current affairs and firstly know about the exam firstly for that you can refer the UPSC CSE website.

Hope it helps!

Thank you!

Hey there

Good to see that you are thinking a very great thing to become an IAS officer. See to be eligible to sit in an upsc cse exam you must have at least a graduation degree in any stream from any recognised university.

That doesn't matters online/offline/open or regular.

So be clear that you are totally eligible just start your preparation and keep going.

Best of luck!

Thank you!

Hello,

Kindly post your query in English language instead of posting it in your regional language as the probability of answer and information you seek on your query becomes very low when you post it in your regional language. From your query the only thing I can understand is you wish to know something about IAS examination. It would be helpful if you can be more specific about the thing you wish to know about and kindly post it in English language.

Thank you