IAS Preparation Guide for Beginners

Today’s world is all about competition, when it comes to civil services exam like IAS, IFS, IPS there is a huge competition among the students. If you aspire to become an IAS Officer, then take it as a challenge and start preparing for your exams by working hard and smart. IAS is the All India civil service, which is similar to IPS and IFS – A highly respected career field.

The candidate should be more talented, bold, punctuality, sincerity and brave to get selected for this post. TheIndian Administrative Service–IAS exam is a civil services examination, conducted by the UPSC – Union Public Service Commission all over the India. It is considered as one of the most difficult competitive exams.

Eligibility Criteria for IAS exams

The basic criteria required for IAS exam are the age limit of 25-30 years and the number of attempts is 6.The candidate who appears for this exam should graduate from any recognized university.

IAS Syllabus

The syllabus for IAS competitive exam includes Indian Politics, Geography, History, Environmental Science, General Knowledge and other subjects related to World History, Indian Society and etc.

The IAS exam pattern has divided into 3 stages:

• Prelims have 2 papers for 200 marks each,
• Mains have 9 papers for 300 marks each

The personality test is for those candidates, who have qualified both in Prelims and Main exams. This is mainly for testing the candidate’s knowledge, personality, aptitude, leadership qualities, general awareness, interests in handling responsibilities and problems solving.

Here are few preparation tips for beginners.

➔ Collect all the relevant information from the respective official web pages including exam timetable, application form, last date for submission, model Paper, etc.

➔ Start your preparations by collecting all general knowledge books, social studies books, model papers, sample papers, previous year papers by approaching coaching centers.

➔ Take a proper advice from your seniors, lectures, and friends, who are much thorough with the exam pattern and UPSC syllabus.

➔ The newspaper is the best guide for IAS preparation.  Make a regular habit of reading the newspaper and make a note of all important points.

➔ Practice number of model papers, solve more questions from UPSCbooks.

➔ Practice makes a man perfect. The more you practice; you are more comfortable with questions and can perform well in your Exams.

➔ Use the tips, guidelines, and shortcuts given by your lectures. Take an advice from your seniors and toppers.

➔ Have a brief study on different guides or books, as there are chances of repetition of questions.

➔ Try to cover the complete syllabus by dividing the notes into several parts, which helps in completing syllabus in a very short time period.

➔ Stop all the unnecessary activities during the study hour. For e.g. – stop messaging or chatting with your friends, etc.

Students can start preparing and appear for this exam at different stages. It can be from class 10, class 12, during their graduation or during their career. There are many coaching centers available with highly experienced guides, who provide better coaching even through online.

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