The foremost thing you need to consider while looking for Civil Services like IAS is to make a wise selection of subjects for the Preliminary as well as for the Main Examinations. Often you will have choice of choosing the subjects you are familiar with. Make sure that you choose the subject you are [...]

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The Preliminary Examination consists of two papers of objective type (multiple-choice questions) carrying a maximum of 400 marks. The Question Papers are set in English & Hindi
Civil Services Aptitude Test
The new Recruitment Process of Civil Services Exam is called the CSAT or the Civil Services Aptitude Test.CSAT will not only enable us to [...]

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Books for Paper 1 of IAS Preliminary Examination:
* General Studies Manual by Tata McGraw Hill * India’s Struggle for Independence by Bipin Chandra (for History part) * Geography NCERT text books Class XI and XII * Oxford Student Atlas (for map-based questions * Spectrum’s Indian Economy * General Science NCERT text books Class VIII [...]

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“You have one hour to complete this test!” Does that statement cause you stress? It’s normal. You can let it get the better of you or you can cope. Your choice. Why do some students feel concern when faced with a timed test? Not prepared? Fear? Or just clock anxiety? You can learn to [...]

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Now,the candidates will have to appear in two objective type papers having special emphasis on testing their aptitude for civil services as well as on ethical and moral dimension of decision making under a Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT).
Both these papers having equal weightage will be common to all candidates in place of the [...]

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The right approach to prepare for IAS is that one should begin the preparation of Mains before or at least concurrent with Prelims. We all know that Prelims is only a screening test, but what matters is your performance in Mains, and final outcome of your efforts depend on that. Therefore, you should start [...]

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Many failed and academically poor candidates commit one more mistake of blaming blindly their own faults without fully knowing the facts. In a country like India, where the competition is huge even for a single post of a bank clerk we can imagine the competition for the country’s most prestigious job, i.e., IAS. For [...]

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