Parents today, dream of their children to pursue civil services and become an IAS officer. Civil services have been seen as an illustrious career where Indian youth wonders to one’s self-esteem and could accelerate the family repute in the society. Ever since India’s independence, the picture has not changed much and why it should be, when there are thousands of aspirants even today who are burning the mid-night oil to make it through the hallowed corridors of bureaucracy. The number of aspirants who are checking their luck in this hall of fame has been growing immensely.
Civil services examination has emerged as a sign of repute and lack of information about the same could be hazardous for any of the students. For those who have even the minutest doubt must seek for the help of experienced counselors. For example- Civil services examination poses a restriction of 4 attempts for General category and 7 attempts for OBC; however SC/ST are subjected to no restriction as far as attempting the examination is considered. Physically challenged candidates are not subjected to any relaxation until and unless they belong to SC/ST category. Talking of reservation, there are some backward category candidates who are included in the OBC list of states but not in the Central list of OBCs. These aspirants are not considered eligible for any concession.
As we all know, there are lakhs of candidates who apply to appear in the preliminary examination but there are only a few thousands who actually appear in the examination. There are many candidates who worry whether this will be counted as an attempt or no. But the fact is it will not be considered as an “attempt” only if he/she has not attempted even a single paper in the preliminary examination. India is a vast country and it is not possible for all aspirants to pursue their graduation from regular colleges. Hence, Indian government allows those too, who have pursued their graduation from open school/ University, only if the school/University is recognized and the candidate possesses all the educational qualification prescribed for the examination.
In the preliminary as well as the Mains examination, one has to clear the compulsory and optional subjects. Candidates from any stream can give the civil services examination and it is not necessary that they have to choose only those subjects that they studied during their higher secondary exams or at graduation-level. A candidate can choose an optional subject, which he has not studied at graduate/PG level. Also, it is not necessary to take the same optional subject in the Main Exam, which the aspirant opted in the prelims Examination.
Civil services examination offers the freedom to write the exam in English or any one of the Eighth schedule languages, however the students will not be allowed to write different papers in different languages, i.e. they have to choose a single mode of language and write in the same in all the exams. Additionally, he/she will be subjected to speak in the same language during the personal interview session. Usually, one selects the optional subjects that one is familiar with, or has studied till their graduation level. In case they are not comfortable with any subject they must not select the subject for optional examination.
Over here it is to be added that the choice for choosing the optionals is based not only on the interest of the student but also on the study material available in the market. There are many students from science/engineering background who opted for subjects such as history, sociology, anthropology, geography, political science, psychology and public administration since the allied study material can be availed easily from the market. Additionally, it is important to understand, that if your have not gone through the subject since a long time, then it may act as a barrier for cracking technical subject where freshers perform better. Since, the competition is amongst the people who opted for the same subjects, so one needs to top his/her subject to succeed in the examination
Prior to choosing an optional, analyze the syllabus of previous year and the question papers to check the past trends, if you can, get feedback from seniors. So it depends on how much time a students spends as well as their liking of the subjects. Also, it is important to note the overlap in subjects such as sociology and public administration; history and political science etc.
No comments:
Post a Comment