TIPS For Political Science Preparation (Optional Subject)

Reading List for Political Science (Prelims and Main)

 
The Constitution of India-D.D. BasuAn Introduction to Political Theory-O.P. GaubaSpectrum's Political Science for PrelimsThe Constitution of India-P.M.Bakshi
Political Theory-Amal Ray, Mohit Bhattacharya
Comparative Politics-Ronald Chilcote
Our Parliament-S.C. Kashyap
History of Political Thought-Subrata Mukherjee, Susheela Ramaswamy
A History of Political Thought-J.P. SudaFoundations of Indian Political Thought-V.R. MehtaModern Political Theory-S.P. Verma
Western Political Thought-R.M. Bhagat
Andrew Heywood-Politics
Andrew Heywood-Political Theory: An IntroductionComparative Politics-J.C. Johari
History of Political Thought- George Sabine
Politics among Nations-Hans Morgenthau

A few tips:
 1. Look up Wikipedia for the latest on world constitutions

2. Combine preparation of Section B of Paper 1 with Indian Polity and History in GS

3. Update your Paper II Section B answers with GS Paper II notes on India and the World and International Organizations

4. Take a look at the Delhi University B.A./M.A. Political Science syllabus/reading lists for references on International Relations

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TIPS For Sociology Preparation (Optional Subject)

Reading List for Sociology (Main)
 Shri. Upendra Gaur’s class notes
Sociology-Tom Bottomore
Sociology-Michael Haralambos
Classical Sociological Theory-George Ritzer
Tribal India-Nadeem Hasnain
Modernization of Indian Tradition-Yogendra Singh
Changing India-Robert Stern

A few tips:
 
1. Refer to IGNOU notes for the new topics introduced in Paper II

2. Make sure you mention case studies in Paper II answers

3. Make good notes on topics like ethnicity, religion, caste, environment, women’s movement, tribal movement, political parties, pressure groups, judiciary, etc. which are common to Political Science, Sociology, GS or Essay as it’ll help you to optimize your preparation.

4. Read the questions carefully in both optionals before answering. More often than not the second part of the questions would require a bit of original thinking beyond what you may have prepared.

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Preliminary Question Paper 2009 - Economics (For Visually Impaired)

Subject           : Economics (For Visually Impaired) (Prelims)

Year                : 2009

Booklet Series :X

File Type         : Pdf

File Size          : 1.1 Mb

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Preliminary Question Paper 2009 - Economics

Subject           : Economics (Prelims)

Year                : 2009

Booklet Series : A

File Type         : Pdf

File Size          : 1.1 Mb

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Preliminary Question Paper 2009 - Civil Engineering

Subject           : Civil Engineering (Prelims)

Year                : 2009

Booklet Series : A

File Type         : Pdf

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Notifications - Current Last Date for Applications Still Due

S.No	Name Of Examination	Date Of Notification (Saturday)	Last Date for Receipt Of Applications (Monday)	Date/Day Of Commencement Of Examination	Duration Of Examination
1	SCRA EXAM, 2011( English / Hindi )	26.03.2011	25.04.2011  (MONDAY)	31.07.2011 (SUNDAY)	1 Day
2	N.D.A. & N.A. EXAM.(II), 2011( English / Hindi )	09.04.2011	09.05.2011   (MONDAY)	21.08.2011 (SUNDAY)	1 Day
3	CISF (ACs) CLDC Exam 2010 & 2011	16.04.2011	16.05.2011 (MONDAY)	19.06.2011 (SUNDAY)

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Calendars For Examinations 2011

Calendars For Examinations 2011

S.No	Name Of The Examinations	Date Of Notification	Last Date For Receipt Of Appliations	Date Of commencement Of Examination	Duration Of Exams
1	Combined Medical Services Exam 2011	11.09.2010	11.10.2010 (MONDAY)	16.01.2011 (SUNDAY)	1 Day
2	C.D.S Exam (I), 2011	25.09.2010	25.10.2010 (MONDAY)	13.02.2011        (SUNDAY)	1 Day
3	N.D.A & N.A Exam (I), 2011	16.10.2010	15.11.2010 (MONDAY)	17.04.2011 (SUNDAY)	1 Day
4	Engineering services Examination, 2011	08.01.2011	07.02.2011(MONDAY)	14.05.2011 (SATURDAY)	3 Days
5	Civil Services (Prel) Exam, 2011	19.02.2011	21.03.2011 (MONDAY)	12.06.2011 (SUNDAY)	1 day
6	Indian Forest Service Exams, 2011	19.03.2011	18.04.2011 (MONDAY)	09.07.2011 (SATURDAY)	10 Days
7	SCRA Exam, 2011	26.03.2011	25.04.2011 (MONDAY)	31.07.2011 (SUNDAY)	1 Day
8	N.D.A & N.A Exam (II), 2011	09.04.2011	09.05.2011 (MONDAY)	21.08.2011 (SUNDAY)	1 Day
9	C.D.S Exam (II), 2011	07.05.2011	06.06.2011 (MONDAY)	18.09.2011 (SUNDAY)	1 Day
10	Central Police Forces (Ac) Exam, 2011	28.05.2011	27.06.2011 (MONDAY	09.10.2011 (SUNDAY)	1 Day
11	Civil services (Main) Exam, 2011			29.10.2011   (SATURDAY)	21 Days
12	I.E.S/I.S.S Exam, 2011	30.07.2011	29.08.2011 (MONDAY)	03.12.2011 (SATURDAY)	3 Days
13	Geologists Exam, 2011	13.08.2011	12.09.2011 (MONDAY)	03.12.2011 (SATURDAY)	3 Days
14	S.O./Steno (GD-B/GD-I) Ltd. Depttl Competitive Exam	23.07.2011	19.09.2011 (MONDAY)	17.12.2011  (SATURDAY)	4 Days

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UPSC 2011- Online Application

For Applying For UPSC Examinations, click here.

For UPSC recruitment Application, Click here.

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UPSC Model Interview

UPSC Interview By Prince Garg

(This is actually an Interview to an UPSC Canditate)

Name: Prince Garg
Type: Interview
C- Prof. K.S. Chalam
O- Other members

I entered after taken permission…
P- Good afternoon mam, Good afternoon Sir
C- So Prince you are from Delhi.
P- Yes Sir

C- Have you ever visited Noida
P- No Sir
C- Strange you have not visited Noida ever, Have you ever gone to Gurgaon.
P- Yes Sir
C- Thank God
(I was still standing, they had not asked me to sit yet)

C- Oh Prince, have a seat 1st
P- Thank you Sir
O- Mr. Prince while coming from Laxmi Nagr, You would have seen Red Fort
P- No Sir, Autowala brought me from different route.
O (1st member)- No problem, so tell me what's written on RED FORT main gate

P- Sorry Sir, I do not know.
O- So tell me how many times Delhi has been made
P- Its seven times.

O- Name them chronologically, and who built them
P- (I could name only 4 times , had 4 gotn chronology)

O- What changes you have seen in infrastructure of East Delhi after CWG.
P- Sir more number of flyovers, roads have been widened.
O- He cut me in b/w and asked how many flyovers to be precise..
P-Sorry sir..

C- Prince, basically you are from Delhi?
P- No Sir, My roots are in HARYANA.
C- Have you ever gone to any village?
P- Yes Sir, I have gone to my village Khanara many times.

C- Ohh Khanara…so tell me what problems you have seen there.
P- Sir 1 biggest problem I have seen is that, women are not considered as human beings there
C- What? What are you saying prince, No women are not human beings.. ha ha, everybody started laughing like hell, they were killing me
P- (I started stammering), Sir I want to request something

C- Ya Please say!
P- Sir I have stammering problem in English, but I can communicate well in Hindi, Can I use some Hindi in between
C- GO Ahead! I have no problem.
O- See Prince, We will ask questions only in English but you can answer in Hindi
P- Sir I can speak English but some where I’l use Hindi, Thanks, Sir in my village I have seen discrimination of women, they are not supposed to study, only work they have to do is: household chores, bearing children and worshipping their husbands

C- ha ha
P- Sir UNDP 2010 report places INDIA at 114th rank in GDI, according to ADB’s report even the Pakistani women are in better position than Indian, in whole South Asia only Afghan women are behind than Indian that too because of Taliban
C- Then why Indian women is so much discriminated, there is no Taliban in India?
P- Sir there are various mini Talibani groups in India
C- ha ha

(He started talking to other members which I was not able to understand)

P- (I cut them in between) Sir, what happened in Manglore two years back
C- What happened? Come on tell me (Again he was laughing)
P- Sir a group of 30 women was beaten because women wanted to enjoy in a pub, they said women should not go out of home after 7 pm., Is n’t it Talibani attitude?
C- Oh come on that was just hyped by media

P- Sir 1st it happened only then it came into news ?
(At this Chalam Sir became restless)
C- Have you ever seen women discrimination? Where tell us. Don’t give us newspaper data.
P- sir I have seen it in my home, my sister was always discriminated vis a vis me in many respects..
( at this Chalam sir became serious and ..)

C- It happened in your house and you are telling me here in front of board?
P- yes sir! Facts are facts.
(At this Chalam stopped, and passed on to other member)
O- Prince, tell me about the problems of Indian defence system,  why we import every  and do not make in country?
P- Sir we are allowing only 26% FDI, It should be at least 74% as recommended by many committees, We can open sum SEZ for this purpose, less expenditure on R&D and we do not have funds to establish such huge arms and industries..
O- But we have to spend even in importing and my dear DRDO has more than 50 labs across country so hw can you say that we do not spend on R&D, (he was not satisfied),

O- (3rd member)- China never imports arms, they build them on their territory, y cant India do that? China exports huge arms to the whole world.. is not it?
P- Sir, at least 70% of Chinese exports come from its huge SEZ, we do not have such big SEZ
(at this , they he became silent but still he was nt satisfied)
C- Prince suppose I give you a land of size of this room, how will you increase your agricultural output there? Can you mention sum problems of farmers?

P- Sir Indian farmers are uneducated, they do not understand novel ideas, size of land is too small to use big machines, credit problems, chemical fertilizers have sucked the fertility of land, bio fertilizers should be used
C- no no, tell me how will you increase fertility in short run, u r telling long run solutions
P- Sir in Punjab, farmers r getting benefited from PPP, a company named PEPSICO hire farmers, company give them credit, fertilizers, irrigation facilities, new methods and farmer just puts its land and labour
(Members were quite convinced and I had a smile of victory. lols)
Again

C- So Prince you have done B.E. from DTU, one of the best technical university of country and still you coming here?
P- Sir frankly speaking I wanted to study humanities after school but my family and friends told me that after B.E. you can earn easily but after humanities you can't earn just after graduation and as my financial position wasn’t good so I opted for B.E., Actually I was forced…but I never enjoyed engineering, It wasn’t my aim, I felt it in college..

C- Oh to tum paise kamane aaye ho yahaa.. (he started talk in to other members, Sir I am telling you this boy wants to earn a lot of money etc etc…)
P- I interrupted them in b/w, Sir I was offered 6 lacks package in DCE campus but I didn’t accept, many friends of mine are in IIMs today and some have been offered Packages of 15-18 lacks, civil services can never fetch me that money..
(At this Chalam again laughed and again started talking to members like ma’am I m telling you this boy want to give a big shot, ek baar me hi kamana chahta ha hahahaha)

O- Prince your hobby is internet surfing, tell me the name of Indian search engine.
P- Sorry Sir, I do not know.
O- Tell me about PARAM
P- Sir its indian supercomputer and was fastest in Asia Two years back now a Chinese has overtaken

O- Tell me difference between Indian super computer and American Super Computer. What's the basic difference in their infrastructure
P- sir US super computer Are faster than Indian, that's all I know. (He wasn’t satisfied)
(Chalam passed on to the last member then)
O ( lady member)- It seems you want to say that men are enemy of women, every time you are saying men discriminate women, but women discriminate the women most, do you know this Prince?
P- You are right mam but that's because women have already been brain washed, unko bachpan se he bol diya jata ha ke pati is parmeshwar (I used these words there)
(At this reply Chalam sir bich me he kood pade)
C- You know madam why he is so much talking about women and all because he has read sociology. ha ha..
Madam laughed 1st time

P- Sir, in my last attempt I wrote mains with Maths, this time I changed Maths and took Sociology, I have never heard of Sociology before ever.. (at this Chalam passed a smile)
(now lady member who seemed to b a Sociologist was determined to screw me)
O (lady member)- What steps will you take for women empowerment if you become collector.
P- Mam I’ll ensure their education and employment, self help groups can be strengthened, once they will be Economically empowered, they will have a say in household decision making (I quoted Karl Marx)
O- No prince, Its not right, even the highly educated, employed women suffer domestic violence..
(I was about to say something but mam stopped me and asked)
Tell me the problems of elder people in India and what can be the solutions?
(I was about to start but Chalam Sir said, just tell us the solutions)
P- Sir parliament made an act in 2007 where elder people can sue their children in court if they do not care them

O (lady member)- oh come on its not a practical solution, how come a 70yrs old woman can go to court?
P- you are right mam but that act can be made more elder people friendly, also like we have a campaign ie BELL BAJAO CAMPAIGN in Delhi 2 counter domestic violence.
(Chalam Sir stopped me and asked)
C- why elders are facing problem today, pehle to aisa nahi hota tha
 
P- Sir because of diminishing moral values, norms…Sir in joint families elder used to enjoy much more respect but in todays nuclear families
( Chalam cut me in between)
C- oh come on, on one side you want development, industrialization and on the other hand you want moral values, aise nahi hota. Hahahahaha
Finally lady member said.. Prince you are good, you are on the right track but you need further studies.

C- Ok Prince you can go, your interview is over..
P- Thank you very much sir, have a nice day
(When I came out of room my body was completely shivering but I was happy anyways.)

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UPSC Indain Economic Services Examinations

The Indian Economic Service (IES) was constituted in 1961 with the objective of having an organized Group ‘A’ Service consisting of a specialized cadre of officers, trained in economic analysis, policy formulation and its implementation. The role of the IES can be broadly categorized in terms economic advice, economic administration, implementation of development programmes, besides dealing with other areas such as economic reforms, regulation, price fixation, and monitoring and evaluation. Constitution of the service was essentially to build capacity within the Government for rendering economic advice on issues of development policy and for playing an active role in economic administration. The launching of economic reforms in 1991 and the proliferation of the regulatory role of the government has led to increase in the need for such advice. The IES officers provide requisite inputs in all sectors of economic activity. Read more

(A) Tentative Schedule:

• (i) Notification of Examination : June
• (ii) Conduct of Examination : November

(C) Age - limits:

• 21-30 years on 1st January of the year of Examination
• Certain categories of persons as specified in the notice are eligible for age relaxation.

(D) Educational Qualification

For Indian Economic Service : Post Graduate Degree from a recognised university in Economics/Applied Economics/Business Economics/Econometrics.
For Indian Statistical Service : Post Grade Degree from an Indian university in Statistics/Applied Statistics/Mathematical Statistics.

• Candidates appearing in qualifying degree exams are also eligible provisionally subject to producing proof of passing along with Detailed Application Form.

(E) Scheme of Examination

Part-I : Candidates are required to appear in the following papers of conventional type papers.

(i) For Indian Economic Service
(a) General English	100 Marks
(b) General Studies	100 Marks
(c) General Economics-I	200 Marks
(d) General Economics-II	200 Marks
(e) General Economics-III	200 Marks
(f) General Economics	200 Marks
(ii) For Indian Statistical Service
(a) General English	100 Marks
(b) General Studies	100 Marks
(c) Statistics-I	200 Marks
(d) Statistics-II	200 Marks
(e) Statistics-III	200 Marks
(f) Statistics-IV	200 Marks

Part II : Interview for Personality Test

200 Marks

NOTE : FOR FURTHER DETAILS, PLEASE REFER TO THE COMMISSION’S NOTICE FOR THE EXAMINATION WHEN IT IS PUBLISHED IN THE EMPLOYMENT NEWS AND SOME OF THE DAILY NEWSPAPERS.

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UPSC Geologists Examinations

(A) Tentative Schedule:

• (i) Notification of Examination : June
• (ii) Conduct of Examination : November

(The examination is held for two categories viz. Category I (Posts in Geological Survery of India) and Category II (Posts in Central Ground Water Board)

(B) Age - limits: 21-32 years on 1st January of the year of examination.
(Certain categories of persons including departmental candidates are eligible for age relaxation)

(C) Educational Qualification

(i)  Master's degree in Geology/Applied Geology or Marine Geology from a recognized university; or
(ii) Diploma of Associateship in Applied Geology of Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad; or
(iii) Master's degree in Mineral exploration from a recognized university (for posts in GSI); or
(iv) Master's degree in Hydrogeology from a recgonized university (for posts in CGWB)
Candidates appearing in the requisite qualification can also apply for the examination but are required to submit proof of passing along with detailed application form.

(D) Scheme of Examination:

Part I		Written Examination
Candidates competing for both categories have to appear in the following papers
(i)	General English	100 Marks
(ii)	Geology Paper-I	200 Marks
(iii)	Geology Paper-II	200 Marks
(iv)	Geology Paper-III	200 Marks
(v)	Hydrogeology	200 Marks
For Category I candidates have to appear in Papers (i) to (iv) above only and for Category II in Papers (i) to (iii) and (v) above only.
Part II : Interview for Personality Test		200 Marks

NOTE : FOR FURTHER DETAILS, PLEASE REFER TO THE COMMISSION’S NOTICE FOR THE EXAMINATION WHEN IT IS PUBLISHED IN THE EMPLOYMENT NEWS AND SOME OF THE DAILY NEWSPAPERS.

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