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Hello guys, I am final year B.Tech Civil Engineering student. Can you suggest me how I should prepare for IAS exam? I want to become an IAS officer. I have studied well throughout my academics. So, I need to know some tips that help me to crack IAS prelims.

Preparation tips to crack IAS Preliminary Examination:

In order to crack Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT), you are required to follow certain strategy which will work out to score good marks. I suggest you to first go through the detailed notification once before getting into next processes. After that, note down the exact syllabus and examination pattern of the examination. Now, collect all the previous papers of the examination and go through one by one in detail. After this, you will get to know what kind of questions that are being asked in the examination and the difficulty level.

Analyse yourself that what are your weak areas and strong subjects. After analyzing it you are required to spend much time on weak areas first and at the same time you are required to manage to study on stronger areas to score well in those areas. Taking the help of best Civil Services Coaching institute is the recommended idea. So that, you will be getting to know on what concepts you need to focus and then where to start with..etc., Following some of the recommended books is the another important thing to keep in mind. Some of the best books are,

@ Complete Study Material for IAS Prelim (CSAT) & Mains General Studies (Set of 8 books) by Disha Experts

For cracking civil services you need to clear 3 rounds. They are:

- Prelims
- Mains
- Interview.

If you clear all these rounds in merit then you can become IAS.
So, immediately after completion of your engineering apply for Civil Services examination conducted by UPSC. Since you have ample amount of time start preparing from now onwards.
Start reading NCERT books from class 6 onwards and read upto class 12 of all subjects then after that try to solve aptitude and reasoning problems quickly and also make it an habit of reading Hindu news paper regularly.
After completing a subject try to write model exams on it and try to improve from one exam to another and if possible join in any coaching centre also.
If you do above mentioned then there are chances of cracking IAS.

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Hello guys, I am final year B.Tech Civil Engineering student. Can you suggest me how I should prepare for IAS exam? I want to become an IAS officer. I have studied well throughout my academics. So, I need to know some tips that help me to crack IAS prelims.

Its not easy to get qualified in IAS exam in only few days preparation. You need to make a proper schedule for study and dedication towards preparation.
Following are the strategies that you can adopt for preparing IAS Exam –

• First of all start reading from NCERT Books
• Now read Editorials from news papers (Hindu News Paper).
• Solve some test series which are easily available online and offline.
• Attempt previous year question papers as much as you can.
• Keep study material minimum as possible.
• Take

help from Internet.
I hope it helps!