Indira Gandhi National Open University is one of the pioneers in the field of distance education. Among the courses offered by the university, M.A. in Public Administration is also there. This course is a very popular one. Also, it should be kept in mind that this course is also there in the list of subjects which the students can select from in the civil services examination. So many students, who do not study this subject even at the UG level, take up as their optional subject. So, students of Public Administration have definitely some advantage over others in competitive examinations. There is a paper on Disaster Management in the course, details of which are provided below.

Time and Maximum Marks

The time allotted to write the exam is two hours and the maximum marks are 50.

Sections

There are two sections in the question paper.

Details

The Disaster Management paper is divided into two sections. Both the sections have 5 questions in them. Students are required to answer any five questions, but they need to take at least two from each of the sections. Each question carries 10 marks. The answers are to be written in around 400 words. So we see that there is no dearth of choices in the paper and if a student prepares well, this subject can be really a scoring one.