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How to prepare for upsc exam as i am B.com graduate and in ca final? Also state
Combination of subjects for preliminery and main exam?

I am curious as why are you appearing for Civil Service Exam after doing Chartered Accountancy. You should not have done CA if you were interested in Civil Service Exam. It was waster of hard work, money and time by opting for CA while your intention was Civil Service Exam.


To answer your qestion. As you may know that there are two stages of Civil Service Exam. The first one is Preliminary Exam while the second on is Main Exam. Now to pass the exam firstly you will have to clear the Preliminary Exam. There are two papers in the Preliminary Exam.

First exam would be general studies while other exam would be on optional subject. To prepare for Preliminay Exam for General studies you should focus on the general knowledge and current affairs.


Read some good books on general knowledge at the same time watch a lot of news and read newspapers to keep you updated with latest happenings in the world. It would be very important.


As for optional subject, you will be given choice to pick from a number of subjects. It really depends on you. You can choose a subject related to commerce stream in which you completed graduation. Most students find it convenient. However what a lot of students do is choose Geography or History as the subjects so they can clear the Preliminary Exam. You can read NCERT Books for 12th to prepare for Geography, history etc.


In the Main Exams you will first have to focus on English. It is very important that your English language skills are good. Since there will be a paper on English which will include Essay that could be tricky for someone who don't have good command over the language. You can buy a good essay book to prepare. At the same time write a lots of Essay in English and ask some of your friend with good English to check them out.


You will have to pick two optional subjects. One could be the same as in Preliminary while use the same method mentioned earlier to choose the other subject.


Other papers would be on a Indian language which I am sure you will not find difficult. You can pick your mother language like Gujarati, Hindi etc for the paper. Most people don't find any difficulty in that exam. Two papers would be on General studies. Since you would have put of lot of effort on these two subjects because preliminary exam, I think that would not be any problem as well.


To be prepared better you can also take mock tests online or download previous years papers and solve them time to time. This will help you check which are the weak areas for you while which areas are strong.

I am in graduation first year.i want to prepare civil exams.what can i do at this stage.

i am a s.y.b.com student i WANT TO GIVE EXAM FOR CDS EXAM AND I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHICH BOOKS I SHOULD PREFER AND CLASSES

mai ca ki tyari kar raha hu but mera final deatination upsc hai at the same time meri general knowledge ka level zero, kya mai upsc ke exam crack kar sakta hu