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Choosing the right optional is just like choosing the perfect spouse. Yes! You read it right.
Love, compatibility and trust are the most important factors when you choose your life partner. You must also choose your optional based on these factors. You must love your optional, manning you should have interest in the subject. You can’t be feeling burdened because of of your optional. The textbooks must attract you so much so that you can’t live without them a single day!
Then you must have compatibility with the subject. What it means is that you can’t afford to get irritated or perplexed by the requirements of your optional. For example, if you are an engineering graduate and you have always detested abstract theories, Philosophy isn’t be the subject for you. If you are pathetic in drawing, you should stay away from Geography.
If you aren’t good with memorising facts, stay away from History. Similarly, if you have always appreciated poetry and love reading literature, you can think of taking one of the languages as your optional. If you have a mathematical bent of mind, you can think of taking the science subjects as your optional. If you like to know about nature, places and people, you must think of Geography as your go to subject.
Finally you must have never ending trust on your optional. You must repose your complete faith in your optional and only then it will pay dividends to you. It simply means that you need to put in maximum effort, internalise the essence of the subject, master the art of writing answers and leave it to the subject to pay you back in the form of handsome marks.
You can’t prepare your optional with inhibitions and doubt.
So, if you haven’t tested your optional on these there parameters, please go back and spend some time to do the same. Come back with a strong conviction about the optional that you have finally chosen and only then start your journey.
Please Note that all the OPTIONAL'S will have Test Series included and One-One Mentorship with the Respective Faculties!!
We will be starting off with SOCIOLOGY OPTIONAL OFFLINE CLASSES from 4th August 2019 (Sunday).
ORIENTATION Class will be held in the month of July (2nd Week).
The classes will be taken by Dr. Vamshi Krishna Sir (a Topper himself in Sociology in UPSC 2014, 2015), BDS, M.A (Sociology) Working as Assistant Administrative officer at CSIR NAL. Associated with IASBABA since its inception.
Dr.Vamshi writes on social issues on blogs. Regular contributor to Research gate and Academia.edu on social issues useful for researchers and social scientists.
You can read REVIEWS of his classes - Link 1, Link 2
FEATURES OF THE PROGRAMME:
Duration of the Class: August 2019 to February 2020 (7 MONTHS)
Timings: Classes will be held on WEEKENDS ONLY (to facilitate even working professionals). Initially it will be held only on Saturday's, once students get acclimatized with the classes, it will be Saturdays/Sundays (10am-5pm)
Interested students can fill up the registration form (below). Once registered you will get an invite, with the payment link. Once the payment is done, send the acknowledgement to offline@iasbaba.com. This confirms your enrollment to the program. (OR) You can directly come to the office and make the payment and confirm your admission.
The Office address and Contact details are mentioned @ the end of the post.
The purpose of this write up is twofold- to help you understand the merits of Geography as an optional and share the details of the comprehensive Geography Offline Classroom Programme.
But before we let you know the merits of Geography as an optional, please remove the notions and biases from your mind that might have developed as a result of your discussions on various online forums and maybe with your friends and seniors. UPSC doesn’t intentionally “butcher” a subject. All the optionals have their distinct advantages and drawbacks but by no stretch of imagination would UPSC give preference to one optional over the other. What may happen though is that some optionals might have scored more than the others in a particular year but that trend gets reversed also. That is the unpredictability of the Civil Services Examination that we have to live with. In fact, till the time optionals remain a part of CSE, this unpredictability will remain.
So, learn to live with it rather than blaming it. Most of the times, the answers to one’s failure or unexpected performance lies within and not externally.
So the message is clear for all the sceptics- before blaming UPSC for its so called “bias” for or against any optional, try to find the reasons of not doing well by looking inward!
So coming to the point, let us enumerate the merits of Geography as an optional to help you decide whether it’s the subject for you:
1. Geography is scoring: If you maintain the essence of Geography in your answers, it will definitely fetch you good marks in Mains. 2. Geography is interesting: You will have a fun ride with geography as most of the concepts relate to the physical and social environment of which you are an integral part. 3. Geography has maximum overlap with GS syllabus: If you prepare Geography optional, more than 30-40% of your GS syllabus is automatically prepared. Moreover, you develop better perspectives for Essay paper and interview as well. 4. Geography is logic driven and scientific: Unlike some other humanities subjects, study of Geography entails logic, scientific theories and empirical evidences. This makes Geography easy to understand and apply. 5. Geography has abundance of sources to refer: There is no dearth of quality materials and good books in Geography. You don’t have to dig too much into bookstores to find good books on Geography.
Now, having discussed the merits, let us tell you what we have in store for your optional preparation. If you have already decided to choose Geography as your optional, we are pleased to offer 14 weeks of complete end to end guidance for Geography optional in the form of our comprehensive Offline Guidance Programme. The basic features of the programme are:
Duration of the Class: August 2019 to November 2019 (4 MONTHS)
Interested students can fill up the registration form (below). Once registered you will get an invite, with the payment link. Once the payment is done, send the acknowledgement to offline@iasbaba.com. This confirms your enrollment to the program. (OR) You can directly come to the office and make the payment and confirm your admission.
The Office address and Contact details are mentioned @ the end of the post.
Attended UPSC Interview three times with anthropology as optional and scored high marks (324/500) in 2014 year.
Why Anthropology as Optional?ANTHROPOLOGY SYLLABUS
PAPER 1 1)BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF MAN - 1st UNIT 2) SOCIO CULTURAL EVOLUTION (2,3,4,5 UNITS) 3) ANTHROPOLOGICAL THOUGHT (6,7,8 UNITS) 4) PHYSICAL CHAPTERS(9-12) | PAPER 2 1)BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF MAN IN INDIA- 1st UNIT 2)INDIAN SOCIETY(2-5) 3)TRIBAL CHAPTERS(6-9) |
Duration of the Class: August 2019 to November 2020 (4 MONTHS)
Timings: Classes will be held on WEEKENDS ONLY (to facilitate even working professionals). Saturdays/Sundays (9am to 1pm and 2.30pm to 6.30pm.)
Interested students can fill up the registration form (below). Once registered you will get an invite, with the payment link. Once the payment is done, send the acknowledgement to offline@iasbaba.com. This confirms your enrollment to the program. (OR) You can directly come to the office and make the payment and confirm your admission.
The Office address and Contact details are mentioned @ the end of the post.
The Kannada Literature OPTIONAL classes will be conducted by a renowned faculty Dr.Rakesh.E.S MSc, PhD. (a Topper himself in Kannada Literature in UPSC 2008, 2010). He has been guiding, teaching and mentoring students since 2010.
Famously called by the students fraternity as a one-stop destination for Kannada literature Optional subject. His rich experience in teaching, his depth of understanding the subject and his interpretation skills in literary context has helped many students to get into the All India Services, Central Services and State Civil services. The one-one discussion sessions of Dr.Rakesh is well appreciated across by the students fraternity because of its fruitfulness with respect to doubt solving nature.
His list of successful students includes Sachin.K (AIR-652, 2018) Ashok (AIR-711, 2019) Chanappa IPS, GuruPrasad IRS, Anoop Shetty IPS, Vishnu Gowda IRPS, Dyamappa IRS and many more!
We will be starting off with KANNADA LITERATURE OPTIONAL OFFLINE CLASSES from 1st August 2019 (Thursday).
ORIENTATION Class will be held in the month of July (2nd Week).
Key Highlights of the Class guidance Programme:
1) The optional subject Kannada literature will be taught in the philosophical and Literary context to ensure,the students develop the critical analytical ability while writing answers.
2) The techniques of answer writing in the PAPER-2 by utilising the principles and ideologies mentioned in the PAPER-1 will be taught in the class room sessions.
3) Since many students from non literary backgrounds (Science & Commerce graduates) are opting for kannada literature for in depth understanding of the subject in a comprehensive way and to solve the doubts, the class room teaching involves discussions and debates.
4) The study materials(Notes) issued in the class room includes the • Critical analysis of the best books • Notes of the Mysore University • Model answers of the selected candidates of UPSC.
5) Unit Tests will be conducted after completion of each unit of the syllabus (Total 8 tests from both the Paper's will be conducted).To enhance the answer writing capability of the students discussion sessions are held after evaluating the papers.
6) Since Personality test is a part of the examination process to infuse philosophies & thoughts through literature, guest lecturers will be taken by senior writers and intellectuals.
7) Interaction sessions with the successful candidates (Topper’s) of the UPSC exam is part of the class room teaching programme.
Interested students can fill up the registration form (below). Once registered you will get an invite, with the payment link. Once the payment is done, send the acknowledgement to offline@iasbaba.com. This confirms your enrollment to the program. (OR) You can directly come to the office and make the payment and confirm your admission.
The Office address and Contact details are mentioned @ the end of the post.
Choosing optional for Civil services mains exam is extremely crucial job. If you have decided that POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS is the subject for you, you have taken the right decision…!!!!
The classes will be taken by Mr. Rahul Saigaonker, a topper himself in Political Science in UPSC 2016, MTech from NITK Surathkal, (MA Pol Sci). He has keen interest in 21st century Public policy issues and has 5 years of teaching experience.
PSIR is undoubtedly a good subject to choose as an optional. We have few things to reinforce your faith in your decision. You may like to read the following points that will strengthen your conviction about PSIR:
We will be starting off with POLITICAL SCIENCE OPTIONAL OFFLINE CLASSES from 1st August 2019 (Thursday).
ORIENTATION Class will be held in the month of July (2nd Week).
FEATURES OF THE PROGRAMME:
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OUR APPROACH:
Duration of the Class: August 2019 to December 2019 (4.5-5 MONTHS)
Timings: Classes will be held on Weekdays. (Timing will be notified).
Interested students can fill up the registration form (below). Once registered you will get an invite, with the payment link. Once the payment is done, send the acknowledgement to offline@iasbaba.com. This confirms your enrollment to the program. (OR) You can directly come to the office and make the payment and confirm your admission.
Please Note that all the OPTIONAL'S will have Test Series included and One-One Mentorship with the Respective Faculties!!
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