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The purpose of this write up is twofold – to help you understand the merits of Geography as an optional and to 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 it’s 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:
We at IASBABA are conducting an OPEN FOR ALL Orientation session on how to approach and plan for scoring high in Geography optional.
The Session will be taken by Atyab Ali Zaidi Sir (One of the highest scorers in Geography in the year 2012 and 2013), an Alumni of NIT Allahabad, Chemical Engineering and Associated with IASBABA since its inception.
He has been mentoring UPSC aspirants since past 5 years and many of his students have qualified this prestigious exam with flying colours.
The testimony of the quality of the classes is the following feedback comments provided by the students of the last year’s batch.