The dynamics within and outside UPSC Civil Services Examination (CSE) are changing drastically. Seats are getting fewer gradually every year while the exam itself is becoming unpredictable. In that case, it’s not prudent to put all your eggs in one basket.

Each aspirant has his/her own backup option while preparing for UPSC, be it Asst Commandant CAPF or RBI Grade B Officer or SSC or various State PCS Examinations. In current times, Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission’s Combined State / Upper Subordinate Services (PCS) Examination, and Assistant Conservator of Forest (A.C.F.) Examination has become the best backup option for anyone preparing for UPSC CSE.

SAMANVAYA for UPPSC: Free 1-to-1 mentorship

Fill Samanvaya form for UPPSC given below for a free 1-to-1 discussion and doubts resolution session. We’ll be having an in-depth discussion on approach and how UPPSC can be integrated with UPSC preparation. Civilsdaily’s senior UPPSC mentors will call you within 24 hours.

Why UPPSC is a good back up option for UPSC aspirants:

1. In fact it is better than various posts in UPSC examination. Here you get executing powers for various schemes and are a real bridge between government and citizens. 
2. The remuneration is decent and perks are better than various Central government positions.
3. The work profile is dynamic and the state is the largest in terms of populations. So the opportunity is quite good. You serve from Ghaziabad to Gorakhpur and Saharanpur to Jhansi.
4. There is no domicile limit as of now in terms of limiting outsiders and two of the three toppers of the last exam cycle were not from Uttar Pradesh.
5. Promotion avenues have become decent in recent years and generally in 18-19 years you are getting a DPC for IAS and IPS.
6. In recent years the exam cycle has improved a lot and the results are coming fast. Litigations are far and few these days and the process is streamlined.
7. The overall exam cycle is now aligned with that of the UPSC CSE cycle since last couple of years. 
8. UPPCS serves as a good mock practice for UPSC Prelims and Mains examination like CAPF used to be a couple of years ago because of the new exam cycle.

Myths breaker regarding UPPSC:

1. Is it easy? Of course not. Nothing of this sort is easy. Just because something is a backup option doesn’t mean it is going to be easy. But it’s not as difficult as made by various people. It is like any other civil services examination where you have to give your 100 percent and align your hard work with smart study.
2. Hindi medium vs English medium debate: The content is no doubt skewed in the favour of Hindi medium students, at least in prelims. But that doesnt mean English medium has some disadvantages. The overall selection ratio is finely balanced between both mediums. In fact CivilsDaily is trying to bridge the gap with its interventions through upcoming Habitat discussions and other programs.
3. Pre vs Mains Separate preparation: That approach is not going to work now. And in any case, in fact even in the old pattern, it never benefited many students. You need to have a good backing of mains as well as pre preparation to crack the exam. Hence the same integrated approach of UPSC is needed.
4. Unknown sources in prelims: That is overblown. The same is true for UPSC as well where UPSC asks 10-15 questions which are quite tough and you don’t know the sources. But no one attempts 100 percent and the same goes for UPPSC prelims as well. Out of 150 questions, there will be 15-20 questions which will be tough and you don’t need to panic over them. 
5. The exam scheme is the same and the syllabus is almost the same with some UP elements. The mains pattern is based totally on the UPSC pattern with some minute differences.

Basic differences wrt UPSC preparation

The exam pattern is a little different. Prelims has 150 questions in GS paper while mains examination has 1500 marks weightage. Hindi is compulsory and its marks are counted in the mains examination unlike UPSC CSM.

Not everyone is eligible for all posts. For example there are certain posts for certain education qualifications only like APO and Sub Registrar can be only from law background, Assistant Labour Commissioner needs degree in commerce or BA Hons Economy or Sociology etc.

Ending it with some general piece of advice:

1. Keep your UPSC preparation as it is and do not veer away. Follow the routine and gradually increase the time period every day.
2. Collaborative learning from Habitat where Parth Sir will cover Current Affairs, Factual Part of Static Topics, UP Related stuff. We want only one hour of yours.
3. Start tests by the end of March and follow the Study Test Analyse and Revise routine. Answer writing should be kept on till mid March.
4. For newcomers, try to finish your first and 2nd readings by the end of March and create a base.
5. For UPSC people, while preparing for UPSC prelims, do look out for some minute facts in the same news. It doesn’t need to come from some other source.

In the end, remember that if your plan is not working then adjust your plan; but never give up. Therefore, with just a few tweaks, you can have a good career option in UPPCS and a perfect backup plan with respect to your UPSC CSE strategy.

So what are you waiting for? Meet us at Habitat!

IAS exam, by design, is such that it should take just one attempt to clear it. Any further attempt, if you’re taking, should only be to improve your rank.

UPSC IAS preparation is not just about memorizing and information gathering. Neither is it about mindlessly picking up random NCERTs, standard books or spending 5 hours on the Hindu.

Last month we had a discussion with around 1900 students who were not able to clear prelims even after more than 2 attempts. Many were stuck on mains.

But why? Even after taking multiple attempts, covering the full syllabus, or taking tests?

Lack of direction, no guidance, inability to make required necessary changes in their preparation, and an absence of a well-defined strategy were issues common to all. (What issues are you facing? tell us)

Fill the Samanvaya form for a free on-call mentorship session. We’ll call you within 24 hours.

Did you pick up NCERT or a standard book and started reading it, mindlessly, without purpose or process? Is doing current taking you 4-5 hrs but still you aren’t able to make sense of it for the exam? Is UPSC preparation becoming unmanageable for you with a job?

More than 10.5 lakh applied, but only 796 are going to clear UPSC IAS 2020. It is going to be much more challenging in 2021 and 2022.

Just stop wherever you are. It is not just about walking. It is about walking in the right direction. Take a deep breath and answer this question – Do you have a strategy?

Fill the Samanvaya form given above to discuss your strategy and issues that you are facing.

For 2021 aspirants, your preparation should be highly outcome-oriented (enabling you to fetch more marks). Every action of yours must be very objectively defined, every step as a part of your strategy. Whatever you are learning must be utilizable in the exam (both pre and mains). Your preparation should have an element of measurability.

Moreover, you need to balance both Prelims and Mains on one hand and current-static-optional on the other. Fill Samanvaya form to know how it should be done.

All this stands true for 2022 aspirants as well. This is the right time to start preparation.

Broadly, six factors determine your success in cracking this prestigious IAS exam and the most important being understanding the expectations of UPSC and according to that planning and strategizing; other being, Learning – Knowledge and information; Analyzing – making linkages, connections, etc.; Executing and utilizing information; and Constant course correction – because mistakes are inevitable, need to rectify them asap.

These are the areas where most of the aspirants fail to create a balance. Where are you facing an issue?

To address the problems in your preparation, guidance and mentorship are the first steps. And here comes our three tiered mentorship.

Our 3 tier mentoring:

1. First step starts with this Samanvaya call: Once you fill in the form, our senior mentors will have a 1-to-1 detailed discussion (on-call) with you to understand your prep level, working/ study constraints, current strategies, and create a step by step plan for next week, next month and so on.

2. You are given access to our invite-only chat platform, Habitat where you can connect with mentors, ask your daily doubts, discuss your test-prep questions and have real-time live sessions on news and op-eds, and find your optional groups.

3. The third and the most personalized tier is the dedicated 1 on 1 mentor allotment who stays with you through the course of your UPSC preparation – always-on chat and on scheduled calls to help you assess, evaluate, and chart the next milestone of your IAS 2021/2022 journey.

Who are you?

1. Working Junta? If you are preparing for IAS 2021/2022 and working simultaneously, we can help you strategize and decipher the IAS exam and design a timetable that fits right in your hectic schedule.
2. First-time prep? If you are in the last year of college or thinking of dropping a year and preparing for IAS 2021/2022 full time, we’ll help you pick the right books and craft a practical & personal strategy.
3. Have appeared before? and weren’t successful. We’ll help you identify your mistakes, rectify them for the necessary course correction. Let this be your final and successful attempt.

You just have to take 5 minutes out and fill this form: Samanvaya For IAS 2021/2022

Talk to senior mentors from Civilsdaily: Fill Samanvaya form for IAS 2021 and IAS 2022. Once done, we will call you within 24 hours or so.

Fill up the following details in Samanvaya form given below to schedule a free one-on-one mentorship session with senior mentors from Civilsdaily. We’ll call you within 24 hours.

Without a proper strategy, execution is aimless. Let us make one.. your strategy.. just for you!

So, you’ve decided upon this goal. Now, this is life. You want to crack this prestigious IAS exam. And you have started, but feel stuck.

Did you pick up NCERT or a standard book and started reading it, mindlessly, without purpose or process? Is doing current taking you 4-5 hrs but still you aren’t able to make sense of it for the exam? Is UPSC preparation becoming unmanageable for you with a job?

Just stop wherever you are. It is not just about walking. It is about walking in the right direction. Take a deep breath and answer this question – Do you have a strategy?

Last month we had a discussion with around 1900 students who were not able to clear prelims even after more than 2 attempts. Many were stuck on mains.

But why? Even after taking multiple attempts, covering the full syllabus, or taking tests?

Lack of direction, no guidance, inability to make required necessary changes in their preparation, and an absence of a well-defined strategy were issues common to all. (What issues are you facing? tell us)

Fill the Samanvaya form for a free on-call mentorship session. We’ll call you within 24 hours.

UPSC IAS preparation is not just about memorizing and information gathering. Neither is it about mindlessly picking up random NCERTs, standard books or spending 5 hours on the Hindu.

More than 10.5 lakh applied, but only 796 are going to clear UPSC IAS 2020. It is going to be much more challenging in 2021 and 2022.

IAS exam, by design, is such that it should take just one attempt to clear it. Any further attempt, if you’re taking, should only be to improve your rank.

Did you have a look at Prelims 2020 paper? In many ways, it has highlighted the changing nature of UPSC, and to be successful you need to adapt to the expectations of UPSC and adopt a new approach.

For 2021 aspirants, your preparation should be highly outcome-oriented (enabling you to fetch more marks). Every action of yours must be very objectively defined, every step as a part of your strategy. Whatever you are learning must be utilizable in the exam (both pre and mains). Your preparation should have an element of measurability.

Moreover, you need to balance both Prelims and Mains on one hand and current-static-optional on the other. Fill Samanvaya form to know how it should be done.

All this stands true for 2022 aspirants as well. This is the right time to start preparation.

Broadly, six factors determine your success in cracking this prestigious IAS exam and the most important being understanding the expectations of UPSC and according to that planning and strategizing; other being, Learning – Knowledge and information; Analyzing – making linkages, connections, etc.; Executing and utilizing information; and Constant course correction – because mistakes are inevitable, need to rectify them asap.

These are the areas where most of the aspirants fail to create a balance. Where are you facing an issue?

To address the problems in your preparation, guidance and mentorship are the first steps. And here comes our three tiered mentorship.

Our 3 tier mentoring:

1. First step starts with this Samanvaya call: Once you fill in the form, our senior mentors will have a 1-to-1 detailed discussion (on-call) with you to understand your prep level, working/ study constraints, current strategies, and create a step by step plan for next week, next month and so on.

2. You are given access to our invite-only chat platform, Habitat where you can connect with mentors, ask your daily doubts, discuss your test-prep questions and have real-time live sessions on news and op-eds, and find your optional groups.

3. The third and the most personalized tier is the dedicated 1 on 1 mentor allotment who stays with you through the course of your UPSC preparation – always-on chat and on scheduled calls to help you assess, evaluate, and chart the next milestone of your IAS 2021/2022 journey.

Who are you?

1. Working Junta? If you are preparing for IAS 2021/2022 and working simultaneously, we can help you strategize and decipher the IAS exam and design a timetable that fits right in your hectic schedule.
2. First-time prep? If you are in the last year of college or thinking of dropping a year and preparing for IAS 2021/2022 full time, we’ll help you pick the right books and craft a practical & personal strategy.
3. Have appeared before? and weren’t successful. We’ll help you identify your mistakes, rectify them for the necessary course correction. Let this be your final and successful attempt.

You just have to take 5 minutes out and fill this form: Samanvaya For IAS 2021/2022

Talk to senior mentors from Civilsdaily: Fill Samanvaya form for IAS 2021 and IAS 2022. Once done, we will call you within 24 hours or so.

Fill up the following details in Samanvaya form given below to schedule a free one-on-one mentorship session with senior mentors from Civilsdaily. We’ll call you within 24 hours.

Without a proper strategy, execution is aimless. Let us make one.. your strategy.. just for you!

So, you’ve decided upon this goal. Now, this is life. You want to crack this prestigious IAS exam. And you have started, but feel stuck.

Did you pick up NCERT or a standard book and started reading it, mindlessly, without purpose or process? Is doing current taking you 4-5 hrs but still you aren’t able to make sense of it for the exam? Is UPSC preparation becoming unmanageable for you with a job?

Just stop wherever you are. It is not just about walking. It is about walking in the right direction. Take a deep breath and answer this question – Do you have a strategy?

Last month we had a discussion with around 1900 students who were not able to clear prelims even after more than 2 attempts. Many were stuck on mains.

But why? Even after taking multiple attempts, covering the full syllabus, or taking tests?

Lack of direction, no guidance, inability to make required necessary changes in their preparation, and an absence of a well-defined strategy were issues common to all. (What issues are you facing? tell us)

Fill the Samanvaya form for a free on-call mentorship session. We’ll call you within 24 hours.

UPSC IAS preparation is not just about memorizing and information gathering. Neither is it about mindlessly picking up random NCERTs, standard books or spending 5 hours on the Hindu.

More than 10.5 lakh applied, but only 796 are going to clear UPSC IAS 2020. It is going to be much more challenging in 2021 and 2022.

IAS exam, by design, is such that it should take just one attempt to clear it. Any further attempt, if you’re taking, should only be to improve your rank.

Did you have a look at Prelims 2020 paper? In many ways, it has highlighted the changing nature of UPSC, and to be successful you need to adapt to the expectations of UPSC and adopt a new approach.

For 2021 aspirants, your preparation should be highly outcome-oriented (enabling you to fetch more marks). Every action of yours must be very objectively defined, every step as a part of your strategy. Whatever you are learning must be utilizable in the exam (both pre and mains). Your preparation should have an element of measurability.

Moreover, you need to balance both Prelims and Mains on one hand and current-static-optional on the other. Fill Samanvaya form to know how it should be done.

All this stands true for 2022 aspirants as well. This is the right time to start preparation.

Broadly, six factors determine your success in cracking this prestigious IAS exam and the most important being understanding the expectations of UPSC and according to that planning and strategizing; other being, Learning – Knowledge and information; Analyzing – making linkages, connections, etc.; Executing and utilizing information; and Constant course correction – because mistakes are inevitable, need to rectify them asap.

These are the areas where most of the aspirants fail to create a balance. Where are you facing an issue?

To address the problems in your preparation, guidance and mentorship are the first steps. And here comes our three tiered mentorship.

Our 3 tier mentoring:

1. First step starts with this Samanvaya call: Once you fill in the form, our senior mentors will have a 1-to-1 detailed discussion (on-call) with you to understand your prep level, working/ study constraints, current strategies, and create a step by step plan for next week, next month and so on.

2. You are given access to our invite-only chat platform, Habitat where you can connect with mentors, ask your daily doubts, discuss your test-prep questions and have real-time live sessions on news and op-eds, and find your optional groups.

3. The third and the most personalized tier is the dedicated 1 on 1 mentor allotment who stays with you through the course of your UPSC preparation – always-on chat and on scheduled calls to help you assess, evaluate, and chart the next milestone of your IAS 2021/2022 journey.

Who are you?

1. Working Junta? If you are preparing for IAS 2021/2022 and working simultaneously, we can help you strategize and decipher the IAS exam and design a timetable that fits right in your hectic schedule.
2. First-time prep? If you are in the last year of college or thinking of dropping a year and preparing for IAS 2021/2022 full time, we’ll help you pick the right books and craft a practical & personal strategy.
3. Have appeared before? and weren’t successful. We’ll help you identify your mistakes, rectify them for the necessary course correction. Let this be your final and successful attempt.

You just have to take 5 minutes out and fill this form: Samanvaya For IAS 2021/2022

Talk to senior mentors from Civilsdaily: Fill Samanvaya form for IAS 2021 and IAS 2022. Once done, we will call you within 24 hours or so.

Fill up the following details in Samanvaya form given below to schedule a free one-on-one mentorship session with senior mentors from Civilsdaily. We’ll call you within 24 hours.

The second session of Prelims-1000 workshop will start from 11:00 am today. Do join the session.

Amit sir had organised a three days workshop-cum-preparatory session for Prelims-1000 club, yesterday was the first session.

Focus areas of workshop:

1. Three Prelims-1000 sessions
2. Approach to Prelims 2021 through MCQs
3. How to cover NCERTs, standard books and making notes?
4. Important topics and doubt sessions

Prelims-1000 program will start from 15th Feb 2021.

What is Prelims-1000 by Amit sir?

With 1000 MCQs in 40 days, we’re going to cover and revise Current affairs + related static parts for IAS Prelims 2021.

Weekly schedule released

To make the program accessible to working aspirants, we will be having classes on weekends as well. Join today’s workshop to discuss how to make the most out of Prelims-1000 program.