9 Step Strategy To Prepare For The UPSC Interview
Step1:
Read your DAF (Detailed application form) carefully. Focus on each and every
word that you have written on your resume. Google these words and look for any
resemblance with current affairs.
Step2:
In UPSC CSE each topic can be correlated with any other topic. So remembering
the entire prelims and mains syllabus (Both static and current part) is a highly
recommended.
For e.g. Questions asked about education can be related to
women and from there to public administration to ethics. Like about the
institutions in which you have studied and their history. Any recent major event
related to them. Remember few points in favour and against to the present
education system in India. Few points on girls education, women empowerment,
equal opportunities etc. Hence we will move from individual to societal to state
to national to global to universal level.
Step3:
Try to put yourself first as an individual and then build upon different
dimensions like social, economic, political, geographical, scientific,
literature, hobbies, historical, any particular life event from which you have
learnt something about the big picture of life, your role model- who and why
ethics and morality that you follow etc. Try to be very specific with respect to
the words written in DAF. Lastly be thorough with your graduation subject and
optional.
Step4:
Repeat the same for your state. Like if there is any river,
port, park, the sanctuary of national importance. Important places of tourism
and recent government schemes to promote it, population, sex ratio, different
major social, economic, political problems in your state and how you intend to
portray a solution for the betterment of the same, any famous cuisine of the
state etc. Try to put them under same horizontal and vertical parameters as in
prelims and mains syllabus of UPSC.
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