012----General Stduies

During my experience of working as the Principal  of Govt. IAS/PCS competitive Preparation Center and with the result oriented approach learnt ,I came to this conclusion that the candidates in the North  basically suffers because of lack of proper guidance expected to be taken before a start.The first step is to take the expertise guidance either through the Good center or those selected in the service.The experience gained by me convinces that the General Studies create a problem.Even if there is better preparation,the imbalanced approach in the preparation is reflected on the candidates. Sometimes,Areas of interest pay a lot ,whereas the uncooked materials or partly prepared put forth a challenge.For example,the northern candidates find it difficult while preparing the history of south India ,or vice- versa, In the same way,the science background make it suffering in the arts stream or ice versa.This year about 10 lakhs students appeared,in such a difficult situation ,even a single point has its say.During our student life,the books or the guidance from the experts were the only approach and it consumed a major portion of the time ,but now technology has made the availability of the materials easy and not only so,the Information explosion is another challenge,in the sense that all the material can not be prepared,but that what is important involves three steps;- namely--Selection of the materials.(2)then,Collection and (3) Preparation with the regular intervals of assessment period.The well-defined strategy is further involved.I feel that this is not difficult to get through ,but coming out with the flying colors out of 10 lakh candidate is no less a big surprise.

To make it a surprise,definitely,Hard work as well as strategy play an important role.So far as ,General studies are concerned,other than factual questions ,the distance in between most appropriate and appropriate makes difference.For that,really ,practice too is important.

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