Monday, August 25, 2014

Aman Kumar IPS gives tips for Success

Interview : Aman Kumar, IPS



Source: IAS Score

 Ques. What were your strategies for the lengthy syllabus of General Studies for both Prelims and Mains?

Ans. Dont study a lot of books and materials. Stick to some basic materials and revise them again and again. It is very important to enjoy the subjects which you are studying because it is the only thing which will help you in completing the syllabus with ease.

Ques. GS paper was altogether new. How you prepare for all the 4 papers?

Ans. All Subjects were not completely new. For the subjects which were added we followed standard books like NCERT and class notes. Paper 4 was made easy with the help of S.K.Mishra sir.

Ques. What should be the basis of selecting optional?

Ans. Avoid those subjects which are not scoring marks for last few years. If you have grip over your graduation subject, you can go for it. For the last few years technical subjects like engineering papers, PCM etc are also doing good. But what ever subject you choose, make sure that you are comfortable while studying it and not forcing onto yourself.

If you are choosing a graduation subject, first download the last 5 years question paper of UPSC CSE Mains and see that the command you are claiming is good enough or not , or can you make it upto that level.

Ques. Did you follow the myth that only so called popular optional should be opted?

Ans. No, If you have command over a non popular optional, you can go for it. But as i said if some subject is not scoring well in last few years, try to avoid it.

Ques. How did you plan your optional strategy?

Ans. Clear your basic concepts and orient yourself towards application based questions. Dont study a lot of material, go for standard ones. Try to feel the subject and matter. Do writing practice for mains and go for a good test series if you can.

Ques. What were the sources of information for general reading? How did you come to know that which sources of reading materials are standard?

Ans. Internet and standard books and magazines.
Standard doesnt mean that there is only one standard book. It means that any good book matching the level of exam recommended by a good teacher or senior who cleared the exam. There are more than one good book in every subject and you cant read all. For example- for history some read spectrum, some read bipin chandra and both are good books.

Ques. Tell us something about preparation of essay paper.

Ans. After studying general studies paper you will gather a lot of knowledge to write content of eassy but it is very important that how do you write an eassy. Do write eassy on some topics and show it to you teachers. Essay has three parts- Introduction, body and conclusion and all the parts have special purpose that you should understand. Improve your grammar if possible.

Ques. How did you manage your time in both prelims and mains examinations?

Ans. Fix the targets and complete them on time. It is not that you should not enjoy your life rather you should fix the timing that you want to study for "x" hours and will go out for some y hours and stick to the plan. Consistent smart work is necessary. Managing time will not be a problem when you know your priorities.

Ques. Which is the most difficult part of this exam and why? What was your strategy to tackle this difficult part?

Ans. I think its clearing mains with good marks. Study smartly and consistently for this. Go for revisions as many times as you can. Give tests and evaluate yourself to improve after each test.

Ques. Did you integrate your Prelims or Mains preparation or was it separate?

Ans. The subjects which were in both stages need a integrated approach of preparation. The subjects which are only in mains can be prepared for separately.

Ques. How helpful are the notes? What is your advice on notes-making?

Ans. It depends upon the student and the time he/she has. I never made notes apart from class notes. But if you have problem in remembering things and if you are not able to keep the knowledge in a systematic way, you should go for notes making. 

Ques. What was your style of writing in the exam? How was it distinct from the general writing style? How did you develop this writing style?

Ans. I started every question with small introduction showing the relevance or background of the question and supporting with data if required. I wrote in point wise format and concluded with opening different dimensions which are possible for the question other than asked one.
 
Test series under the guidance of Manoj Jha sir and team was very helpful.

Ques. Did you take Mock Test. Is it of any help?

Ans. Yes. It will help you in gaining confidence. Leave giving mocks when you develop a good level of confidence. Personality cant be changed in few days so work on it from begining if you can and interact with different people you come across during you preparation.

Ques. Civil Services Exam process is quite strenuous. It requires long hours of constant study. How did you maintain your tempo and what did you do to break the monotony of preparation?

Ans. If you have the deep desire to crack the exam, you will enjoy it. I enjoyed my evening with my friends everyday. Group of good and supportive friends itself is a source of relief.

Ques. What should be the best strategy to tackle negative marking in prelims?

Ans. Dont bluff blindly. One cant be 100% accurate but if you have studied well, your accuracy level itself will go up. 

Ques. The trend suggests that professionals are more successful in this exam. Does this exam prove difficult for Humanities and Social Science background candidates?

Ans. No. One can find many example where students from all background are excelling in those exam. So dont worry for any such thing and focus on your preparation.

Ques. How helpful is one’s educational background in his/her success?

Ans. I belong to a small village in Jharkhand. I studied upto class 9th in my village in government hindi medium schools and was not able to write or speak in good english even in class 10th. My family is also not rich. Even then I passed 12th board with 94.4% marks and cleared IIT and Civil services in my first attempt which no one was expecting. It was possible due to support of my family and my smart work. So educational background may put some difficulties before you but it cant stop you from achieving what you want.

Ques. How did you prepare for interview?

Ans. I prepared for possible questions which can be asked from DAF form and also gave some mocks. Pay attention on the way you dress up, you walk and talk. 

Ques. Which types of questions were asked in the interview? 

Ans. Some questions were related to may state and also national and international affairs. They asked my opinion on issues like reservation, right to education, Jammu Kashmir issue etc.

Ques. Was there any specific area they emphasized upon?

Ans. My state but not a lot of emphasis.

Ques. What is your advice to the candidates who have failed in this exam?

Ans. Evaluate why one has failed, identify where the problem lies and improve those areas. Dont lose confidence and keep patient. For such candidates.
 
असफलता एक चुनौती है, इसे स्वीकार करो,
क्या कमी रह गई, देखो और सुधार करो।
जब तक न सफल हो, नींद चैन को त्यागो तुम,
संघर्ष का मैदान छोड़ कर मत भागो तुम।
कुछ किये बिना ही जय जय कार नहीं होती,
कोशिश करने वालों की कभी हार नहीं होती।

Saturday, August 23, 2014

KVPY 2014 Notification: To be Conducted on 2nd November



किशोर वैज्ञानिक प्रोत्साहन योजना KVPY 2 नवंबर को 

भारत सरकार के विज्ञान एवं प्रोद्योगिकी विभाग विद्यार्थियों को रिसर्च एवं  बेसिक साइंस में करियर को प्रोत्साहित करने के लिए प्रतिवर्ष KVPY का आयोजन करती है जिसमे देश के सर्वश्रेठ विद्यार्थियों का ही चयन होता है. 
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KVPY २०१४ Aptitude Test : 2 नवम्बर 

आवेदन की तिथि :      २० जुलाई से ८ सितम्बर 

पोस्ट से फॉर्म मंगाने की अंतिम तिथि : 28 अगस्त 

ऑनलाइन आवेदन की अंतिम तिथि : ८ सितम्बर 

कौन आवेदन कर सकता है :

SA केटेगरी के लिए कक्षा 11 के छात्र 
SX केटेगरी के लिए : कक्षा 12  के छात्र
SB केटेगरी के लिए : बेसिक साइंस Physics/Chemistry/Mathematics & Biology के अंडरग्रेजुएट प्रोग्राम के प्रथम वर्ष के विद्यार्थी 


योग्यता :
SA केटेगरी के लिए : कक्षा १० वी में मैथ्स एवं साइंस में ८० प्रतिशत (७० प्रतिशत SC/ST/PWD)

SX केटेगरी के लिए : कक्षा १० वी में मैथ्स एवं साइंस में ८० प्रतिशत (७० प्रतिशत SC/ST/PWD) एवं बारहवीं में ६० प्रतिशत(५०% SC /ST/Pwd

SB केटेगरी के लिए : बारहवीं में ६० प्रतिशत(५०% SC /ST/Pwd 

चयन प्रक्रिया : २ स्तर पर चयन होता है।  स्टेज १ में Aptitude Test एवं स्टेज २ में इंटरव्यू। मेरिट लिस्ट में ७५ % Aptitude Test से और २५ % इंटरव्यू का लिया जाता है 

छात्रवृति :

BASIC SCIENCES

Monthly Fellowship

Annual Contingency Grant

SA/SX/SB  - during 1st to 3rd years of B.Sc./B.S./B.Stat./B.Math. / Integrated M.Sc. /M.S.Rs. 5000Rs. 20000
   
SA/SX/SB  - during  M. Sc. / 4th to 5th  years of Integrated M.Sc. /M.S./M.Math./M.Stat.Rs. 7000Rs. 28000
समर प्रोग्राम : KVPY के स्कॉलर को IISER कलकत्ता , पुणे , मोहाली , भोपाल , और त्रिवेंद्रम मे  for एक सप्ताह का विशेष प्रशिक्षण मिलता है 

विशेष सुविधा : KVPY के स्कॉलर को विशेष I -Card मिलता है जिससे वे देश के प्रमुख संस्थानों के प्रयोगशाला में जा सकते हैं  

एडमिशन प्रावधान : IISER में न्यूनतम  २५ % सीट  KVPY के स्कॉलर को मिलता है

 २०१३ का कट ऑफ :                
  • Stream SA- 53 marks out of 100 
    SA SC/ST - 41 marks out of 100
    SA PWD(Person with disability) – 41 marks out of 100
  • Stream SB- 40 marks out of 100
    SB SC/ST -30 marks out of 100
    SB PWD(Person with disability) – 27 marks out of 100
  • Stream SX- 46 marks out of 100 
    SX SC/ST - 35 marks out of 100
    SX PWD (Person with disability) – 35 marks out of 100
 
२०१२-१३ में स्कालरशिप के लिए   कुल चयनित विद्यार्थी  : 
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Stream SA: 281 
Stream SB:   50 
Stream SX:    77 
STREAM SA (Empowerment) : 61 
STREAM SB (Empowerment) : 14 
STREAM SX (Empowerment) : 06 

२०१४ के Aptitude टेस्ट में चयनित विद्यार्थी : 

Stream SA-General:  1105
 Stream SA-SC/ST:      98
Stream SA-PWD:          08

Stream SB-Gen:          79
Stream SB-SC/ST:    09  
Stream SB-PWD:      02

 Stream SX-Gen:   1700    
Stream SX-SC/ST: 135 
StreamSX-PWD:     21 

किन्हे आवेदन जरूर करना चाहिए :ग्यारहवीं एवं बारहवीं के प्रत्येक छात्र को जो IIT एवं NIT को अपना लक्ष्य बनाये हैं एवं  रिसर्च में रूचि रखते हों.अंडर ग्रेजुएट प्रथम वर्ष के विद्यार्थी जो रिसर्च में करियर बनाना चाहते हैं 

वेबसाइट:http://www.kvpy.org.in 

ई- मेल  : application@kvpy.org.in 

फ़ोन : (080) 22932975 / 76, 23601008, 22933536

For career information :  Contact Vikas Kumar

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Best JEE Main Counselling Centre 2014 - 2015

Psychographic Society has won the imagination of students of Ranchi and Jharkhand and lived upto reuptation of Best JEE Main counselling Centre. In 2014 under mentrship of Vikas Kumar Psychographic Society lauched JEE Main Pre Counselling Program for the first time in the country.

Student responded and got beefited in huge quantity  to following announcements. 11 Students made into BIT Meshra while more than 10 students got into top colleges. JEE main pre counsellin Program was designed to help students in Taking best decision fofr themsevles

  Registration for JEE Main Pre Counselling 2015 session to begin shortly

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

1.31 thousands Students who qualified for JEE Advanced 2014 were from English Medium

JEE lessons for exam vernacular cry

- Would-be engineers who took test in regional languages fare poorly
New Delhi, Aug. 18: The results of a recent experiment with the all-India engineering entrance test may come as a damper for the MPs clamouring for the civil services exam to be conducted in all the Indian languages.
Would-be engineers were allowed to take the JEE Main in Marathi and Urdu this year in addition to English, Hindi and Gujarati. The twin findings: not too many chose the new language options, and those who did fared poorly.
Till 2012, candidates could take the All-India Engineering Entrance Examination only in English and Hindi. When the exam was replaced by the JEE Main last year, Gujarati was allowed as an additional option.
This was because Gujarat had junked its own state-level engineering entrance exam and decided to admit students to its tech schools through the JEE Main. Odisha, Maharashtra and Uttarakhand have now followed suit.
Following demands from Maharashtra, Marathi and Urdu — languages allowed in its state-level test along with English and Hindi — were introduced as options this year. Odisha conducted its state-level test only in English.
If more states adopt the JEE Main, candidates may be allowed to take the exam in more regional languages.
Perhaps the students who chose Marathi or Urdu were eyeing seats not in the IITs but in state engineering colleges, so it may seem unfair to judge their performance by their success in qualifying for the JEE Advanced.
Still, the findings gain significance in the context of the recent student agitation against the emphasis on English in the civil services exam, and the demand by MPs to let the candidates take the test in all the Indian languages. The government has pledged an all-party meeting later this month.
But how far do the lessons from the JEE Main experiment apply to the civil services exam? Several points emerged from discussions with educationists and education officials:
A senior official of the Central Board of Secondary Education, which conducts the JEE Main, said the candidates who took the exam in Marathi and Urdu were mostly from poor families and had studied in government schools.
“Their success rate will obviously be low since they do not receive coaching or special care,” he said.
Coaching for the JEE is done in English (and to an extent in Hindi too), mostly in urban centres that charge steep fees. But state governments offer free coaching in regional languages for the civil services exam, although the private coaching institutes in the cities teach largely in English.
Science education in Class XII is best done in English but the civil services exam mainly tests candidates’ knowledge and skills in the humanities, which can be taught well in the Indian languages. So, would-be civil servants may well benefit from writing the exam in an Indian language they are familiar with.
An IIT faculty member said that even students taking the JEE Main in the regional languages can do well too if they are provided adequate study materials and training in these languages.
Satyan Narayanan, CEO of Career Launcher, a coaching institute in Delhi, explained why candidates who took the JEE Main in Gujarati did so much better.
“English-medium teaching is a bit of a calamity in Gujarat; so a large number of bright students from well-off families there study science in the local tongue,” he said.
However, the MPs may be fighting the drift of the times. Janak Pandey, former vice-chancellor of the Central University of Bihar, said parents were increasingly admitting their children to English-medium schools even in rural areas.
The politicians may also take note of the poor progress made by efforts to have engineering taught in the regional languages — a demand made by, among others, Baba Ramdev during an anti-corruption fast in Delhi in 2011.
Then education minister Kapil Sibal had promised to examine the demand and the All India Council of Technical Education had set up a committee under IIT Delhi director R.K. Shevgaonkar.
The committee has met just twice. It had asked every state to clarify up to which class their students are taught in the regional languages. Few states have responded, council sources said.

Sunday, August 10, 2014

OJEE 2014 confusion before Counselling and Counselling after Counselling

Vikas Kumar, Ranchi

In 2014 OJEE has made life of ane and all miserable with its hurried approach. Students are running from pillar to post to get college, Parents are running from one guidance centre to other and even colleges are also struggling to fill seats.

At Present there are 101 colleges having 45000 plus seats with 3000 Plus  seats in Govt colleges. Out of which only 11000 plus seats where filled after first counselling leading to more than 37000 vaccant seats. When All India Ranks were announced on 7th   July, OJEE hurriedly displayed the schedule in its website.Biggest error done on its part was alloting date of counselling as per rank. There were many students who saw their counselling date after their scheduled date has lapsed.



Date of filling and reporting at nodal centre was announced from Engineering Students from 12th July to 21st july... Students who filled form 19th to 21st were cluless and helpless as it was not possible for them to report . Even display of conselling schedule according to rank was utterly confusing.

Sunny, student of Surendra Nath School, who had 1.45 lakh rank filled his choice but  clould not decide whether to go on last day as his time had lapsed. Nishi, student who Surendra Nath Centenaray school who had go 93 %  marks in std 12 found that when they had reached nodal centre even student whose schedule was not there were also present and allowed for official choice locking and processing.

As per their schedule OJEE Declared final seat allotment on 30th July and at the same time gave two information leading to confustion. First information said ...there will be second phase counselling and the other said OJEE will be conducted.. Out Come of this entire Process was seats were even vaccant in top colleges like, CV Raman, Silicon, GIET-Gunnupur, NIST and OEC.

This confusion arose out of mark sheet issued by CBSE....Student misunderstood the information and did not appear for the counselling.. CBSE issude notice for CSAB Counselling that only students have 62(Gen), 59(OBC), 39(SC/ST) can are permitted for counselling as a result those who had less score than this didnot appear for OJEE Counselling.

When number of students were less than expectation in second phase of counselling last date was extended from 8th july to 11th and 2nd OJEE scheduled on 10th july was cancelled.

Seats are  still available in many branches of TOP colleges



Present status as on 10th August is that students can still apply and claim seats