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people who had given mains or preparing for next year , i wud like to ask u the combination of best 3 newspaper ..so that nothing can be left unanswered in gs .please reply asap. thanks
1. Main national news from IE 2. Relevant sections form The Hindu (not "national" - it's full of state news) 3. ET - if you have time (I skipped after a few weeks) - better read the PIB RSS feed (really long, but it's info straight from the horse's mouth.)
1. Main national news from IE 2. Relevant sections form The Hindu (not "national" - it's full of state news) 3. ET - if you have time (I skipped after a few weeks) - better read the PIB RSS feed (really long, but it's info straight from the horse's mouth.)
The only issue with PIB is that the content is mostly factual and shows government's perspective forth. If one is adept with analysis of news on one's own then PIB would serve amazingly whereas, if one is new to this one must develop some analysing skills before making PIB one's source of knowledge.
people who had given mains or preparing for next year , i wud like to ask u the combination of best 3 newspaper ..so that nothing can be left unanswered in gs .please reply asap. thanks
Hey hi, Read this article, this may also help you to form a better strategy. As in it will clear your doubt relating to which all and how many newspapers to read. Straight from the horses mouth i.i DP Agarwal
UPSC Chief's Advice to Avoid Coaching Centres By Express News Service - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Published: 19th December 2013 08:36 AM Last Updated: 19th December 2013 08:36 AM
Respect your culture, society and language to learn about your country and equip yourself before aspiring for civil service jobs, UPSC chairman D P Agrawal exhorted the civil service aspirants who came for an interactive session here on Wednesday. Speaking at the session organised by the Kerala State Civil Service Academy here, Agrawal said these days the students, who have to be part of the universities, quit the universities for attending coaching centres.
“But the coaching centres turn them into machines for mugging up things. One should study a subject in its depth,” he said.
70 per cent of science and engineering graduates who aspire for civil services prefer humanities as an optional subject. In that case, one has to go beyond peripheral knowledge to score high. “One has to study in-depth about his or her village, district, state and country before accumulating knowledge about the world. You should first be interested in knowing more about the society you live,” he said.
Stressing the need for developing respect for languages, especially for our own languages, he said that there was no truth in the propaganda that UPSC was against regional languages.
“There was a hue and cry about the Commission differentiating between languages. Maximum freedom is given to choose languages. Actually one who learns languages can be a better person,” the chairman, who was a former professor in IT at the IIT said..
“The Commission supports all languages in the 8th Schedule. We are committed to respecting languages. The conclusion that we are against a particular language is not true,” he said.
Agrawal also pointed out that irrespective of the language chosen for the main exam, there is an option to select any language for the interview. “There will be interpreters to translate. We take expert interpreters from Parliament. But one has to give clear answers. In case of interpreters making mistakes we will blacklist them,” he said.
Speaking about the newly introduced paper of Ethics, Agrawal admitted that the paper was a little tough. However, all the questions are about Indian ethos.“If you don’t know the country, the development scenario, you cannot mug up,” he said.
“Coming to the interview part, it is not the judgement of one’s expertise on a subject. However, if you don’t know or remember what you have studied a few years back, it cannot be taken lightly,” Agrawal said.
He also said UPSC’s reputation was very high and nobody could recommend anyone and if at all anyone recommends, it would be of no use.
In the interview, normally, questions are simple. One has to speak from the heart with all honesty. However, candidates have a tendency to speak lies about even hobbies which will not do them any good. “Be yourself. Face the exam and interview honestly. Only innate qualities will help you,” he advised the civil service aspirants.
Also he was very critical about aspirants who have the habit of reading only one newspaper. “Read more newspapers, including regional language dailies, to get a more balanced approach towards issues and to get more informed,” he advised. Former Additional Chief Secretary Babu Paul, Former Secretary of Shipping K Mohandas and Civil Service Academy officials attended.
I think three newspapers per day is too much. It would be better to just follow The Hindu or Indian Express everyday. Then there is a monthly current affairs magazine Chronicle. If you go through it, I think you would cover more or less everything. And going through the editorials is essential to build your thoughts. Press Information Bureau is also a very good source to find out whatever is happening with the government.
I wonder if The Hindu skips few important news these days in the print edition (Vishakhapatnam edition) which are only available on the websites for petty theatrics. The importance given to repetitive news items over the last few months has taken a lot of important space. One can compare trying to find Insights questions and their links available in website but not on newspaper.
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Read The Hindu or IE and follow editorials/op-eds of a few news websites.
2. Relevant sections form The Hindu (not "national" - it's full of state news)
3. ET - if you have time (I skipped after a few weeks) - better read the PIB RSS feed (really long, but it's info straight from the horse's mouth.)
By Express News Service - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
Published: 19th December 2013 08:36 AM
Last Updated: 19th December 2013 08:36 AM
Respect your culture, society and language to learn about your country and equip yourself before aspiring for civil service jobs, UPSC chairman D P Agrawal exhorted the civil service aspirants who came for an interactive session here on Wednesday. Speaking at the session organised by the Kerala State Civil Service Academy here, Agrawal said these days the students, who have to be part of the universities, quit the universities for attending coaching centres.
“But the coaching centres turn them into machines for mugging up things. One should study a subject in its depth,” he said.
70 per cent of science and engineering graduates who aspire for civil services prefer humanities as an optional subject. In that case, one has to go beyond peripheral knowledge to score high.
“One has to study in-depth about his or her village, district, state and country before accumulating knowledge about the world. You should first be interested in knowing more about the society you live,” he said.
Stressing the need for developing respect for languages, especially for our own languages, he said that there was no truth in the propaganda that UPSC was against regional languages.
“There was a hue and cry about the Commission differentiating between languages. Maximum freedom is given to choose languages. Actually one who learns languages can be a better person,” the chairman, who was a former professor in IT at the IIT said..
“The Commission supports all languages in the 8th Schedule. We are committed to respecting languages. The conclusion that we are against a particular language is not true,” he said.
Agrawal also pointed out that irrespective of the language chosen for the main exam, there is an option to select any language for the interview. “There will be interpreters to translate. We take expert interpreters from Parliament. But one has to give clear answers. In case of interpreters making mistakes we will blacklist them,” he said.
Speaking about the newly introduced paper of Ethics, Agrawal admitted that the paper was a little tough. However, all the questions are about Indian ethos.“If you don’t know the country, the development scenario, you cannot mug up,” he said.
“Coming to the interview part, it is not the judgement of one’s expertise on a subject. However, if you don’t know or remember what you have studied a few years back, it cannot be taken lightly,” Agrawal said.
He also said UPSC’s reputation was very high and nobody could recommend anyone and if at all anyone recommends, it would be of no use.
In the interview, normally, questions are simple. One has to speak from the heart with all honesty. However, candidates have a tendency to speak lies about even hobbies which will not do them any good. “Be yourself. Face the exam and interview honestly. Only innate qualities will help you,” he advised the civil service aspirants.
Also he was very critical about aspirants who have the habit of reading only one newspaper.
“Read more newspapers, including regional language dailies, to get a more balanced approach towards issues and to get more informed,” he advised. Former Additional Chief Secretary Babu Paul, Former Secretary of Shipping K Mohandas and Civil Service Academy officials attended.
Pasted from UPSC Chief's advice to avoid Coaching Centres