I'm going to appear in for civil services in 2017 but I'm still confused about my optional. I had listed out a few optionals where geography ranked the highest in my priority list given the fact that it performed really well in cse 2014. However, looking at this year's result I'm having second thoughts about my optional and planning on taking pop science as it's interesting as well as doing well.
Is it suggested to tak pol science especially when one does not have much background about international affairs and amazing writing skills ? Does great writing skills really matter ? Can I start psir from scratch ?
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I am also appearing for 2017 and I also took geography as my optional but after seeing cse 2015 i got nervous and similar haunting thoughts rushed up in my mind. I discussed with few colleagues and what I realised is that we cannot make sure what upsc is going to do in the coming years. I mean to say that this time geography had such a disturbing experience but maybe cse 2016 will have a different subject as a weaker performance. I have also planned for cse 2017 and I am thinking to change my optional to psir but in 2017 there might be two uncertainities- Optional might get scrapped with mains exam including only gs papers or if the optional subjects continue then we might come to know that geography (or other which had a negative performance this year) performed well and psir (or other which performed well this year) results underperformed.
We need to seriously think on this matter as the journey is about to begin.
I am also planning to joining pol science (if I finally decide to opt for this) and gs batch in vajiram in coming days.
You know pooja there is no other subject other than pol science which i could opt for after leaving geography. I went through the syllabus of psychology and few others but I realised that if I could choose any subject other than geography then its pol science. I was so confident yaar that I will go for geography but the results really brought me into tears. After seeing your similar doubt I realised that many friends are on the same doubtful track just like me. Lets make one decision and follow irrespective of the result. This is one thought after seeing the interest towards geography but seeing the result the heart says bhai psir le le.
Yaar tum hee bataao what to do?
Should we toss the coin or do what the heart says to go for psir or lets continue with geography???
One more thing I would like to share that I also dont have any background in psir but my heart is saying ki psir lele....