Reaching Civil Services- Not A Hurdle Anymore!

Each year, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) conducts an examination to recruit candidates for different types of Civil Services posts like IAS- Indian Administrative Service, IFS- Indian Foreign Service, IRS- Indian Revenue Service any many more.

The Exam contains the below given parts- 

 (i) Civil Service Aptitude Test (CSAT)

(ii) Civil Services Main Examination

(iii) Personality Test

The Civil Services Aptitude Test or commonly known as CSAT includes two papers and each paper carries a total of 200 marks. Like any other regular competitive exam, this exam also contains objective type of questions and includes syllabus like General Awareness, Current Affairs of the World, History of India, World Geography, Social and Economic Development, Environmental Issues or Ecology, General Science and Technology, Logical Aptitude and reasoning, Analytic ability as well as English language which basically includes comprehension skills.

Once a student is able to crack the Civil Services Aptitude Test, he or she is not qualified to appear for the Main Examination.

So now, The Civil Services Main Examination consists total of nine papers. After the CSAT objectives, mains carry questions of descriptive type. These questions are typically intended to assess the overall intellectual abilities and knowledge of the aspirant.

This is further completed by a Personality Test, which is an interview conducted to assess the candidate's personality in terms of his intelligence level, abilities, traits, values etc.

It is said that Civil Services Examination is one of the most difficult and sought after competitive examinations of the country. So, if you are aspiring to appear for the Civil Services, you have to be persistent, passionate and hard working. You need to keep yourself updated and connected to all the happenings in the world especially India. This can be done if you regularly read newspapers, magazine and keep yourself updated with the news of all the beat. Simultaneously, keep practicing using UPSC online test papers to get a hold on your speed.

Taking a coaching depends upon individual ability to prepare. You can buy IAS preparation books and prepare for the exam rigorously by yourself or if you need a proper guidance then you can go for coaching institutes. There are plenty of coaching institutes in India where you can get guided well. In both the cases, you need self motivation, passion, confidence and persistence. If you have all of these then no obstacle is too difficult to cross. If you are preparing on your own, you have the privilege to prepare your own convenience

Know the Basics about Bank Exams 2015

Amongst the most demanding jobs in India, Bank job tops the list. Each year, around 20 lakhs aspirants appear for bank recruitment exams conducted by IBPS, State Bank Of India (SBI), Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and other private banks that are taken together. These banking exams can aspirants who are able to crack the exams, lucrative jobs in RBI, SBI (and associated SBI banks), 21 nationalized banks, 20+ private banks of India, some selective foreign banks and a large number of small to medium co-operative banks as well as the gramin banks at the clerical, PO (Probationary Officer) and SO (Specialist Officer) levels. It is announced that vacancies in banks are set to reach 7.5 lakh in the upcoming 5 years, since only banking jobs are appearing lucrative in times of an economic drops.

Once the aspirant is able to crack the exam, he/she then goes through rounds of group discussion and personal interviews for a more filtered selection process.

Bank exams are typically conducted no different than aptitude tests in order to examine the basic aptitude and intelligence level of the aspirant. The tests examine your IQ level, basic concepts learnt in school and your general awareness levels. Though they are different from the tests you may have taken in school. Following points will tell you how are they different-

-The questions have a problem followed by multiple-choices that makes them as objective type of questions. You need to go through the problem thoroughly and mark the correct answer.

-Unlike schools, the steps involved in solving the questions do not give you marks. You grab the mark only for the right answer, and that is it! In case you are confused between two choices, do not mark both of them as they will not at all fetch marks to you.

-Every wrong answer makes you pay penalty as a negative marking. Unlike school or college where you used to get a “zero” for a wrong attempt, in these exams you will get negative marks to wrong answers.  So, if you do not be careful, you can end up with a scoring less than zero as well.

Out of all five sections, each may carry different cut off.  You need to achieve some minimum marks in each section to qualify for the next level of the bank recruitment process.

For Bank exams, there is no fixed syllabus. Still you can prepare through various kinds of Bank PO Books and try to grab the job.