Archive for March, 2007

Hypnosis Can Help You To Pass Exams

Hypnosis is now widely used to assist you or your child to pass exams. With the pressure to succeed in education becoming ever greater, knowing how to improve your study skills and pass exams is increasingly more important. Yet there is a simple tool that is easily learned that can help with both of these […]

Little Known Ways to Pass Essay Type Exams

Any exam is a dreadful experience for every student. But essay exams are even more petrifying, terrifying, and nerve-racking. Unlike an objective test, essay exams are not checking to see if you have learned certain pieces of information, they ask for your understanding of the main concepts, ideas, and theories of the course presented in […]

The Five Proven Ways to Combine Job and Studies

On any course there is always at least one student who manages to succeed with studies, while others are doomed to fail. My friend Sally was like that. With an agenda of tasks to accomplish at work and a younger brother to look after, she always had good marks at university and even got her […]

Pass Your Exams With Flying Colors

Examinations are a regular part of the school, college and university environment, which is considered to be a flexible form of learning and teaching process that aims at investigation of a student’s knowledge of a particular subject.
However, nothing makes students gloomier than the prospect of exams. Even the word examination itself makes students shudder. There […]

UPSC Age Limit IAS Exam Age Restriction

UPSC India Age Limit
i. A candidate must have attained 21 years and not be over 30 years on August 1 of the year of examination.
ii. The upper age limit is relaxed in specific cases as mentioned below:

on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be completed within one year […]

Academic Eligibility for IAS Exams

A degree of any of the Universities incorporated by an Act of the Central or State Legislature in India or other educational institutions established by an Act of Parliament or declared to be a Deemed University under the UGC Act, 1956, or an equivalent qualification.
Candidates who have appeared or intend to appear […]

IAS UPSC Exam Geography Syllabus Prelims Mains

Section-A
Physical Geography
i) Geomorphology
Origin of the earth; Geological Time Scale; Interior of the earth; Types and characteristics of rocks; Folding and Faulting; Volcanoes; Earthquakes; Weathering; Landforms caused by fluvial, aeolian and glacial actions.
ii) Climatology
Structure and composition of atmosphere; Temperature; Pressure belts and Wind systems; Clouds and rainfall types; Cyclones and anti-cyclones; […]

IAS UPSC Exam Indian History Syllabus Prelims Mains

History Syllabus for Preliminary Examination 
Section-A
1. Prehistoric cultures in India
2. Indus Civilization. Origins. The Mature Phase: extent, society, economy and culture. Contacts with other cultures.Problems of decline.
3. Geographical distribution and characteristics of pastoral and farming communities outside the Indus region, from the neolithic to early iron phases.
4. Vedic society. The Vedic […]

UPSC IAS History Books References UPSC CMS

Recomended Books for UPSC IAS History Books References UPSC CMS
ANCIENT INDIA :
1. Wonder that was India - A.L. Bhashem.
2. Ancient India Social and Culture - Luniya
3. Ancient India - an introductory outline - D.N.Jha.
4. An Advanced History of India - R.C. Majumda, H.C. Raychaudhurai, - Kalikinkar Datta
5. Ancient India - L.Mukherjee
MEDIVAL […]

UPSC IAS Geography Books References UPSC CMS

Reference Books for Geography - IAS / UPSC / CMS Examination
1. 6th to 12th NCERT Books for Geography.
2. Certificate of Physical Geography - Goh Cheng Leong.
3. Physical Geography -Savindra Singh
4.Physical Geography - Made simple series - Rupa Publications
5. Economic & Commercial Geography - Made Simple Series - Rupa Publications.
6. Human and […]