In fact what should be your strategy
to succeed in Group 1, 2 3 or 4?
1. First
thing to have is determination to achieve the TSPSC Group 2/TSPSC Government
job, syllabus, books/material/coaching institutes are secondary, and you need
to chalk out a clear strategy to achieve your target.
2. Proper
planning is required to achieve this target, planning could be time
plan/segregating your syllabus/selecting a good coaching institute/selecting or
buying a standard book.
3. Try to revise every lesson or topic after its
completion and go for a grand test of every section in a paper (there are lot
of institutes who are conducting grand tests).
4. Try to read complete syllabus for couple of
hours, that way you will know how to segregate your syllabus because lot of
topics are replicated across papers
A) Planning:
- Try to sleep early in the night probably between 10 or 11 Pm as we need 6 to 8 hours of sound sleep, try to get up by 5 am in the morning and go for a walk/Jog for 30 to 60 min and if possible 20 minutes of Yoga (as it helps your mind to get refreshed).
- Spend quality time with books rather than sitting for unlimited hours. 6 to 8 hours of quality time is more than enough for completing the syllabus and don’t sit for 12 to 14 hours just for sake of completing the syllabus in hurry.
- Take break for every hour as it soothes and refreshes your mind, if tired sleep for 30 minutes or so.
- Try to avoid reading on Sunday’s; reading continuously also is tiring and boring.
- Try to cover 2 papers simultaneously every day so that you can cover most of the syllabus.
B) Segregating
the Syllabus or how to read complete syllabus in time?
This aspect is most challenging and this is where your fate is decided.
“You are Master of your own Fate”
Group 2 is a 2 stage exam: 1) Written examination and 2) Interview
Written exam: Multiple Choice
Questions
We have 4 papers and each paper with the weightage of 150 marks i.e.
600 marks for 4 papers
Paper1 – General studies and General Abilities
Paper2 - History, Polity and Society
Paper3 – Economy and Development
Paper4 – Telangana Movement and State Formation
Interview:
It carries 75 marks, here they will see your personality rather than
asking questions related to subject (they will ask questions on subject as well
so be prepared). The main aim for putting interview is to filter out the best
guy from big chunk of students. Not sure why Telangana government is still
persisting with interview because Central government asked not to conduct
interviews from group 2 stages but our duty is to prepare for interview.
Try to complete Paper1 and Paper3 early because in Paper1 we have different
topics that we encounter in our daily life, so it is a daily process of updating
for us.
Example: Paper1 has topics
like Current affairs, disaster management, public policies, general science
where we need to update ourselves daily. We also have topics like Social
exclusion which is part of paper 2, cover this when you are preparing for
society section.
We also have Basic English topic in paper2 which is of tenth standard
for this try to read NCERT or SCERT books. You can buy them or you can download
them online on your desktop or mobile which is for free, if not buy Objective
General English by Aggarwal.
Paper 3: It is completely
different from previous syllabus they have kept Indian economy same but
included Telangana economy, land reforms, and agriculture sectors and excluded
taxation. They have kept new topic in Section 3 as Issues of Development and
change which has topics like social inequalities, this topic can be covered
when you are preparing for Paper2 section 3 Society topics. They have also
included Sustainable development where whole world is discussing about.
Paper 2: Socio-cultural
history of India and telangana, Polity and Indian Society
Don’t read everything and anything that you come across in books, they
have specifically mentioned that they would be asking about social, cultural,
economic, art related work that happened in our history and during king’s rule
and after independence. Try to read important incidents related to Telangana
during struggle for independence. For example, they might ask you a question
like this, who invited Mahatma Gandhi to telangana and where did he first give
his speech?
Read Indus valley civilization, Indian history and Telangana history
till 1956 so that you can cover little bit of portion from Paper 4 Section 1.
Polity: They kept the same
but added couple of new topics and you can also see in Section 2 point 8
Special provisions for SC’s, ST’s and BC’s and also national commission for the
same. This topic we can see in Society section. When you are reading about SC’s,
ST’S and BC’s read everything from Issues, Policies, Provisions, Laws,
Commissions and welfare programs for the said communities. That was you can
reduce your time and will be able to cover most the syllabus in time.
Society: TSPSC did a good
job by including this topic because a person who will get selected as an
officer should have bare minimum sense of our society, when he is serving
people he should be able to read or convince or should know about the suppressed
classes in society as well as elite class. Officer has to know about the laws,
policies, and commissions of different communities so that he will be able to
serve people in a good way.
Paper 4 : Telangana movement and
state formation – this is the new topic that’s added in group 2 , main aim
of government adding syllabus is because each and every applicant should know
the roots of telangana state formation. There are lots of books available in
the market but try to read and buy standard books written by subject experts.
After completing the syllabus revise again for a month and in last 15
days try to write grand tests so that it will make you ready for examination mode.
Try not to buy all the books in the market, prepare in a strategic way
so that you can crack the post.
C) Selecting a
good institute:
How do we know a specific
institute is good or bad?
There are no good or bad institutes, I will tell you what I faced in
real life, I went to Group 2 coaching a year back with one of the institute which
conducts classes on Civils and groups. There was one History faculty with 18 years
of experience started teaching, as days passed by some of the students
complained to management that they were not happy with his style of teaching. I
thought he was good at what he was telling us, but History is one subject that
makes everyone sleepy in classes, sure all of you agree with me.
So try to make yourself clear that competitive coaching is different
from academics, here they have time- bound teaching and involve multiple
batches in different institutes. If you are choosing classroom training then
try to squeeze as much you can from the faculty and do not sit idle in the
class, try to ask as many questions you like as I said competitive exams are
completely different.
We never know from which nook or corner of syllabus the questions are
directed to us on exam date, be ready for a fire fighting situation; this time
around questions will not be asked directly.
Example: Take Asara Pension scheme from Telangana policies
Everyone knows about the scheme
1.
when it was introduced
2.
which year it was introduced
3.
why they have introduced
4.
how much
are they giving for a widow/divyang/old age people
5.
Main reason for introducing the scheme
Everyone has this information but you need to know information beyond this.
Like
1.
How many crores was released last year and this
year against the budget
2.
Which district is the highest paid in this
scheme
3.
What is the number of women/men/widow/divyang
getting the pension under this scheme
4.
Which district or mandal with highest number of
women or men getting pension
Try to differentiate from others and think differently.
D) Selecting or
buying a standard book:
How do we differentiate a good
book from others?
Simple as that try to collect 2 books for each paper, one book from
Telugu Akademy and another by a good author who is master in the subject. I
will try to provide an example so that you can understand clearly how to select
book.
Let’s take example of Group 2 Paper 4: We have seen number of books
being published on Telangana Movement, people who are faculty in an institute or
college or university or a person who was involved in telangana movement wrote
books on Telangana Movement.
Please don’t buy a book randomly, try to do some research on the books
as well, best bet would be a book from telugu academy and a book by Dr.
Jayshankar or Dr.Kondanda ram. These two people were bare witnesses to the
movement. Books by these two and books from academy should suffice our interests;
if you have time to read try to pick notes of a faculty from any of the
institutes.
Other than books try to read one English and one telugu newspaper,
better to follow The Hindu newspaper and any one of telugu newspaper. Better to
read The Hindu because it covers most of national and international news also
by reading you can improve your English vocabulary which is essential for Group
1 English Paper which is qualifying paper.
Also try to read India 2016 which is published by Govt of India,
Kurukshetra magazine or Yojana Magazine.
I will provide list of reference books or study material for Telangana TSPSC Group 2 for each paper in coming posts.
All the very best for your
preparation.
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