Aspirations

Marksheet ROLL NO:006368 NAME:HARSHIKA SINGH CIVIL SERVICES (MAIN) EXAMINATION, 2011 SUBJECTS MARKS ESSAY (PAPER-III) 100 GENRAL STUDIES (PAPER-IV) 144 GENRAL STUDIES (PAPER-V) 132 OPTIONAL-I(ECONOMICS) (PAPER-VI) 133 OPTIONAL-I(ECONOMICS) (PAPER-VII) 213 OPTIONAL-II(ANTHROPOLOGY) (PAPER-VIII) 196 OPTIONAL-II(ANTHROPOLOGY) (PAPER-IX) 175 WRITTEN TOTAL 1093 PERSONALITY TEST 204 FINAL TOTAL 1297 Remarks: Recommended.

WHY CSE AND IAS? For me to be an IAS officer has always been my childhood dream which over a period of time became my only aim and ambition in life. As a kid i was always fascinated by "Red/Yellow light car" and earnestly wished that one day even i would ride  one of them!!! As I grew up ,I started to understand the intricacy and the beauty of the civil service and this made me passionate about the service. There were a couple of incidences which further motivated me for the same: When i was in high school , we were taken to visit a village in Jharkhand . It was one of the first instances when i came in touch with rural world around us. I was taken aback when i met a young girl of around 14-15 years old and she was already a mother of two. I realized that people there and especially the women were not aware about the schemes for them...lack of education was omnipresent and so much of ignorance propelled me to appreciate the nuances and challenges of the service and how i

Strategy for General Studies General Studies is a very important paper in CSE both in Prelims and Mains. With the changing pattern of the CSE especially in the last 1-2 years , it becomes imperative for each aspirant to be very much updated with the current happenings and news apart from the conventional portion. GS can broadly be divided into two parts-Conventional portion(like History,geography, polity) and Current affairs. For Prelims, GS preparation needs to be widely extensive(i.e. one needs to know something about everything) and for Mains –GS preparation needs to be Intensive as well as understood well ( and also supported by analysis) . For GS I took study materials from Smart Foundation,Guwahati , Vision IAS ,delhi,Vajiram and Ravi(Mains course materials) and Brilliant Tutorials(for my first attempt) .This helped me to bit more systematize my preparation plan. The Comprehensive list of books/journals/newspapers and magazines that I followed for the same: CSAT (

Strategy for Economics Why Economics? My Background in Economics and the  interest in the subject  was the most obvious reason for Economics as my first optional. I am B.A Economics(Hons) from St.Xavier’s College ,Ranchi (Jharkhand) and MSc.Economic History from London School Of Economics and Political Science,London,UK . The Comprehensive list of the books that I followed was For both my optionals ,I emphasized on making my concepts very clear and re-read the textbooks.I read all the books enumerated below-different books cater to different portions of the syllabus so I have en umerate d all of them… For Paper 1 Microeconomics Ahuja and Koutsyansis Macroeconomics Ahuja Mankiw International Economics Salvatore basically and for some random parts M.C Vaish Public finance Lekhi Dalton H.L Bhatia Money and banking- S.B Gupta Ahuja RBI website For Growth and Development ,

Strategy for Anthropology Why Anthropology My interest in the subject was the most important reason for selecting Anthropology as an optional.I would request all the aspirants to choose optional based on interest as at the end of the day ,its “YOU” who has to sit with those books for long hours and in course of time have to start “living “ that optional as well.Availability of study materials and a background in biology also helped me in choosing Anthropology as my second optional. The comprehensive list of Anthropology books that I followed was Topics                                                      Books Physical Anthropology                   P.Nath/B.M Das Social Anthropology                     Ember and Ember                                                         Makhan Jha                                                         N.K Vaid                                                        D.N Majumdar & T.N Madan Indian Anthro