Civil Service Coaching Centre in Chennai Predicts The Mains Exam

The second phase of the civil services exam began on 20th September and ends on 29th September. The release of the admit cards on the official UPSC website shows that about 12,000 candidates will be sitting for the IAS Mains Exam this year. To help these civil services aspirants, Civil Service Coaching Centre in Chennai predicts some of the topics that expected to come in the General Studies I Paper-II.

The three-hour paper, to be held on 21st September basically assesses how much knowledge does an IAS aspirant have on:

• Geography
• History
• Polity

The GS I of the UPSC Mains exam tests the knowledge of both the world’s and society’s:

• Heritage and Culture
• History and Geography

What Should An IAS Aspirant Revise For The Mains GS I Paper?

Before we dive into topics that are most likely to be questioned during the Mains, let’s revise the syllabus covered under Paper 2 of General Studies I. 

• Various stages of the Indian freedom struggle along with the vital contributions made during different parts.
• The reorganisation and consolidation of the country after independence.
• Modern Indian history including events, issues and personalities starting from the 1950s and continuing till the present date.
• All salient aspects of architecture, art forms and literature of India spanning modern and ancient times.
• Indian society and its diversity- salient features.
• The impact of globalisation on the society of India.
• World history covering:

• • world wars
  • colonisation
  • decolonisation
  • political philosophies
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Re-drawal of national boundaries

• Physical geography of the world -salient features.
• Critical geophysical occurrences and their effect, including cyclones, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc.
• Geographical features such as ice-caps and their location-changes.
• The distribution of natural resources in the world with a focus on Indian sub-continent and South Asia
• The factors responsible for setting industries across the globe in three sectors:

• • Primary
  • Secondary
  • Tertiary

• Role of women, the problems they face and the remedies to it encompassing poverty, population and development.

A Civil Service Coaching Centre in Chennai Advices To Focus on These Topics

Considering the recent year’s papers, one can see a particular trend for the Mains exam. The questions asked focus on relevant and contemporary topics. Therefore, if you are one of the lucky candidates taking the UPSC Mains exam this year, give a once over to the issues listed below. To make it easier, we have divided them according to broad genres.

• Geography
• Natural Resources:
  • Land Resources
  • Water Resources
  • Forest Resources
  • Types of Resources
  • Agricultural Resources
  • Mineral & Energy Resources
• Geophysical Phenomena:
  • Cyclone
  • Tsunami
  • Volcanoes
  • Earthquakes
• World’s Physical Geography:
  • Climatology
  • Oceanography
  • Geomorphology
  • Soil Geography
• Industries:
  • Footloose Industry
  • Classification of Industries
  • Distribution of Major Industries
• Geographical Features:
  • Desertification
  • Melting of Ice Sheets
• History:
• • • Post-Independence Consolidation: Emergency, Nuclear Policy, Green Revolution, Industrial Reforms and Non-Aligned Movement.
    • Indian Heritage & Culture: Women Poets of Bhakti, Literature, Dance Forms, Architecture, Harappan Architecture, Indian Paintings and Modern Indian Literature.
    • World History: Communism, Industrial Revolution, World Wars and Decolonisation.
    • Capitalism Freedom Struggle: Satyagraha, Revolt of 1857, Mass Nationalism, Militant and Revolutionary Activities from 1905 to 1918, Rowlatt Act, Freedom and Partition, Mahatma Gandhi and Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms
• Indian Society
• • Secularism:
    • Uniform Civil Code
    • Nature & Practice of Secularism
  • Population:
    • Demography of India
    • India’s Population Policy
    • Changing Age Structure
  • Regionalism:
    • Causes
    • Federalism
    • Sons of Soil
    • Regional Parties
  • Role of Women and Women’s Organisation:
    • SHGs
    • The Resurgence of the Women’s Movement
    • 19th Century Social Reform Movements
  • Social Empowerment Communalism:
    • Causes
    • Eradication
    • Secularism
  • Poverty:
    • Types
    • Inequality
    • Poverty Reduction
    • Rising Urban Poverty
    • Socio-economic Spread
    • “Trickle Down” Economics to Inclusive
  • Urbanisation:
    • Impact of it
    • Challenges posed
    • Role of Urban Local Bodies
    • Problems of Urban Areas and Slums

Remember to revise these topics before the general studies I paper II, and you’ll sail through the Mains.

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