HOW TO CHOOSE AN OPTIONAL
Choosing a right optional is half way done in UPSC journey. Most of the aspirants find it tough to find a right optional since they are puzzled with number of rumors and misleading materials around them. Sometimes the decision of choosing a wrong optional goes so hard that in the mid of preparation aspirants are compelled to change it and thereby their struggle curve gets steep.
Therefore we at Sanchetna IAS help every aspirant in finding his best companion when it comes for choosing a right optional and therefore we have mentioned a set of criteria that would certainly help aspirants in their UPSC journey.
1. Your interest in the subject
2. Availability of guidance and resources
3. Overlapping with general studies syllabus
4. Vastness of syllabus and its evolving pattern
5. Trend analysis in UPSC
HOW IS HISTORY AN EVERGREENING OPTIONAL IN UPSC ?
History is study of past in order to understand the present and predict about future and when it comes to UPSC, History has a great say not only in terms of its weightage in prelims but also in terms of its coverage in other GS papers and essay paper and therefore we feel gratitude to say that Shri Vineet Pushpak, the director of Sanchetna IAS, has helped more than 80 aspirants clearing this exam with History optional in one form or other.
For last many years History has been an evergreening subject in UPSC with success ratio of 5.5% which mean a lot for any subject taken by large section of aspirants
1. History is static
With the changing nature of exam, aspirants find it tough to update themselves every day with their optional paper. But history, being static in nature, is a boon for those who want the most simplified way to crack UPSC. Syllabus once done is done forever!
2. History overlap with other GS papers
The biggest advantage of taking history as an optional paper is that it has a huge weightage in other papers of UPSC. In prelims at least 20 Que is directly asked from History, which is no less than a boon for History optional aspirants. Also in Mains GS1 History has a great say, and the story does not end here, in fact in Essay paper generally one or two essays are directly from Historical topics which can keep you a step ahead of others.
3. Availability of guidance
With so much of good books like Bipin Chandra, Rakesh Sharma, Satish chandra, etc the sources for History optional are simplified. Any aspirant following these books under the guidance of Shri Vinnet Pushpak sir can easily complete his optional with the potential of scoring in between 260-290 marks in optional paper of UPSC CSE.
4. History is interesting
Specially a lot of tech graduates found History to be boring, but this perception is totally wrong because History is study of our past and our evolution. It contains a lot of mysteries and answers for those questions being unknown today. In the today's time coaching institutes teach history just a sequence of events but in reality it is a way different thing. We at Sanchetna IAS under the guidance of Shri Vineet Pushpak sir, try to visualize historical events in a chronology so that it becomes interesting and fascinating to lot aspirants taking history as optional.
5. Trend analysis in History
History has a track record of doing good in UPSC since long with success rate of 5.5%. Every year large number of aspirants clear UPSC with history as their optional paper and this time too All India Rank 1 Shruti Sharma was an aspirant of History. Therefore we at Sanchetna IAS wish you all the best for opting History as your optional paper and please feel free to contact us in any way you need our help, the team Sanchetna IAS will be grateful to you!!!