Analysis of Last Year UPSC Final Marks and Attached Marks List : By Ghanshyam

Ghanshyam from Target IAS community in Orkut has carried out an analysis of the number of selected candidates from each of the optionals. The same list is arranged in descending order of the number of candidates. Since every candidate has two optionals the total would come to double the number of candidates selected.

Subject - No Of Successful Candidates with this as one of their optional

Public Administration - 336
Geography - 236
History - 211
Psychology - 116
Sociology - 89
Philosophy - 84
Political Science & Intnl. Rel. - 84
Lit. of Hindi Language - 56
Agriculture - 41
Anthropology - 37
Economics - 37
Lit. of Tamil Language - 29
Law - 19
Lit. of Pali Language - 18
Zoology - 18
Medical Science - 16
Physics - 16
Commerce & Accountancy - 15
Botany - 14
Lit. of Kanada Language - 14
Lit. of Sanskarit Language - 10
Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science - 8
Lit. of Telugu Language - 8
Mathematics - 8
Chemistry - 7
Lit. of Gujarati Language - 7
Lit. of Marathi Language - 7
Lit. of English Language - 6
Lit. of Malyalam Language - 5
Lit. of Punjabi Language - 5
Mechanical Engineering - 5
Electrical Engineering - 4
Lit. of Urdu Language - 4
Geology - 2
Lit. of Assamese Language - 2
Civil Engineering - 1
Lit. of Maithili Language - 1
Lit. of Manipuri Language - 1
Management - 1

Pub Ad has really been very successful this year.



Following is an analysis of Final Marks of those selected the 791 Candidates selected this year. The highlights are:

Average Marks in Interview (Category Wise) are:

General Category - 177
Other Backward Classes - 167
Scheduled Caste - 163
Scheduled Tribe - 168
Overall Average - 171

Average Marks in Essay - 111.5
Average Marks in General Studies - 285

The average marks in some popular optionals (breakup with those having the particular subject as their first & second optional) are

Geography First Optional 295
Second Optional 299

Public Administration First Optional 330
Second Optional 324

History First Optional 321
Second Optional 329

Psychology First Optional 318
Second Optional 306

Commerce First Optional 310

Sociology First Optional 307.7
Second Optional 314

It seems Geography & General studies have been a drag in general. Public Administration & History have showered in good marks.

DOWNLOAD the full marklist of the successful candidates in UPSC 2008

courtesy: Posts in Target IAS Orkut community by Ghanshyam

My Journey so Far

Hi friends its been around 2 months I decided to start preparing for IAS. So far it is good. So How is your preparation? Since I am going to write the exam in 2011. I started my preparation for General studies and with lots of thinking and other factors I decided my optionals finally. I stood with Psychology and History. My reasons for my optionals are like this. In my second year I thought of doing B.Sc Psychology in distance but could not find the time to do it. And also by seeing the average marks and success rate of Psychology I decided on it as one of my optional. Then came the biggest problem, the other optional. I have many options the relevant for me are Chemistry,Mathematics, Philosophy, History, Sociology, Public administration, Political Science.

• First I thought I am going to become IAS officer so I should know Public Administration. So I should take this.
• After two days I thought Political Science is very interesting and half of the general studies is covered by Political science So I was decided to take Polity.
• After a day I thought Sociology is interesting too and lot more easy when compared to others.
• Next I thought I should take Philosophy since I was interested from long time in the subject and the combo Psychology and Philosophy is awesome. But somehow I was not postive about it and dropped it.
• Next .. no no no I am a science student and I cleared IIT-JEE and went through Mathematics and Chemistry papers and I scored high marks in Chemistry in JEE. So I was very strongly decided to take Chemistry.
• But some doubts and other things in my mind. So I took the marks list of UPSC 2009. I know that I should not finalise my optional based on others marks but out of curiosity found some interesting and useful things that I will post after this post and dropped Chemistry with reasons like I should study for GS and Chemistry. I should take an optional which covers GS too.
• So back to Square One. How about Pub Ad and Polity?
  
• Hell I forgot one of my favorite subject all these days History. How come I ignore that subject? I went through the syllabus , previous papers , average marks and success rate. Yes Now I found what I needed.
  
• So finalised History as my first optional.

I think many of you might have also went through the same situation.Since I have so much of time I was not worried during my selection otherwise it would have been like hell. I came to know that with interest ,there should be a confidence on the subject that it wont let you down is an important factor for peaceful preparation.

Anyways Choose your optionals very cleverly Otherwise you will feel depressed.

GoodLuck to You All.