How Do I Prepare for the CSE

The Civil Services Examination (CSE) is considered to be the mother of all written examinations. It is a curriculum heavy examination especially at the Main exam stage. A candidate, therefore, has to prepare first for the Main Exam and then for the Prelim. This is so because, if one starts his preparation for the Main exam after the having written the Prelim exam, he will have just four months (June to September) to prepare two optional subjects, essay and General Studies, which is almost impossible to achieve. Each optional subject is of post graduation level and at least one of them will be totally a new subject. In majority of the cases, candidates land up with two new optional subjects. Based on the rich experience that VAJIRAM & RAVI has gained by guiding Civil Services aspirants since 1976, we suggest the following course of preparation for the CSE. Let us take X as the year in which a candidate wants to sit for the CSE and X-1 as the year previous to the one in which a candidate wants to take the CSE. One can divide his preparation into two parts or two sessions Viz., May and October sessions.