Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 24: The SR College of Competitions (SRCC) organised free workshops for general studies and optionals for Civil Services aspirants at College Campus Gandhi Nagar, here today.
Disha Gupta, who recently qualified civil services, interacted with the aspirants preparing for the same. She dealt with the nature and structure of the exam comprehensively besides all aspects including pattern of the exam, approach for prelims and mains, sources of material and the books required, use of online sources and the relevance of newspaper reading in preparing the current affairs and writing test series.
A separate session was also organised for Urdu, Geography and History optionals in which the entire syllabus, the focus areas and the previous years questions papers were discussed. Aspirants were also guided about the CSAT and Essay papers also.
The aspirants raised queries regarding factors to be kept in mind while choosing a right and suitable optional. Further, aspirants asked about the ethics, integrity and aptitude paper and the approach to handle the theory and the case studies part. Aspirants were also suggested to at least attend one comprehensive test series for both prelim and mains examinations.
The attendees were the aspirants preparing for IAS and JKAS 2021 and also undergraduates who will be eligible for exam in couple of years.