Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 7: SR College organised workshops on General Studies and Optionals for aspirants who are preparing for the 2021 Civil Services examinations here today in the college premises.
One of the faculty members from Delhi dealt with all the stages of the exam and the issues like nature of the exam, structure ,stages and the strategy to prepare for the preliminary test, mains exam and finally for the personality test.
Gautam Kumar, an expert faculty in ethics, aptitude and integrity, international relations, internal security, governance and social justice elaborated a comprehensive strategy to prepare for all the four papers of general studies in mains and also delved on preparing for the exams in a time bound manner.
He also guided the students about Civil Services Aptitude Test, Essay paper, answer writing and the Public administration Optional.
Separate sessions were organized for Anthropology, Political Science and Urdu Optionals by other experts who guided the aspirants comprehensively about the selection and suitability of these Optionals.
Gautam laid stress on components of general studies to be taken up first, focus areas common to Prelims and Mains, time management, answer writing and the importance of test series.
He also cautioned the students about the effect of negative marking in the prelims and provided a well calculated approach on number of questions to be attempted.
“The response for the prelims and mains test series is tremendous and the students have requested the college management to start another test series close to the prelims and mains exam dates so that their preparation is assessed and evaluated”, told Praful Sharma, Chief Office Coordinator.
“The College has been conducting workshops every Sunday by inviting experts from across the country for general studies and various Optionals and this workshop was thirteenth in the series. In a three to four hour long parallel sessions, the aspirants raised various queries especially the sources of material required and making of notes to crack the coveted exam”, informed Shikha Sharma , Office Coordinator.
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