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UPSC/IAS Exam – Techniques, Skills, Strategies, and Guidance for Success Success in UPSC Civil Services Examination (CSE) = 50% Knowledge + 50% Skills (Strategies). How to clear UPSC Civil Services Exam Before we mention anything about Skills (UPSC Exam Guidance or Strategies), let us share you some important links to build the knowledge part for UPSC Civil Services Exam. ·          IAS Study Materials   ·          Study materials and mock questions in PDF format ·          UPSC Prelims Online Mock Exams   ·          UPSC Syllabus  (Know the requirements of UPSC Civil Services Exam) All of the above links are FREE resources from ClearIAS, which would help you immensely for UPSC Prelims, Mains, and Interview. Skills to crack UPSC/IAS STATE Civil Services Exams Guidance, strategies and skills are...

In the UPSC/IAS Civil Services Main Examination (written), candidates are allowed to choose one optional subject. Which is the favorite optional subject of most aspirants? Any guesses? The Most Popular Optional Subject in UPSC Civil Services Main Examination: Geography. Geography has become the most preferred subject among the optional subjects opted by the candidates, followed by History, Public Administration and Sociology. Among the candidates who qualify to write UPSC Mains (written exam) every year, around 3000 candidates prefer Geography as an optional subject. Geography is chosen by more than 3000 candidates who write UPSC Mains Number of candidates who wrote Mains with  Geography as optional ·          3391 candidates (in UPSC Mains 2015) ·          3515 (in UPSC Mains 2014) History is chosen by more than 1500 candidates who write UPSC Mains The number of candidates w...

JOINT FAMILY Joint family system is a very old concept. Under this system, all members of the family would live together and enjoy the income of the family. The family in India does not consist only of husband, wife and their children but also of uncles, aunts and cousins and grandsons. This system, called joint family or extended family system is a peculiar characteristic of the Indian social life. A son after marriage does not usually separate himself from the parents but continues to stay with them under the same roof messing together and holding property in common. The family has joint property and every person has his share in it since the time he is born. The earnings of all the members are put in a common fund out of which family expenses are met. Non-earning members have as much share as the earning members. The Indian family system is thus like a socialistic community in which everyone earns according to his capacity and receives according to his needs. The family i...

The pink tax is a marketing strategy which targets women to pay more than men for similar utility products. It is essentially a gender based price discrimination against women. Two products which are equal in utility with no extra feature cost more for women just because they are marketed as specially designed for women. They term pink tax is also driven from the fact that any product can be sold at a higher price if it is packaged in pink. This false marketing is creating a brain wash effect on women. Another reason is that this marketing attacks on the insecurities of women and eventually they buy into the temptation. Products marketed and claimed to have been designed for women are 7% more expensive than products marketed for men. A variety of products like apparel, healthcare products, footwear, children’s toys etc are all under the umbrella of discrimination. The most evident disparity is seen in personal care products of men and women which has a good margin of difference for ...

The objective of education is to relate it to life, needs and aspirations of the people and thereby make it a powerful instrument of social, economic and cultural transformation. Education is cardinal in inculcating values, to provide skills and competencies for the citizens, and in enabling them to contribute to the nation's well-being and world at large; strengthens democracy by empowering citizens; becomes an adhesive for the society, and instrumental in entrenching cosmopolitan values among all. Education should be a tool for inculcating values like compassion, knowledge, objectivity, skills and thereby aids in leading a quality and wholesome life which contributes in the country's development. Education could prove as a potent weapon in waning a chasm between the society which is as of now divided on the lines of social, economic and political agenda. A harmony needs to be maintained between nature and human beings and should not be...

Bioinformatics Bioinformatics is science of reposing, retrieving and analyzing an ample amount of biological data. It ideals with the biological data from research for the use of further research purposes. It is a hybrid science which basically link the biological data with the storage, distribution, and analysis which ultimately is used for scientific research in multiple areas like bio medicine etc. http://www.gurmarg.com/daily-current-affairs.php This science is fed by data generation experiments such as genomic sequence resolutions and magnitudes of gene expression patterns.   Data base projects accumulate and annotate the data after which the data is being distributed on World Wide Web. Meanwhile, this information is needed for the scientific discoveries which lead its use in different fields especially in the field of medicine. For example, bioinformatics is used to correlate the disease and gene sequence, to predict structure of protein from amino acid,   he...