 Good afternoon everyone. Though now 12 noon is already done. So let's have a good afternoon on this rainy day in Delhi. We all have came here to discuss about the choice of optional subject and what are the basics we should consider while choosing an optional subject while preparing for the civil services examination. As some of the students are already joining, some of you have already joined and there are also obviously technical glitches taking place in between. So before we move on towards the technical discussion about the choice of optional subject that what are the different parameter we should consider, what will be the benefit of choosing this optional for which I'm conducting a webinar to all of you. Let me welcome to all of you to the Chanak KIS Academy for optional webinar. The purpose of this webinar is to clarify your doubts, your confusions regarding the choice of an optional subject. While discussing all these parameters, I have also brought a small PPT as well in order to make the points more factual so that whatever I'm explaining you will also be visible on the PPT or on your screen so that there can be a coordination in terms of my explanation and your understanding and in between wherever the doubts are raised you will be free to write the query in the chat box and I will try to intuit the query within the discussion itself so that the doubts can be sorted out so that we can discuss in a free flow manner without any excessive amount of interruptions or nuisance. Maybe technical problems can occur that is due to the excessive weather conditions where a heavy rain is in the Delhi from the yesterday night itself. Even I was not sure that whether the webinar may get conducted because of that much rain but finally the arrangements have been made by the technical team, by the Becken team. Thank you Gautam, thank you to all your team also for making this discussion a possible at right time. Yes, so now you are free to even run your cameras as well that is up to your choice so that at least there could be some amount of interactions which we can generally do while sitting in the class. In the present time period obviously due to this COVID pandemic there are lot of challenges for the classroom discussions so to continue the study even the classes can come to the convenience of our home which is presently happening with the help of the webinar and online classes. As a student sometime in our mind these are also some doubts also comes that will the online classes for optional preparation or the GS preparation are good because maybe I wanted to write the notes while sitting in the class. I will be asking the query while attending the class but all these things can also be done within the virtual classrooms as well because the way how I cover the syllabus the way how I will covering the optional subject I have a strategy of interacting plus making the synopsis. Synopsis means the short pointer notes also so that we have a feel that we are attending the class and writing the class notes. Queries which are raised by the students can be submitted in the chat box question can be read from my side and accordingly the answer can be given so that it's like one to one connectivity which we have in the class we can also have in the virtual classroom like right now there's a query will you be taking our optional for Chandigarh batch online as well I will be taking optional batch only online. The reason is from Delhi we can connect with all the centers for the coverage of online batches but reaching to all the centers offline is a practically impossible task reason the syllabus takes four to five months in order to complete from the scratch up to the advanced level with answer writing practices. So usually I take the classes from the Delhi only and Mosul Rain the north Delhi center or even on some occasions from Prajindanagar center so that's the reason because the students who are interacting with me or they have attended some general studies classes with me so they generally have a demand that sir we wanted to study. So in those circumstances rather than going to the center we can have the benefit of attending the optional subjects in online mode and I will be covering entire syllabus online classes and the batches are for optional going to be run online as I have been informed by the management GS offline classes wherever have been started in all our centers will continue in the same manner but for the optional also at present the decision is that they are going to run in the online modes so that all the students will get a benefit of the syllabus coverage from the experienced and senior faculties from Delhi for the complete coverage of option because usually on the regional centers there are more preparations for the state PCS examinations they give preference towards them also and obviously UPSC teams are also with all the different centers of Chanakya's academy and they are also a dedicated team to complete the syllabus as per the needs of the student but from the Delhi it will be conducted online sessions and the syllabus will be completed in a span of four to five months depending upon because now the festive season is going to be there so October November is a complete festive season so there are a lot of holidays also which can delay the syllabus and in all circumstances most probably by the February end the syllabus can be completed so again it's almost three to four months before the prelims we will be in a position to wind up the optional subject from which date the optional subjects are classes will be starting yes most probably as far as this class starting is concerned we expect that immediately after the prelims immediately after the prelims which is generally for the 10th of October so after that will be a new batch starting and we have started a batch on 26th of August also so almost just one week classes have been conducted so in case if you wanted to join early that option is also available and if you wanted to wait for a month so after the prelims that is 10th October there will be a new batch for the Chanakya's academy optional classes so at that point of time also you have the benefit of joining the optional classes but they will be conducted online this is a have been informed by the senior management of Chanakya academy as far as today our interaction is concerned we are going to discuss about optional subject that is public administration there are a lot of students who have cracked the examination with public administration as an option and what is public administration that's a small idea what are the benefits of choosing this optional subject for the UPAC those kind of points I wanted to highlight for our understanding before I move this one other query if we take online classes only then you will be taking what would be the batch size for the same for one batch and how long classes will be conducted in a day if you are joining the online for optional subject the classes are up to two and a half hours two and a half is a maximum time period so between two hours to two and a half hours the class get over means usually the class discussions are there for around two hours and there after the next 30 minutes which we have it's like summary writing and also the questions discussions doubt clearances which are conducted and five days a week these classes for optional subject are conducted so you can understand within one week you will be having around five classes two and a half hours a day so approximately 12 and a half hours in one week you will be studying the optional so you will get enough time for also reading the books that is the idea for conducting these online classes and timing is very convenient timing is usually in the afternoon sessions so after completing your lunch two and a half two and a half onwards or two thirty onwards till five o'clock that is the timings which are there for the online option subjects so even at the convenience of your home convenience of the home cooked food thereafter you can have the benefit of attending your optional classes now let us move on to some basic discussions and thereafter I will be giving you a time to submit your question or query and then we'll be answering those queries later on is it so that once what is the objective of joining let us first resolve that joining and thereafter the doubt clearances will be conducted now the point is what is this public administration all about so in this context remember please lot of student are from the field of management so what they study they study business administration management is all about business so business administration is taught in our colleges in the master's degree also we have the IIMs as well for doing the business management courses but nobody teaches in our country government administration and that government administration is public administration this is the simple thing and imagine the people are doing in the country become bba mba and thereafter they even start they prepare also for the upc so they enter into the government system by understanding the private business how the decisions can be taken how the policies can be formulated but for whom that is the business decision policies and the work culture of the government is different so as a result they there are lot of challenges which they face as an administrator we require lot of patience lot of dedication civil service values so those things are taught under the subject public administration so here public means government so public administration as a subject will be letting us know about government administration what will be the responsibility of the government what will be the answer writing criteria of the government how the policies will be formulated how policies will be implemented what are the challenges in the policies these all type of concerns are covered under the optional syllabus of public administration answer writing is a challenge in an online mode sir how will you do our answer writing answer writing is not a challenge in the online mode as well and this I can tell you from the way how I have covered the subjects optional subject last year also online current year in few GS subjects I have completed with the Chanakya Academy like quality has been done in the evening time period I'm taking the quality classes also GS quality earlier economics classes also have completed so I give a assignment question on weekly basis or at least two questions per week whatever the topics we have covered in the week on that basis at least two questions are given and you as a student will be writing the question and responding to me via email there is an official email ID for me with the Chanakya domain and you will be sending your question answers on the email ID and within a span of one day or maximum two days you will get a response of evaluation along with the proper feedback plus the average marking criteria means how much you are able to score if you write the content which you have written in the answer how much marks you are able to fetch so that way evaluation is done and the best part is there is no chances of even losing the answers we can't miss the sheets as well reason it's a digital record so that way we can even practice the answer writing in the online mode because even in the UPSC we will be writing what we will be writing the on plain sheets so here also you can write on plain sheet and then you can just take a snapshot and send it on the email and can get a proper response I heard have scored in single digit for many years is it true one student see score is given if the content of the answer is good if the content is not there then does not matter whether you are writing public answer or you are writing political science answer or sociology nobody will give marks unless and until you have written the content and content is here structure structure of the answer should be proper articles of the constitution can be included thinkers thought process can be included and recent examples if you add recent examples if you add recent examples you can fetch always high school but if you are learning mugging up the examples of 1960s 1970s 1980s and writing them in your answer that means you are not showing to the examiner your application site application side means whatever the concept you are understanding what is happening in the country you relate them relate them and then present your answer and you will always fetch a high score in the public administration because it's a combination of concept combination of current examples that is application and because we have for public overlapping overlapping with the constitution syllabus quality governance syllabus ethics syllabus so we will always have a benefit of scoring high marks even in the general states that is the basic concern what sources to consult for public yes list of books all these things I'm going to tell you let us first move on to another side explain please the definition of public the definition of public is right now on your current screen only government administration public here means government public does not mean the general public the public here means government public policies means government policies so anything what government decides to do or not to do is called as public policy so those policies are formulated by government and in actual practice they are formulated by public administration or government administration that is the idea and these kind of thought process we will gradually develop while covering the syllabus in the academy and not just this the most unique point is what even the candidate can compete to the civil services with different optional subjects but even after selection public administration is taught in the academy public administration is also taught during the training period of the civil servant that is known as foundation course training even there the public administration management is also taught because at the end of the day you have to make the subordinates work the general public has to make the work and as a result you must understand how to take the work from the people that is why the subject will be suitable for your preparation could you please tell me what would be the approximate strength of the class the strength of the class approximately will be just 50 to 60 only it will not be big batch like the general studies batch because maybe general studies batch can have 200 400 students but everybody will not choose public some have our preferences for history some have our preferences for geography some have preferences for even the sociology some want to study political science because they have studied those kind of subjects in their graduation some wanted to choose a new subject they can even come for the public and that's why the strength got less for optional subject in comparison to the general studies so approximately 40 to 50 is a good strength to study in a class it's just like a classroom is it so it will be an average strength which generally happen in the online batches for optional subject it's rarely it crosses more than 100 rarely for optional subject but for general studies yeah it can be 400 500 as well because I already some of you have studied the general studies with us and strength was visible to all of you why to choose public administration as an optional this is the thing which lot of people have in the mind what will be the benefit why should I choose for bed why should not I choose my means English literature because I may have done the BA English honors or I have done my masters in the English honors so I'm going for this point is that there are two criterias which are commonly used by any successful candidate for decision of optional subject one criteria is what if I'm doing my graduation my masters with a particular subject and I am clear about the basics of the subject then I will not choose any another subject except my own graduation and master subject for example let's say if I have done history honors in my graduation I'm doing my masters also with the history and I have read the history in a good manner that means with understanding I have learned I will not experiment with any another option I will go with history that's the thing I may be an MBBS doctor is it so I may have studied the medical science during my graduation as an MBBS for completion of my professional degree but the point is when I'm looking for the syllabus for civil service preparation I found it is too lengthy and it is taking so much efforts to cover the entire syllabus and problem it has no overlapping with the general studies except the biology portion and that biology questions are generally 5 to 10 maximum so just for 10 questions I will have a benefit of the this MBBS subject so it will be a big challenge to cover entire general studies in detail and my lengthy MBBS subject also separately so in those circumstances as an individual we think about that that optional subject which will have benefit for general studies as well this is the second alternative so one alternative is I am not going to leave my graduation subject my master subject so I can choose medical science because my concepts are clear I will go with medical science so that I have to only give effort for the general studies this is one way but I know only I have done how I have done my MBBS how I have done my engineering so that 20 days 26 days study program that means I'm not clear about the basic concepts and I just have got this is our educational system at present time period that people just mug up the concepts read the important portions and they just go the examination and they get the degrees and they got a good marks also but here the challenges are completely different here from conceptual understanding to practical application we require the overall coverage because nobody knows from which area the question is going to be raised so we have to cover the syllabus in a wider manner so as a result despite that I may be an engineering graduate but I'm not getting the courage to choose the engineering subject so some people some senior have suggested that for engineering people geographies are very good optional is it that's the reason is if my senior has told me geography is a very good optional so when I started reading geography as an engineering student I found that there are so many facts there are so many data and the problem is it looks very good that oh it's raining outside but the point is there are at least five to six different type of clouds which are formed in the atmosphere and different different type of clouds bring different types of rain which we have not observed because for us raining is pleasing thing what type of clouds have been formed in this concept because that looks very good in terms of understanding but what to write writing becomes a challenge and that's why what happened the success ratio if 100 students are taking the geography optional only five are cracking the exam five so 95 do not crack 95 do not crack but if 100 students are taking public 11 students are cracking the exam so that means 89 still do not crack but the point is which subject is having a higher selection ratio is it geography or is it public according to this example you can answer in the chat box at least muji pata chalega ke you are listening I'm an MBA student I have thought of three subjects public social and anthropology could you give me a bit of each I'll try to bring a small comparison with the other one as well no problem that's it so out of this according to this example obviously the geography is having a lesser success ratio then there are also the demands that see sir social is a very good optional it's a very small syllabus in comparison to pub bed there's a difference of only two units though you need come ever pub bed have 26 units syllabus social has 24 units that's it only two units difference but what is the success rate of sociology 5.5 percent 11 out of 200 and for pub bed if 200 are competing minimum 22 are going to succeed so again it's a double selection ratio and this is not that I'm I just have to convince you for pub bed I'm saying all these on the basis of the facts and where the fact is coming from the fact is coming from UPSC annual report and you can even cross check these facts from the UPSC annual report also the latest report which is available was of 2019-20 after that COVID have been there pandemic so during that time period during the pandemic first phase it has been published by the UPSC and they give they have given the selection ratio so pub bed was having 11 students out of 100 so as a result around 1000 students have competed and 110 candidates have got the selection after a pub bed was around political science nine students nine think about it less than political science was sociology 5.5 geography 51 history around 10 students have even selected from the history as well so it's up to us in terms of the selection criteria also which is a factual information in which we can't have even we can't deny the facts we can make a story we can make anything but how we are going to deny the facts fact will remain same uniformly applicable that's a concern I consulted the syllabus of botany zoology this is a query I'm reading for you I found that the syllabus of the first two subject is too lengthy to cover so I thought pub bed optional is better and because of this I have also taken admission in MBA sorry in MA pub bed from IGNU correct this is completely correcting because point is what are the let's now understand what are the benefits of pub bed as an optional so that whatever the points I have told you they will also be clarifying to all of you with the help of this discussion even for your convenience you can even take a screenshot of the current points so that you can later on think over these points and can cross check as well is it that is most appropriate thing so point is reading pub bed will make you understand that what are the roles and responsibilities of the civil servants means after selection what is the work you have to do what will be the role responsibilities of the district collector those ideas we come across during the study period and if you study something during your school days if you study the same thing in your college so you have a practical application of those concepts save is here if during preparation you have studied the role responsibility after selection you don't have to learn from other that what is your role and responsibility you will directly start working according to your understanding of the role and responsibilities as a student with practical application public administration tells us about government functions whatever government do and whatever government do not do they all will become the functions of the public administration like earlier government was building roads now government have stopped building roads and government is asking private sector to build roads so monitoring of the private sector is now your responsibility as a public administrator if government start constructing the road again then constructing the road will be the responsibility of the administration with the help of obviously technical team means there are engineering students who have done special engineering with civil engineering they are employed by the various PSUs so they will be responsible but you will be responsible for monitoring and coordination that is the basic idea thereafter public administration helps or explains about policy formulation and implementation this is what I was telling you in the beginning how the policies are to be formulated how the policies are to be implemented all these things we come across while we study this subject generally in the polity there are concepts like secret areas direct rates those things are here in the public syllabus as well in the government there is a duty of policy making policy making is the duty of secretariat where minister IS officer used to means attend the office and from their policies are formulated like you have central secretariat at the government of India level and for each state to whatever state you belong there is a concept of state secretariat like in the state secretariat term which I am using let's say Delhi secretariat Haryana secretariat Punjab secretariat Uttar Pradesh secretariat so every state secretariat has their own body for policy formulation and then you have direct rates direct rates are the implementing body so direct rates are responsible for implementation of those government policies so these things as an individual we learn during the educational time period only during the graduation during the masters and reading this and thereafter when you enter into the system you will have a clarity about the ideas that what will be your role and responsibility when you are in the field field means direct rates implementing agency or headquarters that is secretariat from where you have to formulate the policies those kind of understanding we will get from this subject public administration helps you to develop problem solving approach this is most important thing as an individual we may face multiple problems while working as an administrator in our day to day life as a student also so point is this is a real example which has taken place last year in the month of March month of March prime minister came on the television screen and declared the complete lockdown so that point of time there were approximately 1100 students of Chanakya's academy of all the different different centers who have taken admission for offline classes so that point of time nobody have visualized that the pandemic will be there long pandemic will be there classes will get disrupted in this manner so now the point is problem what is the problem lockdown is the problem what to do student have joined us for studies they have trusted us because we are a almost 30 year old brand and they wanted to even come and study or complete their syllabus for the preparation so what to do then the meeting was conducted of the highest level MD sir was there senior management team was there our IT team was there professional teaching team was also there and then the decision was taken that's a let's have the online live classes for our students we will not do recording for the syllabus recording of the batches and let's have the live classes so that they will be virtually in their classroom from the convenience of their home and let us teach in the same manner as we teach in the classroom and the only difference is virtually we are away from each other but practically we are attending the classes and within the month of one month time period that is April onwards we started online classes so point is one problem solving approach so problem if there's a problem there's always a solution and if there is no solution then you yourself are the problem that we don't want to solve your problem technically this is the point if I have if I'm facing a problem there is a possible solution for that solution can be difficult solution can be easy but if there is no solution that means I am the problem because I don't want to solve it I may have a excessive lazy nature I may have an ignorant opinion and that's why I don't want to even solve that problem so even this is why I'm saying that we develop a problem solving approach for our day to day life as well as towards the society public administration has the maximum number of selection in the last 30 years 1989 this subject was introduced in the UPSC for main examination 89 1989 onwards and continuously for a number of years it gave the rank one reason that point of time there were two optionals so people were choosing first optional according to their choice second optional by default was puppet so the data says we have a large number of ranks for the puppet but last year as you have seen again puppet has got the rank one the only problem was rank one was not visible rank five was there rank 11 was there but the maximum student watches which rank rank one so finally after a gap of almost 10 year rank one again came from puppet maybe in the meantime there was a rank from mathematics optional but I don't know match can I go and take the mathematics as an optional subject that's a foolishness anthropology also gave two consecutive rank one it does not mean anthropology became so easy and understandable subject though anthropology have a lot of overlapping with the history optional because their one paper is common one paper syllabus is common and that's why the anthropology and that one can't be chosen as a combination subjects when there were two optionals that's the point so please remember these all are factual information which I'm just bringing in an organized manner to all of you for your convenience then puppet has a higher success rate in its comparative optionals political science political science and puppet are the competitor for each other competitor political science teaches you how to rule because that is politics how to rule public administration teaches you how to serve how to manage how to fulfill your duties and responsibility and being an administrator what is supposed to be your opinion ruling or serving you can answer this question even I can also ask the question and like you submit your question in the chat box so I can also ask the question public administrator has to do what ruling the society or serving the society so you people are answering serving as I so how will you develop an attitude of serving if you study ruling approaches will it be possible practically because the mindset is ruling I have studied the ruling subject so how I'm going to develop a serving attitude because that serving attitude may come from management subject so management is business so that require quick decision making we are in government where the problem will be slow movement of the file slow approvals so we require that patience and that we can develop through this subject which is government administration that is public administration and this is why political science is always a competitor with public administration so even when there was an era that means almost seven eight years back when there were two optional subjects for there so a student cannot choose political science and public administration as a combination because there was overlapping in the syllabus and that's why they were restricted similarly history anthropology cannot be chosen as a as a combination that time and now because we have only one optional so that problem is sorted out so either we have to choose pub bed either history either political science or either the anthropology sociology geography so the bigger competitor for pub bed are three main subjects geography sociology political science and the unique part is what according to upsc report which I told you 2019-20 was the latest report pub bed is having more success ratio than these three options in fact from in comparison to history also pub bed has a higher selection or success ratio in comparison to even history option that's a fact because political science out of 10 around 8 or 9 candidates are correct sociology 5.5 geography pub bed 11 so you can understand 89 students are getting rejected but how many are getting rejected in sociology 94.5 geography 95 students are getting rejected political science 92 students are getting rejected so less rejection we have from pub bed that is also factual information that's why I mentioned and quoted the report also so that all these facts can be brought to all the students in a fair and transparent manner then another important dimension which I wanted to share with you how it is helpful in the general studies that is also an important area to understand before choice of an option and before that why to join us isn't it so we are again 1993 onwards a trusted brand in the field of civil service examination so that is a credit for us life classes six days have been written but they are going to be conducted five as I have informed today because earlier the planning was for six days but because we also have the weekend batches and also we have the current affairs classes in the weekend so we can't conduct the six days classes that's why five days classes will be conducted in one week class wise pdf material support is also provided so whatever the topic we are doing in the class same topic will be provided to the student in the form of pdf so you can take a print out according to your convenience you can keep a soft copy in your system for your revision purpose that's your choice along with the class notes because topic wise class notes we will be writing and pdf will also be provided plus very limited number of books maximum one to two books for each paper is required so syllabus coverage can take four months that is up to six days classes but I'm already saying four to five months because five days classes are going to be conducted and there will be live test that's more unique live test will be conducted so I'll be here in the virtual classroom you will be writing your answers on the other side then I'll be sharing the model answer you will do the self evaluation for them but assignment question you will be sending to me assignment questions you will be sending to me so first we write assignments for at least two months and thereafter we conduct the live test because by that time I came to know who is writing up to what level and then you will do the self evaluation in sending me the copy so that I can understand it how honestly you have checked it that's the purpose so it's a team effort which we will be following here in the virtual classroom for completion of the syllabus answer writing practice as I told some of you were asking earlier that how you will be checking so previous your question papers we will practice and you will be sending me the answer in the form of assignment through email and I will be responding it query your doubt session that is itself in the class only going to be included that's why the classes is for two and a half hours so that two are positive we will cover the topic and we have extra 30 minutes that is for the purpose of writing small notes, clearings of your queries doubts through the chat box discussion and that way we can resolve and the best part is in case if there's a network problem on your side on a particular day no need to worry same day the recordings are uploaded on the channel KLMS sometime we are not well we may be sick no problem if we miss the class we will have a complete backup of the classes through video recordings so only for that class that recording can be seen by the next day you will be able to ask your doubts or queries in case if you have missed four or five classes so after completing those four or five recordings in the class last 10 minutes 15 minutes you can send a message that I wanted to ask some doubts can be solved so it's a it's a cooperative team effort which we can follow in the best possible one that is why we can join the channel chaos academy for the optional subject whatever the optional subject means if you join for bed I will be there as a team leader but if you join any other subject then that particular faculty will be the one who is going to cooperate and coordinate with all of you as per your requirements then another important relevant portion is how it is important or what is the role in the general studies sir is public administration theories I am reading Prasad and Prasad yes that's a good book public administration for thinkers purpose Prasad and Prasad is a very good book even I also recommend that book to study but when you join us for the optional subject whatever is the important portion of the Prasad and Prasad and any another book they all have been incorporated in the form of pdf and that you can follow on class wise faces so that same day conceptual understanding same day pdf reading and a better understanding of the topic will get developed and in the same week at least two questions regarding two different scholars can be practiced as an assignment that is the idea now coming on the most important thing and this is what is the benefit of public in general studies because as a candidate I should choose the optional subject which can help me in the general studies also so that with one efforts I can make two benefits so if I choose history as an optional my gs history will become strong if I choose geography as an optional my gs geography will become strong but what is the weightage of history in the general studies prelims 10 to 15 questions means gs paper one and history will have a weightage of approximately 100 marks 100 to 125 marks out of 250 marks gs paper if I choose geography there so geography in prelims again 10 to 15 questions that means same in means it is only having 80 marks weightage that is geography so 500 marks optional plus 80 marks of the gs weightage if I choose political science so political science can cover entire gs paper to 250 marks weightage that's a benefit pub bed pub bed will cover only 175 marks from the gs paper to because ir is not our syllabus that means pub bed has a lesser weightage in comparison to political science but that is only in gs paper to pub bed has a weightage in the other papers as well of the general studies which paper gs paper three portions of economics portions of disaster management portions of security issues are part of our syllabus as law and order administration as disaster management administration so approximately 60 marks weightage 60 marks weightage we will be having in the gs paper three and then gs paper four ethics paper ethics papers 120 marks case studies and minimum 80 marks of theory so 200 marks weightage we have in the gs paper four no optional can have this much of weightage in the general studies in three different papers gs paper two gs paper three and gs paper four in all these three papers public administration has overlapping and that's why that's why 500 marks plus minimum 300 marks you are reading for the general studies also so around 800 marks weightage is for this optional optional but the benefit in the general studies if you add it crosses 800 marks weightage that is the most unique point for this optional search that is a fact and this you can even cross check at your own level by downloading the syllabus just syllabus of the bed and compare it with the general studies syllabus which i'm telling you so by that type of homework your fact your comparison will become more appropriate and in the essay paper there are 10 topics five topics in section sorry eight topics four four topics in section a and four topics in section b and you have to choose one one topic each in the essay paper at least one topic in that essay paper will be having overlapping with our public selectors so 125 marks weightage will also be there 125 marks weightage will also be there with the essay so approximately out of 1750 marks think about 1000 mark gs 500 marks optional and 250 marks essay paper so out of 250 marks minimum 125 marks for bed optional overlapping 1000 marks gs 300 to 400 marks overlapping and 500 marks optional that anyone can read all 500 will be there either you choose Urdu literature either you choose Sanskrit literature or you choose Kannada literature all literature will also be 500 marks you can choose geography you can choose political science you can choose mathematics again 500 marks but but also 500 marks but no other optional will have the overlapping in the general study subjects like we have in public think gs paper one we don't have overlapping because history geography and social issues are there but gs paper two polity governance and social justice we have overlapping gs paper three portions of economics disaster management and security issues we have overlapping and gs paper four 200 marks weightage because around 80 marks theory question and 120 marks of case studies are going to be answered on the basis of the puppet syllabus because we have civil services in India we have personnel administration in India in our puppet syllabus and that's why all these things are fact based analysis which I am bringing for your convenience for all these points are mentioned on the current screen also so for your convenience you can even take a screenshot of these facts otherwise I will ask the backend team to even upload it also on the elements but I think elements may not be available for every next individual so for your convenience because some of you are even joining us through the youtube also through the this elements as well so for that convenience you can take a screenshot of the current screen because this is all what I have explained you is coordinated with the factual informations that's a range which is given so 40 percent of the gsa labors if I have written here it is based upon facts so 1000 marks may say 400 marks cabbage for the general studies our plus up to 500 marks optional cabbage was 900 marks and 125 marks in the essay paper so plus after selection or application to head that is public administration only jubham district may come current to via responsible for policy implementation and when we get promoted to work in the secretariat we will be responsible for policy making I have two optional I'm just reading your inquiry I have two optionals in my mind management and public as I'm a commerce graduate management syllabus is easy for me but the thing is I'm not good in practical part and management second paper contains lot of practical portions absolutely correct I was also commerce graduate become honest from tilly university kiro de mel college that was 2005 only that graduation got over so and that point of time there were two optional choices so I opted for commerce and accountancy because of my graduation which was very good with me and the second option I have chosen that thing was public administration but I found pub bed more interesting than the manage my commerce and accountancy subject so I made pub bed as my first choice and since then I am studying that subject then 2009 I got selected for Indian railway traffic IRTS that was my last at that time four items was here so IRTS I got selected but I found that academics was much much better than the IRTS job so since then 2009 I joined the channel care for the teaching purpose and it's now almost 12 years are completed 13th year is going on and teaching this public administration optional so whatever the things whatever the way I have studied I'm just sharing that one and making others also to achieve their dreams in a limited span of time and I do have a list of candidates who have cracked this exam in the first attempt itself though there are series coming on the various web series and they are showing three attempts four attempts means they're making you comfortable I believe one or two is more than sufficient to clear why to waste time and why to just waste the resources for no reasons and this is all based upon the working preferences and the dedication of the candidate that one attempt is sufficient but in case if we have done some mistakes in the first attempt and we may have done first attempt in learning so second attempt is more than sufficient to crack the exam it's all means for wasting of time and resources of the parents are also our so-called our hardened money as well if we are working professionals so that's not an appropriating but yes one two attempts are more than sufficient to crack the examination depending upon our dedication sometimes people make these excuses there were 900 seats now they are going down to 718 now they are going to 500 how many seats you need you need one for yourself so even if there are 30 seats I'm going to compete because I need just one seat if there are 3000 seats then also I will compete because I need just one seat and that's it is for me so it does not matter how many seats are there what matters is how much I am dedicated towards that seat whether I'm doing the hard work to get that seat or not that is a matter of concern now this is a small analysis also have been done for your convenience because which topic and which unit have overlapping with which general studies subject you can even take a screenshot of this these are the 12 units of paper one Puppet Puppet paper one and in the right column are the GS subjects with which there are possible over lappings quality quality and ethics that means two subjects two papers administrative law politics apart personal administration civil services ethics apart public policies politics extra syllabus mention public policies techniques of improvement financial administration that's economics or you do administrative thought and administrative behavior and this is taught in the training that's why I mentioned in the bracket also that training in so even at a training this subject is going to be taught or that's the thing plus paper two of Puppet have 14 units if you wanted to take a screenshot you can take as you have sent the query can even take a screenshot of this so that I will go on the next screen I hope I'm making your doubts clear and the confusions which were there in the mind regarding the Puppet as an optional are getting automatically resolved in the discussion because that is most important thing that's why we are investing our time you as a student I as a teacher is this subject consistent absolutely subject is or every subject is consistent every subject because syllabus is already defined if you do your efforts if you invest your time you will always going to read the fruits that's the thing yes list of resources I'm going to share at the end only just in the few minutes later so I'm moving on to the next page these are the units from paper two paper two is Indian administration and this paper have the maximum overlapping with the quality syllabus this is having an excessive amount of overlapping with the quality syllabus as you can see from the current screen 14 units miss a observe career 12 units gs overlapping first you need to show the deal with me basically history because ancients say we have this one. Medieval history say we have Mughal administration or modern history say we have British administration so that overlapping is not used but constitutional philosophy related to PSU we have the entire unit that the government is doing privatization disinvestment we will read this in the pub and for this we will not read the book of the pub we will read the book of the economy and that's the fact because the book of the economy covers the concept better and you don't have to read the book of the economy because I have the PDF prepared with all the facts in the line so that will be shared with the students once you will be part of the puppet optional with Chanakya AS Academy union government quality plans and priorities so what was the role of planning commission because there can be a comparative question how Neethi Aayog is different from planning commission how Neethi Aayog is different from planning commission for that I need to know what was planning commission comparative analysis is also to be performed and that's why economics plus even in the quality also this can be a question as well as puppet state government again quality district administration nowhere other defined in the GS subject but this is your future responsibility as a district administrator civil services ethics then administrative reforms we will cover that in the syllabus rural development that is panchayat urban development municipality quality case art direct overlapping here law and order administration security and significant issues in Indian administration it may have disaster management which is having an overlapping with general studies to give factual information analysis basis but poor a public syllabus paper one and paper two so technically 14 may say 12 units paper 2k are important for the general studies as well so when you study something in optional when you study something in optional you will always get the benefit in general studies of that thing is it how many books approximately need to be covered for both the paper we will be having not more than four books or books will be secondary first priority we will give to the class PDF and class notes because after reading book also we have to make notes so isn't it better if we are directly preparing the class notes and the PDFs and books we will use for contingency purpose for psychological satisfaction that is more important for the preparation so that contingency topic which are less important less relevant we can read them from the book also that should be the idea is it then another important point it's a comparative approach again because there are myths in the market market or our seniors have also created problem for us one of the first myth is public is very difficult how it's going to be difficult if it is if it is related with polity related with ethics then how it is going to be difficult so it's easy to understand maximum portion easy hand understand karnay kalee puppet is not scoring puppet is not scoring and still puppet is giving rank one still puppet is giving selection for 11 students out of 100 who are competing with puppet think about it facts fact apni apni myths ko defeat kar dehte hai that is the best part of the facts last year rank one 10 years ke baad aya hai rank one i am already telling you this fact but what were the other ranks prior to this even my classroom student got rank 14 ankita chaudhary she got rank 14 and she scored she scored out of 500 300 some 300 30 or 335 marks she scored think about it up to 70 percent she was reaching in terms of the score so it's it's it's a myth that it's not scoring the people who can't write the good answers obviously can even just criticize the things but if you write an average answer with constitutional information conceptual understanding and current examples you will always be fetching the highest scores questions are vague vague questions are not vague questions are application based if you learn the old examples of 1960s 70s 80s situation is not same situation is changing currently situations are changing in the country so current based questions are coming so that's not vague that is application based what you study in the current affair will study in the puppet that's a purpose puppet is confusing contradictory viewpoint no those are scholars viewpoint and every scholar do not think in the same manner in fact two best friends they don't think in the same manner they have a difference of opinion and this difference of opinion is better for the management of human resources or management of people sir we have to apply theories in answers we have to apply theories in answer for paper number one because they are the thinker based questions are there and those questions are just three to four how to make our answers different according to the dynamic formation of question examples while discussing in the class I generally give three to four examples so that different individuals can choose different example according to their understanding if I discuss only one example it means everybody is going to write the same example so for that purpose we cover with wider discussions three four different examples are included and according to your understanding you can choose any one of them that's the thing because if everyone is writing the same then it will be a problem but if people are writing different different examples that is always suitable geography sociology political science they are better than puppet this is also going to dominate a lot but the fact is the success rate of puppet is much much higher than all these subjects as I told you in the earlier part UPSC annual report 2019-20 out of 100 candidate 11 are getting selected with the puppet option out of 100 so if there are 1000 candidates who have competed with puppet 110 minimum students have been selected by this option puppet is very difficult no this is not at all in question there are choices also eight questions so if you feel that the question is highly difficult you can leave that question and move on to the next one choices and no benefit in gs it's all wrong 40 gs syllabus we will have benefit from the public administration these all are the facts reality so that all these kind of confusions can be resolved to the best possible way then these are the different different numbers which you can use for the purpose of contacting the channel kis academy the counseling team will be further helping you in order to get enrollment or regarding the starting date for the new batch follow-ups what to do how to join how to make payments online transfers whatever the different way that will be done with the help of this particular team there are four different numbers north deli center south deli center rajendra place and corolla both are same corolla and rajendra place corolla is just an information office classes will be a rajendra place that is nearby the metro station so these all are the channel k academy numbers you can even take a screenshot for connecting with us and joining with us these all are the facts which i was willing to share with you and now you are free to send you are free to send your doubts related to the today's discussion i'm here to clarify your possible doubts in the confusions i tried from my side hundred percent best to resolve all the possible queries automatically but in case if i have missed something you are free to send that question to me i will take your question and will be responding when will the online batch for chandry good branch be starting the batch will be conducted from the deli only for the dates and all these you please make a contact on either of these numbers four numbers that's why i'm sharing the numbers with you because sometime it happened maybe the branch has not discussed the date with the students or any other reasons for the convenience you have all the numbers of the headquarter as well this rajendra place center is the again academic heads used to sit there so even these two numbers can be followed for further query and about joining the online classes because from there everything is going to be controlled this is economics as an optional economics as an optional will be good for those candidates who have done the economics honors and after that they are also going for the masters in economics that is a fact because subject is technical it's not that easy what we study in the indian economy for the general studies that is only 30 percent of the economics levels optional car so in the gs weightage of economics for the prelims is 10 to 15 questions and for them means the weightage is between 60 to 80 marks for the gs economics but is the material support available for economics or upc preparation very minimum very minimum so every struggle will be your individual struggle in that case so if you are ready for that struggle can choose it if you wanted to choose some easy path which can you have a maximum benefit then i can help you with the public administration that is the point and you know the best part it is an important fact and the fact is suppose you are an economics graduate and i am going to choose economics optional so all of those people who are choosing economics as an optional out of 190 people have studied economics in their educational career but the best part with with puppet is what out of 100 students who are joining puppet 99 do not know what is puppet at the time of joining because they've never studied that's the thing only those who have done the political science honors they have studied puppet as only one paper in their graduation as one paper in their graduation and that time they don't give the preference to that paper because competition is more general like minded people who don't know the puppet they have started studying and then they make their own efforts to reach at the top but if i choose medical science think about it so i'm a medical science graduate so my competition with all those who have studied medical science if i'm entering with the other technical subjects so i may have an educational background then only i will enter is it that is also a fact we should evaluate while choosing the optional subject that's why first i told you in the beginning whatever is your graduation whatever is your master if you are comfortable with that and you have a conceptual understanding then you can go with that subject but the problem is material entire struggle will be your maths is a good subject but remember the maths in the upc is more theoretical it's a good option i know one student who is right now appearing in the interview and his interview is done already and he is from the maths optional student but i have coordinated with him in quality governance portion and even before the interview have a long chat to even answers or maybe appropriate reply to the things and he's already a selected individual in the behar pcs he got rank six there yes he got rank six susheel kumar misra and he is right now appearing with the upc interview already done that's last month only and he's having a maths option so i know the student personally but again though he's not from the public office still i know reason is obviously in the general studies we have means met and have clarified those things a lot of times it's there but point is are you comfortable with maths you have done your maths honors it's good for you and you are ready to do the lot of efforts the only problem will be one general studies and he said that sir i have no problem because he have not taken any coaching or the things and he prepared on its own for the mathematic option that's the thing but again best part is charnaka is offering maths optional as well so you can even coordinate with the maths optional teacher for the same how to manage time effectively we have five to six hours online classes and it is very difficult even if it is not online classes and you are in the online you are in the offline classes only then also you have five to six hours classes to either online or either offline every day you have five to six hours classes so you need to contribute at least one and a half hour to two hour for your optional subject at least cover the topic which are covered in the class on the same day at your home that's a thing and again one one and a half hour for each general study subject if two gs are going on these are the minimum time period you need to contribute and newspaper at least one hour newspaper will consume so five to six hours we require on a daily basis for the purpose of cell study so five six hour classes five six hour cell study that is 12 to 13 hours in a day you have to contribute for your career rest of the time left is around nine hours six seven hour study and rest two hours at least for the two years till the time you achieve a success i have attended a gs class of all centers basis there were at least 400 students so if 10 students are also taking pub bed from each center there will be more than 300 no this is not needed there are a lot of challenges at the covid era are faced by the people some prefer pub bed some prefer other subjects as well so some are going with their graduation subjects as well like i already shared with you the maths optional student so it's not like that that there will be 300 students strength the strength is going to be less than 100 usually and point is only one you have to ask the query to me and i have to respond to your query so it's again an individual interaction does not matter how many screens are there screens to subbandy only one screen is open that is my screen so we will be having like a one-on-one discussion just like right now your query has reached to me even if there are more student your care your query is going to reach to me in that case also today because we have a less number so i have not connected the phone for the query purpose otherwise i always connect the phone also additionally so that no query will be missed and can answer the queries immediately that's it that's an idea so this point of you which we can follow scope of public administration for the examination is very bright please remember even if you are going to appear in your state pcs exams also let me this is the most important fact because apart from upc you will also be writing the your state pcs and in maximum number of states either it is Rajasthan either it is Madhya Pradesh either it is Punjab either it is Ariana in their GS syllabus they have expanded the scope of public administration in the GS just like the upc general studies of syllabus they all have expanded their GS syllabus for the state pcs as well so if you study something for upc optional per bed it will also help you in your state pcs examinations as well that is the best possible benefit of the subject that is a fact and you can compare it with your own state pcs subject because i don't know which state the different different candidates are but if you are from Rajasthan can compare there if you are from Punjab can see there if you are from even Tamil Nadu or maybe from the Karnataka you can see your state pcs examination syllabus because there are general studies syllabus and majority of the state pcs have abolished the optionals so if they have abolished the optionals they have expanded the scope of per bed in their syllabus this is a factual information okay so if there is any another query which is still required you are free to submit the query i will respond to your points how will you come to know how we will come to know the date of online class in case our branch not inform us on your current screen there are four numbers four and i'm saying call on the Rajendra Rajendra place center number or Kural Bagh center number for the most authentic information about the batch starting date yes resources books correct one book which we will study for paper one is public administration theories and concepts and that book is written by the scholar i'm typing in the chat box for the convenience of all of you it's fadiya and fadiya f-a-d-i-a fadiya and fadiya that's the writer's name two right people are there they have written the book public administration theories and concepts so this is one contingency book for paper one contingency book for paper one apart from this we will be having our class notes and pdf so if a topic which is less relevant not covered there or you wanted to read the topic in more detail then you can go for the book this one is more than sufficient for the paper one for thinkers there is a book called as prasad and prasad but i suggest i have already included the important portion for that book in the pdf so no need to go for prasad and prasad separately we can avoid that one because i already have prepared the good pdf based upon that and other books as well and for paper two we have indian administration by goyal and aroda for paper two indian administration by aroda and goyal or goyal and aroda that is sufficient one for paper two apart from the pdf and apart from the class notes these two will be sufficient yes we can study muhid bhattacharya also but then some students they complains their language is very technical and it's written too precisely so they face a problem in terms of explanations that is the purpose why i have given the minimum list of books there are more lists also muhid bhattacharya is there rk sapru is there fadi and fadiya there sharmain sadhana is also there four five books for paper one and around four five books for paper two then the student will say sir itna sara book kese parenge so for the convenience purpose these are the minimum two books suggested one for paper one and second was for paper two that's the objective when to contact rajendra place center for enrolment you can contact immediately after the session get over it there kisle karna is it kabid ka doha nahi kaal kare so aaj kar aaj kare so ab so why to wait after the discussion get over class session get over you can contact on the branch that is rajendra place center ilamam is taking care of that center it will be there yes so if still there's any query you are free to send otherwise we can end the session also as no further query have been done and i hope you have enjoyed and understood the concepts which i have discussed with you okay now the query is there administrative thinkers philosophy of paper one consists of which percentage of syllabus from paper one it consists approximately 20 percent of the syllabus from paper one it covers 20 percent of the syllabus because there are only 21 thinkers given in the book so around 20 percent of the syllabus is covered by administrative thinkers prasad and prasad because that is only covering the thinkers portion apart from thinker there are other units as well so they are not covered in prasad and prasad but it's a good book and when we discuss here in the class we will give the detail pdf on those topics okay we were hesitant to offer for bed i hope i have clarified all the possible hesitancy and also the dilemmas and the myths which were revolving around the public because this is the most successful and the easy subject which is required for the civil service preparation in fact one very important fact also i can share with all of you in the end only just to end this point you know virappa moly commission or the second a rc they recommended to the government of india that why don't you establish national institute of public administration and let the student get graduation from that institute and those candidate will be eligible to appear for civil services then what about other courses what about engineering what about medical what about b.a program b.com program so those candidate can do the bridge course of six months to one year bridge course will be done and then they can compete for the civil services this was a recommendation given by the virappa moly commission but what central government have done central government said it will make a lot of rush again towards the nip only so instead of doing that one let us expand the syllabus of general studies and as a result the syllabus of pub bed is already in included in the general studies like disaster management ethics paper security issues and quality governance paper now the quality paper is not same quality paper which was earlier now it is governance and that governance is public administration that is the reason why the people who have political science optional and they compete in the gs paper too they get the double digit marks why not the marks are coming because they are writing from the ruling point of view rather than from serving point of view so if you don't have a solution how i'm going to give you a marks as an examiner it's not going to be given and that's the reason why it get adversely affected and this is the reason why the higher score are not coming for those candidates yes there has been rank one from political science few years back but these are limited number of candidates after a lot of time period gap of political science has got rank one in that form of tina dabi after that no further political science scholar or student have got that much of hiring so this was a recommendation new batch date for new batch date and joining date and the procedure i have given you that four phone numbers on the current screen please take a screenshot of this and call after the session get over on this rajendra place center that will be suitable and if rajendra place center get busy so north delhi center that is the second they they also pick the calls very promptly and respond immediately on those numbers okay then thank you so much for joining on this rainy day and we are lucky that the session has not been disrupted and we have completed the session without disruption from the technological glitches thank you so much i enjoyed the session i hope all of you have also uh enjoyed it and clarified your matters thank you once again and all the best for your decisions bye bye