crackingcivilservices.com’s Interview of successful History Optional Students
Profile of the Candidate
| Name | Love Sharma | ||
| Rank in BPSC (64th) | 183 | ||
| Roll Number | 122502 | ||
| Age | 28 | ||
| Optional Subject | History | ||
| Medium for History Optional | English | ||
| Marks in History Optional | 189 | ||
| Home town/village | Roorkee | ||
| Any past Work-experience | Worked as Manager
Depot in Food Corporation of India |
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| Were you preparing full time or working and preparing? | Resigned from job | ||
| Your place of preparation | Roorkee | ||
| Details of other success and failure in competitive exams | 1.Appeared in UPSC
,Haryana Pcs Interview and Himachal pcs Interview(3 times ), IB interview 2. Selected as Probationary officer in Bank of Baroda and Indian Ovearseas Bank 3. Selected in FCI Failures. 1. Failed in uppcs Prelims many Times and in several Other exams |
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| Details of coaching/ test series/ study material of any coaching used for History Optional | Self Study History test
Series and Balyans sir Coaching |
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| Educational Background | |||
| Percentage marks in class X | 74.6 | ||
| Percentage marks in class XII | |||
| Name of the subject in Graduation course and percentage marks | Btech in Information technology 71.38 | ||
| Name of college of graduation and place | Abes it Ghaziabad | ||
| Post-graduation if any | NO | ||
| Did your educational Background help in History Optional? | No | ||
Introduction
Tell us something about yourself.
I am Love Sharma . I have done my schooling from MG PUBLIC SCHOOL . After graduation I have worked as Manager depot with FOOD CORPORATION OF INDIA and resigned from my job for full fledged prepration for UPSC.I like playing cricket and travelling.
Questions Related to History Optional
Why did you choose history as your optional subject?
I am interested in reading history from my childhood and in my previous attempt I have taken Pub ad due to less syllabus and just scored 134(Pub Ad) in upsc mains
Mention positive and negative about the History Optional for those who what to take history optional.
Positive
- Interesting to read
- GS 1 paper also covered
Negative
- Lengthy syallabus
Mention booklist and sources which you followed for History Optional.
Ancient History – RS SHARMA ,
SSH NOTES ,
SSH SOLVED ANSWERS OF PREVIOUS YEAR
Medivial History – Satish Chandra , SSH Previous year solved
Modern History – Grover , Bipin Chandra , SSH Previous year solved
World History – Norman lowe (selectively) , SSH NOTES
Did you do answer writing regularly? If yes, what amount of time you devoted to it and how did it help you?
I write tests only test series of SSH during Bihar pcs mains ( 3-4 tests hrdly)
Did you join any test series? If yes, kindly name it? How did it benefit you?
SSH test series . Suggestions provided in my answers helped me in improving my answers .
Did you maintain self-notes? If yes, how did it help you?
Yes. It helps me in revising multiple times .
Have you solved previous years papers of history optional? Did it help you in the examination?
Yes I have read the solution provided by the SSH coaching. It helped me a lot as I was confident regarding my coverage of topics.
In your views, how the nature of questions asked in history optional changed in recent years in BPSC?
It was first attempt in BPSC and honestly I have not seen previous year paper of BPSC
Any specific thing you want to share about history optional?
