What Optionals to Take?
An interesting question for one who answers but a real difficult challenge for one who pursues. Selecting an optional for IAS is one of the most difficult part thought off. Though it is not so. Its just an intelligent decision making.
MYTHS and FAULTS:
Choosing an optional which scores more.
Changing optionals with the trend of selection ratio.
Moving with peer group's opinion.
Getting misled by coaching centres.
Working on what your seniors did to succeed.
Getting deviated by reading interviews of successful candidates.
Suggestions:
Work for an optional into which you have been involved since long.
Take up an optional that interests you. Mind you, its not just a few days game, its matter of year/years.
Noone can claim that a particular optional scores more. The selection ratio is always proportionate to the total candidates appearing in that paper.
Never go by the advertisements of coaching institutes who claim a success gurantee.
Stick to the optional you selected and put whole-hearted effort in it. Never keep moving with optionals.
Never change optionals just because you made a low score in first time. Have sportsmanship.
Never trust any coaching institute or reference material to 100%.
Keep moving with your own unique strategy. Each IAS aspirant has a unique strategy to work about, believe it firm.
Never get motivated to take any optional on lines of your seniors success or reading interviews.
The KEY is INTEREST in the optional you take.