Public Administration Optional: Know How to Prepare

If you are preparing for the Public Union Service Commission, then public administration is considered to be the most important subject. It is a popular subject and also a scoring subject. Often, UPSC aspirants take this subject and prepare for the exam. However, students are not aware of how to prepare for public administration optional. Therefore, we will give you a lot of inside information about this subject. With this, you can do your preparation much better. So let’s move ahead.

Pay attention to the syllabus.

The UPSC exam is considered the most difficult. In this regard, the preparation of all the subjects is very important. One subject in this is public administration. It is very important to see the syllabus before preparing for it. That is why you should see the syllabus for Papers 1 and 2. After this, start your preparation. This will give you a lot of ease. At the same time, no topic on your syllabus will be left out.

Time management is important.

If you are preparing for UPSC, then time management is very important for you. There are many subjects for its preparation. At the same time, its syllabus is also spread out in great detail. Therefore, if you select Public Administration as an optional subject, then set a separate timetable for this as well. After this, make a better timetable and start preparation. Believe me, this will help you in a much better way, and you will not miss even a single topic to study.

Keep an eye on current affairs.

Current affairs play a very important role in UPSC preparation. If you are preparing for UPSC, then focus on current affairs and start preparation. Apart from this, keep adding value to the notes you are preparing. This will make your preparation very good. Not only this, but after reading, we also discussed those topics. With this, you will also be prepared for the interview.

Solve test series and previous year questions.

Test series play a very important role in exam preparation. With this, you will know your upcoming marks in advance. Not only this, if you are repeating some of your mistakes, then you will not repeat them in the main examination. That is why test series are very important. Apart from this, also solve previous year’s questions. This will give you an idea of the question.

Answer-writing practice

Answer writing is very important to qualify for the main exam. With this, you can do answer writing for your main exam. For this, you will have to practice answer writing at home or in the library and always do answer writing thinking that you are writing in the exam hall. With this, your main preparation will be done very well. At the same time, you can perform much better in the main exam.

Some important books for the preparation of public administration

‘Indian Administration’ by Ramesh K. Arora and Rajni Goyal
‘Public Administration’ by Laxmikant
‘New Horizons of Public Administration’ by Mohit Bhattacharya
‘Administrative Thinkers’ by Prasad and Prasad
‘Introduction to the Constitution of India’ by D.D. Basu
‘IGNOU notes on public administration’

Through these books, you can prepare for the UPSC in a much better way. You can also get these books from many government publications. Apart from this, there are many government websites where all the information related to the syllabus and books is available. You can also collect information from the official website of the UPSC.