Geography Current Affairs Updates For UPSC IAS Mains 2024 Examination
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[UPSC Interview Transcript #116]: TCA Anant Board, Chhattisgarh Home State, Geography Optional
Contributed by ForumIAS community member Date of Interview: 20/02/2020 Board: TCA Anant Background: Mechanical Engineering Optional: Geography Employee: Tata Motors Home State: Chhattisgarh Chairman Why you left Job at Tata Motors? You are from Koriya district in Chhattisgarh? How its name came about? Member 1 Was Korea a princely state once? I said No. He… Continue reading [UPSC Interview Transcript #116]: TCA Anant Board, Chhattisgarh Home State, Geography Optional
[UPSC Interview Transcript #106]: TCA Anant Sir Board, Rajasthan Home State, Geography Optional, Watching Movies, Cricket Hobbies
Interview Date: 4 March 2020 Interview time 15 minutes… Board: TCA Anant Sir Background: BA & MA in PSIR, Home State: Rajasthan Optional: Geography Hobbies: Watching Movies, Cricket Chairman 1. What are u doing after graduation. 2. What is the development problem of your district and how to solve it as dm Member 1 1.… Continue reading [UPSC Interview Transcript #106]: TCA Anant Sir Board, Rajasthan Home State, Geography Optional, Watching Movies, Cricket Hobbies
[UPSC Interview Transcript #73] Smita Nagraj Board, Maharashtra Home State, Poems & Shayari Hobbies
Contributed by ForumIAS community member Board: Smita Nagraj Madam Background: Mechanical Engineer Optional: Geography Home State: Maharashtra Hobbies: Poems & Shayari Chairman Akshay, you are working as a tutor at Unique Institute. What it is? You have completed mechanical engineering and having a work experience with MNC.Don’t u feel it’s something different than expected? Which… Continue reading [UPSC Interview Transcript #73] Smita Nagraj Board, Maharashtra Home State, Poems & Shayari Hobbies
[UPSC Interview Transcript #69]: Smita Nagraj Board, Rajasthan Home State, Geography Optional, Solving Sudoku, Photography Hobbies
Duration: 25-30 mins Board: Smita Nagraj ma’am Background: Mechanical Engineering Optional: Geography Home State: Rajasthan Hobbies: Solving Sudoku, Photography Chairman What were you doing from past few years? What motivated you to come for this service? Backward or aspirational Rajasthan? Backward regions of Rajasthan? Compare the development of South Rajasthan and southeast Rajasthan? What are… Continue reading [UPSC Interview Transcript #69]: Smita Nagraj Board, Rajasthan Home State, Geography Optional, Solving Sudoku, Photography Hobbies
[UPSC Interview Transcript #63]: Sathiyavathy Board, Uttar Pradesh Home State, Geography Optional, Included Teaching underprivileged children, reading Hindi poetry Hobbies
Interview Date: 25 Feb, Afternoon, 1st to go Board: Sathiyavathy Background: B. Tech in Electronics Engg. Home State: Uttar Pradesh Optional: Geography Employee: 1.5 years in an MNC dealing with mobile chipsets. Hobbies: Included Teaching underprivileged children, reading Hindi poetry, Chairman Is this your photo? I nodded yes. She kept reading aloud my DAF including… Continue reading [UPSC Interview Transcript #63]: Sathiyavathy Board, Uttar Pradesh Home State, Geography Optional, Included Teaching underprivileged children, reading Hindi poetry Hobbies
[UPSC Interview Transcript #58] : BS Bassi Board, Maharashtra Home State, Geography Optional, Rapping, Basketball Hobbies
Interview Date: 21/02/2020 Board: BS Bassi Background: Mechanical Engineering Current Employee: IRAS (Indian Railway Accounts Service) Previous Employee: Mechanical maintenance engineer in Steel Authority of India limited; enforcement officer in EPFO. Home State: Maharashtra Hobbies: Rapping, Basketball Optional: Geography Chairman So you have left EPFO to be an IRAS. You were in my board last year.… Continue reading [UPSC Interview Transcript #58] : BS Bassi Board, Maharashtra Home State, Geography Optional, Rapping, Basketball Hobbies
[UPSC Interview Transcript #42] :P.K. Joshi Board, Maharashtra Home State, Geography Optional, Watching Football & match analysis Hobbies
Interview Date: 17 Feb 2020, afternoon session Duration: 4.05 – 4.35 Board: P.K. Joshi Background: BE mechanical Optional: Geography Home State: Maharashtra Hobbies: Watching Football and match analysis. Extracurricular: Event for Acid attack victims, drought relief work – Paani foundation Chairman Why did you choose mechanical engineering and then why the turn towards civil services?… Continue reading [UPSC Interview Transcript #42] :P.K. Joshi Board, Maharashtra Home State, Geography Optional, Watching Football & match analysis Hobbies
[UPSC Interview Transcript #41] :Bharat Bhushan Vyas Board, Rajasthan Home State, Geography Optional, Watching & playing Cricket, Teaching, Reading Non-fiction Hobbies
Interview Date: 19th Feb 2020 (First to go in the Afternoon Session) Duration: 30-35 minutes Board: Bharat Bhushan Vyas Sir Home State: Rajasthan. Background: Computer Science & Engineering, MNIT Jaipur. Employee: Software Engineer with Samsung India Electronics Limited. Optional: Geography Hobbies: Watching & playing Cricket, Teaching, Reading Non-fiction. Chairperson Do you feel the weight of… Continue reading [UPSC Interview Transcript #41] :Bharat Bhushan Vyas Board, Rajasthan Home State, Geography Optional, Watching & playing Cricket, Teaching, Reading Non-fiction Hobbies
Ice age crater discovered beneath Greenland glacier
Ice age crater discovered beneath Greenland glacier News: An international team lead by researchers University of Copenhagen in Denmark have discovered a 31-km wide meteorite impact crater buried beneath the ice-sheet in the northern Greenland. Important Facts: This is the first time that a crater of any size has been found under one of Earth’s… Continue reading Ice age crater discovered beneath Greenland glacier
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How to Read Geography for UPSC IAS
UPSC IAS Prelims, Mains and Optional Papers mentions about many subjects. Geography is one of them. It is very important and conceptual subject. There are lots of facts as well. This subject we all have studied in our secondary schooling. So, more or less, we all are aware of this subject. Geography for UPSC consists of basic and advanced version of what we have studied earlier.
Geography is very interesting subject and it has overlapping topics for example, Economics (Human Geography), Environment and current events. So, it is important to read Geography for UPSC with right approach as it will be helpful for other subjects also. Every year UPSC ask around 10-12% questions from Geography in Prelims. We will see the trend analysis for Geography in UPSC Prelims exam:
Prelims 2021 – 13
2022 – 6
2023 – 14
| Year | Total number of questions asked |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2019 | 7 |
| 2018 | 4 |
| 2017 | 7 |
| 2016 | 4 |
| 2015 | 11 |
In this article, we will discuss about how to read Geography for UPSC. First of all, we will see the overview of Geography syllabus for both UPSC Prelims and Mains:
| Exam | Syllabus |
| UPSC Prelims- General Studies -Paper I |
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| UPSC Mains- General Studies- Paper I |
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Study approach for Geography for UPSC:
- Read the syllabus: The first and foremost thing before you start studying Geography for UPSC is to read the UPSC Syllabus for Geography multiple times so that you will get what exactly you have to study.
- Start with NCERT textbooks: You must start with Class VI NCERT books for Geography. Preferably you can follow old NCERT textbooks. But if unable to get, can read new one as well. You must cover all NCERT books starting from Class VI to Class XII. Lists of some important NCERT books are:
- Class XI: India: Physical Environment
- Class XI: Fundamentals of Physical Geography
- Class XII: Fundamentals of Human Geography
- Basic books: After completing the NCERT books, you should read some basic books for Geography like Certificate Physical and Human Geography by GC Leong and Geography of India by Majid Husain. It will clear your concepts in detail. Referring a basic book is very important as questions are asked from these books (factual and conceptual).
- Refer Previous Years’ Question Papers: At this stage, you must UPSC Prelims and Mains Past Years’ Question Paper. This will give idea about what kinds of questions are asked in Prelims and Mains. It will also help to identify the important topics from the exam perspective and help you to revise the topic again and again.
- Solve mock tests: You need to solve mock tests as many as possible. It will help you to identify your strengths and weaknesses regarding topics. Based on these, you can assess your performance and will focus more on your weak areas and topics.
- Current affairs magazine: You should refer one current affair monthly magazine. This will help you to link and update your preparation with day-to-day events. For example, reasons for early arrival of monsoon, cyclone in particular state or country etc.
- Newspaper reading: You must read one newspaper on a daily basis. Sometimes, articles of newspaper explain some topics which are linked to both static and dynamic portion of Geography for UPSC. For example, El Nino and La Nina.
- Map reading and practice: Reading Geography for UPSC is incomplete without Map. Almost everything is Geography is related to Map, whether it is soils, mining, mineral, ocean, rivers everything. Map makes it easy to understand and related everything with location. With the help of Map, we make a 3D picture in our mind, which helps us to easily represent anything (mainly resources, rivers, places) with exact location. For that you need to practice map. Based on current events, you can identify areas which are in news and you can locate that on your map. From the perspective of UPSC Prelims, it is very important as UPSC asks at least 1-2 questions in Geography map based.
- Miscellaneous sources: You should refer some monthly magazines like Yojana and Kurukshetra. It will help in current affairs and will increase the quality of your answer.
- Revise: You should keep revising the subject as many topics are factual and concepts based. Revision will help you to grasp the things easily and will save your time while solving MCQs and writing answers.
Geography is very interesting subject. With correct strategy and study plan, one can score well in the exam.
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