WHY POLITICAL SCIENCE? ADVANTAGES OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AS AN OPTIONAL IN UPSC

 

YEAR No. Of Questions From Polity
2010 5
2011 8
2012 18
2013 18
2014 15(Including IR And Defence)

 

“I made no distinction in study for Prelims and Mains till April 2010, and later only started paying more attention to factual details”– Karthik Iyer, All India Rank 7 in 2010 CSE with Political Science as one of the optional while referring to his preparation of Paper 1 – Section B of Political Science.

(a)-Repetition of Topics is there-Marxism, Marx, Gramsi, Marxist notion of state

(b)-Topics are interrelated –Thoughts of Mill, Bentham and Liberal notions of state, democracy, justice are complementary to each other

(c)-Ideas of Marxism, Liberalism, Feminism, new social movement and issues like environment, democracy, Human rights is in Paper-1 as well as in paper-2

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