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UPSC CSAT Simplified: Expert guides aspirants on how to master General Mental Ability questions (PART 4)

March 29, 2026 4:20 pm

With the UPSC Prelims 2026 approaching, General Mental Ability (GMA) in CSAT Paper II remains a scoring yet often underestimated area. In this part of the CSAT Simplified series, expert Dr Mansoor Agha Siddiqui explains key question types—coding-decoding, relations, direction sense, and logical sequences—along with practical strategies and solved examples to improve accuracy and speed.

Beijing has framed the reforms as part of efforts to adjust to shifting demographic realities, including a shrinking working-age population (Representational Image/Generated via AI)

Here's why record 37 lakh applicants have appeared in China’s civil service exam

December 02, 2025 8:26 pm

With so many aspirants, including older and postgraduate-qualified ones, vying for limited seats, competition is already fierce; in some specialised postings, the application-to-post ratio reportedly runs into thousands, according to local reports.

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Knowledge Nugget: ‘Mayabini’, Zubeen Garg and a UNESCO world heritage site — the connection you must know for UPSC exam

October 08, 2025 10:24 pm

Personalities in the news often connect to broader themes beyond mere facts, offering valuable insights for UPSC preparation.

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UPSC Ethics Simplified | How and why Civil Servants should be 'enablers' of growth, not mere 'regulators'

September 14, 2025 1:52 pm

UPSC echoed PM Modi’s call for bureaucrats to be growth enablers in its Civil Services Mains 2025 Ethics question paper. Nanditesh Nilay, our ethicist, discusses this in light of the ethical foundations of civil services.

UPSC Mains 2025 Essay Paper Analysis: Aspirants quizzed on generic quotes they know by heart but find hard to elaborate in exam pressure

August 23, 2025 12:06 pm

War, wealth and wisdom: UPSC Mains 2025 Essay paper continued previous trends of featuring philosophical and abstract quotes. While most of the quotes were familiar, the real challenge was to elaborate on these simple ideas effectively, especially without AI support in the exam hall. Here's our analysis.

UPSC Mains Admit Card 2025 Updates: Hall tickets out; check UPSC's important instructions for candidates

August 15, 2025 12:19 pm

UPSC CSE Mains 2025 Admit Card at upsc.gov.in, upsconline.nic.in Updates: To download the admit cards candidates will need to visit the official UPSC website at upsc.gov.in, upsconline.gov.in and upsconline.nic.in.

Exterior view of the Rau’s IAS Study Circle building in Old Rajinder Nagar, a year after the 2024 basement flood tragedy.

A year on, how library flooding reshaped UPSC coaching landscape in Old Rajinder Nagar

July 27, 2025 8:40 am

A year after a tragic flood claimed the lives of three civil services aspirants in a basement library run by Rau’s IAS Study Circle, Old Rajinder Nagar — Delhi’s UPSC hub — finds itself at a crossroads.

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UPSC Ethics Simplified | What are the foundational values of civil services? (Part 1)

July 15, 2025 10:54 am

UPSC Mains Ethics GS 4 : The private, professional, and public image of a person — or a civil servant — generally depends on their ethical alignment. So, can universal human values also be considered the cardinal values of civil services? If yes, which ones?

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UPSC Essays Simplified: 'If youth knew, if age could' — How to balance idealism with realism in an abstract previous year essay topic

July 02, 2025 4:07 pm

Philosophical topics often risk being vague and challenging to structure or balance. With UPSC Mains 2025 approaching, let’s learn how to write an impactful essay on such abstract topics using a model essay by our expert.

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UPSC Expert Talk | ‘Being a civil servant doesn’t guarantee freedom from prejudices associated with visual impairment’: Commissioner (Municipality), Mahe

May 12, 2025 11:32 am

UPSC CSE 2024 Results: Satender Singh reflects on the daily struggles — even within elite circles — and questions why no visually impaired officer has been inducted into Indian Foreign Services since 2015.