Hello everyone, I am Sparsh Gupta, rank 562, CSE 2018 and I am visually impaired, have very low vision in my right eye. I will write about my journey in another post, but, right now, let us start with the strategy for Law optional as not much guidance is available for the same.
This post has been pending for a while. Due to my busy schedule, I could not pen it down earlier. Based on a lot of personal requests, as promised, here is the law optional strategy which I followed and was able to crack the coveted exam by arduously following this strategy. Continue reading “Law Optional Demystified- A Law Graduate’s Perspective, Sparsh Gupta, Rank 562, CSE 2018”
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Law Optional Strategy by Shubham Gupta (AIR 6)
This post is regarding the Strategy for LAW as an Optional subject in the UPSC Civil Service Examination. I have been fortunate to score reasonably good marks in this optional subject both times I have written the Mains exam. Just to give the readers some perspective of what is considered reasonably good for this paper, I scored 306 (Paper I: 125, Paper II: 181) in UPSC CSE 2016 and a similar score 304 (Paper I: 149, Paper II: 155) in UPSC CSE 2018 which is when I secured AIR 6.
In this post, I will be dealing with two aspects of the paper:
- How should one decide whether to choose Law as an optional paper?
- The paper-wise strategy for Law.
So, let’s begin with aspect 1!
Allow me to start by giving a brief background about myself. I studied Commerce (with Economics) in Class XI and XII. In college, I pursued B.A. (Hons.) Economics from Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, University of Delhi (2012-15). This was followed by enrolling myself into a M.A. Economics course in Delhi School of Economics (2015-17) (Unfortunately, I could not finish my Masters course). My main background has been in the subject of Economics.
I made the choice for Law as the Optional subject for me in the year 2015, despite the fact that I had never studied Law before that in any form whatsoever. So, why did I choose Law as my optional?
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