Success-Rate Of Optional Subjects Opted By 100-999 Candidates In CSE 2010
As the craze surrounds optional subjects...
Civil Services Examination aspirants always
look for information and details regarding the popular optional subjects which can show them the way to the top ranks assuring desired post -IAS.
On the basis of familiarity, a lot of Literature of Languages and candidate’s own subjects sometimes become the motivating factor for candidates to opt such subjects as one optional subject.
In the list of these popular optional subjects opted by 100-999 candidates, there are few subjects like Anthropology, Literature of Hindi, Pali and Sanskrit and even Law are attracting candidates even from different educational background who make cross-domain shift from their original stream.
In Civil Services (Main) Examination 2010, Literature of Telugu Language emerged as the optional with highest success-rate. Although, number of candidates appearing has gone down (CSE 2010- 118, CSE 2009- 134) but, increase in number of candidates getting recommended with Literature of Telugu Language as one optional (CSE 2010- 29, CSE 2009- 13) has helped it to deliver much improved success-rate.
Occupying the second spot, Medical Science has proved to be a dependable optional subject with a good success-rate. It has seen slight increase in number of candidates appearing and getting recommended.
Literature of Tamil Language has also given more or less identical success-rate despite less number of candidates opting it as one optional subject (CSE 2010-129, CSE 2009- 196).
Among these subjects, Anthropology has been a consistent performer and has constantly given very good success-rate in recent years.
As has been indicated in last years result, this result confirms the revival of interest in pure science subjects and the data reveals that Science subjects have made a comeback. Although, the success-rate is lower comparing CSE 2009 for optional subjects like Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology and Agriculture; still, some encouraging trend is visible. However, Mathematics has shown some improvement in success-rate.
It has been little conflicting trend in recent results, but, surely there are signs of some reversal in fortune and following results should reflect improved trends.
Even, two of the Engineering optional subjects available – Mechanical & Electrical Engineering have attracted more than 100 candidates which shows that some candidates trust their original stream and go on to show conviction with their own subjects.
Success-rate of optional subjects like Commerce & Accountancy, Economics and Law have been on expected lines and many candidate have got selected with these as one of their optional subjects.
The result showed good to average performance in many literatures like Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Pali, Sanskrit etc. and some top rank were achieved with Literature of Languages. However, when it comes to success-rate, Literature of Hindi Language has seen sharp decline and has been among worst performing optional subjects.
| Optional Subject | Number of Candidates | Success Rate (Percent) | |
| Appeared | Recommended | ||
| Literature of Telugu Language | 118 | 29 | 24.6 |
| Medical Science | 149 | 28 | 18.8 |
| Literature of Tamil Language | 129 | 21 | 16.3 |
| Anthropology | 407 | 49 | 12.0 |
| Physics | 243 | 24 | 9.9 |
| Law | 351 | 28 | 8.0 |
| Literature of Pali Language | 351 | 27 | 7.7 |
| Commerce and Accountancy | 356 | 26 | 7.3 |
| Literature of Sanskrit Language | 109 | 8 | 7.3 |
| Mathematics | 279 | 20 | 7.2 |
| Economics | 392 | 26 | 6.6 |
| Chemistry | 107 | 7 | 6.5 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 103 | 6 | 5.8 |
| Zoology | 421 | 23 | 5.5 |
| Electrical Engineering | 132 | 7 | 5.3 |
| Literature of Hindi Language | 955 | 37 | 3.9 |
| Botany | 264 | 9 | 3.4 |
| Agriculture | 205 | 3 | 1.5 |
Among these optional subject opted by 100-999 candidates in the Mains Examination, success-rate can show an unusual swing as the number of candidates appearing is low and a good performance by candidates in any optional subject in particular year can see the success-rate skyrocketing.
In CSE 2008, Agriculture had the highest success-rate of 18.6 per cent which dropped to 10.6 per cent in this CSE 2009 result. In CSE 2010, Agriculture has delivered a success-rate of merely 1.5% which is enough to explain you what we which to convey.
Likewise, CSE 2007 top success-rate achiever, Commerce and Accountancy, had fared pretty badly and the highest success rate of 12.1 percent (in CSE 2007) nosedived to mare 5.6 per cent in CSE 2008. However, in CSE 2009 it has shown little improvement in success-rate which stood at 8.4 per cent. Now, again, it has clocked a little decline in success-rate (7.3 per cent).
Getting influenced by any topper’s success or popularity of a particular optional subject should not be the only criteria in your optional subject selection. You need to make a rational decision and have to weigh pros and cons associated with them.
The selection of right set of subjects is the first step towards your journey to career in ‘Civil Services’ and will surely reflect in your final result. Take an informed decision and move forward with your preparation-plan
Performance Of Candidates From Broad Stream Of Disciplines in UPSC
Civil Services Examination has been identified as the arena where
candidates with humanities background reign. In the recent years, many
Engineers/Doctors and candidates with higher professional degrees have
made their presence felt and their representation in final selections is on the rise.
An important take away from the data from Civil Services (Main) Examination 2010 is that the overall number of humanities background candidates has fallen below 50 per cent. Out of total 11,865 candidates, the number of candidates with humanities background appeared is 5,631 i.e. 47.5 per cent only.
It clearly shows the dominance of candidates with Engineering/Medical Science background and their increasing share in the final selections. That is another story that most of them make cross-domain shift by leaving their streams by picking optional subjects from humanities/Literature of Languages and producing outstanding results.
Change your perception; it is your focus not your academic background which matters
Success in civil services examination depends on several factors which generally, has no relation to your academic performance and achievements.
The table below show that in CSE 2010, 59 per cent of the total 11,865 candidates appeared in Mains (Written) examination was with Bachelor Degrees and their performance was far above their Higher Degree counterparts.
As a matter of fact, their success rate is much above the average of the total.
| Educational Qualification | Number of candidates | Success Rate (Percent) | |
| Appeared | Recommended | ||
| 1. BACHEOR DEGREES | 6,965 | 600 | 8.6 |
| (i) Humanities | 2,135 | 112 | 5.2 |
| (ii) Science | 978 | 48 | 4.9 |
| (iii) Medical Science | 812 | 95 | 11.7 |
| (iv) Engineering | 3,040 | 345 | 11.3 |
| 2. HIGHER DEGREES | 4,900 | 321 | 6.6 |
| (i) Humanities | 3,496 | 230 | 6.6 |
| (ii) Science | 1,025 | 54 | 5.3 |
| (iii) Medical Science | 62 | 6 | 9.7 |
| (iv) Engineering | 269 | 25 | 9.3 |
| (v) M. Phil & PhD | 48 | 6 | 12.5 |
| Total | 11,865 | 921 | 7.8 |
(Success rate is the number of candidates recommended as a percentage of those appeared)
Performance of Humanities background candidates is better among Higher Degree candidates
Among Bachelor Degrees, about 31 per cent candidates belonged to Humanities background whereas among candidates with Higher Degrees, 71 per cent were from humanities background. This clearly shows that in recent years, Bachelor Degree candidates from humanities reaching Main Examination have shown decline and Higher Degree candidates with humanities background have demonstrated conviction.
The success-rate of Higher Degree candidates with humanities background (6.6%) is slightly better than the candidates with Bachelor Degree (5.2%); but, their success-rate is much lower than the overall success-rate (7.8%).
Performance of candidates with Medical Science and Engineering background is stunning
Performance of candidates with Medical Science and Engineering background is stunning
As pointed out in the beginning, the ascendancy of Medical Science, Engineering stream candidates has changed the whole complexion this year.
Although, Medical Science, Engineering stream candidates with Bachelor Degree have stormed the Main Examination 2010; even their share in total number of successes is stunning {Engineering – 345 (58 %) and Medical Science – 95 (16 %)}. Even, the success-rate is also more than 11 per cent which is much above the success-rate of Bachelor Degree candidates (8.6 %) and overall success-rate (7.8 %).
Interestingly, number of candidates from Medical Science and Engineering stream with Higher Degrees is significantly low; still, their success-rate stands tall.
Performance of candidates with M.Phil. & PhD is the maximum
Candidates with M.Phil and PhD Degrees has been the maximum (12.5 %) as 6 out of total 48 candidates appeared got recommended for selection.
Performance of Science background candidates
Among Science background candidates, it is difficult to say at what level one feels more confident as the number of candidates appeared is more or less equal among bachelor degree and higher degree.
Their success-rate is also in vicinity of 5 per cent which indicates the below average performance from candidates with Science stream.
No comments:
Post a Comment
hiii....comment here.
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.