Tips for Geography...Reply to Mr Ramakrishna Hampiker

Hello Mr Ramakrishna Hampiker, thanks for your visit on the blog and kind words about it....regarding your query about Geography optional in CSE, there are common books which every one usually refers....you can depend on them also [I have posted a blog on the name of books]....The important thing which makes a difference is answer writing and presentation....in geography, you require to give lot of diagrams, maps and examples [geographical details]....you rightly said that Paper-1 and Paper-2 requires different approaches...Paper-1 requires more factual informations with examples from world while paper-2 requires more inter linkages among the topics of paper-2 as well as with paper-1....this technique will come only with practice...you can write answers every day and get it evaluated by university prof or any senior or from any coaching institutes....you can purchase Chronical book on geography answers which are mostly written by CSE aspirants...you can get a fair idea from these sample answers....Regarding the place, it matters only in the collection of material...if you have easy access to material and guidance, then you can prepare from any part of the country...in previous years, candidates got in to CSE even from very remote places...Regarding the role of a team...it is significant in maintaining the level of motivation and up gradation of facts and figures....regarding the teacher, it is difficult to get any one genuine who had evaluated UPSC papers...thus depends on available teachers in the market....good luck for the CSE...further query is welcome...keep blogging...