Advantages and Disadvantages of Taking Geography Optional for Civil Services Exam

Most of the Candidates has chosen Geography Optional in the Civil services competitive exams for more than two decades in India. Most of the toppers also have chosen geography optional during his examination. Most of the competing students take geography optional because they actually like this subject for the Civil Services examination, but some of the students couldn’t find this as an ideal optional subject. So that’s why this article gives a brief talk about the advantages and disadvantages of taking the Geography Optional Subject for the Civil Services Exams which are as follows:

Advantages of Geography Optional:

• It is a scientific subject. So for this reason, most of the students choose this subject in comparison to the other elective subject like History, Economics, and Medical etc.
• It is easily understandable and no need to make a deep study like other subjects.
• This is very helpful optional subject for both Prelims and Mains exams.
• Map-based questions or concepts make additional benefit to score more marks.
• In the Geography Subject various asked questions which are related candidate’s home town like soil, vegetable, places, minerals etc. which gives a great score in the exams.
• Through the essay paper, the candidate can explain his learning very easily if he has chosen Geography Optional Subject.
• There are a lot of materials, Study materials available for this optional subject.
• Higher Success rate with Geography Optional Subject.

Disadvantages of Geography Optional:

• The biggest disadvantages of Geography Optional are that it covers a huge syllabus according to the UPSC.
• There is a huge competition lies in the Civil Services Exam because the number of candidates is more in compared to the other subjects.
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