Civil Services (Main) Examination 2011: Success Rate of All Optional Subjects
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Optional subject selection is hard and necessary decision, which requires lot of analysis. And it also involves lots of factors such as majority of candidate՚s optional subject՚s past performance and success-rate which is one of the most important factors.
According to the above factors we have analyses and short-listing optional subjects to make easy strategies for your preparation.
But the new pattern for Civil Services (Main) Examination still has only ONE optional subject.
- The Civil Services Examination 2011 had some changes in Preliminary Examination pattern (optional subject was removed) and that has impacted the result trends for some of the most popular optional subjects for sure.
- In CSE 2011 Public Administration the most preferred subject among the optional subjects chosen by the candidates whereas Geography and Sociology are at 2nd and 3rd position respectively.
- Surprisingly, History which was most popular choice in past has dropped to the 4th position.
- Psychology is the 5th most popular choice whereas Philosophy at the 6th place . Political Science & International Relations reside in the 7th place
S. No. | Optional Subject | Number of Candidates | Success Rate (Percent) | |
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1 | Medical Science | 205 | 48 | 23.4 |
2 | Anthropology | 463 | 61 | 13.2 |
3 | Agriculture | 132 | 16 | 12.1 |
4 | Psychology | 1365 | 143 | 10.5 |
5 | Geology | 40 | 4 | 10 |
6 | Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science | 50 | 5 | 10 |
7 | Political Science & International Relations | 866 | 84 | 9.7 |
8 | Physics | 323 | 31 | 9.6 |
9 | Chemistry | 123 | 11 | 8.9 |
10 | History | 1761 | 150 | 8.5 |
11 | Mathematics | 337 | 28 | 8.3 |
12 | Sociology | 2152 | 177 | 8.2 |
13 | Philosophy | 900 | 74 | 8.2 |
14 | Law | 226 | 18 | 8 |
15 | Public Administration | 6276 | 497 | 7.9 |
16 | Geography | 4096 | 313 | 7.6 |
17 | Zoology | 269 | 19 | 7.1 |
18 | Commerce & Accountancy | 232 | 16 | 6.9 |
19 | Mechanical Engineering | 103 | 7 | 6.8 |
20 | Botany | 135 | 9 | 6.7 |
21 | Management | 266 | 15 | 5.6 |
22 | Economics | 354 | 20 | 5.6 |
23 | Electrical Engineering | 171 | 9 | 5.3 |
24 | Statistics | 19 | 1 | 5.3 |
25 | Civil Engineering | 59 | 2 | 3.4 |
Performance of Literature or Language as Optional Subject | ||||
26 | Literature of Urdu Language | 22 | 9 | 40.9 |
27 | Literature of French Language | 3 | 1 | 33.3 |
28 | Literature of Santhali Language | 3 | 1 | 33.3 |
29 | Literature of Malayalam Language | 99 | 27 | 27.3 |
30 | Literature of Assamese Language | 4 | 1 | 25 |
31 | Literature of Kannada Language | 93 | 23 | 24.7 |
32 | Literature of Manipuri Language | 27 | 6 | 22.2 |
33 | Literature of Bengali Language | 5 | 1 | 20 |
34 | Literature of Gujrat Language | 65 | 11 | 16.9 |
35 | Literature of Panjabi Language | 48 | 8 | 16.7 |
36 | Literature of Marathi Language | 38 | 6 | 15.8 |
37 | Literature of English Language | 73 | 11 | 15.1 |
38 | Literature of Pali Language | 356 | 50 | 14 |
39 | Literature of Tamil Language | 82 | 11 | 13.4 |
40 | Literature of Hindi Language | 406 | 53 | 13.1 |
41 | Literature of Sanskrit Language | 51 | 6 | 11.8 |
42 | Literature of Maithili Language | 69 | 7 | 10.1 |
43 | Literature of Telugu Language | 85 | 7 | 8.2 |
44 | Literature of Oriya Language | 14 | 1 | 7.1 |
45 | Literature of Kashmiri Language | 2 | - | - |
46 | Literature of Arabic Language | 1 | - | - |
47 | Literature of Persian Language | 1 | - | - |
48 | Literature of German Language | 1 | - | - |
49 | Literature of Russian Language | 1 | - | - |
50 | Literature of Bodo Language | 1 | - | - |
51 | Literature of Dogri Language | 1 | - | - |
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Be Careful While Analyzing Success-Rate
- This is the hardest decision in the Preparation because your rest of the future is depends on it, so don՚t be confused by Previous area data which shows number of candidates appearing with a particular optional subject as blend has a mixed luck for many optional subjects.
- Decide your own choice do not copy any one because every person has different ability so find out your comfortable zone and choose subject according to it.
- The result and the success-rate of these subjects may be different every year it will be realized when data is compared year-on-year.
Pay More Attention at the Time of Analyzing Success-Rate of Literature of Languages
- Most of the candidates are attract by the most popular optional subjects with whom candidates appear and similarly, get fascinated by those with the highest success-rate.
Final Conclusion
- After analyzing success rate you will get that with all most all subject candidates had achieved successfully cleared exam so do not be confused and follow your hart choose the subject in which you think you can give your best.
- If you have selected subject of your interests then preparation will be easy because the things of over interests we do better and also enjoy it.
- Each and every subject has specific demands and as long as you can make justice to the choice, you may think of taking subject you prefer.