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How to Become an IPS Officer

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So you want to become an IPS (Indian Police Service) Officer? IPS which is an All India Service is counted among the top three civil services in India. The other two being IAS and IFoS (Indian Forest Service). IPS has its own charm and status; you can serve the needy, stand for the helpless and voiceless, do good for the society at large. It also provides you high social standing and prestige. you can take on many challenges of different kinds like fighting organized crime, terrorism, traffic problems, women safety and so forth. No wonder many aspirants make IPS their first choice in the civil services examination.

IPS Exam Eligibility

For getting selected to the IPS, there are two types of eligibility. One is that you should be eligible for appearing for the IPS exam and the other is that after clearing the mains and while appearing for the physical tests during the interview stage you should meet all the physical and other requirements as mandated. Let’s discuss these in detail.

There are no special requirements for appearing for the IPS exam as it is part of the Civil Services examination. So if you fulfill the criteria for civil services exams you, by default, qualify for IPS exams as well. To be eligible for the civil services exams:

  • You must be at least 21 years of age at the time of filling the Civil Services (Preliminary) Exam form and not more than 30 years of age (various relaxations are available for different categories).
  • You must possess a graduate degree in any discipline of any of the Universities incorporated by an Act of Central or State legislature in India or other educational institutions established by an Act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as a University under Section 3 of the UGC Act 1956, or possess an equivalent qualification.
  • Candidates who are in the final semester or have taken their final degree exam but are awaiting the results can also appear for the IAS and IPS Preliminary examination provided they furnish their proof of degree while filling the Mains form.

Special requirement for IPS and IAS

For these two services, a candidate MUST be a citizen of India. Whereas for other services the citizens of Nepal, Bhutan, a Tibetan refugee who migrated to India after 1st January 1962, or persons of Indian origin from the countries mentioned in the notification can also apply.

Special Physical Requirements for IPS

As mentioned earlier candidates appearing for the personality test on clearing the civil services mains exam have to meet certain physical requirements to be eligible for IPS.

  • Minimum height of 165 cm for Men and 150 cm for Women (minimum height is relaxable to 160 and 145 cm for Men and Women respectively in the case of candidates belonging to ST and to races such as Gorkhas, Garhwalias, Assamese, Kumaonis, Nagaland Tribals etc.)
  • Min Chest girth fully expanded: 84 cm for Men and 79 cm for Women. Expansion of 5 cm for Men and Women.
  • Total amount of Myopia (including the cylinder) should not exceed minus 4.00 D and total amount of Hypermetropia (including the cylinder) should not exceed plus 4.00 D.
  • Presence of Squint is a disqualification.

Vision Requirement for IPS

You should meet these special vision requirements to be eligible for India Police Service.
Parameters

Better eye Worse eye
(corrected vision)

Distant vision: 6/6 or 6/9 6/12 or 6/9

Near vision J1: J2

Corrections permitted: spectacles

Color vision requirements: High grade

Binocular vision needed yes

Syllabus and Pattern for IPS Exam

Again, as mentioned above the IPS is not separate exam from the civil services exam. The syllabus and pattern of IPS exam are as follows. It consists of two papers common to all with the following syllabus:

General Studies Paper I

Maximum marks: 200
Number of Questions: 100
Total Time: 120 minutes (02 hours)
SYLLABUS

1. Current events of national and international importance
2. History of India and Indian national movement
3. Indian and World Geography – physical, social, economic geography of India and the world
4. Indian Polity and governance – Constitution, political system, Panchayati Raj, public policy, Rights issues, etc.
5. Economic and social development – sustainable development, poverty, inclusion, demographics, social sector initiatives etc.
6. General issues on environmental ecology, bio-diversity and climate change – that do not require subject specialization
7. General Science

General Studies Paper II

Maximum marks: 200
Number of Questions: 80
Total Time: 120 minutes (02 hours)
SYLLABUS

1. Comprehension
2. Interpersonal skills including communication skills
3. Logical reasoning and analytical ability
4. Decision making and problem solving
5. General mental ability
6. Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude etc. – Class X level), Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc. – Class X level)
7. English language comprehension skills (Class X level)

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50 Interesting Science Facts

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  1. The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).
  2. It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.
  3. 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
  4. The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.
  5. Every year, over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.
  6. When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometers away in Australia.
  7. Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.
  8. Every year lightning kills 1000 people.
  9. In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .
  10. If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
  11. Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.
  12. The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun.
  13. The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.
  14. Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.
  15. When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
  16. If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.
  17. Astronauts cannot belch – there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
  18. The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.
  19. One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of pea.
  20. DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.
  21. The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.
  22. The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.
  23. The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
  24. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
  25. Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.
  26. The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus – In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.
  27. Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 – the patient lived for 18 days.
  28. An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
  29. ‘Wireless’ communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.
  30. The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.
  31. In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.
  32. Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts – not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.
  33. There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
  34. An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
  35. On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
  36. The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.
  37. A quarter of the world’s plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.
  38. Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.
  39. At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.
  40. The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.
  41. Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.
  42. More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
  43. The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.
  44. It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.
  45. Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.
  46. The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.
  47. Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.
  48. Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.
  49. Even traveling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.
  50. A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.

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Today in History – 10 February

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1691

Job Charnock established the first English factory in Calcutta.

1846

British forces under Hugh Gough defeated Sikhs in the Battle of Sobrahan in India.

1859

General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude and Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny.

1921

Mahatma Gandhi inaugurated Kashi Vidya Peeth.

1931

Capital of India shifted from Old Delhi to New Delhi, formal inauguration of New Delhi City took place.

1943

Gandhi begins hunger strike to protest imprisonment. This strike lasted for 21 days till March 3.

1946

Gandhiji revives ‘Harijan’ and allied group of weekly journals.

1949

Pune University’ established.

1979

Itanagar was declared as capital of Arunachal Pradesh.

1992

Andaman and Nicobar Islands opened for foreign travellers.

Today in History – 9 February

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1757

In a treaty between Lord Clive and Siraj Ud Daulah, Clive was authorised to safe guard (Killa Bandi) and open mint at Calcutta. Nawab had paid compensation to British Army.

1898

‘The Rower of Persia’, a short film produced at Calcutta was released on February 9 at Star Theatre, Calcutta.

1931

A set of six stamps were issued during the inauguration of New Delhi.

1942

Chiang Kai-Shek meets Sir Stafford Cripps, British Viceroy in India.

1946

Demonstrations were held against the trial of the INA men. The ratings and a few units of the Royal Indian Navy rise in open Mutiny in Mumbai harbours.

1951

The first census of free India of enumeration work was started.

1994

Supreme Court sets aside disqualification (under anti-defection law in 1991) of former Goa CM Ravi Naik.

Types of Questions in UPSC CSAT Paper

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Types of questions in CSAT

The Civil Services Exam is conducted periodically to recruit suitable personnel for prestigious posts in Government of India such as IAS (Indian Administrative Service), IPS (Indian Police Service), IFS (Indian Foreign Service), IRS (Indian Revenue Service) and many other services. Here are the most frequent types of questions asked in General Studies (Paper I) and General Aptitude (Paper II).

First one is regarding Graphs relating to per-capita income

In this question, there is only one correct answer out of those provided in the question. All other answers are definitely wrong. The candidate is to select the correct one.

Must Read: How to Prepare for Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT)?

The second model of the UPSC is an interpretation of graphical, statistical and diagrammatical data.

These question tries to measure the candidate’s competence to interpret a graph.

The third model relates to principles, laws and methods in studying data.

These question tries to measure the candidate’s competence to extrapolate from the given data and using mental arithmetic.

The fourth model relates to the differentiation between relevant and irrelevant.

The fifth model relates to the logical sequence

Also Read: How to Prepare for Comprehension test of CSAT?

The sixth model relates to spatial relations involving dimensions.

They are simple questions on averages, interest, profit and loss, time and work, ratio and proportion, etc. Solving questions of this kind needs revising an elementary arithmetic book prescribed for standards not higher than the middle level. Such books you can always get hold of and revise what you had learnt during your school days.

Although the question on “General Mental Ability” is of very elementary nature, we have made an attempt to categorize the questions and give them in the form of separate sections in the ensuing pages. In each of the sections, you find that examples have been worked out with explanations.

Different types of Questions that are set in CSAT paper which has appeared in the Prelims General Studies Paper of the Civil Services Examination.

Assertion – Reason Type

In these exercises, there is a statement which is called ‘Assertion’ because something is asserted in them. And then follow two other statements called ‘Reason’ because they are supposed to either support or explain the basis or real cause or reason for making the statement (Assertion). Now you are asked to state whether Reason 1 alone supports the Assertion or Reason 2 alone, or both Reason 1 and 2 support or whether neither Reason 1 or 2 supports.

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Figure Series Type

These exercises are meant basically to see how well and fast your eyes and mind work and coordinate. Because the figures you see follow a certain pattern of change which your eyes must see and detect and then convey it to your mind which would proceed further. When both these factors/happenings take place, you get the answer. But there do exist some basic principles which you may remember while solving such exercises viz.

(a) Be careful in grasping the whole of the figure in one go, that is no part of it should escape your eye.

(b) Try and notice all the possible changes in the figure as there may be one or more changes taking place simultaneously.

(c) Then, subject of change, the direction of change, a quantity of change all have to be noted simultaneously, because one may be continuous but the other may alternate or even both may alternate.

(d) And finally do not hurry up and neither waste more time on one single problem than necessary.

Must Read: How to Read The Hindu Newspaper for IAS Preparation?

Number Series Type

In the following type of questions, the numbers proceed following a particular pattern or series. It may be simple additions and subtractions, these may be in ascending order or descending order. There may be some being multiplied and added to simultaneously, by some number.

True False Type

These exercises are meant to see how well you can correlate and connect the loose ends and each to a reasonable and logical conclusion on the basis of the available facts/information.

In this type of exercises, two complementary or contradictory statements are made, on the basis of which a conclusion is drawn. You are only to tell whether the conclusion so drawn is True or False.

Taking help of Algebra to explain to you-

A=B and

B=C

Therefore A=C

The conclusion is drawn from the statement, that is, A=C is True in this case.

But A=B

C=D

Therefore A=D will not be correct and therefore false.

You may also remember that often the statement made will sound wrong or even absurd, but you have to assume them to be the correct statements for the purpose of these exercises.

Also Read: How to Crack IAS Exam? 10 Tips for IAS Preparation

Missing Letter Type

These need no explanation. Each of you should have the English alphabets on your finger-tips to be able to solve these exercises in which again some pattern is formed. You only have to locate the pattern and fill the gap.

Foreign Words Type

These also need no explanation. Five words are written and you only have to choose the word which does not fit in there, that is, one which is foreign. This choice can be made because the other four refer to a similar thing to which the foreign word does not.

Analogy Type

Analogy literally means “similarity” i.e, having similar features or characteristics. In these exercises, two sets, of two words each, are given. One set is complete and the other one is incomplete. You are expected to complete the set. The principle is that the set which is complete is bound together by a particular relationship between them. You have to find out this relationship and supply the same, by analogy, to the other set and so complete it by choosing the right option from the given options.

This section of non-verbal reasoning has been designed to test the ability of a candidate to understand the relationship between two figures, which follow a certain rule and apply the same rule to select the figure which establishes the same relationship with figures asked in the questions.

Arithmetic Type

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