What do you understand by the word ‘Ethics’? Is it synonymous to morality or our general attitude towards life? Well, Ethics is all about how you deal with your immediate environment with integrity, morality and your aptitude. Being a Civil Servant is a huge responsibility towards the society and the Nation. And therefore your actions can influence the working of the Nation. It is with these reasons that UPSC in 2013 incorporated ‘Ethics’ as a Mains paper. This paper therefore includes questions to test the candidates’ attitude and approach to issues relating to integrity, probity in public life, problem solving skill in various situations and handling of conflicts faced by the candidate in dealing with the society. This exam is essential to test the hidden motive of candidates and their attitude towards everything. UPSC does not want to test your scholarly knowledge in Ethics, instead it wants to evaluate your ethical competence and how much you know about Ethics. A good basic knowledge with good problem analysing and problem solving skill, is all that is required. It constitutes 250 marks.
You can definitely score 150+ in Ethics for UPSC. The Best UPSC preparation method involves having a defined Syllabus for IAS Exam, analysis of Previous year papers of General Studies -4 and sources to study. Ethics UPSC Syllabus for UPSC drives its content from subjects like Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology and Public Administration. And you need to have a good general knowledge of these and not be too technical. Syllabus includes: Ethics and Human Interface, Attitude, Integrity, Aptitude and foundational values for Civil Services, dedication to Public Services, Emotional Intelligence, Contributions of Moral Thinkers and Philosophers from India and World, Civil Services values and ethics in Public Administration, Probity in Governance and majorly Case Studies on all the above.
This is available as UPSC syllabus pdf in downloads section of Ghaziabad IAS Academy or on official UPSC site. 50% of Ethics for IAS Exam Mains consist of Case Studies only. Moreover, if we analyse the previous year papers, we can verify this. These papers are also easily available on the same sites, as mentioned earlier. If you get to appear for UPSC Mains, then do focus on Ethics properly, with major focus on Case Studies. It is easy to score in this subject. But the most important of all are the sources to study. Ethics books for UPSC includes “Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude” by G Subba Rao and PN Chaudhary and class 12th Psychology NCERT book, especially chapters 6th & 7th. For psychology part, just get a basic idea of the concepts and sketch out its practical applications. For philosophy part, read 20-30 most important Thinkers, their quotes and their philosophies, regularly read newspapers for getting examples of ethical issues.
However, the maximum effort is required for Case Studies. Solve as many case studies as many you can, approximately 100-200. Remember the more you solve, the more you become better at it. And as they carry 50% weightage in Ethics for UPSC, you have to do them. For solving case studies, firstly read them at least 2-3 times, underline the main keywords and issues and then touching each aspect, write your answer. Try to solve them, being a Leader and not a Manager. Through these case studies, you need to provide most efficient, rational and morally and ethically apt solutions to the problems.
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A clear self-concept, self-realisation, wide reading, good analysing, problem solving skill and a good grip on various social and ethical issues, can help you sail through this paper very smoothly. No rote learning can help you in this, only logical thinking and practice is required. You cannot fake it up in this paper, neither write irrelevant stories nor you can excel in it. You can only write an efficient answer in this paper. It is your temperament which UPSC solely wants to check through this UPSC Mains paper.
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