Discussion : IFoS 2017

hopeless01

Friends,

You need to answer few questions to yourself first :::

1. How much sure you are about getting 140+ in common screening exam? I'm saying 140 because if you get in range of 130 you will not be sure about final call for IFoS mains. Anyway, this year you wont read between screening and Civils mains.

This question becomes critical, as this will decide your use of upcoming months. As this year screening is early, you have hardly time till Feb/March to study one optional if you so want.

2. This year IFoS mains is afterwards.So if you have one optional common in both the civils and forests, remaining 3 week should be sufficient to mug up additional optional. I dont think there is much difference in marks you can pull off just be reading Forestry before/earlier. As in the interim period of 3 months before screening, you will (mostly) forget all. So only question you need to answer is, is there one optional common between both civils n forests?

3. All the stress should be on screening. It is not easy to score there. You should try all steps under the sky for that.

4. Are you working? If yes, please only concentrate on screening. A mere reading before March of other optional like forestry is advisable.

5. Competition is also from Zoology+Botany or Botany+Forestry or Animal Husbandry+Botany and most important Maths+Forestry students.

6. Geology only serves the purpose of getting a call for interview. It is hard to convert with that, especially if you don't have geology background. Next year with IFS mains afterwards, geology will loose its shine even more. It got butchered this year already with tough questions. There is also a risk of geology questions being funked in interviews. Avoid Geology if its not your background. Take Chemistry instead. Most of you are IITians, you would easily understand Chemistry.

7. Geography in Civils and Geology in Forests wont be effective this year, is high likelihood.

So my overall advise would be a reading of forestry before March and thats it. Try your soul and heart in screening preparation. Rest would follow.

Regards and happy new year.

Note: views are personal, and there is no intention to invite debate.

lol ! chemistry ! i hope @Reddy_2ruly will shed some light in this regard ..

sylvian_10

Friends,

You need to answer few questions to yourself first :::

1. How much sure you are about getting 140+ in common screening exam? I'm saying 140 because if you get in range of 130 you will not be sure about final call for IFoS mains. Anyway, this year you wont read between screening and Civils mains.

This question becomes critical, as this will decide your use of upcoming months. As this year screening is early, you have hardly time till Feb/March to study one optional if you so want.

2. This year IFoS mains is afterwards.So if you have one optional common in both the civils and forests, remaining 3 week should be sufficient to mug up additional optional. I dont think there is much difference in marks you can pull off just be reading Forestry before/earlier. As in the interim period of 3 months before screening, you will (mostly) forget all. So only question you need to answer is, is there one optional common between both civils n forests?

3. All the stress should be on screening. It is not easy to score there. You should try all steps under the sky for that.

4. Are you working? If yes, please only concentrate on screening. A mere reading before March of other optional like forestry is advisable.

5. Competition is also from Zoology+Botany or Botany+Forestry or Animal Husbandry+Botany and most important Maths+Forestry students.

6. Geology only serves the purpose of getting a call for interview. It is hard to convert with that, especially if you don't have geology background. Next year with IFS mains afterwards, geology will loose its shine even more. It got butchered this year already with tough questions. There is also a risk of geology questions being funked in interviews. Avoid Geology if its not your background. Take Chemistry instead. Most of you are IITians, you would easily understand Chemistry.

7. Geography in Civils and Geology in Forests wont be effective this year, is high likelihood.

So my overall advise would be a reading of forestry before March and thats it. Try your soul and heart in screening preparation. Rest would follow.

Regards and happy new year.

Note: views are personal, and there is no intention to invite debate.

No, no, thank you. You are right about baby steps.

m007

Thanks. @NitishK sir for your information my optional subject for civil service exam is also chemistry and IFoS exam my first optional is chemistry because it's my natural choice I m from chemistry background.

Reddy_2ruly

Friends,

You need to answer few questions to yourself first :::

1. How much sure you are about getting 140+ in common screening exam? I'm saying 140 because if you get in range of 130 you will not be sure about final call for IFoS mains. Anyway, this year you wont read between screening and Civils mains.

This question becomes critical, as this will decide your use of upcoming months. As this year screening is early, you have hardly time till Feb/March to study one optional if you so want.

2. This year IFoS mains is afterwards.So if you have one optional common in both the civils and forests, remaining 3 week should be sufficient to mug up additional optional. I dont think there is much difference in marks you can pull off just be reading Forestry before/earlier. As in the interim period of 3 months before screening, you will (mostly) forget all. So only question you need to answer is, is there one optional common between both civils n forests?

3. All the stress should be on screening. It is not easy to score there. You should try all steps under the sky for that.

4. Are you working? If yes, please only concentrate on screening. A mere reading before March of other optional like forestry is advisable.

5. Competition is also from Zoology+Botany or Botany+Forestry or Animal Husbandry+Botany and most important Maths+Forestry students.

6. Geology only serves the purpose of getting a call for interview. It is hard to convert with that, especially if you don't have geology background. Next year with IFS mains afterwards, geology will loose its shine even more. It got butchered this year already with tough questions. There is also a risk of geology questions being funked in interviews. Avoid Geology if its not your background. Take Chemistry instead. Most of you are IITians, you would easily understand Chemistry.

7. Geography in Civils and Geology in Forests wont be effective this year, is high likelihood.

So my overall advise would be a reading of forestry before March and thats it. Try your soul and heart in screening preparation. Rest would follow.

Regards and happy new year.

Note: views are personal, and there is no intention to invite debate.

lol ! chemistry ! i hope @Reddy_2ruly will shed some light in this regard ..

Most points I agree but chemistry as a second optional for ifos I don't suggest. Take it only if it is common to both cse and ifos. Forestry is way better choice as a second optional. If one don't have common optional then doing 3 subjects which includes chemistry exclusively for ifos is not advisable. No idea on geology so cannot comment or compare that with chemistry.

asiatic_lion

@kaguya

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sylvian_10

@Reddy_2ruly Is it possible to have a glance at your LSKhanna notes once you are done with interviews etc? His books are too expensive and there's no agricultural university library close by.

sylvian_10

Folks, please collect and share the forestry q papers of your state PSC eggjams.

thaanku

hopeless01

Friends,

You need to answer few questions to yourself first :::

1. How much sure you are about getting 140+ in common screening exam? I'm saying 140 because if you get in range of 130 you will not be sure about final call for IFoS mains. Anyway, this year you wont read between screening and Civils mains.

This question becomes critical, as this will decide your use of upcoming months. As this year screening is early, you have hardly time till Feb/March to study one optional if you so want.

2. This year IFoS mains is afterwards.So if you have one optional common in both the civils and forests, remaining 3 week should be sufficient to mug up additional optional. I dont think there is much difference in marks you can pull off just be reading Forestry before/earlier. As in the interim period of 3 months before screening, you will (mostly) forget all. So only question you need to answer is, is there one optional common between both civils n forests?

3. All the stress should be on screening. It is not easy to score there. You should try all steps under the sky for that.

4. Are you working? If yes, please only concentrate on screening. A mere reading before March of other optional like forestry is advisable.

5. Competition is also from Zoology+Botany or Botany+Forestry or Animal Husbandry+Botany and most important Maths+Forestry students.

6. Geology only serves the purpose of getting a call for interview. It is hard to convert with that, especially if you don't have geology background. Next year with IFS mains afterwards, geology will loose its shine even more. It got butchered this year already with tough questions. There is also a risk of geology questions being funked in interviews. Avoid Geology if its not your background. Take Chemistry instead. Most of you are IITians, you would easily understand Chemistry.

7. Geography in Civils and Geology in Forests wont be effective this year, is high likelihood.

So my overall advise would be a reading of forestry before March and thats it. Try your soul and heart in screening preparation. Rest would follow.

Regards and happy new year.

Note: views are personal, and there is no intention to invite debate.

lol ! chemistry ! i hope @Reddy_2ruly will shed some light in this regard ..

Most points I agree but chemistry as a second optional for ifos I don't suggest. Take it only if it is common to both cse and ifos. Forestry is way better choice as a second optional. If one don't have common optional then doing 3 subjects which includes chemistry exclusively for ifos is not advisable. No idea on geology so cannot comment or compare that with chemistry.

yes i also concur with most of the points..in fact best post regarding ifos prep so far, but opting any science/engineering optional not common with cse will be a suicidal step for sure.especially this is case for physics/ chem as one see overlapping of jee syllabus and feel one can manage this. but there is much more into it.

Reddy_2ruly

@Reddy_2ruly Is it possible to have a glance at your LSKhanna notes once you are done with interviews etc? His books are too expensive and there's no agricultural university library close by.

Sorry I didn't do l s khanna or bought any book of his. This was just suggested by someone. Myself I could only do half of manikandan and did some questions from r gupta's forestry previous year question guide.
Don't go with ls khanna if they are costly...for silviculture topics u can read from forestrynepal.org

Reddy_2ruly

Friends,

You need to answer few questions to yourself first :::

1. How much sure you are about getting 140+ in common screening exam? I'm saying 140 because if you get in range of 130 you will not be sure about final call for IFoS mains. Anyway, this year you wont read between screening and Civils mains.

This question becomes critical, as this will decide your use of upcoming months. As this year screening is early, you have hardly time till Feb/March to study one optional if you so want.

2. This year IFoS mains is afterwards.So if you have one optional common in both the civils and forests, remaining 3 week should be sufficient to mug up additional optional. I dont think there is much difference in marks you can pull off just be reading Forestry before/earlier. As in the interim period of 3 months before screening, you will (mostly) forget all. So only question you need to answer is, is there one optional common between both civils n forests?

3. All the stress should be on screening. It is not easy to score there. You should try all steps under the sky for that.

4. Are you working? If yes, please only concentrate on screening. A mere reading before March of other optional like forestry is advisable.

5. Competition is also from Zoology+Botany or Botany+Forestry or Animal Husbandry+Botany and most important Maths+Forestry students.

6. Geology only serves the purpose of getting a call for interview. It is hard to convert with that, especially if you don't have geology background. Next year with IFS mains afterwards, geology will loose its shine even more. It got butchered this year already with tough questions. There is also a risk of geology questions being funked in interviews. Avoid Geology if its not your background. Take Chemistry instead. Most of you are IITians, you would easily understand Chemistry.

7. Geography in Civils and Geology in Forests wont be effective this year, is high likelihood.

So my overall advise would be a reading of forestry before March and thats it. Try your soul and heart in screening preparation. Rest would follow.

Regards and happy new year.

Note: views are personal, and there is no intention to invite debate.

lol ! chemistry ! i hope @Reddy_2ruly will shed some light in this regard ..

Most points I agree but chemistry as a second optional for ifos I don't suggest. Take it only if it is common to both cse and ifos. Forestry is way better choice as a second optional. If one don't have common optional then doing 3 subjects which includes chemistry exclusively for ifos is not advisable. No idea on geology so cannot comment or compare that with chemistry.

yes i also concur with most of the points..in fact best post regarding ifos prep so far, but opting any science/engineering optional not common with cse will be a suicidal step for sure.especially this is case for physics/ chem as one see overlapping of jee syllabus and feel one can manage this. but there is much more into it.

Yes. One needs to put dedicated 6-8 months to do well in chemistry.