SUCCESS RATE OF OPTIONAL SUB IN UPSC>> Success rate of all Optional Subjects~~ 92.5 per cent of the successful candidates opted optional subjects related to Humanities including Literature of Languages. 4.8 per cent successful candidates opted science subjects, 1.9 per cent of the successful candidates chose Medical Sciences while 0.8 per cent of the successful candidates made it with Engineering Subjects. As the list illustrates, among the most popular optional subjects, Public Administration was the most preferred subject among the optional subjects chosen by the candidates. Geography and History are at 2nd and 3rd spot. Comparing CSE 2010 result outcome with CSE 2009, the success-rate of Public Administration has remain static (9.2 per cent) where as performance of Sociology and Geography has shown steady progress and success-rate has seen uptick. Psychology has seen little downward trend (CSE 2008- 10.9%; CSE 2009- 8.8% and CSE 2010- 8.2%) and in last three years success-rate has seen a gradual drop. After showing a little drop in success-rate in CSE 2009, Political Science & International Relations has again shown remarkable comeback with success-rate of 7.6 per cent. Among other most popular optional subjects, History and Philosophy there is not much to talk about and their success-rate continues to be dwindling below 5 per cent. Among other popular optional subjects, Anthropology, the most consistent performer has again shown brilliant results with excellent success-rate of 12 per cent. While one can take some clue about success-rate from the result of the most popular optional subjects; but, one needs to be careful in taking reference of the data for some not as much popular optional subjects for deciding your optional subjects. The result and the success-rate of these subjects may vary year to year resulting in big surprises when data is compared year-on-year. To illustrate this we take Agriculture result for example. In CSE 2008 it had a success-rate of 18.6 per cent which dropped down to 10.6 per cent in CSE 2009 and in CSE 2010; it has a success-rate of only 1.5 per cent. Such variation comes as the number of candidates appearing is low and any drop in result impacts the success-rate.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 12:52:28 +0000
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