৩৫ তম বিসিএসের বিষয়ভিত্তিক প্রস্তুতিঃ মাসরুফ হোসেন, সহকারী পুলিশ সুপার, চতুর্থ স্থান অধিকারী ২৮ তম বিসিএস এবং তৃতীয় স্থান অধিকারী ২৯ তম বিসিএস। How I Made It In 28TH BCS : Dear BCS Candidates , My heartiest sympathy to all you guys as you have stepped into one of the most tedious roads towards success. About me, couple of days back I was a poor soul wondering about what will happen after 2.5 years of hard work , patience and unbearable uncertainty. Fortunately, I made it in 28th BCS and my position was 4th in the Police merit list. Before I start, one thing I want to clearly state that I do not consider myself qualified enough to Teach you how to do well in the BCS exam. As your fellow traveler, I am just sharing my experience. If you find these “Tips” useful and use them to achieve much bigger success, I will consider my efforts successful. So lets get started!!! As you all know, BCS starts with Preliminary exam. In my opinion, Preliminary is the toughest of all the exams a candidate face in the entire process. You get only one hour to answer 100 questions and the syllabus is as big as an ocean- these two things combined make the preliminary exam most challenging. Ironically, marks of preliminary exam are not added in the selection process-all you need to do is pass! I followed the following strategies to pass the preliminary exam (both 28th and 29th): PREVIOUS PRELIMINARY EXAMS: This is the first step every BCS candidate should take- they should collect the questionnaire of BCS preliminary exams from 10th-33rd BCS and solve them thoroughly. Little booklets containing all the preliminary questions are found in Nilkhet which should not cost more than 50 taka. Before you start your preparation, collect it and solve all the questions. This exercise will give you a very good idea of what you will face in the real exam. As they say in Guerrilla Warfare handbooks-Knowing your enemy is winning half the battle-so appropriate for BCS!!! GENERAL KNOWLEDGE(Bangladesh and international) If you go to any candidates crowd, you will see at least 70 percent of them are studying General Knowledge crazily. They are trying to memorize anything and everything they have at hand, including questions like What toilet paper Barak Obama uses. Dear friends, please DO NOT spoil your time and energy like this. General Knowledge does not have any syllabus and no matter how much you study, you will never be able to ensure full marks. Spend this extra time in Maths, Science or even Bangle, you will get better result with less effort. CAUTION: I did not say that you would not study General Knowledge at all. As your preparation, take one Big General Knowledge book(Ajker Bishwo,Notun bishwo etc whatever you feel comfortable) and collect current affairs magazine(preferable Professors) every month. DO NOT try to memorize the entire book, just study them for 30-45 minutes a day. Try to remember things that you feel important(for example, What is the name of US president or Who became champion in WC Football 2010). DO NOT,I repeat, DO NOT spoil your time and energy trying to memorize unnecessary information. Have a good knowledge of what a normal person should know (you will understand what is Normal once you go through the previous preliminary questions)-you will do just fine!! BANGLE: I passed both the preliminary exams with the help of Bangle. To study Bangle ,I will recommend 3 books a) A good preliminary Bangla guide (Professors/Oracle) b) Soumitra Shekhar’s BCS preliminary Bangla and c) Bangle Sahittyer Itihash by Mahbubul Alam/Huq(I forgot the name) . All these books are available in Nilkhet . You do not need to memorize anything, just read them over and over so that you can recognize the correct answer from the given choices. Do not bother much about grammar , Bangla grammar hardly comes in the exam . For satisfaction, you can read Bagdhara , Lingo , Karok , Somash, Deshi-Bideshi Shobdo , Ek-Kothay Prokash , PoriVasha etc from the 9-10 Bangla Grammar book. REMEMBER, 80 % questions in Bangle come from the literature part. ENGLISH: Nowadays English has 2 phases a) Grammar and b) Literature. Questions mostly come from the grammar portion. If you read the preliminary questions thoroughly, you will understand the topics that are covered e.g voice, narration, subject-verb agreement, phrasal verbs, idioms and phrases etc. Study these topics from class 9-10 and 11-12 grammar textbook. I used “A Passage to English Language” by SM Zakir Hossain but any good grammar book will do-no need to buy that book particularly. You will also need a good preliminary guide for practice. BE AWARE , each and every preliminary guide is full of thousands of mistakes so do not trust them with answers. See the question , try to solve it and if you are confused , consult textbook or a good English teacher. Internet can be a great help too. Just Google the word/sentence you are confused with and you will see a lot of answers/similar problems. For Literature questions I think Professors Current Affairs is more than enough. But sometimes they have wrong answers-so check out any confusion with an English Literature student/teacher. You just need to know questions like “Who wrote Macbeth” etc, no need to be an English Literature encyclopedia. SCIENCE: For science, again you need a good preliminary science guide (Oracle/MP3), SSC General Science book and previous years preliminary questions. Like all other subjects, previous preliminary questions will show you what to study. MATHS: I just solved previous year’s preliminary questions for my Math preparation. You can use Saifur’s Math/ Class 8’s math book for more practice. If you understand all the Maths that came in previous years questions, I do not think you will miss a single mark in maths. You should really try to get full marks in Maths by practicing because it will help you a lot to pass the exam than uncertain general knowledge questions. Instead of studying hours after hours of general knowledge, study maths. You surely will carry almost perfect score in maths , which you cannot guarantee by studying general knowledge. HOW GOOD IS GOOD ENOUGH??? I always wondered how much marks would be enough to qualify the preliminary exam. The answer is-it depends on the question. For example, in 28th BCS I answered only 57 and got approximately 46.5 after negative marking. I thought it would not be enough but it was! In 29th BCS , where question was very easy, I answered 71 and probably got 67. There are people who got 65 didn’t qualify in 29th BCS, and there are people who got 43 but qualified in the 28th BCS exam. So, there is no hard and fast rule. 28th and 29th BCS are two extremes where previous one was very hard but later one was too easy. In a standard question, I think 60 is good enough. But again, the more you get correct-the better. SHOULD I GUESS CONFUSING QUESTIONS???? I recommend not to. For every wrong answer they actually penalize you with 1.5 marks-1 mark for the wrong answer and 0.5 from what you got correct. When the question is easy like the 29th BCS, it is better to answer questions that you are 70% sure but for tough questions like 28th BCS you should be as precise as possible. But if you see that you are not being able to ensure even 40-45 marks, it is better to take a risk and answer questions that you are 50% sure. NIGHT BEFORE EXAM: To be honest, I slept only a couple of hours on both the nights before preliminary exams (28th and 29th). This is not a good practice. It is better to sleep well before any exam, which helps your brain to work more efficiently. I WARN YOU ABOUT THIS: DO NOT LISTEN TO PHONE CALLS CLAIMING THAT THEY GOT THE QUESTION PAPER. They are all liars who say like that. After the disaster of 27th BCS (where preliminary question was probably sold in 10 taka in the morning) PSC has been very careful so that this does not happen. Dear friends, trust me, cheating is not the way that would help you to get into civil service. It is better not to join the civil service than doing it by cheating. I know that our present civil service has ill reputation for corruption but people like us should be the ones to change the scenario. Besides, you are capable enough to qualify the exam solely by your merit-you do not need to collect questions for that. Work hard , every drop of your sweat will be paid off-trust me! CONCLUSION: If a guy like me from a private university with a 3.6 CGPA in HSC (science group) can make it in BCS in first try, I believe that all of you guys can do it. And yes, I had NEITHER any quota NOR any political connection. It is a tough process but not at all impossible. DO NOT get afraid seeing the vast syllabus-just keep studying. As Edmund Hillary( first winner of mount Everest) said- “It’s not the mountain we conquer ,but ourselves”. Give your best, God will do the rest. After the preliminary exam I will post about preparation for written. Till then, BEST OF LUCK!!! সুবিধামতো সময়ে পড়তে শেয়ার করে আপনার টাইমলাইনে রাখুন। Admin→ ⌠ Rashed Zaman ⌡ Department of Finance & Banking,Islamic University,Bangladesh. বিসিএস ও ব্যাংক জব পরীক্ষার সর্বোত্তম প্রস্তুতির জন্যঃ Plz Like→ BCS & BANK Job Preparation Plz Join→ Job Preparation [ BCS+BANK ]
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