UPSC Preparation: Medical Science optional tips by Dr. Roman Saini

Medical Science optional tips by Dr. Roman Saini

Medical science by me air 18 marks 221 ( we will also present by toppers like Bharti dixit and others who got 280 marks ,but the reason I am writing this is because I feel like clearing along with internship requires a specific strategy which can't be easily shared by others).

Go for it if you are a doctor or done studies in allied branches. Especially go for it if you really like it and are genuinely interested, because syllabus is vast and tends to delve into boring at times. Grab hold of those notes which you made during your professional examination during colleges as the level of difficulty is somewhat lower than the questions asked in our professional examination and hence we have already covered most of the syllabus, we just need time to consolidate !

Read and finish the syllabus which is given in the UPSC prospectus as it will be more than enough to cover 90% of questions asked in the exam. Never lose your focus as medicine is a vast ocean where you have to master just a few drops to be a civil servant.

Medical science is one of the few optionals which is consistently fetching high marks since the year it was introduced and very high marks are relatively easy to score in it .

1 Never read page by page to complete a particular chapter as course is literally infinite not meant to be completed even in a lifetime .
2 Be judicious in your time which you devote to study medical science as it is the most consistent optional out there as far cost benefit analysis is concerned. It gives the best bang for your buck.
3 just read topic wise from text books and never spend too much time studying one topic as it will not be fruitful. Just skim through it and revise often as MS is very volatile.
3 Remember keywords and keywords only. Write in bullet points, rarely in complete sentences .
4 make diagram even if not explicitly asked by examiner and use color pencils for the same.
5 choose carefully which questions you want to attempt as you have good amount of choices. Attempt only those questions where you know some keywords in all the parts and subparts .
6 finally take this optional even if you didn't study with dedication in your MBBS days as I will provide a shortcut with ~200 topics ( later on that).
7 there is ABSOLUTELY NO NEED of coaching as syllabus is very straightforward.
8 use rather exploit internet especially Wikipedia as it gives tones of information on almost all the topics .
9 the major problems faced by me were paucity of time as I was an intern while I have my exam so didn't get much time to study theory which covers most of the aspects of UPSC exam.
10 never and I mean never study from those huge MCQ books which are meant solely for PG entrance examination. They are a distraction completely avoid them .


For those who don't  have much time for MS ; read some ~200 topics which is personally made by me after extensive analysis of past 10 years question papers and current trends. I personally studied those and got decent marks plus I also got more time to prepare for gs and essay.
If you need that list of extremely high yield topics just ping me on my FB page, or put your mail address in the comment section below or comment on my status on fb page or tweet to me .The links are below in the description.