Note- All the sections including Climatology & Bio-Geography are updated. Kindly go through them 🙂
Dear Aspirants
We are extremely glad to announce the Guidance cum Answer Writing Initiative for Geography optional. It is a 100 day plan to cover the entire optional syllabus in a comprehensive and innovative manner. It has been planned in a way that by investing 4-5 hours from your daily routine, one can maximize his/her output. The only thing required from your side is commitment towards this plan. If you religiously follow this initiative, we can assure you that the chances of increasing your scores would rise substantially.
Note: To make it inclusive and complementary with General Studies, we have decided to frame questions that will be closely relevant to General Studies Paper-1 also. We suggest other aspirants to attempt certain questions to strengthen their Geography part of Paper-1. We will mark Questions falling under GS-Mains in RED for the convenience of aspirants. This will surely help every aspirant other than Geography Optional.
It is advised for aspirants of geography optional to inform their friends about this inclusion. Many might miss this considering it other optional 🙂
NOTE: we would be glad if some of you took the initiative to provide us with daily questions for any optional of your choice. We would be more than happy to post them here since it would benefit all the aspirants. We shall try to give reviews to the other optional answers also, as best to our capacity. But for public administration, we shall do it ourselves.
About the initiative:
Based on this strategy and your efforts, we shall be posting a total of 5 questions daily. These questions shall be in the following format.
Question 1. 5 map entries asking their location and a brief description
Question 2. Terminologies related to the chapter/topic mentioned in the 100 day plan
Question 3. Blue blooded Geography theory question to check your conceptual clarity
Question 4. Application based descriptive/ essay type question
Question 5. Reserved; may be of any type depending upon the requirement of the topic
Modalities
Like a proactive Public Information Officer, we are giving you a detailed check list of the requirements of an answer as expected from UPSC. Here at IAS Baba, your answers shall be reviewed by taking into account the following factors:
Don’t have any doubts
Detailed plan for the initial 20 days
| Day | Date | Syllabus from Paper I | Syllabus from Paper II |
| Day 1 | 31st August |
Growth and distribution of world population, Demographic attributes |
Growth, distribution and density of population, |
| Day 2 | 1st September |
Causes and consequences of migration, Concepts of over-under-and optimum population |
Migration (inter-regional, intra- regional and international) and associated problems |
| Day 3 | 2nd September |
Population theories, World population problems and policies |
Health indicators, Population explosion and food security, Demographic Dividend |
| Day 4 | 3rd September |
World population problems and policies, Social well-being and quality of life, Population as social capital |
Census 2011, Socio Economic and Caste Census, |
| Day 5 | 4th September |
Concept of a region, Types of regions and methods of regionalisation, Growth centres and growth poles
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NA |
| Day 6 | 5th September |
Regional imbalances, Regional development strategies, Environmental issues in regional planning, Planning for sustainable development. |
NA |
| Day 7 | 7th September | NA |
Experience of regional planning in India, Five Year Plans, Integrated rural development programmes, Panchayati Raj and decentralized planning, Command area development |
| Day 8 | 8t September | NA |
Watershed management, Planning for backward area, desert, drought prone, hill, tribal area development; Multi-level planning, Regional planning and development of island territories |
| Day 9 | 9th September | NA |
Regional disparities in economic development, Concept of sustainable growth and development, Linkage of rivers, Special Category States, NITI Aayog |
| Day 10 | 10th September |
Temperature and pressure belts of the world, Heat budget of the earth, Atmospheric circulation, Atmospheric stability and instability
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NA |
| Day 11 | 11th September |
Planetary and local winds, Monsoons and jet streams
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Mechanism of Indian monsoons and rainfall patterns, Cloud burst, Uttarakhnad and J&K disasters
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| Day 12 | 12th September |
Air masses and frontogenesis, Temperate and tropical cyclones, Types and distribution of precipitation
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Tropical cyclones and western disturbances, Recent tropical cyclones e.g. Hudhud, Neelam etc,
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| Day 13 | 14th September |
Weather and Climate; Koppen’s, Thornthwaite’s and Trewartha’s classification of world climates;
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Monsoon prediction techniques, El Nino, its consequences and prediction, Cloud burst, Uttarakhnad and J&K disasters
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| Day 14 | 15th September |
Hydrological cycle, Global climatic change and role and response of man in climatic changes |
NAPCC, Climate change negotiations at UNFCCC etc
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| Day 15 | 16th September |
Applied climatology and Urban climate |
Floods and droughts, Climatic regions |
| Day 16 | 17th September |
Mini test on Population Geography, RP and Climatology |
Mini test on Population Geography, RP and Climatology |
| Day 17 | 18th September |
Genesis of soils, Classification and distribution of soils, Soil profile
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Soil types and their distribution |
| Day 18 | 19th September |
Soil erosion, degradation and conservation, Factors influencing world distribution of plants and animals |
Soil erosion, Natural vegetation |
| Day 19 | 21st September |
Problems of deforestation and conservation measures, Social forestry, Agroforestry |
Deforestation, Desertification, Agro and social forestry
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| Day 20 | 22nd September |
Wild life, Major gene pool centres
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Biotic, forest and wildlife resources and their conservation, Land capability |
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Final words
We at IAS Baba expect you to take full advantage of this initiative. Be regular, sincere and confident. We are with you in your journey.
The only request that we have from you is to spread the word to your fellow aspirants so that the fruits of our efforts are shared by those who need them the most. The more we share our knowledge and resources, better our chances to excel.
All the best
IAS Baba
