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Why History ?? I suffer from History phobia..... why should i take history? How much scoring history is ? And finally
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How to learn History ?

Studying history is as good as sitting into time machine and visiting our ‘wonderful’ past....But all this is true only if you are ‘interested’ in the subject. ......As it is rightly said that, ‘history is not a study of facts, but interpretation of facts’. Facts are just raw material with which interpretation is done. Answers in the main’s are about your interpretation of History. And the wrong thing is that students are still being tought by facts while ***History needs interpretation for making it easy to digest***......... It is also useful in writing essay. (In new format marks for essay have gone up from 200 to 250) Since at least one socio-cultural issues comes as a topic, historic vision gives depth to the arguments. (for e.g. related to History, “Be the change you want to see in others (Gandhi)” is asked in mains 2013) History is highly subjective subject. Suppose the question was given ‘Evaluate the Gandhi’, then all candidates will write different answers. Which of them is right or wrong? None. It depends on how arguments are pushed. This makes the subject safe. Generally it is not possible that you don’t know anything about the answer. Ultimately you fetch some minimum marks in each question. That way no body goes below 180 in history.

But going by same logic history also does not give very high marks. There is nothing called perfect answer. Because of this phenomenon marks do not go above 300. But then to get into IAS one need to get 45-50% marks in the subject and that makes this subject an attractive proposition. Thismade it the most popular option in U.P.S.C. examination for obvious reasons. It has synergy with General studies. In prelim history occupies frontline (16 (Ant-9, Med-1, Mod-6) questions out of 100 in prelim 2013) In mains its important component in GS paper I 140 marks questions of history and culture get covered by optional history (As per mains 2013G.S. paper) .......

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