UPSC Candidates Favorite Subject: The youth preparing for UPSC always face the difficulty of selecting the subject in the main examination. Every candidate thinks whether to achieve success by choosing a science subject or to rely on the traditional humanities subjects. This time, looking at the UPSC results can help many such candidates in choosing their main subject. which this Unable to get out of confusion.
This time, like every time, the number of students choosing humanities subjects like Sociology, Geography and Political Science has been the highest. However, it is important that despite being in small numbers, the success rate of those choosing subjects related to science and technology is higher than that of humanities.
It has become clear from the recently declared UPSC Civil Services Examination 2023 results that the percentage of candidates choosing Sociology as their main subject has been the highest. Five of the top 20 candidates had chosen Sociology as their main subject. But if we talk about success rate, then humanities subjects lag behind a bit. This time, the success rate of those who chose subjects like medical, engineering, commerce etc. as their main subjects has been close to 15 percent, which is more than twice that of humanities subjects.
According to a report, among the five subjects for which candidates apply the most, the percentage of successful candidates is highest in Sociology. If we talk about the record of the last 10 years, between 8 percent to 11.7 percent of the candidates who applied with this subject have been successful.
At the same time, after this, Geography is the most favorite subject and after that, Political Science became the favorite subject of the candidates. Talking about Geography, the maximum number of students have come from this region in the last 10 years. Whose success rate ranges from 3.4 percent to 7.3 percent. Whereas the success rate of Political Science is between 8 percent to 10 percent.
History was liked.
According to reports, till the year 2015, candidates also liked History a lot. Now the success rate was up to 5 percent. Apart from this, the number of UPSC exam engineering students has increased in the last 10 years. Of these, about 50 percent have been successful by making humanities subjects like Anthropology, Political Science as optional subjects. If the success rate of Medical Science, Electrical Engineering, Law and Commerce is between 15-20 percent. At the same time, the number of candidates appearing in the exam with these subjects is less as compared to the rest.
What do the figures say?
| subject | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
| Geography | 1 | ||
| Sociology | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| public admin | 1 | ||
| Anthropology | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| political science | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| History | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| law | 1 | 1 | |
| medical science | 2 | ||
| Electrical engineering | 1 | 2 | |
| Mathematics | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Economics | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| commerce | 1 | ||
| Physics | 1 | ||
| Hindi literature | 1 |
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