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Hi Swati,
A major in Psychology opens up several interesting opportunities for a candidate. Different types of counseling and special education teaching are two of the most popular careers in Psychology that are popular among its graduates. Besides, there are some very rare Popular Careers in Psychology.
Careers in Psychology can vary from analyzing the employability of a candidate and his suitability to a particular job in a particular company to research on customer behavior, expectations and satisfaction with respect to a particular product or service being offered by a company. From helping the police to come up with a likely profile of a serial murderer to develop just the right incentive system for the salespeople of an organization, careers in psychology can be quite interesting. Advertising and marketing world often need vital inputs of psychology experts to come up with effective advertising campaigns and manufacturing firms need their assistance in coming up with just the right products.
Psychology is still at a nascent stage in India but things are changing now and scope for psychology graduates virtually seems limitless. Some of the Psychology careers that Indian students usually opt for are:
1.Career Counselor
2.Clinical Psychologist
3.Counselor
4.Forensic Psychologist
5.Industrial or Organizational Psychologist
6.Special Education Teacher
For more details, kindly refer the link below :
https://www.shiksha.com/popular-careers-in-psychology-for-the-best-minds-article-3626-1
For list of colleges offering Psychology, refer the link below:
https://www.shiksha.com/search/index?keyword=psychology&start=0&institute_rows=-1&content_rows=-1&country_id=&city_id=&zone_id=&locality_id=&course_level=&course_type=&min_duration=&max_duration=&search_type=&search_data_type=&sort_type=&utm_campaign=site_search&utm_medium=internal&utm_source=shiksha&from_page=homepage&autosuggestor_suggestion_shown=-1
Kindly filter out the branch / college / location as desired from the above link.
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Hi Ayushi,
To become an IAS officer you have to appear in Civil Service Exam.
The Civil Service Examination is organized by UPSC every year to recruit candidate for IAS, IPS etc.
Academic Qualification:
The candidate must hold a bachelor's degree in any field from a well known college or university.
You can pursue graduation in any stream.
Candidates who have appeared at an examination the passing of which would render them educationally qualified for the Commission's examination but have not been informed of the results as also the candidates who intend to appear at such a qualifying examination will also be eligible for admission to the Preliminary Examination.
-Age Limits:
A candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 30 years on 1st August, in the year of examination.
Number of attempts:
Every candidate appearing at the examination who is otherwise eligible, shall be permitted four attempts at the examination.
Selection Process
The Civil Services Exam is a paper based test and consists of two successive stages:
(i) CSAT (Objective type) comprising 2 exams : General Studies
(ii) Civil Services Main Examination (Written and Interview)
CSAT-Prelim:
-Paper 1 is on General Studies
This includes areas like Indian National Movement, Indian Polity, Basic Economic Understanding, Geography
While the dynamic part includes current affairs, GK and has no proper definition and syllabus making quite vast.
-Paper 2 includes mathematics, reasoning, analytical ability, and interpersonal skills. Unlike paper 1 which has a static part, paper 2 is dynamic in many sense.
The Main exam will consist of :
Essay
Modern Indian Language,
English
General Studies-I
General Studies-II
General Studies-III
General Studies-IV,
Optional Subject Paper –I
Optional Subject Paper-II
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Hi kapil,
1.5 lakh students will be shortlisted for IITs – based on their scores in JEE Mains and Class XII boards.
IIT-JEE (Advanced) syllabus:
The JEE (Advance) syllabus is the entire CBSE Board syllabus minus a few topics. For Mathematics, the topics Not Covered in JEE (Advanced) are Mathematical Induction, Statistics, Linear Inequality and Mathematical Reasoning. Similarly, In Physics, the topics Not to be covered are Magnetism & Matter, Electromagnetic Waves, Electronic Devices (Solids and Semiconductors), and Principles of Communication Systems.
Different sections in IIT-JEE (Advanced) exam
It is expected that the JEE (Advanced) will be on the same lines as that of the IIT-JEE that was being conducted in past couple of years. The pattern of exam varies every year. The different sections that have appeared in previously held JEE papers are:
Single correct type MCQs
Multiple Answer correct type MCQs
Assertion–Reason based questions
Linked comprehension based MCQs with one passage followed by 2 to 3 questions
Integer answer type questions with numeric answer ranging between 0 – 9
Matrix match type questions with two columns listing different entries that are required to be matched with each other
You can expect any of the above variety in different sections.
General preparation strategy
The general preparation strategy for JEE (Advanced) is to build a strong foundations of concepts and developing skills to tackle numerical problems, that need calculations as well as a good aptitude. For that matter, one needs to read a good amount of theory pertaining to each topic, test one self’s understanding of the theory by solving short answer type and Assertion reason based questions. Then a student needs to solve a good number of subjective type problems. This would certainly help in developing even deeper understanding of the subject. Finally, a student must practice a good number of MCQs to build up speed and accuracy.
For more details on preparation strategy, kindly refer the link below:
https://www.shiksha.com/preparation-strategy-for-jee-main-and-advanced-article-5738-1
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