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M.Sc in Statistics pass outs is offered career opportunities in the Banking sector, IT field and also Quality control sector. They can also find job openings in various Financial and share trading companies as well. They can work in numerous job profiles including Business analyst, statistics lecturer and also as professors in various institutions. These graduates can also work as Software engineers, investigative officers, statistics analysts and also as researchers. Data Survey Agencies, Education units and Finance units are the common employment areas for these graduates. Aspirants in this field can expect salary packages in the range of Rs.175000/- to Rs.300000/- per year. Experienced persons in this field can expect even more.

Hi Katra,
UPSC preparation requires constant mentoring and guidance. Most of the coaching institutes follow a very generic approach where they cover syllabus through classes and notes. Most of the students are not aware of the requirements of the competition, changing trends and pattern. They should be facilitated to find their approach to crack every stage of the competition. The 50% of this competition is psychological where one's composure and mental equanimity actually helps to crack it in limited time frame. So, coaching institute can only guide you to an extent, but major hard work has to be done by you.
The coaching centers are famous according to different stages of examination: prelims, mains and interview. Though a lot of free material is available online, which can easily help you prepare for examination like Mrunal, Insight, etc. Some of the best coaching institutes are:
Vision IAS
Vajiram
ALS
Khan Study Group
Chanakya IAS Academy

GRE and PTE/IELTS are both requirements for any form of study you wish to pursue. GRE is basically a test for the university to guage whether the person applying for an admission possesses the bas=re minimum knowledge required of a person to enroll under a course. IELTS and PTE are 2 types of English proficiency testis where the prior is recognised more than the latter. However, in case of a proper work opportunity, you would still require IELTS as the English Proficiency test. With the recent changes, the score barrier has gone up and certain people find it difficult to achieve the same. A better alterative would be to enroll in some form of study which would then allow you to scale up to a PR and a job opportunity in Canada. One of the interesting one's that I recently encountered is this Study & Work programme where you basically get to do a course while earning part-time and once you finish the course, you can work full time for about 6 months.