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Why many aspirants choose Geography?
The geography and environment are closed related subjects. Both the subjects cover around 30-40 per cent of objective type questions in General Studies paper-I at preliminary level. Besides, geography covers 50 per cent of geography part of GS paper-II and around 25 percent environment and disaster management section of GS paper IV at mains examination.
Many experts feel that the knowledge of geography is slowly and steady increased the student’s ability to answer questions related to paper IV of Economic Development which includes food security, crop pattern and infrastructure.Geography is a scientific subject. Due to this, it is preferred by many aspirants from science, medical and engineering backgrounds.There is not much mugging up required. Only concepts need to be understood.There is no dearth of material available for Geography.It has tremendous overlap with General Studies both in prelims and the mains.
With the questions becoming more dynamic and less static, Geography also has a lot of overlap with subjects like economics, environment, ecology and conservation.
Candidates can also use what they learn in Geography in their essay paper on various topics.
Even in the UPSC personality test, Geography will be useful as the board can ask questions on the local geography of a candidate’s home town like soil, vegetation, minerals, etc.
Geography is a scoring subject because unlike humanities subjects, there is not much scope for interpretation. Also, diagrams, flowchart, etc. can be used to get more marks.The map-based questions are also scoring.
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