CDS-1 Written Exam on April 16, 2023; Tips for subject-wise Revision

CDS-1 Written Exam: The Union Public Service Commission is all set to conduct the CDS 1 written exam on April 16, 2023. The upsc.gov.in 2023 website is hosting the UPSC CDS 1 2023 admit card.

CDS exam is held for the admission of candidates to Indian Military Academy (IMA, Dehradun) Indian Naval Academy (INA Ezhimala), Air Force Academy (Hyderabad), and Officers’ Training Academy (OTA Chennai). Candidates will be recruited as Commissioned Officers in the Defense after the successful conclusion of their training period.
Candidates can follow the steps given below to revise their respective subjects.

General Knowledge and Awareness Revision Tips

Current Affairs have a good weightage and many questions can be asked from this part, so the importance of the section can’t be ignored.

Students must go through the last six months current affairs, along with that important awards, important books and authors, places in the news, persons in the news, important sports tournaments, and information related to important world organizations like G7, G20 Summits, ASEAN, UN Security Council etc should be studied for last year as well. For general science, Aspirants must go through the basic questions of physics, chemistry and biology.

For history, focus on modern history (Indian Freedom Struggle, Gandhian Era, Social Reforms, Revolt of 1857, Newspapers, Social Reforms), Medieval History (Mughal, Delhi Sultanate, Art and Culture, Administration), Ancient History (Indus Valley Civilization, Buddhism, Jainism, Gupta Era, Harsha Dynasty, Maurya, Magadha)

For geography, focus on physical geography (Composition of Earth, Latitude & Longitude, Physiography, Mountains and Passes, Grasslands, Landforms, Clouds), and Indian Geography (Rivers, Glaciers, Mountain Peaks, Dams).

For the Economy, focus on a 5-year plan, Budget, Economic Survey, basic economic terms, economic theory, unemployment, and WTO.

For Political Science, focus on Sources of the Constitution, Fundamental Rights, Fundamental Duties, and Articles of the Constitution.
Elementary Mathematics Revision Tips
This section will give you good marks if you’ve prepared well with a good strategy. Prepare the arithmetic part well.

Important topics from the Maths Section are Percentage, Simple Interest & Compound Interest, Profit and Loss, Time & Work, Pipes and Cistern ( Moderate level questions from this topic), LCM, HCF, Square root, Number System, Statistics, and Graphs etc.

It is expected that the level of questions would be Easy.
English Revision Tips
This section will give you good marks if you prepare well with a good strategy.

Some important topics are Antonyms/Synonyms, Fill in the blanks, Reading Comprehension, Idioms and Phrases, Error Spotting

Importance of Revision for CDS 1 2023 Exam

The most important phase of preparation is Revision. If the topics that you studied earlier are not properly revised, it is as good as not studied. The revision will help you memorize everything that you studied months back.