What to Read in The Hindu for UPSC

The Hindu newspaper is a key instrument during the entire course of preparation as you will get all the required information to remain updated with current updates and scenarios that will be part of your prelims and mains paper and your interview discussion. This article will give you a comprehensive strategy for reading The Hindu for the UPSC exam.

What to Read in The Hindu Newspaper ?

To understand what to read in The Hindu newspaper one should make a clear strategy, there are two ways for reading the newspaper –

1. Reading newspaper and making notes.
2. Reading newspaper for understanding and preparing with magazines.

Generally we advice to avoid the 1st method because it is a time consuming and to make notes yourself, one would not only have to make notes for the update but the complete concerned topic and after all this too all current affairs can’t be completed, which includes PIB, YOJNA, KURUSHETRA  magazines.

Whereas, the 2nd method will keep you intact with the daily updates and save your time to make long notes for exam.

You may wonder if the magazine would do the all why do we even need the newspaper? This is a very general question to answer this you should understand the exam psychology, the exam goes for 1 long year and now in exam even 2 year old current affairs are also being asked

It is impossible for candidate to rot the entire month current affairs in a single or even multiple readings of magazine and remember it for 1-2 years. Reading newspaper regularly will give you the updates related to news day on day even after months you may encounter the same news and then you will study it from magazine. This exercise makes news familiar to you and recollect-able in your memory during exam and interview time.

When to start reading The Hindu

It is advisable to be thorough with the syllabus and then start reading the newspaper from day 1 itself, Candidates often tend to assume that they will start after completing the syllabus, but the UPSC syllabus is so lengthy that it can not be completed. It will be difficult in the start but eventually, you will adopt the methodology, below we are discussing the important tips and pages for your better understanding.

Which Pages are Important in The Hindu newspaper ?

1. Editorial and Opp. ED – The editorials provide you with wide and deep analytics of a topic it should not be skipped these are written by specialized people from the administration, law, policy-making, etc.
2. World – This page provides you valuable insights about International events and devlops your understanding about international policies, which is important for GS paper 2 and PSIR optional in UPSC exam.
3. Business – This page will provide you insights on economy, actions and impacts, India’s finances. Economy is important from both prelims and GS3 perspective and also for Economy optional students.
4. Science and Technology – This page is part of Sunday edition is very important from the prelims perspective and also for mains GS3
5. Local News – news about local areas can be avoided unless it has a big impact on societal and pubic governance .
6. Political News – This page too can be avoided if it does not have a relation with any law or judicial meaning along with it.
7. Sports – This page too can be avoided and be covered from the monthly current affair magazines.

What to do After Reading The Hindu ?

In course of gaining knowledge don’t forget your objective of reading newspaper, i.e. acing the UPSC exam, which requires high and precise answer writing skills in both mains, optional and essay paper.

It is advised to practice at least one mains based question based on the reading you had from the news paper, this exercise will help you improve answer writing skills and ace the exam with good rank for you dream position to serve the nation.

ALL THE BEST!!

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