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Which is the Best Optional Sociology or Public Administration?

If you are a UPSC aspirant who is confused about choosing the right optional subject in UPSC between two of the most favourite choices of students, Sociology or Public Administration then worry not as Ashutosh Pandey Sir at ProdEgyIAS who has been an expert in this field will help you to select the best optional in UPSC.

Here is the analysis done by Ashutosh Sir on both the optional subjects including their pros and cons:-

1) The first thing that UPSC aspirants should consider while selecting the optional is checking which subject is comparatively easy to understand and cover. Here public administration wins compared to sociology optional as one can easily cover the pub ad syllabus in a few months.
2) The next thing that candidates should keep in mind is the overlapping of optional subjects syllabus with GS papers. The syllabus of public administration overalps with GS papers- 2,3 and 4 while the sociology optional syllabus overlaps to GS paper 1 only.
3) The level of questions in public administration is straightforward in nature making it a highly scoring optional in UPSC while the questions asked in sociology optional are mostly dynamic and require rigorous understanding.
4) The success rate of public administration optional is quite good as compared to sociology optional because of the easy level questions in pub ad optional paper.
5) The topics taught in public administration optional classes are used throughout the career of a civil servant while managing the administration while sociology topics may not have such use case in the daily life of bureaucrats.

Hence, it can be concluded that the best optional subject for UPSC is public administration based on the experience of Ashutosh Sir of ProdEgyIAS who is known as the best IAS faculty in India.


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