With the increasing sway of government jobs every day, the number of youth aspiring and applying for it every year is also surging swiftly. And the most chosen and stand out option among all government jobs is Civil Services (Or IAS, to be precise). Not just graduates, but even the working professionals are now leaving their jobs and testing their luck in Civil Services Exam.

Besides, if we go by the queries that we receive every day from the students, there are many students who are currently in schools and aiming to serve their nation as Civil Services officers in the coming future. This trend has been surged even more in past 3-4 years, where students begin the preparation for Civil Services Exam during their graduation. And even, if we look at the ratio between the undergraduate students registering their names in IAS Academies and the graduates who are registering, the number of undergrads is quite high.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

― Malcolm X

Now, yes the basics like GS subjects can be cleared from the NCERT textbooks of school level. But, when it comes to graduation, it is also important for choosing and preparing for the optional subject, and this is where most of the students get confused. 

If we look at several talks of IAS toppers in various YouTube channels, it has been clearly mentioned that there is a direct link between the graduation stream and the optional subject chosen in Civil Services Exam. But there is a catch! And the catch is that it all depends upon the personal interest level of the candidate. There is no particular stream per se which is suitable, best or scoring for IAS Exam. Yes, there is a link between the graduation stream and optional subject in Civil Services exam, but only the personal interest of students is actually building that link.