Is UPSC Law Optional A Good Scoring Subject ???

To check on the analysis on law optional syllabus click here Let me introduce you to a few peopleWhy suddenly these people? Simply because they are toppers of CSE who had law as their optional subject across various timelines! Yes, law as optional in UPSC can make you a topper. Take a look at the table below:

MAINS	NAME	AIR	BACKGROUND	LAW OPTIONAL MARKS
2019	C.S Jeydev	5	Law Graduate, NLIU	PAPER 1- 136 PAPER 2-139 TOTAL – 275
2019	Kanchan	35	Law Graduate	Not available
2019	Akarshi Jain	140	Law Graduate, NLU – Jodhpur	Not available
2019	Ananya Awasti (Aspirant from Lawxpertsmv)	335	Law Graduate, NLIU	Not available
2019	Vibha Singh (Aspirant from Lawxpertsmv)	493	Law Graduate, NLU, Lucknow	Not available
2018	Shubam Gupta	6	ECONOMICS, Delhi	Not available
2018	Vishali Singh	8	Law Graduate NLU, Delhi	PAPER 1 – 151 PAPER 2 – 147 TOTAL – 298
2018	Rujutha Bankar (Aspirant from Lawxpertsmv)	325	Law Graduate	Not available
2018	Sparch Gupta	526	Law Graduate, NLS, Banglore	Not available
2018	Arshdeep Panwar (Aspirant from Lawxpertsmv)	580	Law Graduate Faculty of Law, Delhi University	Not available
2017	Saumya Sharma	9	Law Graduate, NLU Delhi	PAPER 1 – 143 PAPER 2 – 144 TOTAL – 287
2017	Neha Jain (Aspirant from Lawxpertsmv)	14	Non – law background Dentist	Not available
2017	Taspasya Parihar	23	Law Graduate ILS, Pune	Not available
2017	Shruti Srinivasan	356		Not available
2017	Preetesh Raman Singh	205	NLU, Jodhpur	PAPER 1 – 155 PAPER 2- 148 TOTAL – 303
2017	Jayantika Singh	286	Law Graduate	PAPER 1 – 164 PAPER 2 – 122 TOTAL – 286
2013	Sakshi Shawney	6	NALSAR, Hyderabad	PAPER 1 – 124 PAPER 2 -139 TOTAL – 263
2010	Divya Darshini	1	Law Graduate, School of Excellence in Law	Not available

The above table is random collection of toppers with the law as their optional it is not an exhaustive list. But yet we can make the following inference from them. You can be a topper with UPSC law optional ( as you see many toppers up there) Even non- law graduates can be a topper with law as optional if they have interest in law! Best optional for law graduates in UPSC will definitely be law. You can score around 300 in your law optional.

Now let’s have a look at official report published by UPSC. Yes! Every year UPSC do give us a report on how an optional performs and what was its success rate. The 69th annual report published by UPSC in 2018-19 is the latest one which gives us the following table.

https://www.upsc.gov.in/content/69th-annual-report

Law optional had a success percentage of 14.1% in 2017 UPSC Mains. What just 14.1% ? is it good ? For this let us check the inference given under this table by UPSC in the very same report. Yes! By the latest UPSC annual report law optional highest percentage of successful candidates. Do you still think law is a low scoring subject? Although if you check the previous year success rate which may be at times low but many a times law always have high success rate. Even popular optional at times become low performing. And law is no exception we must understand that too. But if you are comfortable with the subject then you can be a topper!

HOW CAN YOU CHECK WHETHER YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WITH LAW AS OPTIONAL?

PROBLEM 1: SYLLABUS: Kindly read through the topics of the syllabus. If you are a law student you must feel acquainted with the topics. But if you are a non-law student you must get inquisitive over it.

PROBLEM 2 : RESOURCES: Pick one topic from every subject, read a topic from the standard book of that subject. Say if the topic is Law of Sea, take S.K Kapoor or Malcom and Shaw on International Law and read the given topic. See whether you can understand the concept and retain it.

Is UPSC Law Optional A Good Scoring Subject ???

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