Animal Husbandry And Veterinary Science Optional Pros And Cons – For IAS Main Examination.

Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science is one of the specialised subjects in the syllabus for optionals.Continue Reading Animal Husbandry And Veterinary Science Optional Pros And Cons – For IAS Main Examination.

Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science as an optional syllabus is a choice among UPSC aspirants with a background in the dairy/meat business, medicine and those who are veterinary doctors themselves. 

Animal Husbandry  Pros

• Familiarity – first of all, as a graduate in the subject, you would have studied the subject for 5 years and would be familiar with the concepts. If you take up subjects like pub ad or geography, you would have to study them from scratch.
• Syllabus – the syllabus for animal husbandry and vet science is well-defined and precise. There is no ambiguity.
• Marks – this is a scoring subject as it is a science and there is no room for interpretation here. Also, you can score easy marks through diagrams and pictures.
• Static subject – animal husbandry and veterinary science is a static subject. There is no dynamic component as such here and this leads to the next point, which is the kind of questions asked in the exam.
• Repetition of questions – about 80% of the questions asked in the papers are direct and straight-forward. Hence, if you go through the previous UPSC question papers diligently, you should be able to predict questions and in any case, know the important areas to focus on.
• Competition – you will face far less competition in this paper compared to the more popular optionals.
• Overlap – even though the overlap with the general studies papers is minimal, some areas will help you in the GS papers, such as livestock production and management, extension, milk and milk products technology, and meat hygiene and technology.

Animal Husbandry Cons

• Coaching for this optional subject is hard to come by.
• There is hardly any UPSC-tailored study material available for this optional.
• It is also difficult to find a mains test series for this optional subject.

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