UPSC CMS is conducted yearly for appointment to railways, cghs/chs, mcd, ndmc cadre. It comprises of 2 papers of 2 hours and 120 mcq’s each.
Paper 1 comprises of medicine, pediatrics and psm. Paper 2 comprises of surgery and obg. Ent and ophthalmology are included in surgery and not more than 1–2 questions might appear from these subjects.
No specific preparation is needed for this exam. Just decide upon one source for each subject. I would recommend dr. Deepak Marwah sir for medicine, dr Sakshi arora for obg, dr vivek jain for psm, dr. Pritesh singh for surgery and prepladder for pediatrics. There is no hard and fast rule. You may go for any faculty or any one source (app) for each subject.
The trick Is to stick to that and revise multiple times along with solving minimum last 10 year question papers. Every year topics get repeated. Very rarely same question might also be repeated. By solving pyq’s one gets a hang of the questions.
Make a list of topics that are being repeated often while solving pyq’s and while revising the whole notes again pay specific focus on these topics and if you feel any point is difficult to understand or you need more clarity on it, go to standard mbbs books rather than Google or switching the source. Trust me- you will thank me later.
If you feel that any topic is not being covered in sufficient depth by the source that you have selected, then rather than just switching to another source just go to the standard mbbs book of that subject and read the topic from there. The reason I tell you this is because upsc takes the question line by line from the standard books. It doesn’t even bother changing the langauage but as it is from the standard mbbs books.
You will realise this when you solve last 10 year question papers and give the exam on your own.
For personality test, one must dress appropriately in formals, be confident and be thorough with the emergency situations that you might encounter in clinical practice and their management algorithm. For this you can follow a youtube channel by dr. Waqas Fazal- Mednerd and also go through prepladder emergency medicine notes.
Also be ready with basic questions like why choose cms, recent health news and your views on controversial topics, meaning of your name, pg vs cms: which you will choose, which speciality you wanna choose in pg, if already doing pg then basic questions of your branch and recent events, some moral and ethical questions like what will you do if you see someone who has met an accident on your way to interview, what will you do as a health minister, views on rural service etc etc.
Personality test is not a test of your knowledge. Its basically about your confidence and clarity of thought and marks range from 40 to 60% mostly. Very few get more than that. Just focus on getting more than 300 as an aggregate score of theory and personality test and you will be safe.
About the Author
