BOOKLIST FOR PRELIMS
Hello this is Vinayak Narwade
AIR 37 in CSE 2020.
Modern History
• Spectrum
• 11th NCERT
Ancient History
• 11th Old NCERT
Medieval History
• Didn’t do much - see if you can get videos of Pratik Nayak sir
Art and Culture
• Fine Arts NCERT
• Nitin Singhania
Economics
• Ramesh Singh
• Current affairs
• Mrunal YouTube videos
• Economic Survey and Budget summaries
Geography
• 11th, 12th NCERT
• G C Leong
• Mrunal YouTube videos of Rajtanil ma'am
• Atlas and only ias YouTube videos for mapping
Environment
• Shankar IAS - make crisp notes ( will be sharing mine)
• Current affairs
Science and technology
• Current affairs only
• No need for any other sources
Agriculture
• Current affairs only
Polity
• Laxmikant only
Current affairs
• Only IAS YouTube channel prelims videos and magazines.
• Vision IAS magazine.
• Don't keep current affairs for the last month.
• You need to revise it to the maximum extent.
• So start before hand.
Devote 15-20 mins daily for YouTube videos on Only IAS channel for prelims booster current affairs
CSAT
• Previous year question papers.
Approach
• Read the standard books first couple of times.
• For the third reading make sure you start making notes - crisp that can be revised in one day.
• Balance the day with static and current affairs.
• Make sure you solve at least 50 papers in 2.5 months before prelims.
• Elimination is the key for the prelims exam - it comes only with practice.
• Review the wrong answers regularly.
• Make a book of wrongs - note down answers which go wrong frequently.
• Take 4-5 hours on a mock test - 2 hours to solve the test and remaining to review it.
• Review the previous year questions of UPSC CSE prelims.
• Do not neglect CSAT - solve atleast 2 papers in 10 days before prelims.
• Keep min sources and revise maximum times - for both static and current affairs.
• Minimum 4 revisions must for both static and current affairs.
• Practice, practice, practice.