Booklist for Prelims

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.

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