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UPSC CSE Books Recommend by Toppers

Modern: Spectrum, NCERT 12th, NCERT 11th, Bipin Chandra & Ghatna Chakra Art & Culture: Nitin Singhania Book, NCERT 11th, TN Board Book & Nitin Singhania Notes Ancient-Medieval: TN board Book, NCERT 11th RS Sharma, NCERT 11th Satish Chandra, Lucent, Vajiram (Ancient + Medieval) Polity: Laxmikanth, NCERT & Bare Act Economy: Budget-Survey Summary, Mrunal Notes-Lectures, Vivek Singh, Vajiram Notes, Ramesh Singh & Sriram IAS Environment: Vision Current, Shankar IAS, PMF IAS, Biology NCERT, Google, Shivin Chaudhary Course Geography: 11th & 12th NCERTs, Atlas, GC Leong, PMF IAS, Rajtanil Solanki Videos & Sudarshan Gujjar Videos Science & Technology: Vision Current, Biology NCERT, Shivin Chaudhary Course, Sunya Current & Lucent Current: Newspaper + Coaching Mag (60.5%), Only Coaching Mag (30.3%) & Only Newspaper (9.2%)  Which Mag: Vision PT365, Vision Monthly, Sunya & Insight

UPSC CSE Interview Questions 2024 - weekly report 1

 UPSC CSE Interview Questions 2024 Board: Dinesh Dasa Sir State: Punjab Optional: Economics  Chairperson   • Introduce yourself   • GST, Demonetisation, 1991 reforms, Bank Nationalisation in 1969- Arrange them in order of their importance for Indian economy.  • What reforms could be brought in Civil services Exam?  • In ancient time about 2000 years back, India's contribution to economy was as much as 33%, whereas it is only 3% now. What led to such a scenario and How can India regain its strength in economy? M1  • What is Yellow Journalism?  • What is Capital Adequacy ratio?  • What is Bank recapitalisation and How government recapitalises banks?  • Is it justified to put taxpayers money in Banks that are not performing well?  • What is equal opportunity? (Related to Daf)  • What are programmes to provide equal oppurtunity?  • Doesn't Reservation deny equal ...

Budget 2024-25

 Budget 2024-25

Essay Strategy by Namrata Choubey AIR 73 UPSC CSE 2021

Namrata Choubey AIR 73 UPSC CSE 2021 Essay Paper is the first and one of the most interesting papers in the CSE Mains Examination. Along with the diversity of the topics, it gives the aspirants an opportunity to express their creative ideas in around 1200 words.    Apart from being a scoring paper (if one has command over it), writing good essays in the first paper of the mains exam cycle can also help in boosting confidence for subsequent GS papers. Writing good essays is a challenging task, especially for those who are new in the preparation. In recent years, the Essay paper is becoming more and more challenging due to inclusion of Philosophical topics, which most candidates face difficulty with. Hence, it becomes important to understand the demand of the Essay paper and develop one’s own writing style to score well. Here, I will share my basic approach towards the Essay paper. I looked at Essay paper as an opportunity to boost my marks and tried to prepare for diversity of ...

Laghima Tiwari AIR 19 UPSC CSE Strategy

Clarification on coachings - Since many institutes are using my pictures and will continue doing so in future, I am writing this post. I have NOT taken CLASSROOM COACHING from any institute, neither for GS nor for optional. Though, I have taken Test series and Mock interviews at all the 3 stages. My REASON for not joining classroom coaching - 1. GS - I did not feel the need as I had figured out what to read, how to read through toppers talk on Internet, plus my home is situated in Delhi itself but it takes around 2 hours to reach ORN, I could not spare so much travelling time every day and did not want to live in PG when my home was in the same city. 2. Optional - I was willing to take coaching for optional as I was advised that it requires greater depth. I even contacted few institutes, but either the course timing was not suiting me, whereas at some other places I received a rather dull response. So I decided I should prepare it on my own, ofc through help from internet. My suggesti...

UPSC CSE Mains 2023 GS-4 Questions

UPSC CSE Mains 2023 GS-4 Questions

UPSC CSE Mains 2023 GS-3 Questions

UPSC CSE Mains 2023 GS-3 Questions