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1.Preliminary (Objective type):- 2 papers – General studies & CSAT (CSAT paper -2 is qualifying paper & you must get 66 marks only out of 200 & Merit will be determined on the basis of marks obtained in General studies) 2. Mains (Essay type or conventional type): 9 papers (Indian language, English, Essay, G.S 1, G.S. 2, G.S. 3 , G.S.4, Optional paper 1 & Optional paper 2) [ Indian language & English are qualifying papers & rest of the papers will be counted in merit ] 3. Interview IMPORTANT BOOKS FOR PRELIMS PREPARATION: • CSAT has been qualifying from 2016. So from then UPSC is framing questions from many sources • Now don’t focus much on Previous year papers • You may look previous year question papers of CAPF of 1 year back, as sometimes they may ask 1 question on Environment portion.And don’t expect more than 1 question. • Also look at 5 year previous year papers of Civil Services. In this only you will get just 1 question only. • History : Spectrum for Modern History, Krishna Reddy For Ancient & Medieval History & Nitin Singhania for Indian Culture After this you may look at NCERT Class 6th to 12th, NIOS, TAMIL NADU CLASS 11 & 12th. But the above books are more important. If you have read above books then 90% of History Prelims questions you may solve easily • GEOGRAPHY : Spectrum of Geography, Shankar environment,Oxford Atlas .Also search International Organisations & read About us section from their website. • ECONOMICS : India Year Book- for government Schemes, Economics section like Export of commodities- Import of commodities.Yojana & Kurukshetra from January 2019 to April 2019 for Prelims. Along with this you must look at S. Ramesh too. • POLITICAL SCIENCE : Laxmikant Indian Polity • CURRENT AFFAIRS : You may read from The Hindu website. The Hindu-Editorial columns, Life Style Section, Science & Technology(Sunday),International, Front page, National Column are very important. Mostly History questions & Environment questions are coming from these sections. You must prepare from January 2018 to May 2019. • SCIENCE : Spectrum’s Development in Sciencen & Technology or Ravi P. Agrahari’s Science & Technology Now you will ask I have not mentioned NCERT BOOKS of all the subjects.NCERT Books are imp. But Since 2016 UPSC is asking questions Mostly from Optional Sources. You must read NCERT BOOKS for basic understanding. As 1-2 questions you may get from NCERT BOOKS TOO. IF YOU DON’T HAVE MUCH TIME IN READING ALL THE ABOVE BOOKS, then you must adopt following two strategies : 1. • YOU MUST LOOK AT IAS- PRELIMS -FRAMED QUESTIONS SECTION:- ON DAILY BASIS WE ARE FRAMING QUESTIONS FROM RELIABLE SOURCES WHICH YOU MUST READ BEFORE PRELIMS EXAMINATION. SINCE PAST YEARS MANY QUESTIONS ARE REPEATING FROM OUR INITIATIVE LINK : IAS-PRELIMS- FRAMED QUESTIONS 2.•THE HINDU CURRENT AFFAIRS COMPILATIONS: Our team is making sincere efforts in making Compilations from The Hindu Newspaper thoroughly & We are Providing The Hindu newspaper Compilations on Monthly basis through Mail Assistance Programme. Link: THE HINDU- COMPILATONS HOW TO PREPARE FOR CSAT (PAPER-2) PRELIMS: • For this you must look at previous year papers of CAPF & Civil services. • Some Quantitative aptitude questions you will get from the previous year papers while some questions you can easily solve by applying same techniques • In permutation & Combination questions they will never ask repeated questions •For mental ability questions you can take help from Pratiyogita darpan Extra Issues • Logical reasoning questions you can easily solve, if you have practiced from previous year papers • You can also practice questions from our website in CSAT APTITUDE SECTION. HOW TO PREPARE FOR MAINS: • First of all you must prepare Notes for Mains from today only upto date of prelims examination • After conduction of prelims , you won’t have time for making notes & that time will only for learning/revision • From “INSIGHT MIND MAPS” you can prepare notes of Issues. • For General Studies portion, you must prepare from NCERT BOOKS & must practice ques. given at the end of each chapter. • After then, you must prepare previous year questions from 2013 MAINS TO till now. If possible, then get Pratiyogita Darpan solved IAS MAINS papers 2013 to 2016 as they have written solutions very nicely. • Apart from that prepare current affairs questions from THE HINDU, LIVE MINT, YOJANA ISSUES, KURUKSHETRA ISSUES in 200 words HOW TO PREPARE FOR ESSAY: • Current issues topics will be helpful for Essay preparation • Just extra thing you must prepare is : Introduction, Quotations, Conclusion. • While selecting Essay topics in exam, don’t think to write on toughest topic considering that very few will write on this topic so I must choose this topic. • Before Introduction, you must give any good quotation • While ending essay , you must give good conclusion HOW TO PREPARE FOR OPTIONAL: • Just select that optional subject, which you have read upto graduation, because it will help you to prepare easily. • Never imitate others , in selecting optional • First complete the syllabus provided by UPSC for optional & after that look at previous year questions from 1978 to till now. HOW TO PREPARE FOR INTERVIEW: For this you must look at our Interview section & IAS TOPPER INTERVIEWS. JOB PLACEMENT AFTER CLEARING UPSC CIVIL SERVICES : It is civil services exam & ranking will be allotted to you on the basis of Percentage or marks secured in Mains & Interview. Prelims is of qualifying nature only. If you become IAS then you can become DM,Cabinet Secretary & you can be appointed at the top posts of the government departments like Election Commissioner, CBSE Chairman & sometimes Governor too if you have good political contacts. If you become IPS , then you could become SSp, commissioner, etc. etc. in Police department. If you become IFS (Foreign Service), you could become Foreign Secretary, Ambassador, High Commissioner If
BOOKS : 1) Geography : NCERT class 7th to 12th Pearson CSAT manual Human & Economic Geography- Goh Chang Long Basic Physical Geography – K Siddhartha, Dr. S Mahapatra, S Mukherjee WEBSITE :www.upsconlineacademy.net 2) Environment ABC OF BIOLOGY of class 12th C.B.S.E.-(Unit-4 [with 7 chapters] is totally based on Ecology & Biodiversity) NCERT class 7th to 12th Ecology & Environment – K Siddhartha Frank School Atlas WEBSITE : www.upsconlineacademy.net 3) History : •NCERT class 7th to 12th Freedom Struggle – Bipin Chandra Modern India – Spectrum Spectrum’s Facets of Indian Culture Centre For Cultural Resource & Training http://ccrtindia.gov.in/performingart.php WEBSITE : www.upsconlineacademy.net 4) Political Science: NCERT FROM 7TH TO 12TH Lucent General Knowledge (If you read all the objective questions of Political science from Lucent then Political Science mostly will be covered ) “Together with of Political science” from class 11th to 12th Indian constitution – D.D Basu Constitution of India – Subhash C Kashyap Our Parliament – Subhash C Kashyap WEBSITE : www.upsconlineacademy.net 5) Economics : Indian Economy- Dutt & Sundaram NCERT class 7th to 12th Economic Times/ Business line Pratiyogita Darpan-Indian Economy Extra Issue WEBSITE : www.upsconlineacademy.net 6) Science & Technology : TMH Manual /Spectrum Annual reports of Min..of Science & Technology Newsletters WEBSITE : www.upsconlineacademy.net 7) Chemistry: S. Chand of 9th & 10th class NCERT of class 7th to 12th ABC of C.B.S.E.11th & 12th class 8) Physics : S. Chand of 9th & 10th class NCERT of class 7th to 12th ABC of C.B.S.E. 11th & 12th class 9) Biology: Modern’s ABC of Biology of class 12th C.B.S.E.(UNIT-1,3 & 5 is very important) NCERT CLASS 7th to 12th Syllabus of PRELIMS: Paper I (GENERAL STUDIES-I)-(200 marks) Duration : Two hours • Current events of national and international importance. • History of India and Indian National Movement. • Indian and World Geography-Physical, Social, Economic. • Geography of India and the World. • Indian Polity and Governance-Constitution, Political. • System, Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights Issues, etc. • Economic and Social Development-Sustainable. • Development, Poverty, Inclusion, Demographics, Social. • Sector Initiatives, etc. • General issues on Environmental ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change – that do not require subject specialization and Climate Change – that do not require subject specialization. Syllabus for Paper II(GENERAL STUDIES-II)-(200 marks) Duration: Two hours • Interpersonal skills including communication skills; • Logical reasoning and analytical ability • Decision making and problem solving • General mental ability • Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude, etc.) (Class X level), Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc. – Class X level) MAINS SYLLABUS Paper1 Essay – 250 Marks Can be written in the medium or language of the candidate’s choice Paper – II Language -300 Marks Candidate can take any Modern Indian language but this paper is of qualifying nature Paper – III’ English -300 Marks This paper is of qualifying nature Paper-IV General Studies-I 250 Marks (Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society) Paper-V General Studies -II: 250 Marks (Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International relations) Paper-VI General Studies -III 250 Marks (Technology, Economic Development, Bio-diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management) Paper-VII General Studies -IV 250 Marks (Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude) Marks carried by General Studies was 4X 250=1000 Paper-VIII Optional Subject – Paper 1 -250 Marks Paper-IX Optional Subject – Paper II -250 Marks Candidate is allowed to take up literature as an optional subject “without the conditionality of having to do his/her graduation in that language’s literature. Sub Total (Written test) 2350 Marks Marks of English and Language will not be counted so total marks for Written exam will be 2350 MINUS 600 = 1750 Marks Interview/Personality Test – 275 marks Total 2025 Marks The written examination consists of the following papers: Paper A – English -300 marks – Qualifying nature – Marks not counted- Passing mandatory The aim of the paper is to test the candidates’ ability to read and understand serious discursive prose, and to express his ideas clearly and correctly, in English and Indian Language concerned. The pattern of questions would be broadly as follows:- (i) Comprehension of given passages (ii) Precis Writing (iii) Usage and Vocabulary (iv) Short Essay. Paper B – A – Modern Indian language 300 Marks – Qualifying nature – Marks not counted – Passing mandatory- (i) Comprehension of given passages. (ii) Precis Writing (iii) Usage and Vocabulary. (iv) Short Essay (v) Translation from English to the Indian language and vice-versa. Note 1: The Papers on Indian Languages and English will be of Matriculation or equivalent standard and will be of qualifying nature only. The marks obtained in these papers will not be counted for ranking. Note 2 : The candidates will have to answer the English and Indian Languages papers in English and the respective Indian language (except where translation is involved). Paper-I Essay – 250 Marks – To be written in the medium or language of the candidate’s choice – Candidates will be required to write an essay on a specific topic. The choice of subjects will be given. They will be expected to keep closely to the subject of the essay to arrange their ideas in orderly fashion, and to write concisely. Credit will be given for effective and exact expression. Paper-II General Studies-I 250Marks (Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society) Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms, Literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times. Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present- significant events, personalities, issues The Freedom Struggle – its various stages and important contributors /contributions from different parts of the country. Post-independence consolidation and reorganization within the country. History of the world