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History - Ncerts for ancient & modern, spectrum for modern, arjun dev 9–12 class for world history, vision world history notes, nitin sinhhania culture book, art and culture 11th ncert

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Geography- 11& 12 NCERTs, mrunal lectures( very good) Sociology- Newspapers, current affairs compilations, NCERTs 11&12

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So finally what you can do is stick to these standard books and revise them many times so that traditional questions like those 8 mentioned can be attempted very well. And remember if a paper is difficult, it is for everyone unless you are not doing questions which everyone is comfortable with.

Lastly, i would say try to attempt every question even the bouncers, you may get 1–2 marks if you are lucky but won't get any if don't write anything.