What should be a person’s strategy to crack the UPSC IAS prelims from now on, if he is already aware of the syllabus and basics as well - pravinnath/upscpreparationguide GitHub Wiki

UPSC is know as union public service commission. What you should do before starting the preparation is that start initially reading day to day and get idea of certain things which subject are from your background it doesn’t take a lot of time but which subject are new and not from your filed will take a lot of time so that will vary person to person. Give daily one hour to current events.Then which time is left you can divide in two parts, one type you can do like read only one subject at one time like if you are reading polity so read polity only, if you are doing mathematics do mathematics only.Second type will be like you can read different subject in the gap of one or two hour like if you take one hour to one subject next one hour to next subject.

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Whatever time table u make is connected through your mental ability because everyone has different capacity and different choice. But when you are studying don’t read too much at a time.Generally, it a is law of psychology one cannot remember everything more than 45min at a time, take 5-10 min breaks, u can also have nap in afternoon so the reception level of your mind is highest so read only that you can understand and memorise.

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You can start preparation like learn history and geography from NCRET, GCRET Books they are best sources to start it they are basics books. Besides you can go for reading number of reference books including books of Bipin Chandra and many other good author you can always refer through. You can also refer to art and culture from various source various class material etc and as far as geography as consent map read has to be strong. Go for the oxford map, Oxford student atlas.

Besides you can solve past year question paper so your preparation can go very nicely.The best books for UPSC Civil Services Modern Indian History, Environmental Studies, Indian Polity, Indian and World Geography, Oxford Student Atlas, Indian Economy this books you can read as a general studies and for CSAT you can read Quantitative Aptitude, Verbal and Non Verbal Reasoning, And English is Easy. So this will you help you a lot for the reading. Everybody is must be read newspaper on the daily basis of but when you are reading newspaper you should also see the background.

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For example, some event with take place presently so that event what we can say is it is one hour current affair you must be preparing that but is there some background like in present year the tax reform is introduced like GST.

So now GST is introduced so GST is current event because it is belonging to last one year preparation but along with that there are some background issue that when GST was first discus there is history which is panic to the year when Atal Bihari Vajpayee first introduced. So in that matter what where is the current development in that context you should also knowing the background.

For example, article 370 and its controversy may be in the present time but when you writing answer for the civil service or ticking the question in the preliminary exam so in that context you should be knowing that what is the background of Kashmir issue and how everything took place and how chronicle to the present senior. Some in the case you can say that the issue of North Korea, South Korea or the issue of Israel, Palestine so certain thing may be there which you are say current.

But along with current you should know its background that is historic background its base in the polity constitution and another relevant social dimension historic dimensional. So current affair preparation may be sufficient one year but when you are preparing you should not devote not less than one hour every day for the current events that preparation should also focus on reading some good newspaper.