UPSC Prelims Exam: Booklist, Source, Material and Strategy

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History, Art & Culture:
  1. NCERT History (Old) of Classes 6,7,8, 11 and 12. 
  2. Tamil Nadu Board History of Classes 11 and 12.(optional; if you have time you can go through this)
  3. Spectrum A Brief History Of Modern India(Its a MUST)
  4. NCERT An Introduction to Indian Art (Class 11).
  5. Nitin Singhania Hand Written Notes on Art & Culture.
Geography
  1. NCERT Class 11 & 12 Geography Textbooks 
  2. The Orient Blackswan School Atlas(open atlas whenever you feel bored)
  3. Certificate Physical and Human Geography (G C Leong) (for basic concepts of geography)
  4. Refer to Geography videos of Mrunal Youtube Channel https://goo.gl/zLNKbn (very good videos if you are a beginner, download ppt from mrunal.org under download section and revise them thoroughly)
Polity
  1. Indian Polity 5th Edition (Laxmikanth)
  2. Refer to kalyan sir site for videos; Watch all 56 vidoes if you are a beginner (http://onlineias.kalyansir.net/p/videos.html) 
  3. Refer to Constitution of India App for bare Acts.
Ecology & Environment
  1. NCERT Class 12 Biology (Only 4 chapters on Ecology)
  2. NCERT Class 11 Chemistry (Environmental Chemistry chapter only)
  3. Environment by Shankar IAS Academy
Economics
  1. NCERT Class 12: Introductory Macroeconomics
  2. NCERT Class 11: Indian Economic Development
  3. Indian Economy by Ramesh Singh (Read strictly according to syllabus, not cover to cover)
  4. You may refer to Sriram IAS Academy Economics Book
  5. Watch Investopedia video explanations of different concepts (Google ‘Economics Terminology + Investopedia’)
Current Affairs
  1. Refer to any monthly current affair magazine of any one coaching institute. Highlight important parts and revise multiple times(i followed VisionIAS)
  2. Any one newspaper(The Hindu or The Indian Express)
General Science
  1. NCERT Science Books of Class 11 and 12 (skip if have strong Science background)
So this is the only book list you will ever need to crack UPSC Prelims. Do not refer to any other book. Rather revise these limited books as many times as you can. You must have your basic concepts thoroughly clear.


Comments

  1. Unknown28 May 2018 at 22:24

    Sir for mains ?

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  2. sam29 May 2018 at 02:01

    Thanks a lot sir

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  3. Vijay Balas30 May 2018 at 05:25

    Thanks 🙏

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  4. Unknown30 May 2018 at 08:43

    Thanks sir.

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  5. Unknown9 June 2018 at 03:23

    Thankyou so much very informative

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  6. Unknown4 July 2018 at 07:58

    thanku so much sir.....:-)

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  7. Jaydip5 July 2018 at 20:18

    Sir hame kahan se Civil services ki taiyari start kar deni chhiye ?

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  8. Pratik's_walll17 July 2018 at 03:41

    Sir eager to know for 2019 prelimns current affairs to be used,it must from January 2018 or June 2018

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  10. Unknown17 July 2018 at 23:06

    thanking you sir.

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  11. VISHNU MEENA31 July 2018 at 10:49

    Sir main abhi first year student hu abhi mujhe kaise preparation start karni chahiye waiting for your reply

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  12. student8 August 2018 at 22:06

    Thanks sir.... It's usefull

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  13. student8 August 2018 at 22:08

    Sir only Tamil Nadu Board History book .....NCERT aur kahi k nhi

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  14. Unknown18 September 2018 at 05:06

    Do we really need to read class11th and 12th physics, chemistry and biology for general science?

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  15. Unknown18 September 2018 at 10:25

    Sir what about the old ncerts of class 9th and 10th? Do we need to read them also ?

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  16. Unknown18 March 2019 at 09:34

    Thank u sooo much sir

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  17. Unknown14 August 2019 at 04:32

    Sir , for general science , which subject needs to be focused ?

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