UPSC Exams 2021 - 22 - Dates, Registration, Eligibility, Salary, Exam Pattern

Hello candidate,

Here is a list of some of the best books you can refer for preparing for IAS Mains examination-

India's Struggle for Independence by Bipan Chandra.

India After Independence by Bipan Chandra.

Ancient India by RS Sharma.

History of Medieval India by Satish Chandra.

From Plassey To Partition And After by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay.

Introduction to Indian Art for Class XI (NCERT).

Indian Polity for Civil Services Examinations

Indian Art and Culture by Nitin Singhania (Culture)

Certificate Physical and Human Geography by Goh Cheng Leong.

Oxford School Atlas by Oxford Publishers.

Indian Economy by Ramesh Singh (Economy)

Hope you found it helpful. If you have any further queries feel free to post it here!!

hello aspirant.

IAS Books For English Language Comprehension – Prelims Paper 2 (CSAT)

• UPSC PORTAL: English Language Comprehension Skills (CSAT Series Book)
• English Comprehension / Reading Comprehension.
• 30 Days To A More Powerful Vocabulary by Wilfred Funk.
• English Reading Comprehension by Anjani A Gupta.
• Essential English for Competitive Examinations - 2nd Edition  by  Dr. Rashmi singh.
• List of English Literature books for IAS exam:
  • Introduction to English Literature by W. H Hudson
  • The Routledge History of Literature in English
  • A short History of English Literature (Pramod K. Nayar)
  • King Lear- William Shakespeare
  • The Tempest- William Shakespeare
  • Hard Times- Charles Dickens
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain
  • Kanthapura-Raja Rao
  • A House for Mr. Biswas- V.S. Naipal

(https://www.amazon.in/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&field-author=Dr.+Rashmi+Singh&search-alias=stripbooks) List of Important IAS Books for hindi Exam

• 7 Varsh Upsc IAS/ Ips Mains Hindi (Anivarya) Year-Wise Solved Papers (2013 - 2019)
  
• Aadhunik Sahitya ki Pravritiyan – Namavar Sinha
• Jaayasee Aakalan ke Aayaam- Sadanand Shaahee
• Kabeer –Param Anand Srivastav
• Kabeer ke Sabad – Dr. Sukadev Sinha
• Khadi Boli ka Prarambhik Swaroop – Nilesh Jain
• Mahaabhoj Mulyankan ke Paripekshy – Sadaanand Shaahee
• Mohan Raakesh aur Ashadh ka Ek din –Gireesh Rastogi
• Niraala Rachita Raam Kee Shakti Pooja Bhaashy –Dr. Surya Prasaad Dikshit
• Prasda Aura Skandgupta – Dr. Rvatramana
• Triveni – Acharya Ramachandra Shukla

Hope this helps you

Hi

If want to become an IAS then yes starting the preparation in your graduation itself is a good idea as in this way you will get more time for preparation. Also, many of the UPSC rankers like srushti Jayant Deshmukh  had prepared for upsc during their graduation itself. One important thing is that you will have to maintain balance between college studies and  studies for upsc preparation and to maintain balance you can divide your time table into two parts i. e one for college studies and other one for upsc preparation and 2-3 weeks before your college semester exams, you can keep upsc studies on hold, so that you can prepare well for your college exams.

Follow the below tips to prepare well for your UPSC  examination :-

-------------) To start your preparation  first of all understand the examination pattern and go well through  syllabus :-

>>>> Examination pattern :- UPSC examination has 3 stages listed below :-

• prelims exam :- it is objective paper and is of qualifying nature , there are 2 papers in prelims

• Mains exam. :- it is descriptive /written examination . There are a total of 9 papers in Mains examination

• Interview :- After qualifying mains, you have to go through interview round, and it is more of test of your personality rather than knowledge.

To know exam pattern in detail visit :- https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc

>>>> syllabus :- In prelims, your paper 1 general studies  1 in which  you have History, Indian Polity, Geography, Environment, Current Affairs, Science and technology, etc. Your paper 2 in prelims is general studies II or CSAT in which you have reasoning, Maths, English, Hindi, etc. Similarly, you can check the complete syllabus of both prelims and mains at

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias-syllabus

-----------) Top books which you can follow for UPSC examination preparation are listed below subject wise:-

HISTORY

*NCERT XI (Ancient & Medieval)

*NCERT XII (Modern Indian History)

*Facets of Indian Culture Spectrum

*From Plassey to Partition - A History of Modern India

Indian Art & Culture

*Indian Art & Culture - Nitin Singhania

Polity

*NCERT IX-XII

*Indian Polity M Laxmikanth

Geography

*NCERT VI X (Old Syllabus)

*NCERT XI, XII (New Syllabus)

*Certificate Physical Geography G C Leong

World Atlas

Economics

NCERT XI

*The Indian Economy Sanjiv Verma

*Indian Economy by Ramesh Singh

*Economic Development & Policies in India Jain & Ohri

Environment

*Class XII Biology (last 5 chapters)

*Environment by Shankar IAS Academy

International Relations

*NCERT XII (Contemporary World Politics)

*Current Affairs ( read newspaper )

To get the complete list of books go through

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/books-for-upsc-ias

------------) Discipline is the key to crack UPSC, so you need to make a routine/ time table and follow it .

------------)Read newspaper like the Hindu or Indian Express  and magazines like Yojana, Kurukshetra, Economic and Political Weekly  to keep yourself updated with the current events and issues.

------------) take short breaks in between your studies, studying continuously can be brain tiring and it becomes difficult to focus and study with concentration, so take breaks to relax and refresh your brain otherwise you won't be able to retain whatever you read.

------------)Choose your optional subject wisely , choose the subject you have interest in.

------------)Make short notes for each subject, these will be your life saviour and will help you in your revisions a lot as syllabus is wide

-------------)Set daily goals like I have to cover these many topics today, weekly goals like I have to  cover these chapters this week and practice their questions too, by the end of this week and similarly set monthly goals to cover the syllabus and meet them without any fail.

------------)Revise :- there's no point of preparing for the exam if you couldn't recall anything in the UPSC Examination so you should stress on revision as well.

------------) Your mains examination is in written, so you need to work your speed and also work on improving how to present the knowledge you have on paper, so answer writing practicing should be your priority

------------)Solve previous year question papers and mock test papers ;- You should solve these , it will give you idea of types of questions asked and their difficulty level and will help you a lot.

------------)Also work on your communication skills and personality development as it plays an important role in your interview round.

For more tips go through

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-upsc-ias

Thankyou

Hi,

I hope you are doing well!!

Coaching will give you enough study material as well as guidance from experienced teachers but after a long time, you will not get enough output from these institutes.

There are few good institutes you can trust upon if you are a Hindi medium aspirant like Drishti, Patanjali etc. But still I will suggest if you are a Hindi medium student then you can prepare from NCERT books and make your own notes to make your GK stronger.

These days the Civil Services exams is based on totally current affairs. You can trust on some online sources like Wikipedia (Hindi and English), Sansar Lochan, Vision IAS Hindi Test Series bla bla.

I know there are few sources for Hindi medium students but still you can fully trust on the above websites I mentioned. You should also have knowledge about English because you are going to be an IAS officer. That is why keep searching English sources also for the particular topic you’re searching for.

I hope this helps!