Dear UPSC, there should be a humane limit to difficulty. Such paper will discourage the new aspirant coming for UPSC preparation.

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As I always believe one should learn from others' mistake and experience, esp in #CompetitiveExams; esp in #UPSC

🅾️Save your time and energy, in case you need any help from my side....

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🅾️Personal Mentorship for UPSC/PSC preparation, specifically under me is going on✅️

As I always believe one should learn from others' mistake and experience, esp in #CompetitiveExams; esp in #UPSC

🅾️Save your time and energy, in case you need any help from my side....

✅️For all issues and queries, everyone is free to call me
📲9971495322


#upsc #mentorship #psc #iasexam #ias

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☑️For all Upsc and State Pcs aspirants 👇

📚Here is the list of BOOKS and MCQs lists which would cater to the ever-evolving nature of Upsc Prelims and Mains.

👉Indian polity : Laxmikant + Bare Act
👉Geography: NCERT + GC Leong
👉Ancient & Medieval : Poonam Dalaal Dahiya
👉Modern history : Shonali Bansal Tripathy
👉Economy : Vivek Singh / Gaurav Aggarwal / Nitin Singhania/ Mrunal Sir old Conceptual videos in YT
👉Environment: Vaishali Anand (or PMF IAS) - former is better and Monthly Magazine (vision)
👉Art and culture : Nitin Singhania + CCRT (selected topics)
👉Ethics : DK Balaji and Atul Garg (Case studies)
👉Governance in India : Laxmikanth
👉Society : M. Senthil Kumar (Pearson)
👉Social Justice : Any book (link with current affairs / can be easily done by following the words directly from the syllabus)
👉I.R : Monthly Current affairs magazine (visionias)
👉Current Affairs - Monthly magazines (but use Internet for extra information)

MCQs list:
👉Chapter wise - Question Bank by Vinay G.B ( History, Polity, Economy, Geography, Environment)
👉Component Wise - Vision Ias, Goaltide, My YT channel

☑️Note : To clear PRELIMS, Mcqs practice (lots of) is a MUST !!!

Mains :
👉These is no single book in this world which can teach Mains. Even coaching institutes won’t cover the foundation for Mains either. (Newcomers won’t believe but This is the TRUTH)

👉Every question asked in Mains has its own flavour and most of them are multidimensional in nature.

👉Mains is all about answer writing practice (PYQs + “new” questions) . Getting it reviewed from someone who is “highly” passionate about answer writing and has minimum of 7-8 years of daily answer writing practice.

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📚My Prelims Strategy: Precision Over Volume - “Selection is a Strategy, Not a Syllabus.”

💥10 Rules. One Target : “Prelims”

1. Core Philosophy (Your Strength)

You’re not a “random reader” - you’re a pattern recognizer.

👉 So your strategy should be:
•PYQ-driven
•Concept-linked
•Revision-heavy
•Not source-heavy

Golden Rule:

“UPSC doesn’t test what you read, it tests what you retain + apply.”

2. Sources - Keep Them Limited (Very Important for YOU)

You already tend to go deep (good for Mains), but Prelims needs control.

Stick to:
•Polity → Laxmikanth (multiple revisions)
•Economy → Class notes + basics (avoid over-expansion)
•Geography → NCERT + maps
•Environment → PYQ + current-based
•History → Selective (focus on themes, not stories)
•Current Affairs → Last 1–1.5 year (revision > accumulation)

👉 Your danger zone: over-reading IR & analysis in Prelims phase

3. PYQ-Based Preparation (Your Biggest Weapon)

You should do this better than most aspirants:

How YOU should do PYQs:
•Solve topic-wise (last 25–30 years)
•Extract patterns:
🎯Statements framing
🎯Extreme words (only, all, none)
🎯Static + current linkage

👉 Example:
•Environment → Species + conventions
•Polity → Constitutional vs non-constitutional + Legislature vs Executive + judiciary
•Economy → Concepts + schemes

Make a “PYQ notebook”
Not notes — patterns + traps

4. Revision Strategy (This will decide your rank)

You are capable of depth — now convert it into recall.

Ideal Cycle:
•1st revision → understanding
•2nd → consolidation
•3rd → retention
•4th+ → speed + accuracy

👉 Rule:

“If you can’t revise it 3-4 times, you shouldn’t read it once.”

5. Mock Test Strategy (Where you gain edge)

For YOU specifically:
•Give 30–40 quality tests
•Focus on:
🎯Option elimination
🎯Risk calibration
🎯Silly mistake reduction

After each test:

Do 3 things:
1.Why wrong? (knowledge vs logic)
2.Why right? (guess vs certainty)
3.What pattern repeated?

👉 Build your personal elimination toolkit:
•Extreme words → suspicious
•Familiar statement → often correct
•Unknown + complex → often wrong

6. Attempt Strategy (Critical for you)

Based on your analytical nature:
•Attempt range: 80–90 questions
•Accuracy target: 70–75%

👉 Rule:
•100% sure → attempt
•50-50 → intelligent elimination
•Blind guess → avoid

7. Last 30 Days Plan (Game Changer)

This phase suits your temperament.
🎯ONLY revise:
•Notes
•PYQs
•Mistake notebook
•No new sources
•Daily CSAT practice (don’t ignore)

👉 Add:
•Maps (5 min daily)
•Schemes revision (rapid cycles)

8. Your Weak Spots (Honest Feedback)

Let me be direct - this is where you need control:

❌ Over-analysis
❌ Over-expansion of sources
❌ Spending too much time on “interesting topics”

👉 Fix:
•Time-box study
•Stick to exam relevance
•Think like UPSC, not like a researcher

9. Your Edge (Use it fully)

You have 3 major advantages:
👉Strong conceptual clarity
👉Good articulation (Mains-ready mind)
👉Ability to connect topics (IR, economy, ethics)

👉 Convert this into:
•Better elimination
•Better retention
•Better accuracy

10) 🔥 Final Strategy Line

“I will not study more - I will revise smarter, attempt sharper, and think like UPSC.”


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