DAILY NEWS AND ANALYSIS

So some aspirants have asked me questions about how the newspaper is to be read. To someone that has been in the habit of reading, the question may seem a little odd. But I’m going to try my best to deal with the issue, in this post. When to read the paper First of all, …

Mock Test Answer Sheets

For those of you who are wondering how I have written my answers, I'm posting answer sheets from the mock tests I had taken. These tests happened before my revision started so don't take the scores too seriously. This is only to give you an idea of how I write my answers. Here are the …

FAQs

An aspirant asked me some important questions that I had not addressed in my blog post about my preparation strategy. Here are the questions I was asked and the answers I gave:  Q1. Since this was your second attempt could you tell me what do you think went wrong in your first attempt? I would …

Preparing for and cracking the Civil Services Exam-what to do and what not to do

Let me warn you that this is a very detailed post about my preparation strategy, with suggestions for how to improve on it and is therefore quite long. So i advise aspirants to read this in parts, understand it and then move on to the remaining parts.   Disclaimer: This post is from the perspective of …

Book list for Political Science and International Relations

Following is a list of books, notes and websites that I had referred to for my optional, Political Science and International Relations... I hope this will be of help to aspirants. those of you asking me to upload my own notes, they're no different from the notes available in the market. I recommend that everyone …

Book List

Hi! Here is a list of the books I referred to for CSP 2014 and CSM 2014 for the General Studies papers. Please note that you should assess your own level of understanding and then decide on whether or not this list works for you too. NEWSPAPER: THE HINDU MAGAZINES/JOURNALS: ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY (ONLY …