🦉 UPSC Fundamentals

UPSC fundamentals that all aspirants should know…

As aspirants, we often forget to focus on the fundamental things we need to know about UPSC. I am not going to give you any strategies or steps in this short write-up, but simple advice on why you need to get back to the basics if you want to excel in UPSC. First, you...

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How to Read Effectively for any exam? 8 Steps.

Reading well is the key to success in any exam. Even in general if you are a good reader, it helps! 📚 As an aspirant, I used to give a lot of time to developing little ways to enhance my learning techniques. Hopefully, these will help you to become a better learned as...

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How to study current affairs for prelims?

I am going to tell aspirants four major things they should focus on while studying current affairs for prelims: Sources How to study these sources? Make notes or not for current affairs? How to solve and study previous year questions for current affairs... Sources...

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What is UPSC looking for in Mains?

Great question for UPSC CSE aspirants! No one can ever for sure know what the examiner is looking for. However, it can be understood to some extent from many topper copies available out there, and the known fact that UPSC invites top professors to evaluate answer...

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Booklist and Sources for UPSC

Deciding what to read keeps most aspirants (even when I was preparing) pretty confused about this exam. A prudent selection of sources for prelims, mains and interview is a must right from the beginning. Here is what I mostly referred to during the process: Prelims:...

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IAS preparation in one year

There is a misconception that IAS exam cannot be cracked in one attempt and takes years to do so. It is doable in one year, given your prep is systematic, dedicated, focused and smart. Of course, for all this you have to work hard. I will share my personal strategy to...

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Article 74(1): The cookie jar for legislative sins

The legislature should not be enticed to put its hand in the cookie jar of the executive; after all, this behavior can only become addictive, and potentially hazardous to the health of our democracy. The separation of powers doctrine is held sacred across...

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GS 2 (Mains) Strategy –> answer writing and sources

I have got 111 in GS 2. This has made quite a difference in my rank. GS 2 is quite a dicey paper but a certain strategy can yield very high marks as UPSC is probably looking for certain way of answering in this paper. One thing was sure that I prepared thoroughly for...

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Management Optional Video

Hi everyone -- this is a sample video in the lecture series on management optional modules. This is for the topic Evolution of Management thought in the first module -- MFP in Paper I. I have provided full information in other videos as well about the course. More to...

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Mains Strategy After Prelims

Hey everyone -- I have made a video about this. Some tips on management optional also added. More on answer writing will follow. Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9O6L1Iu0wE&feature=youtu.be

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Books for Management

Hey everyone...this is part of my video (link below) Hope it helps.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JND1Vlxi8Cw

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Management Optional

Hello everyone, Many of you have been asking me to provide some feedback and my strategy for the management optional. Management appears to be a mysterious optional for even many top MBAs. The reason being, relatively low marks, less people in top 100 (I am the first...

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