The story of a Civil Services Aspirant..
Meet Samar!
Intelligent, hard-working and determined to
qualify IAS.
So, he just started preparing for IAS.
Lets see how he prepares.
He learns seven NCERT books of class 6 and
7 in 24 days.
By the time he learns 4 NCERT books of class
8th.
He has already taken 46 days.
Then he covers another set of 4 NCERT books
of class 8th and 9th.
He takes a total of 68 days.
He learns more NCERT books of class 9th and
10th, 95 days are already consumed.
He further learns 3 NCERT books of class 10,
he has already taken 115 days.
Class 11th books take 240 days and class 12th
books take 345 days.
And by the time he covers class 12th books
345 are already consumed and its doesn’t
stop here.
Next he learns standard recommended books
taking a total of 580 days.
After nearly two years of preparation, Samar
is not able to recall all that he has read.
He tries his best to revise but it is too
late.
He failed to qualify preliminary exam.
Let’s see what mistakes did Samar commit?
Samar read a lot but learnt so less.
His preparation did not give emphasis on Current
Affairs & International Organisations.
He also totally ignored preparation of Science
and Technology.
Incidentally Current Affairs, International
Organisations and Science and Technology contributed
29, 10 and 5 questions respectively in Prelims
2017.
Thus, Samar’s approach missed a major part
of the 2017 GS Prelims Paper.
Also, Samar did not cover most of GS Mains
syllabus, Optional subject and did not learn
Mains Answer writing.
Now, think of a new approach.
What if a candidate is required to prepare
a single book for each subject?
The book which is written in a simple language,
which explains concepts in easiest of manners.
The book also has chapter wise past year and
practice questions.
Past year questions of prelims let the candidate
know the level of UPSC.
It is also an assurance to candidates that
their preparation is going according to UPSC
exam.
Practice questions helps in revision of important
concepts and facts.
The same book also explains the approach to
write upsc mains and has detailed solutions
for mains.
What’s more?
The book also has a coupon which gives access
to repository of videos on difficult and important
topics of each subject.
So, you can read from book and watch videos
all along…
If you are looking for such a book, look no
further.
Then, UPSC book series authored by experts
together called PrepMate and published by
Cengage Learning cannot be missed by you.
The book series in available in stores as
well as online.
To read the first chapters, visit prepmate.in/books
