Hello friends!
Welcome to PrepMate classes.
The objective of this lecture is to understand:
Significance of General Science for UPSC
Prelims.
Topics to be covered under this subject.
Scientific Schedule to Prepare this subject.
Strategy to Prepare this subject.
On your screen, you can see the contribution
in terms of number of questions from General
Science under GS Paper I in various past year
prelims.
The contribution of General Science to Prelims
has been on lower side.
However, knowledge of science is required
to understand sections of Environment, Science
& Technology and even some topics of Geography.
The table lists the topics to be prepared
under General Science and the contribution
of these topics in prelims.
In all, 11 topics of Physics, 7 topics in
Chemistry and 8 topics in Biology are listed
in the table along with their relative importance
in Prelims.
Once we know the trends and relative importance
of topics, we now come to the specific roadmap
for learning General Science.
This is the 16- day roadmap for preparing
General Science which can be adhered and should
be adhered.
The targets are listed both chapter-wise and
page wise.
The page count is given according to Prepmate
-Cengage book on General Science.
The target for the first day of preparation
is Chapter 1 to Chapter 4 of Physics from
Motion to Work & Energy, constituting first
30 pages of the book.
For assessment of Preparation, Chapter wise
past year and practice questions have been
provided.
The target for the second day of preparation
is Chapter 5 Sound and Chapter 6 Light - Part
I.
The third day target is Chapter 7 Light – Part
II, Chapter 8 Electricity, and Chapter 9 Magnetic
Effects of Electric Current.
The fourth day should be devoted to Chapter
10 Electromagnetic Radiation and Chapter 11
Laser.
Chemistry can be prepared from Day 6 to Day
9 and bio can be prepared from Day 10 to day
13 followed by revision.
In all, you can prepare complete Science in
16 days.
For difficult topics, you can watch our explanatory
videos and for regular updates you can log
in to our web portal prepmate.in or download
the prepmate app.
To know about the specific strategy to learn
about the subject, you can watch another video
on PrepMate Edutech youtube channel or home
page of Prepmate.in
Thank You.
Best of Luck!
For best learning, you can watch this video
along with PrepMate-Cengage UPSC series which
is available online as well as offline.
Book Features: Complete subject in a single
book with practice and past year questions
at the end of chapters.
Model answers for UPSC Mains from authors.
Using the application Prepmate and web portal
prepmate.in you can access comprehensive digital
support in form of videos, mock-prelims, answer
writing practice and regular updates.
