Hello everyone, can u suggest me what are the books we should read to crack upsc civil services exams? for becoming an IAS officer??!

Dear aspirant

Hope you are doing well in your life.

As you must be knowing to clear any exam you must be knowing the basics of it. So for IAS preparation you have to qualify upsc exam. For that you must have cleared firstly your basics strong and to make it strong you can study ncert books from class 6 to class 12 and after that you can took up some reference standard books.

Fir mains you firstly have to decide what you want to do  in optional subjects. So firstly think of it and then just go for it. So fir that open the upsc website and then search out the syllabus according to your optional subject.

Wish you good luck!

Thank you!

Hello Aspirant!

For cracking UPSC Civil Services exams, my book recommendation will be-

For Prelims-

Geography Ncert books of class 11&12, Gc leone(it stresses more on Maps ,Application based questions)

You need to focus more and more on physical, political maps of India, World

Modern History- NCERT BOOKS

Polity- Lakshmikant is the best book in this subject.

Ancient &Medieval- Ncert book

Art& Culture- Fine arts(NCERT)

Nitin Sihangia (Selected topics are preferred from this book)

Along with the books, Read newspaper everyday along with monthly magazine

Solve aptitude from RS Agrawal books  and solve previous year question papers.

This is my recommendation after seeing many pro insights of IAS officers.

Hope it helps! All the best!

Hi

UPSC is one of the most toughest Examination , you need to be really serious and focused towards your studies to crack it in order to become an IAS

Follow the below tips to prepare well for your UPSC  examination :-

-----------) To start your preparation  first of all understand the examination pattern and go well through  syllabus :-

>>>> Examination pattern :- UPSC examination has 3 stages listed below :-

• prelims exam :- it is objective paper and is of qualifying nature , there are 2 papers in prelims

• Mains exam. :- it is descriptive /written examination . There are a total of 9 papers in Mains examination

• Interview :- After qualifying mains, you have to go through interview round, and it is more of test of your personality rather than knowledge.

To know exam pattern in detail visit :- https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc

>>>> syllabus :- In prelims, your paper 1 general studies  1 in which  you have History, Indian Polity, Geography, Environment, Current Affairs, Science and technology, etc. Your paper 2 in prelims is general studies II or CSAT in which you have reasoning, Maths, English, Hindi, etc. Similarly, you can check the complete syllabus of both prelims and mains at

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias-syllabus

---------) Top books which you can follow for UPSC examination preparation are listed below subject wise:-

HISTORY

*NCERT XI (Ancient & Medieval)

*NCERT XII (Modern Indian History)

*Facets of Indian Culture Spectrum

*From Plassey to Partition - A History of Modern India

Indian Art & Culture

*Indian Art & Culture - Nitin Singhania

Polity

*NCERT IX-XII

*Indian Polity M Laxmikanth

Geography

*NCERT VI X (Old Syllabus)

*NCERT XI, XII (New Syllabus)

*Certificate Physical Geography G C Leong

World Atlas

Economics

NCERT XI

*The Indian Economy Sanjiv Verma

*Indian Economy by Ramesh Singh

*Economic Development & Policies in India Jain & Ohri

Environment

*Class XII Biology (last 5 chapters)

*Environment by Shankar IAS Academy

International Relations

*NCERT XII (Contemporary World Politics)

*Current Affairs ( read newspaper )

To get the complete list of books go through

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/books-for-upsc-ias

----------) Discipline is the key to crack UPSC, so you need to make a routine/ time table and follow it .

----------)Read newspaper like the Hindu or Indian Express  and magazines like Yojana, Kurukshetra, Economic and Political Weekly  to keep yourself updated with the current events and issues.

----------) take short breaks in between your studies, studying continuously can be brain tiring and it becomes difficult to focus and study with concentration, so take breaks to relax and refresh your brain otherwise you won't be able to retain whatever you read.

-----------)Choose your optional subject wisely , choose the subject you have interest in.

----------)Make short notes for each subject, these will be your life saviour and will help you in your revisions a lot as syllabus is wide

----------)Set daily goals like I have to cover these many topics today, weekly goals like I have to  cover these chapters this week and practice their questions too, by the end of this week and similarly set monthly goals to cover the syllabus and meet them without any fail.

----------)Revise :- there's no point of preparing for the exam if you couldn't recall anything in the UPSC Examination so you should stress on revision as well.

----------) Your mains examination is in written, so you need to work your speed and also work on improving how to present the knowledge you have on paper, so answer writing practicing should be your priority

----------)Solve previous year question papers and mock test papers ;- You should solve these , it will give you idea of types of questions asked and their difficulty level and will help you a lot.

----------)Also work on your communication skills and personality development as it plays an important role in your interview round.

For more tips go through

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-upsc-ias

Thankyou