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The eligibility criteria for appearing in UPSC civil services examination is to have a graduate degree and age above 21.First of all you should start studying newspapers daily either The Hindu or The Indian Express.
Every topper recommends that your resources should be limited because there are tonnes of materials in the market and indulging in each one of them will waste your time and you will get confused ending up in messing everything.
There are few standard books recommended by toppers,these are :

• NCERT books from 6 to 12.
• Laxmikant for Polity
• Spectrum fo Modern India
• Tamil Nadu board book of class 11th for Ancient and Medieval india
• Shankar IAS book for Environment
• GC Leong for Gerography
• Ramesh Singh for Economy.
• Nitin Singhnia for Art and Culture

Apart from that keep and eye on everything happening around world and be curious.
For Mains,GS 1,2,3 above books and current affairs and for GS 4 you should study Lexicon.Apart from that you should study ARC Reports,NITI Ayog action agenda,PIB,PRS,Indian year book,Budget and Economic survey(of the year in which you will appear in the exam)

Good Luck

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