Hello dear,

Now a days UPSC aspirants are making a beeline for enrolling themselves in popular coaching centre and spending heavy sum in the exercise. While some are taking the leap to prepare on their own and even succeeding.

It depends on you that what you want you can spend a hefty sum in coaching and then prepare or you can can do self study. Now a days self study is not so difficult because of the online tutorials for the UPSC preparation.

So for the preparation all you need the exam pattern and focus on the subjects. For more information you can go through below link https://competition.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-upsc-ias

I hope this will help you

Good luck!!