Hi

Your UPSC civil services examination consists of three stages:-

1. Prelims

2. Mains

3.Interview

>>>>>>>>  UPSC PRELIMS :-

Your prelims exam consist of 2 papers: -

-----------) general studies  1 :   - You have History, Indian Polity, Geography, Environment, Current Affairs, Science and technology, etc.

-----------) general studies II ( csat ) :- You have :-Reasoning, Maths, English, Hindi, etc.

For reference,

Here's detailed prelims syllabus

>>>>>>>>    MAINS :-

It is descriptive /written examination . There are a total of 9 papers  which are listed below:-

-------)  Paper 1 :- Essay

-------)   Paper 2 :- GS-I   :- You have

• *indian heritage and culture

• *History and geography of the world and society

-------)   Paper 3 :- GS-II   :- it includes

• * Governance,

• *Polity

• *Constitution,

• *Social Justice and International Relations.

-------)   Paper 4 :- GS-III   :- it includes

• *Technology,

• *Economic Development,

• *Security and Disaster Management

• *Bio-Diversity,

• *Environment,

-------)   Paper 5   :-  GS-IV :- it has

• * Ethics

• *Integrity

• *Aptitude

-------)   Paper 6 :   - optional I paper

-------)   Paper 7   :- optional II paper

Out of the 9 papers, the remaining two papers are:-

-------)   Language paper A    :-  compulsory indian language

-------)   Language paper B :-   English

You can get complete UPSC civil services examination syllabus for both PRELIMS & MAINS by visiting our page in the link for which is provided below:-

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