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Quite possible to clear, for people from humanities, though I don't underestimate Engineers capacity, frankly they are dangerous.
But its a general perception that u start one year before that too full time......so it wud b tough if one goes for it with 4 months in hand .. No ??
It depends on your level of preparation.
For an average person, personally i believe, 4 months should be enough to cover very basic books, like laxmi, ramesh, goh Cheng, bipin (or bandopadhyay), n some selected ncerts like class 11 n 12 for geo n economics (old).
Cram 10 to 12 months CA, any single good magazine, like vision. Don't forget to read one news paper daily. Don't mess with multiple sources.
Cram Shankar IAS environment, n visions s&t booklets. Or any alternatives that you like.
Solve few test papers, identify your week areas, if time permits revise some of your sources to suit your needs, it all depends on your efforts.
If in case you won't clear this exam in 2017, at least you will be better prepared for next time. At best you will b writing mains in coming december.
Quite possible to clear, for people from humanities, though I don't underestimate Engineers capacity, frankly they are dangerous.
But its a general perception that u start one year before that too full time......so it wud b tough if one goes for it with 4 months in hand .. No ??
It depends on your level of preparation.
For an average person, personally i believe, 4 months should be enough to cover very basic books, like laxmi, ramesh, goh Cheng, bipin (or bandopadhyay), n some selected ncerts like class 11 n 12 for geo n economics (old).
Cram 10 to 12 months CA, any single good magazine, like vision. Don't forget to read one news paper daily. Don't mess with multiple sources.
Cram Shankar IAS environment, n visions s&t booklets. Or any alternatives that you like.
Solve few test papers, identify your week areas, if time permits revise some of your sources to suit your needs, it all depends on your efforts.
If in case you won't clear this exam in 2017, at least you will be better prepared for next time. At best you will b writing mains in coming december.
Depends on what is your background? Working or full time preparation? How much do you already know? Are you good at optional already (recent graduate) or will you do that also from scratch?
I personally think NCERTs are overhyped. They do help to understand the basics but so do Laxmikanth and Ramesh Singh. So it's okay if you skip them as time is less.
You need to finish a few books before end of March
1. Laxmikanth - Polity 2. Ramesh Singh - Indian Economy (selected chapters) 3. Modern History - Bipan Chandra (old ncert) 4. Geography you can do from ncerts
In addition to this: 1. Follow visions monthy current affairs ( gulp them down) 2. Read Hindu daily and make notes - max 3-4 sentences per article. Don't dvelve into making elaborate notes at this time 3. Practice answer writing every weekend as on weekdays tou will be studying 4. Start practicing mock and previous prelims papers from april 1 onwards. Atleast one a day
Most important advise : 1. REVISE what you study regularly 2. Stick to SYLLABUS 3. PREVIOUS PAPERS give you the best intuition to filter news while reading, keep them handy and look at them every now and then
Modern history- spectrum Ancient history- Ncert or DN jha ( 150 page small book enough to clear) Polity- PD special issues Economy- Eco survey, mrunal Enviornment- Nptel, NCERT Science- NCERT or lucent science Geography- NCERT
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For an average person, personally i believe, 4 months should be enough to cover very basic books, like laxmi, ramesh, goh Cheng, bipin (or bandopadhyay), n some selected ncerts like class 11 n 12 for geo n economics (old).
Cram 10 to 12 months CA, any single good magazine, like vision. Don't forget to read one news paper daily. Don't mess with multiple sources.
Cram Shankar IAS environment, n visions s&t booklets. Or any alternatives that you like.
Solve few test papers, identify your week areas, if time permits revise some of your sources to suit your needs, it all depends on your efforts.
If in case you won't clear this exam in 2017, at least you will be better prepared for next time.
At best you will b writing mains in coming december.
I personally think NCERTs are overhyped. They do help to understand the basics but so do Laxmikanth and Ramesh Singh. So it's okay if you skip them as time is less.
You need to finish a few books before end of March
1. Laxmikanth - Polity
2. Ramesh Singh - Indian Economy (selected chapters)
3. Modern History - Bipan Chandra (old ncert)
4. Geography you can do from ncerts
In addition to this:
1. Follow visions monthy current affairs ( gulp them down)
2. Read Hindu daily and make notes - max 3-4 sentences per article. Don't dvelve into making elaborate notes at this time
3. Practice answer writing every weekend as on weekdays tou will be studying
4. Start practicing mock and previous prelims papers from april 1 onwards. Atleast one a day
Most important advise :
1. REVISE what you study regularly
2. Stick to SYLLABUS
3. PREVIOUS PAPERS give you the best intuition to filter news while reading, keep them handy and look at them every now and then
Modern history- spectrum
Ancient history- Ncert or DN jha ( 150 page small book enough to clear)
Polity- PD special issues
Economy- Eco survey, mrunal
Enviornment- Nptel, NCERT
Science- NCERT or lucent science
Geography- NCERT