About 6 months are left for Prelims 2020 and I hope you are preparing well.

In case you are a newbie and worried if 6 months time is enough or not to crack prelims then let me make it clear that it is very much possible to clear CSE prelims with 6 months preparation. What one needs to do is some smart work.

Join here for free guidance from Mudit Jain, IRS CSE-17 (IPS CSE-14 & 15), Author of Decode Civils – Philosophical Essay Writing, Decode GS2, Decode Ethics 4.0 & Decode History Books

Ethics book referred by CSE 22 Toppers: AIR –76, 91, 176, 189, 249, 288, 297, 299, 326, 356, 476, 541, 611, 616, 700, 737, 739, 746 & others

History book referred by CSE 21 Toppers: AIR – 44, 212, 572, 653 & others

Sample PDFs of Books: Decode Civils – Philosophical Essay Writing, Decode Ethics 4th Edition,  Decode GS2 & Decode History

For static portions, read only what is needed. Time is less. You can not waste it on 100 books and sources. I had shared my concise book list before. Here it is:

PRELIMS BOOK LIST

Modern History: Spectrum, NCERT 12th, NCERT 11th, Bipin Chandra & Ghatna Chakra.

Art & Culture: Nitin Singhania Book, NCERT 11th, TN Board Book & Nitin Singhania Notes.

Ancient-Medieval: TN board Book, NCERT 11th RS Sharma, NCERT 11th Satish Chandra, Lucent, Vajiram Yellow Book (Ancient + Medieval), Poonam Dalal & Ghatna Chakra.

Polity: Laxmikanth, NCERT & Bare Act.

Economy: Budget (Only Summary), Economic Survey (Only Summary), Mrunal Notes, Mrunal Lectures, Vivek Singh, Vajiram Notes, Ramesh Singh & Sriram IAS Book.

Environment: Vision IAS Current Affairs, Shankar IAS Book, PMF IAS, Biology NCERT, Google, Shivin Chaudhary Course on EdSarrthi & Sunya Current Affairs.

Geography: 11th & 12th NCERTs, Atlas, GC Leong, PMF IAS, 11th NCERT (Not 12th), Rajtanil Solanki Lecture Videos & Sudarshan Gujjar Lecture Videos.

Science & Technology: Vision IAS Current Affairs, Biology NCERT, Shivin Chaudhary Course on EdSarrthi, Sunya Current Affairs & Lucent.

Current Affairs: Newspaper + Coaching Magazine (60.5%), Only Coaching Magazine (30.3%) & Only Newspaper (9.2%)

Which Magazine: Vision PT365, Vision Monthly, Sunya & Insight IAS

• Ideally, one shall cover at least 1 year of current affairs given the recent trend of current based questions in 2016, 2017 and 2018 prelims. If you haven’t covered the same via newspapers, do it from vision or insights.
• As prelims is in first week of June, one can leave current affairs of May or post 10th May.
• Practice at least 1 test per week i.e. 6*4=24 tests! That should be a good enough number.
• Revision is basis of everything when it comes to CSE. One has to revise the static, current and test notes at least 3 times.
• Lastly, make a daily-weekly-monthly timetable and set milestones according to your own capacity. Just remember that course has to be done thrice in 6 months.

RELATED LINKS

• Current Affairs Preparation
• Prelims Preparation and more: Nand Kishore Mewara Former IRS, IPS and Now IAS.
• Shreyans Kumat AIR-4: Prelims Journey — Strategy & Motivation
• Prelims Strategy A2Z
• Prelims Strategies
• My A2Z Mains Strategy that helped crack 4/4 MAINS.

ATB!!!