Success in civil services examination depends on a right mix of good strategy, optimal hard work, and a little luck. IAS preparation is just like moving a boat in a large ocean. This ocean is filled with huge number of coaching institutes, unverified online contents, endless photocopies, and the social apps like Telegram, WhatsApp & Facebook etc. Unless you know your coordinates, you will be lost forever. Here I am going to discuss about certain points that will give right direction to your preparation.
Analyse – know which topics to prepare
The first and the foremost step is to analyse the UPSC Syllabus and Previous Year Qs (PYQs) very deeply. A careful analysis of these two will help you to make a list of topics that are to be prepared for civil services exam. We have prepared a list of 358 Topics (in total) that need to be prepared for this exam including all the three stages – prelims, mains and interview (list is given at the end of this article). However, you must not skip this step of analysing yourself even if you follow this list given by us. This analysis will build your long-term skills of preparing smartly.