10 Must Have Books For Your IAS Preliminary Exam
Preparation
The
Civil Services Exam is inarguably one of the toughest to crack. The syllabus is
vast and sometimes it becomes a little difficult for students to figure out
which books would suffice. Well, out of the plethora of books available in the
market what not to read becomes more important than what to read.
10 of
the most important books that all serious IAS aspirants must read:
1. Old
History NCERT Class XI & XII
2. Old
Geography NCERT Class XI & XII
3.
NCERT Fundamentals of Microeconomics & Macroeconomics Class XI &
XII
4.
Certificate Physical & Human Geography by G.C. Leong
5.
Indian Polity by Laxmikanth
6.
Facets of Indian Culture by Spectrum Publications
7. The
Economic Survey* published by Government of India
8.
Indian Economy by Ramesh Singh
9.
Select few chapters from India Year Book
10.
Environment & Biodiversity book by Shankar IAS Academy
* Save all important newspapers published the
day after the Budget is discussed in the parliament.
How to prepare for General Knowledge Section for
Government , Banking & other PSU Recruitment Exams?
In
almost every Government, Banking & PSU Recruitment, there is a
separate General Knowledge section that includes Current Affairs, Static
Facts and State related General Awareness. Now since we have to consider
that almost every exam these days has sectional cutoff's, General Knowledge has
become one of the most important and integral parts.
But the bigger question is
:
How to
prepare for something that gets updated everyday?
Here are
few important tips :
Stay updated via Print Media - Focus on activities &
events happening on a daily basis, try to catch up with things that happen
around you. Reading newspapers and watching relevant news shows help you
stay in touch with them and consequently helps you in preparing for the
exam as well.
Topic Wise study - Static Affairs include a lot of
topics. Hence, its not a one day task to master them. The correct way should be
going topic by topic and storing the relevant topics gradually.
Read Books & Magazines - Figure out some good General
Knowledge magazines that interest you. These would serve as a repository of all
important and relevant events happening each month and consequently save time
revisiting important topics.
Prepare Notes : Various surveys indicate
that writing helps to improve one's recall. Prepare notes on a daily basis in
the form of important points and short summaries. There's nothing more handy
than notes written in your own handwriting.
General
Awareness topics likes dates , personalities etc are hard to memorize and that
can't be done in one day. It is a gradual activity and should be looked at
this way only.
Hence
study hard, learn things on daily basis, stay focused and improve
your chances to succeed.
