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Around 50 days are left now in IAS Prelims Examination to take place. At this point candidates should totally forget about the Mains Exam and should focus only on the preparation of IAS Preliminary exam. The notification issued by IAS does not mention the syllabus for the prelims examination, but for proper preparation, they really need to know the syllabus for the same. In the notification, they only give the outline of the syllabus like History of India, Geography of India, etc. This article will help you in knowing about the syllabus and preparation strategy for the examination.
Factual Information forms the basis of the examination. No analysis, evaluation and discussion can be made without the factual information. To infer the validity of the information provided by them, they need to support their answers with factual information like legal, social and economic background. As now only 50 days are left, candidates need to revise the syllabus which they have already prepared. They should practice the questions more and more. They have to come out of their comfort zone and have to study more and more in order to crack the exam.
They should start interlinking the concepts prepared by them with the previous year’s question papers and mock test papers. They should follow the tips shared by the IAS Toppers in their interviews, this will help them out very much in their preparation. Now they should start revising Indian Polity concepts and in order to attempt the tricky questions based on current issues, they need to start doing the analysis of the current affairs. The most important areas, which should candidates focus on are Indian Polity, Indian Economy, Indian Geography and Current Affairs.
In order to crack the examination focus more on Modern History section as mostly questions are framed on the topics from Indian Freedom Struggle. Candidates need to prepare below discussed topics properly:
To attempt well the questions from this section, prepare well Physical Geography NCERT, Concepts related to Monsoon in India, Geo Ching Leong Certificate Geography, River tributaries and origins, list of the National Parks, Lakes, Climate Types in India, Variety of crops & soil, Water Distribution in India, List of Tiger Reserves, Proposed and new tiger reserves, Water ways, List of Elephant Reserves, National Highways, etc.
River and the Floods, Earthquakes, Interior of Earth, Mountain Peaks and locations, Mineral Producing countries, Top five longest rivers, Ocean Currents, Oceans and the Seas, Mountain Ranges of Continents, Major grasslands, Types of Grasslands, Atmosphere and its components and other similar topics.
For this section, candidates need to pay special attention to Macro Economics of India, Bank rate in their relation with money flow in India. Features and concepts related to Capital Goods, Development of Indian Economy since Independence, Inflation, etc. Other topics, which are important are:
Apart from Indian Constitution, recently formed legislations should be prepared, Doctrines of basic structure is also important.
For this section, candidates should prepare well the Basic UN Conferences, which took place in the last 25 years. They should focus more on the recently help UN conferences. Prepare well the definitions of Environment and Ecology. Go through the Protocols related to Climate Change, Wetland, Indian Initiatives, Initiative recently made by International Institutions.
For this section, this is important to learn the peculiar features of each and every dance of India. In addition to this, the architectural and painting forms are also important. Rituals and temples of India are other significant topics.
This part of current affairs is the most uncertain and tricky part of the IAS Preliminary Exam. Today, in this exam every topic is asked and covered with every minute detail, so it becomes difficult to cover every topic. Every topic has to be covered in detail with both horizontal and vertical details. So, the preparation of the current affairs is really a big task.
For preparing this section, candidates should follow one standard book, which contains current affairs up to June 2016. Special attention should be paid by the candidates to the Government initiatives taken at economical, social, infrastructural level, etc.
They should also pay focus to the visits of Prime Minister to different countries and treaties signed by him. Apart from this, they should prepare:
If candidates utilize properly the last 50 days left for IAS Prelims, then their chances of getting success in the examination increased manifolds. Apart from this, the candidates need to stay focused and confident in order to achieve success in the test.