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Smart #Sources for #UPSCPrelims 📚

Smart source = Concise/Crisp + Easy Explanation + Highly relevant for #Prelims

(1/n) Polity

Primary: none other than Laxmikant

Supplementary: Finology Legal videos (not necessary; can watch some useful ones, not all)

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#BookDay2022

(2/n) Geography

Primary:
* NCERT 11th Fundamentals of Physical (80-90%)
* NCERT 11th India Physical (fully)
* NCERT 12th India People Economy (selectively; Ch 5,6,7)
* Amit Sengupta Geography Playlists (good for visualization)

Supplementary:
* Samjhao Learning Playlists/videos

(3/n) Economy

Primary
* Tamil Nadu 11th Economics (only Ch 7,8,9,10)
* Tamil Nadu 12th Economics (all except Ch 3,4,10,12)
* Economic Survey gist/summary videos (not full document)
* Budget speech

Supplementary:
* NCERT 11th Indian Economic Development (can be left also)

(4/n) Environment

Primary:
* NCERT 12th Bio last 4 chapters (13-16)
* EduTap UPSC Environment PYQs (Playlist)

Supplementary:
* Amit Sengupta Environment (Playlist)

IMHO, Shankar IAS is bulky, content-heavy and has poor Benefit/Efforts

Will post sources for History, S&T soon

(5/n) Modern History

Primary:
* Old 12th NCERT Bipin Chandra (OR) Tamil Nadu 12th History Ch 1-7
* New 12th NCERT P3: only Ch 10,11,13 + Ch-14 topic Why/How Did Partition Happen
* 4 videos

Supplementary:
* Spectrum: only 10-20%, for topics missing in above but frequent in PYQs

(6/n) Ancient, Medieval, Culture

Primary:
* Tamil Nadu 11th History (Ignore TN-specific topics not in PYQs): It will also cover Culture
* 4 videos (Don't read NCERT 11 Art & Nitin Singhania sir book)

Supplementary:
* NCERTs quickly, max 1 day, only topics not covered in TN book

(7/n) Science and Technology

* EduTap S&T PYQs Playlist
* IYB 2022 Ch29
* NCERT 12th Bio Ch 8,10,12: Leave highly technical or purely factual portions
* General Science: 3 videos (Marathon Class) by Exam Quest on Physics, Chemistry, Biology

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