Sources

GS-1 –

  • History
    • Modern History – Spectrum and PYQ
    • World History – Shreyans Kumat Sir Notes
    • Post Independence – Rushikant Reddy Sir Notes
    • Ancient History – Old NCERTs, Remaining topics from Tamil Nadu Book
  • Society – Shruti Sharma Ma’am Notes, Mains365, Rushikant Reddy Sir Notes
  • Geography – GC Leong, NCERT Class 11th and 12th , Rushikant Reddy Sir Notes
  • Art & Culture – Nitin Singhania Sir Handwritten Notes , PYQ theme-based notes

GS-2 –

For most of the part, I referred to Rushikant Reddy Notes.

  • Polity – Laxmikanth, Mains365, SunyaIAS Judgements booklet
  • Governance – Kumar Anurag Sir Notes
  • Welfare – Rushikant Reddy Sir Notes, Mains365 and DistilledIAS PYQ notes
  • IR – Mains365, Dipin Sir CA Handouts, MEA Website for keywords

GS-3 –

I majorly focused on low-hanging fruits in GS-3 like Agri, DM, Environment and Security.

  • Economics and Agriculture –
    • Jayant Sir (AIR-59) Notes, Mains365
    • MGP Booklets , Shankar Ganesh
    • Economic Survey and Budget (last 2 years)
    • Didn’t read much as my optional was economics
  • Disaster Management –
    • Shruti Sharma Ma’am Notes, Mains365 for latest updates
  • SnT
    • MGP Booklets, Mains365, Shruti Ma’am Notes
  • Security
    • Manish Sharma(AIR-307) Sir Notes, Mains365, PYQ theme based analysis
  • Environment
    • ShankarIAS Book, Mains365

GS-4 –

  • ConvertIAS PYQ Analysis by IPS Ankita Mishra Ma’am
  • Base Notes(will attach) from DK Balaji Book, this was enriched by Peeyush Sir Ethics Improvement Module
  • Used Topper Copies – Neha Bhosle Ma’am, Aditya Srivastava Sir, Aishwarya Sheoran Ma’am

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