Swati Sharma BOOKLIST FOR PRELIMS-

MY BOOKLIST FOR PRELIMS-

POLITY-

NCERTs (11, 12th), Laxmikant (I cannot recall how many revisions I did of this book)

HISTORY-

Ancient- R S Sharma

Medieval- Satish Chandra

Modern- Spectrum, Bipan Chandra History of Modern India(Orient Blackswan)

NCERTs (6-12th)

ART & CULTURE-

Nitin Singhania

NCERT- Fine arts

GEOGRAPHY-

NCERTs (9-12th), G C Leong

Rajtanil Ma'am videos on Youtube for anything that I didn't get.

ECONOMY-

NCERTs (9-12th), Ramesh Singh

ENVIRONMENT-

Shankar IAS, Biology (last 4 chapters)

SCIENCE-

NCERTs (6-10th selective chapters)- refer to PYQs

CURRENT AFFAIRS-

The Hindu/Indian Express, Vision IAS Monthly magazine.

PYQs are the most reliable and important source for doing prelims preparation.