GS-2 Strategy and Polity Notes : Saikaran Nandala

GS-2 Strategy:

GS-2 of late has become very scoring. Also, there is a recent trend that questions instead of being current affairs orineted has becoming more & more of conceptual oriented which requires strong fundamentals and core knowledge (especially polity part). So, it is better to have depth in understanding.

My scores:

2022: 102

2023: 125

Resources:

1.Polity: Laxmikanth ( basic book, won't be enough for Mains), Vision VAM, onlyIAS Prahaar( used after 2022 Mains for value addition), Mains365

2. Governance, Social Justice & IR : Vision VAM, onlyIAS prahaar(after 2022 attempt), Mains365

My Approach:

1. Polity: I followed integrated approach for Prelims & Mains initially. Read Laxmikanth & complemented with analytical views given in Vision VAM. After reading couple of times, started looking at PYQ(both prelims & mains). Then tried to make concise topic-wise notes, couldn't do much for 2022 attempt. Then, I worked on completing my notes immediately after 2002 Mains. The notes I'm attaching here are not made in single-sitting, they are done over multiple iterations till 2023 Mains over 2 years. I used onlyIAS Prahaar notes to find for any dimensions & value-add.

2. Governance,Social Justice & IR: majorly read Vision VAM and analysed PYQ. also, refer to the current affairs. this would be enough I guess.

GS2_Polity Notes:

These are very comprehensive notes covering all the syllabus topics which I made over the course of 2-2.5 years

Value addition for GS2- compiled one week before Mains.

use it as reference on how to note all Value addition & revise it multiple times before final exam.