Resources - Jayasree Pradhan Rank 52

Resources I used:

1. Ancient History- Class VI NCERT, Class XII Part I NCERT

2. Medieval History- Class VII NCERT, Class XII Part II NCERT

3. Art and Culture- watched the Nithin Singhania marathon session conducted by Unacademy on YouTube and made notes out of it.

Also first 20 pages or so of Lucent.

4. Modern History- Spectrum

5. Geography- Class XI and XII NCERT.

6. Polity- M. Laxmikanth

7. IR and Governance- Current affairs.

8. Economics- Class XI Macroeconomics (NCERT), Mrunal Sir's notes

9. Environment- Shankar IAS

10. Science and Technology- Made small notes of Class VI- X NCERT, current affairs.

Current affairs source:

1. Newspaper: I used to read The Hindu in my first attempt but then I switched to The Indian Express in my second one.

2. Monthly Vision IAS magazines

3. PT365 and Mains 365

For other miscellaneous topics in mains, including Society, I referred a lot to online material. No specific source as such. Shivin Sir's notes have been helpful in this regard.