GS 1 Approach


GS 1 can be quite time consuming and exhausting because it covers many subjects that need to be studied from the basics from different standard sources. Below I list down my sources (only the ones I found useful) and also my notes. You may use the notes to get an understanding of how to make notes or even as your starting point.


Subject
Sources
My notes
Indian History
  1. Spectrum
  2. Themes NCERT
Pre 1857 (Coming Soon)
World History
Excellent notes by Mr. Bhavesh Mishra (If you read and revise this adequately, you don’t need to waste another minute on World History)
Ancient and 
Medieval History
  1. Old NCERTs
  2. Themes NCERTs (optional)
Art and Culture
  1. Vajiram Notes (try to get this, extremely useful)
  2. CCRT (optional, if doing Nitin Singhania)
  3. Fine Arts NCERT (very important)
Geography
  1. Mrunal Videos (best source)
  2. NCERTs (must)
  3. Vajiram notes (optional)
Society
Even though my optional was Sociology, I still made topic wise notes based on current affairs 

Some of my answer scripts
World History Test Copy



























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  1. Venkat25 June 2020 at 06:05

    Hi Dhatri,

    Hope you are doing great! I have gone through all your posts (Essay, General Studies 1-4). It's really amazing short notes (evernote). Appreciate and much thankful for that. I have few doubts, it would be great if you can respond here in your available time.
    1. After thorough reading of standard books for GS papers (1-4), the shared evernote shortnotes is sufficient for quick revision?
    2. Do you have any quick notes for essays for generic topics like Urbanization, Women empowermnet etc. If you have kindly share.
    3. Finally, please share the rest of the shortnotes like Pre 1857 (Coming Soon) and interview full transcirpt

    Thank you in advance. Looking forward to see you response.

    Cheers,
    Venkat

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    Congratulations ma'am..will u please share modern Indian history by Bipin Chandra book

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