GETTING THE BASICS RIGHT – FROM WHERE AND HOW TO BEGIN The base development phase has to be strong. This phase includes studying the basic books and developing the right techniques for things such as books reading, newspaper / magazine reading, using the internet, reports reading etc. UPSC questions will not be from this level, but if we don’t get this right, we won’t get the subsequent phases right. The idea is – our base should be so strong that when we study the higher things, we should be able to understand them straightaway. If our base is not strong, then we would have to keep revisiting it and will waste a lot of time. A good base means we should not feel the need of ever revisiting the basic books again.
Basic Books: In this phase we should cover all the basic books. These include: – Bipin Chandra for Indian freedom. – DD Basu for Indian constitution. – Class 11th and 12th old ncert textbooks: 3 in Geography (1 physical, 1 India, 1 economic), 3 in History (Ancient and medieval for the culture, philosophy part only, and the modern one for modern history) – Class 9th and 10th Science old ncerts (specially the biology part) We must prepare notes in our own language when we read these books and not merely underline for reasons mentioned later. Once we do this strongly, we will also realize we won’t need to prepare much for prelims as well!
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