Recommended books for Prelims
Hi friends,
Civil Services is a dream job for us. Every Success
story wake up with dream. A dream doesn’t become reality through magic, It
takes sweat, determination and Hard work/Smart work.
For achieving our dream job, First and
foremost thing is that, to know the Syllabus, then which material(s) is useful
for this and Strategy. I already posted Syllabus (You can Check here Prelims and Mains). 2nd step is that, which
material(s)/books are important to achieve target.
As you know that, Civil services examination
conducts in 3 stages i.e., Prelims, Mains and Interview.
First step is to Clear Prelims. So that,
here, we are providing books list that we have to read to clear first stage of
the Civil services. Please read all books which I mentioned below.
*** Here, We are providing links to buy books online from Amazon or Flipkart. No need to search in Online.
Paper 1
General Studies
Current events of national and international
importance- You have to read at least one
General news Paper (Preferably THE HINDU), One business news paper, PIB website for Union Govt. news, Yojana and Kurukshetra Magazines.
History of India and Indian National
Movement.
- A Brief History of Modern India (English, Paperback, Rajiv Ahir). It covers almost all topics about Indian National Movement. (Amazon / Flipkart )
- NCERT
Class XII - Themes in Indian History-I, II and III books
Indian and World Geography - Physical,
Social, Economic Geography of India and the World.
- Certificate Physical and Human
Geography by Goh Cheng Leong (Amazon / Flipkart )
- NCERT Class XI - Fundamental of
Physical Geography and India Physical Environment
- NCERT Class XII - India Physical
Environment and India -People and Economy
Indian Polity and Governance - Constitution, Political System, Panchayat Raj, Public Policy, Rights Issues, etc.
- Indian Polity by Laxmikanth. (Amazon
/ Flipkart )
- NCERT Class XI - India
Constitution at Work and Political Theory
Economic and Social Development Sustainable Development, Poverty, Inclusion, Demographics, Social Sector initiatives, etc.
- The Indian Economy (Amazon / Flipkart )
- NCERT Class XI - Economics -
Indian Economic Development
- NCERT Class XII – Micro Economics and Macro Economics
General issues on Environmental Ecology,
Bio-diversity and Climate Change - that do not require subject specialization.
General Science
Apart from these,
You should Practice Previous Papers book
(anyone) to understand the pattern of the question.
For review, You can read Lucent (Amazon / Flipkart ) or Arihant (Amazon / Flipkart ) General Studies books
Paper 2
General Studies
As you aware that, this paper is only
qualifying nature i.e., you have to get 33% of Total marks. No need any special
books for this paper if you have some basic knowledge in Quants and English.
Eventhough you might practice below two books if you don’t have confidence on
this Paper.
- CSAT for Civil Services Aptitude Test by Arihant (Amazon / Flipkart )
- General
Studies Paper 2 by Tata McGraw Hill (Amazon / Flipkart )
