UPSC CSE Preparation Websites

 

 By Reality Talks.

This  blog is going to be about the online resources that should be used for the preparation of CIVIL SERVICES EXAMINATION . Now i am comibining these websites specially annualy in different manner. Because internet has played huge value in adding value to notes and the entire knowledge for CSE. So, I hope that does value to your preparation as well and you gain from it.

So, Here are the different categories which will cover in this blog. And it is related to the UPSC preparation 

                CATEGORIES

1.Current Affairs 

2.Holistic UPSC preparation

3.General Studies 1 

4 .General Studies 2

5.General Studies 3

6.General Studies 4

CURRENT AFFAIRS

● First is about CURRENT Affairs which is purely about the day to day happenings and will tell you and will update you about the news. https://pib.gov.in/indexd.aspx The press information bureau and or the PIB is a website which will allow you to getting update what all is happening?  who is coming ? who is going ? Then what all government schemes are been launched their performances everything is very nicely analysed here and you will get if you subscribe here to the fee of ministry you will get it on your id. Then you can choose depending upon the syllabus of UPSC as well as be Previous year question then you can decide as you can decide as what is important or not? 

● So, The next website is the http://www.newsonair.nic.in/ this has all the programmes that are air on the national radio. Specially listen to the programmes news analysis which is 14 minute programme but has a good understanding about issues and you can hear it in hindi as well.

● The next website is https://www.gktoday.in/ . Here is used to solve the daily quiz which was there daily about 10 questions are posted and they are related to current affairs. So, its a good revision as well. The Rajya Sabha Tv youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCISgnSNwqQ2i8lhCun3KtQg is a wonderful source for covering your current affairs. The specially used to listen to the big picture and india's world which peoples are understanding of issues and the debates really help us.

HOLISTIC UPSC PREPARATION

Now, able move on to the websites which are completely oriented towards UPSC Preparation. So. there are three websites that have played a huge role in entire upsc preparation and have grown as an aspirant towards beings a person whose able to right good answers with a good knowledge base only because of support of these websites. I will say.

 The first is https://www.insightsonindia.com/

The second is https://iasbaba.com/

The third is https://blog.forumias.com/

● https://www.insightsonindia.com/ now the best initiative that i found of the  secure initiative where they actually give you questions daily and they also give the reference articles. So, its to read those articles first and then write your answers and then uploaded it on the discuss platform. So, i reviewed at the people's answers and the students reviewed yours. So, that is a good learning that was came from in. And apart from it there are daily current affairs and there is quiz, there are editorials, there is strategy. So, all of these things you can refer to from this website it is really helpful. According To Shruti Deshmukh, she also refer to all the last 6-7 test for the prelims examination from this website. It is really helpful.

● https://iasbaba.com/ Now this also help really well, The TLP programme  of ias baba is really good and they post questions and they categorised the syllabus first of all and according to that they post questions even the essay questions or essay topics are mentioned you are supposed to write answers. For Prelims, there are 60 days programme kind of a thing which they run or subscribe to all india series of ias baba as well. So, there as an interview programme which they used to post the questions for the interview. So, many such initiative benefit it from it.

●https://blog.forumias.com/ Another website which i like to mention is the Forum IAS Blog. Now the two things that you really regular following on this quiz first 9pm brief where the entire news of the entire day. They just provide and you used to revise it every single day and second initiative you religiously follow is the 10pm quiz they post about 6-7 questions you can solve those mcqs. Apart from that, there are motivational articles. These articles when you read it you feel on track with the EXAM with everybody else.

So, you could just take help from all these websites they will help you out to keep a track of your preparation and even you are away they wont let you feel that you are out of the race. So keep connecting to these websites. KEEP YOURSELF CONNECTED TO THEM.

 

●http://www.xaam.in/ Its very different kind of websites. So, they will keep you posted about important happenings some news and some digital versions of books are also made available here. Find some test that are available in DELHI. So, there are resources could be found out here on http://www.xaam.in/

GENERAL STUDIES PAPER 1 

Moving on to General studies paper 1. Now this not much which can be covered in this paper from the website because it is much of it is static part .Still in geography always fell that if you could get quality notes will be good.

● So there is the website https://www.pmfias.com/, here the provide very good notes. So, i referred to these notes for geography portion you can use it referon you can just see this selected topic from here. And the enivronment section has also been covered in details, nicely and understandable manner. So, you can refer it here.

Another two youtube channel which can be really helpful for geography.

Rajtanil Mam - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwDfgcUkKKTxPozU9UnQ8Pw there she has covered the climatology, resources sections very well.

AmitSenGupta Sir - https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealSengupta if you are getting bored reading ncert you can just open the AmitSenGupta Sir channel on youtube .He covered the ncerts of geography and he explains it very well.

These two channel enhance your understanding of geography.

● Now economic and political weekly is one such source can be useful for covering the society sections. Sociology students can enhance their understanding of some specific topics and in general for paper 1 in Gs1 for society sections you can study the articles on https://www.epw.in/ And it can also help you in general studies paper 2 as well as the political section. Very good articles are published here. It is authentic as well. So, you can refer to it here.

GENERAL STUDIES PAPER 2

Moving on the category of general studies paper-2. Here i will be tell you the different websites which can help you out. Adding value to your texts you read. For paper 2

● The website is https://vikaspedia.in/this is government own website, so it is really authentic the information giving here and they provide you government schemes and the objective of different schemes. So, instead of moving through the websites of ministry you can directly go to https://vikaspedia.in/and study the aim, objectives and other such information related to any grand any schemes of any ministry and they provided it  in one place and it is really helpful to cover issues of education and other such places where you want to coat the different schemes and  want to learn it. So, you can find it here.

● Now this website https://www.prsindia.org/ can be really helpful in covering the polity party of general studies 2. Here you can find the somebody of different bills that are laid in the parliament. Some of the objectives they also provide their own comments on it. How it is helpful. What are the negatives. You can find it there and they also compile different committees reports. So, any committee  which is found performed there report is summarise. You can read it from there. And any such resource related to polity or law can be nicely reference from here.

Moving on to the international relations part which is very much dynamic. So, i did not refer to any book for international relation. So i just relied on the newspapers that we read. Apart from that i also study from these websites.

The first is https://idsa.in/

The second is https://www.orfonline.org/

● https://idsa.in/ Now here they provide it very good analysis of any international event or anything thats happening on the international platform. The views are balanced. You can just refer for some technical terms which can be used in our answers are also used here and so you can go through the articles.

● https://www.orfonline.org/ Now this website of observers search foundations which is an indian thing tank is really helpful. They provide you with articles related to economy, international relations, hunger and education. Major important issues or event of the country. They provided there. There articles om technology as well you can just go through it.  Some of theses articles and views points at value to your answers. So, keep reading the views. And for international relation,  you can also goes to website of ministry of external affairs. They have compiled that how the relations are to different countries. So, that can complete your search.

GENERAl STUDIES PAPER 3

Moving on to general studies paper 3, you will find that this paper is very dynamic and different topics that are mentioned in the syllabus. If you cover it very properly the preparation of GS-3 are also very much organised and will become easy. So, trying be on attention the different topics categorised them pretty well.

There are some websites that can help you :-

First is https://www.livemint.com/

Second is 

● https://www.livemint.com/ now this website has a good article related to economy and you can either subscribe or you can just go through this website every now and then. So, these articles are provide you very good information and some arguments which can be used in your answers.

● For referring to specific terms which are there in economy the website http://arthapedia.in/index.php?title=Home_Pagecan be very  helpful it is maintain by an indian economic service officers and it can very really helpful to clear your concepts. They keep updating some new key terms like HAM, or any infrastructural models. I saw the definitions there and it was really nicely given you can refer to this websites for core concepts of economy.

● Now this websites, https://www.weforum.org/ I am referring it here because every week if you subscribe to post you some articles which are of the issues that are important at the global level. So, there are issues on unemployment, industrial revolution, related to technology, economy, education lots of subjects are covered. So, this websites is really helpful even for covering the sciencentic portion like artificial intelligence, biotechnology, etc. Its given very nicely. So there are also mine maps are also given on this you can refer to this website and it will help you learn alot.

● Finally, this website https://www.unep.org/ will help you to keep updated about the issues in environment at the global level and for covering the environment section for the different day like earth day, whatever keeps coming on they have good articles and quality content taken from here. This can be founder for your essay, your answers, your understandings in general. So, keep going through this website time and again. 

GENERAL STUDIES PAPER 4 

Finally moving on to general studies paper-4, Now this is an area which we feel that we  really can read from many websites and or internet but there are two websites which i would still like to refer here. That will help for your preparation.

First is https://www.skillsyouneed.com/

Second is

● https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ Now this is very unique website in a very  simple easy to understand language. They convey to your concepts honesty, discipline, leadership, working in a team, coordination, integrity and topics related to stress management, anger management, emotional intelligence it is covered been really well. So, you can refer to this website for your understanding these issues.

● Another website which i would like to share here http://www.oecd.org/ Now this websites is very good authentic documents related to public integrity, corruption, etc. And the terms and the way they write about it can directly be used in your answers. Specially, there is an document on public integrity i thought the they be concepts of corruptions and related to that issues recovered so well it.

So, you can just glance through websites and see what add value to your preparation of ethics and integration.

● Finally after all the papers, i will say http://www.niti.gov.in/ is one base line website which can help you to add so much to your preparation. Alot of it us given there. For example, Please do read the document the year action agenda given by http://www.niti.gov.in/. It will added so much fodder to your answers in your PAPER 2 and PAPER 3 and ESSAY as well. And specially i will also say there are different documents and public releases that they do with regard to any study which is conducted for example, the recent article on electric vehicles, biotechnology, artificial intelligence.

 Please go through them and I hope that they add value to your preparation entirely and you are able to gain there are also documents on the best of the entire country there.

So, those exams can be coated in your answers very nicely. And they can i probably feel can fetch us more marks.

" In order to reach somewhere you've never been, you will have to do something you never did".

At the end of the blog, i also mention that there resources that i have told you here is only and only because Shrushti Deshmukh followed this.

So choose what suits you the best because all the needs of a guidance. The needs of all the guidance are different. Choose what suits you..

All the very best to you.

Finally i would to say that you have to stay motivated through out the entire journey follow the resources whatever you get.

 Keep Working Hard.💓