Candidates have to start gathering information from broadsheets such as The Hindu,

Frontline, World Focus, India Year Book, Economic Survey and Yojana, says Mr.Ravindran.
Such experts also stress the need for All India Radio news analysis at 9.15 p.m., the audio
recording of such analyses on the AIR website, panel discussions and expert opinion at Lok
Sabha TV.
Newly added topics such as biodiversity, climate change, environment and sustainable
development carry around 15 marks in the prelims.
News coverage and editorial pertaining to important developments and conferences on these
topics have to be read thoroughly.
Stress should be on the Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) as the potential for scoring is
likely to be high in the paper.
The most important reason is that scoring more than 95 in general studies will be tough even
with thorough reading of the entire syllabus. So candidates have to try and score at least 125
in CSAT for a decent score in the prelims.