2022 IAS Year Plan Manuj Jindal IAS

June - July 2021 Oct-Nov 2021

April-May 2021
Aug-Sept. 2021 Dec-Jan 2022

1. NCERTs -

Environment,

Geography

and Science,
1. NCERTs - History and

2. Newspaper, culture, Economics

CA 2. Newspaper, CA

Compilations
Compilations

3. Environment 3. Finalise Optional and start

other books/ it by June end

sources 4. Economics and history

other books

1. Newspaper, CA
Compilations

2. Optional prep and test

series

3. Essay test series — one

essay test per week

1. Newspaper, CA

Compilations

2. Optional Finish by 1. NCERT - Polity

Nov end
2. Laxmikanth and

3. Essay test series

my polity notes

4. Test series Mains 3. CA compilations

start in November
4. CSAT start in

5. Write everyday December

5. Test series Mains

1-2 per week

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Prelims 2022!

Feb-March 2022
June 2022

1. Revision of

Environment,

Economics,

Geography,

History and

2. continue Current

A airs

3. CSAT get done by

Revision 80 day plan
March end
for Prelims

4. Test series prelims

start in Feb

1. Revision

2. Don’t do tests in

last one month

Mocks
g 10 site
1. Last 25 years UPSC prelims papers — but careful about solutions, many
answers are wrong; available on Amazon

A. First do subject wise, then whole tests in last 3-4 months or after you feel
you have covered 70 percent of syllabus.

2. Insights and Vision test series for prelims — get enrolled in one and other one get
from market and study

3. Optional last 7 years UPSC papers — solve these and also do test series in your
coaching

4. Essay last 5 years UPSC papers; Lukmaan coaching essay test series

5. Look at toppers essays for guidance

6. Vision Mains test series for answer writing practice

CLARITY Addressing

topic defthy
simple breadth


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Checklist of Prelims Sources

1. Current a airs — VisionIAS, Insights, or GK Today compilations ...only

one; monthly compilations or weekly, do monthly diligently on time

2. Environment and ecology — Shankar IAS and Environment book by

Vaishali Anand and Majid Hussain

3. Polity — Laxmikant, My notes

4. Geography — G C Leong, Vajiram notes

5. Economics — Sriram IAS notes, YouTube lectures by Khan academy

on macroeconomic, Mrunal lectures

6. History and Culture — Bipan Chandra books, Nitin Singhania

7. Science and technology — Mostly current a airs and NCERTs as given

below

8. CSAT — RS Agarwal

9. Newspaper — read one Hindu or Indianexpress, don’t make notes, use

compilationsr

10. Notes — make for optional, not needed for other subjects. Focus on

answer writing, make checklists and lists of key things to remember

NCERTs

1. Polity — Class XI Constitution at work

2. Environment — Class XI Ecology

3. Science — Class 6-10

4. History — Class XI RN Sharma for Ancient, Class XI Medieval, Art and

Culture Fine arts book class XI, Living craft traditions Class XI

5. Sociology — Class XII Indian society, Class XI Intro to Socio

6. Geography — Class XI Physical Geography

7. Economics — Class XI Indian Economic Development, Class XII

Introductory Macroeconomics and Microeconomics

skip

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Checklist of Mains Sources

1. Current a airs — VisionIAS or Insights ...only one; monthly compilations

or weekly, Yojana Magazine — a must for GS 3

2. YouTube and Google — google and YouTube search for topics on UPSC

syllabus consistently, many current a airs questions will be picked from

there

3. GS I — Bipan Chandra books, Nitin Singhania, NCERT Indian Sociology

books of Class XI and Class XII, Physical Geography NCERT Class XI, GC

Leong, Vajiram notes, NCERT World History books class XI and XII, All

NCERT books for history,i sociology, culture and arts also, RSTV debates

4. GS II — Laxmikant, My notes, GS 2 110+ book, NCERT our constitution

at work class XI book

5. GS III — Yojana magazine, Niti aayog reports, Economic survey, Budget,

and current a airs, RSTV debates useful for this also

6. GS IV — Ethics lectures on YouTube by Michael Sandel, focus on solving

dilemmas, theoretical portion use notes by Vision IAS and Lukmaan case

studied
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7. Optional — As per your optional

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8. Essay — topper essays and test series by Lukmaan, Read past 2 years

speeches by the President of India and Vice President of India — great

topics of Essays themselves, Yojana, focus on structure and simple clear

essay

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