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➢ Total 21 tests:
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• +4 sectional tests + 2 full length papers
• 10 short tests before prelims
• 11 tests after prelims
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 TEST SERIES SCHEDULE
Date Tests Syllabus Sources

7th June 2021 Test 1 Western Political Thought: Optional Reading:

Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Western Political
Monday
Hobbes, Locke thought by Prem
Arora & Brij Grover
(Short Test – 100 marks)

17th June 2021 Test 2 Western Political Thought: Optional Reading:

John S. Mill, Marx, Gramsci, Western Political
Thursday
and Hannah Arendt. thought by Prem
Arora & Brij Grover
(Short Test – 100 marks)

27th June 2021 Test 3 Political Ideologies: Optional reading:

Liberalism, Socialism, OP Gauba-
Sunday
Marxism, Fascism, Gandhism
Western Political
and Feminism.
thought, Political
Theories of state: Liberal, Ideologies by
Neo-liberal, Marxist, Pluralist, Andrew Heywood
post-colonial and Feminist.

(Short Test – 100 marks)

7th July 2021 Test 4 Concept of power: Optional reading:

hegemony, ideology and OP Gauba-Western
Wednesday
legitimacy Political thought

Democracy: Classical and

contemporary theories;
different models of
democracy—representative,
participatory and
deliberative.

(Short Test – 100 marks)

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 17th July 2021 Test 5 Equality: Social, political Optional reading:
and economic; relationship OP Gauba-Western
Saturday
between equality and Political thought
freedom;

Affirmative action. Justice:

Conceptions of justice with
special reference to
Rawl’sTheory of justice and
its communitarian critiques.

Rights: Meaning and

theories; Different kinds of
rights; Concept of Human
Rights.

(Short Test – 100 marks)

27th July 2021 Test 6 Indian Political Thought: Optional Reading:

Dharamshastra, Indian Political
Tuesday
Arthashastra and Buddhist thought by Prem
Traditions; Sir Syed Ahmed Arora & Brij Grover
Khan, Sri Aurobindo, M. K.
Gandhi, B. R. Ambedkar, M.
N. Roy.

( Short Test- 100 marks )

6th August 2021 Test 7 Indian Nationalism: Optional Reading:

Political Strategies of Bipan Chandra:
Friday
India’s Freedom Struggle : India's struggle for
Constitutionalism to mass Independence,
Satyagraha, Non- Indian Government
cooperation, Civil and Politics - B L
Disobedience; Militant and Fadia
Revolutionary

Movements, Peasant and

Workers Movements.

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 Indian National Movement;
Liberal, Socialist and
Marxist; Radical Humanist
and Dalit.

Making of Indian
Constitution : Legacies of
the British rule; different
social and political
perspectives

Salient Features of the

Indian Constitution : The
Preamble, Fundamental

Rights and Duties, Directive

Principles; Parliamentary
System and Amendment
Procedures; Judicial Review
and Basic Structure
doctrine

( Short Test - 100 marks )

16th August 2021 Test 8 Comparative Political Optional Reading:

Analysis and Comparative
Monday
International Politics: Politics by J.C. Johari
Comparative Politics: (Author)
Nature and major
approaches; Political
economy and political
sociology perspectives;
limitations of the
comparative method.

State in Comparative
Perspective:
Characteristics and
changing nature of the State
in capitalist and socialist
economies, and advanced

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 industrial and developing
societies.

Politics of Representation
and Participation: Political
parties, pressure groups
and social movements in
advanced industrial and
developing societies.

Globalization : Responses
from developed and
developing societies

( Short Test – 100 Marks )

23rd August 2021 Test 9 Approaches to the Study Optional Reading:

of International Relations: Andrew Heywood
Monday
Idealist, Realist, Marxist, Global Politics.
Functionalist and Systems
theory.

Key Concepts in
International Relations:
National interest, security
and power; Balance of
power and deterrence;
Transnational actors and
collective security;

World capitalist economy

and globalization.

Contemporary Global
Concerns: Democracy,
human rights, environment,
gender justice terrorism,
nuclear proliferation.

(Short Time - 100 marks)

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 30th August 2021 Test 10 Changing International Optional Reading:
Political Order: Rise of Andrew Heywood
Monday
super powers; Strategic and Global Politics.
ideological Bipolarity, arms
race and cold war; nuclear
threat.

Non-aligned Movement:
Aims and achievements.
Collapse of the Soviet
Union; Unipolarity and
American hegemony;
Relevance of non-alignment
in the contemporary world.

Evolution of the
International Economic
System: From Bretton
woods to WTO; Socialist
economies and the CMEA
(Council for Mutual
Economic Assistance);
Third World demand for
new international economic
order;

Globalization of the world

economy. United Nations:
Envisaged role and actual
record; Specialized UN
agencies—aims and
functioning; need for UN
reforms.

Regionalization of World
Politics: EU, ASEAN, APEC,
AARC, NAFTA

(Short Test- 100 marks)

17th October 2021 Test 11 Principal Organs of the Optional Reading:

Union Government: The Oxford
Sunday
Envisaged role and actual Companion to

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 working of the Executive, Politics in India by
Legislature and Supreme Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Court. , Current Affairs

Principal Organs of the

State Government:
Envisaged role and actual
working of the Executive,
Legislature and High Courts.

Grassroots Democracy:
Panchayati Raj and
Municipal Government;
Significance of 73rd and
74th Amendments;
Grassroots movements.

Federalism: Constitutional
provisions; changing nature
of center-state relations;
integrationist tendencies
and regional aspirations;
inter-state disputes.

(Short Test - 100 marks)

24th October 2021 Test 12 Statutory Optional Reading:

Institutions/Commissio
Sunday
ns: Election Commission,
Comptroller and Auditor
General, Finance
Commission, Union Public
Service Commission,
The Oxford
Companion to
Politics in India by
Pratap Bhanu Mehta
, Current Affairs

National Commission for

Scheduled Castes, National
Commission for Scheduled
Tribes, National
Commission for Women;
National Human Rights
Commission, National

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 Commission for
Minorities, National
Backward Classes
Commission.

Social Movement: Civil

liberties and human rights
movements; women’s
movements;
environmentalist
movements.

(Short Time - 100 marks)

31st October 2021 Test 13 Planning and Economic Optional

development: Nehruvian Reading: The
Sunday
and Gandhian perspectives; Oxford Companion
Role of planning and public to Politics in India
sector; by Pratap Bhanu
Green Revolution, land Mehta , Current
reforms and agrarian Affairs
relations; liberalization and
economic reforms.
Caste, Religion and
Ethnicity in Indian Politics.

Party System : National

and regional political
parties, ideological and
social bases of parties;
Patterns of coalition
politics; Pressure groups,
trends in electoral
behaviour;
Changing socio-economic
profile of Legislators.

(Short Test - 100 marks)

7th November 2021 Test 14 India and the World Optional Reading:
.Indian Foreign Policy: The Oxford
Sunday
Determinants of foreign Handbook of Indian

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 policy; the institutions of Foreign Policy -
policy-making; Continuity Edited by
and change.
David M. Malone, C.
Raja Mohan, and
India’s Contribution to the
Srinath Raghavan ,
Non-Alignment Movement
Current Affairs
Different phases; Current
role.

India and South Asia:

Regional Co-operation:
SAARC-past performance
and future prospects. South
Asia as a Free Trade Area.

India’s “Look East” policy.

Impediments to regional
co-operation: River water
disputes; illegal cross
border migration; Ethnic
conflicts and insurgencies;
Border disputes.

India and the Global

South: Relations with
Africa and Latin America;
Leadership role in the
demand for NIEO and WTO
negotiations.

(Short Test - 100 marks)

14th Nov 2021 Test 15 India and the Global
Centers of Power: USA,
Sunday
EU, Japan, China and
Russia.
India and the UN System:
Role in UN Peace-keeping;
Demand for Permanent
Seat in the Security Council.
Optional Reading:
The Oxford
Handbook of Indian
Foreign Policy -
Edited by David M.
Malone, C. Raja
Mohan, and Srinath

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 Raghavan , Current
India and the Nuclear Affairs
Question: Changing
perceptions and policy.
Recent developments in
Indian Foreign Policy:
India’s position on the
recent crises in
Afghanistan, Iraq and West
Asia, growing relations
with US and Israel;

Vision of a new world

order.

(Short Test - 100 marks)

21st Nov 2021 Test 16 PSIR Paper 1 section A (full length)

Sunday

28th Nov 2021 Test 17 PSIR Paper 1 Section B (full length)

Sunday

5th Dec 2021 Test 18 PSIR Paper 2 Section A (full length)

Sunday

12th Dec 2021 Test 19 PSIR Paper 2 Section B (full length)

Sunday

22nd Dec 2021 Test 20 PSIR Paper 1 (full length)

Wednesday

22nd Dec 2021 Test 21 PSIR Paper 2 (full length)

Wednesday

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