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Hi Everyone.
Im Khushhali
I’ve secured AIR 61 in CSE2023.
I have created this channel for sharing my notes,
strategy, optional insights and notes ( Public
Administration)
This was my 3rd attempt, 2 mains, 2 interview.
I’ve greatly benefitted from such channels of previous
years toppers and thats why wanted to share my own
stuff , including current affairs notes that i’ve made to
help out other students.
All kinde of doubts will also be addressed, probably via
zoom calls or telegram group.
Looking forward to connect with you all🩵

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Hi everyone. I'm listing all my associations with

institutes and sources (including coaching and books
read) that I've followed in the past 4 years.
Foundation course - Unacademy (online) from 2020
january till 2022 january
Within Unacademy -
1. Ancient History - Pratik Nayak Sir (2020 and 2021)
and Arti Chawwari Mam (2020)
Books - RS sharma (didnt read NCERT)
2. Medieval History - Pratik nayak Sir Notes (2021,
2022)
Books - didnt read any
3. Modern History - Pratik Nayak Sir Notes (2021)
Books - Spectrum
4. Art and Culture - Pratik nayak Sir's notes (2020)
Books - didnt read (Took help from Mehak Jain mam
notes)
5. Polity - foundation course from Siddharth Arora sir
on unacademy (2020) + Rakesh Verma sir polity and
governance course (2021)
Books - Laxmikanth 6th edition + Ncert
6. Geography - including Indian/World/Mapping -
Sudarshan Gurjar Sir course on Unacademy (2021)+
Rakesh Verma sir course on unacademy of GEDM
(Geo/Env/Disaster Mgt)
Books - Few chapters from GC Leong + Ncert
7. Environment - Rakesh verma sir course GEDM
(2021) + Sudarshan Gurjar sir course (including
mapping of national parks/sanctuaries etc - 2022)
Books - selected chapters from ShankarIAS book

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8. Internal Security - Rakesh verma Sir course on

unacademy (2021-22)
9. International relations - Rakesh verma sir course
(2021-22)
Books - Read few months 'the Diplomat' magazine
10. Ethics - Rakesh Verma sir foundation course (2020)
+ Value Addition course for mains by Peeyush Sir on
TheIAShub(2023)
11. Essay - Peeyush Sir Essay course on KalamIAS (in
2022) and TheIAShub(2023)
12. Science and technology - Rakesh verma Sir course
(2021-22)
13. Economy - Mrunal patel Sir Course on unacademy
(2020-21) + Rakesh Verma sir course (2021-22) + Special
classes of Mrunal Patel sir.
14 Society - Newspapers + mehak jain mam notes

Current Affairs -
1. VisionIas monthly magazine
2. Newspapers - ET, Indian Express, TheHindu
3. IGP classes of Dipin Sir at ForumIAS
4. Critical issues classes - rakesh verma sir

Sources For Public Administration

Coaching
1 Unacademy - Grajput Sir's Course (2020)+ Rakesh
Verma Sir's Course (2021)+ Pavan Kumar Sir's course

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(2022-when he used to be on Unacademy + read his

notes)
2 Some Free classes of Lukmaan ias - Ansari Sir
3 Mains Crash Course at Prodegy Ias (2023) - Ashutosh
Sir
4. Pubadpedia by rahul sir ( for current affairs)
Test Series
1 Lukmaan IAS - 2021 and 2022 (their model answers
helped in making notes)
2 Pavan Kumar IAS academy - 2022 and 2023
3 Unacademy - Daily answer writing practice by
grajput sir (2022)
4 Officers IAS Academy (Deepuk Sir) - Daily Answer
writing Course
5 GS score - Abhishek Saxena Sir - daily answer writing
course (joined this channel - although couldn't
participate much)

Material / Books
1 Coaching notes as mentioned above
2 Prasad and Prasad for thinkers
3 Radhabinod Aribam Sir's book (both paper 1 and
paper 2)
4 Mohit Bhattacharya (read it once)
5 Model Answer book by SS mohanty sir (this was a
gem!)

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Test Series
Prelims test Series - gave around 100 Mocks in 2022
( can choose many (and any) institutes - for practice) ;
While in 2023 - gave around 15 mocks (due to paucity of
time)

Mains test Series

1 Biggest credit goes to MMP (mains masterstroke
program) program for GS and Essay by Sachin Arora
Sir (and Qazi Sir) - Daily Answer writing (a free
initiative) - 2023
2 NextIas MGP - wrote few essay tests and GS tests
here - 2023
3 theIAShub - essay and ethics

Earlier test series (mains) joined in 2021 and 2022 -

1 Vision IAS ( 8 tests) - GS
2 InsightsIAS - GS
3 Lukman IAS - for essay and ethics
4 Unacademy -GS
5 kalam IAS - essay

Interview Associations - Gave around 20 mocks in 2022;

and around 15 in 2023
1 Samkalp (group mock, panel mock)
2 ForumIAS - panel mock in 2023 ; one to one with
ayush sir in 2022
3 Unacademy - Panel mock

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4 Chanakya mandal - one to one with Dharmadhikarin

Sir
5 Vajiram - One to one with Ravindran Sir (highly
recommended); ( Also gave panel mock - but I
personally don't recommend it)
6 Vajirao and reddy (panel mocks)
7 NextIAS
8 Allen IAS + 99 Notes academy
9 Civilsdaily
(Will add as I recall more)

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