{"id":21529,"date":"2018-06-14T12:16:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T06:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=21529"},"modified":"2019-05-23T14:26:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T08:56:15","slug":"abhishek-surana-rank-10-gs-strategy-and-copies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/abhishek-surana-rank-10-gs-strategy-and-copies\/","title":{"rendered":"[Strategy] Abhishek Surana Rank 10 GS Strategy and Copies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/academy.forumias.com\/#mains\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21058 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1005-x-100-pixel.png?resize=750%2C75\" alt=\"Mains Test Series\" width=\"750\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><strong>CSE GS-1 Strategy<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>GS1 usually takes most times of aspirant as subjects like History and Culture are highly time consuming but not really rewarding. I would suggest you to not devote much time to these topics as either the questions would be so easy that everyone would be able to write something meaningful or so difficult that most of the candidate will have no idea what they are suppose to write.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booklist<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>History \u2013 TN Board 11th NCERT, Modern Spectrum, Few chapters from TMH<\/li>\n<li>Culture \u2013 Nitin Singhania\u2019s handwritten notes+GK Today notes<\/li>\n<li>Geography \u2013 NCERT, G C Leong, Vajiram class notes<\/li>\n<li>Society \u2013 Vision IAS Notes, Current affairs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I made revision notes for all material. For Spectrum, I got the summary pages at the end of each chapter photocopied and wrote extra stuff on them for last minute revision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My evernote collection<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GS1 \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/gs1\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/gs1<\/a><\/li>\n<li>History \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/history\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/history<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Culture \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/culture\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/culture<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Geography \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/geography\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/geography<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Society \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/society\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/society<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><strong>CSE GS-2 Strategy<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>I use to think GS2 is one paper where candidates from Public Administration, Sociology, PSIR have a distinct advantage. But that\u2019s not the case really. The paper doesnt demand in depth knowledge. Although in initial years of my preparation I was a little afraid of the content but later became confident.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve relied heavily on current affairs, Vision notes and puri sir notes for this paper. In my opinion they are the key ingredient to attain a certain level of preparation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booklist<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Polity \u2013 Lakshmikant, M Puri sir\u2019s class notes<\/li>\n<li>Governance \u2013 Current affairs, Vision IAS notes<\/li>\n<li>International relations \u2013 Vajiram\u2019s class notes, M Puri sir\u2019s class notes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Try and make revision notes for all your content except Lakshmikant as it is humanly impossible to do for this book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My evernote collection<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GS2 \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/gs2\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/gs2<\/a><\/li>\n<li>IR \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/ir\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/ir<\/a><\/li>\n<li>National Issues \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/nationalissues\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/nationalissues<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Polity \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/polity-static\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/polity-static<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Polity -2\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/polityjudgementsnewlawsetc\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/polityjudgementsnewlawsetc<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><strong>CSE GS-3 Strategy<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>GS3 has scored comparatively high this year. It is difficult to point out a reason for that. Usually GS2 and GS3 have scored similarly.<\/p>\n<p>This paper has been one of my favorites as it contains diverse set of subjects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book list<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Economy \u2013 Sriram IAS class notes<\/li>\n<li>Security \u2013 Vajiram Yellow book<\/li>\n<li>Environment \u2013 Shankar IAS Notes<\/li>\n<li>S&amp;T \u2013 Vajiram class notes+Vajiram\u2019s yellow book<\/li>\n<li>Disaster management \u2013 Yojana\u2019s editions which comes once in two years or so<\/li>\n<li>Current affaris \u2013 Vision IAS Monthly magazine, Editorials from various news appers especially Livemint, Business standard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Strategy<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I made concise revision notes for all subjects except S&amp;T<\/li>\n<li>I drew as many diagrams as possible in the paper<\/li>\n<li>Kept my online notes updated via newspapers and vision magazine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>My evernote collection \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GS3 \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/gs3\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/gs3<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Economy \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/economy\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/economy<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Environment \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/environment\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/environment<\/a><\/li>\n<li>S&amp;T \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/st\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/st<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Security \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/security\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/pub\/surana90\/security<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>read more at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abhisheksurana.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/abhisheksurana.wordpress.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1529043928287000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHfWLjdyp9LGoR6F5Mtcoy2fdcytg\">https:\/\/abhisheksurana.wordpre<wbr \/>ss.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSE GS-1 Strategy GS1 usually takes most times of aspirant as subjects like History and Culture are highly time consuming but not really rewarding. I would suggest you to not devote much time to these topics as either the questions would be so easy that everyone would be able to write something meaningful or so&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/abhishek-surana-rank-10-gs-strategy-and-copies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Strategy] Abhishek Surana Rank 10 GS Strategy and Copies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":19909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,28,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mains","category-preparation-strategy","category-public","category-toppers-story","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IAS-RANK-10ABHISHEK-SURANA.jpg?fit=1024%2C800&ssl=1","views":{"total":16279,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}