CSE 2022 Preparation

Similar situation. Let's start together?

Following Vision Test Series Schedule for GS. We can revise and discuss things every Sunday. The first 8 tests are fundamental ones and the rest 14 are advanced levels.

1. Apr 4: Constitution and Polity
2. Apr 11: Geography
3. Apr 18: History
4. Apr 25: Economics 1
5. May 2: Economics 2
6. May 9: Environment and Disaster Management
7. May 16: Governance and Society
8. May 23: Ethics, Integrity, and Aptitude
   
   Advanced Tests:
9. May 30: Polity and Governance 1 
   
10. Jun 6: Polity and Governance 2
11. Jun 13: History (Modern and Art & Culture)
12. Jun 20: World History and Post Independence India
13. Jun 27: Physical Geography and Disaster Management
    
14. Jul 4: Human Geography and Environment
15. Jul 11: Economics 1
16. Jul 18: Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude 1
17. Jul 25: Economics 2
18. Aug 1: Society and Social Justice
19. Aug 8: Ethics, Integrity, and Aptitude 1
20. Aug 15: International Relations
21. Aug 22: Security
22. Aug 29: Technology

For current affairs, I am going through important articles of The Hindu and Explained page of Indian Express. Apart from this, I am listening to Mrunal's daily newspaper summary. For notes, I am following multiple sources like Insights Daily CA, Civilsdaily Editorial Summary, Sleepyclasses, Rau's IAS, Shankar IAS daily news summary videos.

Doing multiple sources but in this way, I am getting multiple dimensions and approach towards the important articles of the news and it becomes easy to take notes and retain them. 
This takes almost 3 hrs daily. 

Sociology Weekly Targets (Day wise):

1. (a) Karl Marx- Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle.
2. (b) Emile Durkheim- Division of labour, social fact, suicide, religion and society.
3. (c) Max Weber- Social action, ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
4. (d) Talcolt Parsons- Social system, pattern variables.
5. (e) Robert K. Merton- Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance, reference groups
6. (f) Mead - Self and identity.
7. Revision and Answer Writing

GS Weekly Targets (Day wise):

1. NCERT Class XI
2. Laxmikanth Chapter 3, 4, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14
3. Laxmikanth Chapter 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
4. Laxmikanth Chapter 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30
5. Laxmikanth Chapter 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39
6. Laxmikanth Chapter 51, 54, 55, 56, 69, 70, 77
7. Revision and Answer Writing

Laxmikanth Other Chapters (Later - Week 9 / Week 10):

1. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 (5)
2. 9, 10, 16, 29, 36, 37 (6)
3. 40 - 50 (11)
4. 52, 53, 78, 79, 80 (5)
5. 57 - 68 (12)
6. 71 - 76 (6)
7. Revision and Answer Writing

@chitti19 Yes, this is becoming a bit time taking but I want to finish the syllabus quickly and then revise it multiple times. Also, I am only sticking to Sleepy Classes videos and reading Ritzer/Haralambos correspondingly. For thinkers:

Ritzer:

• Chapter 2: Karl Marx
• Chapter 3: Emile Durkheim
• Chapter 4: Marx Weber
• Chapter 10: Symbolic Interactionism
• Functionalism and Neo Functionalism from other chapters.

Haralambos:

• Chapter 0: Introduction
• Chapter 15: Sociological Theory (pages 953-998, 1013-1015)

I think this much content along with Sleepy Classes videos can be done in a week.