About IASToppers Strategy

IASToppers’ Strategy section provides you a detailed and analytical series of articles on various aspects of UPSC Civil Services, also known as IAS exam preparation. It is a series of 9 articles on how to prepare for Civil Services exam right from the beginning. They provide you every facets of your preparation like How to approach exam, analysis of the previous years exam, trends of the exam, syllabus of the exam, suggested reading for Prelims, Mains & Interview etc.

IASToppers Strategy is a sincere efforts by our team to guide you in your entire preparation journey.

Various Parts of the Strategy include:

Part-1 Preface to the Strategy of UPSC Civil Services Examination

Part-2 Some common exam related Myths and their Clarifications

Part-3 Enter The Cave. Preliminary Examination: Trend Analysis & Suggested Booklist

Part-4 Mains General Studies Paper 1 & 2: Trend Analysis & Suggested Booklist

Part-5 Mains General Studies Paper 3 & 4: Trend Analysis & Suggested Booklist

Part-6 Current Affairs (Pre+Mains) and How to read Newspaper?

Part-7 Optional Subject and Essay Paper. Game-changing Papers

Part-8 Time Management and Other Vital Issues

Part-9 How To Become IAS While Doing Job: Exclusive Strategy For Working Professionals

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Part-5 Mains General Studies Paper 3 & 4: Trend Analysis & Suggested Booklist

By IT's Research & Analysis Wing

May 02, 2017

Detailed analysis and booklist for Mains General Studies Paper-3 & Paper-4. Also, includes important tips for getting good marks in Ethics Paper

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October 18, 201917th October 2019 Current Affairs Analysis -IASToppers

Tulagi Island; Location of Soloman Islands; What is a waqf? What is a Waqf Board? Van Dhan Scheme; Van Dhan Vikas Kendras initiative; Food Safety Mitra (FSM) scheme; Eat Right Jacket and Eat Right Jhola; The State of the World's Children 2019; 20th Livestock Census report; Importance of Livestock rearing; Project Soli; GOAL (Going Online as Leaders); Merger of Manipur with Tripura; Rangdum monastery; etc.
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October 17, 201916th October 2019 Current Affairs Analysis -IASToppers

IMF's World Economic Outlook (WEO); National Medical Commission (NMC); Lithium-ion battery; Global Hunger Index 2019; Nobel Economic Award 2019; Randomised controlled trial; Microbial fuel cells; “One Nation One FASTag” scheme; FASTag; RFID tagging; Booker prize; International Booker Prize; National Blindness & Visual Impairment Survey India 2015-2019; World Food Day 2019; Flora Fountain; Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue; Our Lady of Glory Church; UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation programme; Development of minor ports; Maritime States Development Council (MSDC); India-Netherland relations; Location of Netherlands; Third India Energy Forum; National Security Guard (NSG); etc.
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October 15, 201915th October 2019 Current Affairs Analysis -IASToppers

Modi-Xi informal summit; What are informal summits? Mahabalipuram; Economic Significance of coromandal coast; Dark Grey list; Financial Action Task Force (FATF)’s blacklist and grey list; What are Non-tariff measures (NTMs)? Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report 2019; Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report (APTIR); 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; Erythropoietin; Nobel for Literature; Nobel Peace Prize; Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict; Nobel Economic Award 2019; Libra Cryptocurrency; Illegal uses of cryptocurrency; The Local Treatment of Urban Sewage Streams for Healthy Reuse (LOTUS-HR) project; World Standards Day 2019;
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October 14, 201913th & 14th October 2019 Current Affairs Analysis -IASToppers

Pattadakal; Exercise DHARMA GUARDIAN – 2019; “mHariyali”; Coalition for disaster resilient infrastructure (CDRI); Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT); Location of Comoros; Regional Comprehensive Partnership Agreement (RCEP); First National Diabetes and Diabetic Retinopathy Survey (2015-19); Chalukya dynasty; India- Sierra Leone relations; Location of Sierra Leone; Reform of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC); Asian Development Bank (ADB); G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance on Technology Governance; C40 Clean Air Cities Declaration; C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group; 30th International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction; Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030); 10th National Cultural Festival; Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav; Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat programme; SARAS Aajeevika Mela; Typhoon Hagibis; Difference between “hurricane”, “cyclone” and “typhoon”; etc.
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