 Old NCERTs and Bipan Chandra Freedom Struggle- History

 11th NCERT and Lakshmikant- Polity

 11th/12th NCERT’s, Economic Survey and Ramesh Singh- Economy
 New NCERT’s and G.C Leong- Geography
 New NCERT’s- Basic Science (Rest will be covered in VAN and Babapedia)
 NCERT 12th Biology+ Shankar IAS- Environment
 India Year Book
 Old NCERT + Norman Lowe-World History
 ARC Report+ Lexicon- Ethics- That’s it (Rest Value Adds and Babapedia will fill the
gaps)
 Old NCERT + Norman Lowe-World History– For both Prelims and Mains- High
quality VAN will be provided
 HISTORY
 Modern India
o Tamil Nadu Edition- 12th
o Old NCERT- 12th, Bipan Chandra
o Freedom Struggle by Bipan Chandra (Can also refer to Spectrum- Rajiv Ahir’s
Book on Modern India)
 Post Independent India
o 12th New NCERT
 Medieval India
o Old NCERT, Satish Chandra
 Art and Culture
o 11th New NCERT
o CCRT Notes
 WORLD HISTORY
o New NCERT- 9th and 10th
o Old NCERT Arjun Dev-1 Mrunal Version
o Old NCERT Arjun Dev- 2
o Norman Lowe
o 12th Tamil Nadu Edition
 India Society
o New NCERT Class 12th
 POLITY
o 11th New NCERT- Indian Constitution at Work
o Lakshmikant Any edition (Focus on Topics to be covered. Extra topics will be
covered in VAN)
 GEOGRAPHY
o New NCERT’s- 6th to 10th
o New NCERT- 11th, Fundamentals of Physical Geography
o New NCERT- 11th, India Physical Environment
o New NCERT- 12th, Human Geography
o New NCERT- India, People and Economy
o Old NCERT- Land and People
o G.C.Leong
 ECONOMICS
o New NCERT- 11th- India Economic Development
o New NCERT-12th- Macroeconomics
o Ramesh Singh- Any edition (Focus on Topics to be covered)
 ENVIRONMENT
 o NCERT 12th Biology-Selected Chapters
o Shankar IAS Environment Book
o UPSC mainly focuses on issues in current affairs so focus on Babapedia and
Tests sincerely
 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
o New NCERT’s- 6th to 10th
o Everyday Biology
o Everyday Chemistry
o Everyday Physics
o S&T basically comes from current affairs so focus on Babapedia and Tests
sincerely.
 ETHICS
o New NCERT Psychology 12th-MUST READ
o ARC REPORT- 4TH
o LEXICON