Best Books For Upsc Preparations
The Union Public Services Commission is India’s central recruiting agency that conducts examinations and appointments to All Indian Services and Central services group A and B. These examinations are considered challenging to crack and require thorough knowledge in different subjects. Here is a list of the best books for UPSC preparations that present explanations on various topics and subjects and contain previous years questions papers.
1. Important Judgments that Transformed India: For UPSC Civil Services Examination
Important Judgments that Transformed India is a book that presents an easy understanding of court cases for information purpose.
It caters to aspirants’ needs of all competitive examinations and is mainly designed for UPSC Civil Services Examinations. It is valuable to other academics, legal students and general readers.
It presents the analysis of the importance of 30 landmark Supreme Court judgments and is a compilation of more than 90 judgements of main areas of conflict.
It is divided into introduction, background, arguments, judgments, importance and impact as various chapters for easy understanding.
It includes UPSC Civil Services preliminary and main examination question papers from 1979 to 2019 with solutions.
It also comes with mind maps of essential concepts, highlights of the chapter and explanations of important judicial doctrines and terms.
2. UPSC New Syllabus & Tips to Crack IAS Preliminary and Mains Exam- 2019
This UPSC new syllabus book comes with tips to crack IAS preliminary and main exam. It is a revised 3rd edition book for undergraduate students who are going to take the UPSC examinations.
This book has plenty of useful tips and techniques that can help you crack the IAS exam. It comes with a special focus on subject-wise planning for the exam.
This book contains the details of every subject topic relevant to the IAS exams. You can consider this book as a handy guidebook to refer through while preparing for the exam.
3. Mastering Essay & Answer Writing for UPSC Civil Services IAS/ IPS & State PSC Main Exam
Mastering Essay & Answer Writing for UPSC Civil Services Main Exam is a book that explains the structure of all 6 types of essays.
It explains the techniques of brainstorming and mind-mapping to prepare aspirants for spontaneous essay writing on any topic.
It explains all common mistakes and shows how to resolve them step by step. It provides a large number of quotations, anecdotes, stories, poems and studies and comes with many models of essays for practice and learning.
It provides many tips, ideas and suggestions for preparing the best answers. This book is written by Dr. Awdhesh K. Singh, a best-selling author, educator and former IRS officer.
This book is written in a straightforward language and shows years of experience in teaching from the author.
4. 27 Years UPSC IAS/ IPS Prelims (CSAT) Topic-wise Solved Papers
27 Years UPSC IAS/ IPS Prelims (CSAT) Topic-wise Solved Papers is a book made to meet the requirements of the candidates appearing for UPSC prelims 2021.
It contains topic wise practise questions and analysis of previous years’ UPSC prelims questions. It includes the latest conduct along with papers and detailed solutions from 1994 to 2020.
It provides in-depth explanations and easy understanding through the classification of chapters. These chapters are further divided into different sections for a systematic approach of study.
The chapters are presented according to the syllabus for UPSC prelim paper 2.
It contains topics like basic numeracy, general mental ability, data interpretation, decision making, logical reasoning and interpersonal communication skills.
5. 26 Years UPSC IAS/ IPS Prelims Topic-wise Solved Papers 1 & 2
26 Years UPSC IAS/ IPS Prelims Topic-wise Solved Papers 1, and 2 is the 11th edition of the book and contains papers from 1995 to 2020.
It is a thoroughly revised and updated edition that consists of past years’ papers for practice and understanding. It contains quality content and comes with detailed errorless explanations.
It is a well-presented book that is divided into 9 units, 39 chapters and 52 topics. It also covers 27 years of unsolved essay topics and 7 years GS main papers.
It is written by Mrunal Patel, a renowned faculty in the UPSC Civil Services Exam coaching field for over a decade.
6. All About UPSC Civil Services Exam
All About UPSC Civil Services Exam is a book that provides detailed guidance for the prelims, mains and interview. It helps in improving writing skills to strengthen essay and ethics.
It presents the relevant strategy to the new pattern and develops one’s personality for the exam. It includes tips for complete preparation of the exam and contains untold stories of success.
This book’s author is Nishant Jain who achieved rank 13 in the UPSC Civil Services Examination 2014 and obtained the highest marks in the essay paper.
He was awarded M.Phil degree from the University of Delhi and has served 2 years in Lok Sabha Secretariat before his selection in the IAS.
7. Crack IAS Prelims General Studies Paper 1
Crack IAS Prelims General Studies Paper 1 is a set of 7 books that are thoroughly revised and updated. These books are prepared with the usage of authentic data, and each book is divided into chapters for easy learning.
It contains the latest information with exhaustive theory for exams and comes with 2 levels of exercises with more than 4000 simple MCQs and more than 2000 statement based MCQs.
It presents a self-explanatory and easy-to-remember methodology comprising mind maps, infographics, charts, tables and the latest exam pattern MCQs.
It contains important questions from previous years, along with their explanations.
This set is developed by Disha Experts, which is a team of prolific writers. They have more than 30 experts with decades of experience in various academic and competitive exam verticals.
