(My own) Tina Dabi UPSC booklist for prelims and mains, GS booklist, optional booklist, political science, My actual booklist for my UPSC preparation. I because number one all over India because of these books and notes. I discuss what to read and what not.

Tina Dabi UPSC Prelims (csat) General study Booklist

I only read this class’s 12th ncert book for the Ancient part. I feel this is enough material for this subject.

Again I read the class 12th Medival history book and this book helped me a lot, I do not refer to any other specific book for this part.

I use both Bipin Chandra’s book and spectrum, One important thing is that after the end of each chapter spectrum gives you a summary of the whole chapter in revision points and this is very helpful because you can revise this summary and this does not take too much time.

For this topic, I use vajiram class notes, easily available on the market & amazon, but vajiram booklet is very thick that’s why I use vision ias, art and culture booklet. I bought it from amazon, vision ias booklet has only 50 pages and I feel this should be enough for the art and culture part.

Like another topper, I also feel that Laxmikant’s polity book is the bible for the polity part but this is not enough for the polity you have to read any current affairs book I will suggest you go for vision ias pt 365.

If we talk about the economy then I did not follow any specific book. I only follow Vjiram’s class notes, easily available on amazon. I feel that you have to read current affairs for the economy because the Indian economy and the world economy change every day and you have to be up to date yourself so current affairs are equally important.

I do not come from a science background so this part was quite difficult for me so I totally depend on vajiram class notes and current affairs. For science current affairs is the key.

For ecology, I prefer this Shankar ias academy book. If you ask me for a review of this book then I think this is enough for the environmental part but things are changing every day so current affairs are equally important.

Physical geography takes a little more time to prepare. I believe the class 11th ncert book is sufficient for this chapter, This book explains everything in a proper way with diagrams.

I only use class 10th and 12th ncert book and I feel this is sufficient for anyone and I did not prefer any other source of information.

Wizard’s geography launches a book in a very concise way, only this book I refer in my preparation also you can use this book for world geography.

I only use the current affairs booklet by vajiram and Vision ias, both are good. That depends on you what you want to use.

For scheme and polity, I prefer the newspaper. If you read the newspaper daily then you can easily cover this.

Tina Dabi (GS 1) General studies (mains) paper 1 Booklist

I use only these two sources vajiram notes and vision ias booklet. Vision ias book on art and culture is an amazing source for the culture you can use it because it has everything that you need for the culture part.

Use any one source for Indian history. Chose from those two books both are good but I prefer Bipin Chandra for my UPSC preparation.

This topic is very vast and completing this chapter is very hard that’s why I use vajiram class notes by Ojha sir. You can buy these notes from the market or form online, these notes are very good as well as these notes are to the point.

Again I use Ojha sir notes for Post-Independence.

I believe you do not need any other source of Information on this topic because Rajkumar sir notes are amazing and these notes are very high-quality and he quoted lots of things.

vajiram yellow book is more than enough for this part.

I depend on Vajiram yellow book

Again I have to say that I depend on vajiram yellow book.

For physical geography, I did not read any book but totally depend on vajiram yellow booklet.

I use Shankar ias book, it is very comprehensive book.

Tina Dabi (GS 2) General studies (Mains) paper 2

If you prepared the Laxmikant book during the prelims examination then just revise this book and I think you are good to go.

I am preparing this topic with vision ias handout notes and it’s in detail, at the same time it is very concise so use it.

I use both vision ias notes and laxmikant

Same as above

Vision ias did an amazing job on these topics because they provide you 5 to 10 pages handout, these are very detailed and I think do not need any special book for these small topics.

I use vajiram notes

for me, vision ias small notes are very helpful and you should use these.

Again I use vision ias hand out notes

I did it from The Hindu newspaper.

Vajiram notes are also very good they give you analysis and suggestions.

Rambabu sir from vajiram is an amazing person his notes help me a lot.

You might hear about Bijendra sir his notes also help me with this topic.

Shubra mam political science notes are also good. I strongly recommended you to take that.

I prepared this part from current affairs.

you have to read newspapers and current affairs.

Tina Dabi (GS 3) general studies (mains) paper 3 booklist

Small notes provided by vision ias

Sanjeev Varma provides you with coaching classes in case you did not attend then buy his book.

For both of these topics I use vision ias notes

Note of Shyam sundar sir is amazing. Direct question do come from these topics.

Again i use vision ias hand written notes

Sanjeed sir notes from Vajiram

I only depend on current affairs

Like many others, Shankar ias green book is the key.

For these topics use only one book and it’s vajiram yellow book on national security, it’s a very very detailed book and vajiram use diagrams as well I use this book for my UPSC preparation. I believe this is more than enough for these topics.

Tina dabi (GS 4) General Studies 4, Ethics, Integrity, Aptitude Booklist

It is a very tricky paper, people do miss this one but this paper can get you some extra marks. I completed this chapter from vajiram yellow book.

For these three topics, I use Pathak’s sir notes. He gives you all the important points and he uses quotes and his own comments. You can use them as your answer and that can give you god marks.

Fro these Two topics I use vajiram yellow book.

These notes of Bijendra sir are amazing because he compiled these notes from various sources so these notes are very high-quality notes so I will recommend you please go for these notes.

This is a very important chapter please do not ignore this topic, I ignore this topic for some time, and later I realize how much important this chapter was.