IMP: Civilsdaily IAS Prelims 2017 Test Series Module Launched – Click here If traditional wisdom is anything to go by, we should be writing a post on: “How Civilsdaily cracked 70+ hits on this IAS Prelims”, “How our detailed and unwavering focus on current affairs via newscards got was bang on the bucks this year” OR “How… Continue reading This Independence Day, break FREE from the Hoax of IAS Prelims’ Prediction

Previous part – Analysis IAS Prelims 2016 Q21-30 #31. International Solar Alliance and its structure This should be easy. Also – read upon the Dr.V’s tikdams that you could have easily excluded the second statement (which boasts of including all UN countries) IAS pre 2016 by Tikdams https://www.civilsdaily.com/modi-launches-international-solar-alliance/ https://www.civilsdaily.com/b2b-lets-know-more-about-international-solar-alliance/ #32. What do you know about the European… Continue reading Analysing the IAS Prelims 2016 | Current affairs heavy | Q31-40

Previous part – Analysis IAS Prelims 2016 Q11-20 #21. Purpose of Gold Bond Scheme/ Gold Monetisation Scheme? This should be doable for someone who has studied the scheme. Look up the infograph on CD Explains https://www.civilsdaily.com/story/gold-monetisation-scheme-all-you-need-to-know-about-it/ #22. Belt and road initiative is sometimes mentioned in news in context of which country There shouldn’t be a… Continue reading Analysing the IAS Prelims 2016 | Current affairs heavy | Q21-30

Hey guys, This is the link to the scanned paper – Click to download from Google Drive Now, for Dr.V to give you solutions and detailed explanations for the same – we would need some help in scribbling these scanned papers into a word doc! If we can have 20 of you guys to type… Continue reading Here is the scanned IAS Prelims 2016 – Now we need some help

Previous part – Analysis IAS Prelims 2016 Q1-10 #11. India’s first National Investment and Manufacturing Zone set up in? Ah! This is too much – we had nothing for you here. And we wonder if anyone did remember the states in order? We did briefly touched upon NIMZ while we were discussing TADF here – But no… Continue reading Analysing the IAS Prelims 2016 | Current affairs heavy | Q11-20

Hello, This is a very quick analysis of the Paper 1 – IAS Prelims 2016 which just went by. A Civilsdaily user tipped us about the heavily current affairs inclined IAS Prelims this year and we couldn’t stop digging into the Civilsdaily archives. We haven’t heard from most of you guys but we hope that… Continue reading Analysing the IAS Prelims 2016 | Current affairs heavy | Q1-10

He lived in a village near Aligarh and that’s where it all started.

Have you explored our stories off late? Over the last month, along with making the FLTs for the IAS 2016 aspirants (prelims.civilsdaily.com), we have been meticulously upgrading all our stories from NEWSCARDS -> CD Explains -> Selected Questions.  If you haven’t yet explored the feature (look at the animated image), we would request you to… Continue reading Understand News in depth – Revisit the stories!

  There’s a chapter you have left on the backburner – probably it’s one on the endangered flora and fauna and you had promised yourself to cover it as soon as you could. And there’s an optional subject that you needed to quickly revise on lest you forget the basics – after all IAS prelims… Continue reading How to Make Yourself Study When You Just Don’t Want To

As of now, out of the 1,000+ registered aspirants, 761 have attempted the Full Length Tests offered by Civilsdaily at prelims.civilsdaily.full.length.tests   Full Length – Prelims 2016 from Civilsdaily With almost a 100% certainty, we can assure that students who consistently improved their scores and hovered around 95+ marks in these FLTs should sail through the Prelims… Continue reading Attempt the CD’s Full Length Test Series – Don’t worry about the price

source If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse. You attempt the mock test and you see a question on Indian Classical dance which you think is an easy sitter but you just can’t seem to recollect. You feel… Continue reading Stop your Monkey mind and start nurturing your Ox mind

source Hi, I just need to say this to boost my motivation level (can help others too). As the prelims is approaching, i’ve more apprehensions about getting through it. And this is after the fact that I’ve studied not less than 5 hours a day (EVERYDAY without fail) consistently  for more than a year. Test… Continue reading This is the mark of a serious aspirant

Every year, we try to read the UPSC examiner’s mind to position our preparation on the right track and more often than not, the said examiners do allow us a window to take a detour through their mind and marvel at the beauty of the art of crafting questions by them. And the beauty lies… Continue reading Learn from your mistakes BUT don’t slack off while you attempt

You already have the Civilsdaily app, we believe. Over this last one year, you would have read a collective of 5,000+ newscards. Now is the time to go and revisit them month wise/ category wise. Use this demonstrated 5 step process to revisit your preferred news category month wise.  

I want to share with you all another episode that happened two months back. I was worried feeling numb you know the problem was i knew what i had to do what i need to do  but i was not able to do anything. I was just blankly staring at walls. So to all those… Continue reading Treat yourself at Baskin Robbins – Part 2

It was heartening to see that a few of you could connect with my day’s ramblings. Sometime such connections are nice to find and great to cherish. Also – the other reader who shared her drawing was simply amazing. Baskin Robbins anyday 🙂 I loved the story that she had crafted on that page. We all tell stories.… Continue reading Some Days, You Just Have Nothing – Part 2

Hello, It is usually recommended that you be well versed with the current affairs of upto an year back of your Prelims attempt. For those appearing for the IAS 2016 Prelims, we advise that you go through with current affairs from August 2015 – July 2016. If you have made your current affairs notes, revisit those bullet points.… Continue reading CivilsDigest Ed#7 released – Test Students get a FREE Copy

Read someone’s diary entry in your blog. And i turned around pages of my diary what i have for july this time. I want to share it with you I have nothing inspiring say but this exam is best thing that ever happened to me for i fell in love with it. This is not… Continue reading Treat yourself at Baskin Robbins

Yesterday wasn’t a great day for me. I woke up late after a lot of sleep. Wanted to cover something last night but slept over the open book of Indian Polity, which put me in a down mood. I couldn’t get focused to do any reading in the morning and so attempted the mock 8 only to… Continue reading Some Days, You Just Have Nothing

And in times where you fall more than seven times, you still need to keep standing up. It’s your drive to succeed that will make the greatest difference.