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UPSC PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION TEST SERIES SCHEDULE 2018-19

TEST NO.

DATE TEST PORTION SOURCE

POLITY TEST – 1Political System PoliticalSystems:Various

Forms&theirbasicIdeas ConceptofRuleofLaw PoliticalSystemas

EnvisagedintheIndianConstitution

Indian Constitution HistoricalBackground SalientFeaturesofIC Preamble Citizenship FundamentalRights DPSP FundamentalDuties Amendmenttothe

Constitution

Current Affairs: July-2018

Political System VetriiPolityHandout

Material–1 NCERT(Social&Political

Life) NCERT–OurConstitution

atWorkIndian Constitution LakshmikanthRelevant

Chapters ConstitutionofIndia ClassNotes

Current Affairs NewsPaper(TheHindu) VetriiCurrentAffairs

Magazine PIB,AnyauthenticSource

HISTORY TEST – 1Modern India Part – 1 1501 to 1905) ArrivalofEuropeans EarlyEnglishWars-

Plassey,Buxar,Carnatic EarlyBritishEmpire-

CompanyRule Constitutional

Developments(1773-1858)

Post1858ReformsofBritishEmpire-CrownRule

Maratha&MysoreWars GovernorGenerals(Clive

toDalhousie) Tribal&PeasantUprising

till1857 Revoltof1857 SocioReligiousreform

moments ModeratePhase(1885

–1905)

Map: Africa

Modern India Part – 1 NCERT(OurPast-III),

ThemesinIndianHistoryPart-III,

HistoryofModernIndia-Spectrum,

IndiaStruggleforIndependence-BipanChandra,

ClassNotes

OxfordAtlas

GEOGRAPHY TEST – 1Physical Geography of the World OriginofUniverse EvolutionofEarth StructureofEarth Exogenic&EndogenicForces Climatology Continents&OceanBasins PhysicalfeaturesofEarth

-Plains,Plateaues,Lakes.

Physical Geography of the World VetriiPhysicalGeography

Book VetriiWorldGeography

Book NCERTRelevantChapters

TotalNumberofTests 27TopicwiseTest 18RevisionTest 4StrategicRevisionTest 2MockTest 3

Polity 3History 5Geography 3Economy 3Environment 3S&T,GeneralScience&IR 1

GENERAL STUDIES PRELIMS TEST SERIES 2018-19

Startson25thNovember2018HIGHLIGHTS: Totalnumberoftests:27whichincludes18(Topic-wiseTests)+4(Revision

Tests)+2(StrategicRevisionTests)+3(FullSyllabusTests)

RevisionTests–RevisionisinevitabletobecomesuccessfulinCivilServices

Examinations.Toinculcatethehabitofrevision,4RevisionTestswillbe

conductedandeachafterthreeTopic-wisetests.

StrategicRevisionTests:Thesetestsservetwoobjectives

Basedonpriority,certaintopicsmandaterepeatedandfocusedrevisiondue

totheirattachedsignificancetowardstheexamination.

Dividingthesyllabusintotwoequalpartsandcorrespondingrevisions

ensuresconfidence&motivationinyourpreparation.

TestswillbeheldoneverySunday[9:30AMto11:30AM](GeneralStudies)&

2.30PMto4.30PM(CSAT),followedwithdiscussionbytherespectivefaculty.

TestorientationoneveryMonday[5:30PMto7:00PM]

AnswerKeyswithdetailedexplanationswillbeprovidedimmediatelyafterthe

discussion.

Additional100questionswillbeprovidedaftereachTopic-wiseTeststo

ensurecomprehensive

preparation.(Additional

paymentforPhotocopy)

AdditionaloneFull

syllabusquestionpaper

willbeprovidedafterthe

finaltest.

Answersheetswillbe

evaluatedandmarkswill

bedisplayedintheblog

(http://www.vetriias.com/

blog/)withinaday.

DrinageSystem&Patterns CoralReef,Marine

Resources OceanDeposits,Ocean

Tides&Current Rocks,Soils&Minerals Biogeography

Map: Straits,Gulf,Islands,Seas

GcLeong–ChapteronClimaticRegions

ClassNotes

OxfordAtlas

REVISION TEST – 1TopicsofTestNos.1,2and3

ECONOMY TEST – 1Economy Theoretical Aspects & Fundamentals Growth&Development NationalIncome PublicFinance Inflation&MonetaryTools Banking CapitalMarket MoneyMarket

Current Affairs: August-2018

Economy Theoretical Aspects & Fundamentals NCERT-Macroeconomics

ShankarGanesh–IndianEconomy–KeyConcepts

ClassNotes



ENVIRONMENT TEST - 1Environment & Ecology BasicConcepts&

ComponentsoftheEnvironment

Ecosystem&itstypes PrinciplesofEcology TypesofEcosystem&its

lifeforms Environmentaldegradation EIA Environment&Health

Impact

Current Affairs: September-2018

Environment & Ecology Vetrii’sEnvironmentBook NCERT ClassX-Chapter15 ClassIX-Chapter14 ClassXII-Chapter14 ClassXII-Chapter16 ClassXI-ChemistryPartII

-Unit14 ClassNotes



POLITY TEST – 2Working of Indian Constitution and System of the Government

TheUnion TheStates Centre-StateRelations Inter-StateRelations IndianJudiciary FederalSystem EmergencyProvisions

India Year Book NationalSymbols Polity LawandJustice

Map: AsiaPhysical&Political

Working of Indian Constitution and System of the Government

LakshmikantRelevantChapters

ClassNotes

India Year Book AnyAbridgedVersion

OxfordAtlas

REVISION TEST – 2TopicsofTestNos.5,6and7

1 25-11-18

2 2-12-18

3 9-12-18

4 16-12-18

5 23-12-18

6 30-12-18

7 06-01-19

8 10-01-19

Fees Rs. 5000/-

For old students Rs. 3000/-

22 21-04-19

HISTORY TEST – 2 (ANCIENT)Ancient India PreHistoricEvents IndusValleyCivilization VedicPeriod(Early&

Later) Mahajanapadas MauriyanEmpire DarkAge(300BC-

300AD) GuptaEmpire PostGuptaPeriod&

HarshaDynasty

Map: NorthAmerica/South

America

Ancient India ThemesinIndianHistory–I NCERT11stdBook–RS

Sharma ClassNotes

OxfordSchoolAtlas

VETRII’S STRATEGIC REVISION TEST – ITOPICSOFTESTNOS.1TO3AND5,6,7&9

GEOGRAPHY TEST – 2Physical Geography of India GeologicalStructureof

India PhysiographyofIndia DrinageSystem&Patterns Climate NaturalVegetation&

Wildlife Soils&Cropsgrown Minerals,Natural

Resources&Industries

Map:IndiaPhysical&Political

Physical Geography of India VetriiIndianGeography

Book NCERT(VIthtoXth) ClassNotes OxfordSchoolAtlas

OxfordAtlas

ECONOMY TEST – 2Indian Economy ExternalSector PlanningModels,Five

YearPlans/NITIAayog NewEconomicPolicy-

1991 Agriculture&Aidedsector Industrialdevelopments Infrastructural

Development Social&ServiceSector CurrentEconomicIssuesin

IndiaIndia Year Book Chapters Agriculture BasicEconomicData Commerce Finance CorporateAffairs

Current Affairs: October-2018

Indian Economy

NCERT-EconomicDevelopment

ShankarGanesh ClassNotes




ENVIRONMENT TEST – 2Biodiversity & its Concepts and Disaster Mgt. BasicsofBiodiversity BiodiversityofIndiaandWorld FloraandFaunadiversity

ofIndia Conservationof

BiodiversityandNaturalResources

DisasterandItsTypes DisasterManagement–

Prevention/Rehabilitationmeasures

Biodiversity & its Concepts and Disaster Mgt. VetriiEnvironmentBook NCERT ClassXII-Chapter15 ClassXII-Chapter16 ClassXI-ChemistryPart II-Unit14 ClassNotes

CurrentNational&GlobalEnvironmentalIssuesRelatedtoabovetopics

India Year Book Environment

Current Affairs: November-2018




REVISION TEST – 3TOPICSOFTESTNOS.11,12AND13

HISTORY TEST – 3 (MEDIEVAL)Medieval India EarlyMedievalHistory DelhiSultanate Bhakthi&SufiMovements RegionalKingdomsof14th

&15thCentury TheMughalEmpire Marathas LaterMughals

Current Affairs: December-2018

Medieval India NCERT-OurPast–II&

ThemesinIndianHistory-II OldNCERT11stdBook

–SatishChandra ClassNotes



GEOGRAPHY TEST – 3Social – Economic Geography of World Economic&Human

GeographyofIndia Population,Migration&

Settlements Resources Irrigation&Agriculture Industries Transport Trade&OtherEconomic

Activities Tribes/Ethnic

CommunitiesIndia Year Book LandandthePeople CultureandTourism WaterResourcesCurrent Affairs: January-2019

Socio – Economic Geography of World NCERT–India–People&

Economy VetriiIndianGeography

Book MinisterialWebsites OxfordSchoolAtlas




HISTORY TEST – 4 (Art & Culture)Art & Culture IndianDanceForms(Classical&Folk) IndianPaintings IndianLanguages&

Literature IndianArt&Architecture IndianMusic IndianDrama IndianArts&Crafts IntangibleHeritagesitesofIndia IndianRites&Rituals IndianFestivals AncientIndianReligions&

PhilosophiesCurrent Affairs: February-2019

Art & Culture

CCERTWebsite, NCERTArt&CultureBook ClassNotes, NithinSinhania



REVISION TEST – 4TOPICSOFTESTNOS.15,16&17

HISTORY TEST– 5 (MODERN INDIA)Modern India - Part IIExtremist Phase (1905 - 47) EmergenceofExtremistLeaders PartitionofBengal Minto–MorleyReforms SwadeshiMovement,

HomeRuleMovementetc GandhianEra(1917–1947) Gandhi–Advent&

Acheivement RowlattAct,Jallianwala

BaghMassacare&KhilafatMovement

GOIAct1935(SimonCommission,RTC,PoonaPact)

QIM INA&SubashChandraBose TransferofPowerissues

(1940-1947) MiscellaneousTopics Organizations&Its

Founders Journals/Newspaper&

theirauthors CongressSessions&Its

resolutions

Map: Europe

Modern India - Part II NCERT(OurPast-III), ThemesinIndianHistory

Part-III, HistoryofModernIndia

-Spectrum, IndiaStrugglefor

Independence-BipanChandra,

ClassNotes

OxfordAtlas

POLITY TEST – 3Governance in India SpecialStatustoJ&K/

SpecialProvisionstostates LocalGovernment UT’s&SpecialAreas ConstitutionalBodies NonConstitutionalBodies TheUnion&Territories TheSchedule&TribalAreas PublicPolicy RightsIssues Pressuregroups Admin.Reformsand

Tribunals PermanentExecutiveOfficesofCentreandStates

Current Affairs: March-2019

Governance in India LakshmikanthRelevant

Chapters VetriiPolityHandout

Material–2 ClassNotes



VETRII’S STRATEGIC REVISION TEST – IITOPICSOFTESTNOS.11,12,13,15,16,17,19AND20

S&T / General Science and International Relation and Organizations TEST – 1

Science and Technology RecentDevelopmentsin

SpaceResearch DefenceTechnology NuclearTechnology,Nano

Technology,Robotics,Health&Hygiene

BiotechnologyanditsApplications

MaterialScience IntellectualPropertyRights

General Science BiologyinHumanWelfare HealthandDiseases

–Pathogens,ParasitescausingHumanDiseases,BasicConceptsofImmunology

Science and Technology Vetrii’sBookonScience

andTechnology MinistryWebsites Vetrii’sScienceand

TechnologyHandout

General Science Chapter-14Biomelecules

/Chapter-15Polymers Chapter-16ChemistryIn

Life-(XII-Chemistry)

9 20-01-19

11 03-02-19

12 10-02-19

13 17-02-19

18 24-03-19

14 24-02-19

15 03-03-19

16 10-03-19

17 17-03-19

19 31-03-19

20 07-04-19

21 14-04-19

10 27-01-19

MicrobesinHumanWelfare

ImprovementinFoodProduction

OtherGeneralScience

International Relations / Organizations Ideological&Political

Organizations Financial&Trade

Organizations Cultural&Religious

Organization India’sMembership

inInternationalOrganizations

RegionalGroupings(SAARC,SASEC,BIMSTEC,…)

BilateralRelationsofIndia(Economic,Defence,Cultural..)

Current Affairs: April-2019

Ch-6HumanGenomeProject&DNAFingerPrints

Ch-8HumanHealth/Ch-9FoodProductionEnhancement

Ch-10MicrobesinHumanWelfare

International Relations / Organizations Vetrii’sIRHandout ExternalMinistryWebsite

Current Affairs: March NewsPaper(TheHindu) VetriiCurrentAffairs


ENVIRONMENT TEST – 3Pollution / Climate Change / Sustainable Development IssuesrelatedtoClimate

Change ImpactsofClimateChangein

IndiaanditsMitigatingsteps Internationalconventions

andorganizationsrelatedtoClimateChange

ConceptsofSustainableDevelopment

ClimateResilientAgriculturepractices

Pollutionanditstypes ImpactsofEnvironmental

PollutionandMitigatingSteps EnvironmentalActs&

PoliciesinIndia

Current Affairs: May-2019

Pollution / Climate Change / Sustainable Development

VetriiEnvironmentBook NCERT/NIOSRelevant

Chapters ClassNotes

Current Affairs: May NewsPaper(TheHindu) VetriiCurrentAffairsMagazine PIB,AnyauthenticSource

ECONOMY TEST - 3Indian Economy – Contemporary Facts EconomicSurvey2017–2018 Bugdet2018-2019 SocialSectorInitiatives WelfareSchemes EssentialFactsofCensus2011

India Year Book Chapters Energy Industry Planning Transport

Current Affairs: RevisionTest(July2018-May2019)

Indian Economy – Contemporary Facts EconomicSurveyReport

2017-2018 Budget2018–2019 Vetrii’sGovernment

SchemesHandout

India Year Book Chapters AnyAbridgedVersion

Current Affairs: NewsPaper(TheHindu) VetriiCurrentAffairs


MOCK TEST - 1

MOCK TEST – 2

MOCK TEST – 3

CSAT PRELIMS TEST SERIES 2018-19

TEST NO.

DATE SYLLABUS

1 03-03-2019 Number system, progressions. Logical Reasoning –visualreasoning1

2 10-03-2019 Percentages,profitlossdiscount,simpleandcompoundinterest,Logicalreasoning–Directionsensetest

3 17-03-2019 Number system, Averages, mixtures and solutions,Ratio and Proportion, logical reasoning – numberseries, alpha series, coding and decoding, Englishcomprehension.

4 24-03-2019 MensurationandGeometry.calendarsLogicalReasoning–Cubes,visualreasoning2,Datainterpretation1

5 31-03-2019 Time and work, analytical reasoning – lineararrangement,circulararrangement.Logicalreasoning–BloodRelations,Syllogism,ReadingComprehension

6 07-04-2019 Timespeedanddistance,AnalyticalReasoning–Crossvariable relationships, Data interpretation 2. ReadingComprehension

7 14-04-2019 Timespeedanddistance,Heightsanddistances,ages,ReadingComprehension

8 21-04-2019 Permutation and combination, probability, clocks, settheory,venndiagrams,ReadingComprehension

9 28-04-2019 MOCK TEST I (FULL SYLLABUS)

10 05-05-2019 MOCK TEST II (FULL SYLLABUS)

11 11-05-2019 MOCK TEST III (FULL SYLLABUS) OPEN TO ALL

12 17-05-2019 MOCK TEST IV (FULL SYLLABUS) OPEN TO ALL

13 23-05-2019 MOCK TEST V (FULL SYLLABUS) OPEN TO ALL

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