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WEEK
DATE
SUBJECT
SYLLABUS/SUB-TOPICS
Week 1
June 17 – June 22
Modern India
Freedom Struggle (1757 -1857):
• Battle of Plassey • Battle of Buxar • Anglo Mysore Wars • Anglo Maratha Wars • Anglo Sikh Wars • Anglo Afghan Wars • Anglo- Burma Wars
Pre Congress Freedom Movement:
• Revolt of 1857 • Revolutionary activities • Pre congress organizations and their
contribution to freedom struggle
Week 2
June 24 – June 29
Modern India
Establishment of Congress and Moderate Phase:
• Moderate Phase and methods of freedom struggle
• Development of Moderates and Extremists ideology
• Partition of Bengal • Swadeshi Movement • Emergence of Muslim League
Extremist Phase:
• Surat Split and Movement under Extremists
• Rise of revolutionary terrorism in different parts of India
• Annulment of partition of Bengal • Revolutionary terrorist activities during
First World War • Nationalist response to the First World
War • Freedom movement – abroad • Home Rule League • Lucknow Pact 1916 • Montagu statement • Montague Chelmsford Reforms
Gandhian Era:
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• Rise of Gandhian Leadership • Gandhi in South of Africa • Rowlatt Satyagraha • The Jallianwala Bagh massacre • Khilafat Movement • Non-cooperation movement • Simon Commission • Second Phase of revolutionary
movement • Nehru Report • Karachi session • Civil Disobedience Movement • Round Table Conference • Communal Award
Week 3
July 1 – July 4
Modern India
National Movement towards Freedom and
Partition 1939-1947: • Second World War, • Individual Disobedience Movement, • Pakistan Resolution 1940, • August offer, • Cripps mission, • Quit India Movement • INA • Rajagopalachari formula • Desai- Liaquat Pact • Wavell Plan & Shimla conference • Cabinet Mission • Mountbatten Plan
July 8th Full Length Prelims Mock test on Modern India
July 9th Full Length Mains Mock Test on Modern India
Week 4
July 10- July 13
Ancient +Medieval
Ancient India (Till Post Mauryan):
• Prehistoric period • Harappa / Indus Valley Civilization • Vedic Age • Mahajanapadas & Rise of Magadha • Iranian & Macedonian Invasion • Mauryan Age • Post Mauryan Age
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Week 5
July 15– July 20
Ancient + Medieval
Ancient India:
• Satvanahanas • Guptas age • Sangam Age • Regional Kingdoms • PostGuptaAge
(Harshavardhana,Pallava,Chalukya) • Bhakti Movement
Medieval India:
• Tripartite Struggle (Prathiharas, Palas and Rashtrakutas)
• Chola Empire • Rajput states • Delhi sultanate • Mughal empire • Maratha Confederacy • Southern Dynasties • Vijayanagara • Bahmani Kingdom • Sufi Movement
July 23
Full Length Prelims Mock test on Ancient and Medieval India
Week 6
July 24- July 27
Art and Culture
Visual arts:
• Indian Architecture (Ancient,Medival,Modern architecture)
• Indian sculpture • Indian pottery • Indian Paintings
(Ancient,Medival,Modern,Folk)
Performing Arts:
• Indian Music (Classical, Folk Music and other music forms)
• Dance Forms (Classical, Folk and martial Dance)
• Musical instruments • Indian theatre • Indian puppetry • Indian Circus
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Week 7 July 29- August 3
Art and Culture Indian Literature
• Sanskrit • Hindi • Telugu • Tamil • Kannada • Urdu
Religion
• Buddhism • Jainism • Islam • Christianity • Sikhism • Zoroastrianism • Judaism
Schools of philosophy:
• Orthodox and heterodox Schools
Other topics:
• Indian cinema • Calendars • Fairs and festivals • Science and technology
(Mathematics,medicine,astronomy) • Policies and programs of art and culture.
August 6 Full Length Prelims Mock Test on Art & Culture
August 7 Full Length Mains Mock Test on Art & Culture
Week 8 Aug 8 – Aug 10
Polity and Governance
Constitutionalism, Historical Underpinnings:
• Evolution & Making of the Constitution • Features and Significant Provisions • Political systems • Democratic & Non-Democratic • Parliamentary & Presidential • Unitary & Federal • Direct and Representative • Republic and Monarchy
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• The Preamble • The Union and its Territory • Citizenship
Aug 12 H Holiday on account of Bakri Id / Eid ul-Adha
Week 9 Aug 13– Aug 17
Polity and Governance
• Fundamental Rights • Directive Principles • Fundamental Duties • Amendment of Constitution • Emergency Provisions • Central Government • State Government • Judiciary • Parliament
Week 10 Aug 19 – Aug 24
Polity and Governance
• Indian Federalism • Local Government
Miscillenous:
• Official Language • Public Services • Tribunals • Special provisions for SCs, STs, BCs,
Minorities & Anglo-Indians • Rights and liabilities of the Government • Authoritative text in Hindi Language • Anti-defection law • Constitutional and non-constitutional
bodies
Week 11 Aug 26 –
Aug 31 Polity and Governance
• Ministries and Departments of the Government
• Pressure groups • Elections & political parties • Representation of People's Act • Election Process • Transparency & Accountability • RTI • Citizen’s Charter-Governance • Development processes and the
development industry- the role of NGOs, SHGs
• Role of civil services in a democracy
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Sept 2 Holiday on account of Vinayaka Chaturthi
Week 12 Sept 3 – Sept 6
Polity and Governance
• Important aspects of governance • Separation of powers between various
organs • dispute redressal mechanisms and
institutions devolution of powers and finances up to local levels and challenges therein.
Sept 9 Full Length Prelims Mock Test on Polity & Governance
Sept 10 Full Length Mains Mock Test on Polity & Governance
Week 13 Sept 11 –Sept 14
Indian Economy National Income Accounting: Concepts:
• GDP • GNP • Market Price and Factor Cost • NNP • NDP • transfer payments • National income at FC • Personal Income • disposable income • factors affecting national income • net foreign facto income
National income:
• value added method • income method • expenditure method • Application of various methods • Base year • GDP deflator and other concepts.
Capital Markets & Money Markets :
• Basic Terms and Concepts • Equity and debt Instruments • Primary market and Secondary markets etc
RBI and Banking system:
• Money • Banking • Central Bank • Banking Reforms
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Week 14 Sept 16 – Sept 21
Indian Economy Inflation and Employment : Inflation :
• Definition • Inflationary Gap and Inflationary process • Inflation Cycles • Demand Pull Inflation • Cost Push Inflation • Causes of Inflation • Inflation Control measures
Unemployment:
• Types of Unemployment: Structural, Seasonal, Frictional, Cyclical.
• Nature of Unemployment in India Government budgeting and Fiscal Policy:
• Budgeting • Fiscal Policy • Public Finance • Public Expenditure • Public Revenue • Sources of Revenue • Taxes • Public Debt • Deficit Financing
Week 15 Sept 23–
Sept 28 Indian Economy External Sector and Currency Exchange
rate • Balance of Payments • FDI • FII • Foreign Trade of India • Trade Policy • WTO related issues and India • Intellectual Property Rights
International Trade and Bodies : • IMF • World Bank • Bilateral and Regional Cooperation
Agriculture :
• Recent trends in Agriculture Sector • Cropping System and Pattern • Agricultural Marketing and Reforms • Agricultural Research
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• Sustainable Agriculture, Animal Husbandry • issues of buffer stocks and food security • PDS, economics of animal-rearing, Food
processing and related industries in India, supply chain management, Farm distress and government initiatives, Land reforms in India
Week 16 Sept 30 – Oct 5
Indian Economy Industrial Sector reforms and programs: • Industrial Policies • Licensing • MSME • Labour Reforms • Companies Act • Make in India • Skill India • Challenges in Industrial development • Organised and unorganized sector • PPP • Investment models
Economic reforms and initiatives post-independence:
• Government policies • Five year Plans: Priorities and
Performance, Issues related to planning, Economic Policies till 1991
• Economic Reforms since 1991: End of license Raj
• Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization
• Investment models
Oct 7- Oct
8 Holiday on account of Dussehra / Dasara
Week 17 Oct 9- Oct 10
Indian Economy Infrastructure: • IT • Communication • Urbanization • Transport • Mining, Energy • Ports • Roads • Airports • Railways etc
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Oct 12 Full Length Prelims Mock test on Indian Economy
Oct 14 Full Length Mains Mock Test on Indian Economy
Week 18 Oct 15– Oct 19
Geography and Disaster Management
World Geography: Physical Geography
• Geomorphology • Climatology • Oceanography • Biogeography • Distribution of key natural resources across
the world (including South Asia and the Indian subcontinent
Week 19 Oct 21 – Oct 26
Geography and Disaster Management
Human Geography: • Population growth and distribution • Urbanisation - Growth and distribution • Different types and patterns of settlements • Slums and Squatter settlements • Problems associated with Population and
unplanned urbanisation and its remedies
Mapping of the world Week 20 Oct 28 –
Nov 2 Geography and Disaster Management
Economic Geography: • Factors responsible for the location of
primary, secondary, and tertiary sector industries invarious parts of the world (including India)
• Distribution of important resources in the world (Including India)
Week 21 Nov 4 –
Nov 6 Geography and Disaster Management
Indian Geography: • Physical features • Rivers • Climate • Soil • Vegetation and • Natural Hazards and Disasters.
Important Geophysical phenomena such as • Earthquakes • Tsunami • Volcanic activity • cyclone etc.
Indian Mapping
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Nov 9 Full Length Prelims Mock Test on Geography and Disaster Management
Nov 11 Full Length Mains Mock Test on Geography and Disaster Management
Week 22 Nov 12 - Nov 16
Environment Ecology and Environment : • Ecology • Functions of Ecosystem • Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystem • Biomes • Environmental Pollution and Issues
Biodiversity:
• Biodiversity and Indian Biodiversity • Animal and Plant diversity in India • Marine Organism • Protected Area Network • Conservation Efforts
Week 23 Nov 18-
Nov 22 Environment Climate Change:
• Climate change and its impact on India • Ocean Acidification • Ozone Depletion • Mitigation Strategies • Government Initiatives • Climate Change Organizations
Agriculture:
• Agriculture • Acts and Policies • Institution and Measures • Environmental Organizations • International Environmental Convention
Nov 25 Full length Prelims Mock Test on Environment
Nov 26 Full length Mains Mock Test on Environment
Week 24 Nov 27 – Nov 30
Science and Technology
• Basic science concepts • Science and Technology • developments and their applications and
effects in everyday life • Achievement of Indians in science &
technology
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• Indigenization of technology and developing new technology.
Week 25 Dec 2 – Dec 3
Science and Technology
Awareness in the fields of • IT • Space • Computers • Robotics • nano-technology • bio-technology • issues relating to intellectual property
rights. Current affairs
Dec 6 Full Length Prelims Mock Test on Science & Technology
Dec 7 Full Length Mains Mock Test on Science & Technology
Week 26 Dec 9 – Dec 14
World history Important Revolutions :
• Industrial Revolution • American Revolution • French Revolution • Unification of Germany • Unification of Italy • Russian revolution • Chinese Communism • World War I • World War 2 • Cold War Era • Post-cold war. • European Unification • Redrawal of National boundaries • Colonization • Communism • Capitalism • Socialism
Dec 17 Full length Mains Mock test on World History
Week 27 Dec 18 – Dec 21
Society Salient features of Indian Society:
• Caste System and changes in the caste system in recent times
• Sanskritization • Westernization and Modernization
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• Religious diversity • Kinship, Marriage and Family • Middle class
Diversity:
• Unity in Diversity • Different types of diversities in India • Factors leading to Unity amidst Diversity in
India • Diversity and associated problems • Globalization and Diversity
Role of Women and Women’s organization:
• Importance of Women’s organizations • Women’s organizations and their
achievements • Types of women’s organization • Government initiatives to support and
collaborate with Women’s Organizations • Women in agriculture • labor workforce • politics • Family • Marriage • Middle Class • Role of Men in Women Organization
Population and associated issues
Poverty and developmental issues
Urbanization, their problems and their remedies
Week 28 Dec 23 – Dec 24
Society Effects of globalization on Indian society
Social empowerment
Communalism
Secularism
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Dec 25 Holliday on account of Christmas Dec 27 Full length Mains Mock test on Society
Week 29 Dec 30- Jan
4 Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude
Ethics and Human Interface: • Essence, determinants and consequences of
Ethics in human actions • dimensions of ethics • ethics in private and public relationships.
Human Values • Lessons from the lives and teachings of
great leaders, reformers and administrators.
• Role of family in inculcating values. • Role of society in inculcating values. • Role of educational institutions in
inculcating values Attitude:
• Content • Structure • Function • its influence and relation with thought and
behavior • moral and political attitudes • social influence and persuasion.
Aptitude and foundational values: for Civil Service
• integrity • impartiality and non-partisanship • objectivity • dedication to public service • empathy • tolerance • compassion towards the weaker sections.
Week 30 Jan 6- Jan
11 Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude
Emotional intelligence • concepts and their utilities and application
in administration and governance. Contributions of moral thinkers and philosophers from India and world. Public/Civil service values and Ethics in Public administration:
• Status and problems • ethical concerns and dilemmas in
government and private institutions
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• laws, rules, regulations and conscience as sources of ethical guidance
• accountability and ethical governance
• strengthening of ethical and moral values in governance
• ethical issues in international relations and funding
• corporate governance.
Probity in Governance: • Concept of public service;
Philosophical basis of governance and probity
• Information sharing and transparency in government
• Right to Information • Codes of Ethics • Codes of Conduct • Citizen’s Charters • Work culture • Quality of service delivery • Utilization of public funds • challenges of corruption.
Jan 14 Holiday On account of Makar Sankranti
Week 31 Jan 15 Full Length Mains Mock test on Ethics
Week 31 Jan 16- Jan 18
Internal Security • Linkages between development and spread of extremism
Challenges to internal security: • Role of external state and non-state actors
in creating challenges to internal security • Challenges to internal security through
communication networks Media and internal security:
• role of media and social networking sites in internal security challenges.
Cyber security: • basics of cyber security • challenges • measures taken.
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Week 32 Jan 20 Internal Security • Money-laundering • Security challenges and their
management in border areas. • Organized crime • Various Security forces and agencies and
their mandate
Jan 23 Full length Mains Mock test on Internal Security
Week 32 Jan 24- Jan 25
International relations
India and its neighborhood
Week 33 Jan 27 – Feb 1
International Relations
• Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests
• Indian Diaspora • regional and global groupings and
agreements involving India • Important International institutions,
agencies and fora- their structure, mandate Feb 4 Full length Mains Mock test on International Relations
Week 34 Feb 5- Feb 8
India Year Book
Week 35 Feb 10 India Year Book
Feb 13 Full length Prelims Mock test on India Year Book
Feb 14- Feb 15
Economic Survey and Budget
Week 36 Feb 17- Feb 19
Economic Survey and Budget
Feb 22 Full length Prelims Mock test on Economic Survey and Budget
Week 37 Feb 24- Feb 29
Current Affairs
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Week 38 March 2-7 • CSAT classes
Week 39
March 9-March 14
• CSAT classes
March 8,2020 Sunday
FULL LENGTH
TEST (COMPLETE SYLLABUS )
• Indian Constitution, Political System and Governance • Geography • History of India • Indian Economy & Social Development • Ecology & Environment • General Science • Current Affairs
March 15,2020 Sunday
FULL LENGTH
TEST (COMPLETE SYLLABUS )
• Indian Constitution, Political System and Governance • Geography • History of India • Indian Economy & Social Development • Ecology & Environment • General Science • Current Affairs
March 22,2020 Sunday
FULL LENGTH
TEST (COMPLETE SYLLABUS )
• Indian Constitution, Political System and Governance • Geography • History of India • Indian Economy & Social Development • Ecology & Environment • General Science • Current Affairs
March 29,2020 Sunday
FULL LENGTH
TEST (COMPLETE SYLLABUS)
• Indian Constitution, Political System and Governance • Geography • History of India • Indian Economy & Social Development • Ecology & Environment • General Science • Current Affairs
April 5, 2020
Sunday
FULL LENGTH
TEST (COMPLETE SYLLABUS)
• Indian Constitution, Political System and Governance • Geography • History of India • Indian Economy & Social Development • Ecology & Environment • General Science • Current Affairs
April 12,
2020 Sunday
FULL LENGTH
TEST (COMPLETE SYLLABUS)
• Indian Constitution, Political System and Governance • Geography • History of India • Indian Economy & Social Development • Ecology & Environment • General Science • Current Affairs
April 19,
2020 Sunday
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TEST (COMPLETE SYLLABUS)
• Indian Constitution, Political System and Governance • Geography • History of India • Indian Economy & Social Development • Ecology & Environment • General Science
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• Current Affairs •
April 26,
2020 Sunday
FULL LENGTH
TEST (COMPLETE SYLLABUS)
• Indian Constitution, Political System and Governance • Geography • History of India • Indian Economy & Social Development • Ecology & Environment • General Science • Current Affairs
May 3, 2020
Sunday
FULL LENGTH
TEST (COMPLETE SYLLABUS)
• Indian Constitution, Political System and Governance • Geography • History of India • Indian Economy & Social Development • Ecology & Environment • General Science • Current Affairs
May 10, 2020
Sunday
FULL LENGTH
TEST (COMPLETE SYLLABUS)
• Indian Constitution, Political System and Governance • Geography • History of India • Indian Economy & Social Development • Ecology & Environment • General Science • Current Affairs
May 17, 2020
Sunday
FULL LENGTH
TEST (COMPLETE SYLLABUS)
• Indian Constitution, Political System and Governance • Geography • History of India • Indian Economy & Social Development • Ecology & Environment • General Science • Current Affairs
May 24, 2020
Sunday
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TEST (COMPLETE SYLLABUS)
• Indian Constitution, Political System and Governance • Geography • History of India • Indian Economy & Social Development • Ecology & Environment • General Science • Current Affairs