How you should proceed? (with the disclaimer)

Here’s a tip in all honesty (apologies for the bluntness) this blog is meant for folks who have really decided to give the examination a shot. If you are still in that zone of – Can we write the exam in Hindi?, I did MCom for my masters am I eligible?, Is it an objective based examination? , I had economics in my 12th Grade will it count for my eligibility? and so on, we are really sorry that reading this blog would be frittering your time.

Your seriousness can be seen if you have had a thorough reading of these two documents – Syllabus and Question Paper (minimum of 5 years). You should have read this at least 2-3 times or as many times as possible. If you are done,

WELCOME MATE !

(*Forgot the disclaimer, read it like those mutual funds ad, 1.5x speed)

Preparation , Strategy and other things …

Before we even think about the exam, these words in the title keep ringing in our head and to silence them becomes a bit of headache. Yes, we also went through the same stage and to our rescue came some resources that we would like to share with you. Read through them, atleast a couple of them end to end, but with a pinch of salt (Disclaimer pada ki nahi?)

Useful Blogs

These are very useful blogs to get a hang of preparation strategies, booklists, PT scripts and other things written by veterans.

• Ritika Bansal
• Isha Barak
• Nikita Jain
• Nishant Mehra
• Bikash Kumar Mallick
• Saurabh Bhargava and Isha Barak
• Rishika C
• Satvik Dev

You can read things on Quora too for instance Ayushi Chand‘s feed is an interesting, helpful for the aspirants. If you are more of face-to-face person then youtube could be your friend in need. You can binge on the Delhi Knowledge Track series of IES Toppers and hopefully see some of our faces their too.

Lectures

As much as we hate youtube for the cringy music videos that trend around viral, there are these amazing channels ( less watched, alas!) which provides much wisdom. Though this list is a very long one. We mention few channels that can aid your preparation- Ben Zamzow (coverage of numericals and math part of econ), Prof. Sabuj Mandal Intro to Ecotrics , Ben Lambert Ecotrics (for proofs and other things) , Matt Birch (lots of micro economics numericals) , Easynomics (this is an inhouse production 😀 ), EZ Classes (for revision of concepts in general), Nishant Mehra (coverage of IES PYQs is extensive) The Pink Professor (Ecotrics and Indian Eco), Marginal Revolution University (conceptual clarity- for learning and chilling :)) ) , Mrunal Patel ( current affairs ), Siddharth Arora’s Polity (Brief summary of Laxmikanth) , Amit Sengupta (for his timelines for History and crisp videos on Geography) , relevant Editorial discussion (helpful for GS) and many many more.

Please be wise and don’t blindly binge on these lectures. Use the two most powerful filters – Syllabus and Past Year Question Papers.

Notes

We often get messages from people to share our notes. We discussed amongst ourselves. We realized that there are not many consolidated notes for IES but since lot of the syllabus overlaps with that of CSE Economics here are some notes that could be of some help. Please access the same from these blogs.

• Anurag Kumar (Economics Optional Notes)
• Abhimanyu Gahlaut (Economics Optional Notes)
• Akshay Agarwal (Economics Optional Notes)
• Abhijeet Sinha (Economics Optional Notes)
• Abhishek Dudhai (Economics Optional Notes)
• Gaurav Agarwal (Economics Optional Notes)
• Rushikesh Reddy (GS full coverage with respect to history, art culture, geo, polity etc.)

Other than these you can access some other free resources from here . With that you may also want to append it with the current affairs from the PT 365 , Budget summaries and Economic survey.

Timetable

Everything should be timebound- right from your completion of your syllabus to your answer script. For instance if you are beginning in Feb ’21 and wish to attempt the exam on June ’21. A rough plan should ideally focus on optimizing the syllabus constrained by Past years and a timetable. A sample can be seen here. Ideally devote the last month for revision and for writing practice. This would mean that you should be ideally finishing the syllabus within 4 months. (highly under the assumption that you are good with your fundamentals)

That’s some resources for timebeing.

Happy Hunting.

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