Key Highlights:
- 4 Full Length Tests and 8 Sectional Tests
- Questions set exactly as per the current trend of UPSC
- Complete coverage of updated UPSC syllabus with emphasis on frequently asked topics or areas of syllabus
- Special attention to Map based questions (Focus on tips and techniques to score highly)
- Top quality expert feedback and guidance
- Personal Mentoring with one-to-one interaction.
History Optional Test Series-2023
Serial No | Type of Test | Date | Section |
1 | Sectional -1 | 02/07/23 Sunday | Ancient India |
2 | Sectional -2 | 16/07/23 Sunday | Ancient India |
3 | Sectional -3 | 30/07/23 Sunday | Medieval India |
4 | Sectional -4 | 13/08/23 Sunday | Medieval India |
5 | Sectional -5 | 27/08/23 Sunday | Modern History |
6 | Sectional -6 | 10/09/23 Sunday | Modern History |
7 | Sectional -7 | 24/09/23 Sunday | World History |
8 | Sectional -8 | 08/10/23 Sunday | |
9 | Full Length Test -1 | 22/10/23 Sunday | Ancient+ Medieval India |
10 | Full Length Test -2 | 05/10/23 Sunday | Modern + World History |
11 | Full Length Test -3 | 19/11/23 Sunday | Ancient + Medieval India |
12 | Full Length Test -4 | 19/11/23 Sunday | Modern + World History |
History Optional Test Series 2024
Key Highlights:
- 4 Full Length Tests and 8 Sectional Tests
- Questions set exactly as per the current trend of UPSC
- Complete coverage of updated UPSC syllabus with emphasis on frequently asked topics or areas of syllabus
- Special attention to Map based questions (Focus on tips and techniques to score highly)
- Top quality expert feedback and guidance
- Personal Mentoring with one-to-one interaction
- 12 TEST after PRELIMS
Serial No | Type of Test | Date | Section |
Test – 1 | Sectional | 30/07/2023 | Ancient India |
Test – 2 | Sectional | 13/08/2023 | Ancient India |
Test -3 | Sectional | 27/08/2023 | Medieval India |
Test 4 | Sectional | 10/09/2023 | Medieval India |
FLT 1 | Full Length Test | 24/09/2023 | Ancient+ Medieval India |
Test 5 | Sectional | 8/10/2023 | Modern History |
Test 6 Test 7 | Sectional Sectional | 22/10/2023 5/11/2023 | Modern History World History |
Test 8 | Sectional | 19 /11/2023 | World History |
FLT 2 | Full Length Test | 3/12/2023 | Modern + World History |
FLT 3 | Full Length Test | 17/12/2023 | Ancient + Medieval India |
FLT 4 | Full Length Test | 31/12/2023 | Modern + World History |
Schedule
Serial No | Type of Test | Date | Section/Module | Paper Covered | Topics | Resources / Books / References |
1 | Secti onal -1 | 02/07/23 Sunday | Ancient India | Paper 1 | Topic: Sources Topic: Pre- history and Proto-history: Indus Valley Civilization Megalithic Cultures Aryans and Vedic Period Period of Mahajanapad as | IGNOU BA and MA Booklets, Upender Singh: A history of ancient and early medieval India Early India: Romila Thaper (Selective Reading) |
2 | Secti onal- 2 | 09/07/23 Sunday | Ancient India | Paper 1 | Topics | |
Mauryan Empire Post – Mauryan Period (Indo- Greeks, Sakas, Kushanas, Western Kshatrapas) Early State and Society in Eastern India, Deccan and South India Guptas, Regional States during Gupta Era Themes in Early Indian Cultural History | Same as Above Selective Reading of Krishna Reddy Book can be done to understand parts of Deccan and South India | |||||
Test -3 | Secti onal- 3 | 16/07/23 Sunday | Medieval India | Paper 1 | Topics | |
Early Medieval India, 750- 1200 | IGNOU BA and MA Booklets, |
Cultural Traditions in India, 750- 1200 The Thirteenth Century Foundation of Delhi Sultanate and early Turkish Sultans The Fourteenth Century Society, Culture and Economy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century | Medieval India: From Sultanate to Mughal Empire – Part One and Two By Satish Chandra An Advanced Study in the History of Medieval India by J L Mehta (Selective Reading) Selective Reading of Krishna Reddy Book to understand Early Medieval India | |||||
Test 4 | Secti onal- 4 | 23/07/23 Sunday | Medieval India | Paper 1 | Akbar Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century | Same As Above |
Economy and Society in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Culture in the Mughal Empire The Eighteenth Century | ||||||
5 | Secti onal- 5 | 30/07/23 Sunday | Modern History | Paper 2 | European Penetration into India British Expansion in India Early Structure of the British Raj Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule Social and Cultural Developments Social and Religious Reform movements in Bengal and Other Areas | 32nd editio n of A new look at Modern Indian History – From 1707 to the Modern Times- B.L Grover and Alka Mehta, S. Chand Publication Old NCERT class XII by Bipin Chandra India’s Struggle for Independe nce (1857- 1947) by |
Indian Response to British Rule Factors leading to the birth of Indian Nationalism | Bipin Chndra Plassey to Partition by Shekhar bandopadh yay Selective Reading of Modern India by Sumeet Sarkar | |||||
6 | Secti onal- 6 | 06/08/23 Sunday | Modern History | Paper 2 | Rise of Gandhi Constitutional Developments in the Colonial India between 1858 and 1935 Other strands in the National Movement The Revolutionari es Politics of Separatism Consolidation as a Nation Caste and Ethnicity after 1947 | Same as above India after Independe nce by Bipin Chandra or India after Gandhi by Ramchand ra Guha To be read very selectively only for |
Economic development and political change | Post Independe nce part | |||||
7 | Secti onal- 7 | 13/08/23 Sunday | World History | Paper 2 | Enlightenmen t and Modern ideas Origins of Modern Politics Industrializati on Nation-State System Imperialism and Colonialism Revolution and Counter Revolution | Arjun Dev’s- Contempor ary World History- Old NCERT Class XII book – For basic reading IGNOU B.A A Study of Modern Europe and the World 1815- 1950 by M ukherjee Norman Lowe – Selected chapters for the second half of syllabus selected chapters |
V ery Selective Reading of Jain and Mathur or Ranjan Chakrobar ty( Depending upon requiremen t) | ||||||
8 | Secti onal- 8 | 20/08/23 Sunday | World History | Paper 2 | World Wars The World after World War II Liberation from Colonial Rule Decolonizatio n and Underdevelop ment Unification of Europe Disintegration of Soviet Union and the Rise of the Unipolar World | Arjun Dev’s- Contempor ary World History- Old NCERT Class XII book – For basic reading IGNOU B.A A Study of Modern Europe and the World 1815- 1950 by M ukherjee Norman Lowe – Selected chapters for the selected chapters |
second half of syllabus V ery Selective Reading of Jain and Mathur or Ranjan Chakrobar ty( Depending upon requiremen t) | ||||||
09 | Full Leng th Test- 1 | 25/08/23 Sunday | Ancient+ Medieval India | Paper 1 | ||
10 | Full Leng th Test- 2 | 25/08/23 Sunday | Modern + World History | Paper 2 | Complete Syllabus of Paper 1 | |
11 | Full Leng th Test- 3 | 30/08/23 Friday | Ancient + Medieval | Paper 1 | ||
12 | Full Leng th Test- 4 | 30/08/23 Friday | Modern+ World History | Paper 2 | Complete Syllabus of Paper 2 |
Note: Selective Reading should be done as per syllabus and recent nature/pattern of questions.
Key to Success: Optimum Reading, Maximum Practice, Best Presentation through an Art of Answer Writing.