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How To Prepare Preliminary Subjects For WBCS Exam – Preliminary Book List
WBCS exam has three levels of filters; Preliminary (200 marks MCQ) followed by MAINS (1600 marks) and Personality test. It should be remembered that a huge number of candidates participate in this test making the W.B.C.S Prelims exam truly a competitive one. On the top of this, an extensive W.B.C.S syllabus covering almost every discipline of knowledge makes the exam even more difficult.Continue Reading How To Prepare Preliminary Subjects For WBCS Exam – Preliminary Book List.
1. Effective strategy for WBCS Prelims
One of the common mistakes made by the most of the candidates is to overload themselves with too much irrelevant information and end up remembering only few things. We have to accept that our brain can only retain a limited amount of data in a given time and it is literally impossible for anyone to go into every detail and simultaneously retain them. The first step is to understand the pattern of questions that WBPSC has been asking for the last 10 years in each subject and for that analyzing and going through the previous years question papers is very important.. Make a statistical assessment of the layers of detailing or difficulties involved in each question paper compared to your base knowledge. This will help to develop an intuition to discriminate what to retain and what to discard while studying any subject.
2. Fix Target for each WBCS Prelims Topic
According to experts securing 130 right answers out of 200 questions can assure a candidate to be shortlisted for the WBCS MAINS exam. From the very beginning of your preparation fix a goal and assess periodically how far are you from your destination and accordingly lay your future milestones. Again WBCS prelims online testing resources can be immensely useful to assess your progress. When you take any online test take it seriously. Set a convenient time when disturbance from your family and friends are minimum. A clever idea would be to hang a placard mentioning “Examination is on, do not disturb please”. Take your preparation level to a climax where you start scoring scores more than 65% in every test. Then your probability of success in WBCS prelims on the test day will rise exponentially.
3. Go for multiple revisions before the Exam
Revision is an essential component of good preparation and particularly for a competitive examination like WBCS prelims revising each subject more than thrice should be the goal. The first reading gives an overall familiarity to a subject.Tips and tricks to crack the exam must be known.the Hardly anything is retained. Second reading will generate excitement because you will finda substantial amount of fact is already familiar by now and brain will be pleased to store a significant portion of information in its long-term memory basket. Do not be surprised to discover that you might have inadvertently missed a few interesting facts while your first reading and now is the perfect time to learn them afresh. During the second phase of reading, most of the readers will also have fun processing second layer of detailing. For those who have not encountered yet will experience in their third revision. Third reading is very crucial as this is going to the final and complete revision before your exam. Do not loose interest because it negatively impacts memory. Our brain is happy to retain only those things, which are interesting to us. Therefore, do not let your interest level to go down. For sustaining interest engaging in discussion on related topics with close friends can be helpful. Regular meditation also helps in cleansing stresses and boredom. Do not read just for the shake of qualifying WBCS Prelims rather develop a general interest about knowing subjects.
4. Practice and self-evaluate side by side
Besides reading text books recommended for WBCS Prelims, use of modern online tools is highly recommended as it helps to learn and revise effectively while saving lots of crucial time. Along with the regular studies take practice exams to evaluate your progress. Critically evaluate how far are you from your goal. A copious amount of practice can be rewarding in many ways — it trains your brain to fetch correct information, increases cognition, eliminates chances of human error, and finally improves long-term retention capability. Only practicing tests, however, without studying reading materials will not yield fruitful result! Therefore to continue till the last stage of the exam i.e., Personality Test, a whole hearted approach is needed. After cracking the Prelims one should be confident enough to start an intensive preparation for MAINS without looking back. According to experts securing 130 right answers out of 200 questions can assure a candidate to be shortlisted for the MAINS exam.
SUBJECT WISE Booklist for WBCS Prelims-
HISTORY
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- History of modern India-Bipin chandra
- India’s struggle for Independence: 1857-1947
- India since Independence
- Brief History of Modern India – Rajiv Ahir
- A History of Modern India -Ishita Banerjee-Dube
- Indian History : For Civil Services Examinations Second Edition- Krishna Reddy
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Indian History & Culture : Extracts it all from NCERT Text Books for this subject into a single book
- History of modern India-Bipin chandra
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- To View WBCS Preliminary Exam Sample Multiple Choice Questions MCQs- History Of India Part-CLICK HERE.
- To View WBCS Preliminary Exam Sample Multiple Choice Questions MCQs- Indian National Movement Part-CLICK HERE.
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GEOGRAPHY
- Geography of India by Majid Husain
- Indian and World Geography
- Longman school Atlas
- Genius Geography -M.A.Bademiya
- The Gist of NCERT Geography : Old Ncert At Your Fingertips -Yagya Nand Jha
POLITY and ECONOMY
- Indian Polity by M. Laxmikanth
- Indian polity by Anadi Kumar Mahapatra
- Indian Economy from General Studies Manual (Tata McGraw Hill)
- Indian Economy by Dutt & Sundaram
- Darpan’s Indian Economy
- Indian Economy by Ramesh Singh
- Gist of NCERT Indian Polity : Old Ncert At Your Fingertips – Yagya Nand Jha
- The Gist of NCERT Indian Economy : Old Ncert At Your Fingertips -Yagya Nand Jha
GENERAL SCIENCES
- Magbook General Science 2018-Arihant Experts
- KIRAN’S ONE LINER APPROACH GENERAL SCIENCE USEFUL FOR ALL COMPETITIVE EXAMS (PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, AGRICULTURE, ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT & POLLUTION, SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY, ASTRONOMY, COMPUTER)-KIRAN)
- GENERAL SCIENCE FOR COMPETITIVE EXAM-B K
- General Science -Arihant Experts
- It is recommended to go through NCERT books from standard VI to X
ENGLISH
- Objective general english
- High school English grammar and composition
- Objective English for Competitive Examinations 5th Edition Hari Mohan Prasad, Uma Rani Sinha
- Objective English for Competitive Examinations Gautam Puri
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General English for All Competitive Examinations SC Gupta
MATHS AND REASONING
- Quantitative Aptitude For Competitive Examinations R S Aggarwal
- A modern approach to verbal and non verbal reasoning-R.S. Agarwal
- A new approach to reasoning
- Verbal Ability and Reasoning for Competitive Examinations 1 Edition P. A. Anand, Lalit Singh
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Magical Book On Quicker Maths M. Tyra
CURRENT AFFAIRS
For current affairs, Civil Services Chronicle, Competition Wizard, Mahendra’s Current Affairs at least any should be thoroughly gone through with special emphasis to international, national, sports, awards sections. News papers like Statesman, Times of India or The Hindu would be enough regarding the said exam.
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