I have been receiving numerous messages regarding confusion about the UPSC Prelims application process.

In this video, I have addressed how to fill service preferences and achievements, prizes, medals, and other sections. Make sure to watch this before you start filling out the form - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ5QLj2vxMM

Prelims revision program batch 3 (last batch) launches today!

https://youtu.be/gavUPoEyu3s?feature=shared

A very happy republic day to all! 🇮🇳🇮🇳

*Evidence Based* Geography Strategy for Prelims 2025!

We start Geography from today in our prelims plan and this video details everything that we have to read, purely based on evidence.

https://youtu.be/CpKGyH4WBUY

Tomorrow is Throwback PYQ Thursday!
Second video of complete PYQ analysis series will be up tomorrow morning, where we will be continuing with PYQs of economy!
Treat the video like a test! See the question --> Pause the video --> Solve --> See the answer!
See you tomorrow on youtube!

THROWBACK PYQ Thursday!
Complete PYQ analysis series part 2 - (continuing with economy)

https://youtu.be/HCJvjGACu5s

Hey guys!
We’ve completed 2 more weeks in our prelims plan. As I had promised, we will be doing an active recall session every 2 weeks.
So tomorrow, we will have an active recall session for whatever we have read in the last fortnight.

Topics -
Economy

1. Inflation
2. Money and monetary policy
3. Banking
4. Capital Markets
5. Government Budgeting

Geography

1. Origin of the earth
2. Earthquakes and Volcanism
3. Geomorphology including landforms

Time - 8:30PM
Date - 1st Feb
Place - Youtube live!

RVSP 🙂
See you tomorrow!

Active recall session done!
Covered questions of economy and geography.
You can watch the recording here -

https://www.youtube.com/live/vSuhs8XSWPQ?feature=shared

Hello all!
We will be finishing economy in @StepforPrelims2025 and Prelims Revision Program on Thursday. (Surprise this Thursday for all of you, too)

Once we finish economy, we will be starting modern history. Tomorrow morning i will be uploading a video on how to cover modern history.

In the comments of this post, please ask all possible doubts that you have with regards to modern history. Will answer all of them in the video tomorrow!

Have done enough research and have a *surprise* for you to solve the modern history problem-

https://youtu.be/kTvWVapXR4I

Hello All!
Tomorrow, at 4:30pm, Live on my youtube channel, I will be teaching the budget of this year, with context from the economic survey. This is the *first* surprise for current affairs for you guys, some more to follow too!

See you there!

Just got done with my last lecture of economics in PRP (with the exception of the lecture on budget on YouTube tomorrow).

When I decided to start teaching economics, I decided that I would learn it from scratch. I read the Oxford and Cambridge books, books from optional, the IGNOU BA material and much more. It took immense, immense effort.

But atleast on a personal level, I can say the effort paid off. My favourite moments were when we read the entire 14 chapters’ preview of the economic survey in class and we were able to understand. When we did a critique of Jobless growth in India, and when we understood the Inflation Reduction Act of the USA.

I’m so thankful to everyone who took the time out to watch these lectures, to put trust in me, and to learn with me. This feeling will always be special and pure to me, more pure than any other joy.

Extremely grateful to you for everything. I Promise (and henceforth create a liability) that I will do Justice to the opportunity cost of Resigning from the IRS to teach, so that I can frontload information and cause a non inflationary growth of knowledge and value in your prep. Thanks for everything.

Yours,
Forever in your debt (and deficit :P)

-Shivin

Budget session done!
You can watch the recording here -

https://www.youtube.com/live/lLsEiDQnqko?feature=shared


Link for notes of this session - https://www.drshivin.com/free-resources

(Open in chrome to download without hassle)

In yesterday’s budget session, towards the end, we discussed how ‘Monetary Policy must do the heavy lifting as far as growth is concerned’.

Meaning that rate cuts were necessary to give a boost to Growth.

The RBI cut interest rates today :)

Piracy in the red sea region and red sea crisis is a complex topic, that has figured in the budget this year and is fairly important for current affairs.

Here is a complete explainer of the red sea crisis!

https://youtu.be/2li4GrdjdiE?feature=shared

Launching science and tech for prelims 2025!

https://youtu.be/I3G-phmq6gM

Happy Valentine's PYQ solving Day!
Continuing with our series on complete PYQ analysis, here is the third and last part of economy PYQs -

https://youtu.be/Eunprc3wHr4

Hello guys good morning!
As you know, two more weeks have passed in our prelims 2025 plan that we’re following @StepforPrelims2025.

As promised, at the end of every 2 weeks, there will be an active recall session. So we will have an Active Recall session today!

Date - 15 Feb (today)
Time - 8:30 PM
LIVE on Youtube
Topics - Modern History and Geography

See you there!

Ps - most people will skip it. In January, most people are enthusiastic when they start the prelims prep. Feb and March are low months, and finally people wake up in April. If you want to make it, be as consistent as possible. Even if there are some backlogs in modern history and geography let us do the revision session properly. Atleast it will help us identify our gaps. Don’t let up, don’t relax right now. Pain of regret is much worse than pain of discipline.

Live at 8:30PM!
See you there!

https://youtube.com/live/xK4tM9pshxU?feature=share

Science and tech evidence based strategy for Prelims 2025!
This video talks in detail about how to use my lectures from 2023 (that are freely available on youtube) for this year's attempt. Do take a look.

https://youtu.be/50bn-wn3v2Y