Hello,

If you are from Arts stream, the efforts lessen a bit as you are aware of the subject content related to History, Geography, Polity, Economics, etc, which are the soul of UPSC CSE.

Start reading newspapers and develop it as a habit-cum-hobby. By the time you’ll complete your graduation, you will be having a good command over reading newspapers. Along with this, start any good monthly magazine, like Chronicle, Pratiyogita Darpan, etc. They will give you some extra information which you might have missed in the newspapers.

If you are from Commerce background, you need to focus on subjects like history, geography, etc. You can fully rely on the NCERT books for these subjects. If good at commerce subjects, go with it as your optional.

Rest remains same as discussed above.

For science stream, if you are doing a professional course, i.e., engineering or medicine, it would be better if you concentrate more on your field throughout the graduation period, as they demand more time. You can surely start reading newspapers and subscribe to a competitive magazine. It will make sure you remain connected to the happenings around the world. You can start preparing for other subjects like history, geography, polity, etc from your pre-final year or in your final year.

Apart from this, you can watch a detailed strategy for beginners as shared by Dr. Roman Saini on Unacademy - India's largest learning platform

For CSAT, it will hardly take 2–3 months prior to the exam to have a good command over it as its just a qualifying paper (as per current scenario). So don’t take too much stress of this paper as of now.

Thanku.