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As such, there is no speci c Biology Syllabus for UPSC prelims, the UPSC syllabus just says: General issues on Environmental Ecology, Biodiversity
and Climate Change – that do not require subject specialisation General Science.
Before starting, students should have the previous 10 years of UPSC prelims (https://byjus.com/free-ias-prep/upsc-prelims) exam questions
papers ( free download available from net)and organise them according to the areas/subjects( like geography, history, economy etc.,) ( Also in
the market, Book/hard copies of the segregated prelims questions of previous 15 years available for purchase)
Be it be soft copy or the hard copy, previous years question papers is a MUST.
Students must have gone through the questions at least twice before they start any area.
(once in a week or two they should again go through the questions, this is important because it will give a direction to their preparation if they are
losing track and reading unnecessary things or if they are reading more in depth)
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For the Biology part, the next requirement is to have hard/soft copes of the NCERTs( preferably NEW NCERTs) text books from Class VI to Class
X.( Note: In another article we will cover strategy for covering physics and chemistry part)
From Class VI NCERT Science, Students must read chapter 2 (Components of food), Chapter 9 and chapter 16.
While reading NCERTs, the focus should always be on understanding the basic concepts. NCERETs have good illustrations in the form of
images. Students should underline/highlight the important points/paragraph during the rst reading itself.
There is no need to make notes. Please don’t waste time on that. If one is comfortable in reading softcopy format there are new features
available from adobe PDF to do highlight/mark in the PDF itself(Thank god they are saving lot of your time!!).
From Class VII NCERT Science, students must read Chapters 1,2,9,11,12 and 17
From class VIII NCERT Science, students must read chapters 1, 2, 5, 8, 9 10.
From class IX NCERT Science, students must read chapters 5,6,7,13,14 and 15
From Class X NCERT Science, students must read chapters 4,6,7,8,9,15 and 16 ( In chapter 9 i.e Heredity and Evolution need not be read intoto,
just overall ow needs to be understood)
If student completes one reading of the above areas and if they had underlined/highlighted the areas to revise. Half of the job is done. Whats the
next step?
Students should start practising some 50-100 sample questions from the above areas that they have read( Practice questions from market is
available for purchase or they can practice on free online sources as well)
Students need not worry about the standard of the questions while practising for the above areas. The idea is to check whether they are able to
answer correctly if the question is from the areas they have studied.
Based on their own self evaluation, if needed they can give one immediate quick revision. Else they can keep it for revision towards the end.
Ideally before the preliminary examination student should have completed atleast two readings.
Students while reading the current affairs from newspapers/media and if they nd any developments in the biology, they should make a note of
it. Especially the important areas are from health and diseases ( example: Zika virus, Ebola virus, Mission Indradhanush vaccines etc..)
Also from the book, “The Hindu Speaks On Scienti c Facts”, students can read the biology related questions.( student can visit the link to know
more (http://www.thehindu.com/navigation/?type=static&page=books&name=hssf2&linkname=hssf200) on this source)
The above preparation strategy for biology part is su cient to cover most of the Prelims questions. It will give the extra edge compared to your
competitors who neglect this area.One or two questions may still be left uncovered, but students need not worry about that because any further
reading on biology is not a smart strategy.
We at Byjus, will be more than happy to assist you if you have any further doubts about the strategy etc. please get in touch with our mentor team!!
Wish you all the best.
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