Clarity for UPSC by Dr.Shivin (AIR - 297)

Good morning guys! 2 important announcements -

1. In STEP so far, we’ve finished economy, geography and modern history. From tomorrow, we’re going to start 2 new subjects - science and tech and polity. So if anyone has any backlogs or they didn’t start step on time and are out of sync with the schedule, from tomorrow you can join the STEP group afresh and make it count. 6 things are left to execute - Polity, IR, SNT, Env, Ancient Medieval art and culture and CSAT. (Along with relevant current affairs). So we can start afresh from tomorrow and ensure that in these 6 things atleast there is no backlog. Whatever backlogs we have already, we will find time for those too.

Link to join step - @Stepforprelims2025

2. Since we’re starting from polity tomorrow, i’ll be posting the polity strategy video tomorrow morning. We all know which book to read, but the focus will be on how to read that book with a live demonstration of reading it too. Whatever questions you have regarding polity, please put them in the comments of this post and i’ll be answering them in detail.

All the best!
Regards,
Shivin

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.

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