Let’s get to the point, beginner or a veteran, these study materials are time tested and recommended by toppers as essential materials. However, choose what suits you.
Prelims
The essentials
The following cover the Chhattisgarh General Studies portion for Prelims [and most of the CG GS portion of Mains syllabus].
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Chhattisgarh General Studies by Hariram Publications [Available in English and Hindi]
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Chhattisgarh Economic Survey summary by E Pathshala [Only in Hindi][Check if any decent English compilation is available]
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Vinay Kumar Pathak’s Hindi & Chhattisgarhi [Both are separate books]
India portion
Ideally you should refer to materials considered ‘Standard sources’ on an All India Level i.e what the UPSC CSE aspirants are referring to. However, you choose material based on your own analysis of input:output ratio per subject.
These are my recommendations.
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M Laxmikanth for Polity
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Barnwal for Indian Geography
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Old NCERTs for Indian History
Practice
You should be solving topic wise questions given the repetition is significant.
You can choose either or both of the following question banks for CG GS. Objective question banks for CG GS are only available in Hindi as of now.
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Tuteja Tutorial’s Pratiyogita Saransh Chhattisgarh objective question bank [Available for India GS as well but I recommend better resources]
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Hariram Publication’s Chhattisgarh objective question bank [Focused more on newer questions as compared to Pratiyogita Saransh]
For India GS question banks covering All India exams are superior. I recommend the following.
- Ghatnachakra objective question banks [Available in both English and Hindi][Separate question bank for every subject covered in Prelims]
Previous Year Papers
You need previous year papers for your analysis. You can refer either directly to the original question papers [time consuming] or get the following that magically appeared in the market recently.
- Arihant publication’s CGPSC Preliminary Examination Yearwise-Topicwise solved papers [Available in both English & Hindi]
Mains
You need to analyse previous year questions really well because the repetition in Mains is really high. You can refer to the actual question papers or get the following.
- Hariram’s Mains solved [Only Hindi] [Comes in a set of 7 books, but ask for a photocopy, you may be able to get separate photocopies and save yourself from immediate pile of books and up front large payment]
Mains is something I haven’t completely figured out myself (yet). I’m leaving recommendations of toppers here. I am formatting their telegram texts for better readability.
Following is Siddharth Singh Chauhan Sir’s recommendation.
HINDI & CHHATTISGARHI : Vinay Kumar PathakENGLISH : Speedy Publication + Internet-------------------------ESSAY : Prepare sample essays1.On broad issues (Ex. Environment, Health, Education , Poverty, Employment, Farmers, Economy ,Tribes etc.)2.On current issues3.Major Government schemes (for CG)- Sources : Drishti IAS website, Insight, Economic survey CG and some reference books available in market and internet for data and information-------------------------PAPER 3PART 1 : INDIAN HISTORY : Tuteja Pratiyogita Saransh (Hindi Medium)Barnwal and Spectrum (English Medium)PART 2 : POLITY & PUB AD : Tuteja Pratiyogita Saransh (Hindi Medium)Laxmikant for Polity and Pub Ad (Separate books), Coaching materials can also be referred for Pub AdPART 3 : CG HISTORY : Tuteja Pratiyogita Saransh (Hindi Medium)Yuvachar Publication (English Medium) : Refer to Granth Academy book to fill the gaps-------------------------PAPER 4 :PART 1 : CG board 10th OldPART 2 : Maths 10th ki book Old (Internet/YouTube can be referred to clear some basic concepts topic wise)PART 3 : There is a book from Hindi Granth Academy + Selected topics from DIA book + some topics from DIAS notesAgriculture : DIAS class notesTech : Dias + Internet[Can refer to Muskan Publications book for Hindi medium]-------------------------PAPER 5 :PART 1 : Tuteja Pariyogita Saransh (Hindi medium)Yuvachar (English Medium)Budget and Economic survey (From coaching material)PART 2 : Muskan Publication (Hindi medium)Barnwal (English Medium)PART 3 : Tuteja Pariyogita Saransh (Hindi medium)Yuvachar (English Medium)-------------------------PAPER 6 :PART 1 : Tuteja tutorials (Hindi Medium)Destiny (English Medium) (Sir's notes are available on his channel)PART 2 : Tuteja tutorial (Hindi Medium), He prepared self notes from Internet (He has uploaded his notes on his channel)PART 3 : Tuteja tutorials + Hariram Patel book (Hindi Medium)English medium - He translated from hindi medium only (Notes uploaded)-------------------------PAPER 7 :PART 1 : Tuteja tutorial notes as base + Internet (English notes already uploaded on his channel)PART 2 : Tuteja tutorial class notes + Official sites of Organisations (English notes already uploaded on his channel)PART 3 : Institutions from Tuteja tutorials notes + Add ons from official sitesSome topics like Employability & Productivity from Internet (English notes already uploaded on his channel)
For Paper 7 , Muskan publication books can also be referred-------------------------"Be loyal to your preparation & be loyal to yourself"