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Strategy for Economics by Ms Harshika Singh (AIR-8)

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Ms. Harshika epitomizes the adage- that the higher you go, the more humble you should become. I requested her for a write-up onEconomics and I learnt that she herself has a blog to help civil service aspirants. She promptly mailed me the Strategy from her blog and haskindly given me the permission to reproduce it here. I thank her for the same. Being, an alumni from LSE, I feel her tips would be veryhelpful to all of us. She will try and reply to any queries you post but please bear with the delay in her responses. You can also email her [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) I thank her on behalf of all the candidates once again.

Strategy for Economics

Why Economics?My Background in Economics and the interest in the subject was the most obvious reason for Economics as my first optional. I am B.AEconomics(Hons) from St.Xavier’s College ,Ranchi (Jharkhand) and MSc.Economic History from London School Of Economics and PoliticalScience,London,UK.

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For both my optionals ,I emphasized on making my concepts very clear and re-read the textbooks.I read all the books enumerated below-different bookscater to different portions of the syllabus so I have enumerated all of them…

For Paper 1

Microeconomics Ahuja and Koutsyansis

Macroeconomics AhujaMankiw

InternationalEconomics

Salvatore basicallyand for some random partsM.C Vaish

Public finance LekhiDaltonH.L Bhatia

Money and banking- S.B GuptaAhujaRBI website For Growth and Development ,I followed Mishra and Puri .There is another book by Lekhi (this book covers the syllabusso it is bit handy)/Debraj Ray-Development Economics .I extensively used Internet for some new developments in same.

Paper 2

Indian Economy from Du: & SundaramMishra & PuriUma kapilaExtensive study of the Economic SurveyUnion BudgetEPW (Economy and Political Weekly)


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Any one business newspaper like ET/FE etc The Economic Times: (h:p://economictimes.indiatimes.com/)Financial Express (h:p://www.financialexpress.com/)The Economist

In this a:empt which was my second a:empt I just followed the basic textbooks that are taught in most of the Indian Universities but in general I alsokept myself updated with new textbooks and relevant study materials available on Internet of some renowed Universities around the world.

I took study materials from Brilliant Tutorials in my first a:empt andRAU’s IAS Academy ,Delhi for my second a:empt.This helped me tosystematize my preparation according to the syllabus.

Answer Writing-In Paper 1 , I just ensured that my concepts were clear.Here I would like to admit i felt I had done relatively well in paper 1 butlanded up with just 133 marks so maybe I faltered in some way. Hence for Paper 1 , I would recommend to also go through the strategy for the samefollowed by Neeraj Kumar Singh(AIR-11) who also has the highest marks in Economics optional this year. In Paper 2- I tried to substantiate myanswers with adequate data’s and if possible tried to relate the said question to some recent instance /current affairs issue like this year there was aquestion on MNREGA rural wage hike and agriculture sector(issue on similar lines were in the news recently) .Economics is my passion so I never considered this as just a subject per se. I enjoyed my economics preparation and religiously followed the day to daydevelopments in world Economy/Indian Economy through Internet /newspapers and News channels.

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