APPSC GROUP 1 MAINS PAPER 2 PREPARATION TIPS
Paper 2 consists of 3 sections.
Candidate has to answer 5 questions from each section.
Section I – History and cultural Heritage of India with emphasis on 20th century History of India
Section II – Social and cultural History of Andhra Pradesh
Section III – An Overview of the Indian Constitution
Sources Include:
Ancient India history by R.S.Sharma
Bipin Chandra’s India’s struggle for Freedom
History of Modern India by Bipin Chandra
History and culture of AP by P.R.Rao
History of Modern Andhra by P.R.Rao
Ancient and Medieval History of Andhra
Introduction to the Indian Constitution by D.D.basu
Indian Polity by M.laxmikanth
For section III, Candidate has to prepare current issues related to polity such as political controversies, recent judgements or guidelines by supreme court. When one reading current political issues he/she has to connect it with fundamental concepts of Indian polity and constitution.
For example, if you come across Anti Defection law in newspaper or magazines, just go through basics of it such as which article of the Indian constitution mentions about it. In the same way, Uniform civil code.
Section I and II mostly asks questions which are of direct. Whereas Section III consists of questions related to current political happenings in connection with Indian constitution. So one has to prepare accordingly.
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