Trilateral security partnership, QUAD, Opportunities and Challenges for India, Anglo-Saxon allies
Inflation, accommodative policy, Tapering bond buying, unemployment, India’s FPI inflows, G-Secs in GBI EM and GBI Aggregate indices
National Mission on Edible Oils-Oil Palm, MSP for Oilseeds, WHO Pollution Norms, Ocean State Report 5, FASTER System
IAS aspirants have a host of topics to cover while preparing for the exam. Mastering the current daily news and daily current affairs for UPSC is an important part of exam preparation. UPSC current affairs carry substantial weightage in the exam. Shankar IAS Academy, via IASParliament provides comprehensive coverage of IAS current affairs in the exhaustive study material for the prelims and main exams. Daily current affairs play a significant role in all three stages of the IAS examination – prelims, mains, and interview. The questions may be directly or indirectly related to the static part of the syllabus. Although UPSC daily current affairs are an important part of the exam preparation, there is no clarity on the syllabus covered under current affairs. The exam syllabus only mentions “current affairs of national and international importance”. Candidates are expected to prepare for IAS daily news and current affairs according to their own perspective. So IAS Parliament tends to cover as much relevant content as possible to enable the candidates in enriching their perspective.
The IAS prelims for the past 5 years have had 30 questions on an average on current affairs, which translates to 60 marks approximately. The daily current affairs are a substantial part of the main exam as well. Focusing on current affairs during exam preparation improves the analytical and logical thinking of the candidates by exposing them to a myriad of social, economic, and national topics. Giving importance to current affairs in the UPSC exam preparation improves the confidence of students to take up similar questions in interviews as well. Observation of recent exam papers shows that even static portions like history, geography, politics, and culture are related to current affairs. So to score well in daily UPSC current affairs, candidates need to have a basic understanding and clarity of news events that happen at national and international level. In the prelims, mains, and interview for the UPSC evaluation, the daily IAS current affairs questions revolve around news events, bilateral relations, treaties signed, and social and political questions at a local and global levels.
While we understand the importance of staying updated on current affairs for UPSC exams, knowing what to study and what not to is also equally important. It is also important to know the duration of current affairs to include in exam preparation. There are several suggestions to the duration to be included, some say last one year current affairs, while others say last 5 years. Ideally, staying updated on the past year’s current affairs depending on when you will be giving the exam should be adequate preparation for current affairs. Candidates could also extend the period to 18 months to be on the safer side.
With the internet bloom, abundance availability of current affairs material has only complicated the preparation process with a never ending list of newspapers, current affairs magazines, videos, gists, pdfs previous year’s question papers etc. Among the sea of websites, IAS Parliament emerged as the most trusted website to provide current affairs for UPSC. We at IAS Parliament deconstruct a news item to extract the essentials of it, consistent with the exam syllabus, rearrange it logically to give clarity and thorough understanding of the issue, provide additional facts, figures and maps for a better insight.
Besides, we consolidate the news articles as and when they develop, to follow the progress of events. In this process, we refer almost all the renowned national newspapers and government websites, cherry-pick the news articles that are relevant to UPSC Exams and update the materials on a daily basis. We ensure to keep the daily articles as crisp and clear as possible, keeping in mind the current affairs material that would pile up for a year, in line with the exam.
UPSC aspirants must include daily current affairs in their preparation for the prelims, mains, and interviews. Obtaining good results in the IAS exams and interview depends largely on how well the candidate is prepared for the current affairs questions. Shankar IAS Academy is the most trusted IAS coaching institute that provides comprehensive exam study material including updated daily IAS Current Affairs PDFs via IAS Parliament.
