“Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.”

ILP-2024 does the planning for you most systematically and logically. The plans are made to keep you on track as well as on your toes. In the plan, you will get day-wise coverage of the syllabus, sources to refer and focus areas.

Detailed Micro-Plan – The detailed plan covers the Prelims & Mains Syllabus which will take care of your overall preparation in the form of daily targets. Each Module spans over 10 + days and at the end of the modules, you’ll be taking a Prelims and Mains Test. The Daily Plan also includes sources to refer to. Current Affairs are also part of the planning so that both static and current issues are dealt with simultaneously.

Microplanning is the heart and soul of ILP-2024 that needs to be followed with utmost sincerity.

NCERT Coverage- ILP-2024 Value Add Notes (VAN) will include thorough coverage of NCERT relevant for UPSC Prelims and Mains.

Minimum Sources – The sources to be referred to have been kept to the bare minimum. If you go through the plan, you will find that we have confined our sources to a maximum of 2 per subject (One being NCERT). It has been done to prevent a candidate from wasting their precious time in going through the repetitive and irrelevant sources available in the market. You’ll be following one reference book per subject and IASbaba’s Value Add Notes (VAN).

Revision – Due consideration has been given to Revision that will help to consolidate what you have learnt in a particular module. Since the process is long and intensive, the lack of revision can be fatal. Therefore, we have given adequate room for revision and consolidation.

ILP-2024 VANs are high-quality specialized reading materials designed intelligently to give you both prelims and mains covering the most important sources like Standard Text Books, Government Documents and Reports, Ministry Websites, PIB, ARC Reports, Economic Survey, Budget Documents etc. to make your understanding seamless and smooth. With our value-add notes (VAN), you will be able to declutter the complexity of UPSC syllabus.

The VANs shall cover the static as well as contemporary issues related to every single topic given in the syllabus including GS 1, GS 2, GS 3, and GS 4 (Ethics). You need not look beyond sources other than the standard ones given in the plan and ILP-2024 VANs.

We have simplified the VAN covering all important aspects so that it can be your ‘One Stop Source for UPSC Preparation’.

For Example:

For Modern History – You have to refer to NCERT’s (Old and New) and IASbaba’s VAN only. The relevant content from books like Bipan Chandra, ‘Plassey to Partition’, Spectrum etc. will be covered in the VANs.

For Environment and Ecology – NCERT and ILP-2024 VAN along with Babapedia (Current Affairs) will cover all your Prelims and Mains syllabus. You don’t have to refer to any other books!

For Science & Technology – NCERT and ILP-2024 VAN along with Babapedia (Current Affairs) will cover all your Prelims and Mains syllabus. You don’t have to refer to any other books!

Similarly, for other subjects, you do not have to go beyond the prescribed sources and VANs.

Covering current affairs is a big challenge for many aspirants. Most of the time students are confused about which sources to refer to. what to read? what not to read? to what depth to read?

Here comes Babapedia to your rescue. Babapedia is divided into Prelimspedia and Mainspedia for both your prelims and mains preparation. It is one of its kind compendium of current affairs.

• Prelimspedia gets updated on a daily basis. The only thing required is to log into your ILP account every day and go through the precise and crisp current affairs notes updated daily on Babapedia! Isn’t that awesome?
• Mainspedia also gets updated on a daily basis. It is one of its kind initiative where we declutter the most important editorials across national dailies to bring you relevant and ready ‘Introductions’, ‘Conclusions’, ‘facts’, and ‘data’ in tabular format.

We will be providing the Mainspedia Articles in the Answer Writing Format (Introduction, Body, Conclusion).

Please Note:

• You will get unlimited complimentary access to Current Affairs content from 2016 onwards till mid-May 2024. Babapedia is categorized Day-wise, Month-wise and Subject-wise, to make it very user-friendly and easily accessible!
• For easy revision, we are coming up with monthly Prelimspedia Compilations.

For the initial period, mentor or faculty-led classes for effective newspaper reading will be provided to students in the form of pre-recorded videos.

• Students will learn how to read and analyze newspapers effectively.
• Recorded class can be watched at students convenience any time and any number of times.
• It will help students to develop the right perspective while analyzing current affairs. This will help them in Prelims, Mains and Interview stages.
• Apart from helping students to save time while reading newspapers, sessions will enable them to develop interlinkages between various themes. This will help them in bringing multidimensional points in their answers.

It will be prepared for the important static portions and current affairs. (Only for those topics which will be difficult to memorize)

• This helps the students in quick revision when the exams are just a few weeks away.
• Aids interactive learning and helps memories easily.

IASbaba is known for its quality coverage, and its successive results in hitting the bull’s eye have given them a reputation unmatched in the ecosystem. The closeness and exact repetition of Questions from our Tests needs no mention.

High-quality tests with detailed solutions will help you keep track of your preparation. You will also get the chance to compete with thousands of sincere aspirants from the ILP community.

The Prelims Tests are designed carefully and with a lot of effort to match the standards set by UPSC. Questions are graded. easy, moderate, difficult and very difficult. The overall level of the test is kept a notch higher than UPSC so that students of IASbaba can have an edge.

A few thought-provoking previous year’s questions of UPSC will also be covered as they are sometimes repeated.

DETAILED SOLUTIONS will be provided after the tests. Detailed Solution, Techniques to Decipher the Correct Answer (Elimination Technique). The Detailed Solution itself will act as a Source of learning and revision.

MODULE WISE TESTS – 29 Module-wise tests will cover the complete syllabus of all the static subjects of the syllabus.

EXCLUSIVE CURRENT AFFAIRS TESTS – With the increasing importance of current affairs (CA) in the exam. The 24 Separate CA Tests will help you in quick revision and consolidation.

The current Affairs Test will be covered from May 2023 to April 2024

REVISION TESTS – 6 Subject-wise Revision Sectional Tests are included in the plan after you are completely done with the Prelims Modules.

EXCLUSIVE TESTS – 3 Exclusive Tests based on (1. MAP BASED- National/International Locations & Geography of India & World Related, 2. ECONOMIC SURVEY & BUDGET 3. GOVERNMENT SCHEMES)

CSAT TESTS – 10 Full-Length CSAT tests are designed on the standards, difficulty level and pattern followed by UPSC.

FULL-LENGTH TESTS – 5 GS (PAPER 1) FULL-LENGTH TESTS will be available to check your level of preparation

DOUBTS RESOLUTION PAGE– We have a comment section for every question in a Test. So, this gives you a scope to clear your doubts which are question-specific.

ALL INDIA RANKING – the scores and ranks will be displayed after every test; one can monitor his/her progress continuously and will be able to understand the real competition.

DETAILED ASSESSMENT of your Performance-based on Time-Analytics and Subject-wise Analytics’. This will help you gauge your efficiency per question (assist you in time management) and introspect your strengths and weaknesses in a particular subject.

FLEXIBILITY –There is no fixed time to take the tests. It’s flexible! However, it will be best to follow the schedule.

SNAPSHOT OF TESTS (TOTAL TESTS – 72)

• CURRENT AFFAIRS TESTS – 24 (50 Questions)
• MODULE WISE TESTS – 19 (100 Questions)
• SUBJECT WISE REVISION SECTIONAL TESTS – 6 (100 Questions)
• EXCLUSIVE TESTS (MAP BASED, ECONOMIC SURVEY & BUDGET, GOVERNMENT SCHEMES & POLICIES) – 3 (100 Questions)
• FULL-LENGTH TESTS – 5 (100 Questions)
• CSAT FULL-LENGTH TESTS – 10 (80 Questions)
• ALL INDIA RANKING
• SELF-ASSESSMENT SYSTEM

It will be shared one month before the prelims.

• Students will benefit from curated topics which can provide them highly probable questions in prelims.
• It will reduce the burden of finding most important topics and make their preparation hassle free.
• It will provide students comprehensiveness in preparation and will enable them to easily revise most probable topics.

What makes ILP even more special is the integration of mains mocks. This will help you learn the art of answer writing from day one. With the VAN and mains mocks with a detailed synopsis, your mains preparation will always be on track.

There will be a total of 57 Mains Tests – 28 Module wise Mains Tests and 12 Current Affairs Mains Tests, 10 Exclusive Essay Tests and 10 Full-Length Tests (2 Cycles of GS1, GS2, GS3, GS4 and Essay) in the programme.

MODULE WISE TESTS – A Mains Test will be provided for every Module along with detailed synopsis. The tests will be conducted at the end of every Module.

CURRENT AFFAIRS TESTS – A Current Affairs Test will be provided every month covering the most relevant issues of the month.

For you to have a daily answer writing practice, a question will be posted every day on the ILP platform. You can write an answer on paper and upload its picture on the platform so that peer review can take place and you can improve. At the end of every module, the compiled question paper and detailed synopsis will be posted so that you can self-evaluate and learn.

9 Exclusive Essay Tests – Theme-Based Topics

There will be Two Cycles of Full-Length Tests (20 Questions) of all the General Studies Papers (a Total of 10 Tests)

GS 1 – 2 FLTs

GS 2 – 2 FLTs

GS 3 – 2 FLTs

GS 4 – 2 FLTs

ESSAY – 2 FLTs

HANDWRITTEN MODEL ANSWERS– Best answers of students will be shared.

• Best-selected answers will boost the morale of the students who are writing them.
• It will boost competition and help students to excel.
• Model answers will help others to curate and improve their answers.

POST-TEST DISCUSSIONS – Discussion videos of main tests will be uploaded to the portal.

• Students will learn to write excellent answers through our discussion videos.
• It will provide value addition in terms of content. Further, they will learn how to structure and present their answers.
• Students can watch these videos at their convenience any number of times.

Infographics will be a part of Value Add Notes (VAN). There are several mental techniques to enhance your learning experience.

The main reasons for this are –

• It is pictographic.
• It helps you to visualize an image rather than the paragraphs. This way it promotes interactive learning and helps you remember facts easily.
• It is crisp, so more information can be squeezed in a small space.
• You wouldn’t require bulky notes before the exam to revise.

Essay is an important part of one’s preparation for the Civil Services exam. Since it is not a subject per se, you can’t read and learn it from the book. The more you’ll gain information on the GS subject, the more equipped you will become to tackle an essay.

In the ILP plan, once a sufficient portion of each subject is covered, we will start your essay preparation. Guidelines will be provided to you on how to write an essay, and then mock essays will be given for practice.

UPSC asks for two types of topics – a static/ factual topic and a philosophical topic. Approach for both is different and will be provided to you as part of the Program. The requisite skills and aptitude to write a scoring Essay shall be imparted with the help of regular guidelines given in the form of writing tips.

• Essay strategy videos
• Framework for theme-wise (Including Philosophical) essays
• Mainspedia Content

Theme wise Essay Tests will be included in the Plan.

Quality peer group for sharing answers and peer review.

• Peer review of answers will help in understanding mistakes and benefit students.
• Best answers can serve as model answers and help students to curate and improve their versions.
• Discussions will strengthen content and improve the number of dimensions students possess.
• Peer groups will keep students motivated and push them to compete, improve and excel.

Most important videos from the YouTube are prioritized and provided in the form of folder in the student’s portal

• Videos of toppers and our experts will provide deep insights and value addition to students.
• Being arranged at a single point, students can access these resources hassle free without scrambling and wasting time.
• Videos will cover the entire gamut of preparation helping students to master Prelims, Mains and Interview.
• Preventing information overload is critical to retain quality information and this section will help students in it.

Monthly strategy and guidance session by IASBABA’s founder/ faculties.

• It will keep students motivated and on the right track.
• Immense experience of our founders who have guided hundreds of successful candidates will enrich the preparation journey of our students with their timely and critical inputs.

Once you clear the Mains Written Examination, the Interview Mentorship Program (IMP) which includes DAF Analysis and Questionnaire, Mock Interview, and One-on-One Session with Founders and Retired Civil Servants and Officers at no extra cost. 

Personality development will begin from the initial time period of the course which will help students to align their preparations for the personality test.

• Recorded videos of interviews will be provided and group discussions will be conducted.
• Includes identification and cultivation of hobbies and interests.

Group discussions will help in building their confidence, improving public speaking skills, forming quality opinions, leadership skills, etc.