Economics Optional Strategy
Initial Preparation: I enrolled in Economics Optional Course at Next IAS by Dr. Vibhas Jha, in June 2021. This went on until October 2021. This course helped me in consolidating my notes, especially for paper 1. I must confess herein that this course did help me immensely, but disproportionately more in paper 1. Paper 2 portions were sort of rushed through, and therefore paper 2 was one paper which I mostly covered after prelims. Furthermore, I did not limit myself to just this course alone. Along with the recorded lectures (which I watched at 2x speed to save time), I read all the standard books suggested by previous toppers. Booklist: Paper 1: Microeconomics: Advanced Economic Theory by H. L. Ahuja Macroeconomics: Froyen and H. L. Ahuja International Economics: Salvatore, and some portions of Paul Krugman’s readings Development Theory: Debraj Ray (I did buy M. L. Jhingan, but it wasn’t very helpful) Public Finance: DU Readings and selected portions of H. L. Bhatia Paper 2: Pre Indepe...