Hi Everyone,
We are extremely happy to announce that we have entered into the fourth year of this initiative and launching Prelims Test Series for UPSC Prelims Exam 2023. It will not only give you confidence but will also take your preparation to another level and help you clear this examination.
So, before we introduce our Test Series to you, a small look at the “schedule for 2023” and “cut off” for 2021 exam.

A message from Abhishek Sir (Founder, Goaltide IAS) UPSC Prelims is the most crucial stage of your preparation. Bus yhan pe aapko koi galti ni karni h…In a very short span of time we have given more than 100 selections in UPSC Prelims exam. You need to understand Prelims exam very minutely. If you don’t practice the right questions, it is very difficult for an average student to clear Prelims exam. We have planned everything for you, just we need is your strong determination. And in the end, I will say this with full responsibility that no one in India will provide you such preparation for Prelims exam. Join us and make your way ahead for Mains 2023…

Cut-off for 2021 Exam:

So, if we talk about General candidate, cut off is less than 50 percent. It simply means, you need to do 44 questions correct. Even if we see cut off of last few years, it is not more than 50 percent. So, two things we can infer from here:

Question paper is so tough that students find it difficult to even score 50 percent.

We need to score only 50 percent to clear UPSC Prelims Exam.

 First of all, why we choose Test Series? Why we need to solve them?                                  
You need to understand both.
There are three important purposes of Test Series.

• To give you confidence (when you score GOOD in Test Papers)
• More and more learning: If in any Test Series, you score good in every paper, then the series output is very poor. You should score high as well as there should be great learning.
• To evaluate yourself: To Prepare yourself for exam.

Other most important reason is:

For last few years, trends of exam are in a way that you need lot of experience and practice before exam. Questions are not direct and factual. If you have not practiced best, it becomes very difficult to clear UPSC Prelims Exam.
So, what should we do now? We need to join Prelims Tests Series. Now, the Question comes which Test Series you should join. Now to answer this, you need to understand one example here:

When Indian players go for Olympic, their training is totally different from domestic matches. Similarly, when you are writing UPSC, your practice and training should be different. You need coaches which will train you for UPSC Paper, not just completing your syllabus and saying tata, bye- bye.

Those students who have given few attempts know well how other Test Series disappoint you every year after Prelims exam. But this time you are on track of choosing the Best UPSC PRELIMS TEST SERIES.

You need to understand here. You prepare for almost one year. There are several mistakes you do. In the end, if Test Series crashes you, you stand nowhere.
You have enough time, You have good material, You are working hard,
All you need now is a final push. And that final push becomes very crucial. We don’t want you to go wrong at this stage of your preparation, that’s why we have brought GOALTIDE PRELIMS TEST SERIES 2023.
Before understanding about Goaltide, you should try to understand the core of UPSC Prelims paper.

UPSC Prelims Paper is always divided into two categories- Category 1 and 2

CATEGORY 1 (Easy and Moderate)

CATEGORY 2 (Tough)

There is always one category, say category 1, which is ‘easy’ to ‘moderate’ and which you may have encountered during your preparation. Second category, say category 2, questions are ‘difficult’ to
‘very tough’, which are very new to us, where guess work doesn’t work and also very difficult to
eliminate options. The number of questions in both the categories are almost same, i.e., 50.
So, it is very much clear that we need to focus on category 1 questions which are easy and familiar to us. And how we will achieve this?
We need to just focus on Time Management and Accuracy. And both can be achieved when you practice UPSC level questions before Prelims Exam.
Now,

We find two major problems with Test Series available in markets:

• • Most of the questions are outdated. No relevance in today’s scenario.
  • There is huge gap between available Test Series and UPSC asked questions. You will never be able to prepare yourself with the help of such questions.

But why most of the students practice them?

• It’s a brand now. Students are bound to choose them.
• Huge advertisements. They influence students.
• Large number of Tests. It attracts students.
• Last, but not the least, they have not heard of any good ones, For example, Goaltide Prelims Test Series.

So, where these Test Papers lack? What are the consequences? Read carefully.

• It will never ever prepare you for the test, you are going to take in examination hall.
• You can never gauge your performance based on the scores of these Tests (solving irrelevant questions make no sense)
• Before examination, you have to deal with all irrelevant topics in these papers while revising.

How Goaltide works?                                             
Goaltide is an institution which is fully dedicated towards UPSC Prelims Exam. We prepare students to learn basic elements required to clear UPSC Prelims Exam. How we train students?

• Our first stage of training students will be Daily Quiz which we publishe daily from Monday to Friday. These daily questions will lay your foundation. You will learn all basics from these questions. For example, how question is asked, how statements are put, how we should choose options, etc.
• We frame all questions from original website, drafts, government documents, etc. We don’t refer to any secondary sources to frame questions. So, the output is, every information is correct and you are learning everything with zero percent error.
• Our questions will not only try to fail you at every step but also give you the best learning from it. We believe you must fail many times before the exam, that’s the best learning from any Test Series.
• A simple principle you have to follow: Practice less but quality questions. Asking a large number of tests will definitely contain outdated and irrelevant questions. What we will provide you in 43 Tests (50 questions), you will never learn such concepts from anywhere. Concepts and clarity are very important to understand this exam.
• People say 24*7, but we actually provide doubt service for around 20 hours. We respond to every query. If it is simple, we reply through message or else we call to explain big doubts. The test series which don’t provide quality explanations and carry your doubts, just discard them. They are of no use.
• Those students who find it difficult to solve directly UPSC based paper, we have kept 20 Tests of 50 questions each of NCERTS to generate a grip. It will give you the confidence to solve advanced questions.
• A sense of CONFIDENCE. The best review we get from our students are: Sir, the paper was tough but our confidence was well enough to handle such questions. And they all cleared Prelims.Confidence is the key to clearing the Prelims exam. If you gain confidence before exam, you will never be defeated. And you will get enough confidence once you solve all our Papers.
• Complete coverage of all important current affairs from June 2022 to May 2023. Nothing important will be left. Apart from all basic questions (which you can easily solve), we will train you with all difficult questions, all small concepts, and approaches.

For General Studies, we have 43 Test Papers. 36 Papers have 50 questions each and 7 Papers are Full length Tests of 100 questions each.

 

Subject (General Studies, UPSC Based)	No of Tests
Polity	5
History	5
Economics	4
Environment and Ecology	3
Geography	3
Science and Technology	2
Map Based Tests	3
Current Affairs Based Tests	11
Full Length Tests	7
Total	43

For CSAT based Tests, we have total 5 Tests. Practice before going for exam.

Schedule and Syllabus. 

Note: The test has already started in June, but it doesn't matter. We have subject-specific in the beginning tests and everything is update version. The day you do, you will get all the tests from the first Test. A doubt session will be open from the first Test. Timings are flexible. You can give a test anytime you want. (For any query, directly call 8512889220)

POLITY

Polity is a very important subject of the UPSC Exam. Without polity, you can’t clear your UPSC Prelims exam. But the best part of polity is it is interesting and the syllabus is defined. Once you complete all polity questions from daily Quiz and Test Series, nothing is left for your exam. We will cover polity extensively. So, don’t worry”.

1. Polity: NCERT Class IX – Political Science: Democratic Politics Part – I 2. Polity: NCERT Class X – Political Science: Democratic Politics Part – II 3. Polity: NCERT Class XI – Political Science: Indian Constitution at Work 4. Polity: NCERT Class XII – Political Science II: Politics in India since Independence 5. LAXMIKANT 6. CONSTITUION OF INDIA

TEST no.	Subject	Date	Questions	Syllabus
1	Polity, Constitution & Governance	27 June, 2022	50	Constitutional development, Preamble, Union and its territory, citizenship
2	Polity, Constitution & Governance	4 July, 2022	50	Fundamental rights, Fundamental duties, DPSP, Amendment, Basic structure
3	Polity, Constitution & Governance	11 July, 2022	50	Judiciary, Executive, federalism, centre- state relations
4	Polity, Constitution & Governance	18 July, 2022	50	Legislature, Panchayati Raj & Schedule, Constitutional bodies & non-constitutional bodies & other constitutional dimensions
5	Polity, Constitution & Governance	25 July, 2022		Miscellaneous Questions

 

HISTORY
“History is a story of more than 1000 years. We as an aspirant can never cover entire history of India. We don’t have any defined syllabus or book for History. So, we need to focus on our basic books. Ek baar basics cover ho jaaye then we should not be worrying about History. Any question outside basics will be difficult for every student”.

7. History: NCERT Class VI – Our Past - I 8. History: NCERT Class VII – Our Past - II 9. History: NCERT Class VIII – Our Past III 10. History: NCERT Class IX – India and the Contemporary World – I 11. History: NCERT Class X – India and the Contemporary World – II 12. Old NCERT (Class 11) - Ancient India by R S Sharma 13. Old NCERT (Class 11) - Medieval India by Satish Chandra 14. History: NCERT Class XII – Themes in Indian History – I 15. History: NCERT Class XII – Themes in Indian History – II 16. History: NCERT Class XII – Themes in Indian History – III 17. Spectrum - A Brief History of Modern India

	Subject	Date	Questions	Syllabus
6	History & Culture	1 August 2022	50	Stone Copper Phase, Indus valley civilization, Vedic age & , Maurya empire, Gupta empire & Harsha empire, and Historical & cultural development in South India
7	History & Culture	8 August 2022	50	Chola empire, Vijaya Nagar Kingdom & other south Indian kingdom, Delhi Sultanate, Mughal empire, Bhakti & Sufi movement, Performing Arts and Architecture, Buddhism, and Jainism
8	History & Culture	15 August 2022	50	Indian Languages, Literature, Religion & Philosophy and education system & Science and Technology, Painting,
9	History & Culture	22 August 2022	50	From the decline of the Mughal Empire till the formation of the Indian National Congress.  From the formation of the Indian National Congress till the Civil Disobedience
10	History & Culture	29 August 2022	50	Movement. Developments after the Civil Disobedience Movement till Independence; along with History of Education, Press, Social Movements – Women, Dalit, Labour, Peasant. Constitutional Developments during British Rule

ECONOMICS

“The only thing here you need to develop is your concepts. Don’t run when you read economics. Give your proper time to it. There is very less to memorize. Just need to interlink various topics. And one more thing, Polity and economics are the only subjects which will help you to clear UPSC Prelims exam”

1. NCERT (Class 11) – India Economic Development 2. NCERT (Class 12) – Introductory Macroeconomics 3. NCERT (Class 12) - Introductory Microeconomics 4. Budget and Economic Survey 5. Any one: Mural videos, Ramesh Singh, Vivek Singh

 

	Subject	Date	Questions	Syllabus
11	Economic – Social Development	12 September, 2022	50	Economic overview, planning & national income Inclusive growth & SDG
12	Economic – Social Development	19 September, 2022	50	Banking, finance & inflation, Planning & Government budget
13	Economic –Social Development	26 September, 2022	50	Agriculture & Industry, External sectors & international organisations
14	Economic –Social Development	3 October, 2022		Miscellaneous Questions

GEOGRAPHY

 “The portion of Geography is very less as compared to other subjects in UPSC Prelims exam, but then it doesn’t mean we won’t study this. This is equally important as other subjects. In Geography there are lot of topics which you need to prepare. NCERTs will give you only basics”

1. Geography: NCERT Class VI – The Earth Our Habitat 2. Geography: NCERT Class VII – Our Environment 3. Geography: NCERT Class VIII – Resource and Development 4. Geography: NCERT Class IX – Contemporary India – I 5. Geography: NCERT Class X – Contemporary India – II 6. Geography: NCERT Class XI – Fundamentals of Physical Geography 7. Geography: NCERT Class XI – India – Physical Environment 8. Geography: NCERT Class XII – Fundamentals of Human Geography 9. Geography: NCERT Class XII – India – People and Economy 10. VAJIRAM GEOGRAPHY NOTES. 11. PMF Notes. 12. Self-preparation of notes is very important.

	Subject	Date	Questions	Syllabus
15	Geography	10 October,	50	Geological Structure, Physiography & Drainage system & map
16	Geography	17 October, 2022	50	Climate, Natural Vegetation, Soils, Agriculture, resources, population composition & census, Transport& map, Natural Hazards & disasters & Multipurpose projects & map
17	Geography	24 October, 2022	50	Geomorphology & Hydrosphere, Climatology, Biogeography and Social & economic geography

Environment and Ecology

“This is interesting. This subject contains maximum topics in exam. They are mix of basics and current news. We will cover this subject extensively from various important sources. So, no need to worry much about this subject”.

1. Biology (Class XII) Chapters 13, 14, 15 & 16. 2. Shankar IAS Environment booklet 3. Environment & Ecology news from News.

	Subject	Date	Questions	Syllabus
18	Environment, Ecology & Biodiversity	1 November, 2022	50	Organisms and Populations & Ecosystem
19	Environment, Ecology & Biodiversity	7 November, 2022	50	Environment, Environmental issues and Climate Change
20	Environment, Ecology & Biodiversity	14 November, 2022	50	Biodiversity & Conservation

 

Science and Technology

“There will be two tests of Science and Technology. All important Questions will be covered. But you won’t miss NCERTs of Science and Technology”.

	Subject	Date	Questions	Syllabus Entire
21	Scienceand Technology	21 NOVEMBER, 2022	50	Syllabus
21	Scienceand Technology	28 NOVEMBER, 2022	50	Entire Syllabus

NCERT TESTS

Test No	Subject	Date	Questions
1	Polity	23 June ,2022	50
2	Polity	29 June ,2022	50
3	Polity	5 July ,2022	50
4	Polity	10 July ,2022	50
5	History	13 July ,2022	50
6	History	18 July,2022	50
7	History	23 July,2022	50
8	History	26 July ,2022	50
9	History	2 Aug,2022	50
10	History	7 Aug,2022	50
11	Economics	12 Aug ,2022	50
12	Economics	17 Aug,2022	50
13	Geo/Environment	22 Aug ,2022	50
14	Geo/Environment	27 Aug ,2022	50
15	Geo/Environment	1 Sep ,2022	50
16	Geo/Environment	7 Sep ,2022	50
17	Geo/Environment	12 Sep ,2022	50
18	Science and Technology	20 Sep ,2022	50
19	Science and Technology	25 Sep ,2022	50
20	Science and Technology	30 Sep ,2022	50

MAP TESTS- 2

S. No	SUBJECT	QUESTIONS	DATE
1.	MAP TEST	50	17 DEC, 2022
2.	MAP TEST	50	25 DEC, 2022

New Schedule for Current Affairs and Full-length Tests

Date	Test Topics
1. 9 January, 2023	June 2022 Current Affairs Test
2. 16 January, 2023	July Current Affairs
3. 23 January, 2023	August Current Affairs
4. 30 January, 2023	September Current Affairs
5. 6 February, 2023	October Current Affairs
6. 27 February, 2023	November/ December CurrentAffairs
7. 9 March,2023	January 2023 Current Affairs
8. 13 March, 2023	February Current Affairs
9. 23 March, 2023	First Full-length Test
10. 26 March, 2023	Second Full- Length Test (Economic Surveyand Budget)
11. 31 March, 2023	Third Full- Length Test
12. 4 April,2023	March Current Affairstest
13. 14 April,2023	Fourth Full Length test
14. 25 April,2023	Fifth Full Length Test
15. 2 May, 2023	AprilCurrent Affairs
16. 10 May, 2023	Sixth Full Length test
17. 15 may,2023	Seventh Full Length test

CSAT Tests:

Test 44 to 48 will be your CSAT based Tests. That will be posted before 1st May.

PAYMENT STRUCTURE:

Only GS: There are total 43 tests. It will cost you 3800 Rs.<

(GS+ CSAT): There is total 48 Tests. It will cost you 4200 Rs. <

(GS+NCERTs): There are total 63 Tests. It will cost you 4800 Rs.<

(GS+CSAT+NCERTs): There are total 68 Tests. It will cost you 5000 Rs.