History Optional: Sunday Live Question Discussion
Week 5: 2 June 2024, 8 PM

Hello students, these are the practice questions for Week 5:
1) To what extent can we blame Ashoka for causing the decline of the Mauryan empire? [15 marks]
2) "The Maratha polity disintegrated through internal stress." Critically examine. [2017, 10m]

For participating in the weekly zoom session, register using the link provided. You will receive zoom link at you registered email ID. Link for Registration: https://bit.ly/History_LevelUp

Try writing your answer before the Zoom session so that you can extract maximum out of this initiative.

Nikhil Sheth
#AnswerWritingPractice #SundayLive

Episode 4 of BTQ being released soon. Was Alberuni right to criticize India? What is the politics behind the question? We will try to answer the question using UPSC PYQ from 2023 Paper I. Stay tuned.

#Behindthequestion #PYQ

✨Episode 4 of Behind the Question is out!

https://youtu.be/qyVV9B0xhDs?feature=shared

Watch Nikhil sir and Vishal sir take up and deconstruct a History Optional PYQ, decode the mind of the examiner, and help you understand the proper demand of the questtion.

Super engaging and interesting podcast. Would recommend all to watch it. Must for History Optional students.

Got these three books recently. Although highly academic in nature and mostly focusing on micro topics, there are certain aspects which are very relevant to our syllabus.

We are incorporating the updated content in our upcoming test series and crash course for history optional, designed for 2024 Main exam. Stay tuned for more updates.

#bookreview

#harappa #vedic #artchaeology #genetic

These are the model answers we discussed in detail in our Sunday Live Discussion. So far, we have conducted 5 Sunday Lives. This is the whole compilation.

Next Sunday, we will have our last Sunday Live session before the Prelims. On the day of Prelims, we will not have Sunday Live. We will resume after that.

You can all participate in this open activity on Zoom every Sunday. Share your answer, discuss your doubts, learn how to write a good answer, create arguments and provide supportive facts, and then finally score well in the exam. Provide us your email ID/Phone number to receive Zoom link every Sunday.

#SundayLive #PYQ #AnswerWritingPractice

Allahabad school of history

https://youtu.be/SmTpJ5PyeLw

New episode of BTQ is out. Do watch it for insightful analysis of emerging historiography. We have traced Nur Jahan's assessment through four phases, the final one being the latest Feminist view.

I am sure it will be extremely useful for various other questions in Ancient and Medieval India.

#feminism #Mughal #behindthequestion #pyq #medieval

History Optional: Sunday Live Question Discussion
Week 6: 9 June 2024, 8 PM

Hello students, following are the practice questions for the upcoming Sunday Live discussion:
1) Highlight the impact of socio-economic and political factors on Gupta age society. [15 Marks]
2) Explain how the Permanent Settlement initiated a rule of property in Bengal and what were its consequences? [2022, 20m]

This will be our last Sunday Live before Prelims. The Sunday after that, on 16th, we have Prelims examination. So, we will not conduct Sunday Live on 6th. We will resume after that.

For participating in the weekly zoom session, register using the link provided. You will receive zoom link at you registered email ID. Link for Registration: https://bit.ly/History_LevelUp

Try writing your answer before the Zoom session, so that you can extract maximum out of this initiative.

Nikhil Sheth
#AnswerWritingPractice #SundayLive

#1857revolt #bookreview #modernIndia

https://youtu.be/xgqa6xYJz88

#BTQ #PYQ

The History Optional crash course will start just after Prelim examination. On 21st June, there will be the first lecture. We don't want to wait long because there are two weeks less this year.

There will be total 16 lectures of Crash Course (4 for each section) which will focus on important themes, trending topics and updated historiography in the context of answer writing. There will be 2 lectures per week, and it will finish in 8 weeks.

Separately, there will be 8 tests in Test series.

The detailed date-wise schedule will be published by Sunday. We will also make a small video explaining the features.

Extremely interesting books. Arrived today. Will be using some of the insights from these books in our crash course this time.

One line reference to latest books enhances the quality of answer by ten times.

Best of luck for Prelims tomorrow and see you all in History Crash Course cum Test Series.

Hello,

Here is the announcement of the Crash Course and Test Series for History Optional 2024. It will be a very intense crash course (2 lectures/week) which will focus on analytical understanding of high-yielding topics and historiography as per the latest trends. It will also include personal mentoring by the faculty.

You can see the exact day-wise schedule of the lectures and tests here: https://www.levelupias.com/upsc-cse-history-optional-test-series/

For those who have seen the impact of DAMP, Sunday Live as well as BTQ Explained series, you have already got a glimpse of quality and impact. Both Vishal sir and I are excited for it to begin. This is going to be a very fruitful journey for all of us. Hope to see you there.

Nikhil

Hello students,
This is the schedule of Crash course-cum-Test Series of History Optional for 2024.

There will be 4 detailed lectures on each section (2/week). The lectures will be of around 4 hours each. In each lecture, we will cover about 12-15 themes. Thus, total about 200 very significant themes will be covered in the lectures.

Additionally, the test series will also cover about 100+ themes which will be discussed in video as well as model answers will be provided.

Together, we will cover all the significant themes required for the exam. The focus will strictly remain on analysis, answer writing and updated historiography.

#crashcourse #schedule #testseries

https://youtu.be/0q_aK_3I66E

#crashcourse #testseries