History Optional (UPSC)
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I am Nikhil Sheth, History faculty at Level Up IAS. This channel is started to cater to the needs of History Optional in UPSC CSE.
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🏆History Optional Sunday LIVE Orientation session

28th July | 11 am | FREE-Open to all | Online-Offline

🔴Session highlights:
1.⁠ ⁠Orientation for History Optional Sunday LIVE program
2.⁠ ⁠⁠Demo and walkthrough of History Optional mentorship process
3.⁠ ⁠Approach for 300+ in History Optional
4.⁠ ⁠Detailed strategy for World History

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Important message from LevelUp IAS !

Due to the tragic incident that occurred late last night, a profound sense of sorrow has enveloped the entire Old Rajnedra Nagar community. The gravity of this event has deeply affected us all, and we mourn alongside those impacted by this unfortunate occurrence. Our thoughts and sympathies are with everyone who is grieving during this difficult time.

As a mark of respect, the institute will remain closed (both online and offline) for one day on 28th July. Classes will resume on 29th July. The revised schedule for today's lectures and tests will be announced shortly.

We advise all students to remain at home and stay safe.

Team LevelUp IAS
Regarding Sunday Live

Hello, we are keeping on hold today's session of Sunday Live in this tragedy. The revised schedule of Sunday Live will be conveyed soon.

Nikhil
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Subject : Suspension of classes from 29th -31st July.

Dear Students,

In light of the recent tragic and shocking incident, we are suspending our classes from July 29th to 31st. This event has deeply affected our community, and our hearts go out to everyone impacted.

During this period, we will focus on ensuring the safety and well-being of our students. We also want to assure you that all missed classes will be compensated in the coming days.

Thank you for your understanding and patience during this challenging time.
🙏

Team LevelUp IAS
I see that on our History Optional channel, classroom lectures are being watched by many people but the views being fetched by the associated QnA discussion are not equal.

What is the reason? Are the students simply not interested in the QnA or there is some other reason? Please let us know.
Update

We will have Sunday Live on this Sunday 4th of August. The details will be updated here soon. If you have already registered, you don't need to do it again. You will get the link and a reminder in your mailbox a day before.
🏆FREE History Optional Sunday LIVE Orientation session (updated)

Fill up the form for Direct Zoom link: https://bit.ly/History_LevelUp and Register FREE

4th August | 11 am | FREE-Open to all | Online-Offline

🔴Session highlights:
1.⁠ ⁠Orientation for History Optional Sunday LIVE program
2.⁠ ⁠⁠Demo and walkthrough of History Optional mentorship process
3.⁠ ⁠Approach for 300+ in History Optional
4.⁠ ⁠Detailed strategy for World History

Register FREE | Limited seats
World History Sources.pdf
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This document provides chapter-wise sources to be used for World History. Different books have different strengths. This way, you get to know which part is best given where.

For students, who have registered for Sunday Live, the class handouts will be more than sufficient. There is no need to go to these books. I have already referred these books and many more.

However, for those who want to do self-study, this is a good guide.

Best of Luck.
Nikhil
Week 1 Sunday Live.pdf
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This is the tentative schedule and program for Sunday Live.
We have two-three more lectures to go. Lecture 43 will be the last lecture of World History.

It has been a great run. We received a very warm response from the students. There are about 100+ students who are following it every day. And many more are following with some backlog.

After the World History, we will start with Ancient India. It is covered by Vishal sir. Ancient India will also go for about 40 lectures. So, we can expect that section by the third week of September, when our Mains students will go to write Mains 2024.

So, at that time, we will have finished two complete sections (50% of the syllabus). We will be on time to finish everything before the end of January. This is a very good pace.

We have also started with answer writing in Sunday Live. The pace there will gradually pick up in coming days.
Dr Ambedkar objected to the Khilafat cause on these two grounds (which Gandhiji had supported). Extremely intelligent person who displays here a very sensitive awareness of international developments.

(From Pakistan or The Partition of India by Ambedkar)
Week 1 Answers.pdf
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This is the document prepare for Sunday Live program.

Every week, we will have two themes
(a) Discuss one theme related to answer writing. For example, for week 2, it will be how to write introduction?

(b) Topic-wise answer writing practice, with threadbare discussion and model answers. These questions are provided in one week advanced. The questions for Week 2 will be posted today and students will get time to read/revise the syllabus accordingly. As far as possible, we try to keep the answers in word limit (about 200-300 words), which is practically required.

(c) These model answers are just indicative. What we discuss in class is actually various ways of approaching the same questions. It helps us appreciate the demand of the question better and improves critical thinking.