Economics Optional: answer writing, test series and mentorship
UPSC-style normalization across all 48 optionals26 tests (12 sectional + 14 full-length), each evaluated by experts within 2 hours, with model answers written around your own style. Every test gets your All-India rank and your Economics rank.
Papers set on UPSC's own pattern, a verified model answer for every question, every copy evaluated in about 2 hours, and a plan made for your hours.
Choose how you prepare for Economics
Three programmes, one standard: every paper set on UPSC's own pattern, every answer evaluated in about 2 hours, a verified model answer for every question.
Daily answer writing
A 50-mark paper every weekday, module by module through the whole syllabus. Write 35 minutes a day and never fall out of practice.
- Every module tested, the heavy ones again and again
- Real UPSC questions mixed with new ones of the same standard
- Evaluated in about 2 hours, with a model answer
- Your practice days; papers held when you fall behind
Mentorship
Everything you need to clear Economics: study material, a personal plan made for your hours, a test for every module, weekly and topic tests, full UPSC mocks and a mentor.
- Complete, comprehensive study material for every module, designed to score high in Mains: foundation, full notes, quick revision
- A personal plan for your hours and exam date, re-dated when you slip
- Read first, then the module's test; weekly, topic and mock tests in UPSC form
- Every copy reviewed; mentor calls and progress reports
Test series
Topic tests and full-length mocks, each a copy of a real UPSC paper's structure, with an All India Rank after every test.
- Mocks exactly in UPSC form: 8 questions, Q1 and Q5 compulsory, attempt 5
- Every question written for its probability of coming in 2027, printed beside it
- All India Rank and Economics rank after every test
- Change your test dates after joining
PYQ Topicwise · ₹750
Every Economics question UPSC has asked (2014–2026), arranged topic by topic, with how many marks each topic has carried year after year.
PYQ Solutions · ₹1,750
A model answer to every previous year question (2014–2026), module by module: worked step by step, with the figures a topper draws. Get one module free on WhatsApp.
GS + Essay + Economics: opening soon
The same three programmes for GS + Essay + Economics. Prices below; tell us on WhatsApp and we will message you the day it opens.
| Programme | 4 months | 8 months | 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily answer writing | ₹17,999 | ₹27,999 | ₹34,999 |
| Mentorship | ₹49,999 | ₹79,999 | ₹99,999 |
| Test series | Lite ₹17,999 · Full ₹29,999 | ||
GS + Essay: opening soon
The same three programmes for GS + Essay. Prices below; tell us on WhatsApp and we will message you the day it opens.
| Programme | 4 months | 8 months | 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily answer writing | ₹11,999 | ₹19,999 | ₹24,999 |
| Mentorship | ₹34,999 | ₹54,999 | ₹69,999 |
| Test series | Lite ₹12,999 · Full ₹21,999 | ||
Count the tests, not just the price
A test series is usually 8 to 16 tests. Here every rupee buys far more evaluated writing.
Up to 215 papers, each read, marked and returned with a model answer in about 2 hours.
26 tests in the full series: topic tests and mocks that copy real UPSC papers.
Up to 123 tests, with the study material, your personal plan and your mentor at no extra cost.
| What you get | Daily answer writing | Test series | Mentorship |
|---|---|---|---|
| Every copy evaluated in about 2 hours - marks, comments on each answer and a verified model answer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| A test on every module of the syllabus - nothing left untested | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Weekly and topic tests that build the speed and stamina of the real exam | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full mocks set exactly like the UPSC paper, every question written for its probability of coming in 2027 | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| All India Rank after every test - know exactly where you stand | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Complete, comprehensive study material, designed to score high in UPSC Mains - foundation, full notes and quick revision for every module | — | — | ✓ |
| Your own day-by-day study plan, built around your hours - it re-plans itself when you fall behind | — | — | ✓ |
| A mentor beside you - every copy reviewed, mentor calls and progress reports | — | — | ✓ |
Who sets the papers? How good are they?
The question every serious aspirant asks. Here is exactly how every Economics paper is made, and you can check one before you pay.
Built on UPSC's own paper
Each mock copies the structure of a recent UPSC paper: its sections, its questions and parts, its marks. Q1 and Q5 with five 10-mark parts, attempt five, at least one from each section, exactly as in the exam hall.
Weighted by 12 years of UPSC marks
Every topic and module gets questions in proportion to the marks UPSC has given it. You practise most what UPSC asks most.
Real PYQs and new questions of the same standard
Previous-year questions sit beside new questions written to the UPSC standard, each checked against the syllabus and given its chance of coming in 2027.
A verified model answer for every question
Worked step by step, with the figures a topper draws, checked before it is printed. You get it with your evaluated copy.
Reviewed and approved by our faculty
No paper reaches you before it is reviewed and approved. The approval is printed on every page of the paper.
Evaluated in about 2 hours
Your copy comes back marked question by question, with what you missed and how to write it better, while the paper is still fresh in your mind.
See it before you join
Judge the papers, the model answers and the plan yourself.
Write a free test
Get a real Economics paper on WhatsApp, write it, send it back and get it evaluated free. We also send you a solved paper and the sample plans.
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A solved paper
One of our daily papers with its full model answers: see the standard of the questions and how every answer is written.
A sample personal plan
Day by day from the coming Monday: what to read, which test comes when, the revision weeks and the mocks, made for 6 hours a day. Preview the first weeks here; get the whole plan on WhatsApp.
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Questions aspirants ask us
Who sets the question papers?
Every paper is built on the structure of a real UPSC paper and on 12 years of UPSC's marks for each topic, mixes real PYQs with new questions of the same standard, and is reviewed and approved by our faculty before it reaches you. Download the solved sample above and judge it yourself.
Who writes the model answers?
Every question has a model answer worked out step by step, with figures where a topper would draw one, checked before it is printed. You receive it with your evaluated copy.
How fast is the evaluation, and what do I get back?
About 2 hours after you submit. Your copy comes back marked question by question with comments, your marks, the model answer and, in the test series and mocks, your All India Rank.
How do I write and submit?
Print the paper or write on plain A4 sheets with margins, scan the pages into one PDF named with the test code, and send it on WhatsApp or upload it in the IndianCivils app.
Daily answer writing, test series or mentorship: which one is for me?
Daily answer writing keeps you writing every day through the syllabus. The test series checks you in exam conditions with topic tests and full mocks. Mentorship does both and adds the material, a personal plan and a mentor: the complete preparation for the optional.
What if I fall behind my plan?
In the mentorship your plan is re-dated around your real pace. In daily answer writing new papers wait while you have several unwritten ones, so nothing piles up.
Test series timetable
12 topic tests, then 14 full UPSC mocks, at the weekend, from your batch's first week. A free weekend follows every mock, to work on its evaluation.
| Test | Type | What it covers | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Topic test | Paper I - Topic test 1: Advanced Micro Economics | Week 1 · Sat (FN) |
| 2 | Topic test | Paper II - Topic test 2: Indian Economy in Pre-Independence Era | Week 2 · Sat (FN) |
| 3 | Topic test | Paper I - Topic test 3: Advanced Macro Economics | Week 3 · Sat (FN) |
| 4 | Topic test | Paper II - Topic test 4: Indian Economic Thought and National Income | Week 4 · Sat (FN) |
| 5 | Topic test | Paper I - Topic test 5: Money Banking and Finance | Week 5 · Sat (FN) |
| 6 | Topic test | Paper II - Topic test 6: Agriculture before 1991; Industry before 1991 | Week 6 · Sat (FN) |
| 7 | Topic test | Paper I - Topic test 7: International Economics | Week 7 · Sat (FN) |
| 8 | Topic test | Paper II - Topic test 8: Agricultural Reforms after 1991; Industrial Policy after 1991 | Week 8 · Sat (FN) |
| 9 | Topic test | Paper I - Topic test 9: Growth and Development | Week 9 · Sat (FN) |
| 10 | Topic test | Paper II - Topic test 10: Trade and Exchange Rate Regime; Public Finance and Monetary Policy | Week 10 · Sat (FN) |
| 11 | Topic test | Paper I - Topic test 11: Growth and Development | Week 11 · Sat (FN) |
| 12 | Topic test | Paper II - Topic test 12: Planning and Employment | Week 12 · Sat (FN) |
| 13 | Full mock | Paper I - Full mock 1 | Week 13 · Sat (FN) |
| 14 | Full mock | Paper II - Full mock 1 | Week 13 · Sat (AN) |
| 15 | Full mock | Paper I - Full mock 2 | Week 15 · Sat (FN) |
| 16 | Full mock | Paper II - Full mock 2 | Week 15 · Sat (AN) |
| 17 | Full mock | Paper I - Full mock 3 | Week 17 · Sat (FN) |
| 18 | Full mock | Paper II - Full mock 3 | Week 17 · Sat (AN) |
| 19 | Full mock | Paper I - Full mock 4 | Week 19 · Sat (FN) |
| 20 | Full mock | Paper II - Full mock 4 | Week 19 · Sat (AN) |
| 21 | Full mock | Paper I - Full mock 5 | Week 21 · Sat (FN) |
| 22 | Full mock | Paper II - Full mock 5 | Week 21 · Sat (AN) |
| 23 | Full mock | Paper I - Full mock 6 | Week 23 · Sat (FN) |
| 24 | Full mock | Paper II - Full mock 6 | Week 23 · Sat (AN) |
| 25 | Full mock | Paper I - Full mock 7 | Week 25 · Sat (FN) |
| 26 | Full mock | Paper II - Full mock 7 | Week 25 · Sat (AN) |
The Lite series takes 6 of these topic tests and 3 mock rounds. Dates don't suit you? Change your test dates after joining.
Economics Optional syllabus
The UPSC syllabus this test series covers, topic by topic.
Economics - PAPER-I · 5 topics, 31 modules
- Advanced Micro Economics
- Price Determination: (a) Marshallian and Walrasian Approaches to Price determination
Theory of Distribution: (b) Alternative Distribution Theories : Ricardo, Kaldor, Kalecki
Monopolistic Competition: (c) Markets Structure : Monopolistic Competition
Oligopoly: Duopoly, Oligopoly
Welfare Economics: (d) Modern Welfare Criteria : Pareto Hicks and Scitovsky
Social Choice Theory: Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem; A. K. Sen’s Social Welfare Function - Advanced Macro Economics
- Classical Macroeconomics: Advance Macro Economics: Approaches to Employment Income and Interest Rate determination : Classical
IS-LM Model: Keynes (IS-LM) curve
New Classical Economics: Neo-classical synthesis and New classical
Interest Rate Theories: Theories of Interest Rate determination and Interest Rate Structure - Money Banking and Finance
- Money Supply: (a) Demand for and Supply of Money : Money Multiplier
Money Demand: Quantity Theory of Money (Fisher, Pigou and Friedman) and Keynes’ Theory on Demand for Money
Monetary Policy Theory: Goals and Instruments of Monetary Management in Closed and Open Economies; Relation between the Central Bank and the Treasury; Proposal for ceiling on growth rate of money
Public Finance: (b) Public Finance and its Role in market economy : in stabilization of supply, allocation of resources and in distribution and development
Taxation: Sources of Government revenue, forms of Taxes and Subsidies, their incidence and effects; Limits to taxation
Public Debt: loans, crowding-out effects and limits to borrowings
Public Expenditure: Public expenditure and its effects - International Economics
- International Trade Theory: (a) Old and New theories of International Trade; (i) Comparative advantage; (iii)Product cycle and Strategic trade theories; (iv)Trade as an engine of growth and theories of underdevelopment in an open economy
Terms of Trade: (ii)Terms of Trade and offer curve
Trade Policy: (b) Forms of protection : Tariff and quota; (v)Trade Policy and Developing Countries
Balance of Payments: (c) Balance of Payments Adjustments : Alternative Approaches; (i)Price versus income, income adjustments under fixed exchange rates
Open Economy Macroeconomics: (ii)Theories of Policy mix; (iii)Exchange rate adjustments under capital mobility; (iv)Floating Rates and their implications for developing Countries: Currency Boards; (vi)BOP, adjustments and Policy Coordination in open economy macro-model; (vii)Speculative attacks
Economic Integration: (viii)Trade Blocks and Monetary Unions
WTO: (ix) WTO : Trims, TRIPS, Domestic Measures, Different Rounds of WTO talks - Growth and Development
- Growth Models: (a) (i)Theories of growth : Harrod’s model; (iii)Balanced Unbalanced Growth
Endogenous Growth: (iv)human capitals and Economic Growth; (v)Research and Development and Economic Growth
Structural Transformation: (ii)Lewis model of development with surplus labour; (b) Process of Economic Development of less developed countries: Myrdal and Kuznets on economic development and structural change: Role of Agriculture in Economic Development of less developed countries
Trade and Development: (c) Economic Development and International Trade and Investment, Role of Multinationals
Development Planning: (d) Planning and economic Development: changing role of Markets and Planning, Private-Public Partnership
Human Development: (e) Welfare indicators and measures of growth—Human development indices; The basic needs approach
Sustainable Development: (f) Development and Environmental Sustainability—Renewable and Non Renewable Resources, Environmental Degradation, Intergenerational equity development
Economics - PAPER-II · 9 topics, 32 modules
- Indian Economy in Pre-Independence Era
- Colonial Economic Policy: Land System and its changes; Laissez faire theory and critique; Money and Credit
Drain Theory: Commercialization of agriculture Drain theory
Modern Industry: Manufacture and Transport: Jute; Cotton
Railways: Railways - Indian Economic Thought and National Income
- Indian Economic Thought: Indian Economy after Independence; Contribution of Vakil, Gadgil and V.K.R.V. Rao
National Income: National and Per capita income: patterns, trends, aggregate and Sectoral composition and changes therein
Income Distribution: Broad factors determining National Income and distribution
Poverty Measurement: Measures of poverty
Poverty and Inequality: Trends in poverty and inequality - Agriculture before 1991
- Land Reforms: Agriculture: Land Reforms and land tenure system
Green Revolution: Green Revolution and capital formation in agriculture - Industry before 1991
- Industrial Growth: Industry: Trends in composition and growth
Public and Private Sectors: Role of public and private sector
Small-Scale Industries: Small scale and cottage industries - Agricultural Reforms after 1991
- Agriculture and WTO: New Economic Reform and Agriculture: Agriculture and WTO
Agricultural Investment: Food processing; Impact of public expenditure on agricultural growth
Agricultural Subsidies: subsidies
Agricultural Price Policy: Agricultural prices and public distribution system - Industrial Policy after 1991
- Industrial Policy: New Economic Policy and Industry: Strategy of industrialization
Privatization and Disinvestment: Privatization; Disinvestments
Foreign Direct Investment: Role of foreign direct investment and multinationals - Trade and Exchange Rate Regime
- Intellectual Property Rights: New Economic Policy and Trade: Intellectual property rights : Implications of TRIPS
Foreign Trade Policy: TRIMS; GATS and new EXIM policy
Exchange Rate Regime: New Exchange Rate Regime: Partial and full convertibility
Capital Account Convertibility: Capital account convertibility - Public Finance and Monetary Policy
- FRBM Act: New Economic Policy and Public Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Act
Fiscal Federalism: Twelfth Finance Commission and Fiscal Federalism and Fiscal Consolidation
Monetary Reforms after 1991: New Economic Policy and Monetary system: Role of RBI under the new regime - Planning and Employment
- Indicative Planning: From central Planning to indicative planning
Decentralized Planning: Relation between planning and markets for growth and decentralized planning: 73rd and 74th Constitutional amendments
Employment and Poverty: New Economic Policy and Employment: Employment and poverty; Rural wages
Poverty Alleviation: Employment Generation; Poverty alleviation schemes; New Rural, Employment Guarantee Scheme
Free PYQ solutions
One module's previous year questions with full model answers, worked step by step with the figures a topper draws. We send it to you on WhatsApp.
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Every module, UPSC 2014–2026, topic by topic:
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Where UPSC has awarded marks, topic by topic. Focus on what scores, and compare your test results once you join.
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