#311: Mapping for UPSC PRE25

Apr 11, 2025

Mapping will give you +10 marks easily!🗺️

Smart approach to revise maps for #UPSC 2025?

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Focus areas

• IR & CA
• Indian maps
• General Basics

These are 3 high impacts areas. Covering these will ensure you gain that missing super edge to clear cut off😉

How? Learn👇🏻

1. IR & CA

• War & Conflicts, Disputes, strategic locations are all favs of UPSC

• Keep either digital or lose sheet prints of India/World Maps ready

• Be it newspaper or online, plot places on map and mark regions around it from internet.

eg: 10 months before Pre24, I shared SAHEL on map & guess what? you had a direct Q!

TIP: Plot all major countries of Africa on African map and have a rough visual memory of every country to know what's where, it helps!

2. Indian Maps

Cover mountains, rivers, passes, & other physical features

• Refer 11-12 Geography NCERTs & plot ALL physical features on physical maps (both India & world)

• Use blank maps to practice for active recall

• Tip: Use internet to run through prominent features of non-famous places

small eg: see images, you can spot direct Qs from these in 2024 Pre

(shared these images before 2024, imagine the impact🤯)

3. General Mapping tips

• Till Pre 25, visualize maps any atlas daily 10-15 mins before sleeping (can also refer to world/India map on your wall, if any)

• High impact areas: North/Red/Black/Caspian Sea, Africa, Indo-Pacific islands

• for India, know independent rivers flowing into BoB or Arabian Sea

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