TEXT BOOKS FOR WBCS MAINS EXAMINATION

WBCS (Exe.)/ State Civil Service Examination of Bengal is one of the most coveted exams of the students across the state of Bengal and conduced by WBPSC and is held every year - usually Prelims in Jan/Feb. and Mains are supposed to occur in July/ August.

In that case, you need to have a good command over General Studies. For that, you may read NCERT Class VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI & XII text books or for that matter West Bengal State Education Board’s class VIII, IX, X, XI & XII text books, Lucent /Tarun Goyal's Descriptive GK Book, WBCS GS Manual by Nitin Singhania of MHE Publication , UPSC CSE GS Manual of MHE Publication etc will give you a basic idea about the topics of General Studies.

Now let us see what standard reference books we need to follow for further preparation and getting strong command over subjects. Our focus should be on minimum books, maximum revision.

For History : Krishna Reddy's book on Indian History (Eng version)
( This book covers Indian History as a whole,

questions given at the end of each chapter of

this books are very good and requires repeated revision)

Rajiv Ahir's ' A brief history of modern india’ of Spectrum Publication

(Ref. book-Tamilnadu State education board's class 11 & 12 history book )

Chhaya Bharater Itihas O Swadhinta Sangram in Bengali

Swadesh Sabhyota o biswa by Jiban Mukhopadhyay for bengali version history book.

For Geography : Majid Hussain / D.R. Khullar book on Indian Geography Or Bharat o Paschimbanger Bhugol by Kartick Chandra Mondal

For West Bengal Geography, one should definitely consider Bharat o Paschimbanger Bhugol by Kartick Chandra Mondal .

For Polity : In this paper, aspirants can blindly follow Laxmikanth's Indian Polity of MHE distribution . No other book would be necessary .

For Economy : Ramesh Singh [ INDIAN ECONOMY 13 EDITION 2021-22] / Sankar Ganeshan [ Indian Economy Key Concepts ] / Economy Magbook .

Apart from that ,Class XI NCERT Economy book ' Indian monetary turn of events' Economy plus bit of Nitin Singhani's WBCS GS Manual, Bharater orthoniti by Joydeb Sarkhel for Bengali variant can come handy in the preparations for the exams.

Science+Tech-Science divide UPSC CSE GS Manual by MHE+ Science Magbook by Arihant/Science and Technology book by Rabi Agnihotri of MHE Publication.

Condition WBCS GS Manual by Nitin Singhania Environment divide + Selective parts of Ncert books of Biology and Geography.

For Current Affairs : Any standard Magazine like Pratijogita Darpan/Achievers and Yojana can be useful for your WBCS exam preparation. You may likewise peruse paper standard. Hindu or Indian Express might be tracked with one Bengali day by day paper.

For Mathematics :

Arithmetic Fast track artihmatic by Rajesh Verma of Arihant/Rakesh Yadav's book on arithmatic for SSC CGL / SSC Mathematics by Rakesh Yadav.

You can consider R S Agarwal's verbal and nonverbal book or potentially Rakesh Yadav's book on Reasoning for SSC CGL

For Bengali : Any standard Bengali Essay book composed for HS standard can be helpful along with previous years question papers of WBCS Mains. But to boost up your preparation, I would like to suggest you to follow : MONDAL'S SURE SUCCESS SERIES WBCS MAINS COMPULSORY I & II (BENGALI & ENGLISH) 18 PRACTICE SETS.

For English : SP Bakshi's Arihant Descriptive english plus Objective General English book can boost your preparation for this exam. Also don't ever forget to follow Previous years question papers of WBCS Mains.

Last but not least. As we all know that Practice makes a man (or woman) perfect . So, you have to invest daily 2-3 hours or more to solve MCQ question papers of the aforementioned subjects. For that you can follow : 10000+ Objective MCQs with Explanatory Notes for General Studies UPSC/State PCS/SSC/Banking/Railways/Defence OR General Studies 11000+ MCQs for IAS, PCS, CDS, SSC, NDA, CGL, Railway.

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