Booklist and Strategy For Paper 2

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Booklist and Strategy for Paper 2
JULY 23, 2015 / NITISH K

Paper II
Abstract Algebra: This being my favourite topic, I had referred

many books. But as many candidates find this topic tough, I would
suggest referring to following books.
a) Abstract Algebra, Group Theory by R Kumar (Vardhaman

Publications)
b) Abstract Algebra, Ring Theory by R Kumar (Vardhaman

Publications)
c) Abstract Algebra by Joseph Gallian (optional)
Real Analysis:
a) Mathematical Analysis by Malik and Arora
b) Real Analysis by MD Raisinghania
Complex Analysis:
a) Krishna Series
Linear Programming:
a) Operations Research by JK Sharma or Kanti Swarup or Krishna

Series
Partial Differential Equations:
a) ODE and PDE by MD Raisinghania
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b) Engineering Maths by Grewal : for boundary value problems
c) Advanced Differential Equations by M.D Raisinghania (for

boundary value problems)
Numerical Analysis and Computer programming:
a) Numerical Methods by Jain and Iyengar (but questions are not

coming from this book from past few years)
b) Numerical Analysis chapter from Grewal, Engineering

Mathematics
c) For Algorithms and flowcharts, I am having soft copy of a book

which I will share.
Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics:
a) Fluid Dynamics by MD Raisinghania
b) Krishna Series, Dynamics for Moment of Inertia and D

Alembert’s Principle
c) Krishna Series, Rigid Dynamics for Lagrangian and Hamiltonian.

(Unfortunately this is a poorly wri en book with lot of mistakes.
Will try to upload material for these topics)
Strategy:
1. Usually Paper II is tough for many. Hence if you are able to

master it, then you will able to score very high compared to
others
2. Abstract Algebra is a unique topic. Either you like the topic or
you don’t. In first case it will be easy otherwise very tough. I
loved the topic and did not read it from exam point of view. If
you are finding it tough, I would suggest you to do it from 10
markers point of view. There is no point in spending a lot of
time on Abstract Algebra as you won’t be rewarded
proportionately. The same time could be used for studying other
topics of Maths or GS, which would fetch much more marks. For
10 markers point of view, read books (a) and (b) mentioned
above. Memorize all the theorems. Skip proofs of theorems which
are big, particularly in Permutation groups, Cayley’s theorem,
PID, Euclidean Domain and UFDs. On the other hand, if you are
comfortable with Abstract algebra and want to do it in a detailed
manner, I will shortly share various e-books, pdfs etc.
3. For Real Analysis, Malik and Arora is the best. You can
supplement it by MD Raisinghania. I felt it is be er to leave the
proofs. Focus more on Riemann Integral, Improper Integrals and
Series and Sequences of functions.
4. Linear Programming: I feel books for MBA like JK Sharma are

wri en more clearly that Krishna Series.
5. PDE: Even though not mentioned in syllabus, Charpit’s method
has to be covered as questions are regularly asked. For
Boundary Value problems (heat equation etc.) first read from
Grewal. For more types of problems you should refer to book (c)
mentioned above in the booklist.
6. Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics: From last year UPSC has
started mixing questions from PDE, Numerical Analysis and
Fluid & Rigid Dynamics. Therefore to score high it has become
imperative to cover this topic. But the problem is the syllabus
has been vaguely defined and there is confusion about which
topics are there in syllabus. By analyzing past years question
papers. I covered only the following topics. In Fluid dynamics
cover Kinematics of Fluids in Motion, Equations of Motions of
Inviscid Fluids, Sources and Sinks, Vortex Motion. No need to
see proof of any theorems. From Navier Stokes equations, just
try to see only solved examples. For Rigid Dynamics, cover
those topics mentioned in booklist above.
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59 thoughts on “Booklist and Strategy

for Paper 2”
1. sahil malhotra
JULY 24, 2015 AT 3:33 PM
First of all congratulations to you for such a great success and
thanks for sharing your stratergy. Sir could you please clarify
which topics we could leave (without compromising
preparation ) from ABSTRACT ALGEBRA as there are many
topics/chapters in between the topics given in the syllabus. I am
following khanna and bhambri for this.
1.Preliminaries, 2.Groups, 3.Normal Subgroups,
Homomorphisms, Permutation Groups, 4.Automorphisms and
Conjugate Elements, 5.Sylow Theorems and Direct Products,
6.Group Actions, Solvable and Nilpotent Groups, 7.Rings,
8.Homomorphisms and Imbedding of Rings, 9.Euclidean and
Factorization Domains, 10.Vector Spaces, 11.Linear
Transformations, 12.Eigen Values and Eigen Vectors, 13.Fields,
14.More on Fields
Sir are chapters 4,5,6 are in syllabus?
REPLY
Nitish K
JULY 24, 2015 AT 5:22 PM

5.Sylow Theorems and Direct Products
6.Group Actions, Solvable and Nilpotent Groups
10.Vector Spaces
11.Linear Transformations
12.Eigen Values and Eigen Vectors
13.Field
14.More on Fields
The above topics can be left.Chapters 10 to 12 will anyway be
covered in Linear Algebra.
In chapter 4, Automorphisms needs to be done. Also from

conjugacy classes, a question was asked in 2012/2013
REPLY
sahil malhotra
JULY 25, 2015 AT 5:22 AM
Thanks sir for clearing the doubts.
Regards
sahil
2. Raj
JULY 26, 2015 AT 11:30 AM
Can you please provide (in your own handwriting) the flow
chart for Simpson’s one-third rule [Q 7(b), paper 2, CSE 2014]?
Also, its algorithm if possible. I’m facing a bit difficulty in
drawing flowcharts and writing algorithms.
REPLY
Nitish K
JULY 26, 2015 AT 12:30 PM
I will try to upload flowcharts for all methods in few days
REPLY
3. sahil malhotra
JULY 26, 2015 AT 2:22 PM
Please sir if possible upload them, this topic is still the weakest
part of my preparation.
Regards
sahil
REPLY
4. pankaj gupta
JULY 26, 2015 AT 2:54 PM
i am bit weak on alhorithm and flow chart . palese help . upload
material. also FOR MODEL ANSWER FOR UPSC 2014 MAINS
ALSO UPLOAD SO THAT WE UNDERSTAND HOW
SOLUITION BE WRITTEN IN UPSC
REPLY
Nitish K
JULY 26, 2015 AT 4:13 PM
I have already uploaded 7-8 of my answer sheets which I
wrote in test series, 2014. You can refer to it. Also in exam,
try to write answers similar to the way it has been solved in
standard textbooks.
Also as I have mentioned in some other comment, I would

upload algorithms and flowcharts in few days.
REPLY
5. Raj
JULY 26, 2015 AT 4:35 PM
Q 8(b), paper 2, CSE 2014: Is the below mentioned solution
sufficient for this 15 marks question?
x+xy=x.1+xy, since x.1=x
=x.(1+y)
=x.1, since 1+y=y
=x
REPLY
Nitish K
JULY 26, 2015 AT 6:04 PM
Yes, you have solved correctly. And the solution is sufficient.
It was the question se er’s mistake to give such a simple
problem for 15 marks.
REPLY
Raj
JULY 27, 2015 AT 5:27 PM
Thank you!
There are following four books by Krishna Series:

1. Statics
2. Dynamics
3. Rigid Dynamics Vol-1
4. Rigid Dynamics Vol-2
First two are for paper 1 (Dynamics & Statics part of
syllabus) and last two for paper 2 (Mechanics part of
syllabus). But there are a number of overlapping topics in
the four books (specifically the last three books). Can you
please point out which topic (chapters) from the syllabus
we have have to cover from which book? For example,
Hamiltonian is covered in last two books, and Moment of
Inertia is covered in second and third book.
6. Balaji
JULY 27, 2015 AT 5:43 PM

Sir for Abstract Algebra what are the pros and cons of using (a)
Khanna and Bhambri (b) I. N. Herstein and the books you
mentioned.Also please tell me which chapters I have to study in
which book
REPLY
Nitish K
JULY 28, 2015 AT 3:49 PM
If you are comfortable with Khanna & Bhambra and
Herstein, you can continue reading them. I feel that the
books I have mentioned are wri en is a simple and clear
manner, so that one can understand in a be er manner.
Also I am not having those books with me right now. If you

can post the topics in those books, I would tell which all
chapters to read.
REPLY
7. Raj
JULY 28, 2015 AT 6:05 PM
i) Q 1(c), Paper 2, CSE 2014: Please solve. I’m unable to provide
justification for the part asking for non-existence of g(x) such
that g’=f.
ii) Q 2(b) in paper 2 (CSE 2014) and 1(c) in paper 1 ( CSE 2013):
Will the approach (and solution) be same for both? If different,
then how?
REPLY
8. Anonymous
JULY 31, 2015 AT 1:24 PM
Hii, please upload soft copies of algorithms and flowcharts of
numerical analysis problems
REPLY
9. naveen kumar
JULY 31, 2015 AT 1:28 PM
Hi, please upload soft copies of algorithms and flow charts
REPLY
10. civilsaspirant333
AUGUST 24, 2015 AT 1:57 PM
Bro can you please clarify these queries
1)modern algebra-vardhaman is it brilliant series? Can you

please provide the link I am unable to find it
2)numerical methods Jain iyengar-2 books are there, one is
problems and solutions, another is scientific computation and

engineering, which one to refer ?
Thanks in advance:)
REPLY
Nitish K
AUGUST 26, 2015 AT 9:29 AM
1. Yes it is brilliant series. It is a commonly used book for
Delhi University.
2. scientific computation and engineering is the required

book.
REPLY
civilsaspirant333
AUGUST 27, 2015 AT 12:39 PM
Thanks Anna, can u please tell where I can find brilliant
series books and apart from Modern algebra, for which
other topics I can refer to brilliant?
2) my request to you and other toppers, I don’t think u

took coaching at vvr-ias, if you didn’t please take some
action as there will be few people who join such institutes
based on seeing those ads,and seeing all the publicity I
joined IMS but later found out that the class room
coaching there is a complete waste and only the test series
is good
Thanq
11. tuks1301Tuks
AUGUST 28, 2015 AT 10:28 AM
Sir…..Which Chapters I should prepare from Ordinary and
Partial Differential Equations…..
Part I : Elementary Differential Equations
1.Differential Equation, their Formation and Solution (Is it
necessary to prepare Problems on Wronskian?) 2.Equations of
first Order and first Degree 3. Trajectories 4.Equations of first
order but not of the first degree singular solutions and
extraneous loci (Singular Solutions , Extraneous Loci) 5.Linear
Differential Equations with constant coefficients (Method of
undetermined coefficients) 6.Homogeneous linear equations or
Cauchy-Euler Equations 7.Method of Variation of Parameters
8.Ordinary Simultaneous differential Equations 9.Exact
Differential Equations and Equations of Special forms 10.Linear
differential equations of second order 11.Applications of
differential Equations
REPLY
tuks1301Tuks
AUGUST 28, 2015 AT 11:17 AM
list of chapters from M.D.Raisinghania-Ordinary and Partial
Differential Equations
REPLY
Nitish K
AUGUST 30, 2015 AT 6:12 PM
1.Differential Equation, their Formation and Solution (YES,
Wronskian has to been read as questions have been asked in
the past)
2.Equations of first Order and first Degree
3. Trajectories
4.Equations of first order but not of the first degree and
singular solutions – extraneous loci
5.Linear Differential Equations with constant coefficients
(Method of undetermined coefficients)
6.Homogeneous linear equations or Cauchy-Euler Equations
7.Method of Variation of Parameters
10.Linear differential equations of second order
REPLY
Tuks
AUGUST 30, 2015 AT 7:02 PM
Nitish Sir….Thanks a lot…..
12. tuks1301Tuks
AUGUST 28, 2015 AT 11:15 AM
Sir…..Which Chapters I should prepare from Ordinary and
Partial Differential Equations…..
Part III:
1.Origin of Partial Differential Equations 2.Linear partial
differential equations of order one 3.Non-linear partial
differential equations of order one 4.Homogeneous linear partial
differential equation with constant coefficients 5.Non-
homogeneous linear partial differential equations with constant
coefficients 6.Partial differential equations reducible to equations
with constant coefficients 7.Partial differential equations of order
two with variable coefficients 8.Classification of partial
differential equations Reduction to cononial or normal
form.Riemann method 9.Monge’s method
REPLY
Nitish K
AUGUST 30, 2015 AT 6:22 PM
1.Origin of Partial Differential Equations
2.Linear partial differential equations of order one
3.Non-linear partial differential equations of order one
4.Homogeneous linear partial differential equation with
constant coefficients
5.Non-homogeneous linear partial differential equations
with constant coefficients
6.Partial differential equations reducible to equations with
constant coefficients
8.Classification of partial differential equations Reduction to
cononial or normal form.Riemann method (just read till
reduction to canonical form)
REPLY
Tuks
AUGUST 30, 2015 AT 7:02 PM
13. Tuks
AUGUST 28, 2015 AT 11:27 AM
Sir…..Which Chapters I should prepare from Elements of Real
Analysis by M.D.Raisinghania and Shanti Narayan………….
1.Sets and Functions 2.The Real Numbers 3.Neighbourhood and
Limit Points of a set-Open and closed sets 4.Countability of sets
5.Sequences 6.Infinite series with Positive terms 7.Infinite series
with positive and negative terms 8.Real Functions-Limit and
Continuity 9.Real Functions-Derivative 10.Mean Value
Theorems 11.Maxima and Minima 12.Indeterminate Forms
13.Riemann Integrability 14.Riemann Stieltjes Integral
15.Uniform Convergence of Sequences and Series of Functions
16.Improper Integrals 17.Power Series 18.Double Sequence and
Series 19.Metric Spaces 20.Beta and Gamma Functions
21.Differentiation under the Integral sign 22.Fourier Series
REPLY
Nitish K
AUGUST 30, 2015 AT 6:06 PM
3.Neighbourhood and Limit Points of a set-Open and closed
sets (just read limit points)
5.Sequences
6.Infinite series with Positive terms
7.Infinite series with positive and negative terms
8.Real Functions-Limit and Continuity
9.Real Functions-Derivative
10.Mean Value Theorems
12.Indeterminate Forms
13.Riemann Integrability
15.Uniform Convergence of Sequences and Series of
Functions
16.Improper Integrals
REPLY
Tuks
AUGUST 30, 2015 AT 7:02 PM

14. amazingkhiladi
AUGUST 31, 2015 AT 7:11 AM
Sir can you also please share all your chapterwise formula,/
summary sheets ?
And any other Maths material you may have?
REPLY
15. skm
SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 AT 2:49 PM
How much did it cost for all the books for both paper?
REPLY
16. amazingkhiladi
SEPTEMBER 6, 2015 AT 4:06 AM
Hi Nitish, can you please tell which chapters to cover from JK
Sharma- Operations Research?
REPLY
17. amazingkhiladi
Also do we need to do any theory for Numerical Analysis? Or
should we just focus on solved examples..
REPLY
18. civilsaspirant333
Bro, I have a vardhaman series book of modern algebra which
has both ring and groups,
But u mentioned 2 different books, so are they available as 2

separate books too??
REPLY
19. Balaji
can you pelase provide the link for krishna series books on
Complex analysis and vector analysis?
REPLY
20. Mahendra
Sir, which book is referred for Computer programming part of
Numerical Analysis topic?
REPLY
Nitish K
DECEMBER 7, 2015 AT 4:42 PM
You can refer to the following book:
h ps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8rjNAH-
fxmdTVkwOUlDRkFsRmc/edit?pli=1
REPLY
Rahul
The link is broken. Can you please try to upload the book
again or tell the name so that I can try to find it on the
web.
21. Sriranga
Nitish anna books for Paper-1 maths and topics to be read
REPLY
22. amazingkhiladi
NOVEMBER 2, 2015 AT 3:59 PM
Hi Nitish, do we need to do the theorems/ proofs in Complex
Analysis or are just the examples enough?
REPLY
Nitish K
Just remember the statements of theorems. NO need to do
proofs of those theorems.
REPLY
23. sahil malhotra

Please suggest some book to cover these topics:
Computer Programming: Binary system; Arithmetic and logical
operations on numbers; Octal and Hexadecimal systems;
Conversion to and from decimal systems; Algebra of binary
numbers.
Elements of computer systems and concept of memory; Basic
logic gates and truth tables, Boolean algebra, normal forms.
Representation of unsigned integers, signed integers and reals,
double precision reals and long integers.
Sir do we need to cover all types of contours under contour

integration or can we skip something
regards
REPLY
Nitish K
For the topics on computer programming, u can refer the
following book; h ps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8rjNAH-
fxmdTVkwOUlDRkFsRmc/edit?pli=1
Under contour integration, its be er to cover till circular

contours. You can skip the rectangular contours and beyond.
REPLY
24. sahil malhotra

sir when you said to cover charpit’s method then it means only
charpit’s method or as the M D Raisinghania has wri en in his
book to use charpit method to solve only those problems not
covered in 5-6 types of cases, i mean to cover those 5-6 special
cases as well or just problems under charpits method!
REPLY
Nitish K
You will have to cover those 5-6 special cases also. Wherever
its possible, try to solve using special cases instead of
charpit’s method, as it is much easier.
REPLY
sahil malhotra
Please suggest some book/internet source to cover these
topics:
Computer Programming: Binary system; Arithmetic and
logical operations on numbers; Octal and Hexadecimal
systems; Conversion to and from decimal systems;
Algebra of binary numbers.
Elements of computer systems and concept of memory;
Basic logic gates and truth tables, Boolean algebra,
normal forms.
Representation of unsigned integers, signed integers and
reals, double precision reals and long integers.
Sir do we need to cover all types of contours under

contour integration or can we skip something
25. KUSHAGRA DIXIT

JUNE 18, 2017 AT 9:21 PM
Sir, do we have to solve the books recommended by you cover
to cover or only selected topics are to be read?
REPLY
Nitish K
AUGUST 8, 2017 AT 6:05 AM
Only topics mentioned in the syllabus.
REPLY
26. ukamanikandan k
JULY 15, 2017 AT 6:46 AM
Hi Nithish,
Am a BE Mechanical engineer,
And am a working professional with Only 5 hours of daily
preparation.
So can i opt mathematics as optional
Am good at my engineering level mathematics and more
interested than humanity subjects
So is it a good decision to chose maths as optional.
please help me out am very much confused.
REPLY
Nitish K
AUGUST 8, 2017 AT 6:00 AM
Its depends on how much syllabus you can complete in the
time available to you. 5 hours daily for 1 year should be
adequate provided you compensate for it by working hard
on weekends. Further between prelims and mains, if you are
able to take 3 months leave from work, it would be very
helpful.
REPLY
27. pranav pandey
AUGUST 18, 2017 AT 5:56 PM
sir what should be the strategy before starting a topic(book) ?
pde and real analysis books are clueless so how to segregate the
topics from the books mentioned in syllabus??
REPLY
Nitish K
AUGUST 21, 2017 AT 10:42 AM
All the topics mentioned in the syllabus have to be studied
from the book. If further confusion prevails, then u can go
through past 10 years questions papers which will give you
be er idea on which topics to focus more.
REPLY
28. sahithreddyk
Sir is there anything additional in Real analysis book by MD
raisinghania which is not covered in Malik and Arora book
regarding the real analysis and calculus syllabus ? Can you
please tell me if anything is be er explained in it than malik and

arora book ?
Thank you.
REPLY
Nitish K
Real Analysis by MD Raisinghania is more compact the
Malik and Arora when it comes to Real Analysis part of
Paper II. But anyway Malik and Arora is needed for some of
the topics in Paper I
REPLY
29. sahithreddyk
Sir can you please tell me where can we purchase the Algebra
books by R kumar vardhaman publications ? ( its not available
anywhere )
Thank you.
REPLY
Nitish K
You can try in Jawahar Book Depot, Bersarai, Delhi
REPLY
30. Rudra
Which chapters to be read from malik and arora
1 real numbers
2 open sets closed stes and countable sets
3 real sequences
4 infinite series
5 fn of single variable (1)
7 application of taylor theorem
8 functions
9 the reimann integral
10 The reimann -steiltjets integral
11 improper integral
12 uniform convergence
13 power series
14 fourier series
15 fn of several variable
16 implicit function
17 integration on R2
19 metric spaces
20 the lebesgue integral
REPLY
Nitish K
The following topics are required to be studied:
3 real sequences
4 infinite series
7 application of taylor theorem
9 the reimann integral
11 improper integral
12 uniform convergence
15 fn of several variable
REPLY
31. sahithreddyk
OCTOBER 21, 2017 AT 4:31 PM
Sir I have 2 queries
1 ) Application to geometry:
” Curves in space, Curvature and torsion; Serret-Frenet’s
formulae. Gauss and Stokes’
theorems, Green’s identities. ”
sir from which source did u cover these ? most of them are not
in krishna series vector analysis book.
2) for rigid dynamics is there an alternative to the krishna series
book ( as you have mentioned it is poorly wri en ) ?
Thank you.
REPLY
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JULY 23, 2015 / NITISH K

Abstract Algebra: This being my favourite topic, I had referred

a) Abstract Algebra, Group Theory by R Kumar (Vardhaman

b) Abstract Algebra, Ring Theory by R Kumar (Vardhaman

c) Abstract Algebra by Joseph Gallian (optional)

a) Mathematical Analysis by Malik and Arora

b) Real Analysis by MD Raisinghania

a) Operations Research by JK Sharma or Kanti Swarup or Krishna

Partial Diﬀerential Equations:

a) ODE and PDE by MD Raisinghania

b) Engineering Maths by Grewal : for boundary value problems

c) Advanced Diﬀerential Equations by M.D Raisinghania (for

Numerical Analysis and Computer programming:

a) Numerical Methods by Jain and Iyengar (but questions are not

b) Numerical Analysis chapter from Grewal, Engineering

c) For Algorithms and ﬂowcharts, I am having soft copy of a book

Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics:

a) Fluid Dynamics by MD Raisinghania

b) Krishna Series, Dynamics for Moment of Inertia and D

c) Krishna Series, Rigid Dynamics for Lagrangian and Hamiltonian.

1. Usually Paper II is tough for many. Hence if you are able to

4. Linear Programming: I feel books for MBA like JK Sharma are

59 thoughts on “Booklist and Strategy

JULY 24, 2015 AT 5:22 PM

In chapter 4, Automorphisms needs to be done. Also from

Also as I have mentioned in some other comment, I would

There are following four books by Krishna Series:

JULY 27, 2015 AT 5:43 PM

Also I am not having those books with me right now. If you

1)modern algebra-vardhaman is it brilliant series? Can you

problems and solutions, another is scientiﬁc computation and

2. scientiﬁc computation and engineering is the required

2) my request to you and other toppers, I don’t think u

AUGUST 30, 2015 AT 7:02 PM

But u mentioned 2 diﬀerent books, so are they available as 2

23. sahil malhotra

Sir do we need to cover all types of contours under contour

Under contour integration, its be er to cover till circular

24. sahil malhotra

Sir do we need to cover all types of contours under

25. KUSHAGRA DIXIT

please tell me if anything is be er explained in it than malik and

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