PSIR PYQs answer writing Batch 2 Schedule
PYQs Deepanalysis August 2025 Batch 2
| S.N. | Topic | No. of PYQs | Scheduled date for PYQs Theme’s
Analysis live class |
PYQs Test Date |
| 1. | Political Theory: meaning and approaches. | 14 | 4th August 2025 | |
| 2. | Theories of state: Liberal, Neo-liberal, Marxist, Pluralist, Post-colonial, and Feminist. | 14 | 7th August 2025 | Test 1 topic: 1 and 2 8th August 2025 |
| 3. | Justice: Conceptions of justice with special reference to Rawl’s theory of justice and its communitarian critiques. | 11 | 9th August 2025 | |
| 4. | Equality: Social, political, and economic; the relationship between equality and freedom; Affirmative action. | 9 | 11th August 2025 | Test 2 topic 3 and 4: 12th August 2025 |
| 5. | Rights: Meaning and theories;
different kinds of rights; Concept of Human Rights. |
10 | 13th August 2025 | |
| 6. | Democracy: Classical and contemporary theories; different models of democracy—representative, participatory and deliberative. | 10 | 15th August 2025 | Test 3 topic 5 and 6
16th August 2025 |
| 7. | Concept of power: hegemony, ideology, and legitimacy. | 12 | 17th August 2025 | |
| 8. | Political Ideologies: Liberalism, Socialism, Marxism, Fascism, Gandhism, and Feminism. | 15 | 20th August 2025 | Test 4 topic 7 and 8
22nd August 2025 |
| 9. | Indian Political Thought: Dharmashastra, Arthashastra, and Buddhist Traditions; Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Sri Aurobindo, M. K. Gandhi, B. R. Ambedkar, M. N. Roy. | 21 | 24th August 2025 | |
| 10. | Western Political Thought: Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, John S. Mill, Marx, Gramsci, Hannah Arendt. | 33 | 31st August 2025 | Test 5 topic 9 and 10
2nd September 2025 |
| 1. | 1. Indian Government and Politics
(a) Political Strategies of India’s Freedom Struggle: Constitutionalism to mass Satyagraha, Noncooperation, Civil Disobedience; Militant and Revolutionary Movements, Peasant and Workers Movements. (b) Perspectives on Indian National Movement; Liberal, Socialist, and Marxist; Radical Humanist and Dalit. |
14 | 3rd September 2025 | |
| 2. | Making of the Indian Constitution: Legacies of the British rule; different social and political perspectives. | 10 | 5th September 2025 | Test 6 topic 1 and 2 6th September 2025 |
| 3. | Salient Features of the Indian Constitution: The Preamble, Fundamental Rights and Duties, Directive Principles; Parliamentary System and Amendment Procedures; Judicial Review and Basic Structure doctrine. | 22 | 9th September 2025 | |
| 4. | 4. (a) Principal Organs of the Union Government: Envisaged role and actual working of the Executive, Legislature, and Supreme Court.
(b) Principal Organs of the State Government: Envisaged role and actual working of the Executive, Legislature, and High Courts. |
20 | 13th September 2025 | Test 7 topic 3 and 4
15th September 2025 |
| 5. | Grassroots Democracy: Panchayati Raj and Municipal Government; Significance of 73rd and 74th Amendments; Grassroot movements. | 14 | 16th September 2025 | |
| 6. | Statutory Institutions/Commissions: Election Commission, Comptroller and Auditor General, Finance Commission, Union Public Service Commission, National Commission for Scheduled Castes, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, National Commission for Women; National Human Rights Commission, National Commission for Minorities, National Backward Classes Commission. | 13 | 19th September 2025 | Test 8 Topic 5 and 6
21st September 2025 |
| 7. | Federalism: Constitutional provisions; changing nature of center-state relations; integrationist tendencies and regional aspirations; inter-state disputes. | 13 | 22nd September 2025 | |
| 8. | Planning and Economic Development: Nehruvian and Gandhian perspectives; Role of planning and public sector; Green Revolution, land reforms and agrarian relations; liberalization and economic reforms. | 14 | 25th September 2025 | Test 9 topic 7 and 8
26th September 2025 |
| 9. | Caste, Religion, and Ethnicity in Indian Politics. | 11 | 27th September 2025 | |
| 10. | Party System: National and regional political parties, ideological and social bases of parties; Patterns of coalition politics; Pressure groups, trends in electoral behavior; changing socio-economic profile of Legislators. | 15 | 30th September 2025 | |
| 11. | Social Movement: Civil liberties and human rights movements; women’s movements; environmentalist movements. | 11 | 2nd October 2025 | Test 10 topic 9,10and 11
3rd October 2025 |
| 1. | Comparative Politics: Nature and major approaches; Political economy and political sociology perspectives; Limitations of the comparative method. | 14 | 5th October 2025 | |
| 2. | State in Comparative Perspective: Characteristics and changing nature of the State in capitalist and socialist economies, and advanced industrial and developing societies. | 9 | 7th October 2025 | |
| 3. | Politics of Representation and Participation: Political parties, pressure groups and social movements in advanced industrial and developing societies. | 21 | 11th October 2025 | |
| 4. | Globalisation: Responses from developed and developing societies. | 14 | 14th October 2025 | Test 11 topic 1to 4
15th October 2025 |
| 5. | Approaches to the Study of International Relations: Idealist, Realist, Marxist, Functionalist and Systems theory. | 20 | 18th October 2025 | |
| 6. | Key Concepts in International Relations: National interest, security and power; Balance of power and deterrence; Transational actors and collective security; World capitalist economy and globalisation. | 18 | 22nd October 2025 | Test 12 topic 5 and 6 23rd October 2025 |
| 7. | 18. Changing International Political Order:
(a) Rise of superpowers; Strategic and ideological Bipolarity, arms race and cold war; Nuclear threat; (b) Non-aligned movement: Aims and achievements. (c) Collapse of the Soviet Union; Unipolarity and American hegemony; Relevance of non-alignment in the contemporary world. |
18 | 26th October 2025 | |
| 8. | Evolution of the International Economic System: From Bretton woods to WTO; Socialist economies and the CMEA (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance); Third World demand for new international economic order; Globalisation of the world economy. | 9 | 28th October 2025 | Test 13 topic 7 and 8
29th October 2025 |
| 9. | United Nations: Envisaged role and actual record; Specialized UN agencies—aims and functioning; the need for UN reforms. | 15 | 31st October 2025 | |
| 10. | Regionalisation of World Politics: EU, ASEAN, APEC, AARC, NAFTA. | 14 | 3rd November 2025 | |
| 11. | Contemporary Global Concerns: Democracy, human rights, environment, gender justice terrorism, nuclear proliferation. | 24 | 8th November 2025 | Test 14 topic 9 to 11
9th November 2025 |
| 1. | Indian Foreign Policy: Determinants of foreign policy; the institutions of policy-making; continuity and change | 24 | 12th November 2025 | |
| 2. | India’s Contribution to the Non-Alignment Movement Different phases; current role. | 6 | 13th November 2025 | Test 15 topic 1 and 2
14th November 2025 |
| 3. | 25. India and South Asia:
(a) Regional Co-operation: SAARC-past performance and future prospects. (b) South Asia as a Free Trade Area. (c) India’s “Look East” policy. (d) Impediments to regional co-operation: River water disputes; illegal cross-border migration; Ethnic conflicts and insurgencies; Border disputes. |
32 | 19th November 2025 | Test 16 topic 3
20th November 2025 |
| 4. | India and the Global South: Relations with Africa and Latin America; Leadership role in the demand for NIEO and WTO negotiations. | 15 | 22nd November 2025 | |
| 5. | India and the Global Centres of Power: USA, EU, Japan, China and Russia. | 33 | 29th November 2025 | Test 17 topic 4 and 5
30th November 2025 |
| 6. | India and the UN System: Role in UN Peace-keeping; Demand for Permanent Seat in the Security Council. | 12 | 1st December 2025 | |
| 7. | India and the Nuclear Question: Changing perceptions and policy. | 10 | 3rd December 2025 | |
| 8. | Recent developments in Indian Foreign Policy: India’s position on the recent crises in Afghanistan, Iraq, and West Asia, growing relations with US and Israel; Vision of a new world order. | 26 | 8th December 2025 | Test 18 topic 6 to 8
10th December 2025 |
| 40 PYQs live discussion lectures | 18 topic wise tests |