Course Details
Course Features :
- Start Date – 15 Sept 2026
- Lecture Time: 11 to 01:30 PM
- Course Duration – 4.5 Months
- Mode – Hybrid Mode
Course Pillars:
1. PSIR Sectional Tests – There will be total of 18 PSIR Tests covering each theme of PSIR Syllabus. Each sectional test will have 8 questions to be attempted in 1.5 hours. Each test will have – Question Paper, Model Answer, Test Evaluation and Test Discussions.
2. PSIR PYQs Lectures – PSIR revision through Previous Years Questions discussions. There will be 3 lectures in a week.
3. PSIR Mentorship – To bridge any gap in PSIR with respect to strategy, roadmap, answer writing , emerging trends etc.
TEST SCHEDULE
| Test Number | Date | Test Topics |
| PSIR Test 1 | 20-Sep-2026 | Western Political Thought: Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, John S. Mill, Marx, Gramsci, Hannah Arendt. Political Theory: meaning and approaches. |
| PSIR Test 2 | 27-Sep-2026 | Theories of state: Liberal, Neo-liberal, Marxist, Pluralist, post-colonial and Feminist. Justice: Conceptions of justice with special reference to Rawls’s theory of justice and its communitarian critiques. |
| PSIR Test 3 | 04-Oct-2026 | Equality: Social, political and economic; relationship between equality and freedom; Affirmative action. Rights: Meaning and theories; different kinds of rights; Concept of Human Rights. Democracy: Classical and contemporary theories; different models of democracy—representative, participatory and deliberative. |
| PSIR Test 4 | 11-Oct-2026 | Concept of power: hegemony, ideology and legitimacy. Political Ideologies: Liberalism, Socialism, Marxism, Fascism, Gandhism and Feminism. Indian Political Thought: Dharamshastra, Arthashastra and Buddhist Traditions; Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Sri Aurobindo, M. K. Gandhi, B. R. Ambedkar, M. N. Roy. |
| PSIR Test 5 | 18-Oct-2026 | Indian Nationalism: • Political Strategies of India’s Freedom Struggle: Constitutionalism to mass Satyagraha, Non-cooperation, Civil Disobedience; Militant and Revolutionary Movements, Peasant and Workers Movements. • Perspectives on Indian National Movement: Liberal, Socialist and Marxist; Radical Humanist and Dalit. Making of the Indian Constitution: Legacies of the British rule; different social and political perspectives. 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. |
| PSIR Test 6 | 25-Oct-2026 | Principal Organs of the Union Government: Envisaged role and actual working of the Executive, Legislature and Supreme Court. Principal Organs of the State Government: Envisaged role and actual working of the Executive, Legislature and High Courts. Grassroots Democracy: Panchayati Raj and Municipal Government; Significance of 73rd and 74th Amendments; Grassroot movements. 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. |
| PSIR Test 7 | 01-Nov-2026 | Federalism: Constitutional provisions; changing nature of centre-state relations; integrationist tendencies and regional aspirations; inter-state disputes. 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. |
| PSIR Test 8 | 08-Nov-2026 | Caste, Religion and Ethnicity in Indian Politics. Party System: National and regional political parties, ideological and social bases of parties; Patterns of coalition politics; Pressure groups, trends in electoral behaviour; changing socio-economic profile of Legislators. Social Movement: Civil liberties and human rights movements; women’s movements; environmentalist movements. |
| PSIR Test 9 | 15-Nov-2026 | Paper 1 |
| PSIR Test 10 | 22-Nov-2026 | Comparative Politics: Nature and major approaches; Political economy and political sociology perspectives; Limitations of the comparative method. State in Comparative Perspective: Characteristics and changing nature of the State in capitalist and socialist economies, and advanced industrial and developing societies. Politics of Representation and Participation: Political parties, pressure groups and social movements in advanced industrial and developing societies. |
| PSIR Test 11 | 29-Nov-2026 | Globalisation: Responses from developed and developing societies. Approaches to the Study of International Relations: Idealist, Realist, Marxist, Functionalist and Systems theory. Key Concepts in International Relations: National interest, security and power; Balance of power and deterrence; Transnational actors and collective security; World capitalist economy and globalisation. |
| PSIR Test 12 | 06-Dec-2026 | Changing International Political Order: • Rise of superpowers; Strategic and ideological bipolarity, arms race and Cold War; Nuclear threat. • Non-aligned Movement: Aims and achievements. • Collapse of the Soviet Union; Unipolarity and American hegemony; Relevance of non-alignment in the contemporary world. Evolution of the International Economic System: From Bretton Woods to WTO; Socialist economies and the CMEA; Third World demand for a New International Economic Order; Globalisation of the world economy. United Nations: Envisaged role and actual record; Specialized UN agencies—aims and functioning; need for UN reforms. |
| PSIR Test 13 | 13-Dec-2026 | Regionalisation of World Politics: EU, ASEAN, APEC, SAARC, NAFTA. Contemporary Global Concerns: Democracy, human rights, environment, gender justice, terrorism, nuclear proliferation. |
| PSIR Test 14 | 20-Dec-2026 | Indian Foreign Policy: Determinants of foreign policy; the institutions of policy-making; Continuity and change. India’s Contribution to the Non-Alignment Movement: Different phases; Current role. |
| PSIR Test 15 | 27-Dec-2026 | India and South Asia: • Regional Co-operation: SAARC—past performance and future prospects. • South Asia as a Free Trade Area. • India’s “Look East” policy. • Impediments to regional co-operation: River water disputes; illegal cross-border migration; Ethnic conflicts and insurgencies; Border disputes. India and the Global South: Relations with Africa and Latin America; Leadership role in the demand for NIEO and WTO negotiations. |
| PSIR Test 16 | 03-Jan-2027 | India and the Global Centres of Power: USA, EU, Japan, China and Russia. India and the UN System: Role in UN Peace-keeping; Demand for Permanent Seat in the Security Council. |
| PSIR Test 17 | 17-Jan-27 | India and the Nuclear Question: Changing perceptions and policy. 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. |
| PSIR Test 18 | 31-Jan-27 | Paper 2 |
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