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Topics of Geography and Environment have a lot of convergence. I highly recommend you buy both the Notes as the topics covered in one notes are not included in the other. As 95% of the users buy both, it is not logical for me to add the same content in both the notes as it would increase the number of pages and the printing cost.
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pkjpranav30 (verified owner) –
I had started preparing for geo with all ncerts from 6-12. Later when I crosschecked the PYQPs to check my knowledge base I was really disappointed with my progress.Then before reading GC Leong as suggested by everyone I came across this platform and watched some of the videos regarding climatology. Believe me, I couldn’t be more happy to find all my doubts cleared in those videos. Then I went for other videos on various topics and then I was literally ecstatic to find such a wonderful compilation of all necessary concepts needed for upsc prep. This could not be better presented by any other guy or team on any known platform. Moreover when I discovered the notes and that too at such a modest rate, the respect for PMFias became more profound. Trust me geo notes with most of the content copied pasted from many sources are sold in hundreds of rupees in New Delhi bookshops but PMFias notes at such a meager amount is something which deserves accolades from all aspirants. After watching those videos, grasping geo concepts has been like a cakewalk for me. I believe every aspirant who watches even a single video of PMFias should purchase these notes just to pay tribute to the sheer hard work in the compilation of such amazing content.
Lastly, thanks a ton for this! God bless you!
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
It was ecstatic reading your review. Thank you for such a comprehensive review and kind words. Good luck with the prep. All the best 🙂
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kiranjot kaur (verified owner) –
Extremely helpful.. I was not good in geography due to lack of clarity of various concepts.but after reading and revising these notes.. I am quite confident now. Please provide notes on current issues also.
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thanks for the review Kiranjot. I can’t promise but I will try to provide relevant notes on current affairs as well. Thanks and Good luck for CSE 🙂
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Vaseem (verified owner) –
It was very difficult for me to study geography in piecemeal manner starting from class 6th and updating the notes everytime when I read books of higher classes. PMFIAS’s notes and videos for geography are among the best in class. I’d suggest everyone to buy these notes. Student can maximize their understanding with following :
1. Study these notes in consultation to youtube lectures series provided by PMFIAS. (preferably watch Video lecture first and then read notes)
2. Notes also have references and answers to some conceptual previous years questions.
3. At times, author also tries to frame possible conceptual question and answers them – It helps expand your horizon of understanding.
4. For many important topics, it provides ‘summary’ and ‘eloboration’ – caters the need of both categories of the person who want brief and detailed study – serves quick revision.
5. Important terms / concept are in bold letters, making them easy to spot and focus during revision.
Note : ‘Human Geography’ and ‘Industry Location Factor’ is not covered in these notes. If anyone know what is the best and concise source for this, pl. pl. inform.
I wish best of luck to the author for his attempt in CSE.
Regards.
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for your comprehensive review Vaseem. I wish you a very good luck with UPSC prep 🙂
– Coming to ‘Industrial Location Factors’ part you can refer mrunal.org/geography. I didn’t cover this part as I wouldn’t have done it any better than what mrunal has done. Why do the same work twice?
– And coming to Human geography part, it is not explicitly mentioned in the GS mains syllabus. And in prelims hardly any questions are asked from Human Geography. But in Geography Optional HG has a determining role. But my notes is meant for GS only!
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UPSC Aspirant –
These notes are the best notes by far I studied. Amazing work 🙂
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for your review. Good luck with CSE 🙂
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Sumanth (verified owner) –
Just finished reading Indian geography module.
Thank you for making these notes .. highly beneficial..
Highly recommended for both freshers and for revision..
Thanks again..
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for the review Sumanth. Good luck with CSE 🙂
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mihirminiworld (verified owner) –
Comprehensive notes with clear diagrams and pictures, useful for both mains and prelim at lowest price.
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for the review Mihir. Good luck!
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Shraddha (verified owner) –
I think the notes are valuable.
Waiting for human geography notes
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for the review Shraddha.
Human geography notes is not coming anytime soon. Sorry!
Good luck 🙂
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
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“I regret why I wasted my money to buy this garbage”
No, I am not interested in selling you garbage. So I am refunding both of your payments of Rs. 90 (Jul 21, 2016) and Rs. 140 (Jan 22, 2018). The details of the refund are forwarded to your email.
“the compiler of these notes really has no knowledge about UPSC”
Sorry, I beg to differ.
“Only 5% portion of the material is relevant for upsc”
Sorry, I beg to differ with you on this too. They are 100% relevent.
“if you are really serious for upsc… Follow only savinder Singh…”
Savinder Singh only deals with Physical Geography and it is a bulky book meant for Optional and for academics.
I believe that everybody is entitled to have an opinion but they shouldn’t be this far from reality.
Good luck Manoj Kumar Sattawan 🙂
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Shiv Saini –
Just being new to prep, Geography seem to be a big nightmare for its vastness in Pre & Mains. Reading these structured notes helped a lot. Thank you PMF… Genuinity & Credibility in your personality can be seen through your website and notes.
Query – Being new to syllabus Can PMF tell :-
1) Does Geography Notes(80) + Indian Geo notes(10) cover all the sub & sub sub parts of the Pre & Mains syllabus (beside Location factor) ? .. If any part remaining please tell so that I dont skip anything in such a vast syllabus and can cover from standard books.
2) Can you tell in more detailed form How to approach notes so that a newbee can extract maximum RELEVANT info in a given time frame from your notes. Like – how maps reading to be interlinked or so, How Mrunal – Rajtnail videos can help (as I like many aspirants have already seen that), Is there a requirement to go for bulky standard books post reading notes or it is sufficient for GS Geo.
I hope these are the questions in mind of alot of aspirants. I just expressed their concerned too..
Please Help Sir 🙂
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Hello Shiv, thank you for your review.
“Does Geography Notes cover all sub parts of the Pre & Mains syllabus (beside Location factor)?”
– Yes.
“Can you tell in more detailed form How to approach notes”
– Read from DOC chapterwise (in the order as I have given).
– After studying each chapter edit the DOC from Prelims and Mains perspective. Shorten it for quick revision (this will help you during prelims and mains).
– Follow current affairs regularly and relate current affairs with the static portion (in last few mains most of the questions were current affairs related).
– For climate change and related concepts refer my environment notes (again you should link with current affairs).
– Don’t focus much on silly facts. Be very selective. Focus on only very import facts from each chapter (Refer previous Qps to understand the nature of questions asked).
“Should I refer other books”
– My notes in itself is quite extensive. I don’t think you will get enough time to refer other books.
All the best 🙂
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Ankit (verified owner) –
I bought this 4 months ago….After watching mrunal videos reading ur notes of same topic make me understand each topic clearly…Awsm notes made by u,specially in point format which is also easy to revise (bold letter format)
I have a questio..I didn’t read meet geography,plz tell me if it is important to read ncert also after reading ur notes?
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for your review Ankit.
Que: “plz tell me if it is important to read ncert also after reading ur notes?”
Ans: Not required. I have covered NCERTs in my notes.
Good luck!
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Pankaj (verified owner) –
Great effort at a very reasonable cost.
Is this notes sufficient for general studies or have to read from other books also?
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for the review Pankaj.
“Is this notes sufficient for general studies or have to read from other books also?”
Ans: Along with this notes you should be regular with current affairs. For Industrial Locational factors you must refer mrunal.org/geography.
All the very best for the exam 🙂
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Pawan Kumar Madhesiya –
Excellent note made with huge effort and time with each and every related details at one place.
Can’t get better than this. Thanks.
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for your review Pawan. Good luck with CSE 🙂
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rohitsaraswat07 (verified owner) –
Sir , notes are good. It is clearly visible that someone has worked hard on it..but i wonder that in concordant drainage pattern RESEQUENT and OBSEQUENT patterns are missing. This was d first topic i went through as it was being taught in my coaching ..although i can manage it ..but it gave me a bit dissatisfaction becoz i went through the very first topic of my notes and i found some basic elements missing…thank u
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for your feedback Rohit. I will include these topics in the never revision. If you find any other topics missing feel free to notify me at http://www.pmfias.com.
Thanks and Good luck for the exam 🙂
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Umang –
Economic Geography notes are excellent.
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for your review Umang. Good luck!
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Sunil kumar –
Good content
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you Sunil. All the best!
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Atul Kumar (verified owner) –
Sir thank you very much. Notes are very nice and complete.All the important points of NCERT, Shankar IAS, are there l. So it’s time saving totally. Many additional points are also there which is very useful to understand the concept. After reading one or two times, it feels like, notes are made by self only.
Plz update us about the additional notes which you will add in future.
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Than you for your comprehensive review Atul. I will definitely try to bring more notes.
All the best 🙂
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Athira (verified owner) –
Good notes. Thank you.
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for your review Athira. Good luck!
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yeseswi –
I can understand your enormous efforts to put up this stuff. thank u broda..!!
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you Yeseswi for making time to review Geography notes. Happy New Year and Good Luck!
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Chirag Nihalani –
Awesome understanding of concepts and a proper logical link of topics
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Appreciate your review Chirag. With your review Geography has hit a century 🙂
Thanks and Good luck for the exam!
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Last jedi (verified owner) –
I have read notes of climatology, Indian Geography and Geomorphology till now and they are really great notes. Follow these notes with pmf videos on youtube as they will help you to understand better and quickly.
If possible buy the notes as pdf will help you to read easily and allow you to add extra information in notes.
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for your review. Good luck with prep!
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Susman Rajan (verified owner) –
Very well structured and descriptive elucidation of concepts.
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for your review Susman Rajan. Good luck with CSE 🙂
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SMR (verified owner) –
The notes are very good. They are short and to the point. Basic concepts have been explained very clearly and coverage of topics is also good. Good job by pmfias team. I would like to recommend it to every beginner.
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for your review. Good luck with CSE 🙂
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jaya (verified owner) –
Notes are very helpful in understanding minor details on the topic, holistically covered. Thank you for such an effort 🙂
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for the review Jaya. Good luck with CSE 🙂
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Monika (verified owner) –
Though my medium is hindi but the study material provided by PMF is easy to understand and I found it very helpful.
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for the review Monika. Good luck with CSE 🙂
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vaishnavi (verified owner) –
Thank you
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for the review Vaishnavi. I will address the “Quite Lengthy” Issue in the next revision. Thanks and Good luck with CSE 🙂
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Naveen thapliyal (verified owner) –
I’d say your notes are enough to gain multitude of knowledge. I really appreciate your efforts for making such an amazing notes .. keep it up PMFIAS..
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for the review Naveen. Good luck with CSE 🙂
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lokesh nandal (verified owner) –
Notes are really good. See the pmf video of a topic first and then read the topic from notes, it will help in better understanding and will be time saving. I would recommend these notes instead of any book as they have everything you need.
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for the comprehensive review Lokesh. Actually videos didn’t come really well. I used very poor microphone and software back then. I hope to do them better next time.
Good luck with CSE 🙂
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Shailesh chitthekar –
Really it’s very very good material and alo comprehensive, no need to read any geographical NCERT. Almost all topics has covered, it saves lot of time, keep it up ……..Thanks !
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for the review Shailesh. Good luck with CSE 🙂
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fahad –
greeting sir,
after purchase can i take print out because i our area power shortage
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Yes, you can Fahad. If you have any other questions you can contact me here https://www.pmfias.com/contact
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khan.moin716 (verified owner) –
Material is very good. But the economic geography needs the timely update of data, the data is not well updated. I will also recommend the more coverage of material in the other disciplines of geography like; population geography, urban geography, geography through maps, rural geography etc.
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for the feedback Moin. I will update and include all the topics in the next revision (trying my best to bring it by Jan 2019. Hope you won’t need it then!). Thanks and good luck with CSE 🙂
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rajeshkm278 (verified owner) –
Worthy!!! Instead of doing pdf’s make book hence it will be more effective… And does it contain NCERT content ?
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Hello Rajesh, the notes does cover NCERTs and other major sources.
“Instead of doing pdf’s make book hence it will be more effective”
At present it is not feasible to bring the notes in hardcopy. I will consider it future.
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YOGESH YADAV –
These notes are 100% effective for both types of aspirants, one who is reading it for the first time or the one who is revising the subject irrespective of material he followed before.
I deeply thank pmfias team for doing such a great job.
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for your review Yogesh. Good luck with CSE 🙂
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Dishant (verified owner) –
Great work. With pictures and animations, you’re notes help in better visualisation. And also the content is quite elaborated. So thanks a lot.
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for your review Dishant. Good luck with CSE 🙂
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skrathore85 (verified owner) –
Systematic arrangement of topics with appropriate diagrams. As I have different coaching institute notes but when I saw your notes, it’s too good to understand.
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for your review SK. Good luck with CSE 🙂
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Nishikant (verified owner) –
Colourfull Diagrams are extraordinary,
Content though from Khullar but much simplified and bullet format..that’s good, easy to read- revise
Further demand-
Make complications for Geography optional
Paper-1 section B
Paper 2- section B
From various resources
Like
Majid Hussain -human geography
Geographical thought-provoking
Economic geography.-rupa
Perspective of hum. Geo.- Khullar, Dixit
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for your review Nishikant.
I had plans to bring notes on Geo optional but I couldn’t execute the plan for 2018. I will try to do it for 2019. I hope you won’t need it then.
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shreyansh (verified owner) –
This is the best geography notes I have ever seen for UPSC, and the best thing is they are extremely cheap. Keep up the good work!!!
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for the review Shreyan. Good luck with CSE 🙂
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Shyam (verified owner) –
Dear sir
I have gone through ur material it was nicely structured in simple understanding manner.
Here is my request u to this is enough for GS but who r opted Geography as a optional this material will not be enough again we have to go through Savindra sing, Majid Hussain and Gocheng Leong so please arrange the material all at one stop
Thanking you
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for your review Shyam.
I have cleared mentioned that the notes is only for GS. For optional you need a lot more. I had plans to make notes on Geo Optional also but I couldn’t really focus on that. I will try to make it before UPSC 2019. I hope you won’t be needing it then.
Thanks and Good luck with CSE 🙂
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vishnu (verified owner) –
i have gained good understanding in geography with your videos and notes , thank you
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for the review Vishnu. Good luck with CSE 🙂
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Rakshita Singh (verified owner) –
Thank you It helped me a lot to understand topics till depth
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
Thank you for the review Rakshita. Good luck with CSE 🙂
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Asutosh . –
Sir please provide human geography notes.
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PMF IAS (verified owner) –
I am working on it. It will take time. It won’t be completed anytime soon, at least not before UPSC 2018.
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