Free MPSC Study Guides
Long-form, exam-focused notes written specifically for the Maharashtra Public Service Commission prelims (Group B, Group C, PSI, Gazetted Civil Services and Gazetted Technical Services). Each guide is a self-contained reference that you can read in one sitting and return to during revision. Pair them with the previous-year question practice and the interactive map of Maharashtra for the most efficient prep cycle.
Maharashtra Geography
Physical divisions, river systems, climate, soils, agriculture, minerals and natural landmarks of Maharashtra — everything tested in MPSC prelims.
~14 min read
Maharashtra History
Ancient Satavahanas to the Maratha Empire under Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the Peshwas, the British era and modern Maharashtra after the 1960 reorganisation.
~16 min read
Indian Polity for MPSC
Constitution basics, Fundamental Rights, DPSPs, Parliament, the Maharashtra state government, Panchayati Raj, and the high-yield articles you must memorise.
~15 min read
MPSC Exam Pattern
Detailed pattern for Group B, Group C, PSI Pre, Gazetted Civil Services and Gazetted Technical Services prelims — marks, sections, syllabus, negative marking, cut-offs.
~12 min read
MPSC Preparation Strategy
A practical 6-month plan: book list, daily routine, how to use PYQs, subject-wise weightage, mock-test strategy and last-month revision blueprint.
~15 min read
How to use these guides
We deliberately wrote these as compact reference articles rather than as a full textbook. Use them in three passes:
- First read — go through the entire guide once at normal speed. Highlight or note the names, dates, articles and statistics that you don't already know.
- Apply — open the matching paper on the /exams page and attempt 10–15 PYQs on the same topic. Score yourself with the instant grader.
- Revise — re-read only the bullet points and tables. The guides are structured so the second pass takes a quarter of the time of the first.
About the source material
Every guide is written using the official MPSC syllabus, NCERT textbooks (Classes 6–12 for History, Geography and Polity), the Constitution of India bare act, and the Government of Maharashtra's public statistical handbooks and Economic Surveys. Where we quote a fact (population figures, capacity numbers, dates), we use the most recent publicly available figure at the time of writing. Spotted something out of date? Email us at dontknowacademy@gmail.com and we'll fix it within 48 hours.
Why long-form guides beat scattered notes
Most MPSC study material online is a jumble of one-line facts pulled from various coaching-institute handouts. That format is convenient to skim but hostile to retention — the human brain remembers structured, causal narratives far better than isolated bullet points. Our study guides are written as self-contained arcs: for Geography, we start from the geological formation of the Deccan Trap and end at present-day power and mineral distribution; for History, we walk from the Satavahanas of Junnar-Paithan-Nashik through the Maratha coronation at Raigad in 1674 and the Peshwa era to the 1960 Samyukta Maharashtra reorganisation; for Polity, we start with the Constituent Assembly debates and end at the working constitutional bodies as of 2026. This narrative spine is what makes the material re-readable, and re-reading is what MPSC success actually rewards.
Each guide takes twelve to sixteen minutes to read in full, which fits into a single evening study session. During the last-month revision cycle the guides act as a rapid re-loader — most aspirants can re-read the entire five-guide set in a single Saturday afternoon and walk into the exam hall with the major factual anchors freshly rehearsed. That is a deliberate design choice, not an accident of length.
The MPSC prelims syllabus at a glance
Across the five major MPSC preliminary examinations (Group B, Group C, PSI, Gazetted Civil Services, Gazetted Technical Services), the General Studies syllabus is broadly identical. It has ten major weightage buckets: Indian Polity and Governance (roughly 12–18 marks in a 100-mark paper), Modern Indian History (with special emphasis on Maharashtra) (10–15 marks), Physical, Human and Economic Geography of India and Maharashtra (10–15 marks), General Science (10–15 marks), Current Affairs — National and State (10–15 marks), Indian and Maharashtra Economy (8–12 marks), Environment and Ecology (5–8 marks), Basic Numeracy and Mental Ability (5–10 marks), Marathi Grammar and Comprehension (5–10 marks) and English Grammar and Comprehension (5–10 marks). No single subject dominates, so an aspirant who scores 60 percent across ten sections will comfortably clear the cut-off in most years — whereas an aspirant who scores 90 percent in one section but 30 percent in three others typically will not.
The five study guides above cover the three heaviest content-based subjects (Polity, Geography, History) with the depth necessary to hit that 60-percent floor comfortably, plus the meta-guides on exam pattern and preparation strategy to help you plan the remaining seven sections. For hands-on practice, use the previous-year papers page — every paper carries the official Set A answer key and the option-by-option explanations we have added for indexed questions.