Investment and Trade — Prelims Strategy

Prelims Strategy

Focus on memorizing specific FDI sectoral caps, recent policy changes, and constitutional article numbers (19, 301-307). Create comparison charts for automatic vs approval route sectors. Stay updated with current FDI policy changes, PLI scheme sectors, and trade agreement provisions.

Practice questions on FEMA provisions, SEZ regulations, and ease of doing business parameters. Use elimination techniques by understanding the logic behind policy restrictions rather than rote memorization.

Pay attention to recent policy announcements, bilateral trade agreements, and investment flow data from Economic Survey.

Also build Paper II skills

Dense constitutional and IR passages mirror CSAT-style comprehension and argument evaluation—build those skills in parallel. CSAT hub.

• Valid & invalid arguments
• Syllogisms
• Critical reasoning