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1. What is Sleepy Classes?

• Sleepy Classes is a one-stop solution for students across regions and diverse backgrounds to prepare for UPSC, which is one of the toughest competitive examinations in the country through video lectures and doubt resolution. 
• Over the past so many years, sleepy classes have successfully helped over 3,70,000 students to study for their UPSC dream. 
• Sleepy Classes has mentored numerous toppers, including Jagarati Awasthi AIR 2 UPSC 2021, Srushti Deshmukh AIR 5 UPSC 2018, Raunak Agarwal AIR 13 UPSC 2019, Swati Sharma, AIR 17 UPSC 2019, Ruchi Bindal AIR 37 UPSC 2019 and many more.

2. Sleepy classes strategy of teaching Geography

The UPSC examination is one of the toughest examinations in the country owing to its low conversion rate and the sheer vastness of the syllabus. Keeping this in mind, Sleepy classes have created high-quality content which caters to most portions of the syllabus:

• All subjects within General Studies for both Prelims and Mains 
• Sociology Optional
• Political Science Optional
• Dedicated Answer writing. 

(i) Teaching Geography from the perspective of UPSC

• Sleepy classes has prepared the entire course keeping in the mind the syllabus, last year questions and patterns to help you study geography in the most comprehensive and detailed manner.
• Studying in this manner would help you to solve directly concept based questions easily and effectively.
• This strategy helps you focus on all the important topics from the examination point of view, saving lots of your time which could have been utilised for revision.

(ii) Course updated with all the current affairs

• The recent trend in UPSC is to ask questions from Geography that are based on current affairs, and these questions can be tricky to answer. 
• The curriculum at Sleepy classes has been prepared and updated in a way to incorporate all the current affairs based on Geography which are important from the examination point of view.

(iii) Places in News and Maps covered

• Another type of question which we have seen a recent surge of in recent UPSC papers are questions based on ‘Places in News’ and ‘MAPS’ based questions.
• It is important to be well updated on both of these types in order to score well in the geography section of the UPSC examination. 
• Sleepy classes lectures have covered all the important ‘Places in News’ in their course whenever needed, and also provide separate lectures just for MAPS, to help you cover the subjects on all fronts.

3. What is offered by Sleepy Classes on EduRev?

In the course of Geography, you would find detailed video lectures of each topic, whose material has been compiled from the best resources in the market taught by an experienced teacher in a way to help you retain all you have learnt, with PDFs of each lecture available for a quick revision.

• Solar System and Physical Geography - Big Bang and Big Crunch, Nebular Hypothesis, Langranges Point, Life cycle of a star, Chandrashekhar Limit, Solar System, Continental Drift Theory, Convectional Current Theory, Plate Tectonics, Interior of the Earth, Rocks, Sea Floor Spreading Theory 
• Climatology - The Earth, Atmosphere, Climate vs Weather, Insolation, Heating & Cooling of the Atmosphere, Heat Budget of the Earth, Temperature, Distribution of the Temperature, Temperature Inversion, Atmospheric Pressure, Pressure & Wind, Pressure Belts & Wind Distribution, Classification of Winds, Jet Stream, Air mass, Fronts, Extra-Tropical Cyclones, Tropical Cyclones, Water in Atmosphere
• Oceanography - Tides, Oceanography, Ocean Currents,
• Indian Geography - Indian Monsoon, EL NINO & LA NINA, Indian Ocean Dipole, Soil, Natural Vegetation, Indian Physiographic Division, The Islands, Indian Physiography, The Great Plains of North India, Mountain Ranges in India, Drainage System, The Himalayan Drainage, The Ganga System, The Indus System, The Brahmaputra System, The River System of the Peninsular Drainage, Major Waterfalls of India, Major Dams in India
• Economic Geography - Introduction to Agriculture, Salient Features of Indian Agriculture, Irrigation Patterns in the Country, Cropping Patterns in India, Challenges Faced by Indian Agriculture, Transport, Energy 

Other courses offered by Sleepy Classes on EduRev:

• International Relations for UPSC 2022 (Pre & Mains)
• Science & Technology for UPSC 2022 (Pre & Mains)
• Geography for UPSC 2022 (Pre & Mains)
• Polity for UPSC 2022 (Pre & Mains)
• Ethics for UPSC 2022 (Pre & Mains)
• Economy for UPSC 2022 (Pre & Mains)
• Social Issue for UPSC 2022 (Pre & Mains)
• Environment for UPSC 2022 (Pre & Mains)
• Sociology Mains Optional for UPSC 2022
• Political Science & International Relations Optional for UPSC 2022