About Aditya Tiwari Sir & the pibtracker editorial method.

pibtracker is a daily filter on PIB press releases — built by Aditya Tiwari Sir, founder of De Facto IAS, applying the same method he has used to brief Law Optional aspirants on current developments since 2018.

The editor

Aditya Tiwari Sir founded De Facto IAS in 2018. For seven years his daily current-developments digest has been a quiet staple for Law Optional aspirants at the UPSC Mains stage. pibtracker brings that same editorial filter — what to read, what to skip, what to remember — to Prelims-level General Studies, opened up to every aspirant who wants it.

The method

Every day, the PIB publishes 80–140 press releases across ~80 ministries and departments. For a Prelims aspirant, fewer than ten matter. The pibtracker editorial desk reads every release, ranks them against a backtested filter built on six years of past UPSC papers, and posts the day's Top 10 at 10 PM IST with brief, exam-shaped notes — what the Cabinet decided, what the Ministry actually said, what UPSC has historically asked from this kind of release. No filler.

Why us, why this

Daily current affairs is the most leveraged hour in a Prelims preparation cycle, and the most over-served by coaching apps that copy-paste PIB headlines without curation. We don't summarise everything. We curate what matters — and we publish our reasoning, our backtest, and our method openly so you can audit our calls against your own.

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