I've received a 'Study Time Table' for UPSC civil service exam preparation from a reader.
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What's the problem in this time table?
- Implausible,
- Beating around the bush
- Putting way too much emphasis on current-affairs
- Wrong way of preparing notes.
What's the solution?
- Just shortlist the topics to be prepared: finish them one by one, simultaneously preparing notes out of them.
- Donot bind yourself to minute-by-minute time table, it cannot be followed in real life, it only leads to frustration. Once again read the Subtopic "Plausible" under "100 Days Strategy article"
Same goes for newspapers and magazines
- Just any one: Either The Hindu or Indianexpess.
- Same goes for Magazines, pick anyone. Refering multiple competitive magazines doesn't serve much purpose as lot of the content keeps getting overlapped and repeated.
- This Outlook and India Today etc. Magz may help you for interview preparation but at this stage emphasis should be on cracking prelims.
- You don't have to read 6 magazines a day, CSE is not just about current-affairs.
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ReplyDeleteveyr nice post....
HOW CAN A PERSON ENJOY THE ENTIRE PROCESS OF PREPARATION IF ITS SO RIGID.I think the most important aspect is to enjoy the process then time flies without putting in too much effort in clocking in the no. of hours, instead topic wise taget setting is more suitable, i think.
ReplyDeletethanks mrunal for the article.
give two hours to every topic including current affairs , understand basic concept no need to mugging in . best luck
ReplyDeletethe given Time table is humanly impossible
ReplyDeleteyou are right mrunal the above given time table is not at all possible in the preparation point of vew anyway thanks for ur valuable comments,especially the person like me who are staying far away from the available resource
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