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Toppers Talk | Ritika Chitlangia | AIR 55 | UPSC CSE 2024

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And at the end of the day, you need to know that okay, I need to wake up tomorrow and get back to my study table. As long as you're doing that, even if sometimes you don't feel like you are good to go. Trust me, it it will happen for you, it's not that big of a deal.

40 minutes of the exam, I used to focus on the easiest maths questions possible. I just used to look at a question and say that you will find such questions exam which you'll be able to do with a decent amount of practice and I don't think then sees is going to be a problem for you and honestly when mains start if even if you're not writing mains I think this exam is not chasing perfection it's just chasing discipline and consistency. As long as you are imperfect but consistently, you'll get through.

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Thank you for calling me. It's my honor. So I will start from the very basic first question. How was the day when you saw your name in the PDF? So like run us through those moments and emotions.

Right. So um 22nd April my day was basically divided into two halves. The first half of the day was so anxious I threw up. And when I saw my name in that PDF, so what I decided is uh decided was that I'll scroll through the first page and if I didn't find my name in the first page, I'll search my name in the PDF. So the result came, I scrolled through the first page and it was not on the first page because rank one to rank 54 was on the first page. And just as I was about to search my name, the page scrolled down and the first name on the second page was mine, rank 55. and I was so relieved. Uh so it was surreal. I don't think any words can capture that moment really and really happy that I could find my name in the PDF. It's a dream for a lot of students and so happy that you have achieved it and so let's start with how did you begin this UPSC preparation? So when was the first thought that came into your mind that okay I will go for UPSC civil service now?

So um I had this geography teacher in class 10th and she was the one who first time introduced me to this concept called UPSC that there's this commission which conducts this exam and this is what you become if you clear this exam. She introduced me to what an I is or what an IFS IPS is and what they do what's their mandate and I found it intriguing. I was really intrigued with the whole concept and I think that is where the first seed came into my mind that okay this is what I want to do or at least I want to try doing this and then she was the one who convinced my parents as well that let her do this or let her try for this exam at least and I think post that I never really looked back. In fact, all of my decisions after class 10th, right from what subjects I want to choose in class 11th and 12th to my graduation subject were driven by this thought that okay, how is this going to help me in my preparation for UPSC? So I think that is when the thought came.

So you started early on and you had a fixed mind but honestly I didn't start my preparation really until I graduated. Okay. Yes. So now let's go from there right you once you graduated now you have started preparation so how did you manage that so what were the things you looked and how did you initiated that preparation part because lot of students struggle about that also so in my sixth semester of college like my final semester I started looking for coachings or I was deciding whether I want to take a coaching whether I want to do self-preparation whether I want to prepare from Delhi like I am from Delhi but I lived a bit far away. So I went whether I wanted to live move here or prepare from my home. So there were a lot of thoughts and a lot of questions which I had to research and find my answers to and um then I did I started my coaching and initially 2 three months of foundation course were very hard for me really. I was completely lost every day. I used to go back home and I used to think that okay have I made a wrong decision of even preparing for this exam. Am I built for this? And initially when you start your preparation I started from coaching and then I was taking foundation coaching. I was taking optional coaching sees coaching. So the classes only in itself were so much to handle that uh I was just lost completely. I did not know what to do, how to prepare, how much time is it going to take. So those ones were really difficult I think and like you have hit a bull's eye when you talk about the stress that is there while in preparation in terms of managing time. I always say this preparation is less about managing knowledge it is about managing time. So how did you manage that time?

I think patience. Um so Buttal I think first year I think your focus should be just consolidation of material attending your classes no matter what I don't think I missed a lot of classes and just like when you are in coaching a schedule is built for you it's already provided to you and you just need to follow that. I think a lot of people start uh not attending classes because they think that it's a wastage of time or they watch it in 1.5x or they don't give monthly and weekly tests uh thinking that okay this is going to waste a lot of time of mine I should prepare from some some other source they start running behind sources so I think I avoided that I like two three months I realized that this is not a easy game it's not a short hall cycle uh so I think first year I just focused on attending all my classes, giving all my tests, learning about the nature of this exam. I was slowly introducing myself to PyQs as in when the subjects were getting covered and uh gradually I think in a period of 9 to 10 months I was sure that these are going to be my sources. After that I stopped running behind sources. I had consolidated my basic notes. I made my own short notes from whatever basic standard books that you need to prepare for example Lakshmi Kant. And in my second year of preparation like that is my 2024 I just focused on sitting at home keeping my hands and heads down and revising what I had gained and consolidated over a period of time. So the idea is trust the process and have patience like it's not an easy journey but eventually if you trust the process and you like wait okay I have to just grill through this and you will make it as we can see.

So now like coming to optional like I will address the optional first before we go in prelims main and all those because it's very unique for you. Yes. So how many geography students here? Okay. So a decent number of geography students are there. So tell us about why you chose geography like or why you chose civil service after geography.

Yeah. So again I'll go back to my class 10th my geography teacher she made me fall in love with the subject like when I started reading higher level textbooks for geography I was so sure that this is something I want to study irrespective of whether I come into UPSC or not and u then I went to college I chose graduation subject also as geography I enjoyed that period extremely well I was very happy with my subject and I think before anything else. I knew that my optional is going to be geography. I did not know how to prepare for this exam. I did not know where to join coaching, what to do, how to get introduced to UPSC. I just knew that my optional is going to be geography and I made calculated decisions for it even during 11th and 12th and my college as well.

So, geography. Okay. And we will come to it later on. Okay. any any questions you have till now related to how you should start preparation and all that?

Yes, please. Hello. First of all, congratulations to ma'am. Thank you so much. I have a question like uh how to overcome from distractions and how to be fulfilled with discipline in during study or preparation. Thank you ma'am.

see I don't think the subject or the syllabus is tough. I think what is tough is discipline and consistency. As I said that it's not a short hall game. It's a long haul game. It's a slow burned difficult and disciplined and how to avoid sorry if am I using too much Hindi it's no no it's okay okay so I think how to avoid distractions is that first the obvious you need to cut out you firstly need to identify what is distracting you I think for me what was the Most distracting factor was internal that is my fear of failure. What happens is that we are so fixated on our fear of failure that our mind is not silent and then other things become we fixate on those things and distraction for example social media. So we find that okay social media is the distraction but actually social media is the effect of that distraction because the distraction is that I'm not able to focus on what I'm studying because I'm so fearful that I'm not going to understand what it is or I'm not going to clear this exam. So firstly you need to tell your mind that irrespective of this exam's result I need to sit down today and make this day productive result. I feel like you need to cut down on the people interaction. I really believe that if you are in a very big circle or if you're in a lot of social interaction is happening somewhere your mind mind space peace gets disturbed your routine gets disturbed and then to overcome that resistance one time is difficult and if you have so many resistances to overcome you'll not be able to sit and study quietly so I think you need to shut down all the noise whether it's internal or external or any more question.

One more question we can take please. Hello ma'am. Hello. My name is Abhishek. Can you please stand up? I cannot see you. Yeah ma'am my question is that are these foundational batches helpful in the later stages of exam? Like how precisely are they helpful or impactful?

So um everyone keeps saying that you need to familiarize yourself with the syllabus before preparing for this exam. I think for me foundation helped me understand what the syllabus is. And over time what happened is that my basic class notes which I made during my foundation batch became my template. It became what I had to study and these are the boundaries of my study. For example, economy to register topics for example monetary policy, fiscal policy, labor, infrastructure. I knew that this is a part of my syllabus and post that revision whenever I start a revision for any subject I first pick up my class notes or my basic foundation notes because as the name suggests it is your foundation especially coming from a technical background. If you are coming from a technical background, a lot of the subjects uh are humanities oriented. So if foundation is not strong, then conceptual clarity will always be weak. And no matter how much you run after new content or value addition, if your basics are not strong, I don't think it will even help you clear prelims. So for me, foundation was my building block. And on my foundation, I built whatever I built to finally clear this exam. uh also these prelims oriented specifically and uh also mains we will talk about prelims and mains so we can go in stages okay so if your doubt is related to prelims and mains as we go we can carry on otherwise my question is the followup of the first one okay can I ask yeah yeah yeah please go on uh ma'am uh so these uh prelims oriented specifically and also mainsoriented classes are they necessary or like how different are they from the foundational classes?

Uh so what exactly uh do you mean by prelims oriented like current affairs? Uh like uh no like in prelims uh oriented classes they will teach us only this prelim specific uh topics and in mains like GS1, GS2, GS3 like this.

Um see I'll tell you both things prelims and mains is not different. Um what I realized that if you have studied for prelims well enough that becomes your content for mains especially for subjects like history and geography. So it's not like that prelims and mains is a watertight compartment. There's no differentiation in that. But there are certain aspects of the exam which are peculiar to prelims and mains. For example, in prelims, aptitude building is very important and it means answer writing becomes very important. So, if the classes are in uh line with the nature specific to that exam, then I think it's worth it. But I don't see a very watertight differentiation in the content especially. It's just that how you present that content or how you use that content is different in both the exams. But, uh what you study for prelims is what you write in mains. So thank you.

Okay. Then we'll move on to prelims itself. Sure. Right. So tell us your prelims experience. How did you approach it and what do you think worked for you for prelims? Because like you have given 23 24 and like this is an era of uncertain prelims. So how did you crack it?

So as I said I'm from a non-technical background. I have not given MCQ type exams in my life as technical background people do and um so 2023 I gave my first prelims and that didn't happen for me and uh there were two reasons why it didn't happen for me. Firstly I was not strong with my static and secondly I did not have the aptitude for prelims. So I realized these two things and then I worked on it. So entire 2024 I was I made my short notes from my class notes or from maybe if example I'm reading Lakshmi Khan then I made my short notes because what I realized is that prelims will only happen if you have revised your static very nicely a lot of your knowledge base it will help you in elimination of um options it will help you with your intuition because intuition cannot be baseless somewhere something you have read and that is how you have an intuition that okay I can go with this option so that you that is non-negotiable. I I don't think that any tricks or tips is going to work without revising your static very thoroughly that it should be on your fingertips. And uh secondly, aptitude what I mean by is that I realized that okay four options are given to me in prelims. There can be four possibilities. One, I don't know either of the options. I don't know what the question is talking about. I'm just completely unaware of it. Second is I know three. I know two options and I know I'm sure about the answer. So then I devised a trick for myself that if I can reach 50/50, I'm never going to leave that question. I am going to attempt that question because there's a strong probability that I might get it correct. Then if I and I used to do the paper in two rounds. So first round I used to mark all the questions that I'm sure about. it never exceeded 20 or 25 questions and I used to uh eliminate options like for example if three statements are given to me and I know one of them definitely I'll eliminate that okay this is what I know about it the rest I'll circle I'll come back to in second round and I used to figure out which 50/50 questions are there so in the second round I had to pick 50/50 through my through my knowledge base through my intuitions whatever worked for me and uh depending on the number of questions that I had to attempt I always had a target for at least attempting 90 plus questions irrespective of the difficulty level of the paper and then I used to take a shot at the three out of one probability that okay I know maybe something I can use and I can try to figure out the answer and third most important thing in prelims is pqs I don't think you can clear prelims without having a strong grip on pqs you need to practice it at least four five times as many times as you can go back five 7 10 years if possible possible because the language of test series papers and the language of the actual paper is is different. The commission has certain things in mind when it is framing a question whatever especially I feel like question solve options. For example, if I have to give an example, 2023, there was this question about invasive species specialist group and uh they had asked which organization publishes this report and in the bracket of that root of the question was written that it is a database and somewhere I knew that I prepares database. So I took a guess at IUCN and it was correct. So important or PQ practice why is it why is that information written? What is the intention behind it? You need to get into the examiner's mindset and that can only happen over a period of time. It will not come overnight. So I worked on these two things and I think finally it worked in 2024.

Definitely. So we will take few questions for prelims. If you have any questions related to prelims. Yes. Good. Hi ma'am congratulations. Thank you. Please stand up if like when you are asking now it will be helpful. Dan ma'am first thing I want to ask is uh did newspaper help you and if yes then which one helped you Hindu or Indian express and second thing is uh how you manage your time as you told classes to how you manage I am at in initial stage of my coaching to what should be the time schedule uh to manage things so that I can clear it in my first attempt.

Okay. So coming to your first question about the newspaper, I never really saw newspaper as a part of my preparation. It was a non-negotiable for me irrespective. It was my source of uh leisure to be very honest. I used to start my day non-negotiably with the newspaper. I used to read Indian express and my evening session I used to begin with uh reading some form of daily current affairs like the PDFs that are available to you. So I never missed that even like maybe one day before prelims I was still reading the DCA and uh same with means. So newspaper is not just for current affairs. I think it has multiple benefits. Firstly you get aware about a lot of things and you see what you're reading reading in your class notes or register happen in the newspapers in some way or the other. For example, if you're reading about monetary policy and next day you read an article that RBI has cut the repo rate. So you know the practical implication of it concepts application understanding which I think has become increasingly important in prelims because it's very application oriented. You need to understand the causes and effects do I feel is really well summarized in newspapers. Secondly newspaper will really help you with seesat because I used to um stick with art reading comprehensions because they were my forte. So it helps in understanding lang complicated languages helps reduce your reading time. Secondly, it also makes great examples for mains. Uh I don't know like I used to read Indian express and Indian express conducts these digital governance awards in which they also award a lot of public officers. So I used to pick them up as examples like because they were very relevant uh and I used to use them in my mains answers and I think that really distinguishes your copy from the next one. So I don't think that newspaper is capable at all. It's not just uh for this exam. I think in generally to become a become a better person. I think newspaper is important for your personality. And uh coming to your next question about time management. See in my first year I was again as anxious as you are probably that there are so many classes to cover. How do I study? How do I revise? Do I need to uh prepare my notes from everything that I'm studying? I was completely lost. I used to cry every second day. Uh and then what I realized is classes and try to do this on that day itself especially with classes. I think backlog is really overwhelming. Do not create backlogs. Faculty they are all well trained experienced people they know what they are doing if you have trusted them then show that trust do not I don't think skipping classes or watching it at 1.5 times obviously in exceptional cases you can but don't make it a regular habit I think prepcept and uh see I really wish first attempt because there people first attempt at basic answering. Trust the process. do not worry about it. Like don't start chasing narratives. You have come here, you have trusted them, show that trust. I I do not suggest that you'll be good to go. And that is something very important she has said that don't run after the narratives.

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if you trust the process, you put in the effort and she's an example of it right now coming back to prelims. So I want you to address two questions like prelims of 2025 is one month away. So what advice you would give to students who will give this year prelims and second about seesat. Now somebody who is not from a technical background uh I want your opinion how to prepare for sees specifically those who are not from technical background

see one month is left for prelims exactly one month is left today's 25th I'll give you practical tips first do not pick up anything new if you go out in the market just walk across the barazar road. There will be thousands of new current affairs magazines, thousands of places in news, this and that. So much information is there. I guarantee you that. Focus on your strengths. I studied from my basic notes. If the question comes, I'll take a shot. Not happening, I leave the question. So focus on your strengths. Revise your basic notes. And one very important advice I would like to give from my personal experience is that now try to simulate exam-like conditions as much as possible. What happened with me in 2023 prelims was that you give GS1 paper, paper one, then there's a 3-hour break. It's the midst of May, it's 45° outside. So when I was giving my seesat paper in 2023 in my center electricity was not there. So even the fan was not working. It was very hot. Your mind is stuck. You're not able to and from personally for me sees paper 2023 was very difficult. It was tough. I really panicked in the exam because all of the conditions that could go wrong were going wrong for me. So it's very different to sit in your room in an air conditioned room and practicing papers and it's completely different in the exam-like situation. So I would really like you to get accustomed with all the negative externalities beforehand that really helps you to keep your calm during the actual examination because these things do play a role. Fatigue is very important. I think post paper one you're so tired it's mentally exhausting it's very hot then you have to give seesat sometimes the fan will not work so you need to be prepared for all of these factors beforehand and um like here I will add like you were also part of abhas you gave abhas so was it helpful in you know conditioning yourself in this environment so I remember that uh my abhas center came around one and a half hours away from my home and uh I went to give the exam. It was very hot. It was the midst of April May it's very hot and plus the school benches that you get usually as a centers government school benches they're so small you cannot really properly sit also sometimes the fan is not working sometimes the teachers are making noises it's a lot of noise a lot of distractions are there so I think abhas helped me to prepare for whatever could go wrong in my main exam and then I saw okay okay how am I performing in those conditions and uh One test of mine did not go that well for Abhas. I think Abhas won and uh I understood that that it's not just about knowledge, it's also about application of that knowledge in 45°C. So you really get to prepare for that as well through these exams.

Now coming to that sees part. So like how did you approach sees as a non-technical student and what worked for you?

So 2023 um I was taking seesat coaching as well and I prepared from my end whatever I could but I barely passed seesat in 2023 and uh I knew that seesat is again something that I need to work on because I just wanted to make sure that seesat is not a problem for me. I did not want to be a maths stopper. I did not have any ego with respect to any question. I just wanted that sees should not be my main problem. that Cesar should not be the reason that I'm not clearing prelims. So here I took help from one of my very close friends um rank 192 last year Mohit Gupta. He uh is a math student. He he has very strong maths. So he just helped me with maths and I don't know how much of it is applicable to anyone here because I don't know if people can find friends like that but uh I would really like to credit my seesat preparation to him and I think I reached a point where I stopped fearing maths. Uh I think the biggest obstacle for a non-math student is that there's a fear of maths and if you start fearing certain things then you also start avoiding practicing it. You you find excuses. Okay, I'm too tired today. Maybe I'll do it tomorrow with a fresh mind because somewhere there's a fear. So I tried to overcome that fear that no matter what I have to practice sees for 2 hours every day. Like I it was just a part of my schedule and I used to sit at it as soon as possible because I know if I think too much about it then I'll not do it. So I just dived into my 2 hours of seesat and I used uh like worksheets which are available online resources are available. A lot of resources are available. So I used to practice the basic topics. I used to look at PQs, what type of questions are coming, how to approach them and also I think in CESAD the biggest thing is that you do not always have to follow the process. Sometimes a lot of questions you can solve through options also. So you need to have that flexibility in the exam. Do not think about options. You just need to clear it. You need to get 66 however by hook or by crook. And again my as my maths was not strong I relied more on RC. So in my first 50 minutes of the exam I used to complete all the reading comprehensions. I was quick with them and fortunately my accuracy was also well in reading comprehensions. Out of 27 I used to get 24 correct, 25 correct. So I focused on RC then LR and then in the last uh 40 minutes of the exam I used to focus on the easiest maths questions possible. I just used to look at a question and say that you will find such questions exam which you'll be able to do with a decent amount of practice and I don't think then seesat is going to be a problem for you. You can clear it it's not that challenging.

So you talked about for current affairs that you relied on your own newspapers. You read and there were PDFs and so anything specifically which is a prelims because now there are some people who have not read newspapers. So what should they focus upon when it comes to current affairs? Because one thing you said very rightly know that right you don't have to hunt for those contents but if they have to what they should focus upon right now

see I don't think newspaper is going to help you pass prelims for current affairs. I have never made any notes out of newspapers and I don't think it's possible to make notes and it's not possible to revise them at all. Newspaper should not be your primary source for prelims oriented current affairs or mains oriented current affairs. So for prelims um again 3 4 months before the exam you pick up any compilation consolidation because see all the coachings some good some bad have a particularly dedicated team targeted towards that exam. So they are doing the better half of the work for you. you just need to use their work and uh I personally use 365 prelims as well as for mains especially the dynamic subjects in mains like economy and science and tech I primarily relied on mains 365 and uh again but just reading once I don't think it's going to help you need to start uh at least reading it twice or thrice and then some things start to retain so I would advise that if you have picked up again one source read it two to three times times instead of reading two or three different sources because that's not going to help in my opinion.

Okay. Any questions for prelims? And when I say prelims, please let's keep it to prelims. I know you have lot of questions to ask. As we go step by step, you can ask them. So any prelim specific questions. Hello. Uh first of all ma'am, I would like to congratulate you. Please stand up. Sorry. And please stand up whenever you are asking question. Hello ma'am. First of all, I would like to congrat congratulate you for your huge success. Thank you. And uh my question is ma'am that uh you had any backup also like preparing for state PCs exams etc. And were you totally devoted to UPSC and what would you suggest for being motivated consistently because sometimes there is a feeling of left out.

Okay please. Yeah. So first question about plan B or backups. I think plan B's are very important because it relaxes you. It relaxes your mind from that fear of failure which I talked about earlier. You are able to actually focus on what you're studying and what you have to do. Um just a second I'm answering this question. So I think plan B's were very important and for my plan B's um I had two options in mind. I'd applied to some universities of abroad for my masters and secondly I'd also given the CO exam for my law or LLB course. So I had those backups. I did not prepare for state services but I had these two back backups and it really relaxed my mind and then I could actually focus on what I wanted to do because I was free from that fear of failure or free from okay what if this does not pan out. So I think yeah and uh the second question was how to stay motivated it's a very long process it's a brutal process it's tiring it's exhilarating it's exhausting it's not humanly possible to stay motivated throughout in fact I'll tell you something every like in a week there are seven days my tempo was not the same for seven days on Mondays I realized my tempo was very high I used to stretch to 12 hours because it was the beginning of the week I was energized very fun Tuesday the energy went a bit down by Friday I used to study barely like properly I used to study only 6 hours even if I was sitting at my table for like 10 hours so it's not possible to stay motivated throughout and honestly that is not required you just need to make sure that demotivation because then there's something fundamentally wrong in your thought process maybe you're not exactly sure if you want to do this exam for me my why was very clear and I think once your why is clear your how what where all of this becomes simplified but again having said that it's not possible to stay motivated 24/7 365 days and sometimes at least for me it was still a shorter journey of 3 years for some people it's 5 years 6 years you are humans at the end of the day you will get tired you will get demotivated plus there are so many externalities answer. There are so many triggers. So all of that is going to happen. That's very genuine. That's very natural in fact. But again, at the end of the day, you need to know that okay, I need to wake up tomorrow and get back to my study table. As long as you're doing that, even if sometimes you don't feel like you are good to go. Trust me, it it will happen for you. It's not that big of a deal really.

Any prelim specific question? Yes. Congratul every Saturday or every Sunday. I give so many tests. I cannot even recall honestly. I don't have a number to give you. If I have to put it, I think it was definitely 50 plus. But I it was not like I was doing it 1 month before prelims. I was doing it 10 months before prelims. So by the time prelims came I was I had given more than 50 plus tests. But I don't think that the number of tests really matters. What matters is that when you go back after giving the test, how are you really utilizing it to your benefit? I used to see how many questions in 50/50 am I getting wrong. I did not worry about questions that I did not know at all. like I used to tally my score for example whatever score I'm getting and then I used to tally the questions that I get got wrong that you have to focus on narrowing that gap. For example, if you're scoring let's say 100 in a mock test and suppose you got 15 questions wrong or whatever I I don't know now in those 15 questions how many questions were there which you could have gotten right and you calculate that number for example eight marks or 10 marks that was more important to me than those 100 marks that I was getting. So I used to you you do that and uh second thing is that whenever I attempted any test I went back home and I read the solutions that day because if you don't read it that day itself then you'll not read it at least for me it didn't happen I did not read the solutions for that test and that test was I did not count that test as a test given and whatever I uh read in those tests I used to add it in my foundation notes or my class notes or whatever notes that I had prepared and over time what happened was that my books grew my copies grew bulkier because I had done so much value addition from those tests and then I just did not have to look elsewhere for any other material because unlikely.

Hello ma'am good afternoon first of all many congratulation on your success in this exam. Thank you and my question is that how to how to do revision in a proper and in effective way.

It's a good question like what is the best way to revise for prelims or let's say means also I think uh this the answer to this question can vary from person to person I'll tell you what worked for me it might not work for someone else so in 2023 when I was giving my first attempt I did not make short notes because I didn't know how to make short notes 2024 and honestly because I went through my short notes 10 times, 12 times, 14 times, I don't know how many times because that is the only way you will actually retain anything to write in the exam whether prelims or means so for me I think short notes is the best way to revise effectively and again those short notes should not be static they should be dynamic you they they should have that flexibility whenever you learn anything new add it into your short notes you don't have to prepare a consolidated or a comprehensive comprehensive set of short notes today just start by preparing the basic and over time just just you'll give more tests you'll learn new things you'll revise it multiple times you'll retain more things keep adding it to your short notes. Keep it dynamic. Keep it flexible. And you'll not realize, but in some time, you'll have a very comprehensive source at your disposal. And then you just go through it as many times as possible. I know how to make short notes. Okay. So I'll take the example of Lakshmi Kant here. Uh fundamental rights chapter. Laxmi Khan said it's a 32page chapter. I think by the end of it you start memorizing all the pages of Laxmi. So it is a 32page chapter. What I did was I made five pages of short notes out of it. most likely information I never made short notes of the things that I understood really because once you understand you don't need to memorize it again and again you can use that I used to write those things which I thought that okay this is a very good information this might come in the exam and I'm likely to forget it I wrote that down and this is very helpful in chapters like emergency because there There are three types of emergencies. There are three different processes to apply. There are so many articles involved. Simple majority, special majority, revocation process because it's all facts. So flowchart that 352 national emergency proclamation of emergency how to apply, who applies, how to revoke, what happens, which fundamental rights get suspended, very very like very small notes. And uh what happened during 42nd amendment? what happened during 44th amendment and three pages page chapter basically and then I used to go through it again. So that is something I think you can try.

Thank you so much ma'am. First of all congratulations for your success in the exam. Thank [Music] you. Economics ority question. Again this will vary from person to person. I used to go one from 100. I did not do key I'll do polity first or I'll do history first or I'll do economy first. As in when the question came I used to attempt from one to 100. Again as I said before I used to do the paper in two rounds. First um maybe 1 hour 1 hour 10 minutes may I used to go through the entire 100 questions mark those questions then and there which I'm extremely sure about and I used to put that on the OMR also. I would suggest this one thing very strongly. Do not leave the OMR filling for the last time. There is a very high chance that you'll make some very avoidable mistakes in filling the OMR which you'll regret it so much. So I used to put down whatever questions um I'm extremely sure about then and there and I used to fill the box also because what happens is also if you don't fill the box you'll keep thinking about it too much and sometimes you get trapped in the get trapped in the overthinking cycle and question because you thought too much about it. So once you're sure and usually your first guess is the right guess because it's your intuition somewhere something has has connected in your mind and that is why you feel like that that could be the correct answer and you go with it. 90% of the cases it will work for you and uh then second round may I used to attempt those questions as I said 50/50 and the 75% 25% quality questions I used to do that in those questions which I'm completely not sure about I used to leave those questions because I always left five or six questions in the exam and um so yeah and ma'am one last question orient only [Music] two questions. Thank [Music] you. Only one only two. See only one only two options only three questions I would suggest only mathematically. Thank you ma'am.

Okay then now we will move on to main section otherwise and we can take questions again in between. So now coming to mains uh we will divide it in paper 1 2 3 then ethics and essay and then optional. Okay. So what was your approach to paper 1 2 3 and what did you do for them?

So I'll start with GS1. GS. Okay. So GS1 I had a big advantage because my optional was geography. So I never really prepared geography for GS. I used to write from my optional knowledge only. So coming on to history um arting society these three remain right? Yeah. So for society there are a lot of compilations you can pick either all are good. Uh so it was in a question answer format. So the entire syllabus was covered in questions and the respective value edition was also given with respect to that. So I again that was again 100 200page PDF. I reduced that to 25 pages and I kept revising those. And um I think for all mains paper I'll suggest one thing. There are a lot of value addition compilations which are present in the market a lot of good ones. So what I used to do is that after waking up 30 minutes I just used to go through those value additions data examples diagrams charts whatever and I did not actively try to memorize it because it's I used to run it through my eyes three months it got internalized and then I just started it came very naturally to me while I was writing answers So you can do that for every paper. Every paper will have different set of valuation that you can do. For example, GS1 may uh in society I used to pick up examples from for example uh festivals uh like for example and again newspaper will help you because it will give you relevant examples. Society is prevalent everywhere. It's a very wide subject from gender rights to festivals to everything you have and just keep revising those examples. use them as much as possible to enrich your content and honestly society questions are coming more and more vaguer like it's getting very vague. So sometimes also just general awareness around you helps to write those answers. For example in 2023 they asked about work from home question. So again all of us have seen that. So you need to be very like present while you're writing the um answer in that. Then art and culture history again I used to write my content from what I had read during prelims. Hoala architecture I know some certain points that steadily plan is there and sandstone is there and it was a news also because of the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage and uh the list. So that helped me prelims I like I did not have any specific source for mains for history. I used to write whatever I knew from prelims like whatever validation I had and again I used to do one thing that whenever I'm writing a mock test for GS1 uh the solutions that are provided like the test the test solutions that are provided that became my source for value addition because it's usually very well written they have examples they have everything they have data so again I used to inculcate that into my notes and over time that that became my like to like something that I read again and again and revised again and again so I think for GS1 I did that so GS2 again basics I think everyone knows uh I'll tell you what differently I did is that I prepared all the case judgments I used case case judgments that whenever whatever question came I just tried to find at least one case judgment related to that and I used to add it to my answers somehow again remembering articles I think is important so I used to read the bare act I think beract is a great way to revise policy also very quickly because most of it is covered. So again articles you can use case judgments I think are very important and general current affairs knowledge also is I think required now because in 2024 GS2 they asked about the unfair means bill. So if you're not aware about that then it's very difficult to write those answers because it's technical in nature. So I think I did that for GS2 again. GS3 is the most dynamic paper. There are so many topics to cover and honestly I did not have any one static source for it. I relied mainly on mains 365 to add value to my answers for economy, science and tech, disaster, internal security. I just read the magazines and whatever I could find from that. I added it to my notes and I kept revising it. And again those value addition compilations that you find in market keep running that through your eyes and then slowly you'll start internalizing the data and the facts and examples and everything and I think that works for ethics. I think in ethics the paper is so long and uh the most difficult thing in ethics is time management. So what I used to do is that in case studies I

started increasing my visibility through very efficient forms of representation. For example, uh, like, for examp, like, sometimes they ask you to, "What options will you consider? What options do you think?" So I used to make this graph: one, two, three. I used to make three blocks, and whatever is the most probable option, I used to write at the top and give two or three words about it. Second and third option, usually you write three options. So what happens is that you write it in a quicker manner, and it's easier to check also because your visibility increases rather than writing sentences. So I think in ethics, you need to really work on time management and working and writing your paper efficiently because that really helps in those exam-like conditions.

Similarly, for ethics, um, the basic examples all of us have because it's available in the market. I will advise, try to find certain unique examples and more relevant to the paper. Do not always run after only retired IAS/IPS officers. For example, I, um, used to always use this example of Seema Dhaka. She's a Delhi police constable, and she tracked 76 missing children in 3 months. So, she made a wonderful example for dedication, hard work, and everything. So, you can also venture into non-IAS/IPS examples as well. I think they make wonderful examples because they're new, they're unique, they're not frequently read. So I think current affairs and newspapers help in that again because you find those unique examples, and this is very important because everybody now is writing examples in ethics, and everybody's writing those same examples. So it is very important that you go after the new examples, and newspapers add great value to it. Add great value to it. Yes.

Now, one thing that a lot of students struggle with is practice and answer writing for Mains, and it is very crucial. Like, answer writing is the important factor. So, how did you manage your answer writing? Like, what did you do for answer writing? What were your habits about it? So, during my foundation, uh, we used to have weekly tests where I wrote two answers every week, and I used to take 40 minutes to write two answers and did not get more than three marks in any of the answers. I think three was the highest that I got. So, foundation time, answer writing is not that focused upon. I did not focus too much upon answer writing because you're already doing so much. You're consolidating notes, you don't know how to write an answer. Uh, so I practiced those weekly tests, and then once I finished my coaching, and I gave 20. So, one thing I did was that I did not clear 2023 Prelims, but I prepared for Mains as if a Prelims qualified candidate would have. I think that really changed my Mains game because I really, I strongly believe that if you prepare for Mains once properly, you'll find your name in the list, you'll not look back. And answering complete thoughts, but I think answer writing prioritization is very important. You'll go in levels. First level is just to start writing, just to initiate writing. Pick up a pen, write a question. You'll write very badly, I promise you that. You'll not write it in 7 minutes, you'll write it in 15 minutes, probably 20 minutes, maybe 25 minutes. So, you do not have to worry about, "Okay, I'm writing a bad answer. I'm not writing in the time-defined limit. I don't know. I can't recall. I don't have content." A lot of problems will be there. Then slowly, you'll start at least writing a basic answer. You'll, you'll get to perfecting those basic answers, that just the answers that you're writing from your foundation notes, not value-added, nothing, nothing, nothing. Then you'll go to level two, wherein you have consolidated, you have mastered the first, the first level of answer writing. Second level, you'll go where you'll start focusing on actively recalling value-added material, examples, add maps, diagrams, data, charts, whatever you can. Again, it will be very bad. It will not happen. It will not come naturally. You'll have to really put that pressure on your mind, "Okay, how can I use this? How can I use that?" Finally, that will happen after some period of time, or I don't know, time. But I still remember August 12th, 2023. I gave my first simulator, and that was the first time I wrote all 20 questions in 3 hours. And that day was more important to me than any other day because I genuinely thought that I'll not reach that day. So, um, and then finally, you'll reach level three, where you can start focusing on speed, on handwriting. And then what I used to do is that once I've mastered the first two levels, that now I can write a basic answer with a decent amount of value addition, then I just made limits for myself. I will not exceed more than seven minutes for a 10-marker and 11 minutes for a 15-marker. And I did not have a three-hour timeline for me for all the questions, for all the 20 questions. I had individual question limits, and I just never exceeded that. Even if I've written like one and a half page, not the full two pages, I'll move on to the next question. And then over time, slowly your endurance will build up, your the movement of your hand will get improved, and you'll develop that resilience, and it will happen. It will happen. It happened for me. I genuinely thought that I will never complete a paper in 3 hours. But August 12th. So, yeah.

And this is very important what you talked about. Now, the answer writing and Mains is not something, you know, a static part. It's a process. It's a process. It's a long process. You, and it won't happen until you start. So, you will never reach level three if you don't start at level one. And if you get discouraged at level one, you'll, it will, it will just never. It's a, it's a positive feedback mechanism. I'm sure you've read that in environment. So, one thing will lead to another. It will escalate into betterment. It will not happen overnight. You, if I can, I'll try to show my the first answers that I've written. I wrote it in like 15 minutes. First 10-marker content. I'm just basically rambling on for two pages. But safe to say, I think Mains went well. Definitely, it went well. Most UPSC aspirants fail before they even begin. Here's how you avoid that. The mistake: they jump into preparation without a road map, a mentor, or a clear strategy. At Vision IAS, Delhi, we help you build your UPSC foundation the right way, from day one. Get structured coverage: Prelims, Mains, CSAT, and Essay, all broken down step by step so nothing feels overwhelming. Smart current affairs with PT365 and Mains365. You focus only on what truly matters. No fluff. Personal mentorship. Real one-on-one guidance to help you fix weak areas and boost what you're already good at. Test + feedback loop. Regular tests with detailed feedback so you never lose track of your progress. Don't start blind. Start smart with Vision IAS. This is where your serious UPSC journey begins.

So, any questions related to Mains? Yeah, blue shirt. I hope I'm not boring anyone. No, no, it's very good. Afternoon, ma'am. Many congratulations to you. Thank you. Uh, I have a question regarding to the current affairs portion. So, as you said regularly Indian Express, it will be very hectic. Supplement current affairs magazine for PT365, Mains365. I've never even revised any newspaper. Unfortunately, we are all reading about it, or whatever issue is that over a period of maybe 7 days, 10 days. So, many times you'll read it in the newspaper from some article, maybe an editorial, an explained section article, some front-page news. If you're reading one news only three times in the same paper, by the third time that you're reading it, something gets started, like starts to retain in your mind. So, even if that does not happen, that's completely fine. I cannot, uh, practically remember the whole newspaper. Neither, neither can I revise any newspaper. Neither did I try to make any notes out of any newspaper. I just read the newspaper as a general source of fun, to be very honest. It was, I, it was my leisure time. I used to start, I start my day with my newspaper and my coffee, and that was my starter for the day. I, I cannot wake up and start reading polity immediately. My brain will not function like that. So, I used, like, I use newspaper as a, like, an initiator into my day. So, I never really made any notes out of anything newspaper. But for current affairs, as I told you, I relied on compilations for Prelims as well as Mains. Especially for GS3, I honestly only prepared GS3 from Mains365. Um, you can see my notes, like, all the topics that I have. I've just written datas, I've written points, I've written schemes, and I try to use that in my answers. So, ma'am, other question is related to the answer writing part. So, value addition. What is the key differentiator factor in the brilliance part? Brilliant part or Mains? 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started increasing my visibility through very efficient forms of representation. For example, uh, like, for examp, like, sometimes they ask you to, "What options will you consider? What options do you think?" So I used to make this graph: one, two, three. I used to make three blocks, and whatever is the most probable option, I used to write at the top and give two or three words about it. Second and third option, usually you write three options. So what happens is that you write it in a quicker manner, and it's easier to check also because your visibility increases rather than writing sentences. So I think in ethics, you need to really work on time management and working and writing your paper efficiently because that really helps in those exam-like conditions.

Similarly, for ethics, um, the basic examples all of us have because it's available in the market. I will advise, try to find certain unique examples and more relevant to the paper. Do not always run after only retired IAS/IPS officers. For example, I, um, used to always use this example of Seema Dhaka. She's a Delhi police constable, and she tracked 76 missing children in 3 months. So, she made a wonderful example for dedication, hard work, and everything. So, you can also venture into non-IAS/IPS examples as well. I think they make wonderful examples because they're new, they're unique, they're not frequently read. So I think current affairs and newspapers help in that again because you find those unique examples, and this is very important because everybody now is writing examples in ethics, and everybody's writing those same examples. So it is very important that you go after the new examples, and newspapers add great value to it. Add great value to it. Yes.

Now, one thing that a lot of students struggle with is practice and answer writing for Mains, and it is very crucial. Like, answer writing is the important factor. So, how did you manage your answer writing? Like, what did you do for answer writing? What were your habits about it? So, during my foundation, uh, we used to have weekly tests where I wrote two answers every week, and I used to take 40 minutes to write two answers and did not get more than three marks in any of the answers. I think three was the highest that I got. So, foundation time, answer writing is not that focused upon. I did not focus too much upon answer writing because you're already doing so much. You're consolidating notes, you don't know how to write an answer. Uh, so I practiced those weekly tests, and then once I finished my coaching, and I gave 20. So, one thing I did was that I did not clear 2023 Prelims, but I prepared for Mains as if a Prelims qualified candidate would have. I think that really changed my Mains game because I really, I strongly believe that if you prepare for Mains once properly, you'll find your name in the list, you'll not look back. And answering complete thoughts, but I think answer writing prioritization is very important. You'll go in levels. First level is just to start writing, just to initiate writing. Pick up a pen, write a question. You'll write very badly, I promise you that. You'll not write it in 7 minutes, you'll write it in 15 minutes, probably 20 minutes, maybe 25 minutes. So, you do not have to worry about, "Okay, I'm writing a bad answer. I'm not writing in the time-defined limit. I don't know. I can't recall. I don't have content." A lot of problems will be there. Then slowly, you'll start at least writing a basic answer. You'll, you'll get to perfecting those basic answers, that just the answers that you're writing from your foundation notes, not value-added, nothing, nothing, nothing. Then you'll go to level two, wherein you have consolidated, you have mastered the first, the first level of answer writing. Second level, you'll go where you'll start focusing on actively recalling value-added material, examples, add maps, diagrams, data, charts, whatever you can. Again, it will be very bad. It will not happen. It will not come naturally. You'll have to really put that pressure on your mind, "Okay, how can I use this? How can I use that?" Finally, that will happen after some period of time, or I don't know, time. But I still remember August 12th, 2023. I gave my first simulator, and that was the first time I wrote all 20 questions in 3 hours. And that day was more important to me than any other day because I genuinely thought that I'll not reach that day. So, um, and then finally, you'll reach level three, where you can start focusing on speed, on handwriting. And then what I used to do is that once I've mastered the first two levels, that now I can write a basic answer with a decent amount of value addition, then I just made limits for myself. I will not exceed more than seven minutes for a 10-marker and 11 minutes for a 15-marker. And I did not have a three-hour timeline for me for all the questions, for all the 20 questions. I had individual question limits, and I just never exceeded that. Even if I've written like one and a half page, not the full two pages, I'll move on to the next question. And then over time, slowly your endurance will build up, your the movement of your hand will get improved, and you'll develop that resilience, and it will happen. It will happen. It happened for me. I genuinely thought that I will never complete a paper in 3 hours. But August 12th. So, yeah.

And this is very important what you talked about. Now, the answer writing and Mains is not something, you know, a static part. It's a process. It's a process. It's a long process. You, and it won't happen until you start. So, you will never reach level three if you don't start at level one. And if you get discouraged at level one, you'll, it will, it will just never. It's a, it's a positive feedback mechanism. I'm sure you've read that in environment. So, one thing will lead to another. It will escalate into betterment. It will not happen overnight. You, if I can, I'll try to show my the first answers that I've written. I wrote it in like 15 minutes. First 10-marker content. I'm just basically rambling on for two pages. But safe to say, I think Mains went well. Definitely, it went well. Most UPSC aspirants fail before they even begin. Here's how you avoid that. The mistake: they jump into preparation without a road map, a mentor, or a clear strategy. At Vision IAS, Delhi, we help you build your UPSC foundation the right way, from day one. Get structured coverage: Prelims, Mains, CSAT, and Essay, all broken down step by step so nothing feels overwhelming. Smart current affairs with PT365 and Mains365. You focus only on what truly matters. No fluff. Personal mentorship. Real one-on-one guidance to help you fix weak areas and boost what you're already good at. Test + feedback loop. Regular tests with detailed feedback so you never lose track of your progress. Don't start blind. Start smart with Vision IAS. This is where your serious UPSC journey begins.

So, any questions related to Mains? Yeah, blue shirt. I hope I'm not boring anyone. No, no, it's very good. Afternoon, ma'am. Many congratulations to you. Thank you. Uh, I have a question regarding to the current affairs portion. So, as you said regularly Indian Express, it will be very hectic. Supplement current affairs magazine for PT365, Mains365. I've never even revised any newspaper. Unfortunately, we are all reading about it, or whatever issue is that over a period of maybe 7 days, 10 days. So, many times you'll read it in the newspaper from some article, maybe an editorial, an explained section article, some front-page news. If you're reading one news only three times in the same paper, by the third time that you're reading it, something gets started, like starts to retain in your mind. So, even if that does not happen, that's completely fine. I cannot, uh, practically remember the whole newspaper. Neither, neither can I revise any newspaper. Neither did I try to make any notes out of any newspaper. I just read the newspaper as a general source of fun, to be very honest. It was, I, it was my leisure time. I used to start, I start my day with my newspaper and my coffee, and that was my starter for the day. I, I cannot wake up and start reading polity immediately. My brain will not function like that. So, I used, like, I use newspaper as a, like, an initiator into my day. So, I never really made any notes out of anything newspaper. But for current affairs, as I told you, I relied on compilations for Prelims as well as Mains. Especially for GS3, I honestly only prepared GS3 from Mains365. Um, you can see my notes, like, all the topics that I have. I've just written datas, I've written points, I've written schemes, and I try to use that in my answers. So, ma'am, other question is related to the answer writing part. So, value addition. What is the key differentiator factor in the brilliance part? Brilliant part or Mains? 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