@DancingMaster समुंदर्मंथन में निकली थी क्या
Usiko toh leke ghor yudh hua tha.
Done with morning one and half hour. More to go. Time to grind. Wish I could listen my favourite songs w someone and vibe. Wish I could tell them why I like this song and then I really wish I we'll sing those songs together.
It hurts when you no longer have that someone. Slowly you stop listening to your favourite music, slowly you stop doing things that you enjoy because now those things remind you of that someone. You stop singing your favourite song, you stop watching your favourite show, you try to explore new things which may not necessary give you happiness.
Well exploring new things has it's pros and cons. I would want to explore new things with a positive and empty mind space. Which I don't think is possible for me right now. Or I would want to explore new things with people I feel comfortable with.
Am I a hopeless romantic ? Am I too emotional ? yadda yada. Do I overshare to random new people? YUP. Do they lose interest in me after I overshare ? YES. Why so though ? because I'm not mysterious anymore and people naturally curious about things. Once things become clear people aren't interested no more (':
BEEY BHAAY, can all this let's get back to studying economics.
LISTENING TO TRAMPOLINE NOWW fullGEN Z MUSIKKXZ
प्रेम में टूटे लोग
बनते हैं पेड़
जो सूख जाने के बाद भी
इतनी संभावनाएं जरुर छोड़ जाते हैं कि
उनपर बन सके एक घोंसला
जिनसे बसाया जा सके घर
टूटने का अर्थ
हर बार बिखरना नहीं होता
समेटना भी होता है।
Kaafi experienced lag rahe ho dost!
Since this is the most active thread on Forum, I'll just put it here.
Some of you might remember me. I am a relatively older member of the Forum community and have benefitted a lot when I was preparing from my home. I have made some lifelong friends on this community and would suggest you all to use this platform constructively, especially those preparing from home.
I got AIR 68 this year with Anthropology as my optional. If you have anything that I can help you with, feel free to ask here or send me a message.
P.S.- Asking here in this thread will help others too. If possible, please ask here itself 🙂
@Steph_Curry Congrats, have been following you for some time and it feels great to see someone from the community making it big, onto my question - 2024 will be my 3rd attempt, how do you suggest i go about my mains prep and how should i utilize my mgp tests given that I will be required to shift to pre specific prep once sfg starts
Thank you :)
Assuming you are not writing 2023 mains, I'd suggest you to prepare as if you are giving mains this year itself. If you have attempted MGP papers, do analyse them. I found their model answers to be of very good quality and used to extract points from them. Use the model answers, test reviews, and your own judgement to analyse the tests.
Also, given the nature of the prelims paper, switch to full-fledged prelims preparation once SFG starts. This can vary as per one's confidence in prelims, but it should not be underestimated at any cost.
Congrats man! I watched your forum Bihar ka talk! Kaffi crazy personality hai tumhari just like your awfg and CA answers (':
1. Did taking a job ever occurred to you? How did you cope up with the berozgar feeling after passing out of IIT Guwahati ? Did you give other exams and cleared them? or just concentrated on cse?
2. How much were you scoring in MGP FLT's ? Did the marks reflect in final upsc? Asking because I'm sceptical of mentors now.
3. How did you manage philosophical essays? How did you prepare for them?
Hehe. Thank You.
1. I started with a super strong belief that I'll clear the exam in the first attempt itself. That's why I jumped into it without taking any coaching or having any peer group. Taking a job did occur to me but I had thought this career option through in my final year of college and made peace with it. I think COVID also did help keep this thought at bay as everything was disrupted. Also, I did not give any other exams in the meantime because I could clear prelims [2020, 2021, 2022] and would write mains. So there was not much time to think!
2. MGP marks are usually slightly on the lower side. I got 129 in GS2 this year but never got more than 105 in MGP. The thing is, focus on the reviews and analysing the model answers more than the marks. Marks will always be subjective. A better way to improve is to use our own wisdom in analysing it after writing the test
3. I prepared the value additions parts- Quotes, anecdotes, shlokas, opinions, books, padma awardees.... Once they were done, I tried to analyse the philosophical quote in different dimensions and tried to fit in my value addition points. Write 2 FLTs [4 essays] and you'll get the hang of it.
@Steph_Curry What'd be your 2 cents regarding someone who is planning to appear for ifos only and has to start from scratch?
Also is geology a manageable subject?
Hello!
A senior Apoorv Dixit did this last year and got AIR 11 in IFoS. It is very manageable.
I am assuming that 1 optional is forestry. If the other optional is not common with CSE, geology is the most preferred one! You can take help of any classes/ Youtube videos for preparing Geology along with the standard textbooks like Bangar.
The preparation has to be in 2 dimensions
1. Prelims- Getting a score at par with IFoS cutoff
2. Covering both the optionals holsitically to get an advantage there
For that, you can use the next 5 months of 2023 to finish 1 optional in totality and 60-70% of the other one. Both optional can also be done entirely if you plan well. After that, prelims should be focussed upon! Then back to IFoS mains after the prelims.
Refer to Apoorv Dixit bhaiya's notes both for Forestry and Geology. It is available on his telegram channel.
All the best :)
I referred to Apoorv Dixit's notes only! Made my own short notes from there and some online sources/ std books. I only had 20-25 days to prepare for each of the optionals! I'll share my forestry/ geology short notes on my telegram channel here.
