UPSC CSE 2025 Related Discussion
As I couldn't find a group for everyday target tracking for cse'25 aspirants, here is one I created.
In the words of
well long time no see? long time no see.
Hows the prep going? i don't know lets see. - Kinda slaggy focus these days due to forcing my self to stick to the morning routine. (my body keeps going back to the night routine i don't know how)
Currently troubled cause wasn't able to do enough for mains heres the update on those tests.
the main struggle is to finish 4 sectionals of optional paper 2 (done with 4 sectionals of paper 1)
Mentor recommends doing ethics and essays sunday to sunday along with prelims prep cause he thinks the score in sfg was decent enough.
so speaking in terms of data@Rashmirathi,i come here to seek advice again.
Polity - was without revison + few chapters read from laxmikant - scope for a lot of improvement afte reading it.
Economy - was reading mains material + whatever i could recall. (concepts clear - scope of improvement after precentric revision.)
Env, Geography, SnT - did kinda fair prep for them - revising notes + books (about 2-3 hrs per day) (slight improvemnt posible after cover to cover reading of sources)
History - Weakness, not that much - kinda fair with the ideas of mains and flow but have to organise prelims centric facts. wasn't able to revise before tests (fell sick) (only place to go is up)
so thats about it from the past 50 days of Sfgs, sustained through the program (ofc would have if i had to say my one strength it would be consistency.) 800 people remain in the offline with the odd 2300 starting - percentile almost remains same about 50-60% (barring few anomalies).
Started this as just the practise of MCQs with no revision or reading stuff (about the first 7-8tests) - soon added a slot just before sleeping to revise notes of the topic as much as possible - improved the overall marks (about 2hrs of study for them per day)
Really wanna prepare for mains till end of feb - the confidence is kinda back for pre because the recent tests were of logical domain (SnT and Geography), but maybe thats not how@DancingMaster or@Neyawn would advice for the first attempt.
Target for pre -
1) Attempt Full length paper 2017-2024 - identify heuristics and themes
2) read the standard books cover to cover
3) Make Quick Revision notes
4) Current Affairs - Mentor recommends PT365 (due to time constrain and as I have read newspaper about consistently from june 2024 so majorly revision) + i would be solving the current affairs MCQs (monthly compliations of insights) - realised its better to learn through them.
yeah thats about the changes in the routine for prelims.
For remaining mains -
1) got about 10 lect of society and social justice to cover (haven't watched them since jan 20 because had to complete tests) by feb end.
2) Finish 4 Optional papers (by feb end)
3) Maybe write few essays on mentors recommendation (Sunday to sunday) - wrote 1 yet scored among the top 20 so not bad - kinda confident of writing skills.
4) Brain storm few ans (about 2-3 per day) and maybe write 1 - kinda fearing ans writing cause the tests have started again taking more time than allotted + brain fog while brain storming. (about 30 mins per day to keep in touch?)
i keep going back to kanishak sirs topper talk - kinda feel similar to him (ofc won't be able to score 370 in opt but about the objective and statistics based approach)
what say friends and senior players should i take the mains prep along? or its time for full fledged prelims? based on data above feelings ofc - to go by feeling i want to do mains, need a 3rd person pov on the scene.
the 89 days in between and about some many tests remaining i feel scared.
This was taking a lot of mental space so had to dump to get back to focus. Looking forward to advice.
PS -@Fairyflu @AdiTea @mango all good? where the consistent postings of targets at?
heres my prev few weeks
also where the forest people at? started using this recently its kinda fun (just to be clear this is not full true picture - i dont use my phone anyways so i sometimes forget starting it or closing it + i don't believe in the number of hours theory for me its more of things completed therefore excel, but yeah using this cause its cute + helps in rebound.)
Was busy overthinking, doubting myself. Even felt embarrassed to post, thinking I should not even write my targets if I can't complete them. Hopefully, will start again and try to be less frightened ( I wish : ) )
Hello@Neyawn Sir. I am posting my SFG test scores here with rank (tallying them with offline students only). I have already given mains once but fumbled because of optional (205 only -PSIR) and Essay (83). Why? because I never wrote any answers for them before but now in this attempt I have already wrote about 100+ Psir answers and 3 essay but I want to subsequently prepare for mains too.
So, how much time should I dedicate to mains and how much answer writing will you/ any mentor suggest.
Thank you
#2 and #3 done, #1 partly done. Today -Finished #1, #2 not done. Today -Targets for today -
1. Revise optional topics 5, 6
2. IS notes (if time permits)
1. Revise optional topic 4, 72. Economics3. Jan CA
3. Econ Survey Ch. 5
#2 and #3 done, #1 partly done. Today -Finished #1, #2 not done. Today -Targets for today -
1. Revise optional topics 5, 6
2. IS notes (if time permits)
1. Revise optional topic 4, 72. Economics3. Jan CA1. Finish revising optional topics 4, 5, 72. Finish national income accounting3. Econ Survey Ch. 5
#2 and #3 done, #1 partly done. Today -
1. Finish revising optional topics 4, 5, 8
2. Economy - revision + banking
3. Econ Survey Ch. 2
Could not start for prelims,reading optional only.Will start from tomorrow(simulator me ghayal hone ke baad).
Have not started studying yet,most likely will be a wasted day.Almost impossible for me to start in the middle of the day.No worries.
Kl se 6 month pdhna h(31 august tk).will try to give it all in this attempt.selection or not but don't want any regrets like last year.
Did #3, 1 and 2 not done. Today -#2 and #3 done, #1 partly done. Today -Finished #1, #2 not done. Today -Targets for today -
1. Revise optional topics 5, 6
2. IS notes (if time permits)
1. Revise optional topic 4, 72. Economics3. Jan CA1. Finish revising optional topics 4, 5, 72. Finish national income accounting3. Econ Survey Ch. 5
#2 and #3 done, #1 partly done. Today -
1. Finish revising optional topics 4, 5, 8
2. Economy - revision + banking
3. Econ Survey Ch. 2
"In the midst of chaos chase light" (statistics in my case)
Its community update time. - all drained from previous week of college assignments and presentation (Karol bagh parabola my prof calls it) physically drained due to travel, mentally and emotionally drained due to health problems of family (i don't know if this is a place to dump that so lets keep it for later)
To begin with heres the prev 3 weeks of progress
a litlle dissapointed of not being able to save 500 rs by one ques in sfg ent (scored 65.33 the cutoff was 68) 50 hi aajate yaar isse achha to 😠anyways the grind shall continue so lets aim for saving this next month.
SFG progress as of now seems fair target was top 100 but hovering around 250 so lets rely on consistency and the process play its part.
Coming back to the starting line - i feel like i keep getting lucky in the tests and i dont deserve the marks i have been getting because the people around me have studied much more yet are scoring less.
Attempted the PYQs - excluded the qs i knew ans from before or counted them as i attemepted them when i saw for the first time in sfg or elsewhere (if i got something wrong before i counted it as a -ve) with a target for myself as the forest cutoff.
need to go till 2015, and about the FLTs attempted 2 as of yet
Forum AI-0 - scored 93.33 (54/19) got into time trouble wasn't able to attempt more questions felt the paper was easy and could have scored about 110 easily. yet convinced myself that i dont deserve this score as i might have scored because of familiarity with Forum questions and mindset due to SFG.
Insights AI - 1 - this was something to bring me to the ground scored 63.67 (45/40) manged the time a lil better but still got a place to improve.
So in the self doubt tantrum we chase more data points to cut shot the standard deviation of confidence hyperbola. lmk if you guys are attempting any full length open mocks would love to have someone to compete with.
+ the full length are being saved by SnT and Env mostly because of familiarity with them due to my background (JEE and Biotechnology) so the scope of improvement in polity and history is still a lot.
ps - i have an eye out for@DancingMaster and@Fairyflu since sfg L1 the aim is to get ahead in the weekly/monthly ranking in L2😤 (all healthy competition tho)
and the mind is still a little scared about the mains prep but has accepted the situation and lets go cash in aur aptitude for the MCQs.
To end with -
"Statistics don't lie like the emotions do." and
"Outwork your self doubt" are the quotes i remind myself in the times of need, throwing it out there if it helps.
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