UPSC 2024 final result out.

29.05.2024(17 days to go)-update

30.05.2024(16 days to go)-update

31.05.2024(15 days to go)-target

Lost track in last 4 days.

Trying to streamline.

3.6.2024(12 days to go)

Science & Tech- CA-1/2

Science & Tech Mock questions revision- 1/2

Need to accelerate for mains.Aiming to complete 1 revision of Optional notes(base material) by 15th July(19 days) along with 75% Ethics(including 2013-23 PYQs), 8 essays and July’23, Aug’23 and June’24 Current Affairs.MGP from 3rd week of July for FLTs

27.06.2024 Day 1/19

Optional- Research Methods, Mock Test 1

Ethics- 4/30

June’23 (25-30)-Editorials and Mains Marathon.

27.06.2024 Day 1/19- Update

Optional- Research Methods, Mock Test 1- Research Methods done.Test- X

Ethics- 4/30- done

June’23 (25-30)-Editorials and Mains Marathon- partial.

Need to stop overthinking about how to do, what to do.Creating a lot of diversion in mind and waste of time(30-40% efficiency reduction)

Update-

Optional - Thinkers- Partial

Ethics- Done

Current- till 29th.

Also looked at few IR questions.

Optional- 50%

Ethics- done

Awfg- done

Ca- done

12.8.2024- 39 days to go

9 days optional challenge

Day 1/9

Stratification(Ch-2-4), Politics-book and notes

Work and Economic life-notes

Test 1- 3 hour( Strat+ Kinship+ Politics)

Test 2 - 1.5 hour ( Strat+Kinship+Work and economic life)

Update: 31/8/2024

Spent last few days reading core texts of optional(beyond the initial plan) something that was undermining my self confidence. Although still not there, but feel it helped internalize many concepts and my language for the subject.

What have I done till now?

Optional Tests- 4 FLT(sectional), 3 HLT(sectional), daily brainstorming vs topper answers.

Wrote ~21 AWFGs(skipped Post Ind, World, A&C) with only 1 AWFG with all 7 Qns but minimal reading/revising. But have got hold of how to write.(Rank varied- from top 50 to bottom 30- just kept on writing).

Overall Feedback: Good breaking down of concepts, legibility ok.

Need to work upon:1. Content- Need to Mug up facts, data, committees, articles, ethics examples. 2. Timing(fear of not knowing led to wasting time writing lengthy answers)

Essay- 5 HLT, 1 FLT( scoring around 50-52 per essay).

Ethics-1 FLT(82.5)

What Next? 18 days available

Write 3 hour test for GS starting tomorrow to cover 1 round of content.  

Next 10 days- GS 1,2,3- Sectional-2 tests each(1 per day*6=6 days). GS 4-Sectional-1 test, (Essay-1FLT+GS1,2 full syllabus+GS3,4 full syllabus). 

Optional- Revise and Condense notes to 2 notebooks, only key word and thinker backward.

Next 10 days- Optional 2 FLT(sectional), 5 HLT(sectional).

If GS backlog accumulates reduce Optional emphasis from 6th onwards(tactical).

Finally, Like everyone says, from now on- Control the controllable. Study Hard, Sleep Well! 

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Anyone facing the issue with mobile number error in IFS daf.space is blanked out but page is asking for it when submitting it.

19.09.2024

1 day before the exam.

Travelling to the city for exam.

Status update:

There are hits and there are misses in the last 3 months.

There is a sinking feeling that I didn't give my 100% yet there is some sort of calm.

To myself-

On 9th Aug,1942 when all the leaders were picked up by the British, there was a lot of chaos.No one out had the experience of leading a mass scale movement.It was in these times young leaders like Aruna Asaf Ali, Sucheta Kriplani and others rose to the occassion.What worked was the intent with which they had joined the movement.It was the 'lived' experience that mattered more than anything else.

3 months back I was not even sure if I would clear prelims.It was a pleasant surprise in itself.

For the exam-

The paper has to be written as if it is written by the people who are part of this great nation but have become invisible from our daily lives-  the women, the kids, the men who sleep in open in the ground.For those who are not sure of the next meal, the next gig.For the person I saw shaking in winter rain on the road side at a turn at 2AM in the unknown village.For the tribals who come daily in the evening for taking the cement mixture machine kept at the corner of the road and work whole night constructing before dropping the machine in the morning for a daily wage.Many being as young as 16-17.

Had I not studied for this exam I would have not developed this view.This is probably the reason I have a sense of satisfaction.

Finally, like Gandhiji said- the freedom from colonial rules is meaningless unless we secure freedom from our own ills.

May the nation take its great place in the world with actual implementation of FRs and DPSPs(with no repetition of events like today morning in Nawada)!

All the best to all.Until next time!