Great initiative. Will be happy to contribute post prelims.
But before that, probably we should explain or rather make people internalise the philosophy that Active recall, Spaced repetition and Interleaved study are efficient study methods compared to Re-reading, Highlighting and Summarising.
Unless that is done, you won't find a need to use these tools. At the end of the day, they are just tools to use the efficient study philosophy!
Yes of course. We can talk about it in detail after Prelims. I think it's way too late for people not using this stuff to start using it all of a sudden with such little time.
@SergioRamos I'm planning on using Notion (mainly due to its toggle feature) for Mains. This way I can force myself to remember the various points like the data, way forward, committee recommendations etc.
@dragon_rider I know Notion but what’s the toggle feature?
You can set the toggle feature so that the sub-points to a main point can only be seen through like a drop down arrow thing.
https://www.notion.so/Toggles-c720af26b4bd4789b736c140b2dc73fe
To all those using ANKI, I just tried out the Speed Focus Mode add-on. It's amazing. Especially in this last minute revision because it forces you to go through a large number of cards in a short period of time. Basically you can set it so that the answer will be revealed after a certain amount of time like 10 or 15 seconds.
The code for the add-on: 1046608507
@dragon_rider ah! Nice. It’s like Flashcards without the algorithm
Yeah pretty much. I think it's better for Mains since we aren't really preparing stand-alone facts and rather we're preparing on inter-linked analysis of various topics/subjects.
So for the past two weeks i've been moping around and stuff because I totally fucked up my Prelims. It was just really atrocious. Knowing that I have no chance to clear it really upset me and I, of course, started off with blaming UPSC for making the exam tough. In reality, my preparation was sub-par. I knew that but just took some time to accept it and figure out a broad plan to fix those problems. Now this has nothing to do with this group nor does it have anything to do with what I really started typing this message out for which was to kick-start the group into adding ANKI decks for others to be able to use it to their advantage. I just wanted to put this out there. To be able to tell myself, that I have truly accepted it since I accepted it in public.
So here are the ANKI decks I have made:
Committees.apkg
