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CSE 2021: Plan / Strategy / Daily Routine

Hello 2021 aspirants. I thought it would be nice if we can share what we are doing and intend to do with one another here.

This could be a thread for discussing everything prep for 2021. 

No one method fits all but to see the plans and progress made by fellow aspirants might help with the finer details of preparation and also keep one on track. 

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@thesleepyhead that's the second straight day a poem by Robert Frost has impacted me. 
Kal Patootie had posted about the Road not taken. I spent an hour yesterday reading the poem (again and again) and various analysis of it. Aaj ke liye ab ye poem mil gaya 


Kal read If by Rudyard Kipling (only if you haven’t already) :)

Ohhhhh, man! :') 
I got this poem's poster in my school moral science book and that was still there on my room's wall but lost that in the renovation. Goosebumps guaranteed always xD 

Archand,
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Went quite off track in past two days. I was living without pretty much everything except telegram to keep distractions at bay. Mood swings got me to install bumble and activated my insta account. Completely lost sense of preparation mood tab. Back in the business now. :) 



A friend called up to remind my target of attempting mains 2020 paper as simulation in feb. Massive guilt trip. Starting with ethics vision test, I'm hopeful of writing that in July mid. Let's see. 

I started studying after 4 pm instead of morning. Still, was able to take out 5.5 hours post that. Starting with thermo today, almost 1/3rd of the portion got covered. Now that I'm finally in sync, I hope tomorrow would be a productive day too. It's always sweet if your day is bittersweet and sweet is how you end.



Someone over this thread mentioned how one shouldn't take the complete day as a whole but in different sessions. If you didn't do well in morning and afternoon sessions, don't wait for another day. You still have half of the day left. Thanks to whoever mentioned this. 






I hope I'm able to internalise enough hawabazi in ethics to write the answers. :) 


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Yesterday-

CA done

Today- 

Ethics - 2 lectures

And did thoda sa maths

Kal se sirf maths for 1 week.


MaeveWiley,Celebornand5 otherslike this
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20-06-2021

DNS

PI 1-5

IR 15-18


DNS done

PI 1-5 Done

IR only 15,16 done


LBSNAA hai tod de ya chhor de
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19 June 2021
Recently saw this thread and posting here for the first time, in order to account for my terrible schedule these days. 

Targets for today-

  1. Indian society 2 hours
  2. Marriage Complete and Family Half (Anthropology) Learn, Revise
  3. Atleast one and Max two videos of Atul Garg ethics
  4. Newspaper 

    Good luck to me.. No screen till 4 pm afternoon. 

First good study session after weeks. 

1. Society portion for today 75% done. 

2. Marriage 90% , Caste system (not planned earlier) 

3. Newspaper done 

4. Half video of ethics. 

5. Attended discussion of an optional test I wrote recently. 

Dead tired now. Hopefully will continue the same tomorrow. 

MaeveWiley,Celebornand6 otherslike this
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Its a good good morning folks, the windows are open, the birds be a-chirping.

19.6.21

PSIR- Economic institutions

GS- ethics

Editorial- IE+ Hindu

Daily C/A

CSAT

will they to squeeze in some AWP

Writing with right hand

Done with targets for the day. Enjoyed CSAT after a really long time because I was able to solve things without getting frustrated, also because logic>quant.

Bread was got, today was quite a loaf-ly day, in fact. Listening to some calming music and going to bed, hopefully will be able to wake up early and go for a walk. Goodnight peeps!

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peterparker,THE_MECHANIC
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Meh type day. But still kaam hua, poora nahi, but hua.
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Completed all the targets except GS-2 topic 9 now it’s time to watch something interesting as said by 

Nida Fazli Ji- 


धूपमेंनिकलोघटाओंमेंनहाकरदेखो

ज़िंदगीक्याहैकिताबोंकोहटाकरदेखो



MaeveWiley,Celebornand5 otherslike this
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19th june

Revision day


Security notes

Optional notes 

CA class 

Newspaper

19th june

Revision day

Security notes✔

Optional notes ✔

CA class ✖

Newspaper✔

Celeborn,Archandand3 otherslike this
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19/6

Finished yesterday's targets and started watching Normal People and from the first scene itself, it looked so beautiful. Realised that the show is an adaptation from a book so keeping up with my principle started reading the book and slept at 3 :p

Anyway, woke up and got some part of socio done, targets for today -

1. Socio 

2. CA Mag

3. Daily Stuff


Done with targets. Still have some time left so will continue with sociology for a while. 




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What I did today 

  • Revised ethics and wrote 3case studies+3Q 

Someone came home and continuous yawns during the whole day didn't make me do anything else. It's fine, writing 90marks worth of answers made me felt good. That somewhat made me complacent too lol. 



20-06-2021 

  • Ethics revision 
  • Ethics AWP - 3 case studies+9Q 
  • Thermo- complete till statistical 



Random motivational shiz from a friend today : 

Hagg ke hi toh sikhhenge. Ekdum se Tansen thodi ban jayega



Let me know if this word is inappropriate here, wasn't recognisable with an asterisk.


 

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@Rashmirathi Nida Fazli always reminds me of this dialogue from Masaan - "Aap mein ek imandaari hai, jaise Nida Fazli ki ghazlon mein hoti hai" :D


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Woke up with a slight headache. Didn't do much today. Wrote one ethics answer. Studied a few pages of maths notes. Total time of 2-3 hours.

But then my headache got worse (although thankfully full on migraine stage not reached). So decided to take a break from studies. 

In the evening, I watched Portugal vs Germany with my family. What a cracking game! Wish every match was like this. 

Anyways tomorrow I've kept aside to complete pending work. So I need to complete CA classes, consolidate notes, complete one maths topic (uniform convergence), newspaper + some time on essay. 

AJ_,Archandand5 otherslike this
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19/06/21 Targets

Sociology paper 1 revision (3 hrs)/75% done

Sociology paper 2 revision(3 hrs)/100% done

write ethics case study and 2 GS answers + Newspaper/65% done - wrote answers ,did not do newspaper

20/06/21 targets-

Sociology paper 2 revision (3 hrs)

Sociology paper 1 revision (2 hrs)

Ethics (1 hr)

Write case study + do newspapers of 2 days + revise current notes (3 hrs)

AJ_,Celebornand4 otherslike this
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Hi friends, it’s a new dawn so let’s get going,

20.6.21

Ethics

PSIR- EU+ nuclear proliferation 

CSAT 

AWP

Daily C/A

Write with right hand

Kaafi lag raha hain for today. Keeping with tradition, “let’s get this bread”.


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Good Morning World :)
20 June
Targets for today:

  1. Newspaper 
  2. Caste system in India 
  3. Finish remaining portion of Marriage and solve PYQs in mind
  4. Watch atleast one video of Ethics.
  5. Indian society- Poverty, Urbanisation (Read and make spider diagrams)

Good Luck to me.  
JAAN LAGA DO YA FIR JAANE DO !!

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19 June 2021

  1. Complete reading April CA
  2. CA class on IR
  3. Write an essay test 

Writing test in the morning makes me feel that I have achieved something and utilise rest of the less productively. So keping the test for last part of the day . 

20 June 2021

I did not study much on Saturday. So yesterday's targets need to be done .

ssver2,AJ_and9 otherslike this
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Good morning folks!

Today's tasks are pretty simple-

1) complete what was left throughout the week

2)revise

NO NEW STUDY TODAY.

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 Been suffering from severe eye strain and headache for the last 5 days. Have seen a doctor , and after taking medicines for past 2 days ,have gotten better. Still hard for me to concentrate for long duration. 

Targets -

study for atleast 2.5 hrs , newspaper + CA notes revision , anything extra, if possible, will be a bonus.

 

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