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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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@Vinay12 @Mauraisles what is your revision strategy? i couldnt see revision in your daily targets

Last time kept it on 7th day in 10 day cycle of my studies bt got too much to revise. So Gng to revise every 3 rd day before i start the topic for the day, / on workdays.. 

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26th oct - work day

Complete  backlogs of daily ca  and eco topics. 

Gaurav,psyduck
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@sstarrr  After studying, I'll revise it on 1-4-7th days, after that every 7th day.
I didn't mention revising until now because it didn't take more than 2 hours to revise the content I studied.
from now on, Ill mention it.


Gaurav,Vinay12
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Couldn't study yesterday due to some personal works. 
So will have the same targets for today.


26th Oct 2020

1)Sep 2020 - Env CA

2)writing 1 essay

3)Ancient History

Vinay12,
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Anyone with PSIR interested in forming a study group?
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@Vinay12 @Mauraisles thank you guys. Actually i was lacking only in this, i was like kahan kuch yaad nhin aata.

Vinay12,Mauraisles
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Starting today, I ll do today NCERT Class 6 history, one national park, complete fauna and flora. Will update tomorrow.
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This time I am planning to study Current Affairs by Daily Summaries of 2/3 websites plus MCQ instead of Monthly PDF. But don't know which one to follow.

1. Vision IAS daily

2. IAS BABA daily

3. CivilsDaily

4. Insights

5. Forum IAS etc etc.

Kindly recommend which 2 to pick.


Animesh_Maths,
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Hello@naviiin. I am also following a similar strategy of replacing monthly magazine with daily current affairs. My strategy for now is using the following sources: Forum IAS daily 9pm initiative, Forum IAS factly daily, and Shankar IAS daily newspaper analysis (about 30 mins. in length).

My view about the other sources: I have seen civilsdaily, it is pretty good but most of all is already covered in Forum (if you cover both the initiatives). Vision IAS monthly magazine is pretty good but daily current affairs is not so good (it is cluttered and short). I would recommend forum over IASBaba and insights as it contains more relevant topics and is more comprehensive.



naviiin,
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@Vinay12 @Mauraisles what is your revision strategy? i couldnt see revision in your daily targets

Last time kept it on 7th day in 10 day cycle of my studies bt got too much to revise. So Gng to revise every 3 rd day before i start the topic for the day, / on workdays.. 

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26th oct - work day

Complete  backlogs of daily ca  and eco topics. 

Nice. And you are very consistent in updating your target and progress achieved. Even on work days, you try to cover a substantial portion. Really praiseworthy! :) 

Animesh_Maths,Vinay12
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This time I am planning to study Current Affairs by Daily Summaries of 2/3 websites plus MCQ instead of Monthly PDF. But don't know which one to follow.

1. Vision IAS daily

2. IAS BABA daily

3. CivilsDaily

4. Insights

5. Forum IAS etc etc.

Kindly recommend which 2 to pick.


Can't suggest exactly which 2 you should be going for but yes Forum IAS may be chosen as one. I had seen that of BYJU once and I was very impressed. You may have a look. It is published with the name of Comprehensive News Analysis (CNA). 

Animesh_Maths,
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@Gaurav im still struggling to compete my targets 🤪 . There's a long way to go.
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26th oct review- did only 20% of backlogs. Gng to do them everyday for half n hour. 


Gaurav,
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@Gaurav im still struggling to compete my targets 🤪 . There's a long way to go.
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26th oct review- did only 20% of backlogs. Gng to do them everyday for half n hour. 


Yes, that happens almost to everyone but I know inasmuch as you are committed, you will overcome that also. :)

Vinay12,
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27/10/20

8-9am newspaperdone

9-10am statutory bodies, election dynamics from notesskipped

10am - 4pm sleepdone

d30pm-5:00pm reviseskipped

5:00pm-7:30pm CAextended till now, will take 45 more minutes

8:30pm-10:30pm testwill do this before 6:30am...no more delay


Gaurav,Vinay12
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27th oct

12-1 pm - newspaper, daily ca

4.30 - 7pm - optional - socio & common sense

7-9pm  - prelim static science& tech

10- 11.30pm - eco 2 topics 

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Today gng to take a break. Only feeling I have is want to talk and relax, sleepy too.. 

Gaurav,Luna Lovegood
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@kasanasandy007133 I could do only ncert history of class six and found it very good for upsc. However I couldn't do national park flora and fauna as schedule was busy. However I rethought about national parks flora and fauna and decided to only study these whenever it appears in news only because going through each and every national park is bulky and lengthy. So shifted to news papers or websites for same. 


Animesh_Maths,Vinay12and1 otherslike this
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Anybody has subscribed to Vision IAS 2021 Prelims Test Series ?

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28th oct 

Yesterday I was full on talking mode, taking call after call and slept off. So Same targets today. 

11-1.30 optional( common sense& durkheim) 

4.30- 7pm - revision + eco topics

7-9pm  - prelim static science& tech

10- 11.30pm -  daily ca 

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Review : again another day gone. Rest

Luna Lovegood,
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28/10/20

Things to do today-

Test - the one that i was supposed to take yesterday. 

C.A. 

Governance and LSG notes 

Vinay12,
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Revision of Public Admistration thinkers

Revision of class 6,7 ncert

Some answer writing 

Vinay12,
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Is someone interested in discussing the committee, reports of various committees on different issues, best practices - very useful for the way forward? As there are many and sometimes we don't even know if a particular topic had any committee made in past, so it will be very useful if there is a collaboration and thus we can cover the maximum. 
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