CSE 2022: Plan/ Strategy/ Daily Routine
This is an everything thread for all stuff 2022. You can post your daily goals, end-of-the-day updates, weekly targets or any weird thing you use to measure your progress. You can put into words & post the soul-sucking sadness that is threatening to devour you & your productivity. You can write what made your day & let others experience the happiness too, at least vicariously. This is a thread to pick each other up. This is a thread to keep each other accountable. This is a no-judgement zone.
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“This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
28.02.2022 Updates:
Newspaper done
42 pages of Modern India (Was going through Spectrum appendix, so took some time, as the material is quite dense)
Sleep disturbed again, slept at 4:30 am yesterday :(
Procrastinated a bit too :(
Today going to finish spectrum appendix in 1-2 hours, and give a vision full test, after newspaper reading (done).
Happy Maha Shivaratri everyone! Har Har Mahadev!
Can anyone share how are they planning to manage SFG 2 Tests with test series, their analysis, current affairs revision and static portion? It all seems too much to fit in 1 day's schedule over a perio. Please share tips??@Neyawn @Steph_Curry @sjerngal @LetsGetThisBread and others with prior experience!
I will be attaching screenshots of@AzadHindFauz 's comment (which he did few days ago) regarding a similar query.. I have similar views as mentioned and I am sure others with prior experience would more or less recommend the same.
@KG_07
Apart from this..
- Test analysis must be done the same day, otherwise it keeps piling up.. I used to attempt test from 7-8 and analyse the test from 8-9...made notes if needed.. noted down my mistakes.. categorised them into categories like "lack of revision, stupid mistake, filled wrong option by mistake".. etc...
- Dont procrastinate test analysis for some other day.. YOU WILL END UP ANALYSING NOTHING
- Don't follow test series just for the sake of it.. If you think you are weak in some area such as geography or modern history, do more practice for these... No point in giving endless number of tests for topics you are fairly good at.. Rather spend that time on revising and revising till the time you feel like puking..
- Regarding current affairs , as has been said many times on this platform earlier as well.. you need to draw a line.. "HOW MUCH CURRENT AFFAIRS IS TOO MUCH CURRENT AFFAIRS?" ... I personally follow a 1:3 ratio of revision for current: static... You may find a similar pattern for yourself..
- @Neyawn has mentioned it many times and I will repeat.. "You will not flunk prelims because you did some current affair question wrong.. You will flunk it because you did that basic polity/economy question wrong"..
Prioritize based on the analysis of PYQs..
Hi all, I am back to this thread after a long time. February had been a disaster, hardly studied anything due to some personal reasons and still cannot get over that guilt. The past week was all about self doubt and just cannot regain the earlier inertia to study. But now I will be regular here updating targets for accountability and make up for the lost time. Best of luck everyone and have a hard working March.
- SFG backlog: Ancient history 1/3
- Indian Express
- Numerical Analysis 1/n
Hi friends, it’s good to be back on forum after long. Seeing familiar names from YPT gives me positive vibes. My huge respect to all pursuing their dreams passionately and sorry for all the unsolicited wake ups.
Our celebrations at home for holy festival of Maha Shivaratri have started. Lord Shiva has huge symbolic significance in my life. My father sahab has named me after him. We consider this festival as new year. So taking resolution in this holy week, I am promising myself to post daily targets here and review them every night for 21 days.
Past few days had been productive, however my preparation is never plan based. I pick up topics based on mood. Over time, it leads to nowhere. So this time, lets do it in planned manner.
Targets for Feb 28 (day 1)
- Meditation 1/2
- Prelims (last year’s geography and polity mocks - let’s see how many can be revised and if doing it is fruitful) (6)
- PT (newspaper, transcripts, one current theme topic) (4)
- Meditation 2/2
Looking forward to a good start !
Not as much a good day as much I planned it inside out. Entire February, I worked on GS Mains. Now switching to Pre and PT will take some resistance.
- Morning meditation done, evening one missed.
- Prelims (I started with Polity previous year mocks, found them intimidating for the reason that its been long I have looked at Laxmikant. So switched to the text book, did two chapters) (1)
- PT (newspaper done, travelling transcripts done, CA theme - caste census done) (6)
Targets for March 1 (day 2)
- Prelims (Spectrum 1/4) (4)
- CSAT (PYQ) (3)
- PT (newspaper, CA theme - Strategic autonomy) (3)
- Meditation 2x
Lets start this March very well ✌️
One of the good days to start a new month. However, the old habit of picking up subjects based on mood and not bidding them good bye after allotted time won’t go easy.
Reviewing now - Meditation (done, will resume dairy writing from now on). Spectrum (just 1 hour) Csat (didn’t start) PT (did newspaper and Hijab controversy issue)
Targets for March 2 (day 3)
1. Meditation 2x; DW
2. Prelims - Spectrum (1)
3. Mains - PSIR 2B contemporary developments (5)
4. PT - newspaper, transcripts on travelling, IR (4)
Let’s carry on the good momentum ✌️
Woaahhh people are still awake:) Joining the midnight study club..( may be for a day)
So.usually i wake up around 5 to study but.. don't know is it the fear of this exam or the onset of March.. that i am not able to sleep properly...! Now time has arrived..every single minute counts ab...Also..wanted to share..that from last few days i am highly irritated (even if i am doing meditation..)
And some annoying judges( judgement giving people) will always be around you..to tell ki you haven't studied much with their value addition tips on how to become a good person and what flaws do you have..:)
But..What is more important right now?..( For me it is the number of days left for prelims.) So here comes the MARCH list...!
Newspaper (backlogs)+ Economics (lectures+ notes) ... Geography( notes Revision) + Current magazines.+ test series..+ CSAT +Meditation and exercise..! And Environment ( late March)
Today's Target:
1: Newspaper+
2: Economics( Notes+ Lectures)
3: MIH(test solutions)
4: Videos (issues explained) + CSAT(paper solving)
5: Geography ( 1 lecture+ 30 ques)
Hoping to have a productive March..! Let's do it..:) All the best Peepul..:) 👍
GOODMORNING PEEPUL..:)
Targets for 2.3.22
1: Newspaper+ (Backlog)
2: Economics( L1-L4 + Notes)
3: Geo Test( Solutions)
4: CSAT(Test)
From today onwards...before reading Newspaper I'll do 50 ques daily....! And will make sure that by the end of the day solutions bhi revise ho jaaye..!!
Have a good day folks..!
Could not revise environment sincerely, gave the test instead. This week will be all about getting rid of backlogs.
Targets:
- SFG: Test + Analysis
- Newspaper
- Finish Agriculture
- Environment Revision
- Miscellaneous tidbits
@Jammu good to see you here. Really appreciate the wake ups. All the best :)
February was good for the first 20 days and then it all went haywire. Need to ensure consistency. Had massive inertia to do anything yesterday so I did the SFG test, newspaper and substitute agriculture with studying the budget. No progress on environment.
Targets:
- Finish Agriculture
- SFG Test Analysis
- Environment (if tired, substitute with ES)
- Newspaper
- Plan for the month
Hoping for a much better march. All the best everyone!
Did not find time to do environment, will try to finish it by tomorrow now. Other targets done.
Targets:
- Environment (1/2)
- SFG Backlog (1/2)
- Newspaper
- Miscellaneous
One of the good days to start a new month. However, the old habit of picking up subjects based on mood and not bidding them good bye after allotted time won’t go easy.
Reviewing now - Meditation (done, will resume dairy writing from now on). Spectrum (just 1 hour) Csat (didn’t start) PT (did newspaper and Hijab controversy issue)
Targets for March 2 (day 3)
1. Meditation 2x; DW
2. Prelims - Spectrum (1)
3. Mains - PSIR 2B contemporary developments (5)
4. PT - newspaper, transcripts on travelling, IR (4)
Let’s carry on the good momentum ✌️
I’ll count it as a good and productive day. Couldn’t study as many hours, but the day was indeed different in the breed and self assuring. I feel more confident about life this way.
Reviewing now - almost everything done except Spectrum and DW. Past couple of days had been disproportionately spent on PT, primarily because of associated excitement about new things and optimism biasness 3.0, but now would be more pragmatic in coming days. Would take in Pre full and PT less day for some days.
Targets for March 3 (day 4)
1. Meditation; Diary Writing
2. Spectrum (complete revising underlined notes in the book) + something more
3. Newspaper
Looking forward to thoughtful thursday !
update: kept things lite for the past couple of days
1/3
- newspaper + ca
- agriculture
- econ survey
- ca backlog
- Plan
- miscl.
Good luck :)
update: all partially done.
2/3
- newspaper +ca
- crops
- econ survey
- ca backlog
- miscl, (l, yg, mdt)
Good luck :)
update: 1,2,3,5 done 4 partially
3/3
- revise
- red book scoping
- newspaper
- econ.[imp]
- mcqs/pyqs
- XII ncert ch.11 12[imp]
- CA[imp]
Good Luck :)
Could not revise environment sincerely, gave the test instead. This week will be all about getting rid of backlogs.
Targets:
- SFG: Test + Analysis
- Newspaper
- Finish Agriculture
- Environment Revision
- Miscellaneous tidbits
@Jammu good to see you here. Really appreciate the wake ups. All the best :)
February was good for the first 20 days and then it all went haywire. Need to ensure consistency. Had massive inertia to do anything yesterday so I did the SFG test, newspaper and substitute agriculture with studying the budget. No progress on environment.
Targets:
- Finish Agriculture
- SFG Test Analysis
- Environment (if tired, substitute with ES)
- Newspaper
- Plan for the month
Hoping for a much better march. All the best everyone!
Did not find time to do environment, will try to finish it by tomorrow now. Other targets done.
Targets:
- Environment (1/2)
- SFG Backlog (1/2)
- Newspaper
- Miscellaneous
Finished all the targets. Today seems to be a difficult day, will try to pivot from the bad start.
Targets:
- Environment (2/2)
- Finish SFG Backlog (2/2)
- Newspaper
- Miscellaneous
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