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
Flunked prelims due to csat was getting 68 from drishti, 5th attempt. Got selected in 2020 but not so good rank. Feeling lost after the result being in preparation mode for such long time and now suddenly I feel that emptiness looking at books. Have to recollect myself and prepare for one last time. Confused regarding changing optional (sociology) as not getting good marks but then thinking it can be worst decision/gamble in last attempt.@Neyawn sir if you can suggest something regarding road ahead for 2022 as now I might not get much time due to FC.
https://invite.tgclab.com/gXR7PDQK3dBqEyFf9
It will be even better if people who've missed prelims by a whisker join in to have competitive environment.
Flunked prelims due to csat was getting 68 from drishti, 5th attempt. Got selected in 2020 but not so good rank. Feeling lost after the result being in preparation mode for such long time and now suddenly I feel that emptiness looking at books. Have to recollect myself and prepare for one last time. Confused regarding changing optional (sociology) as not getting good marks but then thinking it can be worst decision/gamble in last attempt.@Neyawn sir if you can suggest something regarding road ahead for 2022 as now I might not get much time due to FC.
Take the bet for FC very carefully. Have spoken to some of our students and also posted a thread of to do FC or not .
This FC you won’t get much time for Pre. What is your scorecard across GS and Optionals ?
I am no knight. Do not call me Sir|Philosophy behind ForumIAS
@Muffin I've made onehttps://invite.tgclab.com/gXR7PDQK3dBqEyFf9
It will be even better if people who've missed prelims by a whisker join in to have competitive environment.
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@Muffin I've made onehttps://invite.tgclab.com/gXR7PDQK3dBqEyFf9
It will be even better if people who've missed prelims by a whisker join in to have competitive environment.
Please provide the password.
@Muffin I've made onehttps://invite.tgclab.com/gXR7PDQK3dBqEyFf9
It will be even better if people who've missed prelims by a whisker join in to have competitive environment.
Please provide the password.
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@Muffin I've made onehttps://invite.tgclab.com/gXR7PDQK3dBqEyFf9
It will be even better if people who've missed prelims by a whisker join in to have competitive environment.
Password ?
@Philosopher94 please DM password for YPT group
“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things” — Stephen king (basically I remember this quote due to dipin sir’s CA classes :P
So even after getting somewhere around 80-85 from various keys, I just hoped that “the cutoff might fall this low, or maybe the coaching keys have many incorrect answers and most honestly put, I hoped to clear prelims.”
But the hopes were completely shattered :P and with that came all the self pity, labelling myself as a “FAILURE” and considering everyone/everything to be the reason for my failure.
Haven’t been able to properly study since the 10th October. For these 20days, went through various success stories, topper talks(though I had thought of not watching any), analysed each and every mistake in the prelims paper, asked anonymous people in this community for help(wish I had kept an anonymous name as well xD, but was too heartbroken to even think of changing my name then xD), spent A LOT OF TIME in solitude thinking, and most importantly, CRIED to let everything out.
Now post all this, realised that UPSC and life in general is about “survival of the fittest”, we need to MOVE ON because the ultimate goal in life is LIFE ITSELF. I don’t even know why I am writing all this(probably because when I was feeling extremely low, had read somebody’s text here and obviously@Neyawn posts that helped me A LOT). So, maybe this might help someone feeling the same.
Hence, to buckle up and bounce back, cleaned my entire room, cooked typical Bihari comfort food (dal, chawal, chokha), listed down all my distractions(even this page xD, wanted to post for the last time), wrote myself a letter with all the ambitious targets that I’d like to achieve and promised myself to give my best in the last attempt I wish to give(post 2022, which shall be my 2nd attempt technically, won’t be giving further full fledged attempts, would go back to the corporate sector) and most importantly told myself that I CAN AND I WILL be able to it. Because it is all about “ordinary people doing extraordinary things”.
Pre and post clearing this exam, I feel, the person remains exactly the same. It is just that society sees you in a different way. And I feel for the majority of us, UPSC is just the “psychological and self actualisation needs” in Maslow’s need hierarchy theory. All of us are already capable enough to fulfil our basic needs(and Jeevan ismei bhi ache se guzar sakti hai)
According to Herbert baker(socio optional peeps, hi5 :P) labelling theory, “you start behaving the way you/society labels you”. So do not let anybody/yourself put those demeaning and cruel labels. Let us just GIVE OUR BEST!
Ending with 2 of my favourite quotes and a picture of what my day looked like today(idk where the picture got inserted, but you got the feeling, right>
“Human potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world” — Carly fiorina
“Consistency of effort over the long run, is, EVERYTHING” — Angela Duckworth (book, “GRIT” — an AMAZING book, incase you’d get time to read )
HAPPY DIWALI! (Make a promise to yourself to not spend the next Diwali doing academic studies? 😛)
Finishing off
Totally drained but a satisfying day.
Finished all the targets except writing questions (not fine but will let it slide)
Tomorrow will be the last day for reading fringe stuff like books on policies and skimming through committee reports for fun and a broader viewpoint.
Day #2 targets:
- The Hindu
- Finish skimming a) 3 general policy documents b) 1 foreign policy document
- Write two questions before evening
"Don't speak if it doesn't improve on silence."
ps- sharing a thought before I crash on my bed, which I realised earlier today-I flunked this year's prelims. I am coming off a fresh defeat. If I draw enthusiasm from that defeat, it will not be a "sustainable process" because the exam is over 7 months away. So I must draw the drive/enthusiasm to work hard from another place which is value positive.
Good luck for tomorrow everyone. 🦖
Finished day's targets
Month end review:
- 3 part approach, a)before-pre b)after-pre c)after result
- a) felt everything was in control, targets were too fluid to be tangibly tracked
- b) huge inertia to shift gears but gained a hold. Targets were 1)analysing pyqs 2)topper copies 3)round up sources for socio and gs 4)begin note-making. Finished first three, then prelims results happened and 4th got stuck.
- c) targets were to 1)settle in for the long game 2)gain a broader viewpoint into things policy-wise and philosophy-wise. More or less done.
Targets for November:
- 45 NCERTs (most have been done earlier or should be easily manageable)
- 15 MGP half-tests
- finish Socio notes skeleton
- finish G.S. notes skeleton
- no pressure for CA but bonus quest to command EPIC mags
Targets for tomorrow, day#3
- The Hindu (2hr)
- Socio (3hr)
- D.K.Balaji ethics (maximum damage possible, no pressure)
- 3 ncerts (4hr)
- answer writing (1/2)
"Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase."
Good luck for the new month everyone 🤺
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