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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


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Now that you have not promoted any coaching, you'll get 50% off in forum's Interview guidance program.

Only 50? I was hoping for a blue tick 😈

Blue tick over 50%? Really 🙄  

Get 50% and directly get a green tick! 

Why do u need a discount on a 400rs product :p

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Now that you have not promoted any coaching, you'll get 50% off in forum's Interview guidance program.

Only 50? I was hoping for a blue tick 😈

Blue tick over 50%? Really 🙄  

Get 50% and directly get a green tick! 

Why do u need a discount on a 400rs product :p

As indians jitna discount jahan mile utna acha :p 

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Good morning folks! Here’s to a fresh new start post 2 weeks of not doing anything substantial. Targets for 2.2.22 (woah the date! But also i have a bad history of low productivity on cool dates) are:

CA class

Security notes

November C/A- backlog

PSIR- human rights, security, terror

Editorial

Daily C/A

College classes

Getting (b)ready to crush my goals for the day. Let’s get this bread!

Didn’t do anything beyond CA class, C/A backlogs and daily C/A. Not good my friends, not good indeed. 😬

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Hindu

Pyq mains culture

And partial off


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Did all the targets. Realised that Polity will take a lot of time considering that I am doing many other things along with it. 


Targets: 

  • SFG: Test + Analysis 
  • Mock: Test + Analysis 
  • SFG Prep 
  • Polity 
  • CA - December 
  • Newspaper 


Have heard the adage, 'Work expands to fill time and vice versa' a lot of times during my UPSC journey. Will hope that comes true for february and beyond!

Finishing the mock test analysis took a lot of time and so I couldn't touch polity or CA. Finished the other targets. A part of me thought that I'd be able to squeeze in some time for my optional in february and now it seems time is barely enough to do justice to prelims! 


Targets: 

  1. SFG: Test + Analysis 
  2. Mock: Test + Analysis 
  3. SFG Prep 
  4. Polity 
  5. CA - December 
  6. Newspaper


Have a good day people! :)


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Now that you have not promoted any coaching, you'll get 50% off in forum's Interview guidance program.

Only 50? I was hoping for a blue tick 😈

I'll recommend your name for a blue tick. Don't worry! 👊

THE_MECHANIC,LetsGetThisBread
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Steph Curry seems to be out of his slump. I need to get back now as well. Will try to complete as much as possible today!

3/2/2022
  1. Driving 
  2. Newspaper Backlogs
  3. PIB- Budget/Survey
  4. CA class backlog
  5. CA - pending lecture
  6. Anthropology
  7. See interview notes
  8. 12,000 steps



Read something beautiful yesterday:

न कोई जुगनू न कोई तारा मुझे उजाले देगा

राह दिखाएँगे ये पाँव के छाले मुझ को ।

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Prep has been haywire in the last few days. Finally wrapping up mains and switching to prelims mode.

Will try to post daily targets from today and keep myself accountable.

Targets for 31-Jan(Prelims Day 1)

  1. Hindu Newspaper -- Done
  2. 1 CA Class + Revision
  3. Laxmikant Revision(1/n)
  4. TN Class 11 History (1/n)

1. Done 2. Done 3. Done 4. Need to put more time in it


Targets for today(1-Feb,2021)

  1.  Hindu Newspaper + Civilsdaily Website --done
  2. CA Class-2 + Revision
  3. Laxmikant Revision (2/n)
  4. TN Class 11 History (2/n)
  5. Try to sneak in 1 hour for optional


Covered all targets satisfactorily. Need to continue same momentum in the upcoming days.

Targets for today

  1. Hindu Newspaper + Civilsdaily Website
  2. Revision of CA Class 1 and 2
  3. Laxmikant Revision (3/n)
  4. TN Class 11 History (3/n)
  5. 1 hour for Optional -Khilafat and NCM


Decent day but I was unable to give time to optional. 

Targets for today(3-Feb)

  1. Hindu Newspaper + Civilsdaily Website. 
  2. Laxmikant (4/n)
  3. TN Class 11 History (4/6)
  4. PYQs -Polity and Ancient History
  5. 1 hour for optional- Khilafat and NCM

122 days to go!

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1. HALF DONE=NOT DONE 2. PARTIALLY DONE 3. NOT DONE

Typical hard winter day went like a bullet.

19/01/2022   Day-11

1. Np + 1 ca class

2. SFG targets

3. Maths paper analysis

good day to everyone:)

1. HALF DONE 2. DONE 3. HALF DONE

Just another day in the office with no improvement in efficiency box. Urrgghhh!!! It's irritating sometimes.

20/01/2022   Day-12

1. Np+1 CA class

2. SFG targets

3. maths analysis + planning

4. Analysis of sfg test-09

Started following KM Pathi Sir on Insta will be posting few of his posts hereon-

"The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons"- Desmond Tutu

1. DONE 2. DONE 3. DONE 4. NOT DONE

So so day with regular interruptions. I feel balancing preparation and life is an art and I ain't an artist.

21/01/2022   Day-13

1. NP+1CA CLASS

2. SFG TARGETS

3. CALCULUS-(1/5)

The story of elephant and dog, both got pregnant, by the end of year 1 dog already had more than a dozen puppies while elephant was still pregnant. Dog asks to elephant are you even pregnant? Elephant gracefully answers What I am carrying is not puppy but an elephant.

Moral: Don't lose faith and hope when you see other's prayers getting answered and don't be envious of other's testimony. Be hopeful, focussed and hardworking.

Apna time aega:)

1.NOT DONE 2. DONE 3. DONE

2 weeks of SFG are over. I have done stuff but very hard to say if I am confident with what I have done. Now I can feel what happens when you drop your guards for one year and go back to start again. You expect alot from yourself.

22/01/2022    Day-14

1. NP+2 classes

2. SFG Consolidation

3. real analysis 2/5


"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves"-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

 1. DONE 2. DONE 3. NOT DONE

Okay so, with weekly list out I thought I would be out of top 100 with the kind of performance I had in the past week but to my surprise I am still there and infact improved rankings. Entering week 3 of SFG with good enough rest. Let's see how it goes.

23/01/2022   Day-15

1. Np + 1 ca class

2. SFG targets

3. Real analysis (2/5)


"Economics which departs from or is opposed to ethics is no good and should be renounced"- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

1. NOT DONE 2. DONE 3. DONE

Political fever is on the rise with election season around the corner. Sometimes I get amazed with the level of political awareness people have in general. Opinions I form are usually social media driven or some readings of quality material but people with no access to digital media, amazingly, do know stuff from mere newspaper reading and discussions. Anyway moving to usual chores :D

24/01/2022    Day-16

1. NP + 1 CA class

2. SFG targets

3. Real analysis (3/5)


Self-love is not simply a state of feeling good. "It is a state of appreciation for oneself that grows from actions that support physical, psychological & spiritual growth." - Anonymous

1. NOT DONE 2. DONE 3. DONE

Took another break. Breaks are contagious you just can't control once you are exposed to one. I can feel a little dip in my enthusiasm as a result poor score today. Will certainly come back stronger.

25/01/2022    Day-17

Only test and analysis.

26/01/2022   Day-18

1. NP+CA class

2. SFG TARGETS

3. Real analysis (4/n)

4. Mini adjustments in preparation


"The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served by others as little as possible, and to serve others as much as possible" - Leo Tolstoy

1.NOT DONE 2. DONE 3. NOT DONE 4. DONE

Barely managed to cover all still not 100%. I was planning to have extra reading for modern. Couldn't do it today.

27/01/2022   Day-19

1. SFG TEST AND ANALYSIS

2. NP + CA CLASS

3. SFG TARGETS

4. REAL ANALYSIS (1.5 hrs)


"Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do as well as to determine what we shall do" - Jeremy Bentham

1. DONE 2. DONE 3. DONE 4. NOT DONE

Ignoring a part of SFG target is a sin!

28/01/2022   Day-20

1. NP + CA CLASS

2. SFG ANALYSIS

3. SFG TARGETS

4. Real analysis ( because there is hope that I will be efficient)


"Every work has to pass through hundred of difficulties before succeeding. Those who persevere will see the light sooner or later"- Swami Vivekananda

1. NOT DONE 2. DONE 3. DONE 4. NOT DONE

Disappointed.

29/01/2022   Day-21

1. Np+2 ca class

2. SFG Analysis

3. Finish backlogs

4. Real analysis


"Selfishness or greed, individual or national, cause most of our problems"- Harry S Truman

30/01/2022   Day-22

Same targets for today along with SFG.


"A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries"- Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain.

Okay starting afresh. Fell short of SFG this week. Will try to get back this time.

31/01/2022    Day-23

1. SFG test and analysis

2. Sfg targets

3. NP + 1 ca class + polity ca 3 months

4. Maths 1.5hrs

"Fear can hold you prisoner hope can set you free"- Stephen King


1. DONE 2. DONE 3. DONE(polity ca left) 4. NOT DONE

I was really productive could have done maths as well but prioritised sleep as 5 hours sleep is not sustainable.

01/02/2022   Day-24

1. SFG test and analysis

2. SFG targets

3. Np + ca class + polity 3 months

4. Maths 1.5 hrs


"Hope is said to involve goal directed thinking in which people perceive that they have the capacities to produce the routes to desired goals, along with necessary motivation to use those routes."- Nobody said this.

1. DONE 2. 60%DONE 3. DONE 4. HALF DONE

So so day. Felt sleepy during the test will have to attempt it again. Also didn't revise tribal movements. IDK why?🙄


02/02/2022    Day-25

1. Sfg targets

2. Np+ ca class 

3. Maths 1.5 hours


"Thinking is easy, acting difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action, the most difficult thing un the world"-Goethe

1. 70% DONE 2. NOT DONE 3. NOT DONE

One of those unexpected interruption day. Managed to cover major chunk of targets only. 


03/02/2022    Day-26

1. SFG test + analysis

2. SFG targets

3. NP + ca class 

4. Maths 1.5 hours

5. Misc.


"Great ambition is the passion of great character. Those endowed with it may perform ver good or very bad act. All depends upon principles which directs them" - Napoleon Bonaparte

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Today's  agenda.

1.sfg targets.

2. 2 papers sfg analysis. 

3. Exercise. 

4. CA

5. Philosophy  answer writing.

Couldn't  finish the Philo. Optional.


3rd Feb.

1. Sfg  analysis 

2. Sfg revision  history 

3. Philo. Answer  writing 

4. CA

5. Sfg targets.

6. Exercise 

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Targets for 3/2/22

  • Newspapers/budget
  • Big picture -3 videos
  • Anthro -2 hours
  • December CA- 1 hour


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 3/2 ; 120 days to prelims. Struggling with completion of targets and need some sort of accountability.    

Today's targets :

  1. SFG - Test and analysis
  2. SFG - Backlogs + revision
  3. SFG - Next test
  4. Newspaper + Websites
  5. Optional - if time permits.
  6. Work on habits

 

ThePhenom,SAand14 otherslike this
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Good morning friends, targets for 3.2.22 are:

Security 

PSIR- human rights, security, terror

Daily C/A

Editorial

November C/A

College classes

Thats all folks. Let’s get this bread!

ThePhenom,SAand13 otherslike this
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120 days to go.

newspaper.

polity - 6 chapters. (Basu and Laxmikant).

Tamil Nadu board history class 11.

economy - revision and question bank.

optional revision if time permits. 


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Target for. 3.2.22

1. Newspaper 

2: Modern History ( FIRST WORLD WAR & Nationalist Response + Emergence of Gandhi) 

3: Videos( current issues) 

4: Pyq's 

5: Budget + survey( highlights) 

Started today's morning by doing Meditation+ yesterday's Pyq's..! 

Have a good day all..:) 






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Steph Curry seems to be out of his slump. I need to get back now as well. Will try to complete as much as possible today!

3/2/2022
  1. Driving 
  2. Newspaper Backlogs
  3. PIB- Budget/Survey
  4. CA class backlog
  5. CA - pending lecture
  6. Anthropology model answers
  7. See interview notes
  8. 12,000 steps



Read something beautiful yesterday:

न कोई जुगनू न कोई तारा मुझे उजाले देगा

राह दिखाएँगे ये पाँव के छाले मुझ को ।

What Anthro model answers? Send link . With P and Sd?

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Hi folks! Spent the day with some friends yesterday. Back to studies today 

Targets:

1) 3 Mechanics classes 

2) Newspaper 

3) CA class 

4) Ethics mind maps 

5) Budget (in brief) 

6) Interview Prep 

7) If time permits, Social Justice class 

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Anduinsaid

Steph Curry seems to be out of his slump. I need to get back now as well. Will try to complete as much as possible today!

3/2/2022
  1. Driving 
  2. Newspaper Backlogs
  3. PIB- Budget/Survey
  4. CA class backlog
  5. CA - pending lecture
  6. Anthropology model answers
  7. See interview notes
  8. 12,000 steps



Read something beautiful yesterday:

न कोई जुगनू न कोई तारा मुझे उजाले देगा

राह दिखाएँगे ये पाँव के छाले मुझ को ।

What Anthro model answers? Send link . With P and Sd?

I don't have any. Khud se will write. 🙂

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 Stick to the fight when you 're hardest hit
when things seem worst that you didn't quit


Today's target
Newspaper
MCQ (csat ,Eco) 
Optional ans writing (paper 1)
Revising notes 

 

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Today's target :

Meditation

Newspaper

Optional 3 qns ans writing 

MCQ practice 




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Steph Curry seems to be out of his slump. I need to get back now as well. Will try to complete as much as possible today!

3/2/2022
  1. Driving 
  2. Newspaper Backlogs
  3. PIB- Budget/Survey
  4. CA class backlog
  5. CA - pending lecture
  6. Anthropology model answers
  7. See interview notes
  8. 12,000 steps



Read something beautiful yesterday:

न कोई जुगनू न कोई तारा मुझे उजाले देगा

राह दिखाएँगे ये पाँव के छाले मुझ को ।

About which model answer of anthropology are you talking? Has any coaching given? And if you are doing it by yourself then what is your approach. Please throw some light @Steph_Curry .

Anduin,
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