Civil Services Mains 2020 Results: In or Out ? Way ahead, gratitude and Pain
The Civils Mains result has been declared. This thread is for sharing your grief , joy , mixed feelings - absolutely anything and everything.
@RonWeasley Limiting sources work for me. Neither have time , nor I think its beneficial for me to do extensive reading.
@sbhati That's a gem of an advice. I should stop this mindless reading of same text and maybe start internalising by the way of linking as already rattafication has been done to a good extent. I feel this issue only with the GS subjects and not with optional, maybe because in optional I have given more emphasis on understanding than rattafication.
Thank you .
That is probably because generally optional study is more structured. Its easy to internalise the "logical tree" of the subject in mind. With GS, we study so many unrelated things from so many sources. Therefore that structure has to be superimposed by us. Syllabus offers a good starting point for building such a structure. But at some places you may also go beyond that. For example, in history, if you keep the big picture and the timelines in mid, it becomes easier to remember minutes details by linking them to the big picture.
Yeah. And GS is too much to remember and all scattered.
I am going with a little twisted approach, I am not linking the things I read with syllabus but with some solutions to mains answer, because I don't and can't remember syllabus like that.
So right now, I have got some solution, reading it again to built pictorial memory and then also linking it to the solutions.
I did not understand what you meant by linking it to solutions. But if it is working for you, its not twisted.
I did not understand what you meant by linking it to solutions. But if it is working for you, its not twisted.
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I did not understand what you meant by linking it to solutions. But if it is working for you, its not twisted.
Well, I meant that say for example I am reading about PM AASHA yojana, its somewhere related to farmer's distress , particularly to not getting sufficient renumeration for their produce, so while reading I would focus on its utility of why this even came, and where it can be used , something like understanding it in a bigger context.
Would be helpful for prelims as well as mains.
I am trying and its working for me.
sstarrr,I think this is how the mind works. We remember information by linking it to something we already know. As we learn more and more new neural connections build in our mind. Since with repeated readings you have gotten familiar with sources like Mrunal and all, you have linked information with those sources. This is where knowing the syllabus by heart is useful. For example, while reading Shram Yogi Mandhan don't associated it with Mrunal or some other source, rather link it to "Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections" under GS2. Syllabus can serve as our "tree of knowledge" with different topics as the branches. Then we can link new information to these branches. This can also help in one additional way. While trying to retrieve this particular scheme from memory, say while writing a mains answers, related material which you have also linked to the same branch, may also pop up in your mind and give you more things to write.
Such a good advice.
The problem with such organic and simple fresh perspectives is you want to kick yourself for not knowing them sooner by yourself, anyways, Such is life.
I have some problems i am struggling with on my own since a long time, would be very helpful if you guys can provide your views , as above maybe a new perspective will help
I have a slow reading problem
I cant help but feel i am reading incredibly slow with completing around 3 pages of Laxmikanth per hour.
(For e.g. i get stuck on functions, objectives of bodies and such stuff)
I have been well into a year of my prep. 2nd reading of Laxmikanth right now still this speed becomes demotivating. Any attempt to try and just read fast leads to (i suspect) comprehension and retention problems.
I think the problem is due to low focus and confidence problems. I am trying to work on them.
Please give your thoughts if you guys have any other helpful advice
Only Sith Deals in Absolute,
Aazaad,
This may be due to different reasons. Maybe you just have some pressing thing on your mind which doesn't let you focus. Maybe there is too much distraction in you environment. If that is the case, resolve any pressing issue and get rid of the distractions. Or it may also happen that you read the same thing again and again because you think that it is important and you may forget it. If that is the case, you need to keep in mind that rereading the same thing is probably not helpful anyway. Whether you read something 1 time or 10 times today, probability of forgetting it after 10 days is practically the same. Other more active methods of revision (solving test papers, writing what you know from the topic on a blank paper, flashcards etc.) which are spaced out over weeks, will probably be more helpful.Such a good advice.
The problem with such organic and simple fresh perspectives is you want to kick yourself for not knowing them sooner by yourself, anyways, Such is life.
I have some problems i am struggling with on my own since a long time, would be very helpful if you guys can provide your views , as above maybe a new perspective will help
I have a slow reading problem
I cant help but feel i am reading incredibly slow with completing around 3 pages of Laxmikanth per hour.
(For e.g. i get stuck on functions, objectives of bodies and such stuff)
I have been well into a year of my prep. 2nd reading of Laxmikanth right now still this speed becomes demotivating. Any attempt to try and just read fast leads to (i suspect) comprehension and retention problems.
I think the problem is due to low focus and confidence problems. I am trying to work on them.
Please give your thoughts if you guys have any other helpful advice
Dionysus,sjerngal
Asmita_101,Asmita_101,
Joeyisthebest,
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