Official : Post Daily Routine & Self Assessment (Mains 2020)

21st August 2020:-

1) SFG TESTS of Envt(70%)

2) Test 19 and its Analysis(80 %)

3) Sci and Tech Previous year Questions 2008-2015(20%)

4) SFG test of Art & Culture

Ab dangal hoga

Remarks:-

1) Dangal ho nhi paaya

2) Aadha din barbaad raha-poora din felt aalsi

21 Aug.2020

1. Modern History - 2 +  2(done)
2. TH(done)

review of 18/19/20 aug

environment shankar over and survey vol1(vision ki summary which was just of 18 pages uski baat kar rha hu :P) over, singhania almost over. rest will cover in another cycle!; Vision test 18 done

Story would have been very different had i not wasted 80% of 18th and 50% of 19th. So in next 3 day will focus more on effort than on the plan!

21/8

* stopping newspaper from today! Hata sawan ki ghata, nintukle pintukle hindu express vat le phut le! ab jo hoga dekha jayega!

** 3-3 days cycle now onwards. In first cycle picking two hathis- lakshmikant and mrunal eco handout(book se bhi mota handout hota hai kya koi! 😠)

shift1: eco pillar 3 and 4

shift 2: polity sfg 3,4 syllabus

shift 3: survey vol 2(vision vala)

Hello everyone

I hope preparation is going good. 

So I am writing here to keep a tab on my preparation for I struggle a lot with priorities and bad timings. 

Since it's just 40 days for preliminary examination. I have planned things like this: 

So 5+5:  August 2 loops

September is 30 days : 6 days each loop so in total 5 loops. In that also (2 +2 +1) loop systematically I have assigned certain things for each loop. 

So coming to August : Besides preparation the other side of life has family commitment and responsibilities. So  Gauri and Ganesh preparation and helping few with science assignment can also not be missed. 

Loop 1 has 5 days for me.

Geography and Economics. 

Ancient Medieval and art and culture coherence part 

Current affair part 

And I struggle a lot with anxiety overthinking. Will have diary for my observation and idea since I tend to be forgetful of how do I feel sometimes. And a sketch book so hope so 40 days 40 random doodles. 

So hope so i do things to my contentment in sync with examination requirements. 

August :Loop 1(5):  Day 1

-January 2020 December 2019 keywords and pointers 

-Climatology 

-Clarity of basics in economics : planning, reforms, national income, inflation and financial market 

-ancient art and administration pointer stone age till Maurya

Would be reading these and after a break i.e me fulfilling other commitments I would be reassessing topic again. 

So my point is to be confident of topics i covered and logically  answer the twisted tales of question without overthinking. 

Ps: Hope so diligently I follow it :) 

21st Aug ( work day) 

1)Art & culture ( during journey) done

2) CA yesterday's left out revision part done

3) Govt schemes - 2ministries to read before sleeping nope

If possible, may be a full test nope

22 Aug.2020

1. Modern History - 2+2(only 3, not 4)
2. Revise economy L-1,2,3(done)
3. TH(done)

21/08/2020:

2nd shift was not very productive. 1st shift became long.

Rating: 70%

22/08/2020 target:

Shift 1: History+sfg

Shift 2: IR CA +mapping

Shift 3: S & T (target to finish by tomorrow)

21 August-

Tasks Completed-

• newspaper
• Vision test analysis
• Modern history- Vice-Roys, Newspapers, Tribal uprisings
• CSAT- Permutation & combination

I learnt today-

1. Namath Basai
2. Swachh Bharat Urban rankings
3. Kulbhushan Yadav case
4. Women in R&D.
   
   

22nd Aug targets

Till the end of the month, targets will be to finish al left out parts in CA & static portions. 

1) CA 2nd revision (part3/10)  half done

2) study June 16-30 CA first half nope

3) polity left out chapters final part nope

4) full test done

5) medievel india, if possible some chaps

Happy Ganesh chaturthi ☺ lets stay more diligent in our study & revision. 

Woke up at 4:00 a.m

4:30-8:15 - Optional and Answer Writing (A. 246- 260, Constitution of India)

Remaining Targets:

1. Bhakti Movement

2. Sufi Movement

3. Philosophy

4. Focus magazine (July)

5. Economics (FRBM Act, Banking Sector)

6. Test key and Revision

Maximum Time allotted:

For 1, 2 and 3->180 minutes

For 4 and 5 ->240 minutes

For  6->180 minutes

10:00-1:00 Environment Done

2:00-4:00 environment Done

5:00-8:00 PT365

9:00-11:00 handcrafted prelims booklet

Review 21/8

5 6 hr study only. Only pillar 3 of eco mrunal handout covered. Disappointing day.

*Focus to remain on effort than on targets.

22/8 {40/60}

shift1: eco pillar 5 and 4

shift 2: polity sfg 3,4 syllabus

shift 3: survey vol 2(vision vala)

*"There are no limits in anything. There are only plateaus and you must not stay there. You must go beyond them. " ~bruce lee

Hello everyone 

I hope your preparation is going on well. 

Previous day :

1. Geography climatology section covered
2. Economics and Current affair too
3. While reading History, I was distracted a bit. So did not do it at all. 
4. First round of Assessment part was okay there were few mistakes. Reassessment was skipped it was already time to sleep. 

Day 2:

• Backlog of Day 1 : which I have partially covered (done) 
• February 2020 and November 2019  keywords and link
• Revision ( done) 
• Geography geomorphology and india part
• Economics adding more few chapters to already added static (done) 
• Assessment reassessment part 

So next three days also I intend to follow the same pattern. Shuffling between  geography and economics. Then the current affair part and a bit of history. 

About hours :

• 6:2:4:6::Reading:Revision:family:sleep.
• 3:2:1::Evaluation and reading :Me time: sleep
  

Since the Covid time everyone is at home. So I introduced my mumma to South Indian cinema and she binge watch it. And I curate few movies see through its wikipedia page to match her liking. And for my dad he thinks I am photographer he loves being clicked. Even though I am not good at clicking pictures but he make sure he makes those amateur photos as his dp.so I do level up my angle light and focus issues of camera. I think he does trust me on that. 

So dodging sarcasm banter saving my mental peace territory strategically I spend my day. It's  always a good break for me to see them happy. As me doing what I need to do and them being engaged in things they always wanted to try. So this works for me.

Thank you for sharing this. Felt so good reading it. :)

To be in your bubble and not let unnecessary noise affect you takes an insane amount of courage. Good on you. :) 

P.S: If your mom has grown fond of South Indian movies, do try getting her to watch the movie Thanmaathra. (Mohanlal, Meera Vasudev) It's mostly about a father-son relationship and an IAS dream. Available on Hotstar.

23 Aug.2020

1. CA class(done)
2. TH(done)
3. Modern History, 50-60 pages( not done, barely started)

22/08/2020:

Did not go as per planned. But in the end managed to cover the target.

23/08/2020 target:

1 full length mock test

History+sfg

CA revision

After wasting the last 5-6 days in anxiety, I have decided to keep a tab on my preparation here by posting daily/hourly targets. Now, I am much behind my schedule due to excessive focus on economy portion and wasting the past few days. Nevertheless, now the focus should be on how to complete things in these last ~40 days. 

Overall Target till 30th Aug --->

A) Complete Modern History

B) Complete Environment (except NP, TR, Ramsar etc mapping and Fauna related portion etc)

C) Complete Geography (except Crops, Vegetation, Biomes, Rivers)

D) ~1/3 Laxmikanth

I have not read a single page of modern history, environment, geography and polity in the last 3 months, and it looks like I have messed up. Have done only current affairs and economy portion in the past 2 months and in that too I have to do current affairs again properly. Devoted too much time to do a few portions of GS2 and GS3. So, have to now rigorously focus on achieving targets.

Target till 23 Aug 5:00 am (before I sleep) -->

1) ~60 pgs of Modern History Notes [done ~20 pgs already]

2) ~20 pgs of Laxmikanth

23rd August Targets-

1st slot - Modern history (3 hrs)

2nd slot- Modern history (3 hrs)

3rd slot - 1 test (2 hrs)

4th slot - Test analysis 

22nd August review, 

Started with CA revision - finished 50% of target 2hrs and slept like a log due to previous day tiredness.. 

Slept all day

Yesterday night sky was clear so took out my telescope and was fiddling with it for  long time to catch moon properly. No success. For the first time thing, I think it's okay. So evening went like this and again slept 😴😴. 

So, for today I'll be carrying on yesterdays plan. 

9:00-12:00 Environment Done

1:00-4:00 environment Done

5:00-8:00 PT365 Done

9:00-11:00 Handcrafted prelims booklet Done

went out to  buy a new pair of glasses yesterday. It was lovely to once again be witness to entertaining customers who forage the whole shop with the SA and buy nothing. 

Great to see so many more people on this thread. Made me super charged up to complete the targets. 😂