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How much it is correct to Give your Upsc attempt based on your mock test performance ??

Nowadays, there is a huge talk about skipping the attempt/ good attempt or bad attempt in Upsc preparation as competition is evolving..

I hve been victim of such mindset in 2021 when I choose to skip that attempt after outright faliure in 2020 prelims despite huge effort . I thought,  I will prepare very well for next attempt  , now in 2022 , I feel that I m  standing on same point that used to be during 2020 preparation   ,Nothing changed . Now I m much more uncertain about prelims than that time ..

I started preparing for 2022 prelims in February 2022 from giving Mocks that's my favorite thing in upsc journey. 

And I found that I m not scoring well .still I plan ,talk to experienced mentor and aspirants and keep giving mock after mock and making a list of wrong question,   but it was so huge that I couldn't revised regularly..

I joined sfg level 2 , and there also I performed very poor on daily basis , No much radical improvement in scorecard. I here admit that I m unable to complete the daily sfg target very well,  so it costed .. 

After all the stupid mistakes,  now I understood that l lacked in Revision , Prelims approach and discipline and these all are sure shot recipie of Faliure ..

Revision Habit and Reading over Mock test are primary ingredient  to crack prelims ..

I repeated same mistakes that I did in 2020 prelims  having extra obsession of Solving mcqs mindlessly..rather than it should be used for learning and value addition that's all.

So , I m very unsure whether to attempt this year prelims or not ..ideally I must give bcz there is huge investment of Money ,Hardwork and emotions.. and statistically,  I shouldn't attempt..There is huge dilemma ?..What u guys think ???



Foolphoton,Krrish
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you mentioned that you have been doing SFG since February. 

that should be a decent checkbox to ensure that you have at-least studied the syllabus. 

further you have given an attempt before plus taken a drop post that. so you have enough knowledge base. 

You should take this attempt irrespective of your mock scores. 

I say this because, a failed attempt teaches us way more things than a successful attempt. A no attempt at this stage would leave you with no feedback on your strategy. 


Had i been at your stage, i would do two things.

- revise the basic books thoroughly. There is enough time even if you start today. Trust me. But not enough to waste and contemplate.

- 2nd and most important thing, experiment with multiple paper attempting strategies by writing FLT's eventually fixing one stratergy for the D Day. (number of rounds, number of questions to be attempted etc.)

It is the 2nd thing that matters the most in prelims. Develop your strategy for that and in the worst case you fail this attempt - at least you would have made some progress towards figuring out your way of attempting the paper. 

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