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LIVE : Today @9:30 PM ( March 27 ) | Session by ForumIAS for Prelims 2020

LIVE Today@9:30PM | Prelims 2020 Orientation

Hello All,

Today at9:30 PM, Friday March 27, 2020,we will be holding a LIVE online session for all ForumIAS Members who are appearing for Prelims 2020. 

This is a re-orientation session, and a follow up for most people who have attended the Offline Session held for some RLG Students.

The Session will be LIVE in this page itself.

Please ask your questions in comments below so that we can take it up in the Video Session. People who are following SFG and Simulators are requested to watch it for and put questions here, in case they need any assistance.


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@Neyawn Hi sir
your saying not to make notes from newspaper -waste of time, but how to revise if i don't make it, as i will be
not able to remember after 2 to 3 weeks later.

Thank you  


Take up compilations and study for them. The reason why I am asking not to make notes is because see you have limited time and energy.

in the beginning you don’t know what is important and what is not. You come to know about this distinction only when you solve test series or write the actual exam.

I have seen ( and keep seeing ) that freshers making newspaper notes note down things that are not important and fill up pages which are not useful at all. You yourself will realise that those notes are of no use.


At best of you have to make notes, make it from mains perspective ( but again final coaching compilations and class notes will be better than self notes , because it is a collaborative effort of people with mains and interview experience - and a team of 3-5 of them )


And if you still want to make notes , then make sure that you do not spend more than 90 minutes on the newspaper.


You May at best make 1-2 pages of notes if you still want to.

Also, if you are going for self study and no coaching, then make sure that you study static also. People who do a lot of self study often end up only reading newspaper and making notes of it for a few years. Current affairs / newspaper is exciting, it’s fresh and new everyday, so there is an inherent bias in favour of it. Keep a fair balance of static and newspaper.

In the end , whatever you do, don’t be the guy who is doing self study , is too thinly stretched over too many websites, and studies newspaper and current affairs for 3-4 hours every day - and finally at the end of the day ( or the month ) , when asked what have you done today or this month - you say I have only read the newspaper.


I am no knight. Do not call me Sir

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@Omen Hi my optional is also maths, will you please share ur strategy at present for optional.


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Sir what you said was correct. I was doing all those things so i didn't clear prelims.
sir from where i have to study the compilations and how to study them, means in what way?

Thank you


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Sir what you said was correct. I was doing all those things so i didn't clear prelims.
sir from where i have to study the compilations and how to study them, means in what way?

Thank you


Hello somehow, I did not get an email alert for your question. Which compilation have you completed till now?


I am no knight. Do not call me Sir

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@Neyawn Sir sorry for late reply. not read any compilation. please suggest from which one 
 i have to study?

Thank you 


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@Neyawn Sir sorry for late reply. not read any compilation. please suggest from which one 
 i have to study?

Thank you 


The correct answer is the one you have already been following , even if for a few months.


I am no knight. Do not call me Sir

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@Neyawn Hi sir
I am reading news paper and for previous prelims vision pt365.

Thank you


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