In the last 3 days, I have realized that 60% of the questions require answers which need to be practiced beforehand in our room (for example NHRC, CBI, SCO, Parliamentary Committee, legislative council, SHGs, etc). These questions give ample scope for scoring good marks, the rest 40% of the questions are new for everyone which may or may not give you marks even if you have written average content. Thus ensuring a good grasp of static and conventional topics is very important to ensure decent marks in GS.
My mistake was that I ignored the static portion of History, Polity, and Economy after Prelims and thus wrote whatever I remembered from Prelims Preparation.
This is so true. Seeing the papers, I too realised that instead of running after the crazy ones, had I done my revisions of static properly, Way more marks could have been scored. Many could be answered substantially from NCERT itself, had I just revised them.
Another problem I face is being directionless post prelims. For Prelims there is a certain code and process largely common for all.
But post prelims, confronted by the vast vague syllabus, somehow I lose sight of the target. This often leads to lowering the intensity and dedication post prelims for a while.
This time, There is a gap of 102 days between prelims and mains. If we cancel out 10-12 days worth of not studying due to various reasons(taking extreme end) , we have a solid 3 month study gap for mains.
Marks aren't out yet, but, if a person is less than 25-30 marks away from the cutoff this time, can he/she get a bump of around 100 marks in those 3 months if studied diligently?
