@Truthseeker9 Small suggestion to do the PYQs mindfully, that might help (saying this without knowing at all how you're using them).
There's 3 different uses I have personally found for the PYQs for someone who has written past attempts:
1. to mop up repeat questions (e.g. places the Buddha visited being repeated back-to-back, Money Multiplier, etc).
2. To understand what the general trend of accepted answers is. All the fundas e.g. "just blindly tick D" or "organisations are usually wrong" concept arose because of successive years of UPSC taking the most general statements for science questions as correct. Attempting PYQs can help you develop your gut understanding of when those rules work or not, e.g. in a 50-50 situation. This is why it's also v v important to use the actual original answer keys and not any coaching centre's ones (to catch awkward situations like the Gypsum wala questions). 2020 and 2021 answer keys will be v useful for future attempts depending on answers for AI and Magnetite as it will give an indication of what direction UPSC will go for such questions in the future.
3. Actual measure of your gut-check ability. One trick you might want to try is to attempt all your last few papers fresh in test-conditions using your old question booklet and a blank piece of paper. While you're attempting, circle the questions in which you took a blind guess. Then compare your previous answer (when you had written the attempt), vs your present answer, vs what's the correct answer. Doing this with all 5 papers can help you understand whether your guessing ability has improved, whether you can trust your gut, and whether you've retained the information fully.
