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As I couldn't find a group for everyday target tracking for cse'25 aspirants, here is one I created.

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12/3

Started spectrum today.Will try to finish it by holi.

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"In the midst of chaos chase light" (statistics in my case)

Its community update time. - all drained from previous week of college assignments and presentation (Karol bagh parabola my prof calls it) physically drained due to travel, mentally and emotionally drained due to health problems of family (i don't know if this is a place to dump that so lets keep it for later) 

To begin with heres the prev 3 weeks of progress 


a litlle dissapointed of not being able to save 500 rs by one ques in sfg ent (scored 65.33 the cutoff was 68) 50 hi aajate yaar isse achha to 😭 anyways the grind shall continue so lets aim for saving this next month. 

SFG progress as of now seems fair target was top 100 but hovering around 250 so lets rely on consistency and the process play its part. 


Coming back to the starting line - i feel like i keep getting lucky in the tests and i dont deserve the marks i have been getting because the people around me have studied much more yet are scoring less. 

Attempted the PYQs - excluded the qs i knew ans from before or counted them as i attemepted them when i saw for the first time in sfg or elsewhere (if i got something wrong before i counted it as a -ve) with a target for myself as the forest cutoff.

need to go till 2015, and about the FLTs attempted 2 as of yet 

Forum AI-0 - scored 93.33 (54/19) got into time trouble wasn't able to attempt more questions felt the paper was easy and could have scored about 110 easily. yet convinced myself that i dont deserve this score as i might have scored because of familiarity with Forum questions and mindset due to SFG. 

Insights AI - 1 - this was something to bring me to the ground scored 63.67 (45/40) manged the time a lil better but still got a place to improve. 

So in the self doubt tantrum we chase more data points to cut shot the standard deviation of confidence hyperbola. lmk if you guys are attempting any full length open mocks would love to have someone to compete with.  

+ the full length are being saved by SnT and Env mostly because of familiarity with them due to my background (JEE and Biotechnology) so the scope of improvement in polity and history is still a lot.

ps - i have an eye out for@DancingMaster and@Fairyflu since sfg L1 the aim is to get ahead in the weekly/monthly ranking in L2😤 (all healthy competition tho)

and the mind is still a little scared about the mains prep but has accepted the situation and lets go cash in aur aptitude for the MCQs. 

To end with -

"Statistics don't lie like the emotions do." and

"Outwork your self doubt" are the quotes i remind myself in the times of need, throwing it out there if it helps.


Bhai Boss God Prox level of SFG toh@Dauntless hai. Bohot Kam, padhke bhi 80+ score kar raha hai banda !-!


@Siebzehn is doing good in SFG too! Keep an eye on him. 


Simu 0 toh ig you scored good.  I messed it up, * Ghar par dene ke bad bhi *  but thike, Udass hoke kya hi  karlunga, time bhi toh nahi hai udas hone ka abh. 



Boy? Girl? You are a sword, that is all.
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@DancingMaster No no bro! Nothing like that. Now I am studying for prelims only. Multiple revisions and PYQs are on my mind right now. 
Also, I scored 80+ on one test. :') Wo bhi isliye because in Level 1, I had a terrible score in this particular part (Capital market), so I focused a lot on covering the gaps this time. I am clarifying because I want people to know that hard work is the only way. For everyone worried about scores, don't worry, just be consistent and keep working on the mistakes/gaps. Ant me vijay aapki hi hogi! (The final victory shall be yours!) _/\_


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14/3

Ok so reading mains for 2 hours not working.Was reading optional till afternoon.Thats why could only cover snt and amaca in 14 days.

Now shifting full day to prelims . Can't think of sitting for entire year after failed prelims.

Holi kal h hmare yaha😶

Mahi2306,Siebzehnand2 otherslike this
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Day 1:

14th March'25

Laxmikant- Ch 7-20

Newspaper.

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Day 3( 16/3/25)

Laxmikant- Ch 21-40

Newspaper.
Siebzehn,
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16/1

Starting laxmikant today.

DancingMaster,Siebzehn
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17/1

Start from inter-state relations.

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Hello, any people in MNCs here? How are you balancing leaves?

DancingMaster,
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18/3

Start from Parliamentary commitees.

DancingMaster,
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How are you guys managing eco? Anyone like who did Sriram in the past. Idk what else to add to it - new concpts n all. Studied it 5 years back n now want to restart n revise 
DancingMaster,
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How are you guys managing eco? Anyone like who did Sriram in the past. Idk what else to add to it - new concpts n all. Studied it 5 years back n now want to restart n revise 

doing vivek singh (easy read and very good coverage - do selective reading from prelims pov). Also, some coaching channels on YT have uploaded their entire Prelims module, so you may want to go through that (you can check levelup yt channel, haven't seen those myself but will refer to them to fill some gaps). Concepts are largely the same, except some changes maybe in the banking sector, psl criteria, aifis, etc. 
All the best!

Siebzehn,SpartanSKV
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19/3

Start constitutional bodies

Siebzehn,
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19/3

Start constitutional bodies

No question has come in the last 10 years.


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No question has come in the last 10 years.

Fomo h bhai mere ko.i even read 1st two spectrum chapters.Just cursory reading.

Ok so polity done.

Will start snt now--1day job.

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@Incoming SFG tracker?


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@Incoming SFG tracker?


didn't join sfg level 2, now using FLTs to fix weak areas. Thinking of posting my targets again.

Btw, how's the prep going?

DancingMaster,
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21/3

Snt done.starting history now.aim is to finish by next saturday.

Simulator tomorrow.Try to score above 100.

DancingMaster,Siebzehn
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@Incoming sometimes good, sometimes not so good. :D


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