CSE 2021: Plan / Strategy / Daily Routine
Hello 2021 aspirants. I thought it would be nice if we can share what we are doing and intend to do with one another here.
This could be a thread for discussing everything prep for 2021.
No one method fits all but to see the plans and progress made by fellow aspirants might help with the finer details of preparation and also keep one on track.
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Targets -
Budget and Economic Survey Revision
Quick Polity Revision
April, May, and June CA revision
1 PYQ and analysis
A little bit of answer writing
My newspaper notes CA revision of GS1
This much task will need minimum of 10 hours to accomplish. lets do it.
Budget and economic survey done
Polity - almost done except few chapters
CA revision couldn't be done - will try to do it today
PYQ - Not done
Had a little bit of swelling due to allergies while playing and so, couldn't study
New Targets -
Polity - constitutional/Non consti. bodies to be done quickly
1 PYQ to be done
Geography + Enviro Quick Revision
3 Months CA to be done
Little bit of answer writing
Bonus Quest- Modern history
@mightyraju Overthinking shouldn't be done. You can tackle it nicely on both argument/counterargument sides like how he incorporated realism and pragmatism, not founded in idealism and romanticism of Plato or divine theorists. On counter side, you can bring in scholars like Sabine who called his theory as pessimism and not pragmatism. Likewise, you can bring in more and more points for the theory.
@Infinitybeyondinfinity I hope you are ok Now.
@sjerngal Adorable bhai!We started with 1 medal but lost one good chance through Vinesh Phogat. Hope she gets a repchage round for the bronze medal bout.
Polity Done
1 PYQ done but analysis left
Geography plus environment 90% done
3 months CA done
Answer writing done
Couldn't touch Modern history - Will do it tomorrow
@Infinitybeyondinfinity What an artist you are bro!
Good night folks!
Time studied - 8 hours 19 minutes
Fluids PYQ 2010 - 2015 ->done. 2020 questions are left (which I'll do tomorrow). With that this portion would be finally over.
Environment Red Book revision ->done. There's so much detail on every page. Memorizing this is taking a lot of time. I think it would take me a week more to finish the book.
Newspaper ->done
@Infinitybeyondinfinity That's so lovely! Please keep creating and posting such beauties regularly. It would make our day
So I thought that being away from Forum and this thread may reinvigorate the animal spirits but alas!I have struggled to put in decent amount of hours on a regular basis starting this July. I need to pick up again and the amount of zeal that I see on this thread is tremendous.
So the targets for 4th August 2021(Day 10)
Between 7 and 10- Complete Machiavelli
Between 10-2- GS 2
Between 3- 9- GS Notes
Between 9-11- PYQs of PSIR
11-11:45- Newspaper.
So I started pretty decently in the morning today. Finished Machiavelli as well a decent portion of Target 2. But then, all the enthusiasm went into a drain when the UPS backup went off(There was no electricity since 2 am last night). After that,I only managed to read newspapers and cover today's CA. So for
Day 11(5th August)
Targets of 4th August+ Hobbes(if possible) since tomorrow is an action packed day at Olympics.
To PSIR folks@LetsGetThisBread @sstarrr @balwintejas and others,
So while reading IGNOU notes on Machiavelli, I came across this thing"Machiavelli was the first pragmatist in the history of political thought".It wasn't explained much. I tried googling it around and came across conflicting justifications. So how to approach if a question around this aspect of Machiavellian thought comes up in the exam?
Good night folks!
Did a good deal of the leftover stuff. Didn't do Hobbes. There were many breaks in the study hours, though. What a day for India in Hockey and what a guy PR Sreejesh is! I just hope these games bring in some change in what is otherwise a cricket obsessive country.
Targets for Day 12(6th August 2021)-
6:30 - 9:30- Hobbes
Between 9:30 and 1:30- GS
1:30- 7:30- College
8:30- 11- CA Notes of August
11- 12- Newspaper
@balwintejas You are right. Even I think I overthought there.
@LetsGetThisBread Thank you.
Good night Doston!
Suprabhaat doston,,, Good morning comrades
Beautiful morning here. .. Targets for 6/8/21
- Modern history - revise till PArtition of Bengal (to be done before lunch)
- October-November CA 2020 active recall
- Geography- Indian vegetation, Indian soils and Indian agriculture revision
- June 2021 CA (not more than 1 hour)
- National Parks of India
Good luck to everyone .. I hope each of you have a productive day ahead..
Day 1/10
Eco-bad loan and burning issues in banks. Psir-class+notes revision.
Geo-ncert chap 6,notebook-rocks
mightyraju,I have been not able to give my best since last few week hence I am trying out to publicly post my targets from today.
Target: 12 hours of studies
Minimum: 10 hours
1. PT 365- polity
2. AW 1 optional, 2 GS
Action on last target:
Time: 9.5 hours
Completed PT 365 Polity, AW 1 Optional. Missed 2 GS AW
Today’s target:
Time: min 10 hours, target 12 hours
Revise constitution and polity notes
Action on last target:
Time: 10 hours,
Revised Polity, AW Option, AW GS from InsightsonIndia
Today’s Target:
Time: 10-12 hours.
Polity, AW optional + Insights
@sjerngal @LetsGetThisBread @Rashmirathi @balwintejas @Celeborn Thank you guys ❤️
Yes@LetsGetThisBread ,water colour it is. It is just one old school technique of using them. I am very keen to learn all other techniques
Thanks for the group bro! I will have to admit that seeing you guys clocking so many hours consistently has given the external push that I usually require to keep the momentum going. Special thanks to -@Infinitybeyondinfinity @LetsGetThisBread @Celeborn @sjerngal you guys are doing great keep up the great work!
Thanks for the group bro! I will have to admit that seeing you guys clocking so many hours consistently has given the external push that I usually require to keep the momentum going. Special thanks to -@Infinitybeyondinfinity @LetsGetThisBread @Celeborn @sjerngal you guys are doing great keep up the great work!
Today could have been better.. But I agree this online library sort of thing is giving me a lot of push.
I wanted to wind down and go to sleep early, but I'm not sleepy and I will study some more. ..
Was only able to complete Geography and newspaper and that to with very less attention
By the way watched Women’s hockey match -What a match it was , ( although we lost ) but they fought like Lionesses and their tears post match shows their hard work and dedication
How beautifully Munshi Premchand ji has wrote about crying -( some days back someone talked about crying on this thread)
But was really disappointed by Bajrang ( I had great hopes from him) as today he didn’t play his natural game for which he is famous
Fingers crossed for tomorrow let’s see how it goes ( Neeraj ,Bajrang and Aditi will be competing for medal)
@Shailputri don’t feel disappointed bcz when you try something new and fail you always learn something great
Signing off for the day - over and out
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