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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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Done with the most of the targets for the day( but could not complete all) bcz spend some time listening  the last letters from Kargil and come to know that they have been compiled as a book ( must read )

@sjerngal or bhai ek mere dost h phone kro tb bhi ye khte h pdhai kr le ,they always encourage me to do more and completely  understands the situation ( they are like Karna and Lord Krishna-can do anything for me ) very fortunate to have them (but I never say this to them,bcz I know they will laugh and will say ki bhai bezati kr rha h tu)

Signing off the day -over and out 





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Aaj completed maths ka last portion. 

I'll take a half-break tomorrow and then start focussing exclusively on Prelims from Monday. 


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D10 ,D11

14/8

mod his finish-done

mcq - done (some)  ,

i.r - done

csat  done

polity rev - not done stillll

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@sjerngal I've had similar experiences with my chuddy buddies too :P. A couple of weeks ago, I was on a video call with a group of my childhood friends. In that 2 hours ka call, I might have spoken for max 2 mins. Reason was sab log apne life ke baare mei share kar rahe thei. And I didn't have anything remotely interesting happening in mine.
Granted that most of these people are working from home. It's not exactly the most happening thing. But they still have office gossip, workplace politics etc to talk about. Mai kya bolta - ki Santhal rebellion 1855 mei hua tha? 

It's like someone once said - The hours and days of UPSC prep are slow and long; but the months and years feel so short. 


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Procrastinated for a good deal of time. Went wayward after taking a day off. Had to remind myself time and again that no anxiety should be eating that head space. Not counting it as a day. Studied for around 4 hours only and retentivity was poor.

So will be completing the targets enlisted for today. 

Tomorrow will be a new and a better day!

@THE_MECHANIC It is a 3 year LLB.Technically toh Bachelors hi hai bhai.

Shubh Ratri doston!

Decent decent day. Around 7 hours put, in addition to college hours. Did all except today's newspapers and Ignou additions. Taking the momentum forward,

For Day 17( 15th of August 2021)-

6:30-10:00- PSIR articles and Current Stuff for the past few weeks

10-2- GS 

3-6- Mains Notes

6:30-7:30- PSIR additions to Mills,Roussseau and Bentham

8:30- CA+ Marx(upto wherever possible)


@THE_MECHANIC 2022 bhai.

@sjerngal Run for your life whenever you see your school friends.Lol.College friends are far more understanding in this respect, for they have seen our recent struggles more closely.GMC Jammu ke school friends se toh 2 kadam ki doori at all costs.

Shubh Ratri doston!



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Targets - 

Complete last 100 pages of ancient NCERT

Economics PYQ to be completed

2 hour G-meet session of 2017 PYQ

Newspaper backlogs

Bonus Quest - Medieval history to be started

Lets do it

Ancient almost completed - 10 pages left, can't study anymore

Completed few backlogs of paper, will complete rest by tomorrow

Couldn't do much of economics PYQ

The session was done for 2017 PYQ

was solving here and there MCQ questions 

Was overall a good day. Good night

@Shailputri Yes, I am very selective in choosing gifts for anyone. Thanks bro!

@The Force You have already much acquaintance with UPSC than any of us. You will sail through easily sir.

@Villanelle Please hang around in our group more mam :(

@sjerngal can't say much so...THERE THERE(Big bang reference)

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Procrastinated for a good deal of time. Went wayward after taking a day off. Had to remind myself time and again that no anxiety should be eating that head space. Not counting it as a day. Studied for around 4 hours only and retentivity was poor.

So will be completing the targets enlisted for today. 

Tomorrow will be a new and a better day!

@THE_MECHANIC It is a 3 year LLB.Technically toh Bachelors hi hai bhai.

Shubh Ratri doston!

Decent decent day. Around 7 hours put, in addition to college hours. Did all except today's newspapers and Ignou additions. Taking the momentum forward,

For Day 17( 15th of August 2021)-

6:30-10:00- PSIR articles and Current Stuff for the past few weeks

10-2- GS 

3-6- Mains Notes

6:30-7:30- PSIR additions to Mills,Roussseau and Bentham

8:30- CA+ Marx(upto wherever possible)


@THE_MECHANIC 2022 bhai.

@sjerngal Run for your life whenever you see your school friends.Lol.College friends are far more understanding in this respect, for they have seen our recent struggles more closely.GMC Jammu ke school friends se toh 2 kadam ki doori at all costs.

Shubh Ratri doston!



M tera bhai tu mera bhai :p idr bhi same

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  1. HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY TO ALL FORUM PEEPS 🎉🎉
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Happy Independence Day y’all! Kal kuch nahi kiya sivaye masti ke, thankfully instead of mindless purchases I just “window-shopped” on Myntra, don’t have brothers, now do we celebrate rakshabandhan, so random gifts is the stuff of my dreams. Targets for the 15.8.21:

Modern history

CSAT

Jan 2021 C/A

Medieval India

PSIR- state

Daily C/A

@sjerngal @Celeborn i completely understand how you feel. The only time I ever talk about UPSC is in front of my best friends who are all kinds of supportive, to my other non-upsc friends (who is 1 in number, to be precise) I really don’t talk much about it, because he simply wouldn’t get the nuances behind it. Our conversations are mostly restricted to “hey how’s it going?”, “still studying buddy” “cool”, and I don’t really mind tbh. No point trying to explain something to someone when they have no relation to the exam.

@Villanelle @nerdfighter this is me every single time! Except this happens 15 days before the exam. 😬

@The Mechanic yesterday was one of those days, today shall not be 🙃

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Good morning guys.

Targets for 15/8/21

  • Modern history till 1939
  • March 2021 ca
  • If time permits, S&tech Nov-December 2020 CA

Enough full day breaks and half day breaks for now.. No where to go... Next half day break only on RBD..
Come on now everyone, get to your books.. !!

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  • Mocks
  • Revise
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Targets - 

Complete ancient 

Complete newspaper backlogs 

Complete Economy PYQ

2 Hour G-meet session with peers for PYQ

Playing flute because "Aaj Mood h"

Have a good session everyone and a very happy independence day to all of you. 

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Good morning comrades

15/08/21-Targets for the day

Modern history-1917-1939

HCS -Medieval +Modern history

CA March-revise

Thats all for the day

A very very Happy independence day to all



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Happy Independence Day y’all! Kal kuch nahi kiya sivaye masti ke, thankfully instead of mindless purchases I just “window-shopped” on Myntra, don’t have brothers, now do we celebrate rakshabandhan, so random gifts is the stuff of my dreams. Targets for the 15.8.21:

Modern history

CSAT

Jan 2021 C/A

Medieval India

PSIR- state

Daily C/A

@sjerngal @Celeborn i completely understand how you feel. The only time I ever talk about UPSC is in front of my best friends who are all kinds of supportive, to my other non-upsc friends (who is 1 in number, to be precise) I really don’t talk much about it, because he simply wouldn’t get the nuances behind it. Our conversations are mostly restricted to “hey how’s it going?”, “still studying buddy” “cool”, and I don’t really mind tbh. No point trying to explain something to someone when they have no relation to the exam.

@Villanelle @nerdfighter this is me every single time! Except this happens 15 days before the exam. 😬

@The Mechanic yesterday was one of those days, today shall not be 🙃

Done for the guys. Happy with my syllabus, not happy with the geopolitical situation brewing in Afghanistan. Don’t know what the world is coming to.

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Any suggestions on how to cover Science and Tech for Mains (apart from monthly magazines)? Any book/material? 
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Procrastinated for a good deal of time. Went wayward after taking a day off. Had to remind myself time and again that no anxiety should be eating that head space. Not counting it as a day. Studied for around 4 hours only and retentivity was poor.

So will be completing the targets enlisted for today. 

Tomorrow will be a new and a better day!

@THE_MECHANIC It is a 3 year LLB.Technically toh Bachelors hi hai bhai.

Shubh Ratri doston!

Decent decent day. Around 7 hours put, in addition to college hours. Did all except today's newspapers and Ignou additions. Taking the momentum forward,

For Day 17( 15th of August 2021)-

6:30-10:00- PSIR articles and Current Stuff for the past few weeks

10-2- GS 

3-6- Mains Notes

6:30-7:30- PSIR additions to Mills,Roussseau and Bentham

8:30- CA+ Marx(upto wherever possible)


@THE_MECHANIC 2022 bhai.

@sjerngal Run for your life whenever you see your school friends.Lol.College friends are far more understanding in this respect, for they have seen our recent struggles more closely.GMC Jammu ke school friends se toh 2 kadam ki doori at all costs.

Shubh Ratri doston!



Well well well! Everything was bang on till 2 pm. Then had my  Rajma Chawal and never felt like studying anymore. Poor. I could have easily made a good day out of today but alas!

Targets for Day 18(16th August)

6:30- 8:30- Current Affairs of past 2 days

9-1:30- GS

1:30-7:30-College

8-9- Newspaper

9-10:30- Psir additions

10:30-11:30- Karl Marx(Itna bhi ho sake)


Also found 2 useful apps from Mac store-

Tempus- Simple Smartwatch and helps to keep a track of number of hours put into studies

Sleep Alarm Clock- Simple Alarm Clock. Can be used to have alarms being set for short breaks in between. Has some bugs though.

Shubh Ratri doston!

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Targets - 

Complete ancient 

Complete newspaper backlogs 

Complete Economy PYQ

2 Hour G-meet session with peers for PYQ

Playing flute because "Aaj Mood h"

Have a good session everyone and a very happy independence day to all of you. 

Ancient done

PYQ session done

1 mock of an hour done

Economics PYQ - Not even touched

Newspaper backlogs - Still 5-6 days left

Tried to play the flute but the day wasn't very happy after getting to know about the Taliban.

Hope everything goes alright. Take care, my beautiful people.

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T33 15 Aug 2021 

Mock and Analysis Done
Mock Revision Incomplete
Mod His Haphazard and incomplete
News/CA Not Done
Day going great until a phone call from relative (rather upsetting call ensured a wastage of 4 hrs). Last evening was equally disheartening with news of Afghanistan. Multilateral institutions have retired to background in face of new alliances - numerous QUADs, Troikas. Is this any short of appeasement? Only reinforces the adage about no permanent friends and enemy but permanent interests. 

T34 16 Aug 2021 

Mock and Analysis Incomplete
Mod His Done
News/CA Incomplete
QA Done
AWP Not Done
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Good morning guys.. 
No comments on yesterday. Messed up the day pretty bad on my own ..
Targets for 16/8/21

  • April ca 2021
  • Modern history-last decade
  • Science and Tech CA-November, December, January

Not in a good state of mind even today, but hopefully this too shall pass.. Fingers crossed. 

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Good morning to all the lovely people here

16/08/21-Targets for the day

Modern History-1939 to 1947

CA-April

HCS-History 

PT Culture-revise 

As said by Henry Kissinger-“To be an enemy of America can be dangerous,but to be a friend is fatal”  and for US no one matters except it’s interest and remember they created Taliban ,what Afghanistan needs presently is Men like Ahmad Shah Massoud ,Rabbani and Qadir who can unite all tribes( New Northern Alliance) and rally against Taliban and can command respect of people 

No foreign Power can succeed in Afghanistan -that’s why it is Graveyard of Great Powers


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