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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I am pretty much exhausted. I put all that I had today. Around 9 good hours after cutting out those 6 hours of college leaves almost nothing for recreation. Yet I couldn't achieve all the targets. But then I believe this is my general tendency. If I am given an option to climb either of the two peaks, I will choose to climb 70-80% of the steeper peak than to climb a less steeper peak. Haha!
I did this today-
Targets for tomorrow-
Day 21 (19th August)-
A funny thing that is happening with me these days- Whenever I feel drowsy during the day, I try to manipulate my mind by reminding it that SLEEP IS A MERE STATE OF MIND and tbh it works.
Chalo Shubh Ratri doston!
Kal I didn't study anything(quite literally). Aaj bhi only Marx wala part. Pretty bad but koi nahi I will step up.
Will update in the night.
Acche se padho bro. Aaj to mausam bhi accha hai :)
So, I am little scared of Ancient History, esp after my consistent poor performance in tests. 2020 UPSC qns aren't proving any helpful in getting my confidence up... Those who attempted the paper last year, how did u answer questions on (almost the entire history section)
kulyavapa and dronavapa
Parivrajaka, Shramana, Upasaka
vital vidhwanshak journal
Deser katha
Paramitas
Bhilsa, Dwarasamudra, Girinagar, Sthanesvara map based qn
Ghantasala, kadura and Chaul
Aurang ,Banian, Mirasidar
Even if you guessed, please share how?
Last year, I answered almost every single question from history correctly. Also when I answered them, I had no idea I was correct. That may have been a fluke. This year I did a little overkill. But if you want my advice. Do all religions well especially Buddhism. Go for overkill. And then do architecture well. And just do the primary sources well. It is mostly going yo be game of intuition even after that.
My intuition in such qns and luck are pretty bad. Itna ki aaj tak na koi lucky draw jeeta hai na swiggy/Amazon ka koi roulette voucher. M i doomed or what?
Noted your points on Buddhism and architecture.
Good morning guys, just realised that i forgot to update here last night (seems to be happening a lot these days) but was having a really distracted day, so not great performance overall. Hopefully today will be better, targets for 20.8.21 are:
Mod India
Mapping- mountains
Test
Analysis
CSAT
Apr 2021 C/A
Polity
Daily C/A
Editorial- IE
Will I be able to finish all of this today itself, stay tuned to find out more….
Had a 💩 day of studying. The anxiety of not having completed art and culture fully yesterday meant that I ditched my carefully made plans for a last ditch attempt to finish A&C. Did I manage to finish A&C? Mostly yes. Did I do anything else besides it, take a wild guess. Lesson learnt, plans are made for a reason, any deviation means a very unproductive day. Until next time, stay tuned for further adventures in time management.
Wonderful points@Rashmirathi and@Jammu.We need to apply these tricks coz there is a limit to how much we can study. You people have been extremely helpful. Thanks@nerdfighter. Will stick to my books so I can develop the art of elimination like you have applied above.
Hi dost, listing few insights that clicked my mind then- when I read kulya’vapa’, drona’vapa’ ; I felt like ‘vapa’ is to measure something. There were two options of measuring, I clicked ‘land’ because it is often asked by UPSC- Ghantasala, Kadura, Charul - I knew these were not capitals of powerful kingdoms, otherwise I would have known it. Similarly not important Buddhist pilgrimage centre, otherwise I would have read it somewhere. 2 options were left, I felt that UPSC often asks from ports of ancient India, so it worked-In the question of ‘Deser Katha’, when I read the name of author as Deuskar, I got this feeling that these are the names that I generally find in Maratha people like names of Shinde, Gowde, More, Deshmukh etc. I thought, had he been Bengali, it would be a long name like Chatterjee, Bannerjee. So I applied this logic and came to single option and I am not sure right now but I feel it got wrong- Question of Bhilwara, Girinagar and two other names. I knew Bhil is a tribe of MP and so the name Bhilsa. Likewise Gir is in Gujarat, so the name Girinagar.- Likewise I remember there was one more question where ‘conjugal rights’ was written. It didn’t click me then what is its meaning. I read the Hindi translation, so it made some sense. Then seeing at options, I tried figuring it that all were related like women education, rights, marriage etc and hence all of above. This got me correct.I hope this helps
@Shailputri as said by@nerdfighter bhai last year my history portion also went very well except Rakhmabai case .How it went very well-1.For terms like Kulvayapa,dronavayapa ,mirasadars,aurang ,banian etc - what I did was - >went to last page of ncert book where they have mentioned ques and answers,in 1st ques they have mentioned terms just note them on a A4 sheet and find their meanings from chapter ( as suggested by my roommate he was already in the service and it helped me a lot and I prepared such list for both ancient and medieval) and it only takes 2 to 3 hrs2.Vital vidhwansak question-would have been easily done by elimination ( as most of know the books written by other three) and same was with Buddhism ques- If you have read Nitin Singhania3 . Dasher katha was educated guess —>author seemed Marathi->so 3 statement was wrongAnd he also advised me before exam that the ques which seems - harder in prelims are really very easy if you apply a little mind and really it helped me a lotThis time I missing his company
Wonderful points@Rashmirathi and@Jammu.We need to apply these tricks coz there is a limit to how much we can study. You people have been extremely helpful. Thanks@nerdfighter. Will stick to my books so I can develop the art of elimination like you have applied above.
Yes. Also, elimination techniques generally do not work in Test Series of Coaching Institutes. Because here questions are framed by people who have same intellect like ours. They know which way we will choose and hence they tend to make it difficult.
I personally feel questions are not parameters of difficulty, but options are. That is why, I personally find it difficult applying elimination techniques with perfection in ORN based Test Series.
But UPSC questions are framed by different calibre, It’s much easy to decode there. So practise elimination in 15-20 years of PYQ there.
Also, like@nerdfighter said, we need to be thorough with basics. Elimination works when we have done multiple revisions, we are confident enough that ‘xyz’ term is not there in Buddhism/Mauryan administration/Gupta Dynasty/IVC etc
Targets:
Economy 8 chapters ->5 done
CA economy 5 months ->done
Newspaper ->done
Time studied ->7 hours
Today's study was punctuated by bouts of anxiety... I had some productive sessions and then some sessions where all I wanted to do was cry. I'll be taking 2 days lightly and try to get back to normal by Monday.
Wonderful points@Rashmirathi and@Jammu.We need to apply these tricks coz there is a limit to how much we can study. You people have been extremely helpful. Thanks@nerdfighter. Will stick to my books so I can develop the art of elimination like you have applied above.
Yes. Also, elimination techniques generally do not work in Test Series of Coaching Institutes. Because here questions are framed by people who have same intellect like ours. They know which way we will choose and hence they tend to make it difficult.
I personally feel questions are not parameters of difficulty, but options are. That is why, I personally find it difficult applying elimination techniques with perfection in ORN based Test Series.
But UPSC questions are framed by different calibre, It’s much easy to decode there. So practise elimination in 15-20 years of PYQ there.
Also, like@nerdfighter said, we need to be thorough with basics. Elimination works when we have done multiple revisions, we are confident enough that ‘xyz’ term is not there in Buddhism/Mauryan administration/Gupta Dynasty/IVC etc
Okay...
I find it a bit embarrassing to elucidate as to how badly I faltered in the past two day but nevertheless. I have 2 full days(no college load) to make up for these hours.
Targets for Day 21(again) i.e 21st August-
@sjerngal No good mausam here. Different topographies I guess. Yaa kya pta kal ho jaaye bhagwan
Shubh Ratri doston!
New Targets -
Art & Culture - Nitin Singhnia
Ancient and Medieval history PYQ
Start Modern History - Spectrum
2015 PYQ G-meet session
Newspaper backlogs
Maybe one, 1.5 hour Sadhguru Inner engineering video(if time permits)
Art and Culture done
2015 PYQ session done
Ancient/Medieval pyq half done
Couldnt complete newspaper backlogs
Started reading geography because I couldn't focus much there
New Targets -
Geography mapping work
2 hour geography G-meet session
Newspaper backlogs
Sadhguru session
@Freakhoto God approved, AICTE aur UGC kya cheej h :|
Messed up everything as I had to prepare a class myself on the meet.
New targets -
Complete Nitin Singhania
Complete Ancient & medieval PYQs
Complete newspaper backlogs today at any cost
Bonus Quest - January 2020 Vision CA revision
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