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Hello everyone. I have secured AIR 159 in CSE 2020 with botany optional. I will try to share my thoughts here
In GS 1 for obvious reasons, one won't be having a lot of facts and data points to add. Reading the standard books is the only way of revision here.
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EdSarrthi essay test copies. One can easily add quotes/case studies/facts in the blank space given
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One of my essay copies. One can easily add case studies/facts/quotes in the margin space given
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This was the wallpaper at my workplace for last 2 3 years. Bidding goodbye to the place and people in lab that was my second home for last 6 years was tough..
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I don't generally comment. Taking my advice is completely one's own decision. I have clearly written that my answer may not make everyone feel good but that won't change it.
But I can assure that nobody will be more happier than me if someone can prove me wrong by writing mains in bengali.
বাংলা মাধ্যম এবং UPSC Civil Service পরীক্ষা।
https://ipsacharya.in/2021/11/02/upsc-cse-in-bengali/
ethics titbits MMukherjee.pdf
Ethics is perhaps the only subject I wanted to make some notes on some topics here and there. For static i used lexicon and did liberal googling 😊. Vision value added materials were also good but I couldn't prepare holistic notes due to serious time crunching.
I tried to divide a copy into topics as given in the syllabus.
Wrote defination/ real life and famous persons life experience/ collected some related quotes/ collected few diagrams... That's all I did for ethics notes making.
However, I found writing answers is much more helpful than notes making. I wrote multiple tests of ethics.
The best part about gs4 2020 paper is that the standard approach of defn/ examples notes failed miserably. The pattern was not similar to lst year papers.
Take away: accept the uncertainty and unpredictability associated with upsc at each steps and be prepared to combat as it comes.
Secondary metabolites handouts. Though prepared keeping NET in mind but I feel anyone can use this as it is for upsc too.
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*Notes making out of basic books*
Whatever I have posted or will post, those are just few of the pages from the basic books.
And how I have highlighted/ added some points/drawn small diagrams and figures for easy understanding/memorization.
I never made separate notes. I didn't have the time, either😊. It's a personal choice whether you want to /have enough time to make notes or not.
Difficulty/Importance of any fact is very subjective and the same goes with the highlighted portions. Identify the areas you tend to forget and highlight them accordingly. This will only come with repeated revisions.
Don't call them notes.. just use it as template for highlighting.
Personally, I don't believe in the usefulness of READYMADE NOTES. I don't think they will be of much use in upsc untill you personalise them according to your capability and demand.
Your aim for note making should be reducing your efforts, stand out from others in content and presentation and not reinventing the wheel.
The way I studied NCERT geography books.. Highlighting important facts, writing extra things you collect by googling (😊), drawing small diagrams... These small things will come handy while revising.
Hopefully it will help
Ps: i.never made any separate notes for either preli or mains
The way I studied NCERT geography books.. Highlighting important facts, writing extra things you collect by googling (😊), drawing small diagrams... These small things will come handy while revising.
Hopefully it will help
Ps: i.never made any separate notes for either preli or mains
In some cases, the blank space given beside the content can very well utilised in making small points.
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Temple Architecture and Sculpture, Chapter 6 of this book is one of the most important chapters. For mains, I made less than 2 pages notes out of this 30 pages chapter. Consider it as a template.
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Pages from my GS3 copy. I found this method of writing extra points very helpful especially for gs2 and gs4
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One of my essay copies. One can easily add case studies/facts/quotes in the margin space given
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Value addition/ checking one's own mains answers
1. As I have been telling always, i never made comprehensive notes. Like standard books, I did utilise the blank spaces in each of my mock tests for adding extra points.
2. After writing a test, the value addition could be done by writing down points/facts you missed in your answer. You could take help from any/all of the sources listed below...
2.1 Going through the basic source you already read before.
2.2 googling certain facts/events/articles/incidents
2.3 model answers given by the coaching institute
2.4. from toppers/others test copies of the same test
2.5 the feedback you received from coaching institutes
3. This test copies with value added material will become the most handy material for last moment revision before mains.
4. I am uploading few of the sample answers and value addition from EdSarrthi test copies. ( Link of all the tests I wrote in EdSarrthi is given already in this channel, please check the pinned messages)
Mayuri Mukherjee
IRS(IT), AIR 159 CSE 2020
Somehow, somewhere we start living in our dreams even without realising it..
(I made this for a poster presentation competition organised at my institute in 2018. just felt like sharing.)
Disclaimer: I only gave an online mock interview with civilsdaily. Can't really comment about their other programs.
https://youtu.be/siUkQBWovUM
A few things about CSAT paper that I did
1. Thankfully Csat was never been an issue for me. I never aimed at very good score but somehow managed to solve 40 42 questions in the exam hall.
2. I was always very skeptical about english comprehension passages. Therefore always tried not to attempt them as much as possible.
3. My entire focus was to solve arithmetics and logical reasoning (basically all other questions except csat) etc. As I was clear which ones to attempt, I could save some time by not reading most of the passages.
4. I had practiced last 5 years of upsc CSAT papers did nothing extra as I was getting around 100 in each.
For those who are not confident in maths
I believe in this case there is no other way than giving more importance to csat. You can only improve your maths skill by practicing.
Dedicating some hours to csat/maths every week and practicing one mock in 7/15 days must be there in your routine.
Though I never practiced csat from any books other than UPSC PYQs, the book wriitten by RS AGARWAL has a good name in this field.
spectrum few highlighted pages.pdf
Frankly speaking, there is not much extra thing that I did/could do for spectrum. For me it was one of the indispensable books that one need to read multiple times.
Summary at the end of each chapter and all the appendices are extremely important for quick revision.
(I suddenly remember)
Don't make the mistake of starting from the very first chapter everytime you are sitting for spectrum. I did maximum revision of 1939- 1947, a lot of events are there.
Next priority of items should be the tribal and peasant revolts, social reform movements, governor generals etc..
Sample notes for botany
I am reposting this file as requested by botany optional people. This could be used as a template for mains notes making.
I rarely made notes for botany. However, I have few notes from my bsc/msc days that are too much for upsc.
I preferred to read directly from the sources. I have mentioned the sources i used, rough botany answers, and botany optional preparation strategy in my earlier posts.
laxmikanth highlighted pages.pdf
Well, these pages are extremely messy and might frighten someone at the early stages of preparation. But laxmiknth is one of the few books that seriously needs countless times of revisions.
Ideally you should read it line by line but still, highlight the portions you tend to forgot easily.. try to identify the TRAPS hidden between the lines. I get those identified by making mistakes in prelims mock tests . (Vision and insights both preli mocks do wonderfully horrifying jobs of trapping students in the examples)
I never made separate notes for basic books like laxmikanth/ ncert/ spectrum etc. These books are already written in notes format.
The way I studied NCERT geography books.. Highlighting important facts, writing extra things you collect by googling (😊), drawing small diagrams... These small things will come handy while revising.
Hopefully it will help
Ps: i.never made any separate notes for either preli or mains
Being a full PhD scholar, I hardly get time to make holistic notes. I fully utilised the blank spaces given in any book.
These are few pages from.Tamil Nadu class 11 history textbook.
These might look messy, and I frequently used words in my mother tongue. (Writing difficult words in mother tongue helped to remember those better, you may also try)
Extra points that you come across can also be added in few places. Helps to prevent you from the need of referring multiple resources
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Temple Architecture and Sculpture, Chapter 6 of this book is one of the most important chapters. For mains, I made 2 pages notes out of this 30 pages chapter. This can be considered as a template for mains notes making.
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