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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
A write-up long (literally, too) overdue from my side. Tried to answer most of the frequently asked questions about UPSC CSE preparation. Providing a separate index for easy navigation.
With best wishes..
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12KEkUyDN5o8ZQtyw2NL4g0nmERPAoosT/view?usp=drivesdk
vision ias gs1 26.10.20.pdf
This is probably the very first full length mock I wrote ever. One can easily see, i tried to complete each sentences here which I stopped to do in my later mocks.
Botany Optional Preparation for UPSC CSE : Basic strategy,
Topic wise approach and Booklist
Hopefully it will help
philosophy of constitution and random facts ncert 678.pdf
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Constitutional Development Spectrum and Laxmikanth.pdf
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Share ur Interview/Personality Test Transcript(CSE/IFOS) of 2020 session that you find ANYWHERE at the profile id @Yo_Yo_Choti_Singh or @kaptaanjacksparrow @aaykarvibhag @phukman @patriot_saint. Join @csp20info for insider info
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"It is ok to try and fail than to have not tried at all." I consider myself fortunate enough for getting a chance to listen Suhas Yathiraj Sir's words in this talk live. A truly inspiring person.
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Few suggestions from my side for time management (might help.working aspirants)
The most important thing as per me is developing the right mindset. Contrary to popular belief, DON'T IGNORE YOUR WORK and never try to snatch times during office hours for upsc that one shouldn't.
We should RESPECT THE JOB that has allowed us to be financially empowered. We must remember that we are aspiring for serving the nation and have to write an entire paper on Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude.
Integrity and honesty are two core essential values of any civil servant.
If someone's work ethics is being compromised, that is not something expected at all from any future bureaucrat.
In addition to this, the GUILT feeling one develops by not doing their work properly won't let them actually concentrate in study nor help their professional growth in long run.
I am just sharing few things I did to utiLise maximum time that I had..Please focus on RoI (Return on Investment)
Suggestions from my side
1. Try to stay at a place near to your workplace so that you can save time. (I used to stay at a place that was at a walking distance of 15 20 minutes from my lab.)
2. I didn't make any notes from newspaper or standard books. Neither i have to devote much time to optional (thankful to my background not everyone had that luxury).
3. I always preferred full length tests over sectional ones. Rarely did daily answer writing practice.
4. Listening light youtube lectures (mostly rstv or strategy lectures) during lunch time. Not much useful though.
5. Skipping basic ncerts from 6 to 10 . Basically limiting the sources. Never read old ncerts, Ramesh Singh, DD Basu, Bipan Chandra, Norman Lowe etc.
6. I followed 1 news paper ( IE ~ 1 hour per day) and 1 monthly magazine. Raus daily news analysis only if some detailing is needed in economy and polity part.
Don't spend unnecessary time watching youtube videos on daily news that have very poor RoI.
7. Weekdays I spend around 10 hours in lab. Had only 4 4.5 hour to study. 1 hour in newspaper reading and rest in GS + optional.During weekends, my whole day was spent in CSSC for attending lectures.
8. I managed 1 month leave (sept 2020) before prelims and 1.5 month leave before mains in this year's attempt (my PhD fellowship got over by this time so had no issues taking leave). In April and May 2020, the 1st phase complete lockdown also gave me good amount of study time. In these days I have studied an average of 10 to 12 hours per day.
9. I practically was on no holiday no weekends no leave since 2019. I never took long break from lab for travelling in last 6 years. Neither had much time left for social or personal life/hang outs/movies/functions. Had gone through multiple failures/ extreme depression/ inferiority complexes/ demotivation/dissatisfaction.
All the sacrifices were worth it
However, these are part and parcel of any upsc aspirants life. I am blessed to have very supportive parents, supervisor and very few good friends.
PhD life also taught me to be patient and to keep doing hardwork without any immediate result.
The diversity of upsc syllabus never made me feel bored. And I had my lab as a place of stress reliever from too much study for upsc and vice versa. When I look back, I found the journey beautiful.
The too specialised research and the vast generic preparation together with their stark contrasting nature somehow made me sail through all these years. I am thankful that I could submit my thesis and finally able to secure a good rank in the holy pdf.
PS: I felt my supervisor deserved a special mention here. Without her support i could never be able to manage both phd and upsc. Had it been any other lab, in 90% cases i had to leave phd in between. The way she supported my decision despite knowing she is losing a trained researcher is unparallel.
It says upsc is all about 99% hard work and 1% luck. I fortunately had that 1% share with me.
Mayuri Mukherjee
This is the data set which I had created from newspapers. It is organised themewise.Earlier one was topicwise.
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Sarrthi | Home
https://www.sarrthi.com/toppers-answers.php
With Sarrthi, I wrote 5 full length tests. One each for four GS and one essay. Copies could be found in this link.
I took 12 Full length test series of vision IAS after prelims 2020 and wrote 10 ( 3 each for GS 1,3,4 and 1 GS2) out of them. Uploaded all of them here.
I found the evaluation too generic, my scores varied from anywhere between 85 to 110. However, as most of the people who clear prelims wrote tests in vision, one can get an idea about the competition very well.
I don't have the evaluated copies with me as I didnt downloaded it back from their portal.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_dnVQIMXFxM9muTOOswLas9YM9wOgfto
These are few of my lectures I took last year for CSIR NET aspirants. (Medium english and bengali). Though with lot of imperfections but will give a sense of depth required.
For UPSC, intricate detailing of genes involved in pathway regulations could be skipped.
After attending the Foundation Course at LBSNAA, Mussorrie, I took EOL (Extra Ordinary Leave) and appeared for prelims 2022. However, I couldn't clear it. Though this messege should be posted a couple of weeks earlier, it took me some time to overcome the hesitation.
Sharing few short notes that I made in these two months with a hope that it might help some way or the other.
My UPSC journey ended here. My journey as a civil servant is yet to begin.
I am grateful to the learnings. Accepting all my successes and failures with equal humbleness.
Dr. Mayuri Mukherjee, IRS
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This quote is framed at the front wall of Tagore hall, LBSNAA.. (I am yet to find the exact source and original bengali version of it)
Thanks to Mr. Rahaman for mentioning the source.
With my limited knowledge, I feel this is kept in front of academy classroom is for the gradual realisation of the immense responsibility that is put on the shoulders of the trainee civil servants. One can definitely argue, but other than politics and medicine there are very few professions that give one the opportunity to create a difference of such scale.
Though many of you must have heard of Yo_yo_choti_singh, I am.sharing link of his channel. This has a large community and gives most comprehensive information and interview transcripts at single place. For people preparing from.home or outside delhi with no or small peer.groups, the kind of help such a community channel does is unbelievable..
Personally I know him as we are doing FC together, so can tell it with huge confidence that he is one of the rare persons who really does what he says.
PS: okay, from the very first comment it seems his effort need to.be shared with more details. Yo_Yo_Choti_Singh could be credited for crating the first ever telegram channel for sharing UPSC related information among aspirants who don't have the access/ affordability. More than thousand people share their interview transcripts in the channel every year.
I am.grateful for the immense help the channel does.
Presently he is an IAS officer and still continuing the pain taking efforts tirelessly.
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I have received few queries on why upsc while doing phd. I came across it as a search for available career alternatives. And gradually developed a commitment towards it.
The journalist of this article asked me the similar questions, so I thought of putting it here.
UPSC civil service is probably one of the rare exams in India which gave a level playing platform to everyone, even to those who start late(like me) for whatever reason it may be.🙂
Please think twice
A general observation
95% of the comments I found below each of my posts are very generic in nature and/or had already been answered by me in the same platform multiple times.
There is a very serious concern. What made me highlight this (i could easily ignore) apparently trivial looking issue is that..
This shows how casual we are in our approach while preparing for one of the most competitive exams of this country.
1.We are not ready to go through previous posts containing all the data and information.
2.We are not ready to find the answer by ourselves rather we keep waiting when someone will come and find the answer for us.
3.We are not ready to do the hard work by ourselves and expect any ready-made material/coaching institute notes can sail us through.
4. We don't try to understand the violation of intellectual property rights/copyright issues involved.
5. We never go through more than 100 pages long UPSC notification and ask questions like can we write mains in regional languages? Can we give interview in my mother tongue?
This post is not to humiliate or to hurt anyone rather to make you realise are you doing things correctly?
Are you aware of the depth and seriousness needed in the posts you are aspiring for?
Are you doing enough hardwork in your own style to compete with 10lakhs aspirants?
ARE YOU PREPARING YOURSELF to be the future bureaucrat who will have to make all the critical decisions then and there by herself/himself with the limited resource and information she/he had?
No topper, no coaching, no material can make you a civil servant. You have to be one by yourself!
DREAMS DON'T WORK, YOU DO !!
A very well organised data sets for those who are writing mains. Compiled by Pulkit Singh (AIR 26, CSE 2020).
Could directly be used for intro/conclusions.
Vision IAS also releases an excellent compilation of facts/data/cases few days before mains exam. Please use that too.
PS : I can't share the prepared intro and conclusions given by EdSarrthi as it will be violation of copyright. You can find many in my test copies though.