Simplifying UPSC IAS Preparation
Hey guys, it is a momentous day and I remember that a couple of our friends had asked me to make a post on ways to maintain momentum. I was thinking how I would start a post and then realized, what better than the amazing feat that has been achieved by Mary Kom today, our …
……………………………. Well guys! This is it! The wait is over and the D day is close by! How are you feeling? Excited? Tensed? Enthused? Ready to take over? Getting ready for the win? I am sure it is a concoct of all these emotions and I am also sure that it is going to be …
…………………………………. Well, just another week left and it is going to come down to this now. There is so much you have gone through in the past one year of preparations, so many new things you have learnt and so many of them you have unlearnt. Both of them have played a significant role in …
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……………………………………… If my thinking is right, this is where most of you stand now, steps closer to your dreams. The first actual step starts now and it is a complete reality. Till now, we motivated and pushed you and you guys have done a fantastic job at keeping yourself in the process. In other words …
……………………………. Freedom is in the air, the sense of independence, the sense of being on our own. Years ago, we proved as a nation that we are self sufficient and we are capable of handling ourselves. Our achievements have spoken for what we are as a country, as a young democracy the accolades have been …
……………….. Yes! You are going to ace this, you are going to win it this time, you are going to succeed, you are going to crack the exam and make one hell of a difference and you are going to reach your goal. I can hear some of you thinking- And why is that? What …
…………………………… Well! As the exams dawn upon you, there are various pressures that are running around you. And we categorize them into two Internal Pressure External Pressure Both of them have a very strong role to play and esp when the time is at its crunch, you can feel them get stronger as well. Few …
……………………………………. With less than two weeks to go, it all comes down to this now – how you maintain the state of your mind. You have done the hard work, you have faced the challenges in your journey and now you are all set to take the exams head on. I am sure there are …
………………….. With an examination having syllabus so wide and so many things to read and write, there are a lot of things that puzzle us, make us question ourselves. Many a time it feels that this exam is an easy one and a direct one and nothing should come in your way of achieving it. …
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…………………………. It is a pretty tricky situation about strategies and the way to approach a multiple choice question paper. There is never a right way and esp if you are a perfectionist, you are in for a whole load of challenges cos most of the answers or the questions don’t seem to be direct and …
…………………………….. This is perhaps something very common we feel during the exams, esp when the dates are near. You guys have read so much over the last one year and it all comes down to this and it is very natural to be in a phase where you try and revise everything you have read …
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…………………………… Yup! You heard me right, I did say that only you can do it! Well I don’t mean to say only you can clear the exam and no one else. But yeah I did mean to say that only you can clear the exam for yourself and no one else :). The time is …
……………………………… Your beliefs have always played a very strong role in your mindset for the exams or for any other achievement in that matter. Esp when the crunch time strikes, there are a plenty of thoughts on our minds and we wonder what thought to listen to strongly. – FEAR The first and foremost thought …
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…………………….. Today we are going to talk about the things that hold us back, as a suggestion from Jayasimha. I understand that we all have our distractions, for some it is TV, for some it is friends, for some it is fear and for some it is just staring at the wall. Whatever it is, …
…………….. “Self Confidence is nothing more than the memory of Success”. The inspiration for this post is a suggestion from Mohita. I am sure you would have heard of the famous quotes, some of which I have talked about earlier as well. “If you think you can do it or if you think you can’t, …
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……………………………………. Have you ever felt this? Well if you are quite worried about the exams, people around you pressurizing you that you should do it no matter what, that you should be able to give the results they expect, if you are bound by the rules of your peers, people around you and your own …
……………………… How many times have you told this to yourself? I WILL DO IT TOMORROW? And if the question is why? Well the answers are very varied. Here are few of the reasons we give ourselves when we procrastinate: 1) There will be more time tomorrow 2) It will be a lot easier tomorrow than …
…………………………………… I do understand that there are a lot of things bugging you right now. Apart from the vast GS paper, the recent challenge about the pattern being changed or not or the CSAT paper which is posing new challenges over and over again. It almost feels that it is unfair to go through all …
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………………………… I am sure enough has been talked about the postponement of exams, why some sections would be more difficult for some people over the others, why some people are at advantage compared to other and so on. And there is a always that doubt and uncertainty as to how to handle this and what …
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……………………….. A lot has been questioned about the UPSC pattern these days and there seems to be a looming open question as to whether the exams would be postponed or not. Some say it should be and some say it shouldn’t. However that is not something we are going to debate about today. Let us …
