Preparing for IAS Prelims
Step 1: Resolve the typical period you study day-to-day
To do this simply look at the duration you studied during a week, next divide that by seven. If you allot five or 6 days every week for IAS prep in that case divide by five or 6 as the instance might be. You should have a precise or approximate figure like 10 hours or 10-12 hrs each day.
Step 2: Establish the number of topics to study daily
As you’re aware there are solely two papers in the Prelims but inside both of them there are so many to cover like Indian history, Physical geography, and Mental Ability and so forth. Now I’m certain you can’t examine each and every one of them in a single day even if you dedicate just a little period of time to each. Some people do that, although I don’t assume it is a clever idea to try for ‘ prepare all’ technique. Instead you should take up two or three topics at most each day, finish it completely or a minimum of a significant portion of it after which swap to different ones. This is necessary as studying a topic in whole will provide you with confidence in your preparation, will enable you to tackle all of the questions in a specific segment fully, and help to observe your progress extra thoroughly. Keep in mind, studying newspapers or watching information programmes shouldn’t be included within this.
Step 3: Divide time between the different subjects
Till last year while you had to prepare one elective subject, I used to dedicate about 70-80 % time to the optional and balance to some part of GS. Obviously I read newspapers each day and didn’t reckon it within this time break up. However now that the two papers are GS centered you might opt for one topic each from Paper 1 and a couple of or go along with both subjects from the same paper or one from Paper 1 or Paper 2 and 2 from Paper 2 or Paper 1 correspondingly. When you have accomplished this, break up the whole time that you just determined in Step 1 between the topics you may be learning on a daily basis.
How to do that? Whereas there isn’t any one best methodology of doing this a simple approach is to devote extra time to that subject or part that you simply discover as a) tougher b) carries extra weightage when it comes to variety of questions asked c) has lots of subjects to deal with, that is, is quite substantial d) rather new as you may have just began with it.
The precise time to devote to each matter will differ from person to person. Also you can be slightly adaptable in this. For example, when you have devoted 3 hours to study History day by day and have covered a pretty good part of it you would possibly reduce the time dedicated to it by 30 minutes or 1 hr and allot this to some other subject that you study alongside Modern History, possibly Decision Making.
Step 4: Follow your routine
Now that you’ve got a day by day plan ready, stick with it like Bees stick with Honey. In any long term work plan scheduling is vital however much more important is sticking to the pledge you made to yourself. For those who committed to clearing the Civil services, persist with it. And for this you committed to devote certain quantity of hours daily and then you committed to review 1, 2, or 3 topics each day till you covered the topic in entirety. Keep on with it.
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