Strategy of One and Half Month before the IAS Preliminary Examination

There is approximately one and half month left for the UPSC Prelims. We believe and hope that your preparation is going on fine and at a very good pace. In earlier articles we have already given prelims booklist and how to prepare for the UPSC in general and Prelims in particular. As you must be understanding by now that this is the most crucial time for the studies of the UPSC prelims. Now is definitely the time to go into prelims mode fully. In this article we would like to tell you about the do's and dont's of the next one and half month.

First lets discuss few do's;

• Prepare a timeline till ten days before the prelims and stick to it by any means.
• As we keep on saying from time to time that go through previous year questions. If you have not gone through them till now, please go through now.
• It is becoming increasingly difficult to predict which part would be given more importance by the UPSC, so please make sure that you go through majority of the syl    labus. Exam pattern is increasingly varying so leaving any portion might be very risky.
• Although full syllabus completion is important, close to exam you can focus more on very important topics like environment and ecology.
• Some topics which should be covered with great efforts are Ecology, Polity, Modern History, Maping etc. They cover big portion of paper.
• Prepare current affairs from last September. If you have not prepared self notes go through daily or weekly current affairs from portal.
• Most important thing right now would be to do as many questions as possible. Take question paper from anywhere and look where you are making mistakes, try to eliminate them.

Now once you have done the necessary do's mentioned above, there are some dont's which you should not do at any cost. We are trying to mention a few;

• First of all don't panic by seeing he has done this or that. Prelims generally hit on basics so if you understand things there is good chance you will do well.
• Other very important thing which you should not do is to start new books which you have not even touched before. Small notes current affairs material is fine, but try not to study a new book. Revise only from the book you have already covered.
• Don't start developing doubts about your preparation. If you have done the preparation properly you will go through.
• Also avoid dreaming about exam day or something like that. It will not help in anyways.
• Try not to make notions about question to be solved based on last year cutoff. As cut-off vary highly year-on-year. So just focus on studies for now.
• Believe in yourself in this last mile of your preparation and your hard-work of the past months will make you successful. Try everything now to maximise your performance.

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