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    The document provides a 128-day study plan for UPSC Prelims 2024. It recommends going through question papers from the last 5 years and focusing on analytical thinking and current affairs. Students should prepare for each practice test and revise weak topics. It lists common sources used by recent toppers in various subjects. For those new to the civil services or not confident about Mains, the plan is to focus on Prelims for the next 90 days and cover remaining Mains after the exam. For confident students, the plan is to finish the entire Prelims syllabus 30 days before the exam and use the last month for revision.

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    The document provides a 128-day study plan for UPSC Prelims 2024. It recommends going through question papers from the last 5 years and focusing on analytical thinking and current affairs. Students should prepare for each practice test and revise weak topics. It lists common sources used by recent toppers in various subjects. For those new to the civil services or not confident about Mains, the plan is to focus on Prelims for the next 90 days and cover remaining Mains after the exam. For confident students, the plan is to finish the entire Prelims syllabus 30 days before the exam and use the last month for revision.

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    The document provides a 128-day study plan for UPSC Prelims 2024. It recommends going through question papers from the last 5 years and focusing on analytical thinking and current affairs. Students should prepare for each practice test and revise weak topics. It lists common sources used by recent toppers in various subjects. For those new to the civil services or not confident about Mains, the plan is to focus on Prelims for the next 90 days and cover remaining Mains after the exam. For confident students, the plan is to finish the entire Prelims syllabus 30 days before the exam and use the last month for revision.

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    Mudit Jain Blog <[email protected]> Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 3:38 PM


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    Prelims 4 Months Planner


    DecodeCIVILS - Mudit Jain
    Jan 19

    128 Days are left from today to UPSC CSE Prelims 2024. Here is how you can
    plan the remaining days and make best use of same:

    Common for All:

    Go through PYQPs of at least last 5 years. You will find that paper is
    more and more analytical and day to day awareness based than it used
    to be before. So, prepare accordingly. This means that newspaper
    reading is must. Coachings may or may not focus on analytical or
    conceptual aspects in their ready-made current affairs notes and this
    has been a very common factor of undoing in prelims for those who
    solely relied upon coaching material.

    Merely attempting tests won’t do any good. Prepare for each test and
    make notes of questions you found tough/wrong so that you can revise
    those questions/pointers at least 2-3 times.

    Follow basic sources only. I understand and I am very well aware that
    pattern is dynamic and ever-changing. One year, UPSC asks questions
    from a book and next year it asks questions from another book. That
    does not mean that you will buy and read all those books. It is not
    possible. Even if you read multiple sources, you won’t have time to revise
    them and won’t remember a thing. Following is list of sources followed
    by 152 candidates who cleared Prelims 2023. These are the latest tried
    and tested sources:

    Modern History:Spectrum, NCERT 12th, NCERT 11th, Bipin Chandra & Ghatna
    Chakra.

    Art & Culture:Nitin Singhania Book, NCERT 11th, TN Board Book & Nitin
    Singhania Notes.

    Ancient-Medieval:TN board Book, NCERT 11th RS Sharma, NCERT 11th Satish


    Chandra, Lucent, Vajiram Yellow Book (Ancient + Medieval), Poonam Dalal &
    Ghatna Chakra.

    Polity:Laxmikanth, NCERT & Bare Act.

    Economy: Budget (Only Summary), Economic Survey (Only Summary), Mrunal


    Notes, Mrunal Lectures, Vivek Singh, Vajiram Notes, Ramesh Singh & Sriram
    IAS Book.

    Environment: Vision IAS Current Affairs, Shankar IAS Book, PMF IAS, Biology
    NCERT, Google, Shivin Chaudhary Course on EdSarrthi & Sunya Current Affairs.

    Geography:11th & 12th NCERTs, Atlas, GC Leong, PMF IAS, 11th NCERT (Not
    12th), Rajtanil Solanki Lecture Videos & Sudarshan Gujjar Lecture Videos.

    Science & Technology: Vision IAS Current Affairs, Biology NCERT, Shivin
    Chaudhary Course on EdSarrthi, Sunya Current Affairs & Lucent.

    Current Affairs: Newspaper + Coaching Magazine (60.5%), Only Coaching


    Magazine (30.3%) & Only Newspaper (9.2%)

    Which Magazine: Vision PT365, Vision Monthly, Sunya & Insight IAS

    128 days are not enough to be making fresh notes from scratch. Yet, for
    topics that you find difficult to understand / memorize / grasp, you
    should make pointed notes. We tend to remember better when we write!

    Further, revising content multiple times is more important and if notes


    are handy then doing so becomes easy.
    Make timetable and divide leftover days as per what suits you the best
    from below scenarios.

    For those who are first timers or not confident about Mains:

    Ideally, last 5 months should be completely dedicated to prelims


    preparation. This is what is the general accepted trend or norm since at
    least last 10 years.

    However, if you have not completed Mains GS or/and Optional paper


    then it will be very tough to complete entire Mains GS and Optional after
    prelims. So, first try to dedicate time to both Prelims and Optional and
    once Optional is complete, dedicate time to Prelims and Mains GS. In
    any case and in my personal view, you cannot stretch mains preparation
    beyond next 38 days as at least 90 days dedicated preparation is must
    for prelims. Any portion of Mains that will be left beyond next 38 days
    should be covered after Prelims exam only.

    Join here for free guidance from Mudit Jain, IRS CSE-17 (IPS CSE-14 &
    15), Author of Decode Civils – Philosophical Essay Writing, Decode
    GS2, Decode Ethics 4.0 & Decode History Books
    Ethics book referred by CSE 22 Toppers: AIR –76, 91, 176, 189, 249, 288,
    297, 299, 326, 356, 476, 541, 611, 616, 700, 737, 739, 746 & others
    History book referred by CSE 21 Toppers: AIR – 44, 212, 572, 653 &
    others
    Sample PDFs of Books: Decode Civils – Philosophical Essay
    Writing, Decode Ethics 4th Edition, Decode GS2 & Decode History
    Slideshow of References from Decode Ethics 4th Edition of 9 out of 13
    Section-A Questions of 2023 CSE Ethics Paper:
    2-3 Mains answers can be practiced on daily basis even beyond next 38
    days as it hardly takes any time and will be very fruitful after Prelims.

    Ideally, one should practice about 35-40 tests, including both sectional
    and FLTs. But, if you are dedicating only the last 90-100 days for Prelims
    then it will be difficult to solve as many tests and you have to devise a
    way to solve at least 30 tests i.e. 1 test every 3rd day.

    If you are confident about Mains preparation then you can dedicatedly
    prepare for Prelims in manner as under:

    For those who are confident about Mains or have cleared Mains in the past or
    are done with majority of Mains syllabus:

    This lot of Aspirants is sailing in much calmer waters compared to


    above ones and can better structure their Prelims preparation.

    My suggestion is to try to finish entire prelims syllabus 30 days in


    advance i.e. in next 98 days.
    This will allow you to revise entire course twice in last 30 days i.e. in
    batch of 15-15 or 20-10 days.

    Make a timetable for next 98 days for structured preparation.

    Start with topics that you like or are comfortable with and then move to
    tougher ones.

    Formally joining a test series is not important or necessary for Prelims


    as tests are readily available for free on various platforms. What is
    important is to prepare for each test, go through each and every topic of
    concerned syllabus/subject and then only attempt a test. Scoring
    without preparing will only boost fake confidence and won’t help at all.

    128 days à 1 test every 3rd day = at least 40 tests.

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