Naman Goyal (AIR 30, Geography)

Gamini Singla, rank 3 in UPSC CSE 2021 has written a book sharing her mental preparation for the exam and her strategies. A must read for all the aspirants. Pre order from the link below https://tinyurl.com/UPSCGaminiSingla

Hello All, 👆Above is the "Mains - 22 - Geography Optional Important Themes & Expected Questions from Current Affairs" Document. 👉Kindly go through the Document & Brainstorm these Themes during your break period post your GS Papers. Thanks Himanshu Sir & Team. Share & Join: @himanshu_Sir_1

👆The above document is having 110 Important Places in News for the Map Entry Question for Paper 2 of Geography Optional. 🧨Note: Don't forget to revise your Static Map Entries. It will also be equally important for the GS students - 2023 👉Join: @himanshu_Sir_1

You can use this to supplement your revision for the upcoming optional papers. However, focus should be more on revising than reading new contents.

Best wishes to all the aspirants giving Mains tomorrow. For the next 10 days, give your best. You might not feel fully prepared but this is very normal at this time. Go with full confidence and a smile on your face. At the same time, take sufficient time to travel to the exam centre. Eat healthy and easy to digest food. Take adequate sleep. Stick to the strategy you have developed to attempt the paper. Be mindful of time and space management during exam. Revise the short notes and only very important materials like facts, schemes, committees, articles which you tend to forget. The foremost thing is to control the anxiety and give the papers like any other mock paper. You will do wonders with a calm mind. Again, all the best for the exams. May you all shine like the brightest stars.

These terms are specific to geography optional and come very handy to make any general answer to a geography optional answer. Make sure you are writing these terms in your answer at appropriate places to make your answer geographical.

With few weeks left for Mains exam, revision should be in full swing. One must align revisions with the mock tests. For instance, make a plan to cover all the portion of GS1 and GS 2 in the next 5 days and give full length tests on day 6. One can also begin with simulations of the real exam. For this, give yourself 7-10 days to complete revision of all GS papers and attempt all the 4 papers in the same time schedule as the actual mains in 2 days. This will improve your endurance and make it easier to complete the actual exam. Similarly, do revisions of optionals. Also, in the last few days, making short notes becomes very important for quick revisions just before exam. You can make 4-5 pages of short notes of major subjects and only include things that you don’t remember well like facts, diagrams, terminologies, definitions etc. Make them very concise. I have included a sample short notes of optional for reference.

These notes in Science and technology are very comprehensive and I have used previous years topper's notes to compile them. They can be directly used to cover the topics in great detail

Posting here some of my notes which I could not post earlier due to different constraints.

Reminder for the session at 4PM. It will deal mostly with the preparation strategy for GS 4 Ethics paper.

Interested students can join at 4PM on 30th July

Hey folks!! We will continue our interaction with the toppers. For Saturday's interaction we have Naman Goyal Sir (AIR 30, CSE 2021) presenting his strategy plus trials and tribulations with UPSC. This is the link for the same. https://t.me/PaperCrux?livestream=cda493fb114be52c6e Telegram Channel : https://t.me/PaperCrux

You can extract some of the examples, stories and anecdotes from these notes

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