General Studies Paper-1 for Mains Guidelines

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General Studies Mains

Mains ExamThe turning point of your future which decides the service to

you whether it is IAS, IPS, IFS, Group Aor Group B.

The Secret (or) Mantra to get on well in Mains is Smart Work. It how

smart you study and how smart you analyze and how smart you represent the

content while answering a question.

Preparation should be started by thinking in such a way that I Should Score

Good Marks in Mains so that My Name should be in the Final List without

including Interview Marks itself That Means If I Get 0 Marks in

Interview also with my mains marks itself my name should be in final list.

Target 1100+ Marks Out of 1750 in Mains. Writing Skills Play a prominent

role in getting more marks.

For Example we will have 25 questions on an average for each GS paper

which is of 3 hours duration, for that you should spend on an average of 7

minutes for each Question.

Smart Answer (worthy Content) of Just 80 to 100 Words for a question can

get good marks than just writing answer with 300 words and more than that.

While preparing for any topic Revision and writing the important content of

topic within time management is must, for suppose if you are read the Topic

Communismtoday, then after completion of that topics spend 10 minutes

to write about that topic. (Like Daily Challenge which improves your

Writing Skills)

Getting familiar with all the topics in the syllabus is most important thing

you have to do, so better to have the snap of contents or the file of syllabus

in your Tab or Smartphone so that you can get better idea.


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Maintaining Notes from Newspapers and Magazines (Editorials and Some

Important Topics) will be helping for exam and in some cases there is a

scope of Getting Direct Questions from them itself.

How Do I Manage Time For Mains Preparation?

There is so much to read. So many papers to complete, and so less time. I am

involved in a job, I am doing the study full time but there seems to be no time even

if I am putting more than 8 hrs a day! Does any of these sound familiar? Well I

guess you are in the right place then.

No wonder the UPSC is considered mother of all exams. There is so much to do,

so many challenges and such little time. And it is not just enough if you are good at

one thing, you have to be good at all. You are trying for the role of a generalist

arent you? You have to be good at all. The question definitely is how does one

tackle it and move further?

Familiarize

Identify the areas you have to prepare in. Identify the weightage,

marks each area fetches you. For example history might fetch you a little less

compared to polity. Or geography less than your optional. Go through the whole

syllabus, remember it by heart. Make a list, identify all the papers of the previous

years, check the trend. I do agree the exams are about variation but statistically the

variations will not be a great digression. Statistics are still a lot more believable in

many fronts.

PrioritizeOf course current affairs is a lot more exciting to read than the

optional. It seems like more fun talking about international affairs and involving

oneself in a debate. In an exam like this, with so many things to focus on, it
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becomes very easy to fixate on one thought and feel that it is the most productive

one. Sometimes being a little objective and looking at it from a distance in a

neutral fashion helps. It may still be a very interesting topic to spend time on, but

that is not what you arehere for. The question is what is the probability of that

fetching you the marks or the rank you want. The big question is still that which

would define your priorities.

OrganizeOnce you have identified the areas, the priorities, the next thought is

how much time you are going to allocate for this! Depending on the above two,

slot your day accordingly; keep changing the plan until you reach a comfort zone.

The same plan might not work for two different people. Come up with your own,

check if it works, monitor it constantly and see if it is taking you in the direction of

your bigger goal, which still is securing the highest mark.

OptimizeAgreed that you have done the above steps very efficiently but that is

something most of us do. In fact many are stuck at the first three levels and think

job well done. Well a plan is just to set things in order. Knowledge is an amazing

feeling but that alone never gets you results. It is the action! Work on your plan,

keep monitoring yourself and work on the feedback. Identify the times where your

concentration is at its peak and what subject deserves to be there. That defines your

interest level, the productivity and ease of readability.

ImproviseThe above set of rules sounds very fine but that alone is not going to

take you anywhere. Most smart people know the above and some of them even do

it. But that doesnt give you the edge. This is where your personality comes into

play. A constant improvisation on a daily basis takes you a long way. I dont mean


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to say that increase the number of every day! That is hogwash. In the end you just

have 24 hrs just like everyone else.

But that is the beauty of things, how can you improvise on a daily basis if not in

the form of time. Well that is the secret isnt it? Efficiency! Identify what aids the

process. If not time, what can you improve on?Concentration, writing skills,

retention skills, talking, interview. There is so much more you could do. Identify

how you can improvise on a daily basis, maintain a diary of things of what you did

each day to improvise, maybe you read an interesting article, maybe music that

helped intensify preparation, discussion with a friend, debates, mock answer

papers. Make quantifiable progress and a very regular one.Rome wasnt

built in a day, it was built brick by brick and so will be your

rank and the post

General Studies Paper-1)

General Studies Paper-1 Broadly Divided as:

i.

Indian Heritage and Culture

ii.

History (Indian & World)

iii.

Geography (Human and Physical )

iv. Society & Few other Topics

As Per Schedule of Group (Teamwork) GS Paper-1 Preparation (or) Coaching

will be done for One Month (on an average of one week will be spent for one topic

as mentioned above.) Here we go with detailed description of contents and how to

approach them step by step,


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I. Indian Culture :

The Contents to be covered in this Topic are Art Forms, Literature and

Architecturefrom Ancient to Modern.

For this NCERT (History) of VI, VII, VIII and XII (Themes of Indian

History) should be covered.

NIOS on Indian Culture (Understandable Easily Contents Wise)

After completing the above a Book Facets of Indian Culture coverthe

maximum syllabus of Indian Culture.

II.

Modern Indian History, Freedom Struggle, Post Independence

Consolidation and Reorganization within the Country:

The Different Subtopics from the above contents will be scheduled in precise

manner in Teamwork. The contents will be Divided based on the Books:

Comprehensive History of Modern IndiaSpectrum

Indias Struggle for IndependenceBipin Chandra

India After GandhiRamachandra Guha

III.

History of The World:

Events from 18thCentury such as Industrial Revolution, World Wars,

Colonization, Decolonization, Communism, Capitalism etc.,

These will be done according to schedule by Teamwork from the following

books:

History of the WorldArjun Dev (NCERT)

Old NCERT HistoryXth


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IV. Salient Features of Indian Society , Diversity of India, Effects of

Globalization in India:

These topics will be covered from the books:

Indian SocietyNCERT (XII)

Book on Indian Society by Ram Ahuja

V.

Geography (Physical & Human):

For Basics:

NCERT XI (Fundamentals of Physical Geography)

NCERT XII (Human Geography)

NCERT XII (Indian People and Economy)

After this sub-contents will be divided for Preparation in Teamwork from:

G.C.Leong

VI. Other Topics:

Some Other Important that will be covered in Teamwork Schedule:

Role of Women and Womens Organization

Population and Associated Issues

Poverty, Urbanization and Few Development Issues

Social Empowerment

Communalism, Regionalism & Secularism

The entire Syllabus of GS Paper-1 Will Be Covered in One Month and The

Schedule is Prepared in that Respective Manner. No Single Topic Will Be Missedfrom that Schedule and Our Team and you will be in a state that more than 80%

GS Paper-1 Contents will be Covered along with Perfect guidelines with in the

month when we startup with preparation .


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Books that will be Available in Group:

NCERT (VI to XII) History

Old NCERT History (Ancient, Medieval and Modern)

Arjun Dev NCERT

NIOS Indian Culture

Comprehensive History of Modern India Spectrum

Indias Struggle for Independence Bipin Chandra

India After Gandhi Ramachandra Guha

NCERT (VI to XII) Geography

G.C.Leong Geography

We will try to upload:

Indian Society Ram Ahuja

DontWorry about Schedule and the type of Guidance that we are going to

Give . . . .We will Try our Level Best to Provide Coaching as Like Manner of

Spoon Feeding.Have Faith in you and you are having TEAMWORK with

you, For Sure you will Get Succeed.

ll the Best


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General Studies Mains

Mains ExamThe turning point of your future which decides the service to

you whether it is IAS, IPS, IFS, Group Aor Group B.

The Secret (or) Mantra to get on well in Mains is Smart Work. It how

smart you study and how smart you analyze and how smart you represent the

content while answering a question.

Preparation should be started by thinking in such a way that I Should Score

Good Marks in Mains so that My Name should be in the Final List without

including Interview Marks itself That Means If I Get 0 Marks in

Interview also with my mains marks itself my name should be in final list.

Target 1100+ Marks Out of 1750 in Mains. Writing Skills Play a prominent

role in getting more marks.

For Example we will have 25 questions on an average for each GS paper

which is of 3 hours duration, for that you should spend on an average of 7

minutes for each Question.

Smart Answer (worthy Content) of Just 80 to 100 Words for a question can

get good marks than just writing answer with 300 words and more than that.

While preparing for any topic Revision and writing the important content of

topic within time management is must, for suppose if you are read the Topic

Communismtoday, then after completion of that topics spend 10 minutes

to write about that topic. (Like Daily Challenge which improves your

Writing Skills)

Getting familiar with all the topics in the syllabus is most important thing

you have to do, so better to have the snap of contents or the file of syllabus

in your Tab or Smartphone so that you can get better idea.


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Maintaining Notes from Newspapers and Magazines (Editorials and Some

Important Topics) will be helping for exam and in some cases there is a

scope of Getting Direct Questions from them itself.

How Do I Manage Time For Mains Preparation?

There is so much to read. So many papers to complete, and so less time. I am

involved in a job, I am doing the study full time but there seems to be no time even

if I am putting more than 8 hrs a day! Does any of these sound familiar? Well I

guess you are in the right place then.

No wonder the UPSC is considered mother of all exams. There is so much to do,

so many challenges and such little time. And it is not just enough if you are good at

one thing, you have to be good at all. You are trying for the role of a generalist

arent you? You have to be good at all. The question definitely is how does one

tackle it and move further?

Familiarize

Identify the areas you have to prepare in. Identify the weightage,

marks each area fetches you. For example history might fetch you a little less

compared to polity. Or geography less than your optional. Go through the whole

syllabus, remember it by heart. Make a list, identify all the papers of the previous

years, check the trend. I do agree the exams are about variation but statistically the

variations will not be a great digression. Statistics are still a lot more believable in

many fronts.

PrioritizeOf course current affairs is a lot more exciting to read than the

optional. It seems like more fun talking about international affairs and involving

oneself in a debate. In an exam like this, with so many things to focus on, it
http://insightsonindia.com/2013/08/11/how-do-i-manage-time-for-upsc-mains-preparation/http://insightsonindia.com/2013/08/11/how-do-i-manage-time-for-upsc-mains-preparation/


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becomes very easy to fixate on one thought and feel that it is the most productive

one. Sometimes being a little objective and looking at it from a distance in a

neutral fashion helps. It may still be a very interesting topic to spend time on, but

that is not what you arehere for. The question is what is the probability of that

fetching you the marks or the rank you want. The big question is still that which

would define your priorities.

OrganizeOnce you have identified the areas, the priorities, the next thought is

how much time you are going to allocate for this! Depending on the above two,

slot your day accordingly; keep changing the plan until you reach a comfort zone.

The same plan might not work for two different people. Come up with your own,

check if it works, monitor it constantly and see if it is taking you in the direction of

your bigger goal, which still is securing the highest mark.

OptimizeAgreed that you have done the above steps very efficiently but that is

something most of us do. In fact many are stuck at the first three levels and think

job well done. Well a plan is just to set things in order. Knowledge is an amazing

feeling but that alone never gets you results. It is the action! Work on your plan,

keep monitoring yourself and work on the feedback. Identify the times where your

concentration is at its peak and what subject deserves to be there. That defines your

interest level, the productivity and ease of readability.

ImproviseThe above set of rules sounds very fine but that alone is not going to

take you anywhere. Most smart people know the above and some of them even do

it. But that doesnt give you the edge. This is where your personality comes into

play. A constant improvisation on a daily basis takes you a long way. I dont mean


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to say that increase the number of every day! That is hogwash. In the end you just

have 24 hrs just like everyone else.

But that is the beauty of things, how can you improvise on a daily basis if not in

the form of time. Well that is the secret isnt it? Efficiency! Identify what aids the

process. If not time, what can you improve on?Concentration, writing skills,

retention skills, talking, interview. There is so much more you could do. Identify

how you can improvise on a daily basis, maintain a diary of things of what you did

each day to improvise, maybe you read an interesting article, maybe music that

helped intensify preparation, discussion with a friend, debates, mock answer

papers. Make quantifiable progress and a very regular one.Rome wasnt

built in a day, it was built brick by brick and so will be your

rank and the post

General Studies Paper-1)

General Studies Paper-1 Broadly Divided as:

i.

Indian Heritage and Culture

ii.

History (Indian & World)

iii.

Geography (Human and Physical )

iv. Society & Few other Topics

As Per Schedule of Group (Teamwork) GS Paper-1 Preparation (or) Coaching

will be done for One Month (on an average of one week will be spent for one topic

as mentioned above.) Here we go with detailed description of contents and how to

approach them step by step,


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I. Indian Culture :

The Contents to be covered in this Topic are Art Forms, Literature and

Architecturefrom Ancient to Modern.

For this NCERT (History) of VI, VII, VIII and XII (Themes of Indian

History) should be covered.

NIOS on Indian Culture (Understandable Easily Contents Wise)

After completing the above a Book Facets of Indian Culture coverthe

maximum syllabus of Indian Culture.

II.

Modern Indian History, Freedom Struggle, Post Independence

Consolidation and Reorganization within the Country:

The Different Subtopics from the above contents will be scheduled in precise

manner in Teamwork. The contents will be Divided based on the Books:

Comprehensive History of Modern IndiaSpectrum

Indias Struggle for IndependenceBipin Chandra

India After GandhiRamachandra Guha

III.

History of The World:

Events from 18thCentury such as Industrial Revolution, World Wars,

Colonization, Decolonization, Communism, Capitalism etc.,

These will be done according to schedule by Teamwork from the following

books:

History of the WorldArjun Dev (NCERT)

Old NCERT HistoryXth


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IV. Salient Features of Indian Society , Diversity of India, Effects of

Globalization in India:

These topics will be covered from the books:

Indian SocietyNCERT (XII)

Book on Indian Society by Ram Ahuja

V.

Geography (Physical & Human):

For Basics:

NCERT XI (Fundamentals of Physical Geography)

NCERT XII (Human Geography)

NCERT XII (Indian People and Economy)

After this sub-contents will be divided for Preparation in Teamwork from:

G.C.Leong

VI. Other Topics:

Some Other Important that will be covered in Teamwork Schedule:

Role of Women and Womens Organization

Population and Associated Issues

Poverty, Urbanization and Few Development Issues

Social Empowerment

Communalism, Regionalism & Secularism

The entire Syllabus of GS Paper-1 Will Be Covered in One Month and The

Schedule is Prepared in that Respective Manner. No Single Topic Will Be Missedfrom that Schedule and Our Team and you will be in a state that more than 80%

GS Paper-1 Contents will be Covered along with Perfect guidelines with in the

month when we startup with preparation .


14/14



Books that will be Available in Group:

NCERT (VI to XII) History

Old NCERT History (Ancient, Medieval and Modern)

Arjun Dev NCERT

NIOS Indian Culture

Comprehensive History of Modern India Spectrum

Indias Struggle for Independence Bipin Chandra

India After Gandhi Ramachandra Guha

NCERT (VI to XII) Geography

G.C.Leong Geography

We will try to upload:

Indian Society Ram Ahuja

DontWorry about Schedule and the type of Guidance that we are going to

Give . . . .We will Try our Level Best to Provide Coaching as Like Manner of

Spoon Feeding.Have Faith in you and you are having TEAMWORK with

you, For Sure you will Get Succeed.

ll the Best

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General Studies Paper-1 for Mains Guidelines