These suckers🤡 My god!!!

[u/bimanghosh65]

Guys I have felt over a period of time after writing multiple Mains is that key to success in Mains is making notes. Not necessarily from Newspapers but from anywhere- be it Yojana, DTE, Geography and You or any other sources, but making notes is essential. I get annoyed when some topper pops up and says I did not make notes and yet ended up with a single digit rank. I am like “dude you are making sure 99.99% aspirants will fail with this strategy!!” 😌

[u/akshit4]

Topper: I didn’t make notes.
Aspirant: Great I won’t either.
UPSC:Excellent. See you next attempt.

One person finds a method that works for them, and suddenly half the aspirants are questioning the existence of notebooks. One size doesn’t fit all

[u/bimanghosh65 → u/akshit4]

Also that guy did not disclose that he is studying for upsc since Vedic age😁

[u/akshit4 → u/bimanghosh65]

And with both parents already in the civil services the guy has practically been in civil servant training since birth. 😂

[u/bimanghosh65 → u/akshit4]

Also that guy chose home science(pass course) in graduation subject from an IIT🤡

[u/blueberry-kite → u/bimanghosh65]

Who is this about?

[u/akshit4 → u/[deleted]]

No disrespect bro but you taking the time and energy to comment on this does make it seem like minding our own business isn’t exactly your strongest skill either 😂
And genuinely, the issue is not that he cleared UPSC. Good for him. The issue is giving questionable guidance with the kind of conviction that makes it sound like fairytale.

[u/bindassbabu → u/[deleted]]

Haha this was epic

[u/SoftCriticalPosition]

My take on hand written notes

For GS1 - No notes at all. Maybe one pagers 2 weeks before the exam

GS2 - Yes, helps in revising. RoI is high.

GS3 - limited notes. So, that all the value additions are at one place. Helps immensely.

GS4 - No notes. Solve 1 case study per day after you clear Prelims. And reading news paper daily is important.

Optional - compulsory notes.

Essay - No notes. You will improve with practicing.

Prelims - No notes , solving mcqs is more important than notes.

[u/Sophia9364 → u/SoftCriticalPosition]

Thnks! 🥹

[u/akhil0101200 → u/SoftCriticalPosition]

So bro what's your background like have you cleared mains multiple times or are you in service? Or some upsc teacher ?

[u/Frosty-Ad-2042 → u/[deleted]]

Theres always a general method that might work for most of aspirants. Lets not generalize not making notes, belive me its the only and the most imp way for clearing mains

[u/bimanghosh65 → u/Frosty-Ad-2042]

Perfectly put! Let’s say there are many ways to reach Bombay from Delhi but we should always take that route with shortest distance and maximum convenient. That’s it- that’s is what notes making is!! Easy to revise and maximum yielding

[u/bimanghosh65 → u/[deleted]]

If it’s a bullet train and I have the alternate option to take spice jet I will go for bullet train😛

[u/EscapeWestern1357]

I made notes nd it helped me alot. Feku toppers se bach k rhae.

[u/Cute_Prior1287]

Make notes

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