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CSE 2021: Plan / Strategy / Daily Routine

Hello 2021 aspirants. I thought it would be nice if we can share what we are doing and intend to do with one another here.

This could be a thread for discussing everything prep for 2021. 

No one method fits all but to see the plans and progress made by fellow aspirants might help with the finer details of preparation and also keep one on track. 

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jack_Sparrow,rootand121 otherslike this
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Just gave my second prelims this year. Missed on CSAT in the first and might clear both this time. I want to share two things-
1- Please never ever compromise on newspapers and NCERT.
2- CSAT is getting tougher by the year. Those who rely only on RC, please do enough practise so that you do at least 25 questions from Quants and Reasoning(the remaining 50). 
All the best! I hope all goes well for me else I'll be a regular here too in a month's time! :P

What would you say to be followed for economy? 

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@adivasi Even I think economy wont be easy game. have you done any coaching? I haven't done so feeling scared. but now making 1 month plan to succeed. lets see where it takes me

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@adivasi Even I think economy wont be easy game. have you done any coaching? I haven't done so feeling scared. but now making 1 month plan to succeed. lets see where it takes me

Nup, no coaching

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@adivasi sailing in same boat. going to do mrunal and sriram. lets see. keep updating here. all the best
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Cool. Same to you buddy.
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@Always_confused which optional bro ...seems like geography :P


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@adivasi NCERTs+Sriram IAS book. There is a Telegram channel called economy by Vivek Singh. Follow it for daily updates and explainers. These are more than enough! 


IamThat,brook
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Vayusaid

@Always_confused which optional bro ...seems like geography :P


haha :-) 

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Anyone up here for updating daily hours/targets/progress? I am thinking to do this exercise for a short period of 7 days to see whether it brings any improvement in studies! 
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Me🤚
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Me🤚

Okay. Let's start then, and study to our best potential. Updating here I think will keep us disciplined and accountable, besides providing us a mechanism to remain connected to the fellow aspirants. 

IamThat,
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@Gaurav sure, will start posting schedule from tomorrow.. 


IamThat,Vayu
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@Gaurav sure, will start posting schedule from tomorrow.. 


Same here, from tomorrow. 

IamThat,Vayu
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From tomorrow guys ,surely
Gaurav,
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Which monthly current affairs magazine have you guys been following? Vision?
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Which monthly current affairs magazine have you guys been following? Vision?

I followed EPIC for the month of May, then went with vision. It has a bit easy language and topics are segregated into Subject wise sections.

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@adivasi 

I followed Vision for May and June and then switched to EPIC. The content is great for some articles, but it's poorly edited. Feel like switching back to Vision. 

brook,
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16th oct 2020

Daily targets

I'm following a 10 day cycle for each subject covering both prelims and mains. In between workdays, I'll do only revision. 

1) newspaperdone

2) 11-2pm - economy mains - 5 topics(frbm, local body resource mobilisation etc)done

3) 4-6pm - eco.survey & nitiayog new India0%

4) 6.30-7pm - yesterdays test check answers0%

5) 7.30-9pm - economy static book30% done

6) 10-11pm - daily Ca & answer writing(focus on content & presentation) done




Gaurav,IamThat
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@Gaurav @Vayu  guys, follow up on todays targets.. 

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Sorry for late

Today's target -

Slot 1 : Optional Notemaking -15 pages

Slot 2 : Optional Notemaking -10 Pages + Revision

Slot 3 : Newspaper + MCQs

Gaurav,Vinay12
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