CSE 2022: Plan/ Strategy/ Daily Routine

Augustya_Shrivastavasaid

Augustya_Shrivastavasaid

Augustya_Shrivastavasaid

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Augustya_Shrivastavasaid

Ahh, home for the next one year. Hello fellow travelers. Good luck to you all. :')

Plan:

• show up everyday
• be honest
• leave the place better that what I came to

Targets for tomorrow Day#1

• The Hindu
• Setup the new mac (yayay)
• Integrate all the notes, indexes, etc into one place and sync up everything
• Finish 70 policies that shaped India
• 2 questions minimum to be written

"Time is what we want most, but we use worst."

Finishing off

Totally drained but a satisfying day.

Finished all the targets except writing questions (not fine but will let it slide)

Tomorrow will be the last day for reading fringe stuff like books on policies and skimming through committee reports for fun and a broader viewpoint. 

Day #2 targets:

• The Hindu
• Finish skimming a) 3 general policy documents b) 1 foreign policy document
• Write two questions before evening 

"Don't speak if it doesn't improve on silence."

ps- sharing a thought before I crash on my bed, which I realised earlier today-I flunked this year's prelims. I am coming off a fresh defeat. If I draw enthusiasm from that defeat, it will not be a "sustainable process" because the exam is over 7 months away. So I must draw the drive/enthusiasm to work hard from another place which is value positive. 

Good luck for tomorrow everyone. 🦖

Finished day's targets

Month end review:

• 3 part approach, a)before-pre b)after-pre c)after result
• a) felt everything was in control, targets were too fluid to be tangibly tracked 
• b) huge inertia to shift gears but gained a hold. Targets were 1)analysing pyqs 2)topper copies 3)round up sources for socio and gs 4)begin note-making. Finished first three, then prelims results happened and 4th got stuck.
• c) targets were to 1)settle in for the long game 2)gain a broader viewpoint into things policy-wise and philosophy-wise. More or less done.

Targets for November:

• 45 NCERTs (most have been done earlier or should be easily manageable)
• 15 MGP half-tests
• finish Socio notes skeleton
• finish G.S. notes skeleton
• no pressure for CA but bonus quest to command EPIC mags

Targets for tomorrow, day#3

• The Hindu            (2hr)
• Socio                    (3hr)
• D.K.Balaji ethics  (maximum damage possible, no pressure)
• 3 ncerts                (4hr)
• answer writing     (1/2)

"Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase."

Good luck for the new month everyone 🤺

Didn't do socio. 

Took time to figure out the hierarchy of sustainable note-making and where different information will be slotted.

Targets for day#4

• The Hindu (2h)
• Socio         (try to begin, no pressure)
• D.K. Balaji (try to wrap)
• 3 ncerts        (4h)
• answer writing (1/2)

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory."

Good luck for tomorrow peeps 🖖🏻

Spandanasaid

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Spandanasaid

Spandanasaid

31/10/2021

1) Newspaper

2) Finish World History

3) 2 CA classes

4) 2 Essay classes

1) Done 

2) Left with decolonization part ( took lot of time as I was studying after long gap)

3) Not done 

4) Done 

Targets for 01/11/2021 

1) Newspaper

2) World History - remaining part; 2PYQ's

3) Society - Family, Caste, women issues, urbanization, globalization, 2 PYQ's

4) Optional - Anthro - 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

5) Daily CA

Did all except Society

Targets for 02/11/2021

1) NP/CA (2)

2) Essay class 4 (1.5)

3) Optional - Anthro - 2.1, 2.2 (2+2)

4) Society (4)

Muffinsaid

2 November

Newspaper

Modern history notes (2/5)

Class 6 history ncert (2/3)

CA class (2 backlogs)

That's it!

Augustya_Shrivastavasaid

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Augustya_Shrivastavasaid

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Augustya_Shrivastavasaid

Ahh, home for the next one year. Hello fellow travelers. Good luck to you all. :')

Plan:

• show up everyday
• be honest
• leave the place better that what I came to

Targets for tomorrow Day#1

• The Hindu
• Setup the new mac (yayay)
• Integrate all the notes, indexes, etc into one place and sync up everything
• Finish 70 policies that shaped India
• 2 questions minimum to be written

"Time is what we want most, but we use worst."

Finishing off

Totally drained but a satisfying day.

Finished all the targets except writing questions (not fine but will let it slide)

Tomorrow will be the last day for reading fringe stuff like books on policies and skimming through committee reports for fun and a broader viewpoint. 

Day #2 targets:

• The Hindu
• Finish skimming a) 3 general policy documents b) 1 foreign policy document
• Write two questions before evening 

"Don't speak if it doesn't improve on silence."

ps- sharing a thought before I crash on my bed, which I realised earlier today-I flunked this year's prelims. I am coming off a fresh defeat. If I draw enthusiasm from that defeat, it will not be a "sustainable process" because the exam is over 7 months away. So I must draw the drive/enthusiasm to work hard from another place which is value positive. 

Good luck for tomorrow everyone. 🦖

Finished day's targets

Month end review:

• 3 part approach, a)before-pre b)after-pre c)after result
• a) felt everything was in control, targets were too fluid to be tangibly tracked 
• b) huge inertia to shift gears but gained a hold. Targets were 1)analysing pyqs 2)topper copies 3)round up sources for socio and gs 4)begin note-making. Finished first three, then prelims results happened and 4th got stuck.
• c) targets were to 1)settle in for the long game 2)gain a broader viewpoint into things policy-wise and philosophy-wise. More or less done.

Targets for November:

• 45 NCERTs (most have been done earlier or should be easily manageable)
• 15 MGP half-tests
• finish Socio notes skeleton
• finish G.S. notes skeleton
• no pressure for CA but bonus quest to command EPIC mags

Targets for tomorrow, day#3

• The Hindu            (2hr)
• Socio                    (3hr)
• D.K.Balaji ethics  (maximum damage possible, no pressure)
• 3 ncerts                (4hr)
• answer writing     (1/2)

"Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase."

Good luck for the new month everyone 🤺

Didn't do socio. 

Took time to figure out the hierarchy of sustainable note-making and where different information will be slotted.

Targets for day#4

• The Hindu (2h)
• Socio         (try to begin, no pressure)
• D.K. Balaji (try to wrap)
• 3 ncerts        (4h)
• answer writing (1/2)

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory."

Good luck for tomorrow peeps 🖖🏻

Finishing up

Couldn't finish D.K.Balaji, only did 2 ncerts. Rest done.

Targets for day#5~03/11/21

• The Hindu            (2 hr)
• 2 ncert                (3-4 hr)
• Socio                (gather momentum and deal with the finesse of a surgeon)
• Ethics                (tentative)
• Answer writing (2h)

from 'Letters to a Young Poet' by Rainer Maria Rilke

Augustya_Shrivastavasaid

Augustya_Shrivastavasaid

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Augustya_Shrivastavasaid

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Augustya_Shrivastavasaid

Ahh, home for the next one year. Hello fellow travelers. Good luck to you all. :')

Plan:

• show up everyday
• be honest
• leave the place better that what I came to

Targets for tomorrow Day#1

• The Hindu
• Setup the new mac (yayay)
• Integrate all the notes, indexes, etc into one place and sync up everything
• Finish 70 policies that shaped India
• 2 questions minimum to be written

"Time is what we want most, but we use worst."

Finishing off

Totally drained but a satisfying day.

Finished all the targets except writing questions (not fine but will let it slide)

Tomorrow will be the last day for reading fringe stuff like books on policies and skimming through committee reports for fun and a broader viewpoint. 

Day #2 targets:

• The Hindu
• Finish skimming a) 3 general policy documents b) 1 foreign policy document
• Write two questions before evening 

"Don't speak if it doesn't improve on silence."

ps- sharing a thought before I crash on my bed, which I realised earlier today-I flunked this year's prelims. I am coming off a fresh defeat. If I draw enthusiasm from that defeat, it will not be a "sustainable process" because the exam is over 7 months away. So I must draw the drive/enthusiasm to work hard from another place which is value positive. 

Good luck for tomorrow everyone. 🦖

Finished day's targets

Month end review:

• 3 part approach, a)before-pre b)after-pre c)after result
• a) felt everything was in control, targets were too fluid to be tangibly tracked 
• b) huge inertia to shift gears but gained a hold. Targets were 1)analysing pyqs 2)topper copies 3)round up sources for socio and gs 4)begin note-making. Finished first three, then prelims results happened and 4th got stuck.
• c) targets were to 1)settle in for the long game 2)gain a broader viewpoint into things policy-wise and philosophy-wise. More or less done.

Targets for November:

• 45 NCERTs (most have been done earlier or should be easily manageable)
• 15 MGP half-tests
• finish Socio notes skeleton
• finish G.S. notes skeleton
• no pressure for CA but bonus quest to command EPIC mags

Targets for tomorrow, day#3

• The Hindu            (2hr)
• Socio                    (3hr)
• D.K.Balaji ethics  (maximum damage possible, no pressure)
• 3 ncerts                (4hr)
• answer writing     (1/2)

"Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase."

Good luck for the new month everyone 🤺

Didn't do socio. 

Took time to figure out the hierarchy of sustainable note-making and where different information will be slotted.

Targets for day#4

• The Hindu (2h)
• Socio         (try to begin, no pressure)
• D.K. Balaji (try to wrap)
• 3 ncerts        (4h)
• answer writing (1/2)

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory."

Good luck for tomorrow peeps 🖖🏻

Finishing up

Couldn't finish D.K.Balaji, only did 2 ncerts. Rest done.

Targets for day#5~03/11/21

• The Hindu            (2 hr)
• 2 ncert                (3-4 hr)
• Socio                (gather momentum and deal with the finesse of a surgeon)
• Ethics                (tentative)
• Answer writing (2h)

from 'Letters to a Young Poet' by Rainer Maria Rilke

Stopping early today.

Hopped on the YPT train today. I'm a forest guy but the interface with the cumulative time and session time + you folks is better so I'm sold. See ya'll there from tomorrow :D

Didn't do answer writing today. Rest all done. 

Will take a break tomorrow maybe and watch cinema and eat stuff. 

It's a long and steep climb ahead.🚶🏻

Targets Day#6

• The Hindu
• The Coward, Ray '65
• Cleo from 5 to 7, Varda '62
• Night and Fog, Resnais '56
• Eraserhead, Lynch '77 (finally aaaa)
• The Stranger, Ray '91

Happy Diwali people 🪔 ❤️

DrishtiPointsaid

Hello people, 

Thanks to being kicked out by prelims, here I am. 

Can you please suggest a list of good non-fictional books? (Good reads + some utility wrt exam)? 

Serendipitysaid

Starting today
Target: 03.11.21

1. GS 2- topic 7,8

2. Optional- P2- PS1

3. CA- 1 class

4. Newspaper

Spandanasaid

Spandanasaid

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Spandanasaid

Spandanasaid

31/10/2021

1) Newspaper

2) Finish World History

3) 2 CA classes

4) 2 Essay classes

1) Done 

2) Left with decolonization part ( took lot of time as I was studying after long gap)

3) Not done 

4) Done 

Targets for 01/11/2021 

1) Newspaper

2) World History - remaining part; 2PYQ's

3) Society - Family, Caste, women issues, urbanization, globalization, 2 PYQ's

4) Optional - Anthro - 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

5) Daily CA

Did all except Society

Targets for 02/11/2021

1) NP/CA (2)

2) Essay class 4 (1.5)

3) Optional - Anthro - 2.1, 2.2 (2+2)

4) Society (4)

Anthro 2.2 - backlog 

Society - left with a lot of topics 

Targets for 03/11/2021

1) Newspaper, Daily CA 

2) Essay class 5 

3) Revise World History

4) Society - as far as u can 

5) Optional - 2.2, 2.3

Muffinsaid

Muffinsaid

2 November

Newspaper

Modern history notes (2/5)

Class 6 history ncert (2/3)

CA class (2 backlogs)

That's it!

Ok so I am shamelessly back ....quite late as well...

Didn't study anything properly yesterday... Neither today... atleast till now....

Newspaper was done

Didn't even touch modern history and ncert

CA class backlog increases to 3

Did few videos of world history (poor compensation for all the targets that I missed)

Thanks@Philosopher94 and@Jammu for nudging me on YPT! I promise to be competitive from tomorrow. 🙈

Today's target (for the day that remains)

Newspaper - done

CA class backlog (clear atleast 2)

Write atleast 2 answers of Modern History

Bus itna hi kar lu toh bahut hai..

mortysaid

Has anyone enrolled in Forum's Prelims test series? Can students download the question paper and do it in exam like conditions (hard copy)? This can help those practicing from home. I just want clarity on this before enrolling.