@Huntington They are decent. They can act as the basic material and since most of the topics are in one booklet, it makes revision easier. Also, the static coverage is good.
However, at some places it looks like they have just added points for the sake of it. I have seen only GS2 and GS3 notes. Don't know about the other two papers.
@Huntington if you are reading things for the first time it may seem so since they have tried to compress everything and therefore haven't included the background much. In GS2 I liked their governance section (because of example) and the case study part.
@Huntington it's already in note form. Notes can be made from it only after reading it 2-3 times when one can write only keywords and revise the entire thing.
@dwightschrute Hi.. I cleared prelims in 2018 and 2020 and failed in 2019. The reason I did not qualify in 2019 was because I failed to give prelims the respect it deserves. Prepared maybe for 2 months or so for prelims in 2019 and in that too did some mains reading.
In 2020 I corrected this approach and prepared for prelims for good 3 months.. while in the first month I did some mains portion for 2-3 hours everyday, the last 2 months were exclusively for prelims. Also because the exam was delayed in 2020, March and April was also devoted to prelims and hence I didn't feel the need to study for prelims exclusively for 3 months or more.. but for anyone who is writing prelims the first time or hasn't cleared pre in previous attempt, 5 months before exam one should start preparing for prelims with 3-3.5 months exclusively for prelims.
