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Psychology Optional


My strategy is more or less the same, I will be completing the syllabus by July end, so probably will solve PYQs in August and September. 

I am not making any notes as such, I just copy paste short questions at the back of each chapter and key words given in the text to Super Memo software and study in that only 

So far, the results have been good!

Probably from August, we can start sharing our answers to PYQs in this thread!


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In quora, there's a person named Dinesh Yadav. He scored around 311 in psychology optional and wrote a very answer for psychology optional strategy. Do read it if you get time. 

There's a pdf of the same, but I am not able to find it in my desktop right now. 

Just google - Dinesh Yadav + Psychology Optional + UPSC

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@GaryVee That would be a good idea!!


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@shubham543 You can skip NCERT and read Baron directly. May be once you complete Baron, you can have a look at NCERT.


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@PSY Both are good. Few chapters are explained well in Cicarelli and few in Baron. We can cover both the books


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No dude. Didn’t clear 

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Congrats! I am also IN. :grin:

Congratulations.. 😀

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Congratulations.  Sorry was busy with office work.. didn’t check forum..

Well. I’m not sure really what’s ahead.. missed 2019 prelims by 2 marks and now might be in the same range

Probably need to sit down and  introspect where I’m going wrong.. 

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