The Road less taken-by Archana Kumari (AIR 110, CSE 2020)

This post will walk you through my strategy for General Studies papers, key points to make notes with mains perspective and the exam day mindset which helped me fetch good marks in them.  I would like to mention that in this process, like every other aspirant, I also watched several topper talks, read blogs and glanced some topper notes. In particular, I referred to notes of Kanishak Kataria Sir (Rank 1, CSE 2018) and Varnit Negi Sir (Rank 13, CSE 2018) to understand note making for better revision before exam.  DAY 2 has two papers General Studies III and General Studies IV, three hours each. This was the third day of exam after the Essay, GS I and GSII papers. The night before was a real struggle to keep myself awake and revise for GS III, GS IV. In the morning I was tired and somewhat sleep deprived too as I could only manage to sleep for 4 hours (6 hours is the least I needed 😛). The day passed quickly writing the two papers and I walked happily from the exam centre for a...

This post will walk you through my strategy for General Studies papers, key points to make notes with mains perspective and the exam day mindset which helped me fetch good marks in them.  I would like to mention that in this process, like every other aspirant, I also watched several topper talks, read blogs and glanced some topper notes. In particular, I referred to notes of Kanishak Kataria Sir (Rank 1, CSE 2018) and Varnit Negi Sir (Rank 13, CSE 2018) to understand note making for better revision before exam.  DAY 1 has two papers General Studies I and General Studies II, three hours each. All in all, the day gets tiring and exhausting after continuous thinking and writing. That is where you need to be little more patient and strong for another day. And believe me, the experience is worth it! General Studies I One extremely good thing about CSE mains is that there is a detailed syllabus to guide us unlike prelims where everything under the Sun seems to be coming. So I starte...