 My very educated mother just served me 9 pizzas. Does this sentence ring a bell in your heads? See, this is a popular way to remember the 9 planets. Starting from Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, then we have Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and of course Pluto. A technique to remember the 9 planets that were. So what is this technique? Basically this technique is mnemonics. So how far a mnemonic can be helpful in the UPSC preparation? See, a mnemonic is a powerful memory tool. You can actually compress a lot of information, a lot of raw information and put it in your brains and you can carry them to the exam hall and mnemonics can be rightly helpful for that. Say, if you have a difficult subject, Fermi history has always been a nightmare. So I had a lot of mnemonics for history. See, consider the 3 Rathnas of Jains. So always when I think about 3 Rathnas, I always thought about 6 C. Because it's said about right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. And let's consider something else. Say the first Anglo-Maratha war. Between whom was it fought? That's a famous preliminary area. So that was fought between men versus Hyderaly. So men versus Hyderaly is what? Marathas, English and the Nizams. So yes, mnemonics is a very good tool to remember a lot of things but it comes with a small warning. So let us see, this is fought between men versus Hyderaly. So the M stands for Marathas, E stands for English, fair enough and N stands for Nawabs. So if at all you are going to say N stands for Nawabs instead of Nizams, you can actually go wrong. Now let's try again, say the G8 countries. That can have an mnemonic something like juice with Russian girlfriend. Very romantic. So let's start with J. J is Japan, U is USA and I is Italy and C is China. Oh did I say China? No, it's actually Canada. Can China actually have tea in the western tea table? G8 is a western organization. So what you have to remember when you remember a mnemonic is the background. So mnemonic can be a powerful memory tool but until unless you don't remember the background, you can actually go wrong. So it can be rightly described as a double-edged sword that can actually help you to ace the exam but if at all without adequate revision, it can also pull you down. So in essence yes, go for the mnemonics. They are going to help you but include these mnemonics in your division modules. They are going to help you in the right way, in the right context. So in our academy we have a lot of mnemonics and students have also come up with a lot of mnemonics. What I'll do is I'll sum up and give it to you in the slides. Just pause the video and you can actually copy that or you can revise that from this video. So go for it and yes, feel free to make your own mnemonics and post it in the comment section. So this is Shankara A.S. Academy's YouTube channel and this is Ajanta who just spoke about the mnemonics. Keep hustling, stay safe, good day.