 Hi everyone, this is Yashini and this year I have secured 57th rank in civil service examination and these are my last minute tips for prelims examination as it is hardly 10-12 days away. And my credibility for this video, my first attempt I failed prelims and in the next attempt I scored 161 marks in prelims for one. So here are my few last minute tips for prelims. So I am dividing this into two parts. First, what we can do now before the prelims and second part what we can like plan to do in the examination hall. So before the prelims at the moment the first and very important thing is please be calm. Do not panic. You would yourself be surprised how much wonders your mind can do if it is free and like it can analyze freely. So its efficiency will also increase and you will not make silly mistakes. So it's very important be calm. If you have not studied whatever you had planned to also be confident on whatever you have studied and do not panic now. Second thing would be revision. Revision is something that I want to stress upon the most. It is very important that you consolidate whatever you know, whatever you know revise it so that you can remember the minutest detail of it. UPSC has an act for answering such questions with minute minute details right some which article or salary allowance this of high court judge or Supreme Court judge which one is charged on the consolidated fund. So that's my new minute details like only salary but not allowance or only office and not pension. So these things it would come these minute details will come only through multiple revisions so revise keep revising my advice would be do not read anything new at the point it would only lead to confusion. Okay so revise revise theory certain parts of the syllabus it's static in nature right quality history geography these are static so revise theory current affair booklets if you have been reading revise current affair booklets all the government schemes important news revise them again at least 20 years current affairs and question papers also if you I think now it is high time that we can stop practicing more and more new question paper. There are so many question papers and resources available in the market it's by no way you'd be able to finish all of them so whatever you have read until now revise them. Especially those mock answers mock mock questions where you did not know the answer to our you could not solve it revise those questions also. Okay so now is the time to revise and consolidate your learning so for this now that we have very less time left it's very important to schedule your. Time also that is a good thing scheduling or time management okay now we cannot waste time on we cannot waste time on anything basically so do schedule your preparation like last few days how do you utilize it to the maximum. To the fullest for example what I used to do is last 10 years last 10 days of the exam I would have a schedule like this for example if on the 10th day. Exam is the brilliance is there so 90 I would keep it as a buffer okay eight day I would read history. Seventh and eight day I would read history because these like small small points I need to remember so I would do it at the end so history. I do like on the seventh and eight day just before that three days I would do a quality because quality again requires like remembering constitutional amendments and articles and all those things so so and first day for example I would keep geography or economics because I felt fairly confident in that so this was what I did like this was my schedule of preparation. The last 10 days you know your strengths better and you schedule it according to your requirements okay and the last they keep it I used to keep it as buffer because any day like I'm having a spillover. I could not finish the intended portions on for example today so that doesn't affect my whole plan right so I always have this buffer for this to fall back on okay and these are pandemic times so one very important thing you should. Keep in mind is avoid unnecessary exposure or proud at the moment eat healthy avoid unnecessary exposure like we don't want to miss the exam for any untoward reason right so keep yourself safe and healthy and if you have not changed your sleep cycle yet. If you are one of those night hours and like you have not changed your sleep cycle please do it it had cost me one attempt. I like I could not keep myself awake during that time because that was my sleeping time so try to change your sleep cycle good eight hours sleep if you have not done and try to wake up before. Eight seven eight just as per the table okay and coming to the next point one very important thing is to have a plan ready. You would have solved many marks by now and if not also you should you might have an idea how are you going to approach the exam so one important thing is keep the plan ready so what I mean by that will come. I'll explain now so this is what we should we could do in the 10 days prior to the prelims exam so what we should do in the what we could do in the prelims hall is one as I said keep the plan ready what was my plan for example. Like that plan is what it's not a strategy as such but it is now you can like when I was doing it was not a strategy but now that I was success like it became a strategy you can find your own like that. So the plan keep the plan ready okay what I used to do what I had planned was every 30 minutes I'll attempt 30 questions so that like in one and a half hours I can attempt all the hundred questions I can have a look at all the hundred questions okay so like that how you would manage your time. Keep keep a plan ready how you are planning to go about the paper and for example tough questions difficult questions if they if they were I would mark them and I first finish all the questions that I know and then come back to the difficult questions at the end. Okay so like that you also think how do you how you would work out and one important thing to note here is do not keep too little time to mark the bubbles like only last 10 minutes last 15 minutes if you do like that then you might not be able to circle all the bubbles that is such a waste of time or if you managed to do also you might end up making mistakes in the bubble so always keep adequate time for marking the bubble also and if you are like if you do not know answer to a question very well or if you are having confusion in one question do not waste too much time on that see like 30 minutes 30 questions you can have only one minute per question right on an average so instead of wasting 10 minutes on a question to mark see you can do like five more question 10 more question like 1020 marks so don't compromise on that like proportionately adequate allocate time so first do all the questions that you know and then you come back to the difficult part. So the second thing is like expect the unexpected okay in prelims exam don't go into the exam thinking that I'll know answer to every question and if you don't know answer to every question don't get panicky or don't get scared it's perfectly normal okay so in any prelims paper I think there will be at least 30 40 questions which nobody would be knowing the answers to like 100% so here what we can do is one thing is keep your theory like keep your theory ready because these are the questions that everybody would be like almost everybody would be doing it correctly everybody as in the word be like those who would be going forward. So every almost everybody will be doing this correctly static parts and theoretical parts so you don't lag behind on that, keep this form and on the unconventional part, which, which are difficult questions. So there you can, there you can eliminate a lot by using common sense also I am not in support of like blind guesses but logical deductions yes you can arrive at, for example, I like to substantiate that by an example. Last year one question was there okay on AIB so Asian Infrastructure Bank so we know that AIB is a Chinese led initiative right so the question, the question was the question had three statements and based on that options one and two or two or three like that options rather. So we know that AIB is a Chinese led bank so even if you do not know all the three statements one statement was there that India is the largest shareholder in AIB. So even if you don't know the other three statements, you know that this statement is wrong for sure right India cannot be the largest shareholder in AIB Chinese led initiative. So that, that statement is gone for sure so if that one statement is gone whatever like option that doesn't contain that statement, you can have a like you can eliminate those questions, those statements those options. So, in my opinion if you have a 50 50 chance, go ahead. Okay 50 50 chance is a good enough risk. I do not support like blind guesses like where your chance of success is only 25% and like three four chance of failure. So, since such logical guesses, you can go ahead. I would like to give one more example. Another question was there on RBI very I felt it was a very difficult and complex question. I was not even able to comprehend the options there. But then one option it was on storage of payment related data. It has been it had been in news. So payment storage of payment related data. So, the, but one option was systems are systems should be owned and operated by public sector entities. Okay that RBI is mandated the system should be owned and operated by public sector entities. So this again we can think that RBI will not issue such a directive right not in post liberalization India. We are having private telecom companies private financial fintech apps fintech companies. So RBI will not mandate that systems are owned and operated by TSE public sector entity. So if you again eliminate those question it was very easy to arrive at the answer. The correct option. So do not the point I may trying to make here is the easy questions generally the static theoretical questions be very thorough with that because that will come through multiple division of the static parts of history and all those in geography. The seeds are well that order and all those things. So these static parts be consolidate that and be strong in that and unconventional questions do not be scared do not worry. You can always arrive at the answer by elimination. Okay. And little bit of logical reason you already have immense information with you. You just need to little bit use it. Okay. And so in the examination hall one very important tip is like to read the questions carefully. There is no alternative to it. Read the questions very carefully. For example, the first thing that I used to do when reading a question was I would first check and encircle like whether what is it asking if it is asking for incorrect option. First you circle that incorrect word, or if you're asking for a false option, first you encircle that false word so that you don't make any mistake there. So read the question carefully. See if it is asking incorrect or false options. And then one beware of that option. Okay. None of the above option that is very tricky option there like absolutely sure. The technique might fail there so beware of that none of the above option. And the other than that I think you should do well read questions carefully and be calm, be calm, do not be anxious or frightened. Everybody is on the same boat. Okay. And for the CSAT part. So I had an idea for like CSAT part also for, for example, for a paper one, a paper one I had kept time for revisiting and doing the difficult questions like that. But for CSAT, I did not keep time for revisiting I would go in one go only and after every two pages solving I would mark the bubble and go forward. But, and also it's not important that you solve each and every match. So adequate number of questions only we should do so do not waste time on solving like finding answer to each difficult question. So that would be my final advice at the moment revise be calm and keep yourself healthy. Have a schedule time schedule so that you don't waste any time and in the examination hall again have a plan of action ready what you are planning to do. Stick to the time limit do not give disproportionate time on any subject or any question expect the unexpected and be confident you already have a lot of knowledge and like nothing else is required. You already have all the knowledge only its application is required. Okay. So even if unexpected questions are there do not be scared. And if you are watching this video now and you are having prelims exam now the time is up break time is up please go back to your studies. This is it all the very best to anyone watching this. Thank you. Yeah, good, good great video. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. What title we can give for this video like some last minute tips or something we'll draft a title and I'll share that with you. What I can do. Okay. And we'll upload this pretty soon itself. I forgot to mention the blog thing. I have mentioned like that answer writing thing. No, you can just give it in the description. Sure, sure. We'll put that in both the descriptions in such a story as well as the tips video we'll add the blog details. Yes, sir. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much.