 Hello all, welcome to Shankara IS Academy's YouTube channel. In this video, I am going to address one prevailing question among UPSC aspirants. The question is, how to effectively make notes from the newspaper? See, note making from the newspaper can be an cumbersome process, but be assured it will be very helpful for you in your preparation. Now, coming to the answer for this question, note making from the newspaper can be divided into two types. One is for the prelims examination and the other is for the main examination. For prelims examination, you need to make sure that any unheard facts which gets reported in the newspaper should be noted down by you. The unknown facts might be of economic terms which gets reported in the business page, places in news which gets reported in the foreign page of the Hindu, other than that schemes launched by the union ministries can be noted down by you. Rather than just noting down, you need to make sure that you do a little bit of background analysis of the topic and note it also in your notes, so that in the preceding days to your prelims, you can revise and re-revise the notes which you have taken from the newspaper. This is about the note making strategy for prelims. Now, coming to the most important part. For mains, current affairs oriented topics are frequently asked in the paper 2 and 3 to say the truth nearly two-thirds of the question asked in the UPSC mains examination in the papers GS 2 and 3 are related to current affairs. So, we will now see the strategy for making notes from the newspaper relating to UPSC mains examination. See the columns which we have to look out for to make notes from it are the editorial page, the opinion page and the text and context page of the Hindu. Here note that the editorial page and the opinion page of the Hindu are written by subject experts who have had considerable experience in the particular field. So, we can use the perspectives and opinions given out by the authors who have written them. See, we have to make sure that what our editorial and the opinion page articles we are reading are directly linked with our UPSC mains syllabus. If they are not, we should avoid taking notes from them. It will be a complete time waste. So, by this way we can have an organized segmented notes which will be very useful for us when we are preparing for the mains examination. Now specifically talking about GS paper 4. See, we can easily understand the ethical concepts by reading the ethics books which are available in the market. But the demand of the paper is such that we need to make sure we give additional real life examples when we are writing theoretical answers to the party equations of the ethics paper. For that, we can use articles which are given in the Hindu. I will give you an example to make you understand about the importance of taking examples from the newspapers and using it in the ethics paper. See, last year there was a column present in the Hindu which talked about the integrity of an Assam home guard. See, the Assam home guard was serving as a home guard to the senior IPS officer of Assam cadre came to know about a drug cartel. This drug cartel was dealing in methamphetamine tablets. Even though the drug cartel wanted to pay the Assam home guard a bribe to keep his mouth shut, he didn't do so. He informed his superior so that Assam police caught hold of the gang. Even though the Assam home guard would have got meager salary, he didn't keep his mouth shut. He wanted to expose the crime which was taking place in front of his eyes. This is an perfect case of integrity. We can use this for any question which involves integrity in the mains examination. By doing so, we will add value to our answers. This is how we have to take notes from the newspaper and use it in the mains examination. With this, we have come to the end of this special video. In this video, I have discussed about how to take notes from the newspaper for the UPSC civil services exam preparation. If you have liked this video, please hit the like button, do comment and share it with your friends. For further watching more videos like this, please subscribe to Shankarai's Academy's YouTube channel. Thank you for listening.