 Good evening. I hope I'm audible. My name is Asif would be speaking about how to prepare in an integrated manner in the next 100 days. That's the title of the webinar. I am with Shankarayesh Delhi branch. I would heading the academic side of Shankarayesh in Delhi. So the idea of this webinar is to talk about how to prepare in the next 100 days. In fact, from today you have 108 days to problems. I've just rounded it to 100, right? And whenever you have so much time, that's always a challenge. You always need a plan. You always need to know exactly how to go about or how to prepare in these circumstances. And along with this 108 days, which is unprecedented, I don't think any of the years, some of you have been writing four years and you are familiar with people who are writing for over the years. And no other time there has been such a huge gap between a problem center problems from last problems to now it's almost one and a half years, which is a substantial time. So this comes up with a lot of challenges and a lot of opportunities also challenges, because we all know that, you know, when we get more time, we usually don't utilize it well, including me, everybody has that problem. And it is also challenging because of the current circumstances that we are going through. We all are familiar with the situation outside difficulty anxiety, a lot of problems that is currently existing. And because of this, this additional days become a challenge, even though there has been a lot of time between the last problems and now, many of you would not have been able to give 100% productivity in the last three four months. I've spoken to some of you and one of the main concerns people have raised is the anxiety and the pressure that people have been going through in these times and how they have not been able to prepare for these exams in these circumstances. I am seeing your question with respect to prepare for paper four, I would take up the questions of in the end. So the idea of the webinar is that it will be a monologue for the first part of it, which will probably stress to 30 to 45 minutes. And then I would be open to questions will take as many questions as possible. And if it's something that I'm familiar with, or I can help you out with, I would answer it in case of something that I can't respond to right now, I will get back to you via mail or call after the session. Right. So read me five, I can see that you are a question has been raised, but it will be dealt with once the first part of the session is over. Right. So I was talking about how this is an opportunity because many people who are not able to prepare seriously the last 90 days would be able to prepare in a more serious manner now. Right. Many people who are not able to strengthen their optional or their GS or their SA or some part of their problems preparation will be able to do that now because you've got an additional 100 days. And many of you who are not able to prepare seriously will be able to do that now. Some of you who had applied without the intention of preparing or did not seriously prepare after applying for the last couple of months after the application, this would be a good time to start 100 days is more than sufficient for preparing for bullets. And the challenge is mainly because the amount of time is equal for all, but the way people utilize it is completely different. Right. How you would utilize it will be different from how somebody else would utilize it. There's a very interesting quote, which I've heard when it talks about, you know, how everybody has the same time, but there are only as many days in the year as you make use of it. So for some of you, an entire year would have the productivity of a week or some for some of you, there will be a week in which you will do years productivity, not literally, but you get what I'm trying to say. The productivity is completely dependent upon how we utilize it. And there is no shortage of distractions at this point of time. So the current situation is that we have 108 days to prelims. And another change has that has happened because of a revised exam calendar is that the number of days between prelims and means has also reduced. This year, there is 95 days compared to around 107 days in the previous years. So you will ask 12 days is not a big thing. But anybody who has written a means in the previous year or over the years would realize the importance of 12 days, especially the last 12 days or whenever they are engaged in revisions. So there is a shortage of time between prelims and means as well, right? It's not just that you have additional time now, there is a shortage of time after problems also. Even if you have 95 days, you are aware that if you have written problems before at least a week or 10 days will go speculating, you will go behind different answer keys and you will go behind different speculations, different cutoff and you know what not, there will be a lot of speculations that will go on and you will probably end up wasting another week out there. So net, you have only 90 days, which makes it even more difficult to prepare for means, right? So now the idea is that, what does integrated preparation, right? That is one of the key questions that should come out of this discussion, right? When I say talk about integrated preparations, it's clearly customized to the time that you have right now, right? It is a way of preparation where if you prepare, that will not only help you clear problems, but it will also improve your chances of scoring better in means. That's what I'm calling an integrated preparation. If you utilize these 100 days well, it will improve the chances in problems and it will improve the chances in means. One concern many of you have is that because of additional days, there will be more competition, the cutoff could increase, which is possible. I'm not refuting the idea, but the idea is that you should prepare in a way that which will help you both for problems and means, right? So the preparation should be such that your syllabus of films and means should be integrated while preparing the next 100 days, where you can probably give 50 days for main centric preparation and 60 days for film centric preparation, where you can go back and consolidate your revision or solve papers. We'll come to that in detail later. And you just don't study film's topics, but you study main's topic as well. That's the whole idea for study topics which are both films and means oriented, right? So that is what I mean by an integrated preparation. Integrated preparation is where you study for both films and means together so that you are able to improve your chances. And the subsequent question is, you know, why should you do this? Like, why would you have to listen to this advice? Why? What is the logic behind this? That's one of the questions that could come out of a theory that I'm talking about. So the pattern of the examination is different, right? Over the years, especially in the last two, three years, what I noticed is that there are more static questions for main's and there are more conceptual questions for problems, right? The idea is that you are not just able to mug up things and go and solve Williams question because you need to understand the overall nature of the paper. I'm going to share a particular set of questions right now, right? So this will give you an idea of what I'm talking about, right? So what I'm trying to say is that if you look at the questions that has come for me, like highlight the central Asian and Greek or black in elements in the Gandhara art, which is again a factual question that could have your chances of answering this would have been better if you had prepared for films. What does I analysis and how does it help in navigation again, factual question, which most people study for films? Attorney General's what they call powers, something which is preliminary oriented. Under what circumstances, financial emergencies problem will get proclaimed again, problems oriented. I'm just giving a set of questions. I see, again, for every rule, there is an exception. I'm not saying that all questions are problems oriented or all questions are means oriented. I'm just giving you a case on why you should be going for such kind of a preparation. Under what circumstances can financial emergency be proclaimed? Enumerate the indirect taxes, very factual question. So means questions have started looking more factual and problems like, you know, if you had a strong preparation for problems, it improves your chances and means. And subsequently, if you look at some of the problems question, now, which one of the following suggested that the governor should be an imminent person from outside the state, and should be detached figure, you would be some of you would be familiar with the question. I'm not reading the whole question, because you're already seeing the question out here. The idea is that see when you study for problems, you would study the powers of governor, you study the appointment, removal, all those things you'll study. But the chances of you able to remember that this has been recommended by circular commission is closely associated with your ability to prepare value additions for main centric answers. One of the suggestions that I've been giving students for main centric answers is that you need to prepare commissions, committees, that's meant for writing answers, right. So when you would have prepared for the topic governor for means, you're likely to have come across this, right. Now take the case of the next question, which one of the following statement is correct. This is a question related to maternity, which had come in last year. So the answer is three, which is a woman with two children get reduced entitlements. The chances of you noticing this for problems is lesser compared for means because for means you have to write an analytical question, an analytical answer for from a social justice topic, right. So you are very likely to notice such details or you would be having more attention to detail under a progression for means and this would have been solvable for people who have written means. And that is why I again, I have a theory you will always notice that the people who have written means in a particular year have a higher chances of clearing problems in the next year. One, they have an experience clearing problems in the year in which they have written means and they're improved conceptual understanding of topic when they appear for the problems in the subsequent year. So it is important to study topics from both problems and means perspective. Are you getting what I'm trying to say? The nature of questions both in means and problems is fluid. The way you prepare for problems helps you write better answers for means the way you prepare for means helps you write better answers, solve better questions and problems. So it is important to integrate your preparation. This is the logic which I'm trying to tell you your problems and means overlapping topics are problems and means overlapping. Question types are also one concern that you should have, right? The way you prepare for problems help you prepare for means. Another aspect is that, you know, the syllabus overlap. I think again, I'll use a graph to explain the syllabus overlap. So these are the type of questions. I'm assuming you're able to see my screen. These are the type of questions that has been coming for problems. This is a breakup, right? And you will notice how many questions have come from each area in the years of 2019 to 2014. And there are certain set of topics out here, which are overlapping with means, right? Quality, economy, environment, international relations, history, geography, current affairs, almost all topics are overlapping with problems. So the idea is that now I'll go for a selective graph, which talks about how much marks have come in each year from. So first, let me share this one. So these are the number of questions which has come from each of these topics, which are overlapping. I have kept aside IR and current affairs, I'll explain my logic later. I'm just explaining this part, then I'll come to it and I'll take your questions later. So these are the topics from which questions have come. And these are the topics which are overlapping with problems. And this is the total number of questions each year. So almost 80% of questions in problems are or more are from topics which are overlapping with means. So this gives a logic for preparing both of these topics simultaneously. And another logic is that I'm going to share about the graphs as well. You will notice that every year, again, these are the topics which are overlapping with the remains and the number of marks that is coming each year for these topics. In paper one, there's almost, you know, 160 marks to 150 to 190 marks that has come. 162, what do you call, 137 marks that has come over the years. In GS2, almost 190 to 150 marks have come. In GS3, from the topics which are overlapping, there's almost 150 to 137, 150 to 160, 150 to 140 range marks that has come over the years. I'll give you individual breakups as well. From history, from art and culture, from geography, from the total number of marks each year that has come from paper one, which are topics which are overlapping with prisms. Paper 2018, you can see the breakup almost 130 marks have come total. 2017, you have around 190 marks. 2016, you have around 175. 2015, around 137.5. Now, if we take this is the variation, quality and social justice, I've kept aside IR, I'll explain it to you later. These are the topics which are coming. And this is with respect to paper three. We can make these charts and analysis available at a later time for you to directly go through them. That's one of the aspects, right? I'm seeing the questions that has been raised, I will get back to you on these questions once the overall discussion is over. And so the other factors which will make it important to prepare an integrated manner is that many of you have started preparing for prisms, I must say from January, February. So there's a certain amount of saturation burnout, you can solve only n number of objective questions at a point of time, you can't continuously solve for months and months, many of you would have been in that burnout phase, right? So that burnout, that burnout is also something that would cost you to go for a preparation, which would help you benefit both for prisms and means as well. And many of your underprepared for means, right? Either because of plan by design by lack of planning, you're underprepared for means. So the next 50 days is something that can help you improve your chances in means as well, right? So that is why you should get into preparing for means. And you're underprepared for optional, you're underprepared for essay, you never have written an essay till now, you have one part of your over decal just paper, which is completely pending some part of your optional, which is completely pending. So these aspects make it important for you to do this. And some of you have clear problems before. So you're not worried about problems. From my experience, there are people who can clear problems by just preparing for one month, because they have been consistently created, they have a strategy which works for them. So maybe you are one of them who have clear problems over the years, and your concern has been means. So you want to improve your chances in means. So you put problems to the back button and you go for our decal main centric preparation. Some of you are already in service, you have secured a rank, you're in service or you are in training, and you're confident about your chances and you just want to improve that additional 20 or 30 or 40 marks in means which will help you get a better rank, which will help you get a better service. Right. And you have what we call you have the fear that you know, there is more time, there's more competition, so you don't want to completely deviate from topics which are prillium centric. There's a general fear that you know, more people are preparing, more people have got more time to study. So if I pick up topics which are not overlapping, I would not be able to, I would not be able to what they call, I would not be able to improve my chances in prilliums. Are you getting what I'm trying to say? I'm basically trying to say that you know, if the gap between prilliums and now is more, more people will be able to prepare for prilliums in a more serious manner. So that gives them a fear factor as far as approaching prilliums. So because of that, it is better to stick to topics which are overlapping with prilliums and not deviate from prilliums. And as I have shared some of the questions earlier, you would be, you would have understood that these questions are overlapping both in prilliums and means. And hence, you should prepare in an integrated manner. Right. So these are some of the reasons why you should prepare in an integrated manner. Right. Is that part clear? We were talking about what is integrated planning? How to prepare in an integrated manner? We have not come to how to prepare in an integrated manner. We were talking about why you should be preparing in an integrated manner. Right. Any doubts on integrated preparation till now? I'll probably take some questions for them. The generic questions I'm seeing, I do see about NCRT and working candidates and all these things. This can be taken towards the end. Seeside preparation, also I'll come to it. Strategy for working people. I have not prepared ethics paper. If you have not prepared ethics paper at all, this would be a good time to give for it. But from my experience, most people have done one round of ethics preparation, so they could they should not be doing it right now. If you have not done ethics at all, right, you have not passed, you have not decided on the books. Now may be a good time to give three to four weeks for that. Navina, you have time from which subjects can I start? Ideally, I think you should become past subjects, which you have a hangover that you have prepared for films, which you are more familiar with, prepare those topics from a mains perspective. And then when I think you are in luck, you have got more time to prepare right now. And this gives you a good opportunity. So you should make the best use of the next 100 days. Suganya, with respect to current affairs, what I would suggest is that follow current affairs on a daily basis right now. And in August, you consolidate your current affairs for films. There's no point over emphasizing current affairs right now. I'm not asking you to completely neglect it. You should continue the habit of reading the newspapers. But consolidation of current affairs would be better in August 1. Kavya, I'll come to the essay part. I have a detailed part of this discussion, which I'll be talking about essay, I'll explain them. Okay. The preparation with respect to beginners and working candidates will take it towards the end. This is with respect to I hope you understand this integrated preparation is for people who are already registered for films and who is expecting to write films in October. Somya complete paper reading would be good, whatever is relevant for the examination. General awareness is what I'm looking at. I'm not asking you to prepare current affairs in an intensive manner right now. Kishore, I would come to that how to make sure that we are correctly preparing overlap in topics. I'll be explaining that in detail. So I'm going to continue with my session, right? I think it's definitely possible to write main test papers at home. You would probably have to write it in papers and pick up questions, solve previous questions. You could do that. Definitely, random rhythms. I am sure that that's not your name, but that's your display name. I'm calling you random rhythms. We'll discuss that, right? Right now, for somebody who's appearing for problems, one hour should be a sufficient amount of time, at least till August, then you can spend more number of time, more amount of time to consolidate your preparation. Kavya same as a random rhythm, we'll discuss our working candidates, right? Okay, so continuing. So, so we discussed about what is integrated preparation. We talked about, you know, why should you prepare an integrated manner? Now comes the suggestion on how you should be preparing an integrated manner, right? How can you prepare an integrated manner? So integration can be of different types. Let me share my screen. I'll just, okay. So these are the three types of integration as per the concept. There's random integration, there's selective integration, and then there is smart integration. Random integration is like one of, you have recently asked me that, you know, I've not stressed, it takes a toll. Should I be preparing that now? That's random, right? Because one, it's independent or unique to your case. And it is something that does not help you for problems. My pitch or my suggestion is to prepare topics which will not take you too much away from problems, and which will help you score at least, you know, prepare at least 500 marks worth of topics in ZS, right? So random integration is like, you know, if you have optionals, which involves a lot of practice, or a lot of, you know, revision, example, take the case of mathematics, take the case of physics, take the case of medical science. If your optional is such that, you know, which requires you being constantly updated, you being constantly revising, you could change, you could pick up, selectively pick up those topics, right? Random integration is for people, what do you call, who does not have a plan, you actually start with a topic like world history, you end up giving two weeks for it. And later you realize that this entire topic has only one or two questions in mains, which does not have ROI. It should always, always, always be based on return on investment of your time. The most important resource you have right now is a time that's 108 days that you have. So random integration is very random. It is what do you call it is when you start topics, which you are comfortable. It is what you call you stick to it and you over invest yourself in those topics. And this sometimes is based on an opinion or a strategy that somebody is following, which may be purely based on their experience or their circumstances, you have basically copied somebody else's strategy. But maybe he is preparing ethics or he is preparing world history or he's preparing his option, because he has a different experience with it, he has a different challenge with it. So random integration is completely arbitrary. It does not follow a particular pattern, right? selective integration is when you pick up, let's say ethics, when you pick up optional, you decide that, okay, my score and optional last year has been to 20. I need to pull up another 70 marks or 80 marks in my optional to improve my chances to get a better answer. So you take, let's say your optional and throw paper to and you give it one month, right? You decide that, you know, like the early student had mentioned that, you know, you have not asked ethics, you pick up that and you do that, right? That's one way of going about random integration is completely arbitrary without any plan, which usually ends up in as a disaster. You look back in August and wonder what happened for the last 45 days? And what did I do? And what do I have to do? So don't go for random integration, random integration is when you do not have a plan and you're just making a plan on the way, right? selective is for selective type of people who have certain circumstances, where you are either not prepared for your optional, you're not prepared for ethics, you are not prepared for certain topics in paper three, you are not test certain areas in some part of GS. So you selectively prepare those topics and make sure that you have prepared those topics so that when you write means for problems, you are in a better situation to do. Smart integration is an overlapping between overlapping integration, the way we talked about how 80% of questions in films and 500 marks worth of questions and means are overlapping minimally, right? There could be more randomly, you basically would ask questions from certain areas which would increase the overlapping means, but if you study for these 500 bucks worth of means, your chances of scoring better marks and problems and in mains is improved. Smart integration will also involve you, what do you call giving a little bit of emphasis on essay. How many of you have essay challenges with their thing? Okay, I'm assuming since most of you don't have a challenge with audio, it should be at your end, right? So we were talking about random integration, selective integration and smart integration, right? Smart integration is when you pick up topics which are overlapping between films and means and which are which will help you both for problems and means. Okay, essay is something that you should be adding to this. There are a couple of reasons why you should be doing essay at this point of time. One, that's one paper which will help you score much more than any other GS paper with half or one third of their foot, right? Essay according to me does not require additional content because of the way the number of essays are being asked, you have to write two essays, you don't read more than you don't need more than 10 points or 12 points to write in essay at this point of time, because that's the word count. So now would be a good time to write an essay, right? See, actually, I can understand, see, I'm talking about the importance of writing essay. We will talk about, you know, how to do this in a different session, like, you know, where we are specifically talking about answer writing. So essay, it is a good time to prepare right now. I'll give you some broad strategies on how you should be preparing for essay one, read essays, right? The best way to write better is to read more or read good works. So as far as UPSC is concerned, what you should be doing is that you should pick up previous years of topers essays and start reading that. Don't pick up a top up who has got a good drive, pick up a top or who has got a good score in essay, right? That should be your goal. Now, some people that I remember who have got good scores over the years is that if I take 2017 examination 18 result, I remember there was a service IS officer who's currently an IS officer, the student's name is Apurva Pante. She had scored 175 months. The last year, there are people who have scored 160 marks. It's all available on the web. You download your essay, and you start reading those essays, right? That's the first step. Start reading good essays to understand how to write better essays. Are you getting what I'm trying to say? Because some of you are having an academic background, some of you are involved in writing, but you should be familiar with what works at UPSC. I'm not saying that you may be bad at essay, you're getting low scores because you're bad at essay writing because you're not familiar with what is working. It's always important to know what are the best practices that has been followed, how you can replicate those best practices and improve your chances of getting a score. So the best form of improving your score is always to imitate or replicate the approach or strategy of somebody whose scores have come out good. Obviously, they would have done something right to get that score. So that may be with respect to their topic selection. That may be with respect to the way they ensure there is a flow in the essay that may be with respect to how they articulate. Essay is not about content. Essay is not about giving factual information and stuffing your essay with 100 things. It is about reflecting your personality. It is about giving your ideas on the topic. Your content knowledge is already being tested in ZS. Essay is about your writing skills. Essay is about your ability to articulate. Essay is about your opinions on certain things. Honestly, if you read somebody's essay, it's very likely that you can judge a person's character by reading a good essay. Especially if you take abstract essays, you can judge a person's character. So you need to read essays first to start with. So in the coming weeks, and now I'm assuming that you can concentrate on essay at least till August 1st week. Every fortnight, you decide to write an essay. First fortnight, first two fortnights, I would suggest that you prepare a topic and then write an essay on that. Don't do it randomly or don't do it arbitrarily. You pick up, you decide that I'm going to write an essay on gender. I'm going to write an essay on justice or I'm going to write essay on importance of water conservation or on AI. You pick up a topic. Preferably pick up a topic which has come in UPSC in the last five or 10 years. Always pick up UPSC questions and write. So the first fortnight, so today is 17 in 14 days, let's say first week of July, you decide to write two subjective essays on clearly defined topics, gender, justice, whatever. And that too after preparing for the topic. Next fortnight, you write two abstract topics. After preparing for the stop, good fences make good neighbors. The topic seems completely easy, but that's the most difficult type of essays to write. So you can, if you contact me, I'll share my email ID after this session, you can contact me on that and I'll probably suggest certain reading lists or certain courses that you can write. And you can read for abstract essays. Everything has a template to be honest. If you look at some of the top was essays, and if you read more than one essay from a topic, you'll see that they have a certain way of writing, which they have developed. So you may not be able to develop that way of writing on the short run. So the best way to develop that way of writing is to imitate an approach which you are comfortable with. There was a mistake that a lot of people did last year and last to last year that everybody started writing story based introduction. You get what I'm like to say, right? Everybody started writing story based introduction. And this has not worked for a lot of people because they have no clue how to web the story across the essay. Right? So essays start by reading good essays. Then every fortnight, you set a plan to write essays based on what you read, read for a topic and write an essay in the first two fortnight. The third fortnight, that's probably end of July or early August, you write a completely unprepared essay paper. Maybe you write a previous year topic, previous year paper. You keep 2018 or 19 question paper to write for that. Get qualified inputs, get input from people who read essays, who have read essays earlier. And another unconventional suggestion that is usually given with respect to essay writing is that, get your essay read by people who have no connection with your UPSC. My voice settings are pretty much weak. I'll try to speak a little louder. Right? So get your essays read by people who have no connection with UPSC. As an additional thing over and above, getting input from faculties and teachers, because when people see read your essays who are not connected to UPSC, they would not be looking for schemes and they will not be looking for committees and reports. They look for content that they are able to relate to. They look for new ideas. So that has also helped people, right? You can get your essays written by, read by people. Get qualified input from faculties and, you know, institutes first. And as an additional step, share your essay with maybe your college senior or your professor or your somebody who's well read and ask them to give you inputs on that. That has also helped people, right? So between topics in GS paper one, between topics in paper two, paper three and essay, you have almost 750 marks for topics that can be covered between now and first week of August. So that is almost a significant part of Maine's taken care right now. That's something that is going to improve your chances in problems, right? So we talked about selective integration, smart integration, random integration. And we have talked about essay preparation. Any doubts on essay, the way you should be going about. This is just a tip of the iceberg. There are a lot of other things that can be told to somebody who writes an essay, how to ensure flow, what kind of topics to pick up or what kind of ideas to write, right? There's a lot of things that can be done with respect to essay. And we do have the best team that can help you out with this. Sandeep, sources for essay, I don't think there's any additional sources for essay as such, because you are already preparing different topics from different perspectives in different GS papers, and you're already following your newspapers. I don't think you need, personally, I don't feel you need an additional source. One, because any topic you pick up, the word count is such that you don't need more than 10 or 12 ideas. You're not short of ideas. The challenge in essay writing is a style of writing and the way you present your ideas. That's the challenge. Any random topic I pick up right now, I'm sure you can think of 10 or 12 ideas. AI think about different dimensions you'll be able to write. Good to come for somebody who's well, the content as far as essay is concerned, would come because you're already preparing history, geography, economics, society, Galaxy 7, I'll come back to let me complete this. So you're already preparing for multiple topics, and you would have sufficient content to write an essay. I'm assuming Ram that you're somebody who reads. So there is no need for additional reading for essay as such. You should be able to write a good essay with what you already have. Right. NCRT is whatever you use for preparing the respective subjects should aid and help you in essay. You pick up a topic brainstorm the number of points that you have to write, you'll realize that you already have that point. So with respect to problems, what I would suggest is that you should get back to exclusive problems preparation by first week of August. That's when you can dedicate for CSAT. See, John, what has happened is that previous year, I know more than a few students who have not been able to clear because of CSAT. One, nobody expected CSAT to be tough. Nobody expected CSAT to be lengthy. One silence that most students had with CSAT last year was that it was extremely lengthy. The English passages were extremely difficult. The, what do you call the aptitude questions were difficult. So if you are somebody who feel you take a look at last year's last two three years question papers. And if you are somebody who feels that, you know, it is going to be difficult for you to get the cutoff in the respective paper, you should be going for CSAT preparation, right? So I do have a plan that I have created. This is part of an interim test plan that we have once for which I will provide a link towards the end of the session. Let me share the screen and show you what we have created with respect to the interim plan. So this is under the assumption you're already prepared for problems. So you have a reasonable understanding on the topic. So I have kept two weeks for polity and social justice. I have kept almost one week 10 days for modern history and art and culture. These are 10 questions, subjective tests, means type questions, means type answer writing. There's an essay on 11th of July, then there is geography, economy, agricultural science and environmental section, full papers. So the plan that I have created involves from 20th of this month to 9th of August. That's almost 45 days, right? And that involves almost six sectional tests and three full papers. Nirmal, I don't think you should be intimidated. I have met students who have passed out of college and gotten into service in one year flat. See, if you're looking for reasons to be intimidated, you will always find some. But you have an equally good chance of clearing this examination from if you have seriously prepared for a particular or one month and a half years. And by the same logic, you'll find a lot of people who have been preparing over the years who have not been able to clear despite appearing in two, three exams, two, three attempts. I'm going to look at the Q&A, whatever I can take up right now I'll take you can give time for optional and ethics provided that you have absolutely done nothing for it or you have an entire paper of optional which is being weak, right? Ethics, I would not suggest at this point of time if you have already done, if you have not done at all, there can be different sources you can mail me I'll mail you. Some questions regarding optimal test series, can you guide me through mails? Definitely any concern with respect to whatever has been discussed, or any additional concerns that you have, you mail me and I'll respond to. I'm not going to share the mail. And if some of you do want to speak in person, you share your email mobile number in the mail and then we'll schedule a call. Durga Devi will provide an additional handout for as a part of the test plan to with list for sources for each topic. John, I think you should start by looking at previous year's question papers and then expand to solving some test papers that may be provided by Shankar Iyer or with all the books that you can be able to have what you call by for that. You can mail me and you can have what you call. If you want to speak, you can provide the number in that or you can mention that in the respective mail and then we can try to schedule a call. Let me please send me a mail so that I'll have something to follow up on. Kishore, I've already mentioned the topics which are overlapping. In paper one, you have history, art and culture, geography in paper two, quality, social justice, paper three, economy, agriculture, environment, science and tech. These topics are overlapping. I've already mentioned it and more details are provided in the test plan. With the list, we definitely know it would probably help to be a conversation starter in the interview. But you don't need to have. There are people who have had lackluster, what do you call achievements during their school or college life who have an extremely well in this examination. Sharath, I've shared if you scroll back up, you would be able to see a link where you can get all the details. English and Indian language, please, please mail me regarding these specific doubts with respect to overall preparation. Social justice is a highly current oriented topics. Take the syllabus keyword and prepare on that respective syllabus keyword. Vijay Vaishampyan, I think revising the papers that you have solved and pairing for new papers would be a good way to do that. When you revise, you look at previous mistakes, you understand what why those mistakes happened. And you can probably try solving since the gap between the time that you have solved and now significantly, you can probably try solving it again as well. Shivraj, we would try to upload the discussion on any platform, maybe YouTube or something. In that case, you can watch whatever has been discussed so far in that particular video. Sources will be provided as an additional topic in the next two, three days. Strikumar, we have brilliant studies, you can check the website to find details regarding the previous studies. I'm not familiar with by Joe's app and the content, so I'm not in the point to comment on that. I think most of the materials are available online, you can write to us and we'll see what we can do. Now, but 2019, I have just pasted a link which has the program detailed ambition. We would be having optional test series as well. You can check the website for updated details on that. Did you check this particular link? This can be a more specific link regarding offline and online classes, there will be update with respect to the lockdown once there's more clarity on how the government intends to proceed. Sahil, I am available in Delhi right now, but not at the center considering the corona situation. There is admin staff available in the center. But once things are a little east, we can schedule a meeting and we can meet at the center. I'm not in a position to comment on that. I'm not completely familiar with the syllabus of options. We'll talk to you, talk to you often. We'll provide you a book list and source list for this. I'll try to update that before 19th. That's it. There's somebody with the name Asif who has asked us. Integrated preparation is solving what do you call problems questions combined? Yes, the idea is to solve main centric topics are still a job, obviously, and then problems papers in the remaining 50, 60 days. So it'll involve both solving main sensor writing and solving problems questions. The current our main stomach is highly designed for online experience itself. Truth is trying the last year is a topic how to prepare these kind of topics. This is a abstract topic. There can be certain templates and strategies that can be followed. There's definitely a way to do that. I'm not able to do explain in detail right now. You can mail me and we can discuss this later. Any doubts with respect to integrated preparation, test plan, anything that we have discussed. Shweta, yes, you if you feel that you need more practice with respect to the series, you should do it because the gap between what you have done now and the actual examination is increasing. So definitely there should be revision and new set of questions will always check your preparation, preparatory level better. The books and source list will be available on the same site itself. Yes, SP, that's exactly what we're trying to say that, you know, prepare in such a way that it'll help your chances and films as well as improve your chances and needs and get a better run. That's not an easy answer because there are various factors involved and it changes from year to year. If the presence test series that you have already joined your tests are complete and you need new practice, you should definitely go for a new presence test series. It will be in your set of questions and it will be a new competition to fight also. Vishnu, I believe Shankaraya's new analysis videos are extremely good. You can take a look at them. It's available on the YouTube page. Galaxy Tab, I have not cleared this twice. When should I start answer writing practice? Again, you can start now. What you have done in previous is irrelevant considering what you have done now. It will be completely dependent upon your level of preparedness right now. Prasanna, the idea is that you have to start somewhere. You have to solve and write answers so that it will improve your answer writing quality. You can never be in a situation where you have mastered answer writing and you join a test series. The purpose of a test series is to improve your answer writing skills and that will not improve by solving papers that will not improve by solving paper or decal questions that are available on websites. You need feedback. You need to write in a competitive environment. You need to write like a UPC paper. Mohammad Ribash, offline test paths again will be online is available right now. Offline will be purely based on government guidelines based on the COVID situation in the respective states and cities. SIA newspaper analysis would be sufficient. You could probably back it up by using a compilation to consolidate your revision as well. Shruti, can you hear me now? Kirtana, can you take a look at the test plan that will give you some idea on how to proceed? Sathya, the overall plan has been discussed. The idea was to talk about how to prepare an integrated manner. What to do? I have shared a test schedule also and that is more or less the plan that is involved and what type of plan has to be followed. We have discussed most of it. If there's anything with respect to what has been discussed so far, that can be taken for any doubts. Kishore, with respect to government reports preparation, the best approach is to go for summaries. The best approach for certain reports is to study the executive summary which is there in most reports which will give you a broad idea. Again it depends upon what syllabus keyword is it interlinked with how much areas can you overlap or like you know by preparing a particular report which all GS papers can you use those value addition based on that you can allocate the time. Preparing for the summaries or preparing from summaries that has been created by institutes would be one way to go about. If it is a report which does not have high significance then the executive summary of the report would be sufficient and which would be practical as well as preparation is concerned. SP, I think the idea has significant success. I have spoken to successful rank holders and I've seen people able to do well with an integrated approach and that is why I have suggesting this idea for the next 50 days. 500 marks in mains, 80% is of influence that overlaps. So it is definitely going to be better. What are the questions? Let me look at any other questions that I can answer right now. Srikumar sources for the test plan will be provided as an additional document. I am in lack of a thick subject. How can I approach what steps I have to follow to improve? It takes how you have to follow a certain set of books which will improve your conceptual understanding and then ethics answers have always improved with providing good value addition to substantiator answers. So it may be in the form of examples. It may be in the form of interlinkage to reports. It may be in the form of using specific keywords. It could be in the form of including diagrams in your answers. This is how you can improve your ethics answers. Vijay, I think in with respect to writing abstract topics in essay, the first step is always to write one. If you always fear writing it, you can never move forward. You write one, get it reviewed by the institute or by somebody else and then like if you're part of the program, I could definitely go through the program essay and give you specific feedbacks on that. Abstract essays are in fact not complicated. You can have a certain approach and plan to write such kind of topics. It's a problem that can be solved. Gayathri, it has been specifically listed out in the brochure. I have already mentioned it. I'll repeat it. The topics are history, art and culture and geography in paper one, quality social justice in paper two, economy, agriculture, scientific environment in paper three. Actually, you can write a mail. We can discuss this separately. It's not part of the integrated discussion plan. Manitipa, we would be providing a source list for the respective guests in that you will be able to find books for paper two and paper three. Wait for 48 hours and we'll update the source list. The best way to start practice on essay is to use UPSC essays because these are topics which UPSC have already asked. So it will give you more confidence to approach such kind of essays. Start with such topics. If you're able to develop a certain expertise or competence on those topics, then go for outside talks. Always UPSC questions, privacy is questions first. Another one that's asked is note making essential for each and every topic in main syllabus. Definitely it would be the best thing to have because notes have helped people clear the examination. It helps them revise faster. It helps them remember more. It helps them replicate more in their answers. So note making is extremely important as far as preparation is concerned. Pupasana, I'm not familiar with which examination you are offering or I'm not familiar with the syllabus of that examination. So I'm not in a position to comment on that. I was talking about Delaf was suggesting to refer essays of previous year's toppers who have done well in essay. You can search for essay toppers scores. Toppers essay score and pick up essay essay papers of those particular toppers. Most of their answer sheets are available online. You just have to search with the name and essay and PDF. It will be available. If you are not able to find some of them, you can write to me. I will get back to you. Galaxy M10, there are certain strategies that can be followed to brainstorm and increase content in essay which can help improve you write more than two or three points. The most interesting topic to start preparation is always quality as far as I am concerned. That gives you a sense of things. You already are familiar with some of the things. History can also be good topic to start from. See, when you join a test series, you get a feedback. You get a comparative answers of others who have written better than you. You get a marks. You get comments on how you are writing currently and what needs to be written done to improve. If you are writing it alone, you would not probably get such kind of input. If you are asking your friend or somebody to take a look at your answers, they may do it for one or two answers. They will not be able to do for more answers. Sahil. So it's better to what they call engage a test series because one, you will see a relative performance. You will get inputs from people who have been seeing a test series over the time. I have been engaged with test series for the last five years. So somebody like me would be able to point out more specifically what needs to be done in terms of your preparation. Anita, there are plans which have been provided for finding past problems as well, which will be one or two weeks immediately after problems. And you can join that plan as well, which could have full papers. So what is integrative preparation? How can you end it? Why should you go for integrative preparation? Different types of integrative preparation. How can you engage in integrative preparation? We have discussed these aspects. Right. I have also shared the test plan which will give you details regarding the program and how it should be helpful for you. Right. All the best for the examination. Don't take it lightly. Too much time is always very difficult to manage. So make sure you have a plan. And that plan will help, should be something that will help you play this examination. Right. Thank you, everybody. Thank you for coming. Thank you for being part of the session.