 This is a small section in which I'm going to tell you seven most important things that you should take care of during prelims. Prelims are close by. It's very close now. You should be geared. By this time you should have your revisions in place. You should have started revising. Maybe even one round of revisions would be done for most of our students who are very serious and very well prepared. That's one. And then another thing is that as we are getting closer to prelims, we are also a bit anxious. If you are a person, you are writing prelims for first time, that is a difficult space. So the idea of this session is to give you some belief or some pointers on which we can delve on. We should be ready with while we go towards prelims and how we write prelims for that. The seven pointers I'm going to talk. I'm not going to consume much of your time. So the first thing is revisions. I know a lot of people have told you this, but it's still I want to reiterate this because that is the most important thing for prelims. Let me tell you. I lost my first prelims because I didn't revise well. I was continuously gathering data and every time I gathered, I was thinking that I know more, I know more, I know more. But at the end of the day, when I came to the paper, there were questions which I actually have seen, but just because of the lack of revision, I ended up marking it wrong. So that created a huge issue and I lost that prelims for 0.6 months. That's a very slim margin and very sad margin. So let's not get into that kind of an issue. Make sure now to whatever data you have collected, that's good enough. That's good enough. You should be now basically reading it again and again and again and again and making it thorough. You cannot leave a question or do a question wrong from a portion you have studied, from a portion that you know well. That's a cardinal sin. That's an original sin in this exam. Very important, but it remains of a penance for that matter. More important in penance because these days, very factual information is in us and you need to revise. Now, what all do you revise? One is your usual revision, whatever you have done. Second, table size. There are a lot of tables you might have built, tables on reports and indexes, tables on committees, tables on apps of government, which ministry is what, apps, tables on screens, which ministry is which ministry. All those tables are tables on Ramsar site, tables on UNESCO World Heritage site. All these things need to be realized. So table revision is very important because we make tables for things that seem very important and when they come for exams, it's very consistent. So these tables should be in your hand and you should be revising it thoroughly again and again. Second revision is something I call priority revision. Priority revisions are those portions, let's say you take one book, either Shankar's Environment or Spectrum History. You know some particular portion UPS is very fond of and then there is your patient coming constantly from it. Those part alone you would speed revise, you will stop all the things in between and revise. So in history that might be, let's say, most of the movements, what is the position movement, the non-properation movement, the student disobedience movement, all those movements you would do. This is what I call the priority revision, this prioritize according to the exam and how important it is to the syllabus. Only that you revise. In quality you must revise, emergency you must revise, fundamental right you must revise, parliament right, those are important areas. Though let's say we do not have a question till now from the scheduled class and scheduled tribe area, very less questions, that you should revise. But that might not come in your priority revisions, that's what I'm saying. So a priority revisions, got it? Great. Apart from that whatever test you have taken you should revise that also because if you have seen a question in a test and it comes in the exam and you do not know that's a huge issue. Whatever test you have, whether just this question infusion, some other question infusion or anything for that matter, all those things you should be revising. Secondly, this you should have done by now but if you haven't then this is the time to do it. It's the very last point in time that you should be doing it. This is the last phase that you have, you must do this. That is to do the previous year LPSU question paper. If you haven't done it, it is gonna cost you a lot. At least last three years question papers you must do because that is the current sentiment of the problem. Last three years question papers have been difficult, some of them very difficult, I think 2019 was very difficult. But everything had the same genetics. The genetics were the same. If you know 2018 paper, you know 2019 papers to an extent. You know this is the kind of question that has been coming. Unless you do that and go for the exam, you are in for a surprise and that is some of the supplies you do not need in the exam. So make sure you do the previous year question papers. The second is previous year question papers. Also I would suggest if you can and if you are not good with aptitude and that logical reasoning and English, you must do the previous year one two question papers of paper two also. Don't keep it to the very end. Like five days before the exam, I'll check whether I can do it. And in the end you have a good score in GS and a very in GS one and you have a low score in GS two and you're disqualified. That's a terrible state to be. Please do not do that. Make sure you do one question paper of GS two also right now. Right now means right now. And then you see your score should be somewhere about 100. Right? You should at least have 40 marks buffer. Right? That's good. And lately it has been a bit more difficult because the 19 paper was difficult. I am from I am Calcutta. I am done Calcutta. Then I am also finding it a bit difficult. Okay. That means that I know aptitude through and through and all the logical reasoning and what all investigations I can deal with very well. But I found it difficult because the 19 paper I found it difficult. So you're thinking that you can tackle it in the paper and then you have an extra content on that. Let me tell you, no, please do it. Please make sure that you are doing a good job in that paper also. And it's not if you're not doing if you don't have a score more than 100, you have to 70 or something. Make sure every day you put two hours into it to see that you're able to clean after it for a few things. So those pattern you find out what is the way to solve it. That's all right. Do that. Very important. Now, the third thing I would like to tell you is about the answer. All right. Geography questions have been predominantly from the at this. So you should know at least very thoroughly, especially the Indian math, right? You know, passively looking at Indian math, you're looking at what is like how are places juxtaposed to be in each other in the sense that what is on the same latitude, what was the same latitude, what was the same longitude, which national park is above which national park, the top down, the north-south orientation of national park, the east-west orientation of national park, right? The reverse attribution that you would have a table for that, I believe reverse attribution. All these things should be in place and at this should be seen. What I used to do was closer to the exam 10 to 20 days, I would dedicate half an hour for the athlete, one map a day, a few things a day. And even the word geography is important. I see all this, all the reverse, important reverse, all the cities that have been currently, that also I mark and see, I see the equator, what our country is going to equator, what was the tropical terrain, what is the cancer, all that I can actually revise. There is a probability that even a very traditional, very rare question when the athletes can come. So athletes have become a very important dimension in the exam right now because of the map-based questions that are coming. So please do that, right? So that's three for you. Now four, this is also a place where you can talk to your friends with a constructive discussion in place, where some friend can ask you a few questions over the phone and you can ask them a few questions over the phone and just keep on asking these are some important questions and keep answering them. Though I'm not saying do it at a very extensive level, do it at a medium, like a bit, because that when you get something wrong and when a friend is talking to you, this is the right answer, your memory keeps on developing. Then next time when that question comes, you remember that just friend had asked me this and then I had made this wrong and this was the answer, right? So through conversations also, this is a wonderful time where you can keep asking all the national parks, all the tributaries of rivers. So all those really boring, very factual, very pedestrian things, you can use a discussion method to actually ask each of those questions. I used to do this when I was in hostel because people were eating in and around, so we used to gather in the hall and then keep asking for those questions. When I would be eating, we make sure that at least that time is also spent really well. Especially we can do when you're eating or something, you can just call some friend up, you can eat also and keep answering questions to that. Even during eating, we have something somewhere. Anyway, it's sad that's why I like it so much, right? I know, you have to revise every point where we are at. But that's how, that's how this exam is. You can't say anything, right? You have to live it. Anyway, so that is the, I think that is fourth, right? Fourth, yeah. But the fourth, that's the fourth thing. Now fifth, fifth, what is more important? I'm going to talk about very hygiene factors here, which are pretty much everyone knows, like everyone knows these things, but still we are a bit lazy to do this. I would say do not, right? One, visiting your center, whatever center it is, right? You are going to visit it. You are going to see the center. You are going to make sure, this is my center earlier, much before the exam, one or two days before the exam or credit, whenever you are comfortable. Go see the center, ask them whether this is the center, see everything in the center, find the place to rest around the center. Because between the exam one and between the exam two, you might have pretty much a bit of time and the season is a bit rainy. So you need a shed where you can sit and revise or do something, right? That is important. So find a place closer to the center where you can rest. If you have mother or parents or someone who can keep on telling you, that's good. I'm talking about people who might not have parents or who cannot come to the place, right? And then for those people, it's important that you, I am some person, I do everything from Delhi. So my parents are not even close. They were not even around. So I used to find a place either a catholic office day or something else depends. If you have an urban space, it's easier. Otherwise, you find some shed or some ground or somewhere where you can sit and revise. That's important for me. So you just do the same thing for me. So we sit at the center, find a place where you can spend the rest of the day and make sure that this is the center that we have, right? Another hygiene factor I would like to talk about is your pen. So make sure you have multiple pens and what not and what not. What kind of a pen is required so you basically read that instruction. There are additional instructions, there are additional COVID instructions. So go through that, go through everything that is about COVID and what all precautions we have to take in the examination hall. Do not wait for the very end date of both of it. Go through it at least five to 10 days before you get ready with all those things, right? Finally, health, especially in the second, both for limbs and wheelchair. This attempt is one of the very strenuous because of COVID being a huge issue. And then you have to take care of your health. If something happens while you are preparing, even now or even closer to the exact, it is a hell yeah. Then we lose this attempt, okay? Let's not do that. Let's not get those arrests at all. Do not go out of your houses unless it's extremely necessary. Do not go out of your houses. Stay, study, keep your health intact. Make sure your sanitize everything and what not and what not. Your health is extremely important for the exam and make sure you do a good job with it, right? Take all the precautions required. So that is mostly the hygiene factors and what I was about to tell you. Now six, these are things I would, six and seven are things which I keep exactly while I'm writing the exam. Now I have discussed things which were about for taking precautions and taking all the measures for you to be successful before the exam arrives, right? This is in the exam. Why do you are writing the exam? Why do you have pen and paper and an o-mart sheet and the question paper beside you, right? At that point, what do you want? Every time you read a question, underline the important points. Underline, what are they asking? They are asking this, they are asking this major point, major keywords of the question you are going to underline. And then you also underline whether they are asking the correct statement or incorrect statement they are asking. Then you read the option. There also you keep on underlining, right? And while reading the option, do not jump, do you read one option and decide that is the answer and then finish off and go right? No. Read every option with a very neutral point of view, right? You have not decided the answer. You are saying this might be the answer final. Keep it next, next, next. And you will, Indian understand that what might have been the answer is actually wrong and the better answer is down below. Always read all the options with the same state of mind with a very neutral point of view. And then get, and then finally just suppose one against the other and decide on the option not on the first time. Please do that thoroughly multiple times. Even I had made a mistake of, because I have a tendency to do everything pretty much fast. So I made a mistake in this manner and you cannot forgive yourself upon making such mistakes, especially in an extremely complicated arena where every question comes, right? Great. And another, the seventh and the final thing, right? Attitude towards the question. You might read a question and you think that I don't know anything about it. I've never heard this. I've never heard this. I will not answer this. There's no point to answer. You keep the question. No. You read the question for us. Then you read the option, right? You tell yourself I can get some answer out of it. Then you push yourself to get an answer and till you can't find that answer, then you leave it. But make sure do not prejudge the question. That's the point here. Do not prejudge the question whether you know it or not. Unless you read the question thoroughly and evaluate all the options, then only decide whether you should do it or not. There are a lot of sitters, right? Very easy questions which are mocked or camouflaged as very difficult questions and throw at you. But once you come out of the exam hall and read the option, you're like, oh my God, this I could have written. Oh my God. This is the easy way. So that kind of a thing cannot happen to you. So please approach all questions to the same children. Right? I hope that is also clear. And yeah, so that's the final thing I would like to say. Another thing is, yeah, 5 till the end there. 5 till the end. This is also part of the thing which I say while writing the paper. Why till the end there? You might not know the first two questions, first four questions, first five questions or even seven questions. That's not a matter. That's not a matter. You're gonna find the questions that we know are still ahead. There are much more questions to not get all hard work and oh my God, this sentence is gone. I already does not do not know 10 questions. I've written now what I'm gonna do. No, you pipe. You continuously type, right? Till the very 100 questions, we approach it with the same state of mind and the same principles and the same power we are approaching the first. You will get, you will find answers. You will know the 11th question you know. The 13th question you know. Then 15th question you know. And then you keep on getting questions. Then you come back to the first time questions you did not know. There you find the, oh my God, with more contents, I got the answer for this. I got the answer for this. It's all about confidence to an extent when it comes to the exam and that process situation. So 5 to 0. That's my final point. I hope you do well in this exam. We have to crack it. I wish you all the best, right? I wish you all the best. Take care of your students. Do the exam well. And I'm sure that if you have, if you have done revisions like three rounds of revisions or three to four rounds of revisions, you have covered almost all the syllabus. And then you're going for the exam. There is a very high probability that you're gonna clear even if the exam is extremely difficult. That's okay. For everyone, it's gonna be difficult. Because you have done everything and you're going, you know it's difficult. So everyone is difficult. Right? So I hope you, I wish you all the best. Thank you.