 Hi friends, myself Dharun Kumar, all India rank 413, CAC 2018. I am here to discuss with you all strategies to be followed during prelims through Shankar IIS Academy portal. Problems is most important part because it filters a lot of candidates. I am here to talk about how to handle the battle and how to get the right strategy which is very important in order to win in prelims. So there are four different things that is very important. It depends on question paper. Any problems candidate should depend on question paper. Length of the questions, how much derivative they are, how much they have derived the question, how much they have mixed up the question paper, how much current affairs dominator. These four things will determine how the question paper is going to be and battle plan. So there will be a lot of battle plans that you would have discussed. So it should depend on how the question paper is. If it is easy, it is more current affairs dominator. Then our battle plan should be very much related to it. We should attend on an average 85. It is very easy. We can go till 85 to 95 and if it is neutral or difficult, it is very, very, very difficult to tell a question paper is neutral or it is extremely difficult. So hence we will consider it as neutral and we have to be very cautious when it is seems to be very, very difficult. We have to take up questions between 75 to 85. Again this 75 to 85 depends on how much show shop questions you have such that you can take risk according to it. This is how our battle plan should be and playing it smart. So we have to drive. The plan is all about the travel and each and every moment of our problems travel, we should be in the driver's seat. We should know what we are doing, what we should do and how much risk we have to take. That is very important. Every moment of battle should be in our hand. We should never leave the problems take us out of the battle. You have to make sure that we are in the driving seat. We should know about three important aspects so that we can decide about what is our strategy is going to be. Three important aspects will be how much show shop questions we have. Show shop is questions that we are 100 percent. We will definitely have some 30 to 40 questions. We are very, very sure shot that will come directly. These questions are very important in order to clear problems and how many two problems it is inevitable that we will get questions in which we have two options left. A, B, C, D we will have whether it is B or D. This is how we stand up at the battle. So we have to decide between two problems and we have three problems also. This comes aspect of time at every battle. So if you are going to take risk, how much time we have and how much the risk is rational, how much the risk is going to be based on decisions which we have based on facts. These things are very important when we are at the end of the day we have some 120 minutes and we have to take decisions as quick as possible. So my friends there are three aspects that are most important. How much show shop questions at any time, two problems that we have in our hand and three problems that we have in our hand. These three things are going to make us cross the line. Role of marking our travel. So we are traveling and we have to know where we have traveled, which place we have visited and how we are going to end our travel. So technical aspects make a difference. So at any point of time in our travel we should know how much questions we are 100% at, how much questions we have two options left, how many questions we have three options left such that we can take risk in questions that we know no other options. These are very important. For example we have to strike the question in which we have marked. So it makes no sense to have the questions spend 5 to 10 seconds seeing that question at the end of the day. We will have some 10 minutes before we have to choose some 10 questions. So strike the questions if you have attended it. Don't make you to see the question again that is very important using normals. This is something which people largely use. So if it is incorrect try to write n at the end of the question. Options such that you will never forget that you have to choose the answer which is incorrect. So again it is for true powers you can write it toward the right corner. So that at the end at the last half an hour you can easily know which questions you should take risk of, which question you have to leave. These things will make your decisions more rational and feel you more confident and you will be in the driving seats. These normals you can invert any normals. You can use similarities. You can interact with the question paper and let yourself know in which portion you are. Keywords make a big difference. So please spend very much in the question paper keywords. What they are asking how they are playing especially political questions is more on how they are framing the question and what they are expecting. We have to make sure the keywords matters aspect of coding our mind. With normals you can code your mind such that you will understand and know in which portion you are in the question paper. For example if you code your mind you will know how much questions you have attended. Each paper of question paper you can write like say five questions I have attended. Such will make a big difference when you complete the question paper once. When you go first round you will know how much questions you have attended. You will have had 45, 50 years such that you will know that in the last half an hour you have to attend another 35 questions. That 35 questions you can easily take up in two probabilities and three probabilities. This will help you at the end having nominal account of your choices. This is what I explain now. We have to know how much questions we have attended, how much we have to attend, how much we can take risk and which type of questions we are going to take risk. If we do not know the question 100 percent we have to make sure we take up questions we know 75 percent, 80 percent say 50 percent even 35 percent. We have to know the questions we have to attend that will help you in crossing the line. Role of marking our travel so Shankar's has do's and do's before problems. Sar would have explained how to take risk at the end say the last 10 minutes. Please go through the video. This video will provide you some very very intellectual options at the end of your problems that will help you take some rational decisions when it is very difficult for you to do reinventing and inventing. So, when we practice these norminals, these marking our travel, having nominal account of how much questions we have attended, even understanding the question paper easily after 45 minutes you can easily predict whether the question paper is easy or difficult. So, when we can invent and reinvent only by practice. When we start to practice question papers in a way that we have some kind of account of where we are in our travel how much we are going to do this is very important practice it is art of yourself. Problems is smart work by the golden words of Shankar sir. Problems is all about smart work and it is art we have to master it that is the most important. So, I have here filtered out with three battle strategies, three normal battle strategies. The role of battle strategies plays a major role. So, the first kind of candidates I will call us fillers. What they will do is once they read the question they will fill in the coding sheet. They will do for all the under questions. At the end of the day they will be marking. They will come back to the first question again after you look after going through all under questions. They try to choose answer the first instance itself. They will take time, they will take even 5 to 10 minutes for a question because they are going to fill it at that moment itself. So, it is very very important that those who are fillers should be very time-consuming. Since you feel you put yourself into pressure to take the decision at that moment itself this means you will be taking risk uncertainty remains. If the question paper is very very tough it means this strategy is going to put you in a lot of pressure because it will take a lot of time for you to cross 50 questions 75 questions you will have less time in your hand and if we try to guess even in the first 25 30 questions it might continue for a long time. We have to make sure if we are a filler we should take the decisions very rationally and try to make sure that in the first one hour we have to only mark questions which are sure shot under person or even two provables will be enough. Second round you can take some 30 minutes or even 45 minutes. So, if it is you are a filler you have to make sure you take your first 60 to 80 minutes for only 100 percent answerable questions or even two provables and the rest 30 to 40 minutes will go to three provables and questions which you have very little understanding and the last 10 minutes is when we have you have to guess. So, that you you have a very rational kind that you will take risk between 80 to 85 if it is hard and 88 to 95 if it is easy to you and reviewers what they do is like they mark the answers in the question papers itself they will do this for not just 10 questions they will do even for 50 to 100 questions and mark at at the end say 20 minutes here the problem is like when we go to the fillers they mark the question so they get marks when it comes to reviewers means they fail to mark the question and they will take only the last 20 minutes to code in the coding sheet this means they are taking risk they are taking very high amount of risk and else the process will be you will have exact counts you will know how much questions you attend you can go through you will have second revision reviewing the answers because before marking the coding sheet people will take second opinion on the answers and similar to type of question helping to judge answers for example the first question 73 might be related or even 73 might help you get the answers of first question this is something which they time to recover so we all have sense like it takes time to recollect certain things so it is like when you cross 74th you can get answers of seventh question this is their postures at the end even delay in sharing means it is very risky you are losing marks whatever the answer you know whatever we are right at but without marking you won't get marks confusion creeps up if you mark something in your question paper and you doubt yourself and mark other in the bar code it means confusion creeps up and when you see the same question twice thrice and you feel that your option is wrong you will spend a lot of time these things might creep up if you have very little practice typo mistakes this is a major problem so for example when you are marking the coding sheet if you make a big difference when you mark the answer of 8th question in seventh and you continue this is happened to many candidates this type of mistakes will be a game changer we have to have a practice and we have to know where we are marking and especially when we are under pressure these type of strategies will be very difficult for candidates so please know that when you mark the bar code make sure you make it the right question at least after 5 to 10 questions you check up marking different answers for example when we when we read the question and we find the answers unfortunately we will mark it A in our question paper and we will mark A in our bar code this happens so we need a lot of practice when considered and if you are taking risks say 50 questions 70 questions and marking only after the 70 questions make sure you do very quickly this is very important the mixers this is what I will suggest so go by question papers right page 1 and 2 together page 3 and 4 together this will help you this will give you a balance so approach by pages there are 7 questions in first two page mark go through the 7 questions and mark it in the bar code it will help you and it will even per video time for about if you want to recollect for first question you can take tell the 7th question this provides a balance better balance and even you have understanding how much questions you would have attended how much questions you have to attend how much questions you can leave these things will also help in when it comes to nominal and marking so we have to know where we are so this is something very important so yet the technique and ample amount of practice and experience will help you whatever the technique be with ample amount of practice and experience you can create art of yourself that will help you do whatever happens we have to be driving we have to be in control of our problems these things are ways in which we can control you can also find any other way but make sure you should be in control that is very important killing anxiety and setting is a biggest enemy for all of us even not UPSC so no two human beings have equal interest I will be very good in politics my friend will be very good in history if I get first 10 questions in history it will be very difficult for me if my friend gets first 10 questions in politics it will be very difficult for him so we have to make sure that we have to believe and after the 11th question is going to be my play so we have to wait be patient understand the question paper try to incur what they are asking and even leave questions you do not know in the first one make sure you attend questions you are under portion show shot and two probable such that you will be feeling confident and even you will know how good you are in the question paper and that helps you at the end of the day how much to guess and how to guess you might feel quality is even other can feel geography easy maintain patience patience is the key even if you don't know first we have to attend the rest 90 this is what we have to do mainstream positivity so do everything possible to maintain positivity we are the favorite color have your favorite pen talk with your favorite persons whatever favorite we vary this is a very favorite rate we have to maintain positivity positivity is a key to success in problems if there you will be under a lot of pressure the two has this very vital we have to be positive everything positive will happen also surviving the environment environment of problems is going to be different from different for example if you go government school we have to embrace a classroom without fan we have to make sure we embrace for the climate that we might be and we have to be ready to have water with us whatever you need chocolates take it all make sure you feel very comfortable we have to survive that two hours and two hours so surviving environment is very very important embrace and prepare for anything whatever might happen please prepare well in advance that will help you and friends if you follow these things you are going to do and you are going to do after general studies only after battle then control your environment speculations and do not go very deep discussions yes it is inevitable humans will have their eagerness to see and just go see take less amount of time 20 30 minutes isolate yourself from people who are very spectacle be very positive it is half battle then and we have to clear another paper that is very important the role of seaside is also increasing since it is a qualification paper the amount of difficulty levels are constantly increasing so we have to make sure we are also ready for a right many people have been able to clear general studies and failed in seaside also so do not take it very easy but make sure you have strategy you do some homework practice things that will help you at the end of the day many students tend to fail in spite of very good CS marks friends I have briefly discussed with you all about strategies and their importance I believe it will help you all win this battle success is imminent for determined souls all the very best my friends thank you