 So good afternoon everyone, so as Sir has introduced I am Shanaz Ilyas. This has been my first attempt and I had done it in self-preparations and I have a two years old kid. I started my preparation during my maternity leave. So there is a gap of six to nine months where you do not need to report to job and your office pays for you. So I thought it's financially more viable to start it there because you have some free time you know I had my family support, I had my mother who will assist me in taking care of my child. So I thought why not use this, why not try to do something useful. Basically everybody is thumbed, okay so except three you will be able to understand, okay fine cool. So the basic law and now personality done is the one the final decision. So what I did was I cannot sit idle, I am that personality, so six months shumma wakar rada I was not okay with it. So shumma wakar rada badala first two months time which group took, prillam se aithalame shumma two months and that's padichai aithalame, so little two months prepar paneer dina group two. I was nine months pregnant, enno nalla nya varku yubilo perey vahidh rukku, edh pahidh tukkandite. Nine months pregnant ladies cannot sit for a very long time, two hours. So flying squad illa at that time lai eni endirichu vandh rest room paurath kala vidhu vanga. So na kumche nirupai hukkar vai aapdu pkandita na aithana, I cleared group two, kumche easy aapur chai, why not UPSC, you also have four more months or six more months solita da, I started this UPSC. So once I recovered from my pregnancy I started my UPSC. This is the why I started and where I started, when I started. So when I started one thing I did was I saw a lot of toppers video, sure you all would have seen and everybody would have said certain things common. So when I chose my strategy because I cannot go anywhere outside for coaching instead because logistic problem piliya vite to pohum udiyaadu. Naan daan paniyaanu, veeta daan paniyaanu, pilla thungum aadu video paakul naa, book erithu padikil naa. So that was my strategy, aapdi daa aaramichan. Nariya toppers paakum aadu, you have to choose your strategy, you have to understand why a topper had chosen that strategy, what is his background. So when you look into my strategies everything will be time constraint managing family and my resources, so it will be in that lane. So when you understand and when you look into topper strategy, understand why they chose it, so that is why it do not blindly follow it or try to implement it. Risen pannanga, yey aunga pannanga, aadu nama ka aplay aahuma, aadu vandu nama ke apdi modify pannikelaa, aapdiin ra maari yosinga. And a few things when you see a topper strategy it will be very simple. You do not think it is simple and it is not UPAC level and it will not be true. Simple things work, simple strategy works, if they, I will tell you prillams ke oorey aur mantra daa aarukku, it is something like read, revise, test, analysis. This is my mantra. You do reading, then you revise it once, write a test and you do not stop after writing a test. You get 80, you get 70, you get 60, you do not stop it there. You see why I got 80. If I had written 80 questions out of which 20 or 25 is wrong, you just see why 25 went wrong. So you have this thing, you will know, right, questions which are, which you are 100 percent sure you will categorize in one category, question you are 50, 50 sure. You will come, you will attend it in the second round, question where you are 75, 25 sure. You no more penna, which is yours, yours, third round, 11, there is a finger. So you have these things. So see, when you write your mock test, adhile, edhishora edhining, edhivandhita, 50, 50, edhining, edhis, 75, 25, edhining and redhiv, you write it, put a tag, table, this I used to follow. For example, you are going to write like this, 1, 2, 3, 4, this you know exactly what is the answer. This you know in 50, 50, second you know it in 75, 25, okay. So at the end of this when I evaluate, I will evaluate like this, something like this, I will evaluate myself. At the end I used to have a table, this table will have short, short questions, how much I answered. For example, 25, 0, 35, 0 and then how much was right, how much was wrong and total marks and whatever I am getting. So in this way I will do for 50, 50 and 75, 25, I will see the marks here. So I will know where my strength lies. So this is what I did in analysis, follow this, you will understand yourself when you write an examination. You will know whether your strength is fully short or 50, 50 or 75, 25. Generally, toppers used to say based on what I had seen from my strategy, they used to say here accuracy should be 95, 90 plus and here it should be 50, 60, here it 40 is alright. So you can say, you can find your own magic numbers, okay. Mine was never 90 here or 95 here. Mine was 70, 70 here. So I knew my 50, 50 answers were mostly right. So 70% accuracy is a good accuracy. So even though I do not get 90 here, I am able to get 70 here. So I would make sure that I attempt as much as possible in 50, 50 equation. My logical understanding and my logical guessing is right. So and 75, 25, you have to see how much you are right, how much you are wrong. If you are wrong, obviously you have done 75, 25 to arrive on the final answer. You have done some kind of logical reasoning with yourself, good consigns, bad consigns, you can do the answer and you can do your thing, correct? So why did you arrive on that answer? What was the logic or knowledge that made you to answer this? Understand that. So that you will know whether that logical reasoning, when this, up to the very answer part where this was senseless reasoning that you had made. Do not make it again. If you are doing it repeatedly on the same kind of question, do not answer that kind of question in your actual examination. You will know which question to attend, which question not to attend based on this kind of analysis. And in your mark in the parking lot, it should never go in negative. If it goes in negative, seriously think you are guessing a lot. So you are guessing, the strategy is wrong. So this is what I did to understand how to answer the prillams. Prillams is an art of writing and attending this question. Many people have studied for 12 hours, 14 hours, but the prillams are not clear. Many of them have not studied much. Basically, they will know about it. If they are 50-50, this is how logical reasoning should be done. If they analyze it and complete it, they will score better. Some people are acing in prillams, you know, 4-5 prillams, easier prillams for you know. Because I think that is because they know what to answer, how to answer for the mother, they are doing it right, Abdeen Reddy. So this is something that I would recommend you to follow, try it. And I hope it works for you, like it works for me. And this is one aspect and like I said, revision, test and analysis. When you make an analysis, for every test, you have to make your own notes. So the notes can be subject-wise. You will have your own note copy, right? In that note copy, you can put for history if you are taking notes. Behind that note, you can just, I had brought my notes, I think, one second. So this is my quality notes, part 1. So here, this is my notes. This will be my notes. So in the back side, I'll be writing my, whatever I had read in my tests. I will write it here. These are the potential questions. So your test series, your coaching center is going to give you these questions. For putting it in your mock test for some reason. It might have been in some news that you would have missed. They would have seen it. They would have thought maybe a question related to this is coming. So they would have given you that question. It is a potential question. Trust me, I got some three to four questions directly from my mock. I was able to answer and I was able to recollect because for every test, I was able to, I was writing this notes. So try to have this notes. In this also, it is better to write it under the same topic. If at all you're taking notes for moguls. Wherever you had made notes for moguls, try to write it small there. So it is all in one point. Your notes now becomes more than your book. Your book doesn't have that information and your note has information more than your book. So it is more valuable than your book. So this is one more thing in analyzes, I would say. And in terms of revision, you have your aim should be in such a way that if you're revising or subject for the first time in safe 10 or 15 days next time, try to reduce the time by 20 to 30 or even 40, 50 percentage. Okay, as much as possible, try to do it first. I was able to complete a prelims entire portion inclusive of current affairs in 10 days, the entire portion, one cycle, I can do it. I can do quality in one day. I can do history in three days, inclusive of culture, economics in two days. And then geography in half days, environment in half day. I used to read map daily that you map this in the morning as you brush your teeth just open, you see one page, give it to your father, give it to your mother or your sister or brother and tell them, that's your address. So when they say, I would say, I would say, this is up, this is down, this is down. So it is, it is a very long process. So this is how I approached map. As usual, I had long big, big maps of India and world map in my room structure. Do not keep it for decoration. Make it your mini notes. If you're reading about, that is a depression region near Eritrea, right? In Africa. So there was a news during my prelims. So I used to mark it there, whatever information I remember. Kutty kutty, I did the sticky notes, I'll stick it on top of it. Some maps will not have what passes, the big political map will not have passes or it will not have the dams. So I used to have this marker and I used to mark it on top of the map itself. So I would say, do not just read or look at the map, write on top of it. When you write something, you will remember more. So that was one thing on map. And for wildlife sanctuaries, bio-reserve, kutty kutty, you will have A4 size 11. Google immediately, you will have these things. Stick it on top. I remember Tiger Reserve, Tiger Senses was there during my prelims. So Tiger Senses' all objective was there in that kutty map. What is Tiger Reserve? What is Target? What is Organization? What are the different techniques that they use? There is catch sample, there is spot, something like that. You have camera capture and there is something, CCTV, something like that is there. So everything will be there in that map, that kutty A4 sheet. That will be stuck on my wardrobe. So every time I open my wardrobe, close my wardrobe, I'll have a look. So you have a pictographic memory. So use something innovative. These are the things that I try to improve my retention path. And strategy for writing my prelims, this was my strategy. And when I talk about mains, I started answer writing not on the day one. It is not possible on day one, you will have limited knowledge. I would say when you finish at least two subjects, it is a very good time to start answer writing. Do not try to write answer like a full length in the start. So I think time management was not something that I targeted before prelims. Before prelims, all I bothered about was, am I able to perceive the question? Am I able to think in different dimension? So I had about, I was dealing only about the knowledge part and the thinking part that goes into the answer. So I was able to finish two 10 marker in 30 minutes. That is really huge, that is a long time. So I did not basically bother about time. I did not pressure myself on that. I started concentrating on time, but I kept in my mind. Somehow I have to reduce it. I was 30 minutes in a car, I slept 20 minutes down. And then even that is also a long time, six or seven minutes more than the targeted time. So I did not bother about the time before prelims. After prelims, I concentrated on full mock tests. You will have a lot of resources where you can download the full mock papers, take the mock papers, give full mock test every other day or once in three days maximum. And every week write one full essay. By full essay, I mean two essays. Essay also I started even before prelims, six or seven months before prelims also I was writing essays. Before my essay, actual main examination, I would have written some 50 to 60 essays. I was comfortable. I knew what were my strengths in essays. Not everybody, you have certain categories, right? Societal women empowerment, you have something about education, health, international relations. You will have certain topics, broad topics. If you write 50 to 60 essays, you will know which essays are your strength, where you can play your strength and which essays. How do you write the essay? I have international relations, I write. What do you write? It will be very boring. Essay has to be captivating. It has to talk to your invigilator. So, I knew which essays were my strength. And if it is my weakness, I knew why it is my weakness. So, to know your strength and weakness, you have to write, you have to see different strategies. Essay can hurry strategy require. I scored 140 in essay this time. I would say that is okay. This one. Okay, thanks. So, essay where the mother, first I used to strategize. So, when you have essay three hours, use 15 minutes to strategize, even 20 minutes to strategize for one essay. So, 15, 15, 30 minutes for strategizing is fine. So, how I used to strategize is, if you have an essay topic, this is your topic. This is my actual exam, what I will think this, whatever I am writing here, I will write it on my paper, rough work. Okay. So, this is going to be my intro, one page. Next page, what you understand from that essay. That will be the next page. Last will be way forward and after that will be conclusion. So, this will be one side. This will be one side. And then you will be left with three pages. So, three pages I will divide into three divisions. One, two, something like the three. So, these three I would play it in a way, where it can explode different dimension. If it is a climate change issues, how technologies are being used for climate change issues, if it is an aggregate or something like that, I say what is existing? I am just guessing, it can be anyway, however you are thinking, okay, existing, then it can be possibility, okay, or application, sorry, possibility application, okay. And then it can be some other topic. So, three pages will be three dimension. Now, your essay looks structured. It has an introduction. Next side, it has an understanding. You are telling what my essay is going to contain, what I have understand by the one sentence that you are given and what I am going to deliver will be here in one page. This will be one and a half or two or one something like that. I will decide based on the contents that I think of. So, here again, I will use one more diagram. I have a matrix kind of thing. I am not able to recollect the entire matrix currently. It will be family, region, region is geography, societal people, okay. And then political, cultural, something like this. So, in family, I can say about, I will think about, I will have three. There is a matrix, okay. Something like this, you have your own matrix. And this will be, each matrix will have subdivision. For example, if societal in people, I will have what tries women, especially challenged. So, something like that. You will have to have your own matrix. I had my matrix like this for every topic. I would try to think in these subheadings. So, when I write my essay, it will be diversified. It will have certain amount of information with family. It will have certain amount of information in the region. So, you will have your essay as a diversified. It will look as well-informed. When you without this or without having a practice, if you start thinking, often we tend to think in one dimension. We do not. I think about tribes. So, what about tribes' livelihood? Women. Women, when there are crimes, women have more. Women have more burden. There are reports on that. So, I start thinking about those reports. So, when you have these things, when you have a topic, you will see how you can relate it with these things. So, that is one thing. Have your matrix. This is your page planning. So, this is my strategy for essay. And you have GS, you have standard syllabus. Take your syllabus. Do not overthink. Do not make a PhD in every topic. Okay. Do not need to know every nook and corner. UPC is simple. How much ever you are simplifying it, how much ever simplified and clear knowledge that you have, that much easy it will be for you to answer question. For every topic, know what is the definition. Know what are the basic issues with those topic. For example, if there is land, you know what kind of pollution it is there that is associated with it, what are the kind of degradation. So, there are certain issues that is related. If you are talking about civil societies or NGOs for that matter. So, sorry, you have the self-help groups, right? So, in that issues, you will have about financial issues they have. They do not have that knowledge. They always depend on NGO. You know, you know, I have to know the broad issues. So, and for every issues you have to know, why is it so a basic understanding? And then what are the steps that government has done? Is there any committee or report that has said something about it? So, a certain miscellaneous topic, this much is enough and do not overthink about it. Have a two pages maximum notes that cover broadly these things. So, you have to do answer writing practice. Only then you will be able to have your limited resource and make it presentable and relatable to the question. For that, it's important to have answer writing practice. So, answer writing is not only about time management. It's not about in three hours to fill as many words as it is required and just give the paper. You have to give a relatable answer. You have to give an answer that is asked by the examiner in the question paper. For that, you should be able to perceive the question. You should be able to understand and recollect. I have seen a lot of people who will not be able to recollect what they have read. Main slow curve anger, I went blank. I read so much, but then I went blank and solo anger. That might be because they had read too much. They had complicated. They are scared of UPSC. Don't be scared of UPSC. It's a very simple process. It's about your maturity level. It's about how you tackle a problem. One question is not clear. Do not get tensed. Think about what we are related to in that area. Think about whether you can relate to it and put it into the question. So that you get some mark, rather than a zero. Or if you get tensed, maybe two or three more questions, you will not be able to answer much. I believe 70 to 80% is on preparation. Balance 20 to 30% is your presence of mind and your calmness and your mental state in your examination. Have a developed certain amount of calmness in you in examination. Do not be scared of UPSC. That is the first point I would like to say. So this is one thing. This is an essay for GS. Write answers a lot. How to answer a question that is not clear. Think about how you can relate to it in your mind. Because how much ever you practice in the examination hall, there are going to be three or four questions where you do not know much. You are not prepared. You are underprepared. How many marks are you going to take in that question? There is a game changer. Okay. Everything I studied is almost the same resource all over India. Everyone is going to see the same website. Everyone is going to see the same book. Book list is not different. You are not going to have a different resource. The change is your mental state and how you attend the question. That three or four question where nobody knows. Almost major majority of your what? Competition will not know. How do you come and write in that? There is a mark on top. There are four marks on top. I am going to go a little lower. GS is almost the same mark on top. If you are going to go higher, they will have prepared everything extraordinary. Otherwise, they will know how to handle it. So, make a habit that you know how to handle. It will go a long way. And another thing in GS is presentation. Introduction, body, conclusion. You would have heard about it. So, for every question, you will have introduction. Introduction, major like data points and definition. This part and then you will have body and then you will have conclusion. This was my strategy. For every topic, I used to box it and give a topic. For introduction, I did not give topic. Here body will have two or three subdivision based on your question. Introduction and conclusion do not give introduction. Do not give conclusion. And here I used to draw a diagram. Whatever I understand, it will be something like this. Either in the marirukkha vaipirukkha, whatever the many dimensions or it can be a sun diagram. Not for every question, you will be able to think about a diagram. So, if you know, if you can read the question and bring in dimension, you can put it in terms of sun diagram. This I used to follow. And for almost every question, you have a diagram that is sun diagram. At least you will be there. Try to bring in a diagram. If not possible, resort to this thing. So, that was one thing on GS. And for interview, I associated with Shankar. Here in the academy, they help me a lot. They will make you talk with a lot of bureaucrats. Very helpful, they voluntarily try to assist you. I got 173 in my interview. That's an average mark. I was predicted that I'll get 175 and I got 173. So, I have seen when they said 175, I knew I'm going to get 175. All I prayed was I do not go below 170. So, they will arrange a one-on-one interaction with bureaucrats. It's very useful. That is the most that you can get for an interview. They will listen to you. They'll tell you, these are your strengths. These are your weakness. Listen to them and take their input seriously and go back and work on it. So, and main thing is how much ever you work on it, anxiety is one thing that will beat you in your examination. You will be sitting in a waiting hall. Then they'll take you to the actual board room, sorry, where the board sits. In front of the door, you'll be made to sit for a minute or two. That is the moment you will feel all the anxiety. So, there was a beautiful garden in front of me. It was, I think it was a kind of a circular or a curvature building. So, there was a garden there. I had listened to a lot of toppers who said that they were very anxious. They had this fear, you will want the ground to split and take you in and you will have all these thoughts. So, I made a point that I shouldn't have any fear. I was looking into the garden. I thought I am chilled. But then inside, inside I had an anxiety which I did not realize, which I realized only when the board member started asking questions. And even then, I didn't know I was in anxiety because I blabbered something. It took me from two or three questions to sink in the conversation and know that, okay, fine, I'm in an interview, I can answer. So, first two or three questions, it was, it took me, I mean, when you are asleep, they wake you up and you ask something and you answer something. And just like, please let me sleep. That was my state. So, it took me two or three questions to understand and come into the game. So, I would, if given another chance, I would try one more strategy to not look into garden or at least try something so that I'm alert from the very first question. So, if you have an opportunity to go for interview, relax your mind. When you go there, be alert. Your alertness comes or you begin to take the seriousness after two questions that happened to me. Do not do it. So, that was a mistake I made. I hope you do not make it. And you will have a wonderful platform and wonderful guidance there. I can talk about that because I took the guidance here. So, any questions I can take or you can wind up. I do not recollect much. As far as I recollect, I can tell you. So, the essay that I took was, I took an international relation essay. I was not very good, but then I did not want to take an essay on women. I have heard some toppers who say that women, when I am a little feminist, so I have a strong voice of women empowerment. I want some changes. So, there is a bias when it comes to such topics. Some people will be for, some people will be against. So, when I heard toppers say that when you write this thing, you will let the examiner know that you are a woman or your beliefs are there. So, I wanted to take a topic which is not opinionated. There was a topic on patriarchy. I would have been comfortable, but then I made a point. I shouldn't write that. I do not know if it is the same or not, but that was the reason why I took this international relation. There was one topic which said, technology is something like that. Do you recollect something? Technology is the silent factor in international relation. So, it was not purely international relation. It was science and tech combined. And the other essay which I took was, ship does not sink because of the water around it. It sinks because of the water in it. So, in ship doesn't sink because of water around it. It sinks because of water in it. I do not remember the introduction I had written. I usually take a story kind of introduction. I write fiction stories. So, I am confident. So, I took one page. First page was introduction story. And second page here was my understanding. What I understood? I spoke about Titanic ship. So, it had been on a voyage for a very long time. It, people were having a very nice time. They were enjoying the view around it. It's not then that the ship sank. It was sinking only because the water came and people started panicking. They did not have hope, blah, blah, blah. I related this Titanic here. So, I wrote about Titanic. And then this was the first two things. And the next few pages I wrote first about, I segmented in to three parts. First is India, self and world. I took in two stories for India. Right after independence, the entire world thought India would sink. India would last. It's a democracy where people do not have food. They fight for food. They will, India will not be a successful country. It will again crumble. Every newspaper in the western world was something like this. But then we did not let those views come inside our country, inside our heart. Only then we were able to sail through. So, I quoted that example and I gave a few, what, feeder points or story I spun around that. And the second was 1991, when we had this financial crisis. So, I said that again the second, it was not the first time India did the second time. That was my connected sentence. Second time in 1991, when India was again questioned, India's, what, very question of India's survivability was questioned again. Again, we did not succumb. We had what we have, we saw what can be done. So, then I told that we were here in this part. I said something like we were able to overcome our challenges, overcome the difficulties, because we were not letting all our issues problem to get into us. We were sailing because we had kept the problems that day. We were thinking about the solution. We were able to think just because we did not have this doubts or insecurities clouding us. So, everybody can take a lesson from India. So, something like that. And then I said, what, from these lessons, lessons that, lessons for self from India, lessons for world from India. These were my topics. Self from India, lessons for world from India. So, I related these two things with a person's individuality. In life, how, in life, I took three different stages or something like that. Women tribes, I took different dimensions here, different people. And I related that and I said how they had come up well and how women were having social issues. They did not succumb. They had fought it because they did not let it get inside them. They did not normalize it. So, that's why we had this, what women empowerment wave, first wave, second wave, third wave and all we had. So, those were the kind of diversification that I gave in self. And in terms of world, when it came to world, I spoke about the environment. I, here, I more or less, I kept it in a way forward manner. So, I said like now we are in this situation where a lot of environmental issues are around us. The question of survivability of the entire earth is there. So, from India, we can learn that we should not let it come inside us. It should not eat us. But then we should fight it. We should sail through it. There are solutions that has been proposed, something like that for environment. Then I spoke about economy. I spoke about COVID. So, something in, I spoke about environment, COVID, some three or four dimensions I gave in the world. And then in conclusion, I do not remember the conclusion. So, I gave some kind of conclusion. This was my linkage. It was like a story, what India did from India, what we can learn, what world can learn. So, in world, I kept it in a form of way forward. And then I finished it with the conclusion. This was my first essay, second essay. And I think I wrote one quote. That is something that gives you like you have prepared something for your essay. So, introduction was a story and I used to write a quote. So, that was my strategy for the first essay. Second essay, international relation, again introduction story. Second understanding to understand how technology has been important, what I understand from the topic I had given an understanding. Next here, what I quoted was the 1965 civil war. In the civil war, what happened was in 1960s, there was this Cuban issue, if you can remember. So, it was an entire, after the world, were the entire international relations, relations was around the nuclear technology. So, here my, in the second question, my diversification was around different technologies. It was on biotechnology, it was on agriculture technology, it was on nuclear space. So, I diversified my topic based on the technologies. So, you do not need to follow the matrix strictly. If you feel that this is a kind of diversification that I can do, do it. So, what I did was, I took this different, first I started with nuclear. I said like in a time scale I kept it. So, first nuclear, then I spoke about the chemical weapons and chemical things that happened. And then I spoke about the biotechnology, space technology. So, when it came to nuclear, the entire civil war, the post-world war order was depending on who possessed nuclear power. So, and the civil war came to an end approximately because in Cuban issue you have this, not sorry, not it came to an end. There was this Cuban issue where the mere placing of a missile, nuclear missile in Cuba was a problem for US. So, they had come to some kind of treaty, a backdoor treaty was there. I do not recollect currently, but I had read some story on that. So, I put that story over there. And then I spoke about biotechnology. I spoke about chemical technologies, how it was used in what eliminating spies. Then I said spyware, how and then I also gave a dimension that technology is not only with the governments. Technology is also with the corporates. Now, if you are, you are in an information technology where the international relation is not only decided by the governments, corporate, if there are few corporates whose economic potential is more than smaller countries. So, they are also powerful. It is because of the information technology and the power of data that they have. So, I spoke about how corporates are also playing a role in international relation because of the technological power. So, these were the broadly, I do not recollect the exact chain like how I recollect here. But I quoted a lot of example, I did not give much data points. Basically, it is on your strength. If you are able, if you are a good storyteller, put examples, spin a story. If you are a strong data point person, put data points, but then do not bombard with data points. They are not here for a GS answer. Understand it is an essay. Make an essay enjoyable. That is all I would like to say. Any other questions? My optional is sociology. Yours is not sociology. Any other questions? Yeah. What is your daily routine? Okay, daily routine. Two months before the prelims, I used to study nine hours, sorry, eight hours. After that is two months, if I have two months for prelims, then I used to study 10 or 12 hours. Sometimes the main I had gone for 14 hours and I used to do 14 hours for two days or 10, 12 hours for two days. Third days, I mean your eyes will become sore. I used to have this ever fresh drops. If you do not put your ever fresh drops, your eyes will be swollen. That is because of my pressure. This was my first attempt. I did not have coaching. I had because of which I did have to push myself on certain days. Not all days you study on 14 hours. That is not possible. You're human. So two days you study for 14 hours. The next day you study for eight hours. Your body will say sleep today. Now sleep today. That's all. Listen to your body. That's very important. And my routine was morning. I used to wake up at five and I'll start reading. My daughter will wake up somewhere around nine. Before nine, I used to read as much as possible. When she wakes up, I'll go visit her. I'll make sure her breakfast is ready so that's some time for my kid. And then I'll go back and start studying. I used to study only one subject per day. I do not sandwich two or three subjects. When I go and visit my daughter, I try to club my lunchtime, breakfast time along with it. So I do not put an extra time for my personal care. I used to club it along with my personal work when I go outside to the hall. I usually sit in my room. I lock my room and I read it in my home. And very occasionally when my daughter, sometimes kids are very energetic. They'll not let you study. She'll keep coming and she'll be banging my door. That time, if I want some concentration, I used to go to study hall near Krompet. There is a study hall. I used to go to the study hall. That was for a few months. Otherwise I have this morning, 5 to 9, 9 o'clock breakfast, and then 10 to 12, 30, and then half an hour or one hour lunchtime. And then till 5 o'clock, after 5, I used to take my daughter for park or something like that. And 7 o'clock, my mother will take care again. So 7 o'clock, again till 9 or 10, I'll read. 10 o'clock she'll come back. She'll sleep with me. So this was my overall timing. And then evening, I used to write mock test. One month before prelims, I aligned it to the actual mock, main prelims test timing. So four hours every day for mock. Otherwise it is reading and revise it. That's all. Okay. I had some quiet some time actually. I started immediately after 2019 prelims. So approximately I must be having one year. And ours was also postponed, right? So I had ample amount of time. I'm not able to exactly calculate, but then from July or August, I started. August, I guess. Okay. I can show you my notes. So that is my notes on GST. So GST in your economics books, how big, how many pages are there in your GST, in your economics? GST, still not studied. It might be some eight pages or nine pages. I'll be able to write the entire GST in one page. So note making is an important aspect here. So if you're writing G, if you're taking a note about something, write it. Okay. I can show you exactly what was, what is there because you'll have that's, I'll tell you what is the benefit of having a notes. In GST, it came under 101st amendment, right? So there will be certain articles, 268, 269a, 270, 279a, something. One will be CGST, one will be IGST, one will be service tax will be removed, one will be state will have the goods and service. Here you'll have GST council. In GST council, you will have union and states. Union you'll have one third. States you'll have two third. Then you have something like, sorry, voting power. This is the voting, I guess. Okay. Then you will have something like membership. Membership two, here you'll have 31. Usually minister of finance will be here. Here you will have union minister and minister of finance or something like that. And then you will have a quorum will be three fourth, I guess. Something, quorum is three fourth and election voting, I think. Voting will be some 50%. I think it's interchangeable. So this was something. This was my notes on GST. This is my exact notes, if I'm right. The top left corner, this is exactly, this is this much in my notes. So this is how you take notes. So when I see this exactly in the same manner, it would have been. So I have a pictographic memory. Am I right? So below this, I'll have function. If I say function, all I would have written there is GST slabs and tax items, special items, something like that. So I'll, there are five or six points this much, only this much I would have written. So when you make notes, do not write another book. Make notes so that you will know the important points. What is an important one? GST council have two different things and what is the voting power? What is the membership? So when you write, make your notes, have read something and do not replicate in a verbose manner. If you're trying to take a class, what you'll write on your board, that is what your notes will be. So it, a little bit verbose and not as verbose as your books are. So that is how I would say take your notes. Helpful? Okay. Anything else? Okay. I did not read newspaper. Okay. I started, I tried. I thought it's a waste of time. Your coaching institutes, they spend enough time and enough resources to analyze about it, give you what is related, what is the article, what is the committee, everything. They take so much pain and why to do double work. That was my thing. But then I followed current affairs in my own manner. I used to have this Google news. You have settings over there, tweak your settings and you will not anymore have anything about cinemas or cars or something. You'll have about politics. You'll have about quality. You'll have about governance. You'll have about environment. And then other things I used to follow PIB. I used to follow PRS after every session. I will not be following it regularly at the end of every session. PRS is a wonderful website where you can enter your filter. You'll have to read, you'll have to know thoroughly whatever bills that is being passed in your current academic, current year. If you're going to attend on 2021, the previous three sessions, you have to know what are the bills that are passed. You have to know their features about the bodies, different bodies that is related in that law or it has been replaced or it is already existing, something like that. So for that PRS website is there. That in that website, you have filters, you can enter your year and you have to, in prelims, you please bother only about the bills that is being passed by both the Lok Sabha and Radha Sabha. That is what I followed. Refer your resource person, your faculty, but I followed only bills that has been passed by both Lok Sabha and Radha Sabha. I made my own notes. I used Evernote for that so that I had three notes for three sessions. So that is how I did my current PRS. And then I used to read the annual report of every ministry, home ministry, not every ministry, home ministry, finance, economic survey and then you have budget. So economic survey and budget, I used to refer to the whatever the coaching institutes release. So and then monthly magazine, I used to give a glance. I did not make notes. I concentrated on the current affairs document that they give before your prelims. That is the concentrated prelims targeted current affairs document. Before I used to read the document in a glance, two or three hours or four hours maximum. I did not spend more than that to know what is happening or you know there is some current affairs. Apart from that, I collected my current affairs knowledge from the test series. I would have written at least 100 full mocks before my prelims. So and I took notes for every current affairs, science and technology, environment and current affairs. I heavily relied on this mock tests and their notes. Anything else? That's it. You can wind up. It was nice interacting with you. All the best.