Upsc topper strategy

1. KASTURI PANDA
UPSC 2022 AIR 67
AT HOME – ONLINE PREPARATION

2. FAQs
1. Coachings
2. Full one year schedule
3. Current Affairs
4. Importance of PYQs and Notes
5. How to revise bulky sources
6. Prelims Approach
7. Answer Writing
8. Sociology
9. Language Paper
10. Motivation/Distraction

3. COACHINGS
 Experience
 Home or Delhi
 Tests
 Online Preparation
 Mentorship - https://t.me/kasturipanda

4. ONE YEAR SCHEDULE
1. DEVISE OWN STRATEGY – TOPPERS
2. DECIDE OPTIONAL
3. BASICS RESOURCES – 6/7 M - https://t.me/kasturipanda/19
 GS OPTIONAL - TIME DIVISION
 SUBJECT WISE TEST SERIES
 GLANCES – ARC REPORTS, ECONOMIC SURVEY, NITI ACTION PLAN, YOJANA, PRS INDIA
4. PRELIMS – FLTs
 SIMULATION
 ANALYSIS
5. MAINS
 AWP
 FLTs

5. CURRENT AFFAIRS
 NEWSPAPER – NO NOTES – THE HINDU
 MINT AND INDIAN EXPRESS – FEW MONTHS BEFORE PERSONALITY TEST
 MONTHLY COMPILATIONS
 DAILY TESTS - OCCASSIONALLY
 PT 365
 MAINS 365
 OTHER PDFS – INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS, GOVERNMENT SCHEMES

6. MAKING NOTES
 Mains
 PYQ – Themes
 Sheets – Content for each theme
 Intro and Conclusion Templates
 Collect usable diagrams, maps
 Prelims
 Pyq – Themes
 A4 sheets – test series knowledge
 Margins of books – easy revision

7. PRELIMS PYQs

8. MAINS PYQs

9. REVISION
 SPECTRUM
 ART AND CULTURE
 HISTORY
 MAPS
 ECONOMY
 LAKSHMIKANT
 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
 ENVIRONMENT

10. SPECTRUM

11. ART AND CULTURE

12. HISTORY

13. MAPs

14. ENVIRONMENT

15. LAKSHMIKANT

16. ECONOMY

17. S&T

18. PRELIMS APPROACH
 SIMULATION – 30 to 50 FLTs
 Use OMR SHEET – 1 HOUR 45 MINS
 MULTIPLE REVISION
 MOCK TEST ANALYSIS
 DIVIDE TIME BASED ON WEAKNESS AND STRENGTH
 SCHEDULE FLEXIBLY
 MAP – ALWAYS IN FRONT
 SOLVE – 3 PHASES

19. MAINS ANSWER WRITING
 START WITH FEW QUESTIONS EACH DAY
 REVISION – GRADUALLY LEARN USE OF DATA, FACTS, DIAGRAMS, EXAMPLES ETC.
 TOPPER COPIES
 I-B-C FORMAT – GENERIC C TEMPLATES
 PHHE-WWEEII-CCMT-JI
 HALF MINUTE – SPACE OPTIMISATION
 EXPERIMENT – TEST SERIES
 DIVIDE 3 HOURS - NOT FIXED
 1,2,11,12,19,20
 18,17,14,13,10,9
 3,4,5,6,7,8,15,16

20. ETHICS
 SIMPLE INTRO
 AS MANY KEYWORDS AS POSSIBLE
 CAN USE NAME OF THINKERS – DO NOT OVERDO
 TEMPLATES/FORMATS READY
 MULTIPLE EXAMPLES
 OPINION – BOTH FOR AND AGAINST
 CASE STUDIES – STEPS – DO NOT SKIP ETHICAL KEYWORDS
 CONCLUSION – NEUTRAL/POSITIVE

21. ESSAY
 EQUAL TIME FOR BOTH
 BOTH ANECDOTES
 SCRIBBLE MANY TOPICS – PY THEMES
 NO PARTICULAR BOOK
 CATCHY PHRASES
 SIMPLE LANGUAGE
 EMOTIONAL CONCLUSION

22. SOCIOLOGY
 MULTIPLE RESOURCES - https://t.me/kasturipanda/20
 REVISION
 COMPREHENSIVE NOTES
 THINKERS
 DIAGRAMS – NOT MUCH
 CONCLUSION

23. LANGUAGE PAPER - HINDI
 GRAMMAR – BOOK
 PYQ – 2/3 YEARS PRACTICE
 CAN USE NEWSPAPERS
 I USED GOOGLE TRANSLATE – HEAVY WORDS – TRANSLATE PREAMBLE
 TRANSLATE IN MIND
 CONSTITUTION, DEMOCRACY, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, INCLUSIVITY,
BUREAUCRACY – USE EXTENSIVELY IN ESSAY

24. QUESTIONS
 PEN – REYNOLDS RACER GEL – BLACK
 PAIN DURING MAINS EXAM – CARRY A DICLOFENAC
 TAKE CARE OF YOUR PHYSICAL HEALTH
 TALK TO YOUR CLOSED OWNS
 SOCIAL MEDIA – OPTIMISE IT

25. MOTIVATION