{"id":57,"date":"2019-09-30T14:03:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T08:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sumitkumarrai.in\/?p=57"},"modified":"2022-10-01T21:04:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T15:34:27","slug":"what-is-the-step-by-step-procedure-to-start-preparing-for-ias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumitkumarrai.in\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/what-is-the-step-by-step-procedure-to-start-preparing-for-ias\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the step-by-step procedure to start preparing for IAS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this short article, I am detailing to-the-points strategy for aspirants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Complete NCERT<\/li>
  2. Do basic books like Laxmikanth, Spectrum etc<\/li>
  3. Do mocks<\/li>
  4. Plan your GS & Optional along with pre. But closer to prelims day, your focus should be solely on prelims<\/li>
  5. Post prelims join a test series. Be regular with respect to answer writing.<\/li>
  6. Enrich and improve your answers . Make notes. I used to make notes on evernotes. This will augument marks.<\/li>
  7. Post mains, focus on PT. Don’t overdo mock, prepare yourself thoroughly by yourself and with help of friends. Stay positive.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    All the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    On notes making:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I have compiled my GS notes in the below link. They are mostly on evernote. Being in a job I found evernote useful as I can access it from anywhere. My handwritten notes are very few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    These notes have been made from various sources: forumias material, visionias material, toppers answersheet, economic survey, heavy use of internet, NCERT books etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Many of these are not very neat and have been made for revision purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Many notes are very small and serve only an indicative purpose like what are the various things one should cover (like NCERT Crux, Economic survey notes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    IMO aspirants can benefit more from my essay and GS-4 notes as it takes some time to collect good examples, quote for these two papers. I have worked upon these and you can further build upon that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    GS1,GS2,GS3 notes are more of compilation of various things I read. I just segregated them for easy revision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I also made a number of notes on current affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    All these are listed in the link below. If not the line-by-line reading, then a broad perusal might help you in understanding the architecture of notes making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    General Studies Notes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In this short article, I am detailing to-the-points strategy for aspirants. Complete NCERT Do basic books like Laxmikanth, Spectrum etc Do mocks Plan your GS & Optional along with pre. But closer to prelims day, your focus should be solely on prelims Post prelims join a test series. Be regular with respect to answer writing. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology-of-preparation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sumitkumarrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sumitkumarrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sumitkumarrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sumitkumarrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sumitkumarrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sumitkumarrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/sumitkumarrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sumitkumarrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sumitkumarrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sumitkumarrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}