How to crack Prelims: All about Indian Forest Services

You are on this side of the bank, UPSC is on that side of the bank and there is a deep ocean between you and UPSC, your goal. Coming to the strategy for prelims and how anyone can score more than safe. To be safe one has to score almost 125-130 out of 200. We all are aware of the pattern of the prelims exam that now it’s only about the paper GS. Out of 200  despite negative marking, one has to score 120-125-130+ to be on the safe side. So, the strategy has to be consistent. Every exam requires consistency and smart work. You need to catch the pulse of the exam pattern. The first thing you need to do is to solve the question bank. There are many question banks, question banks that contain the previous year’s questions and not the other question bank. Subject wise the questions are divided in that question bank, so now when any person studies one chapter, suppose you are studying Harappan civilization today and you don’t know that you have studied a particular book, NCERT, we study NCERT for history. At the end of the chapter your preparation is up to the mark. The most common doubt that comes to our mind while studying is that “Is it sufficient to read or should I learn more?”. In that case, if we go through the previous year’s questions which are sorted subject-wise in many question banks. When you see the past 20 years of Harappan civilization, there are almost 2-3 questions that came in the exam and after reading this chapter from this particular book. You should make sure that you answer all the questions present in the question bank related to a particular chapter. There is no point in mugging up more things and going through more things. Second thing is, it is always important in UPSC preparation to know what not to study. Which means what to study and what is important to study. Mostly in the lanes of Rajender Nagar or Mukherjee Nagar or any other places we see that there are a number of notes, a number of books just lying around, people talking about the ACR report, this and that. So many resources out there. It is very easy to get lost in that sea, thus what we have to do is to make it very clear “it is enough to learn”.