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Insigts 2017 Prer
Insigts 2017 Prer
bit early this year. Prelims 2017 is scheduled on 18th June, 2017.
You have 10 Months i.e. 300 Days to prepare yourself to face
Prelims.
If 2017 is your first attempt, this is the right time to start preparing
for UPSC civil services exam 2017 and aim for a rank without
worrying about extra attempts.
All you need is a right guidance and strategy that boosts your
confidence day by day and helps you stay focused till you achieve
your dream. When you are under right guidance, the efforts you put
will definitely yield result.
After seeing many toppers very closely and interacting with them
on a regular basis, we have discovered that only
dedicated, consistent and focused efforts will bear results. If you
try to follow too many strategies, read too many materials, search
for too many sources and seek too many guidances, chances of
clearing this exam within one attempt are slim. Your one year and
one attempt plan morphs into Five Year plan.
One can still clear this exam by trial and error, but these
experiments will waste many precious years of your life (and life is
precious) You will be exhausted by then. You might also lose your
original motivation for joining civil services (after 4-5 attempts,
people start talking about becoming MLA, MP, Naxalite, Prime
Minister or next Vajiram and Ravi)
You must strive to succeed in one best attempt and then start
serving nation at an young age.
You can succeed and you will succeed if you show Faith, Trust and
Hope in our Guidance (sorry if we sound like advertising, its is just
we have immense faith in our guidance)
In this article, we are going to outline a Strategy for 2017 with the
aim of enabling you to reach your goal. We will provide a
comprehensive and workable Timetable for you to follow (Sounds
like election manifesto, but it works. Read on to discover how)
Below, we will give you a strategy that has worked for
many toppers since the day when Insights pioneered its result
oriented initiatives. Toppers have acknowledged it through various
articles on our website (all are genuine and written mostly
voluntarily)
The Aim of Mission 2017 will be to help you get a good rank.
This is not a false promise. We would have hesitated to make
promises like this two years ago, but not now. Our efforts have
resulted in producing good ranks till now. Even though our effort
is miniscule and your hard work needed is 99%, we believe
that that 1% right guidance will help you achieve your dream
without making you victim of trials and errors.
This strategy seeks to give you a roadmap that will keep you BUSY,
very busy indeed, and focused till the Interview stage of 2017 civil
services exam.
Your preparation will be Integrated one i.e. Prelims + Mains +
Interview oriented. The present pattern is such that an integrated
approach is the only way to excel in it.
How to do this?
Target 140+ Marks in Prelims
In 2016 Prelims paper we saw that current events is given good
weightage. UPSC is trying to make Prelims more broad based. But
questions are not difficult per se. Its just that it wants you to know
both facts and concepts very well both related to current events
and static part of Prelims cum Mains syllabus.
In this regard, you need to prepare comprehensively which should
cover very basics from NCERT books, daily current events and
understanding of various issues and concepts that are mentioned in
the syllabus. You should aim to have a broad understanding of all
important issues that are taking shape around you. Your knowledge
should be more broad based than in-depth.
Therefore, we have designed 2017 Timetable in such a way that, if
you religiously follow it, you will definitely clear both prelims and
Mains in 2017 attempt. Have no doubt about it.
There is no shortcut to success. You must follow the timetable and
practice all tests as many times as possible to get through. 10
Months of time is sufficient for this. Our approach is to enable you to
solve any type of question in exam (we wrote these lines under
Mission 2016, and this year our students are repeating these in
their comments after giving prelims!)
This year many of our students are scoring 140+ (from Offline)
thanks to the fact that they solved so many questions under exam
like conditions (You will read some of them validating this in their
Topper Testimonies next year). Prelims is the first hurdle which
you must cross. One must never take chances with it. You will
have a painful wait if you dont clear prelims with comfortable
margin.
For this we are going to adopt following strategy:
1. Daily Current Affairs for broad understanding of all
important issues
2. Daily Current Affairs Based Quiz to help you keep tab on
Daily Current Affars that are important for prelims
3. Comprehensive Paid Test Series for General Studies Paper
1 to score 140+ in this paper
4. Mains Self Study to cover static part + Ethics Paper
5. Daily Secure 2016 (from December Secure -2017) for
Mains Current Affairs Preparation
6. Daily Debates for Interview Preparation
These 6 initiatives are the Pillars of 2017 strategy. Follow all of them
religiously from Today till the Day of Interview, you will not be
disappointed.
We have redesigned our test series website to give you the best
experience while taking online tests.
Features of Test Series:
1. It covers only Paper 1 of Prelims syllabus.
2. All India Ranking You will see two ranks in your
dashboard: Static one based on the no. of people who give exam
a day before the next test, and another one which keeps
changing as more and more people give exams. Static rank is
more authentic as Only Serious people will be giving exams
according to strict schedule!
3. Analysis of your performance You will see graph of your
performance in various categories within each test, and also your
performance relative to others scores
4. Tests are both Mobile and Tablet friendly. But please prefer to
give tests on desktop or laptop.
5. Flexible timing. You can take tests any time and any day at
your convenience. Once a test is activated, it will be there till
Prelims 2017 for you to take it. But do your best to follow the
schedule if you want to be topper.
6. Retakes: you can take online exam only once as of now. This
is to make sure that Ranks are genuine and to
bring seriousness in exam preparation. For revision you will
have PDF file which you can download anytime. However, we
will increase number of attempts by 2 later in the month
of April 2017.
7. A PDF with questions and detailed solutions will be made
available to you after completion of test. You can also download
it ANYTIME from your dashboard. Only SINGLE PDF will be
available (Not two separate PDFs one with questions and
solutions) with your name, email DI embedded in it.
8. FAQs is provided for you to clear doubts. Please read them 1-2
times. Most of your doubts are cleared there.
9. Inclusion of REVISION Tests. Without revision, you fail. So,
we have included revision tests for you to revise periodically.
10. Minimum Sources, maximum efficiency. We have reduced
sources, but given some important sources as references. Here
minimum sources refers to less number of sources for same
topic. We have focused more on giving diverse sources to cover
diverse areas.
11. Inclusion of ETHICS tests under Mains Self Study: We have
given which topics to read for each Ethics Mains Self Study test.
prepare thoroughly and face the test.
What to Do in a Day?
1. Read The Hindu for 1-2 hours in the morning
2. Start answering at least 3-4 Secure questions Daily (even if you
are starting preparation now). This takes 3-4 hours in the
beginning and later gets reduced to 1-2 hours.
3. Start Preparing for Next Insights Mock test prepare small
timetable of your own i.e. Day-1 Class VI Science, Day 2
Class VI Social Science etc and study for 3-4 hours.
4. Read Daily Current Affairs for 1 hour
5. Solve Quiz (10 20 minutes)
6. Participate in Daily Debates for 15-20 minutes
7. While having lunch or dinner, watch Rajya Sabha TV debate
8. Revise Secure, Current Events, Quiz and Test Portion for 1-2
hours
9. Sleep for 6-7 hours.
In the beginning all this takes 10-12 hours to follow. But if you stick
to this and follow it for a month, you will be able to manage all these
things within 8-10 hours! try it.
Keep separate Notebooks for all initiatives and write in them
regularly.
This is the right time to start preparing for UPSC civil services exam
2016 and aim for a rank without worrying about extra attempts. It
doesnt matter whether 2016 would be your first, second, third or
last attempt, it must be your final attempt with your goal achieved.
After all, you want to be a civil servant, mostly IAS/IPS/IFS officer.
You dont want to settle for another post. You dont want to spend
another year and give exam in 2017. It doesnt matter whether you
are a working person or someone who is devoting full time into this
exam preparation, or whether you are starting at the age of 28, 29
or 30: getting a decent rank in civil services exam is a realistic goal.
It also doesnt matter whether you are married or unmarried; a
fresher or experienced. If you make up your mind to achieve the
goal of securing good rank in CSE, you can achieve it.
All you need is a proper guidance and right strategy that boosts
your confidence day by day and helps you stay focused till you
achieve your dream.
After seeing many toppers very closely and interacting with them
on a regular basis, we have discovered that only
dedicated, consistent and focused efforts will bear fruit. If you try
to follow too many strategies, read too many materials, search for
too many sources and seek too many guidances, chances of clearing
this exam within one attempt are slim (but not impossible). One
can still clear this exam by trial and error, but these experiments
will waste many precious years of your life. You will be exhausted
by then. You might also lose your original motivation for joining civil
services.
You must strive to succeed in one best attempt. This is what the
following write-up will try to address.
In this article, we are going to outline a Strategy for 2016 with an
Aim to assist you to reach your goal. Our role is to assist by giving
you a roadmap and guidance. The 99% of the work is to be done
by you. We are just facilitators.
You must have faith to follow any strategy by
any experienced persons in this field that you want to follow. You
can follow any strategy, they all will work for you. But please
follow just one strategy or utmost two if each act as
complimentary. Many toppers provide strategies they think that
worked for them, many websites give their own strategies that they
think will work for their followers. You should have faith in theirs or
ours strategy and choose the one best suits you.
Below, we will give you a strategy that worked for many toppers.
They have already mentioned it through various articles on
this website. The aim of our strategy is to not just keep your
preparation streamlined, but to assist you in securing a top rank.
Our entire emphasis will be on Self Study. Only through self study
you can be contented and achieve good rank. Of course coaching
helps, we believe, only for Optional subject and not for General
Studies papers.
We do not believe in spoonfeeding. You might have realised it if
you have followed our initiatives. We started Answer Writing
Challenges for the first time and now everywhere it is being
implemented which is a good thing. It is a welcome step as it
improves the quality of answers in Mains and helps build healthy
competition. Also more platforms should come up with such
initiatives to help reach most aspirants.
We are aware that there are only 1000+ ranks and everyone can not
get a rank. It is a fact that everyone will work hard , but not
consistently. Most also do not follow a single strategy (this is a fact
and we want to be honest with you). But those who consistently
follow will eventually end up getting a rank this year or next year.
You should one of them. You can easily get rank in your very first
attempt (please read this). You dont have to be super brilliant to do
this.
There are only 2-3 thousand people who consistently toil every day
to achieve their dream without wasting their time on too many
strategies. You are competing with only few thousand serious
aspirants. You will be one among these 2-3 thousand if you stay
focused and consistent. You must commit yourself from now itself to
follow your heart and never waver in your faith. Choose which works
best for you and follow it. Faith can do wonders.
What we will try to do is to just show you the path which worked for
our students. We try to motivate you now and then when we think
you need it most. We honestly believe it is a lonely journey no
matter how many people tend to support you in this journey. You
must do self study and excel. Of course we and everyone will always
be there to extend moral support.
MISSION 2016:
This strategy seeks to give you a roadmap that will keep you
occupied, very busy and focused till the Interview stage of 2016 civil
services exam.
Your preparation must be Integrated one i.e. Prelims + Mains +
Interview oriented. The present pattern is such that an integrated
approach is the only way to excel in it.
How to do this?
Target 130+ Marks in Prelims
For Prelims preparation you need to
prepare comprehensively which should cover very basics from
NCERT books, daily current events and understanding of various
issues and concepts that are mentioned in the syllabus. As said
earlier, there is not shortcut to success. You have to read all relevant
books and materials and practice as many questions as possible to
get through. 10 Months of time is sufficient for this. Our approach is
to enable you to solve any type of question in exam. In 2014
many of our students are scoring 125+ thanks to the fact that they
solved so many questions. Prelims is the first hurdle which you must
cross. One must never take chances with it. Hence, our focus will be
on providing comprehensive roadmap in this regard.
For this we are going to adopt following strategy:
1. Daily Current Events
2. Daily Current Events Based Quiz
3. Comprehensive Paid Test Series for General Studies Paper 1
from October 2015 (more details will be shared later)
4. CSAT Online Free Fortnightly Test from February 2016
This year Our Test Series will be Online Based. This will include
following features:
1. You can solve timed test online and know your performance
instantly
2. You will get a PDF copy of your result (containing both
Questions and Detailed Solutions)
3. Analysis of your performance in various categories of questions
4. All India Ranking
These are the basic features. Much more will be included once we
start Test Series.