: Ranked 8 in 2019, Topper Shares 5 Last-Minute Tips to Crack UPSC CSE Prelims 2020 #IndiaNEWS #Civil Servants Having secured an All India Rank of eight in the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)

Ranked 8 in 2019, Topper Shares 5 Last-Minute Tips to Crack UPSC CSE Prelims 2020 #IndiaNEWS #Civil Servants
Having secured an All India Rank of eight in the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) 2019 examination, Abhishek Saraf, a resident of Bhopal and alumnus of IIT Kanpur, shares important tips and strategies to help other aspirants utilise these last few days before the preliminary examination of Civil Service Examination.
1. Time to fall back on notes
Refrain from picking up any new material at this point. If you have made notes, then now would be the ideal time to spend on going through them in detail. Focus only on revising all the concepts that you have already studied up until this moment.
Abhishek says, “The cost-benefit of picking up any new material at this stage will not be favourable at all. ???
2. Focus on sharpening short-term memory
Use the last month to revise a vast number of topics, rather than focus all your time and energy on one or a few niche topics. As a word of caution, Abhishek adds here that while the topics for the prelims and the mains examination seem similar, the approach is different. He says, “The same content will have to be studied differently by aspirants appearing for the prelims and the mains. While mains is more analytical prelims is highly factual. ???
Sharing tips to help students retain maximum facts before attempting the examination, he says:

Do not overburden your memory.
Print and paste notes to the wall; keep reading them to retain the same.
Learn small capsules of diversified content and not large amounts of a single topic.
Spend one or one-and-a-half hours per day on revising details from the atlas and maps for atleast one month before prelims.

3. Analyse past year UPSC CSE question papers
Abhishek Saraf UPSC CSE Rank holder
One suggestion Abhishek makes is to analyse the UPSC CSE previous years question papers to see what kind of questions are asked in the prelims that are not covered in mains. Things like the atlas, reports, space missions, weapons, defence exercises, themes of conferences etc. must be topics that aspirants are well-versed with for the prelims.
Abhishek also suggests that during their year-long preparation, aspirants should cover atleast 6000 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) and make one-liner notes out of each MCQ they got wrong. Two months before the exam they could print those notes and go over atleast 60 to 100 points during each day. These could be done in 4-5 short intervals distributed across the day.
4. Diversify the topics you revise
It is advisable to pick up multiple topics during the time aspirants spend on revision. “Sticking to only one topic could lead to an overdose of that. While I was revising I diversified the topics I picked for revision and felt that retaining the information was easier,??? Abhishek says.