📢 Also, another heads up. As they say, If you want to go fast, go alone but if you want to go far, go with a team.

🏅 To ensure the highest quality and deliverables, we now have an amazing team helping us deliver the courses with the most optimum effectiveness in a timely manner.

But that means to ensure financial sustainability of the operations, the cost of the courses will marginally go up.

📈 This would also mean that now in future modules, revision notes, slides etc will also be provided to ease your life.

❄️ To ensure a smooth transition, we’ve frozen the current cost until Prelims after which the fee revision will kick in!

🌱 I’m sure you’ll continue to benefit from our efforts and reap thy rewards.

🌟 Best wishes

🕵️‍♂️ Sherlocking Prelims Enrolled students have a meet scheduled for tomorrow morning.

🚨 It’s super important, so don’t miss.

📒 While the 2023 videos are availed on your dashboards, I’ll quickly discuss some important questions and then take up your queries!

🔗 If you don’t get the meet link by 9PM, please ping @helpdeskupsc.

Since some enrolled students have an open test tomorrow, meet rescheduled for Sunday.

I would again reiterate, all enrolled students must attend!

Sherlocking IGP:

https://youtube.com/shorts/YW5zlaSPFfY?si=NwM5g0oBTDqzAd9j

Is India with China or AntiChina?

Meet link shared for Sat 5.30PM.

In case you enroll for the module closer the meet, you can request the link from @helpdeskupsc directly.

The biggest success of the Pre Sherlocking Module is the fact that all enrolled students recognised the stark difference in quality between the module videos and the clickbaity PYQ videos on YouTube!

A lot of students at times enroll in one subject to check the quality and we’ve had 100% conversion as they always upgrade to the full module within the stipulated 15day window.

Don’t take my word for it, check out the testimonials and FAQs below!

https://t.me/Neil_You/1168

For any course related query, ping @helpdeskupsc!

🚨 For People Worried about Mock Scores

🎲 Given the current unpredictable quality of Mocks, the score absolutely doesn’t matter!

🎯 Focus on getting the basic questions correct.

📝 Use mocks as an opportunity to:
- ⏳ Sit for 2hrs with focus and
- ✍️ Fill OMR without silly mistakes.

🛤 Believe in the process and yourself.

🌌 Leave the rest to Almighty/ Karma/ Mother Nature/ Blessings/ Whatever it is you believe in!

@UPSCneil

🌆 🏙 Overarching Understanding over Unnecessary "बाल की खाल"!

🦅 ✅ Be an eagle, who commands the sky

🐀 ❌Not a rat, who gets into unnecessary stinky mazy crevices.

For Details:
https://t.me/Neil_You/1181

Great meet guys, send the minutes to @helpdeskupsc.

We’ve discussed a lot of questions from ‘23 to see how we could have optimised our attempt with the basic sources and sherlocking.

Will update the videos too in your dashboards asap!

Wishes.

📝 Minutes from an older Sherlocking Meet, relevant as ever:

🧠 Being in the right headspace

💡 Internalise confidence with the backing of hard work, ie through PYQ iterations and basic sources.

🚫 Let no question become an emotional sink. We have to accept negatives and keep moving on. Getting jittery about a few questions hampers clear thinking, so stay calm!
(Lesson from "Who Moved My Cheese?" - don't be too set in disappointment, look for solutions despite all constraints.)

🤺 It's not as much of a competition as it's made to be by coachings. Self-believe, always.

🔄 What if the pattern changes and the heuristics don’t work?
Ans-Even if the questions are factual, educated guesses can still be made, provided your basic sources are properly done and you have enough overarching peripheral knowledge.
eg. Lake Question in Pre-22

🏃‍♂️ You are still comparatively ahead of the competition. After giving multiple attempts, a big chunk of aspirants end up either depressed, distracted, or disappear from the scene. Early enthusiasm+ Right guidance puts you ahead. Stay focused, stay calm and believe in yourself.

🗓️ Even the honorable ASG had quipped how UPSC Prelims bas ek mahine bhar ka exam hai. The real difficulty isn’t even half of the projected value.

🧩 Both papers are technically CSAT. When analysing PYQs focus on the reasoning part, and approach the questions from multiple angles iteratively.

🔑 UPSC key is the final source. There’s no point in questioning it. Rather mould your brain into thinking the way UPSC works.

📚 Patchy, non-exhaustive revision of 2-3 subjects per day is better than extensively revising one subject over a couple of days.

⏱️ Finish sectional tests in 20 days, then move on to FLTs.

📖 PYQ analysis - context > content. Treat PYQ as a "living document " to develop a knack for elimination.

@UPSCneil

🌟 Applying MS Dhoni's exceptional mindset to UPSC journey 🌟

🤹 As Prelims gets closer, anxiety about mock scores, sources, revision, number of study hours etc is getting common.

▪️Thoughts like - 'what if I don't get through?' , 'what if I am never able to crack UPSC', 'what if I disappoint my parents' etc are unfortunately plaguing a lot of students. 😪

🔥Watch this 43 seconds short featuring MS Dhoni and write down his words.

https://youtube.com/shorts/JJ7120-C8OQ

🎯READ his words whenever you feel stressed or anxious or pressurized or unmotivated.

Know that success in UPSC prelims is a lot about the *MINDSET* and *mental conditioning*. 💪

If this mindset can help India win multiple World Cups 🏆, it WILL help you in your UPSC journey.

Work hard. Happy Studying!

🧠 We’re not as smart as we think we’re.

🔄 We’ve been misled by society to “overplan” and be in a continuous state of “anxiety” regarding the future and having “regrets” about the past.

🤝 Surround yourself with the right people, focus only on the task at hand, and good things will happen eventually.

🐒 We’re supposed to be smarter than a monkey, don’t forget!

🌟 @UPSCneil

Sources to Refer:

Prelims:
https://youtu.be/RURAhkezO4E?si=seEFvzs20u1v1g_m

Mains:
https://youtu.be/pNLFPkK0niI?si=oMG5PpDNazZzyaaZ