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Join the relevant threads for asking doubts in a streamlined manner.

These are the principles I want you to live by:

https://open.spotify.com/track/1TAoZRnSmZOOXUSoJqycxN?si=EYCrQPqARaiE2wjbrPSr8g

It also beautifully encapsulates ‘Amor Fati’ when he says: “जो मिल गया उसी को मुक़द्दर समझ लिया…..”!

Most of the aspirants will end up wasting the coming 4-5months in confusion due to lack of right direction and guidance.

Sherlocking Modules can help you streamline your prep with the right mindset, support and guidance and save you precious years.

-Prelims PYQ Analysis like never before
https://t.me/Neil_You/1880

-Mains PYQ Analysis based Answer Writing Development Program
https://t.me/Neil_You/1868

-App Details:
https://t.me/Neil_You/1618

-Price for Prelims Modules have NOT been revised as to let you make the best use at most optimum cost.

-Additional discounts on Mains and Pre Modules together.

Feel free to ping us at @helpdeskupsc for queries if any.

Let’s meet for Tuesday Spirituality Sesh in an hour on @LIFE_neil.

Best wishes to all the Mains appearing students. Know that Sherlocking is a reality in all tiers of the exam. Basic sources, exhaustive PYQ Analysis and application of knowledge through Logical Reasoning have been effective since eternity and will continue to reign supreme till the end of time!

You guys have everything to make it happen. Know that examiners are also Homo sapiens thus suffer from the same inadequacies, biases, lapse of judgement at times. So don’t make any single question or even a bunch of questions an emotional sink.

Bodhisattvas will guide you in the examination hall if you let them! Will connect post your exams!

@UPSCneil

Embrace thy fate with self love and compassion! ❤️

Can quickly go through this too in 20-25mins for last minute conditioning.

https://youtu.be/s8IFs-xjScU?si=gWAlCvKADvqC9ImC

@UPSCneil

Essay 2024

Write two essays, choosing one topic from each of the following Sections A and B, about 1000 - 1200 words each:

SECTION A

1. जंगल सभ्यताओं से पहले आते हैं और रेगिस्तान उनके बाद आते हैं |
Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

2. भविष्य के साम्राज्य, मानसिक के साम्राज्य होंगे |
The empires of the future will be the empires of the mind.

3. प्रसन्नता का कोई मार्ग नहीं है; प्रसन्नता ही मार्ग है |
There is no path to happiness; Happiness is the path.

4. प्रश्न पूछने वाला ही विज्ञान का सच्चा पीपाही है |
The doubter is a true man of science.

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SECTION B

5. सोशल मीडिया युवाओं में "छूटने का डर" पैदा कर रहा है जिसके कारण उनमें अवसाद और अकेलापन बढ़ रहा है |
Social media is triggering ‘Fear of Missing Out’ amongst the youth, precipitating depression and loneliness.

6. लगभग सभी मनुष्य प्रतिकूल परिस्थितियों का सामना कर सकते हैं, लेकिन किसी व्यक्ति के चरित्र की परीक्षा के लिए, उसे शक्ति प्रदान कर देखिए |
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but to test the character, give him power.

7. सभी बड़े परिणाम वाले विचार सदा साधारण ही होते हैं |
All ideas having large consequences are always simple.

8. गलत होने की कीमत कुछ करने की कीमत से कम है |
The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

@UPSCneil

Sherlocking Essay Activity:

https://t.me/answerwritingneil/8816

A paper that must have been a Sherlocker’s delight. Would be eager to hear how our enrolled students or ones who have watched the free videos too fared.

Releasing a mini analysis video asap.

@UPSCneil

Sherlocking GS1 Activity:

https://t.me/answerwritingneil/8878

Same themes packaged differently. If this doesn’t prove the importance of PYQs as the lighthouse, instead of watching random 200hr lectures, idk what will.

@UPSCneil

Sherlocking GS2 Activity:

https://t.me/answerwritingneil/8943

Millets, Labour issues, Disaster resilience, Inflation, as usual nothing extraordinary yet most of the assembly will continue to overintellectualise the exam.

Apart from second part of Q8, everything looks straightforward yet the game is about how they’ll score. A straightforward paper doesn’t always equate to inflated scores.

Also, funny how they spoke about possibility of extinction through asteroid, an anecdote we discussed in our meet a week before in lighter vein, to drive home a different mindset oriented point.

Anyway, story remains the same, basic sources, exhaustive PYQ analysis and application through answer writing.

Checkout GS1 analysis video on YT. Might bring others too if time permits!

@UPSCneil

Sherlocking GS3 Activity:

https://t.me/answerwritingneil/8964

This 4 month old discussion with AIR 14, 2023 summarises how the process remains the same.

At 18:18, you can see us discuss the need to have crispness in prep and Shaurya shares his insights on imp topics, one of which ended up coming in GS2.

https://youtu.be/UbO1EKnLNBg

Would certainly help all of you preparing for 2025!

Excellence is not an event, it’s an aggregation of doing the tried and tested things not only 2-3 months before the exam, but more importantly doing them even in phases when exam is not in sight and it’s easy to become distracted or lose direction.

Sherlocking Modules can help you streamline your prep with the right mindset, support and guidance and save you precious years.

-Prelims PYQ Analysis like never before
https://t.me/Neil_You/1880

-Mains PYQ Analysis based Answer Writing Development Program
https://t.me/Neil_You/1868

-Essay Module
https://t.me/Neil_You/1862

-App Details:
https://t.me/Neil_You/1618

-Prices for both Prelims and Mains Modules will undergo revision soon.

-Additional discounts on Mains and Pre Modules together.

Feel free to ping us at @helpdeskupsc for queries if any.

A lot of free material has been consolidated on our app.

We’ll keep updating more relevant topper notes/copies, plus upload all UnlockIAS PDFs here for easy reference.

App Details
https://t.me/Neil_You/1618

For any module queries, can ping us at @helpdeskupsc.

AIR 17 on ‘Number of Elements needed in an Answer’

https://youtube.com/shorts/ccm9Rg3T4Lw?si=PgCl-eFO78gQEP5l

Every civil servant was once an aspirant, who refused to give up and persevered even in face of distractions, failures and self doubt.

If you’re looking to Unlock your true potential in this exam, Sherlocking Modules can help you streamline your prep with the right mindset, support and guidance and save you precious years.

-Prelims PYQ Analysis like never before
https://t.me/Neil_You/1880

-Mains PYQ Analysis based Answer Writing Development Program
https://t.me/Neil_You/1868

-Essay Module
https://t.me/Neil_You/1862

-App Details:
https://t.me/Neil_You/1618

-Prices for both Prelims and Mains Modules will undergo revision soon.

-Additional discounts on Mains and Pre Modules together.

Feel free to ping us at @helpdeskupsc for queries if any.