Neil & You! (UPSC & Beyond)
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Neil, HCS 2021(Rank 93)

Founder UnlockIAS, devised the Art of ‘Sherlocking’.

Coached students successfully in UPSC, UPPCS, RAS, HCS, BPSC, OPSC, TNPSC & other state PCS exams, IFoS, ICAS, LEO, CAPF.

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I will take one comprehensive ethics session from theory to case studies mostly for Mains appearing students(though others can join too), most probably on Saturday Afternoon.

All the interested mains appearing candidates can ping @helpdeskupsc for the link to the meet.
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Let's cut to the chase and analyse UPSC Prelims 2020. My intent is to not only provide a comprehensive analysis, but also to provide a broad framework for approaching such an analysis by yourself in future.
Blast from the Past: Sherlocking as we know it was ideated!

Didn’t imagine that we would have a close knit telegram fam of close to 3k members.

Hopefully my break will send soon and we’ll get back to full speed.
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Great meeting overall guys. Send the minutes to @helpdeskupsc if you documented.
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Ethics_Neil.pdf
Ethics document shared in today’s meet!
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Do we really grow up!?

https://t.me/LIFE_neil/1792
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Namaskar Guys! Taking a leaf out of The Terminator’s playbook, I feel “I’M BACK”!

I have been getting a lot of feedback from the community regarding our work. Taking into that account, I’ll make the YouTube channel more active in coming days with a wholesale revamp so that it caters to the demand of the hour in a better way.(कुछ चीज़ें बदलेंगे जिससे बेहतर Content Delivery हो पाए।)

As is evident from our past growth, I can’t do this without your continued support as always, so in sometime I’ll make a list of things you can do to make our work more successful in terms of its reach and impact.(सबका साथ और विश्वास, ताकि अपने प्रयास से हो पाए सबका विकास 😄)

I’ll also shortly resume the Mains course so that your Mains 2024(and beyond) prep is aligned as per UPSC’s demand.

Meanwhile you can checkout the existing initiatives.

Details:

Prelims:
https://t.me/Neil_You/471

Mains:
https://t.me/Neil_You/473

Mentorship Call:
https://t.me/Neil_You/159

Feel free to reach out to @helpdeskupsc for any followup query or feedback!
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Curious > Hopeful!
https://t.me/LIFE_neil/1864
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Indian Polity & Governance entire syllabus in one page. This is what I mean by “Syllabus parsing”!

This has two benefits:

-You can break it into digestible chunks.(छोटा तुकड़ा ही खाया, पचाया जा सकता हैं, चाहें खानें का हो या पढ़ाई का।)

-Easy to recollect as you don’t need to rote learn. Conceptual clarity once established will ensure that you never forget once you learn.(रटना नहीं हैं, एक बार समझ लिया, काफ़ी हैं।)

But you might ask, why do I need to memorise syllabus, syllabus is for knowing what to read, isn’t it!?
(Syllabus याद कौन करता हैं!? ये क्या नई कहानी हैं!?)

Syllabus is the key to generating N number of points. It reduces reliance on memory because memory lets you down when you need it the most. Also, syllabus is the best framework for multidimensionality.

@Neil_You
@UPSCneil
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Indian Polity & Governance entire syllabus in one page. This is what I mean by “Syllabus parsing”! This has two benefits: -You can break it into digestible chunks.(छोटा तुकड़ा ही खाया, पचाया जा सकता हैं, चाहें खानें का हो या पढ़ाई का।) -Easy to recollect…
Indian Polity & Governance entire syllabus in one page. This is what I mean by “Syllabus parsing”!

This has two benefits:

-You can break it into digestible chunks.(छोटा तुकड़ा ही खाया, पचाया जा सकता हैं, चाहें खानें का हो या पढ़ाई का।)

-Easy to recollect as you don’t need to rote learn. Conceptual clarity once established will ensure that you never forget once you learn.(रटना नहीं हैं, एक बार समझ लिया, काफ़ी हैं।)

But you might ask, why do I need to memorise syllabus, syllabus is for knowing what to read, isn’t it!?
(Syllabus याद कौन करता हैं!? ये क्या नई कहानी हैं!?)

Syllabus is the key to generating N number of points. It reduces reliance on memory because memory lets you down when you need it the most. Also, syllabus is the best framework for multidimensionality.

@Neil_You
@UPSCneil
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Learning is more about effectiveness than brute number of hours( सीखने की value हैं ज़्यादा outcome में, ना की बिना बात के घंटो घंटो किताबो को पकड़े रहने में।)

I would always take time in first couple of readings so that I can internalise the content using structures. That structure could be anything. UPSC's syllabus, a story that I make, mnemonic etc.(20 बार एक किताब पढ़ने से बेहतर हैं उसे पहली दूसरी बार में इस तरीके से पढ़ा जाए कि वो कंठस्थ हो जाए।)

This is an illustration from Fundamental Duties. We know that areas like Fundamental rights, DPSPs, FDs, SDGs can be readily used in our answers to substantiate. So internalising them becomes important. लेकिन करना कैसे हैं, कभी नही बताता कोई, बस बोल देते हैं, "ये याद कर लेना।". और बचपन से सीखा भी हमने एक ही तरीका हैं याद करने का, "बार बार रट्टा मारो"।

Until now we must have realised that rote memorization is horrible. समय की wastage और ऊपर से दिमाग खराब bonus में।

So I used a story of "How a nation is created" and augmented that story with GS. For eg. पहले देश का राजनीतिक ढांचा देगा संविधान(कांस्टीट्यूशन). वो बना होगा Freedom struggle के बाद।

आगे की कहानी should be self explanatory from the page.

This is how I want all of you to make your own notes exclusively for topics you want to internalise.

Feel free to let me know if you have followups!

@Neil_You
@UPSCneil
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Hardhitting Thread!
https://t.me/LIFE_neil/1964

Do you have any!?
https://t.me/LIFE_neil/1967
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