How did you make notes of the current affairs for the UPSC Mains? Did you follow the monthly magazines or the Mains 365 for making notes?

Copying from the related post on my blog:

I managed 463 in GS in 2017 CSE. Many aspirants make a mistake while trying to get more marks. They try to jump directly to answer writing and skip notes making.

I have mentioned before that I used to write 10 points and 15 points for 10 & 15 markers respectively.

From where these points will come? Of course from well made pointed notes that are revised about 5–6 times.

Hence I gave due importance to notes:

➖Made current notes from The Hindu+ vision monthly + insights compilation.

➖Made notes on MS Word.
E-notes help in easy mutations-editing-additions-sorting.

➖As you revise your e-notes, edit them& make them as concise as possible.

➖Divide content paper wise and topic wise. Example make separate doc for GS-2 IR, GS-2 Policies, GS-3 Science, GS-3 Security etc.

➖For newspaper, you can use hardcopy or online edition. In my last attempt, I read The Hindu online and directly copy-pasted important lines. It saved time.

➖Vision monthly magazine used to have a time lag of 15 days. So there was no option but to wait.

➖Meanwhile, revise your newspaper notes once. This will give you good idea of what news you have in notes.

➖From vision magazine pdf add to your newspaper notes only what’s missing.

➖Do same with insights compilation.

Aspirants can download my notes available on muditjainblog.wordpress.com and apply above mentioned strategy for current affairs.

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Current Affairs Preparation

Across posts, I have written about current affairs preparation for competitive exams like UPSC. This is a dedicated post for same.

It covers:

➡️ Sources

➡️ Timeline

➡️ FAQs

➡️ Importance of Notes

➡️ Note Making Process

➡️ Sample Notes

➡️ Note Making Session Video

https://muditjainblog.wordpress.com/2019/11/16/current-affairs-preparation/

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Current Affairs Preparation

Across posts, I have written about current affairs preparation for competitive exams like UPSC. This is a dedicated post for same.

It covers:

➡️ Sources

➡️ Timeline

➡️ FAQs

➡️ Importance of Notes

➡️ Note Making Process

➡️ Sample Notes

➡️ Note Making Session Video

https://muditjainblog.wordpress.com/2019/11/16/current-affairs-preparation/

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#Mains is the most certain phase of #UPSC Civil Service Exam. We associate the term '#Luck Factor' a lot with UPSC #CSE but trust me, Mains phase of the exam rewards your well-directed efforts.

Once you decode what UPSC/Examiner wants from you, you can easily crack Mains and crack it repeatedly if need be. Before I share how I cracked 4/4 Mains with hefty margin over average score of selected candidates in a particular year (leave apart cut-off which is offcourse lower than average score), let me share my marks as evidence for what I will be guiding next:

CSE 2013: 340 in #GS
CSE 2014: 822 in Mains (11th highest among selected candidates)
CSE 2015: 426 in GS (5th highest among selected candidates)
CSE 2017: 463 in GS

These scores in Mains led to my 3 selections and made #interview scores of 118, 110, 154 and 165 irrelevant to an extent as despite below average interview scores, I could make the final list thrice.

So, what is the trick? Well, I am old school and did it the hard way but you may pick and choose what works for you and devise your own plan from below:

1) #Newspaper reading and Notes Making of both #CurrentAffairs & #Static formed basis of my Mains scores as your #answers will only be as good as your content is. Refer one newspaper and concise booklist.

2) #Unique Content & #Xfactor: Imagine yourself in examiner's shoes. Say, s/he has already checked 49 copies in a day and then in 50th copy s/he finds unique points, #keywords, #presentation, #diagrams etc. S/he is bound to give more marks to that aspirant. Be unique.

3) #Revision: Once you are done with note making and have added uniqueness to your notes in form of #value addition or enrichment, revise them 4-5-6 times. Once you do that, your entire content will be painted in your memory like a #mindmap and you will be able to #interlink concepts across paper/subjects, thus adding extra #depth and #dimensions to tour answers.

4) #Practice: I always had the innate ability to write. Hence, I hardly practiced #answerwriting other than in mock tests. But, if you do not have the skill then you have to practice on daily basis.

Links to the posts that detail as under:

a) My Mains strategy with which I cleared 4/4 Mains.
b) My answer writing strategy.
c) What does the examiner wants?
d) X-factor or uniqueness in Mains.
e) When and how to begin answer writing?
f) Answer Writing Videos

Go through the various posts grouped in this one post. Think through the strategies mentioned therein. #Adapt and #adopt as per your needs.

While, there is no one fix strategy or only one strategy that can bear fruits, what I have mentioned here is my tried and tested approach for Mains.

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I have started making current affair notes for you guys. Here you can access notes of TH of 23rd August. Let me know the review in DM.

https://muditjainblog.com/current-affairs/

P.S. This is how I used to make notes for my prelims and mains preparation. I have followed the exact same method.

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Notes of 24th and 25th August uploaded on https://muditjainblog.com/current-affairs/

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1) Daily Notes of 23rd August to 1st September

2) Weekly Compilation (26th Aug (Monday) - 1st September (Sunday))

Uploaded on: https://muditjainblog.com/current-affairs/

🎯 No need to read newspaper.
🎯 No need to make your own newspaper notes.
🎯 These newspaper notes are comprehensive.
🎯 News vocab has been retained so that you read, revise and write this vocab in answers. Trust me, it matters.

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Current Affairs Initiative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hEhMJfT71Y&t=16s&ab_channel=SarrthiIAS

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Uploaded recording of my first ever current affairs class. This may be treated as one and only demo lecture.

Current Affairs Class-1: https://youtu.be/bmBLWmEXrKU

Topic: Entire Polity News of Sept, 2024

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September IR - Pacific

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Here is my prediction for UPSC CSE Prelims 2025 (based on Trends and Patterns of last 5 years i.e. Prelims 2020 to 2024). I have analyzed & predicted subject-wise focus areas.

P.S. In 2023 , I was able to predict a contemporary-focused paper. In 2024 , I was able to predict Static-heavy questions, especially from History. Also, I was able to predict Applied nature of Ethics 2024 Paper. (P.S. The prediction post msgs aren't edited!).

Watch this Detailed Explanation of the Prediction & Focus Areas so that you are able to plan your preparation better (May let me know in the comment section about what sort of analysis is required for CSAT):
https://youtu.be/g5YwjVFImHc

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