That is a strange result. If you're just studying what you feel is easy to understand and you are doing it because everyone else is doing same, how are you going to stand out?

Rather, i expected the majority people choosing their sources after carefully analysing past year questions.

How will one succeed if one doesn't even spend time analysing previous year question papers and mapping those questions to potential sources of study

This is one of the biggest blunder an aspirant can commit in his or her journey

P.s. i m talking here about poll result wrt polity source

For those who wonder what should there approach be like☝️

Tip of the day : Never trust or follow any second hand info, say from whatsapp or telegram groups. Such information may be harmful. Always trust authentic sources.

Future depends upon whether you have SPENT time or INVESTED it

So you got the results from above poll

You can't afford to mess up your polity preparation because that is something everyone works hard upon. On second number comes economy. These two are low hanging fruits.

It seems like current affairs is everyone's nightmare

And right so

With so many sources and topics, one is bound to get overwhelmed with enormity

Moreover even after reading 8000+ pages of current affairs, chances are that very less will be asked from that. Moreover, how to recall all that your read in those 8000+ pages

There is an irony here, and that is that those who target to cover everything miss everything

Best strategy is to identify high probability topics and read them in depth and leave others. You need to learn to understand how upsc frames questions, what topics they choose, how much depth they desire and so on. And without understanding all this, you will merely be trying to swim across a vast ocean.

Now how to do that?

Either get yourself mentors, or do it yourself by carefully going through previous 10 year questions that have been asked in UPSC CSE.

One saves you time and the other saves you money