If you were Modiji, this would make sense

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I can tell you firsthand that many who started preparing for the UPSC Exam with the dream of becoming IAS/IFS officers in 2024 have now dropped their plans to even appear in 2024. Why? Because they think they are not 'adequately' prepared, and they will give their best shot in 2025 now. Please do not make that mistake, and do not take a gap year. You will ruin your life!

If you are eligible to write the exam in 2024 and can dedicate around 10 hours per day to your preparations, please do not postpone your plans. Please do not make UPSC a 5-year plan. There is no need for it.

The following should be your go-to strategy now. Just stay consistent, and you will crack the Prelims. Dedicate 10 hours per day, and here is how you should go about it.

1. January & February:

Complete History (Ancient, Medieval, Modern) + Economics + pick up any test series to solve 30 questions daily (from February onwards). Dr. Jahnavi recently uploaded it on the LinkedIn Alumni Group.

Watch 2 episodes daily on the MisFits Learning Portal on Economics and History. How will this help?

After completion of these modules, you would have developed an innate ability to make better conjectures.

You will be better positioned to read through current affairs (via newspapers), or when you are making notes while solving the tests.

At least for Economics, you’d see more than 90% accuracy. It could reach even 95-100% if you watch the lectures twice. For history, it should be around 60%, but if you can make diligent notes from the Test Series, and revise those notes, that accuracy should reach around 80-85% (which is actually pretty good).

Don’t worry about the Mains at this stage. Inadvertently, you’d be prepared for the Mains - we took a lot of effort to make sure that these video lessons cover things comprehensively. The only difference in Mains vs. Prelims preparation is how you go about solving test papers, and the focus on remembering certain specificities.

Please watch through the session before Episode 19 (under the Geography heading) for my thoughts on Prelims 2024, and how you should make the best use of MisFits Episodes + Tests.

2. March & April:

Complete Geography, Environment, Science and tech.

Watch 2 episodes daily on the MisFits Learning Portal + Solve Test Papers (as shared on the LinkedIn Alumni Group). How will this help?

A large part is static & conceptual - if you have learned those concepts well, you should get good accuracy in these subjects.

You would have logically solved many UPSC Prelims & Mains questions and will be well-positioned to solve potential questions from this part.

Aspects of mapping would also be covered via this.

3. Last Week of April + May (until the 2nd week):

Watch through Polity and Governance Episodes on the MisFits Portal.

Watch 2 episodes daily on the MisFits Learning Portal. The reason for covering Polity at the end is so that some factual data checked in the exam are fresh in your mind as/when you write the UPSC.

Polity for Prelims is very predictable; 20% effort here would yield 80% returns. By this time, you will be adequately prepared to better grasp Polity (because you can see the interconnections I have made across Geography, Environment, Economics, etc., for all of you).

If you had followed the above methods, you would have completed the following things by the 2nd week of May:

1. Foundations of History, Economics, Polity, Governance, Geography, Science & Tech, and Society.

2. Current Affairs via solving around 30 Contemporary Test Papers. (Retaining information via these current affairs would be much easier for you because your foundations are strong).

3. Past 14 years of UPSC official papers.

But, wait. Cracking Prelims is not the only thing. You won’t get medals for this. The next stage is extremely critical. Focus on cracking the exam in one go. How will that happen?

After your Prelims - take a 1-week break. And then do the following:

Step 1: Watch through the Playlist on Foreign Policy Classroom with Amb. Anil Trigunyat.
Step 2: Watch through the Playlist on Essays (250 Marks).
Step 3: Watch through the Masterclass on Structures.
Step 4: Watch through the Playlist on Ethics (250 Marks).
Step 5: Revise Economics until your UPSC Prelims Result is out!

Keep attending special sessions - where I will cover some issues from scratch.

Be part of answer writing communities at MisFits (after your Prelims Result).

Additionally, your Mains GS is done along with the above episodes. Focus your 3 months on Optionals.

After your Mains - There will be a series of around 7-10 lectures that will help you in getting 200+ in the interviews. This is MUST! Interviews are the easiest, and the most fun part of the UPSC Cycle. 200+ is indeed doable.

Stop watching Free YouTube Videos and crash Courses. Many of these are sub-standard resources. Minimize your resources, and

[darshanreddyprabhakar]

Yes, this is true. I'm studying in Europe, and the demand for Indian labor is unbelievable, though sadly only for blue-collar jobs.

[parameswarbarik]

With 150 crore population and for each single rupee project you have to face pil, litigation etcetera. The biggest issue with us is the implementation of policy in such a vast diverse democracy. For example in my district a port project has been pending for 15 years. Land acquisition, local protest, politicisation etc. it is always easy to blame. But when you come to ground realities, it's all messed up. Hopefully our generation will do better.

[ehnx]

Even worse is people not considering this wrong !!!
Most people celebrate this and market this as growing influence of diaspora under the current government...

[beautifulstyle]

Its very easy to find problems.. Bt solutions kya hi koi nahi batata... India is very diverse country.. Moreover democratic country.. Jo unemployment low salary pe bhashan dete hi jab unke ghar pe kam karnewalo ko 100 rs bhi hike dene se katrate hi..
Hamare yaha minimum wage policy nahi hi.. Agar govt yeh policy la bhi de to hamare liye hi problem hogi.. Hamare yaha chaudi sadak to sabko chahiye lekin apne ghar or jameen kisiko nahi dena..
Jobs to sabko chahiye lekin create koi nahi karta..

[ankushpal]

anyone can find problem in indian policy but no one wants to talk about alternative solutions how we can implement them

[ramprasadbangaru]

True. We need people skilled and employment within the country.

[abir]

Blame game is easy, building a domestic producer consumer market isn't

[munishmahajan]

I am not on same page with you in all issues but this is one of the issues, I am actually with you

[sanket]

Bureaucracy is the actual and major problem India facing since decades...

[himanshu.bansal.you.peace.]

Naman, thank you for this eye opening short.

Naman, please also make the short on:-
After 77 years of India's Independence and 75 years of establishment of the Indian Constitution,
Neither on the basis of caste nor religion,
Reservation should only be on the basis of physical disability and income.

[imperator_odin]

No one active is pushing for increasing India’s labour though.. putting dramatic music isn’t going to turn it into facts

[soumyananda]

Love this succession background score . Jokes apart India need people like this, to start a revolution in governance

[anoopr]

As a keralite I can agree with you 100%. Migration will be a social issue too.

[vyomchaudhary]

Simply put, Research is the need of the hour, minute, second. We have no other way to move up the ladder

[objectsmedia]

Labour's could actually become an asset later on.

[RavindranSankar-qd]

Any vocation should be respected.
There is nothing wrong in people migrating elsewhere for a better life.
Except for China, I think people of every race or religion are found all over the world.
Soon there will be questions why a Tamilian is working in Kashmir or a Bengali is working in Goa, etc.
This topic is more complex than job creation or remittance...

[PraneshSR]

State of Kerala and WB are one of the good examples. In kerala, remittance factor and in WB we hv illiegal migrants.

[sasidharansubramani]

it's happening currently in Canada. They have been blaming international students for all domestic issues.

[VarunStream]

India exports services. It has been doing so for the past 30 years. I work in advertising and have clients in San Francisco and Seoul. That adds to the services India exports. Maybe you didn’t get the memo. Hence glass half empty.

[worldofbhumaths]

Control population model should be implemented in India.
Free ration is big problem
Lots of jobs are there.in market.
But they want easy money that's a problem.