Dear Friends,
We would like to congratulate all of you for your performance in ILP so far.
We are very happy that compared to last year, this year’s participation is a notch above. It’s been over a month since we started ILP 2017.
By now, ILP users have realized the importance of it, through:
We have been getting emails asking for :
This post will give you clarity on the above issues.
For aspirants who intent to join now:
Backlog: You have to anyway cover them in future. Isn’t it? UPSC syllabus remains the same and the examination will be common to all! Even if you intend to start now, you have to prepare for it completely.
It is a psychological blockade that you are behind the plan. Though we started on 25th August, you can make designate the day you join as Day 1 of your schedule and proceed. Else you can also start with the current schedule and in parallel prepare from the previous schedule so that you pace yourself according to the plan.
Two months before prelims, you will have enough time to revise everything.
We have already given much revision time in between. Initially we had blocking system of tests (i,e., you cannot take the next test, unless and until you clear the previous test), but now we have made it flexible for you to prepare any block and attempt any test of the schedule as per your wish and convenience.
There are aspirants who joined our ILP with just a couple of months left for prelims last year and yet cleared prelims. Hence it is more about commitment and consistency. Our content and planning will organize you more and also let you focus on quality learning.
If you are starting now, then-
Study the Plan carefully- Static portions are clearly given, value add is also there.
You can pick the value add for a particular block; cover it as early as possible. It covers almost all the important and necessary stuff; it will become an easy task for you to understand the relevant concepts.
For current affairs– follow Babapedia (Folder name- AUGUST 2016, SEPTEMBER 2016, OCTOBER 2016). Look inside. Date wise updates are there. You can follow the same and prepare for the test.
Similarly if you start with the ongoing plan, then also you can prepare previous tests in parallel. Go slow but learn in the process.
MAINS MOCK & SYNOPSIS
Current Affairs: Sources for you!
Daily News Analysis from iasbaba.com
If you start consolidating and revising only those issues, you will end up internalizing at least 50 issues by heart. How many over the period of 6 months?
Current Affairs evolve over the period of time. You need to understand that any issue when gets completed will be covered sooner or later. But lack of patience puts you off track. And you end up rushing for everything at your disposal.
Remember: The question is not about how hard you are working. But it is about how productive you are in a given time?
You effort needs to be result oriented. All that matters is your output!
Aspirant’s Question: The issues are very long and elaborate. How to make notes from them?
Answer: We cover them in the manner so that you need not spend much time in basic understanding of the same using google. Your notes should be smartly made. They need to be precise and coherent in a way that they are easy to revise and you can make complete sense out of them when you read that topic after some time.
We will explain this with one example!
Cauvery Issue
You might have read so many articles, notes etc for this. How will you revise and keep the bulk of information in the form of notes that can provide you with enough concepts and content for both Prelims and Mains?
Focus should be like this
Prelims
Geography:
Cauvery River—Tributaries??
Origin—-Karnataka
Flows through—-???
Direction of Flow- East or West—Drainage—???
There is a difference between River Flows through and River Basin– Confused aspirants will argue that it flows through Kerala because they read in NCERT that it makes basin in Kerala. But it doesn’t mean it flows through Kerala.
Polity:
Water Dispute- Which article?
Water comes under Union, State or Concurrent List?
Tribunals?
Inter-State Dispute- Article?
Agriculture and Economy
Affects whom?
Water Intensive Crops?
Regions affected economically—why?
Above is just for example: Add accordingly!
Mains
The fodders that you have prepared for Prelims will provide enough information and base to write Mains Answers. You just need to introspect on analytical perspective or opinion based aspects.
These are just the examples- there can be many other angles.
The Point is- If your story line is not clear, mere filing of words will only make your notes bulky
So get a clear story of any issue and write in keywords so that it becomes easy to revise from it.
AIR and RSTV
We cover very less number of issues here since we already cover many hot topics in DNA. Can’t you prepare them well?
Yojana/Kurukshetra Magazine
To the point and relevant content for exam is given to ease your burden on monthly basis. Hardly 30 pages of content can be condensed into 5 pages by you. Try to do it.
Current Affairs from Babapedia
Since many aspirants fail to understand the importance of note making through constant revision and relevance of content, we had to come up with Babapedia.
Without Babapedia
With Babapedia
Note Making from Babapedia
What if you were not a part of ILP?
Then also you had to finish everything according to the syllabus.
So with the same time at your disposal, here you are getting a well chalked out micro plan, quality content and guidance. And according to the plan a well specified source to follow, which can guide you and prevent distractions. You need to remember that proper planning is very important otherwise you will keep on wandering till the end, and then panic before the exam.
Our suggestions
We suggest the following:
Make different set of Note Books for Economy, S&T, Environment, History, Geography and Polity- Only for Tests
Suppose you are done with first Block of Polity Tests comprising of 50 Questions from CA and Polity.
50 Questions will expose you to at least 200 related concepts. One Test- 200 Solid Concepts
By the end of SET 1- 4 Blocks and 1 Full mock: 300 Questions and at least 1000 concepts
(Imagine all those concepts in your respective notebook in revision friendly mode)
Same way make different notebooks for current affairs from babapedia
“Try to understand the importance of smart work”
We thought this program will give enough confidence to aspirants and they will work smartly to pursue the defined plan to the best of their interest. Are we wrong!
Prove us Right by putting in equal effort from your side!!
While designing this program, we thought to revolutionize the learning through our planning, approach and most importantly results. And every initiative of ours is in line with this goal.
Your life’s motto should be
“Wake up with determination and go to bed with satisfaction”
All the very Best 🙂
