Dear Friends,
How do batsmen of international repute like Virat Kohli or Steve Smith are able to pierce the gaps with their cracking cover drives? How to fierce pacers like Bumrah or Mitchell Starc can bowl bullet like yorkers on the trot?
Well, the answer is simple- they have the skills to do what they do and they have perfected their skills through years of practice. Although a cliche, you need to understand that practice does make a man (or woman) perfect. When you listen to commentators praising Virat Kohli for his abilities and that he can play his shots while sleeping is a testimony to the significance of practice.
While you might be a good cricketer, you are supposed to practice something different to succeed in the Mains examination. Yes, we are talking about answer writing. People tend to forget a simple fact – what you have read and understood doesn’t matter if you don’t have the ability to express your learnings in words.
The only tool that you have to impress the examiner is the answer booklet where you write the answers. The examiner, while evaluating your answers, won’t know your gender, age, background, personality, sense of humour and of course the hard work that you might have put in during the preparation process. He will judge you only through the prism of your answers. While it may appear unfair, you need to quickly adapt to this reality and buckle up for answer writing practice, a lot of it.
It is not going to be easy by the way. Most of us hate to write. In the age of social media and cellphones, we are quicker and more efficient in typing on qwerty keys than writing with a pen. The initial days will produce a lot of friction. You will tend to loose interest midway, thinking that you will manage to write like Amartya Sen or Shashi Tharoor during Mains. Let us tell you that it doesn’t work that way.
Reading and writing are two different ballgames. People may be good in both or either of the two. Depending upon how comfortable you are with your writing and reading skills, you need to prioritise your time.
So, in order to give direction to your mains preparation, we are starting the most trusted Mains program for answer writing. Yes, we are talking about Think Learn and Perform Plus (TLP+) Program for UPSC Mains 2020!
Here, we bring you the most trusted and awaited program of IASbaba – Think Learn and Perform (TLP)+ for UPSC Mains 2020.
For the past 5 years, TLP has become synonymous with quality and effectiveness. The testimony and recommendation of toppers and a hit ratio of more than 82% in Mains (in the last 4 Years) speak volumes about the quality of questions that IASbaba frames. In TLP, you will get a mix of thought provoking, opinion oriented, highly analytical and most probable questions apart from few direct questions to prepare you for any scenario that UPSC can throw at you.
You can see it yourself here: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019