It's only a week before the Prelims.

It's only a week before the Prelims. In 8 days from now, you will be writing the coveted UPSC CSE Prelims examination and thus, you need to ensure you don't fail before the exam.

Failing one week before the exam means stopping revision, doomscrolling on Instagram or YouTube, searching for motivation from external sources expecting one video or post to motivate you to study. Let me state clearly: THAT WILL NOT HAPPEN, including this post too.

What will help is planning backwards, what you will do one day before the exam, 3 days before and a week before. And that must not include entire subjects like 'Revising Polity'. That is just ambiguous and almost impossible to achieve.

How to plan backwards:

1. Mention the specific chapters of a particular subject you need to revise. E.g Emergency chapter from Laxmikanth

2. Make a specific list of things you need to revise from different subjects.

3. Divide that list according to specific time slots that you will need for its completion.

4. Do not keep on adding new things till the last moment.

5. Revise the low hanging fruits like mapping, certain facts and figures, articles from Polity, etc.

Apart from that, plan your day in a realistic manner. Do not keep 12 hour schedules in the last week, rather focus on getting the proper amount of sleep, eating healthy food and keeping yourself hydrated.

All the best💫