General Studies : i) Current Affairs - I am having a daily for key events and keep cutting from news paper for national and international level events (like climate change, state re organization, food security, RTI, education) from frontline, The hindu. I hope will access around 75% questions from this section around 20 to 25.
ii) History & National movement : My favorite topic and my first option in prelim. I have read, bipin chandra and bl gover and prepared my short notes which are helpful for optional as well as GS. I hope will access around 80% questions from this section around 12 to 15.
iii) Indian Polity & constitution : My second favorite. I have read DD basu, PD special issue, NCERT. I have access to all the questions. but 2-3 questions are asked every year in a tricky way. so now i am focussing on that. access to 10 to 12 questions
iv) Economy : PD special issue, yojana and Mishra puri. acess to 10 questions
V) questions from Sports, ISRO/space missions, books and misc. awards, famous persons - for which i would like to consolidation last one year Pratiyogita darpan (PD issues) to have acces, which i would like to do in feb.'09 or march'09 - 10-15 questions
Vi) Geography : here i am focussing on National Parks, heritage parks, minerals, agriculture, exports, river and valley projects, power/nuclear projects. traditional geo. like atmosphere is my weak point. so i am trying to strengthen the areas of self interest. only 12-15 questions i can access right now out of total 25-30 question from this section
vii) Mental ability & maths : I have access the questions from percentage, profit & loss, time & work, speed & distance. I have to focuss on DI & mental ability questions. 7-8 questions from 15-18 questions.
viii) Science & Technology : This is my weak point. i can hardly access 5-7 questions out of 25 question from this section.
Some questions are asked from general aspects but in tricky ways. i am analyzing thr prev. years papers to get my self .
Overall i evaluate my self as 35-40 questions can be answered by me in one go, second i can sort the question for which i can exactly find two answers this range is 45 to 50 questions including 10-15 tricky questions, so no i am try to improve on this. third thre remaining questions are not certain and it will depend upon paper and aware ness and my further preparation, improvement in strategy right now. |