Strategy Document Right Strategy

RIGHT STRATEGY IS THE CORE OF CIVIL SERVICES PREPARATION • By Neeraj Kansal, Director CrackIAS.com Success in civil services examination depends on a right mix of good strategy, optimal hard work, and a little luck. IAS preparation is just like moving a boat in a large ocean. This ocean is filled with huge number of coaching institutes, unverified online contents, endless photocopies, and the social apps like Telegram, WhatsApp & Facebook etc. Unless you know your coordinates, you will be lost forever. Here I am going to discuss about certain…

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Strategy Document Notes Making

HOW TO MAKE EFFECTIVE NOTES • By Neeraj Kansal, Director crackIAS.com Notes making is an essential component of the civil services examination. However, making right kind of notes is an art. If you know this art, you will know how lengthy & of what content, you should make notes. Over the period of almost 25 years as a student earlier and then as a teacher, I have learnt the way of making effective notes, which I thought I must share with you. There are 2 aspects involved in making notes…

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Strategy Document Current Affairs

HOW TO PREPARE CURRENT AFFAIRS • By Vivek Rao, Assistant Content Director CrackIAS.com Over the years, current affairs are increasingly playing a prominent role in selections in civil services. You have unlimited no. of sources to prepare current affairs including newspapers, magazines, news apps, and then telegram channels, websites, and endless PDFs coming to your inbox every day. The penetration of so many sources has created a lot of confusion and has increased your workload manifold especially affecting your time management on a day-to-day basis. This, therefore, needs a proper…

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Strategy Document Too Many Books

TOO MANY COOKS SPOIL A DISH, TOO MANY BOOKS SPOIL A DREAM! • By Indu Gupta, Director CrackIAS.com If there is one thing that can be said for civil services exam, it is the perception of reading a large no. of books to be successful. When you had first planned to start preparation for civils, many questions like, ‘you will have to do a lot of hard work, will you?’ or ‘you will need to study a lot of books, will you?’ would had been asked from you. These questions,…

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Strategy Document Time management

TIME MANAGEMENT IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS IN CIVIL SERVICES • By Indu Gupta, Director crackIAS.com What is time management? In my opinion, time management is the best utilization of time ‘whatever available’ with a person, to accomplish one’s goals. It is NOT about how many hours or days are needed to crack this exam. It is about whatever time you have with you; how best can you use it to crack civil services exam. Lakhs of people spend many years in the preparation of IAS exam. Yet, they are…

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