‘There’s plenty of fish in the sea,
but until I catch one, I just stuck here holding my rod.’
We should be watchful for key words, unusual words, phrase,
terms that appear on your way on preparation let it be either subjects or
current events. Be watchful for the key
words that is not necessarily used in the common conversation but appears in the
news or in the text. These key words are the pieces that will solve the big jigsaw
puzzle of clearing your examination. I have been part of several standard quizzes and in all the times I have
interacted with quiz maniacs, I have seen them carrying a thick notebook all along
with them and keep noting down even the minutest detail which they feel interesting,
unusual or that seems to be important. They patiently collect the key words,
topics, images, advertisements etc., the patience and perseverance pays them at the stage.
Looking for Key words, recording it in your note book
makes you well informed and technically strong in your preparation. But
nevertheless the information gathered
and recorded doesn’t make any sense until it is put to use. As part of your
preparation strategy make sure to find the answer yourself by prefixing the
question words to the key word. It’s very simple, just prefix the questions
words such as what, why, where, who,
how, which. If you can explain in a simple manner in simple words for the
questions framed yourself, you are far ahead from your competitors.
All civil services aspirants are in the job of fishing
with eyes and ears open carefully watching not for fishes but for Key
words. Keywords are the real hemoglobin
which carries all the essence of preparation. If your preparation lacks for
keywords it’s like your blood is in lack of hemoglobin, the state of being weak
and anemic.
We should be watchful for key words, unusual words, phrase,
terms that appear on your way on preparation let it be either subjects or
current events. Be watchful for the key
words that is not necessarily used in the common conversation but appears in the
news or in the text. These key words are the pieces that will solve the big jigsaw
puzzle of clearing your examination. I have been part of several standard quizzes and in all the times I have
interacted with quiz maniacs, I have seen them carrying a thick notebook all along
with them and keep noting down even the minutest detail which they feel interesting,
unusual or that seems to be important. They patiently collect the key words,
topics, images, advertisements etc., the patience and perseverance pays them at the stage.
Such a kind of dedicated preparation should be applied
by the CSE candidates. Key words appear all the way in our preparation, it just
takes a minimal awareness to be on top of those keywords and putting it in your
notebook. The more keywords you have the more informed you will be.
Let
me tell you few examples of key words. When we read through large amount of
contents we should be able to reconcile at least one or two key words. For
example Village is a common word, but imagine words that appear in the news
like global
village,
seed village, smart village. These are unusual combination of common
words which need some attention. If you have reviewed the previous year
question papers, you can understand the importance of all the three words,
since they appeared in the prelims and main examination. I always insist my
students to pick up key words and investigate on those key words. In a
transcript of PM’s Address at the
Combined Commanders Conference, there were few key words we can find such as Digi
locker, Digital India, Digital armed force etc., as a correlation can be found,
I asked my students to do some web search on Digitalizing and its essentiality. It is no surprise for the term Digital
India as well as Digital armed force appeared in the main exam paper. Similarly
in a press release about Niti Aayog
,the attention drawn words are only two, one being Niti Aayog itself and other being Cooperative Federalism.
In the very next prelims and main both term appeared giving an opportunity to earn more marks.
Looking for Key words, recording it in your note book
makes you well informed and technically strong in your preparation. But
nevertheless the information gathered
and recorded doesn’t make any sense until it is put to use. As part of your
preparation strategy make sure to find the answer yourself by prefixing the
question words to the key word. It’s very simple, just prefix the questions
words such as what, why, where, who,
how, which. If you can explain in a simple manner in simple words for the
questions framed yourself, you are far ahead from your competitors.
Let’s pick a key word we saw above for example, just
prefix it with question words
Key word:
Cooperative Federalism
1. What is cooperative federalism?
2. Why cooperative federalism is important
3. How Cooperative federalism works
4. Where does cooperative federalism has its role
5. Who are the stakeholders in the subject of
cooperative federalism and how are they linked.
6. What are the for and against arguments
for Cooperative Federalism
7. What are the advantages and disadvantages
of Cooperative Federalism?
If a candidate inculcates the habit of identifying key
words on a daily basis and can able to provide simple answer to all the
questions created by combining the questions words with the key words, I
assure, such a candidate will just bulldoze his way to succeed in Civil
Services Examination leaving all the competitors far behind.
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All the best
Kind Regards
Purush & Team
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