Very important Pro Tip for Mains-26: Read to avoid unproductive ways of spending last 58 days before Mains-26: 1. All people writing Mains are smart enough to know that access to relevant information and content is way easier now than it was 2-3 years ago. 2. Relevant keywords, data, facts, committees, case laws, examples, diagrams, maps flow charts and even ready made intros, conclusions and value added points from topper copies is easily available to everyone. 3. And since it is readily available to everyone, those who have done sufficient writing practice to reproduce it will get that 430+ in GS, 115+ in Essay and 270+ in optional paper(or a total of 815+). 4. Still many will waste hours on consuming lectures containing the same information that can be learnt through text based easily available rich content in 10-15 minutes. Still most will spend countless number of hours finding information and trying to rote learn that information without practice. The same time could be used for revising content and practicing it on writing and analysis of answers, comments, model answers and peer copies. 5. Everything boils down to one thing: are you disciplined enough to spend 40% of your remaining time before Mains on writing answers, analysing them, and ensuring the next answer is better than the last? Remaining 60% of your other time can go in reading and revising information for GS, Essay and Optional and watching lectures/test discussion videos should be avoided. 6. Remaining motivated and consistently improving your answer writing can be done by one simple method: write few answers everyday(5-10 of GS and 5-7 of Optional) and at certain intervals plan to write FLTs. Get them evaluated by those who have scored better than you, those who know what minor changes are needed to improve your score by 0.5-2 marks in each answers. Do your own analysis by looking at peer copies, model answers, looking your core content and asking AI, google. 7. There is still good enough time to write 600+ GS and Optional(humanities ones) answers, 10-12 Essay topics, analyse them and improve your content and writing in the remaining time. Every answer on predictable themes you do not write today becomes a mark you may not score on the day of exam. And a good answer is not written in the exam hall; it is written in the hundreds of answers attempted before it.
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