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Published on Aug 1, 2017
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BOOKLIST AND ART OF NOTE MAKING IN ILP 2018

Hello Friends,

Hardly few of you have gone through the guidelines given in the very first welcome article followed by another article when FULL PLAN was uploaded. It is so easy to get excited over anything than following and making a clear understanding of what is being conveyed through it.

BABAPEDIA- PRELIMS CURRENT AFFAIRS

  • Go to Babapedia and check the folder named 2017 where you will find Month Wise Folders.
  • Suppose from today i.e August it is being updated till 30th August, then inside August folder, you will find updates from Day 1 to Day 30 of August.
  • Do not look at sections on the Home Page of Babapedia i.e History, Environment, Economy, Geography, Mind Maps, etc. They are nothing but tags associated with the news being covered on daily basis. You should not worry about them.
  • Suppose today any article on Environment Conservation is covered. Then it will also reflect under Environment Section- Conservation Folder. Why should you worry about it?

It is just a matter of  common sense and little more patient and inquisitive mindset to explore whenever you come across anything new.

Remember- You only have to go to respective Months Folder Under 2017 Folder and cover that days current affairs

Content under Babapedia

  • UPSC examination is not about mugging something or covering everything from all the sources. It is also not about having cooked content and doing the same rote learning from that. It is more about making your mind work and develop perspective and understanding by consistent effort.
  • Think Section in Babapedia Current Affairs- It is done for some reason. And we know it better. Sincere aspirants applauded the same through emails and requested to continue the same by covering more interconnected aspects.
  • At the same time we were worried (not tensed) having received emails directing us (not even asking) to provide every detail saying 'Why have I joined ILP if have to waste time doing research of words and concepts under Think.. You should do it for us!
  • These two mindsets explains everything. You are still to learn about the essence of this exam if such are your doubts and thought process. First do understand about the process and its requirements.

DAILY NEWS ANALYSIS/ALL INDIA RADIO/RSTV ANALYSIS/YOJANA & KURUKSHETRA- MAINS CURRENT AFFAIRS

Stick to above sources for Mains related current affairs and do nothing more than this. And yes there is no denying that you should always make notes out of it. How to make notes? Ummm...you should develop it yourself. (Go through VAN and condense the content after proper understanding of any issue)

Current affairs is evolutionary in nature. Do not try to outsmart others by showing off your coverage of the day or do not try to have false satisfaction by more and more coverage.

Those who cleared this examination have been very honest and sincere in following the command of their mentors. Our previous ILP students who made it to final list were no different than you. You just need to take a deep breath and make up your mind for this task and be very attentive and sincere while following it.

Let us take an example for Note Making. What is the best way of note making? Subjective, it is!

If you ask a person having no interest in UPSC and having no knowledge of polity, economy etc a simple question like- What is Right to Equality?

What will be his answer? 

Now if the same person decides to start UPSC preparation and started reading polity for the first time, shouldn't he/she make note on 'Right to Equality = Article 14 of Indian Constitution, It is a Fundamental Right, What are FR's? etc etc.......

Will you write all these in your notes? (If aware of such basics)

Hope it is making sense to you!  (Note Making is governed by personal need and should always be cut down on content with continuous revision)

Now let us take an example for you guys :) 

Suppose you are preparing Daily News Analysis, DNA where we cover two issues.

Before reading anything or before notes making, take deep breath and tell your mind that --
Hello mind, you are world's best storage and powerful device. There were people who could remember many things. Even I remember many things from the past. Thank you, now let us put you to some more good use. I will tell you to store certain things, please remember for long term and help me retrieve that information whenever I ask.
If Baba would have been an aspirant, His Notes would be like :P
For instance, take Triple Talaq Issue
  • 3T issue - Hello mind, store 2 cases --> Shayara Bano and Shah Bano
  • Shayara --> 3T, polygamy, nikkah, halala
  • Shah Bano --> maintenance after divorce
  • 2 acts before independence --> Muslim Personal (Shariat) law, 1937 and Muslim Marriage dissolution Act, 1939
  • Muslim Marriage Dissolution act --> rights of women to seek divorce
Further keywords like this
1) Uniform Civil Code and 3T issue --> Art 14, 15, 21, 25 (FRs) and Art 44 (DPSP)
2) Equality before law, gender equality, discrimination in the name of religion
3) Cases - Shah bano and Shayara bano
4) Acts - Muslim personal law (Shariat), 1937 + Muslim Marriages dissolution Act 1939 + Muslim  Women (protection of divorce) 1986 after Shah bano case
5) Conflict - personal law versus Constitution; Minority versus Majority tyranny; freedom of religion versus freedom of equality before law and rt to dignified life for women; UCC versus freedom of religion or secularism
No need to write the inside content in your notes. Our brain is very powerful, we dont know its true value nor making full use of it.
Topic- Beef ban politics and its effects
  • Right to Life,Article 21- Freedom to eat whatever one like :D : Right to food/faith- fundamental rights
  • Debate is FR vs DPSP (FR- Personal Liberty Vs State Social Commitment)
  • Argument of State- For ban?
  • Focus on Various judgments (Bombay HC verdict)
  • Against Secular fabrics of India- How?
  • DPSP cannot over ride FR (Minerva Mills Case). parliament can only amend FR if it is not against Basic Structure
  • Conflict- Religious Sentiments/Faith vs Right to Food
Logically
  • Food habits governed by cultural habits, geographical locations and climatic factors and poverty to an extent.
  • Examples of coastal regions, tundra regions and ST/SC- Tribal people who being poor have least choices.
Tell your mind to remember the content under each of these headings, it will surely remember. 
  • You just need some more time with preparation and working your mind/brain, later with consistent effort you will simplify the notes even further and remember most of the things efficiently.
  • Thoughts become actions. So start your preparation with good thoughts -say to your mind that with its cooperation you will finish the task withing X time and try to achieve that :)
As a mentor it is our job to guide you qualitatively and we are doing it honestly from planning to guiding to motivating to providing quality content and patiently writing and replying like a machine :) 

UPSC examination is not for people who have reasons like 'how to do this, I do not have time, I only get this much time, It is not possible to prepare with this plan, Is this even practically possible to cover these many topics in a day, and many more.

The reason of failure is not misguidance but the stubbornness to follow the process that requires CHANGE. And 'Change' is the nature of life :) 

Above quotation explains everything. Time won't give you a second chance. Better be awake!

Please find the details of books and sources to follow

HISTORY 

Modern India

Post Independent India

Ancient India

Medieval India

Art and Culture

WORLD HISTORY

India Society 

POLITY 

  • Lakshmikant Any edition (Focus on Topics to be covered. Extra topics will be covered in VAN)

GEOGRAPHY

ECONOMICS

ENVIRONMENT

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

ETHICS 

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