UPSC Preparation: What to do one month before prelims?

Dr. Roman Saini tells you the exact strategy to follow when the IAS prelims are just a month away

What to do one month before prelims
1 stop reading new  textbooks which you have never opened and stop buying new ones
2 all the notes made by you, consolidate it all at one place and of in electronic form take a print out and read them once daily till the examination starts.
3 give a test either going to a test series centre or online test series or Photocopy of the test at your own study place , at least 2-3 times a week.
4 while giving the test at your home either from photocopy or online, make sure you give it with full integrity that is no cheating around, no taking extra time and giving paper 1 and 2 on the same day.
5 if you are feelings anxious stressed etc take deep breaths, exercise, listen to music you like ,do yoga etc. for few hours and you will definitely feel the improvement.
6 start reading from already finished textbooks, at a very rapid pace which is called skimming and emphasise solely on keywords .
7 if there is an important table, figure , stats or any other high yield material either on Wikipedia, or laxmikanth or any environment topic or any private notes or otherwise, take a screen shot or a photo from your cell and print it out and consolidate all this material at one place.
8 stop group studying as now you have to read at your own comfort level and revise as much as possible. People in group are at different level of awareness about current events ,knowledge etc hence those who are less knowledgeable and learn at a somewhat slower pace, get a serious disadvantage.
9 don't study for 18 hours a day . Always maintain the average around 12 hours and have adequate time for relaxing your eyes, body and brain.
10 stop eating junk food, take liquid based diet, and semi solids and homemade balanced diet and never eat a lot at one go as it makes is lethargic and focus tend to digress.

11 do go through recently released economic survey or it's summary on which we are making a video shortly as many questions will be asked directly .

12 take a 7-8 hours sleep. No compromise on that as it will it be possible to consolidate the early learned information because synapses between neurones are strengthened after taking a good sound sleep.

13 read environment and ecology esp. last 4 chapters 13-16 from class 12th biology ncert and other sources from which you have already covered. At least read editorials from the Hindu as they will keep you ready for comprehension section in paper 2.

14 always read the timeline of modern Indian history. I can't emphasise more on this.3-4 questions are always asked from This section.

15 finally, this is the last phase for you to provide necessary acceleration. Slowing down here is not an option. Have a firm faith and conviction in yourself and whatever you study, do it single minded ruthless pragmatic focus .