Question : What Is The Importance Of Making Own Notes?
Answer :
- A word of advice to fellow aspirants- Prepare your own notes. It is beneficial to you because the notes that you write by yourself will help you in retaining the facts much easily.
- You should prepare separate notes for Prelims and Mains exam of UPSC. Why is it so? Because, for Prelims you require extensive coverage of topics without going too much in details or facts and figures while for Mains you need selective but in-depth coverage of the chosen topics. In addition, the events for Mains need to be tracked and updated on continual basis while majority of the events for Prelims do not need to be updated continually.
- Quite frankly, you do not need to make notes for every single sub-topic given in the syllabus for every paper of the Prelims and Mains. Rather you should be selective in approach. Which are the important topics? Which information you would like to recollect easily during the exam (Prelims and Mains)? Which topic contains important facts and figures? Which topic is of current relevance and needs to be updated? Ask yourself these questions if in doubt over which topics to make notes for. The rule of thumb says - you should prepare notes for current affairs related information for Prelims and the GS and optional papers of Mains exam.
