I'm planning to buy the latest cohort of forum ias MGP and I'd be very grateful if any of you are willing to share any coupon code you might've received in your earlier purchases. Thank you.
I have pointed out major and minor saline lakes of India, for UPSC, see and tell if anything is missing???
Hello all,
I have started preparing Sociology and I’m able to understand the concepts reasonably well. However, when I look at the PYQs from the topics I’ve already studied, I often feel overwhelmed. I usually feel that I know what the question is asking and have a rough idea of the answer, but I struggle to structure it in the way UPSC expects. It makes me wonder whether I’m actually understanding the subject well enough.
Did you also face something similar when you started with Sociology? If yes, how did you overcome this phase? Was it just a matter of more answer writing and revision, or did you follow a specific approach while reading and practicing?
Thank you for your guidance.
Hi I am preparing for 2027 attempt. I have just completed first reading of polity so I am writing answers to check my preparation. Please give feedback. Criticisms are also welcomed.
Thanks
Looking for a serious UPSC CSE aspirant with Sociology Optional.
I’m starting from scratch and want a dedicated study partner to:
Meet daily study targets
Practice answer writing every day
Discuss Sociology concepts
Stay accountable and consistent
If you’re committed to completing the syllabus and preparing seriously, comment below or DM me. Let’s help each other stay on track.
If you've been trying to push your study hours and hitting a wall around 5-6 hours a day*,* I want to share something counterintuitive that worked for me, and that I wish someone had told me two years earlier.
The move is to go down first, not up.
I started at 5 hours and eventually got to 10. Not by pushing harder by doing the opposite. If you're brute-forcing 6 and it's not sustaining, that inconsistency isn't a discipline problem.
It's a capacity problem. And capacity doesn't respond to willpower. It responds to progressive load.
Here is how I fixed it.
Take a step back. Do 4 or 5 hours a day, whatever you can genuinely sustain. Even if you feel you could do more mid-week, resist the temptation. The goal this week is not quantity. It's proving to yourself that the number you set is a number you always hit. No missed days. No exceptions. Just a clean week at a number you can defend.
Progressively overload it with one hour.
Only one. Sustain that for the full week. Same rule: the number is sacred.
Repeat. Just REEPPEEAATTTT!!!!
Add an hour, sustain a week, add one more hour, sustain a week, repeat. In roughly four weeks, you're at 8 sustainable hours. In eight weeks, you're at levels most aspirants never reach.
Why this actually works
You're not building hours. You're building capacity. Focus is a muscle. Sitting for long stretches without your mind drifting is a physical, trainable ability — and like any muscle, it grows through progressive load, not shock.
Brute-forcing 8 hours when your working capacity is 5 is like walking into a gym and squatting 100 kg when your working weight is 60. You'll do it once, feel wrecked, skip the next three sessions, and convince yourself you're weak. You're not weak. You just skipped the ramp.
Two things I learned the hard way:
1. Quality of hours > number of hours. A tracked, focused 5 hours beats a scattered 8 every single time. The moment you start chasing the number, quality quietly drops — and you don't notice until a mock exposes it. Don't fall for the clock.
2. Motivation isn't the input. Capacity is. I'll tell you plainly — everything is going to go mundane and boring somewhere around month 2 or 3. Every aspirant hits it. The people who keep going aren't the ones with more motivation. They're the ones who built a habit at a modest number, so when motivation left, the habit stayed. If your habit is anchored at 4 hours, you keep going. If it was anchored on motivation alone, you stop.
Timeline check
If you start at 4 hours today and add an hour every stable week, you're at 8 sustainable hours in about a month. That's genuinely faster than the brute-force path, not slower — because you don't lose weeks to burnout crashes in between.
Most aspirants have this backwards. They think ramping slowly is the "safe" path and brute-forcing is the "aggressive" path. It's the opposite. Slow ramping is the aggressive path. It just doesn't look aggressive from the outside.
(NVIDIA Philosophy of Speed of lightening = Consistent work while capacity building)
Good luck to everyone in the 2027 window. The fact that you're thinking about this early puts you ahead of most.
If this resonated, a follow would mean a lot — I write posts and answers like this regularly for aspirants working through similar structural questions.
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Seniors and Vetrens please help me out i have recently started prep for cse and thinking to take sarthi ias foundation course I will be attempting 2027 cse but my main target is 2028 as i am enrolled in masters and i doubt i would be prepared for 27 mains so i have doubt regarding -
PLEASE HELP ME WITH REGARDING THIS DOUBTS !
I have purchased foundation for upsc 2027 - online mode. The batch started on 15th June as far as I remember.
I opted for 3 instalments and have paid the first instalment
If anyone wants to get the account transferred to them then I pls contact. Will lyk the price on dm. Thankyou and regards
P.s. one will have to come with me to the centre at ORN, Delhi (idk if the process can be done online and I’ll give all the banks there and then.
I'm planning to move to Delhi for UPSC preparation. Can someone explain the difference between ORN (Old Rajinder Nagar), Rajendra Nagar, and Karol Bagh? Which area is better for coaching, libraries, PGs, safety, and overall student life?
I am stuck in a dilemma about which coaching institute I should join. Vajiram seems very reputable, and there are a lot of YouTube videos about how its material is supposedly the best. On the other hand, Next IAS brings a new energy, when I visited their center, I saw a couple of people asking for the Mains test series, which made me perceive that they might have a very good test series.
I haven't visited the Vision center yet, and I couldn't find any demo lectures on YouTube.
Tathastu seems like a wild bet, so I am avoiding that. Though the counselor was very supportive and had a good chat with her.
Can you please give me your honest, unfiltered opinion on which is the best for someone with no prior humanities background? Also, are the 2-year programs really worth it?