How To Make Notes For The MPPSC Exam

 

In this article I am going to give you information on one particular topic which plays very major role for your competitive exam preparation.  We will be discussing about how to make notes for the various competitive exams. When we think of the notes making where is with respect to what kind of exam you are preparing for. So if your preparing for semester exam it is totally different and if you are preparing for the exams which is having mains paper in that for example as a SSC, JEE, UPSC, IAS, MPPSC notes making pattern little different but when you go for the competitive exams which is having objective questions in that or MCQs questions like GATE, NEET, JEE, UPSC  and MPPSC prelims,  PWD, RRB or any other exams that time again the pattern will be little different. So, we will try understanding each one of them.

so before actually starting with this first let's understand why notes making is very much important. See first whenever you are preparing for any of the competitive exam remember that you are dream is very high so when you are dream is very high that means your journey is also tuff. So that you don't try to find any shortcut for that, whatever the things are needed you must do it accordingly.

Now let’s understand why these notes making is very very important? First thing whenever you try making notes with your own handwriting that means you are understanding each and everything from what you have studied either you have watched any video or either you have referred any book and took any mppsc coaching notes. When you are making notes with your own handwriting that mean you must understand each and everything. If you copy straight away from the books so that is not called as notes. If you are saying I am having sound notes which are written by myself that mean whatever you have written in that book you know each and every thing about that. So that if have you written any thing in your copy there should be crystal clear and they should be known by you that is you should read what you have written.

And the next point is whenever you are doing revision because revision plays very major role in any competitive exams. So, if they talk about MPPSC exam it will be in the month of July 2022 only 4 months remain and one month completely you have to devote for revision you should not study even a single topic, single point, new something during that one month. So, one month you have to completely devote for the revision so what I want to say is that revision plays very major role along with the preparation.

You have to schedule your preparation accordingly revision model time rather than requiring some other notes or rather than referring some other videos or other Institute mppsc printed notes or any other of your friend handwritten notes if you have your own notes you should trust in such a way that what you have returned is correct and good enough for your preparation.
Use different color pens while writing notes for mppsc exam. It will easy to retain in exam hall.

How to choose which mppsc coaching institute and it’s notes are good to join for MPPSC Preparation?

 

When you are thinking of joining any coaching institute, do not go by their advertisements. Many institutes only keep the names of toppers even if they visited their institute for open mock interview as it was free. There are gradations in the level of engagement a topper has with an institute, and you need to recognize this before you decide to join them.

It is always advisable to take the opinion of those who have already taken mppsc coaching in that institute, to make an informed decision. Their response should be given more importance and not pamphlets or advertisements.

About the capacity of teachers in coaching institutes?

Many a times, aspirants (especially beginners) place a lot of trust and credibility in the coaching teachers. Some teachers are really good but some are just awful. Especially in special subjects like GS, reading standard books and referring to internet will tell you whether what you are being taught in mppsc coaching in indore institutes is right or just rubbish.

You can also search the blogs of toppers on that particular topic, who would have given an accurate account of their opinion about the institute.

How useful are coaching notes? Can they replace standard books?

Standard books are important because they are written from the ground up and they form the foundation of your knowledge. Once you have read the standard books, reading coaching mppsc notes becomes not only a lot easier, but you can also see where a small subject fits into that bigger picture.

The problem with just reading coaching mppsc notes is that they give you such a big picture perspective. What you will be left with are fragmented concepts and broken knowledge that do not stay in your memory for long. For long term memory, we need context of a topic, so you should always start with standard books.

While reading the mppsc notes, remember these:

1.   MPPSC Coaching in indore notes are helpful and they are easy to revise before the exam. But they can only complement but never replace standard books.

2.   Always map your notes to the chapters and topics of the course. Most of the coaching institutes do not cover the syllabus completely. Even if they do, they usually run through a few chapters. So when you see that a topic is not covered well in your notes, read yourself from other sources and make mppsc handwritten notes.

3.   Coaching notes and materials come in handy to cover a specific topic. For example for subject like government schemes, instead of laboring to compile them from the websites of ministries, it is better that you buy compilation booklet of any institute. Smart work saves you a lot of time.

4.   You must remember that MPPSC is not at all like an undergraduate exam. In college, it is quite easy to just read notes and score well. But in MPPSC, the questions are of high level and of deep analytical depth. Usually, no question comes directly from your mppsc coaching notes. It is the clarity of your concepts - especially in the optional - that will help you write good answers.

Should I take coaching for GS?

General Studies is not quantum physics. MPPSC only expects candidates to have a generalist understanding of a wide range of topics. So if you have the material with you and can study on your own, you will be able to understand the subject and hence GS coaching isn’t really necessary. You only need to go the market, buy the relevant GS material or coaching notes and study on your own.

MPPSC Preparation Strategy for Prelims, Mains & Interview, Tips, Books | How to prepare for MPPSC Exam

 

BASIC REQUIREMENT FOR SUCCESS IN THE MPPSC EXAM

The civil services are one of the most lengthy, comprehensive and competitive exams in India with a very low success rate. It is yearlong process consisting of three stages, Preliminary, the mains examination and the interview. Therefore, it requires a comprehensive set of qualities which are pre-requisites for cracking the exam.

The Candidates have a few qualities in self for cracking the exam like Good Intelligence quotient (IQ), Good scoring potential, Good reading skills, Good writing skills, Good analytical skills, Focus and determination, Good Emotional Intelligence (EQ).

A Good IQ is the ability to understand concepts and techniques, a good EQ is the ability to understand people and their emotions. Both these qualities are needed to make a good civil servant.

To be a civil servant average IQ is enough, provided we compensate for this hard work, smart and reading and writing skills.

One needs to have good scoring potential to succeed in the MPPSC examination. Usually, the marks obtained in board exams are quite an indicator of a person’s IQ.

THE KEY TO SUCCESS

Many people say that success in life is not solely depends on hard work. It is a mixture of talent, density and luck. Some people feel that persons like Einstein or Tendulkar are born like that, with immense god gifted talent. Some other feels that it is all pre decided whatever has to happen will happen all the above statements can be true for particular individual so success depends on many factors.

·         Hard work

·         Talent/aptitude

·         Luck/chance

·         Marketing/self-promotion

·         All the above

Once you have decided to start the preparation for MPPSC, you must focus on the examination and forget everything else like Arjuna in Mahabharata, who saw only the eye of the bird that is target though The Tree, the leaves, the branches the sky everything was there. Similarly, we have to cut ourselves from all the possible distraction during the preparation. Focus only on the exam.

One more myth or fear student have about English many hesitate or in fear of speaking English, there is no need to try to master the English language but certainly make efforts to improve your grammar, expressions and handwriting. This can easily be done with some extra efforts. You can consult any MPPSC Coaching expert for this.

 

MPPSC PRE & MAINS: BOOKS/SOURCES

Art and culture (कला एवं संस्कृति)	Nitin Singhania
Environment & Ecology (पर्यावरण एवं पारिस्थितिकी)	NCERT
Essay Writing (निबंध द्रष्टि)	निबंध मंजूषा
The Indian National Movement (भारत का राष्ट्रीय आंदोलन)	Bipin Chandra, NCERT
Ancient Medieval and Modern History of India (भारत का प्राचीन मध्यकालीन तथा आधुनिक इतिहास)	SK Pandey, NCERT
General Science (सामान्य विज्ञान)	Lucent, NCERT
World History (विश्व का इतिहास)	Dinanath Verma, NCERT
Indian Polity (भारतीय राज व्यवस्था)	M. Laxmikanth, NCERT
Introduction to the Constitution of India (भारत का संविधान)	Brij Kishore Sharma, NCERT
World and Geography of India (भारत व विश्व का भूगोल)	Mahesh Barnwal, NCERT
Indian Economy (भारतीय अर्थव्यवस्था)	S. N. Lal, NCERT
International Relations (अंतराष्ट्रीय सम्बन्ध)	Tapan Biswal
Current Events (समसामयिक घटनाक्रम)	Pratiyogita Darpan

 

 

TIME MANAGEMENT

This is an essential requirement to crack any competitive exam, first you need set a goal thus goal setting is the first step to time management. A mppsc aspirant have to set short term goals you can set weekly targets, Daily targets that should be complete in hours like 10, 12 or 14 hours a day. When I was preparing for MPPSC mains I forget all other things, forget the family, postponed spiritual and material quests and focused only on the preparation.

Worried about how much time to give for preparation? MPPSC mains is tough examination to crack. whoever told you that this will easy was lying, it's difficult but not impossible to crack. How much time to give for daily studying solely depends on an individual. It does not depend on the time but rather on the concentration level that you will be putting. Most students who have higher IQ might have to give just 6 hours of daily studying and they can still retain most of the stuff, where is some students have to do extraordinarily hard work.

Don't go by the time that your friends are giving to Daily preparation, try to utilize the time that you are spending on the study, like Arjun whose eyes were on the target you should also study in the same manner. Just see how much time it requires you to fulfil your daily target and then you can calculate how much time you need to dedicate for your studies.

 

PRACTICE ANSWER WRITING

Answer writing is an important aspect of MPPSC civil services exam. While prelims is only the qualifying exam which separates the grain from the chaff means serious candidates from non-serious candidates, it's marks are not added for creating the merit list.

Mains exam is worth 1575 marks spanning over 6 papers four papers of GS, 1 paper of Hindi and 1 paper of essay. The content of the answer is more important than its length.

Answer writing also helps in organizing and prioritizing your thought process you learn to put forward what exactly is asked and not what you know. Last but not least writing has in the internalizing information and in better retention than only reading. You can join any MPPSC coaching in indore for mains answer writing practice.

So, for the process part, one should begin by writing answers of previous year question papers in addition to give you adequate answer practice they should help you in understanding the exam pattern and the demand of the exam very well. After finishing with previous years papers, one should start taking mock test and get them evaluated. Many Online MPPSC Coaching classes are providing mock tests for practice can join any for your preparation.

1.       Immediately after prelims- write four to five questions for day start taking weekly topical mock test

2.       2 months before mains start taking full length test

3.       A week before mains take three or four full length tests at the same time when the mains exam is conducted just to simulate exam conditions.

ROLE OF HANDWRITING

Handwriting is important but not the most important factor. You may or may not get extra marks if you have very good handwriting. but you are sure to lose out, if your handwriting is illegible.

Your handwriting should be readable for this you can do this-

1.       Increase the font of your writing generally bigger the font, easier it is to read.

2.       Give adequate spacing between lines

3.       Start each paragraph from the middle of the page this will give a good appearance to your answer

4.       Underline the keywords this is very essential especially if you have a clumsy handwriting there are chances that the evaluator may miss out on this.

5.       Use subheadings to divide your answers.

 

MPPSC: INTERVIEW

After my mains exam i starts preparation for interview this time i was confident i will clear mains as well as interview. I think best way to prepare for mppsc interview is know yourself, explore yourself, prepare question answers which are likely to be asked in interview, but do not prepare answers which are not true, don’t fool interviewer, don’t lie in interview board, you can prepare for interview in just 20 days (if you faced interview previously) before interview give at least 5 mock interviews. You can join Sharma Academy’s Mock Interview sessions for preparation.

 

HOW TO PREPARE FOR MPPSC EXAM?

Here, I am telling you the overall strategy to crack the MPPSC State Service Examination in the First attempt. The first attempt of the candidate is very pivotal and considered to be the very important or golden attempt as the students are intense for their study in first attempt and mind is in the state of calm.

As the MPPSC syllabus is vast so it needs at least one complete year planning for any fresher student who is preparing for MPPSC and want to crack it in first attempt.

There are 3 phases of exam as we discussed above, we need to understand the importance of each phase of the exam:

·         Preliminary Exam (to test a broad range of knowledge)

·         Mains Exam (to test the depth of your knowledge and the action of putting into words an idea or feeling.)

·         Personality test (to test clarity in your thoughts, judgement, and nobility in your personality).

 

HOW TO PREPARE FOR MPPSC 2021 PRELIMS EXAMINATION?

As MPPSC is approaching on footsteps of UPSC in asking questions from diverse fields, the strategy for Prelims should be a blend of Hard work and Smart work as it is the stage of pure elimination.

Before the start of the Prelims preparation, we need to go through all the Previous Year Question Papers to understand the coverage and current trends of the questions asked. We need to cover all the important events of past 10-12 months as Current Affairs playing a decisive role nowadays.

 

Here is the analysis and sources to be followed for Prelims Paper:

Prelims Paper 1:

GENERAL STUDIES (No. of Questions: 100) (No negative marking);

There are some Core areas from where questions are asked in Mains Examination also and some are Peripheral topics which are asked in Prelims only.

Core/Static Subjects:

Integrated preparation with Mains perspective is needed.

1.       History

2.       Geography

3.       Polity

4.       Economy

5.       Science and Technology

6.       Environmental Issues

7.       Art and Culture

8.       Madhya Pradesh static part

Peripheral Topics:

1.       Basic Computer Knowledge: Lucent Computer Book.

2.       Sports-related GK: Ghatna Chakra, Pratiyogita Darpan.

3.       3 Legislations: Bare Act, Mahaveer or Punekar Publication.

4.       Miscellany (Longest, Highest, First, Last etc.): Last Chapter of Lucent GK Book.

5.       Current Affairs, Persons in News etc: Current Magazine or Google it.

Prelims Paper 2: CSAT, No. of Questions: 100 (No negative marking);

This Paper is Qualifying nature only and it consists of Logical Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude and questions from Hindi and English. Although no separate time needed to be devoted one should practice at least 2-3 Previous Year question papers to get a flavour of it.

Important Instructions

Apart from all this give at least 45 days for Prelims exclusively for revising the syllabus and solving as many Practice tests as possible within the time limits. For practising MCQs, you can choose Online or Offline in any mode. It is advisable to solve MCQs online to save the time of Answer checking and getting a comparative analysis of your performance.

 

CONCLUDING WORDS

·         Read the whole syllabus at least one time completely, and revise it twice.

·         Prepare your own notes don't rely on others notes, your thoughts are easy to understand for yourself.

·         Make a daily routine from morning till sleep and follow that, schedule should be flexible and give space to yourself also as with study. Watch movie, enjoy with friends, go for a walk after dinner, you can do pranayama for relax, keep your mind cool and then study you will definitely get success in exam.

·         Do practice for answer writing for mains, increase your speed, make handwriting try to write clear and readable easily.

Why one should have a MPPSC revision plan to crack their state service examination.

 

MPPSC 2021 Revision Plan - Revision is the most important part of exam preparation including the MPPSC. Students who are preparing for the MPPSC 2021 exam must have a strategic plan for revision to get the most out of the topics which have been studied. MPPSC syllabus is vast. To complete the MPPSC exam revision for all the subjects, candidates must have a revision plan. As per the previous year MPPSC toppers, teachers and experts from Sharma Academy MPPSC Coaching, students must revise the topic on a daily basis before going to sleep or first thing in the morning before starting any new topic. Also, Sunday or any other holiday must be devoted to revision of the important topics. The another most important part of MPPSC revision plan is to solve chapter-wise mock tests and full subject mock tests. Chapter wise mock test after studying and revising the chapter and full subject mock test after completing the whole syllabus.

Students are also advised to regularly practice the MPPSC mock tests as and when the chapter is completed. This will help them in evaluating their preparation level, strong and weak points, mistakes they are making, time taken for solving the questions and much more.

 

MPPSC Prelims Revision Plan - Points to Look

Students must note that an effective revision plan for MPPSC must have proper time for all the subjects. Also, the revision plan must be such that every topic you study gets revised on a daily basis by the end of the day. Students who are dedicated and determined know how to crack MPPSC and know the importance of revision. If the topics are not revised, it could be difficult to recall it at the time of exam and if it happens, it would be very difficult to score good marks in exam. Students can also study with MPPSC Time Table if not able to manage the timing of study. Students are provided below some important points to look for while making a MPPSC revision plan.

• Spend at least one hour for revision daily of all the topics which you study throughout the day.
• Best time to revise is before going to sleep or in the morning before beginning the new topic
• Holiday or Sunday must be a full revision day. Revise all the important topics, formulas, short tricks on holiday
• Take mock tests after completing a chapter to know the preparation level

 

CONFIDENCE comes with CONSISTENCY – Consistency in studying, revising, practicing tests, analysing and improving.

First of all, do not get confused by different people / toppers suggesting different books. To clear the prelims, you need about 55-80% marks. So different people have different approaches to get 60%. So, choose a source and stick to it, no matter what.

Do not store 5 different MPPSC coaching institutes and collect their mppsc notes and study material. It will not make you intelligent, it will confuse you. And even if you learn something extra from a different source, analyse the cost-benefit scenario of that additional knowledge.

For some extra "edge" over others, you spend a lot of your time, costing time more because you need to revive everything.

When you start preparing, you take it slow, you look at each concept carefully, but remember that you need to plan your study in such a way that you not only do the course well Complete, but also give you at least five revisions. Everything. have studied.

If you make a good plan you can give a lot of revisions and you can limit your sources to some standard and comprehensive books.

If you want to become a district collector, do not become a book collector. As I mentioned above there are many modifications to the key to crack prelims.

Multiple revisions are possible only when you limit your sources. As you can see in the sources I mentioned, I have suggested one or two sources for only one subject. Therefore, you should avoid buying many books on one subject.

For any query feel free to ask from our MPPSC Coaching in Indore experts by commenting below. Be in touch for your preparation and all the best.