When you prepare for the Yearly exam in school, does it help you prepare automatically for the Half-yearly?
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The analogy is almost perfect for UPSC Mains and Prelims too, except the slightly extra effort that Prelims - Paper II - CSAT will require, which in case you are a Maths background student, will be very little.
NATURE OF THE WHOLE PROCESS
I can see the beauty of the UPSC exam in the interconnected nature of the three stages -
- If you prepare only for Prelims, and actually clear it, you've invited disaster. There's no time to prepare for Mains for same year.
- Conversely, if you prepare only for Mains and neglect the Aptitude part and the Objective Testing part completely, it just won't work out. The mindset needed to cruise through objective questions and options is different than the skills needed to write beautiful essays.
- And once you're doing a holistic preparation, the third stage - personality testing - is taken care of largely.
