Are you preparing or planning to prepare for UPSC CSE? Here’s how to approach Indian Polity, an integral and unavoidable part of the preparation.

Nikhil Agarwal, a Quora user who cleared his UPSC prelims in 2016, 2017, and 2018, shares some tips to crack the subject using the bestselling book, M Laxmikanth’s Indian Polity.

"You can use charts for many small chapters of the polity. Charts can help you in fast and repeated revisions,” he writes, adding that it helps in visualising and understanding the subject better without turning pages.

For longer chapters, he believes that making charts would not be as effective. Instead, he advises underlining the important points in the book itself.

He notes, making acronyms of important points and dates can also be a great way to memorise them. “This method”, he adds, “applies to not just polity but any subject.”

He advises aspirants to read the newspaper. “Whenever news related to polity comes up, go back and look for the subject in the book and study accordingly,” says Nikhil.

“You should make your own notes of the chapters which you find more lengthy and which contain irrelevant data,” he shares.

Revision is the key. "Most students ignore it and after prelims, they start blaming the question paper,” he opined.

The Nagpur educationist and musician’s Quora post has over 1,200 upvotes and his civil exam-related content has over 7,96,000 total views.

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