2013-11-27

6 days to go

Okay, I am so busy that I haven't even thought of my blog till yesterday. Once I got reminded, I thought I'll just post whatever important happened since the last time.

  • I was preparing seriously these past few days although I still don't have much hope for Mains.
  • I was diagnosed with some viral fever and was severely sick for around 3-4 days. Thankfully, it's all over now well before the exams and I am back to being healthy.
  • My institute opened a new building adjacent to the old one. Also, the fees this time is increased by 50% on General Studies and other optional subjects.
  • I haven't watched a lot of football last weekend, but I've been following the general news, score updates and everything. I am sad that Ronaldo is injured. Hope he gets back quickly. 

Now, I must tell you, by looking at the sheer numbers of the new batch students in our institute, I am scared. My God, there are so many of them. Then, when you sit in a class, you know about your fellow students. So, you sort of know who listen to classes, who study seriously and who is a possible ranker. But I don't anything know anything about this new batch students. And all of them, their face, their appearance look like they are serious contenders. They were passing me through the hallway and every one is looking so intellectual, like thinking about some thing. You know, when you appear serious and deeply thoughtful, people tend to assume you are intelligent. May be that is what happened here, but still.

By the way, I've given test series in our academy. Because these are the last days, our institute could only correct GS Papers 1,2 and 3. They told us they couldn't get Ethics paper and Optional papers corrected. I got my corrected answer sheets, my faculty didn't give us marks but gave remarks to every answer on the side. I'll just write what was mentioned about mine.
  • When asked about my handwriting, I was told it's okay, intelligible only. So, no problems there.
  • My answers are too descriptive, very vague and generalized. I should try to be more specific and relevant to the question.
  • Any answer contains basically 3,4 core points. It is must you mention them, highlight it in some form, so that examiner can notice them easily and not labour through the whole answer.
  • And few more remarks that are particular to the question.
Then, what else. Yeah, I am so bored by studying so much these last few days, that I've started using Facebook again. That's right, the last time I opened my facebook account was way back in May 2011. I thought I need to get in touch with people, socialize a little and hence started using it again. I know it is just before the exams and may serve as distraction, but I am not spending that much time on facebook. Hardly 30 minutes a day.

Yup, that's pretty much it now. Later then...

2013-11-08

24 days to go...

Okay, I got the admit card for CS Mains 2013 and the exam starts on 2nd Dec, 2013. That means just 3 more weeks to go.

To tell you the truth, I've been reading seriously. Yes, last week I said I wasn't serious enough, but since then, I am studying for most part of the day. Rest of the time sleeping, eating, watching little football and pretty much that's it. Anyway let's see how my first attempt goes.

Then, football. I didn't see the match against Rayo as I was in my home town that weekend for diwali. I managed to read more than half of the book The Insider's View during the visit home. Then I watched the match against Juventus. I also watched Dortmund vs. Arsenal match. Now this week, we have two important matches. Manchester United vs. Arsenal & Juventus vs. Napoli. Apart from these two I'll also watch Real Madrid and Real Sociedad match. I've watched almost all Real Madrid matches since last season. That would amount to 60 games. On adding Seria A and EPL matches, that I watch sometimes, I must have seen around 100 football matches. The thing is I am still not familiar with tactics, reading the game and analysing it. How do those commentators and reviewers write match reports, I don't know.

Then, as I mentioned, I've been reading both of these books The Insider's View and India after Gandhi parallelly. Nothing else to say. Later...