HOW TO PREPARE NOTES FOR BPSC EXAM|NOTES FOR BPSC EXAM

1. INTRODUCTION

Hello friends i am Dy SP Shahid Eqwal BPSC 60-62 Batch and BPSC 63 Batch qualified candidate. I secured Rank 39 in BPSC 63 Batch. In this article i will discuss with you how to prepare notes for bpsc exam. Most of the candidates have a common doubt in respect of notes preparation for bpsc pre and for bpsc mains exam. This article is really going to help you a lot for notes preparation. I will also share with you one of my own hand written notes for better understanding.

Notes for bpsc exam

2. USE OF NOTES

Preparation of notes is must for competitive examination and bpsc exam is one of them. In this paragraph i am going to tell you some reasons to prepare notes for bpsc exam.

Notes provide you better understanding of topic which you studied.
If you read something and after that you prepare short notes out of it, then it is easy to remember that topic for you.
Preparation of notes are also helpful to develop your writing skills.
Notes help you to develop your thought process in respect of that topic.
Most important use of notes is as they save your time while you revise some particular topic. You are not required to refer whole lengthy books.

3. NOTES FOR BPSC EXAM

You must be aware about the fact that bpsc exam is conducted in three stages; viz pre, mains and interview. Most of the aspirants are very confused about the issue of preparation of notes. Lets see some common questions asked by bpsc aspirants in respect of notes preparation.

Should i prepare notes for bpsc pre exam?
Should i prepare notes for mains exam?
Is preparation of notes must for optional subject?
How to prepare notes?
Should i prepare notes point wise?
How to prepare good notes?

These are some of the most common doubts being raised by bpsc aspirants. In the next paragraph, i am going to discuss each doubt step by step.

3.1 PREPARATION OF NOTES FOR BPSC PRE EXAMINATION

Pre exam is first stage of bpsc examination. If you qualify bpsc pre exam then only you will be eligible to apply for mains exam. The nature of pre exam is objective as well as comprehensive. If you observe minutely previous years question paper of bpsc pre exam, then you reach to the conclusion that most of the questions being asked on facts. Comprehensive study is to be done for pre exam. You must complete bpsc syllabus with the help of NCERT books and other reference books. In my opinion preparation of notes for the purpose of Pre exam is not required. However, when you study any topic in the book just underline important points.

You can also highlight important dates, names and other relevant facts. Once you underline and highlight important facts in the book, then the book itself will work like your notes. Writing every facts in the notebook from the book for the purpose of preparation of notes for Pre exam is mere wastage of time. Whenever you want to revise any particular topic, then just open that book and focus on underlined and highlighted facts. That process will help you to save time and quick revision. During course of my preparation for bpsc exam, i never prepared notes especially for bpsc pre exam. I used to underline and highlight important articles in the books for the purpose of quick revision.

3.2 PREPARATION OF NOTES FOR BPSC MAINS EXAM

Bpsc mains exam is second stage of selection process. A candidate is supposed to prepare 5 paper of subjective nature. Out of 5 papers , 3 papers viz; GS1, GS2 and Essay are decisive for mains result. Opposite of bpsc pre exam, the nature of bpsc mains exam is subjective as well as selective. Here i would like to explain the word selective for better understanding. Your qualification in pre exam confirm the facts that you have completed the bpsc syllabus with basic understanding. Completion of bpsc syllabus is comprehensive task. If you observe the bpsc mains syllabus, then it is evident that mains syllabus is selective in nature. Now in mains examination you will have to select topic based on mains syllabus and prepare those topics deeply. It is advisable to prepare notes and always try to enrich those notes. In my opinion preparation of notes is must for bpsc mains exam. First you should prepare a set of good notes on all the topics and then you should revise the same again and again.

You must prepare notes for bpsc mains general studies. Considering very vast area of essay topics, it is not advisable to prepare notes for Essay. However, you must prepare draft notes in your notebook pertaining to some important topics of essay writing. It is also pertinent to mention that the optional paper in BPSC Exam is now (wef 68th BPSC Exam) objective as well as qualifying in nature. Hence, notes of optional subject need not to be prepared. Plz note that the notes of GS Paper-1 & Paper-2 must be strictly as per syllabus mentioned by bpsc.

4. HOW TO PREPARE NOTES

In this paragraph i am going to tell you the methodology of preparing notes. You must use these parameters while preparing your notes.

Whenever you are preparing some notes, make sure to leave some pages blank by the side of your notes article for value addition in future. You must keep adding information to it from time to time.
Prepare notes in point wise.
Your notes must keep short sentence and the same should be crisp and meaningful.
Use as simple language as you can. Don't just copy something from book and write it down in your notebook.
Take help of different source like books, other people notes, Wikipedia, YouTube, internet etc.
Update your notes with current affairs.
Always prepare own hand written notes.

5. CONCLUSION

I hope, i have made clear every doubts in respect of notes preparation. Please follow these points for better results. Please feel free to comment on my blog for to make it more reader friendly. Thanks for reading. Regards and good luck.

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