How to Organize Your Study Area for UPSC IAS Exam

The preparation for UPSC IAS Exam should be a meticulously designed program. This article covers the importance of the study area in your UPSC Civil Service Exam Strategy and helps you learn more about the need for a permanent study area and the tips for organizing your study area.

Aspirants would find this article very helpful while preparing for the IAS Exam.

What to be Organized?

In spite of staying in-home or boarding-house or a rented room, every UPSC IAS aspirant may have a separate area for studying. Some UPSC aspirants don’t study in a single place, altering their study places often and some aspirants have a single place to study every time. This is an important factor in your UPSC preparation. The aspirant who studies in a single place accomplishes his goal in a better manner than a wandering aspirant.

As a UPSC aspirant, one should have the following material in their study area in an organized manner.

1. UPSC IAS Exam syllabus
2. UPSC Study planner and revision planner
3. A study table and a chair
4. Writing materials
5. NCERT books for UPSC IAS preparation
6. Detailed reference books for General studies and Optional subjects
7. Relevant magazines like Yojana, Kurukshetra etc.
8. Newspaper
9. Previous year UPSC Question papers
10. Calendar and alarm
11. Notes books and sticky notes
12. Dictionary
13. A study lamp.
14. A computer or laptop.

The need for a Permanent Study Area

1. UPSC Aspirant must have permanent study area. This will help the aspirants to focus better on your studies.
2. Having a permanent study area helps the aspirant to start his studies quickly, whenever he sits for studying.
3. Aspirants can save time by organizing all of their study materials like NCERT books, reference books, previous year question paper, Newspaper, sticky notes, writing materials etc. in a systematic manner near the study area, so that they need not spend time each time they sit to study.
4. Having an organized study area, aspirants let know their mind that their principal business is to prepare for UPSC IAS exam without losing time.

Tips to Organize your Study Area

1. An aspirant should keep their study area arranged and clean, so that aspirant may propel to sit and read.
2. Keep relevant books on the table rather than keeping all books on the table.
3. Use ring files and folders, so that aspirants can keep their newspaper cuttings, question papers, mock test papers in an organized way.
4. Keep all writing materials like a sketch pen, pencil, ruler etc. in a separate table drawer and don’t let them conquer your reading table.

The above details would help candidates prepare for UPSC 2023.

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