Tricks to Make De-stress during the IAS Exams

The UPSC civil services mains exam is just a week away and if you are taking the exam, you would probably be going on a rollercoaster ride of emotions ranging from anxiety to relief, impatience to enthusiasm. It is important to keep calm and collected during these crucial days. If you have worked hard and smart, there is no reason for you to worry incessantly. Success will find you if you’ve done your part. Now, in this article, we give you a few handy and practical tricks by which you can make your brain work ten times faster. No, this is not quackery but proven techniques that work and more importantly, are easy to do.

Aspirants would find the article very helpful in their preparation for UPSC examination.

First of all, let us tell you that these tips are chiefly to enhance your prefrontal cortex. Pardon the jargon, but the prefrontal cortex is precisely that part of your brain that controls your social behavior, willpower, judgement and decision making skills. It is situated in the front part of the brain. Your ability to work for a goal is connected to this region.  Adults think with the prefrontal cortex, which is also called the brain’s rational part. The prefrontal cortex isn’t fully developed for a teenager and this explains a typical teenager’s irrational behaviors like driving a vehicle rashly, taking senseless risks, etc.

Handy tricks to De-stress during the UPSC Exams:

There are a few things that are known to work towards developing your brain power and they are solving puzzles, solving Sudoku, playing physical sports like cricket or football, eating healthy food and sleeping adequately. Given below are a few extra tips that will surely help you maximise your brain power and help you perform to the very best of your abilities in the UPSC mains exam.

1. Maintaining a diary

Now time is a luxury that can be ill afforded by those preparing for the exams. But it needn’t take more than five minutes at the end of every day to sum up the activities of that day. You can at least write down what you studied during the day. Writing a diary has many benefits such as helping manage stress and also increasing your optimism and will also help in remembering key points later. And of course, it is a good exercise for your brain as well.

Go through the following links to help boost you learning power –

1. Improve your Brain Power for UPSC preparation
2. 4 Simple Tricks to Remember Everything You Learn

2. Meditation

Meditation is a wonderful tool that has multiple benefits, improving brain power being one of them. This has been practiced by people since time immemorial. Just ten minutes of meditation a day can have lasting health benefits for you. Other benefits of meditation include improved focus, enhanced positivity, improved memory, etc.

Also read: Importance of good health for cracking UPSC civil services exam preparation

3. Using left hand to perform tasks

Try to use your left hand (if you are a left-handed person, try using your right hand) to perform various tasks. This improves creativity. In addition it will also help in training the mind to be better focus during unexpected situations.

4. Laughing out loud

This is perhaps the easiest of all the tricks! Laugh out loud and rekindle the child in you. Laughter is the best medicine and this is no joke! You will be less stressed, happy and peaceful after a bout of unrestrained laughter, not to mention smarter.

Read, The Power of Positive Thinking Can Help You Crack UPSC Civil Services Exam.

5. Avoid other stressed people

Now we are only human in knowing have others are doing when it comes to their UPSC Exam preparation, in doing so we come in contact with the the hope that perhaps the other person is just as stressed as you are. Turns out, such a person is high-strung even than you and in the process other completely uproots your focus. Hence, it is advisable that you stay away from such folks until you are done with you exams.

You can go through the following links-

1. Tips to Turn Off Sleep Mode for UPSC preparation.
2. Tips to Overcome Drowsiness while preparation
3. 5 evening habits for success in UPSC

Use these tips and make sure that you leave no stone unturned in your IAS exam preparation. The tips we have given are easy to use and do not take much time at all.

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