WASEEM AHMAD BHAT - AIR 7 CSE 2022

Good evening everyone. I have been keeping very busy due to work at LBSNAA and have been not been regularly able to communicate. For sometime I have been getting a lot of requests regarding the uploading of test papers of anthropology which I had deleted earlier due to privacy issues. I am hereby uploading them again. Please use them for: 1. Understanding the structuring and presentation of answers. 2. Value addition to your notes. Note: You will all have a unique writing style but always remember in Anthropology, CONTENT IS THE WINNER. The more you can write like an anthropologist, the more you will score. Quote as many relevant authors as possible, write as many relevant case studies as you can in all the answers. Your answers should exude confidence that only a student of anthropology can have. Keep practising answer writing every single day. Become one hell of a writer. All the best.

MY PLAN FOR CSE 2020( For those writing their first attempt) 1. Started my GS classes from July 2019 2. Optional classes from September 2019 to January 2020. 3. Started focusing on prelims from March 2020(But the prelims got postponed to October 2020. So I watched the rest of the GS coaching classes in the 3 months after March 2020. That helped me cover the whole syllabus) 4. Full pre preparation 3 months before October 2020

SHOULD WE MAKE DIFFE NOTES FOR PRELIMS AND MAINS 1. I made integrated notes for the most of the subjects. For prelims, I would revise them multiple times and try to remember as much as poss. 2. For mains, I mostly used 3 year approach/model answers of the test series. For subjects such as security, disaster management etc, I used class notes as my material and only added some parts from the model answers

HOW TO MANAGE TIME WHEN ONE IS ATTENDING BOTH GS AND OPTIONAL 1. If you are attending coaching for both, then you will obviously have less time for self study. I started Anthropology classes from September 2019 and was also attending the GS classes. In evening, after the classes were over, I would make notes for anthropology from the class notes, different sources. But it used to take most of my time. I used to sneak in the GS part in between as much as possible but it was difficult. 2. When both the GS and optional classes are going on, all you can do is make notes for the optional and revise the GS classes.

As I have scored 328 in anthropology this time, I will also try to deal with anthropology in a detailed way. That may add value to your preparation if you are an anthro student