The most common question that civil services aspirants face is about the time they have to study.
Why?
Yes its true that the volume level of knowledge being asked is deafening but answer this
What work duties are you desiring?
The work sphere of a civil servant in all india services is demanding. And that is clearly reflected in the exam pattern.
The three tier out of text books type of exams. To test your mettle.
Now coming back to the quantum of knowledge required......
No depth perceived to gauge it
Its all about your past and how well did you gathered knowledge, from your school days through your college days and whatever days you had, you keep on accumulating knowledge.
..... and all that counts.
Give yourself a reasonable chance to know yourself before gauging the time periods you would be needing to study.
In short analyze your knowledge beginning from the basics Vis a Vis the syllabus and questions asked in the earlier exams.
How much of that you know......
This will mark the beginning of the journey that you are about to take.
Consider a case where a student knows well his science but was all sleepy eyed when social was taught in school classes.
He may have pursued science in college also. It is then assumed that for an average student his science part would be above average.
And he must be having a fair knowledge of other parts also.
He might have been watching sports so a decent knowledge must have been gathered. He might have been working on computers another practical area to gather knowledge.
In other words knowledge is not literacy as it could come from experience also.
But from exams perspective knowledge comes from literate efforts made to acquire , retain and reproduce the knowledge gathered.
Therefore if you are serious and this question is troubling you then what i would have done if i were you is to take time to analyze my knowledge base and expand it accordingly.
Also
Please recognize your potential to sit and concentrate. How much time can you give and then increase it a minute per day till you get a total dedicated time of concentrated studies of about one and a half hours. You will feel the difference.
Then as you practice this self Control increase the numbers of sitting and their durations accordingly. It varies from person to person.
To be continued some other time God willing.
All the best.
