How to stay motivated while preparing for UPSC

As you prepare for UPSC, your motivation levels will fluctuate, as it is a long and arduous process. While preparing for a test, you can adopt several strategies to stay motivated. Listed below are a few tips:

• Understand your goal: Knowing why you want to take the UPSC exam can be a good motivational catalyst. You could be interested in serving the nation, making a positive contribution to society, or growing personally. Write down what motivates you, paste it on a wall near your study table and read it every day to keep your purpose in focus.
  
  
• Break down the syllabus into small achievable goals and track your progress regularly. Having a well-defined study plan helps you stay focused and motivated.
  
  
• Embrace a positive attitude: Your environment can greatly influence your motivation levels. Surround yourself with positive people who share your goals. Don't be a victim of negative self-talk that hinders your progress.
  
  
• Make sure you acknowledge your efforts and congratulate yourself every time you achieve a small goal. It could be completing a chapter or doing well on a mock test. Recognise your progress and treat yourself.
  
  
• Take care of your physical and mental health: Eating healthily, getting enough sleep, exercising regularly, and taking breaks when needed can all improve your motivation levels.
  
  
• Identify improvement opportunities, and analyze your mistakes so that you can learn from them. The failure of a plan is a part of the process of preparing a plan. Use it to become better instead of becoming discouraged by it.

The preparation of UPSC CSE demands a calibrated approach to tackle various aspects like basic concepts, their application in the examination, the ability to articulate through answer writing, regular updates and a dynamic approach with a focus on current affairs.  Hence it needs a synchronised and systematised effort to make a lot of entities work in concert.

GS Score's Foundation program serves each of the above vital components covering all the subjects for GS for all the levels i.e. Prelims, Mains and Personality tests through a protracted and measured process.