

Being the dynamic portion of the syllabus, some prefer to make notes digitally as it’s easier to classify and edit/append notes.A few aspirants prefer to maintain dedicated register/book/pages or flip cards and categorise them by months, subjects and topics.The ways in which notes can be prepared for IAS exam can vary from person to person. Notes should be concise, effective and readable in a short time. Note making is indeed an art and one picks it up over a period of time. The question is how to make notes from a newspaper for UPSC and make it meaningful. This way, the time spent on the Newspapers will be reduced and the aspirant would be well aware as to which articles to read and which ones to skip. Going through the syllabus and previous years’ papers thoroughly help an aspirant to pick the right articles/issues from the newspaper(s) from the exam perspective while leaving out irrelevant ones. A beginner having less understanding of the UPSC syllabus and pattern will take substantial time to read and prepare from the newspapers. It is pragmatic to be well versed in the IAS exam pattern and the UPSC Syllabus before kick-starting the current affairs preparation. In this article, you can learn how to make notes from newspapers for IAS exam. For UPSC Civil Services Examination, reading newspapers is extremely crucial as the weightage given to the dynamic part of the UPSC Prelims syllabus and Mains syllabus is pretty huge.
