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I graduated this spring, was on the honor roll, and I’m three hours away from home at a decent university. I might as well be honest at this point.I’m bisexual. Figured that out in the winter of my freshman year. Wasn’t that difficult, if I’m honest—and it made a lot of sense. Not planning to tell my parents anytime soon. They’re conservative, I’d say.I cheated a lot. Like, a shit ton. I definitely don’t have an aptitude for math or science, and I definitely couldn’t have graduated without cheating. I probably cheated to some extent in every math test I took, every chemistry test, and a couple of my philosophy tests. Ironically, I’m specializing in philosophy in university.I faked a report card once. It wasn’t going to change my actual grade, but it’d stop my parents from being pissed at me. Plus, it really wasn’t my fault if my school felt like it was smart of them to keep a .pdf file of the report card template on their website. The class was tenth grade civics. I took it in summer school, got a solid 60, and told my parents I got 80.I was a binge drinker. Still am, even though I’d consider myself an alcoholic at this point (I’m six days sober as of writing this). In high school I’d drink eight, maybe ten drinks a night at a good party. When college started, I was going to more parties than classes each week. Decided to stop drinking after passing out doing shots of 151 three days in a row, and was sober for three weeks. Relapsed six days ago. My parents know nothing.I used to spend my lunch money on cigarettes and weed. I wasn’t addicted or anything (that was alcohol, obviously), but I definitely appreciated the high I’d get. Plus, food was easy enough to steal.I shoplifted. Never anything big, and never because I couldn’t actually afford something. I liked the adrenaline rush. It was the occasional snack, or some makeup. I was caught stealing from a Wal-Mart once, but they let me go because I was underage (fifteen).I sold weed. After deciding shoplifting wasn’t worth it, and was honestly a scummy thing to do, I decided to earn my own money. I didn’t want to get a real job (even though I did do freelance work online), so I resorted to selling weed. High schoolers were dumb. I could easy buy weed at $5/gram and then re-sell it for $20. I still sell weed today, but it’s legal here now.I experimented with prescription drugs. I’ve tried adderall, ritalin, and xanax. The first two was because I had ADHD (diagnosed, but my parents didn’t feel the need to have it treated), and xanax because someone offered it to me at a party. I had the opportunity to do MDMA once, but I turned it down.Of course, all the stuff I’d done in high school isn’t limited to just this post. A lot of it my parents did know about, and even more of it I probably can’t remember. Point is, parents don’t know their children as well as they think they do, and high school is really just an interesting time for most people.

Complete, you say? *cracks knuckles* There’s no tl;dr version of this.Selecting the optionalSince optional constitutes 500/2025 towards the merit list, it is important to outperform in it to get into a service of your choice. Hence I spent considerable time in picking up my optional paper. I had a passing interest in Geography (as I am good with maps) and a strong interest in International Relations. I briefly considered Management optional because it mirrored my graduation syllabus.I eventually decided to go with Political Science and International Relations (PSIR) for these 3 reasons:significant overlap with GS papers – polity, international relations, ethics, et alavailability of reading material and notessubject had helped many people secure top 100 ranks in recent yearsIf there’s one stop, single source reading material for PSIR, it is Shubhra Ranjan madam’s notes. By reading the strategy of past toppers with this optional, I decided to not bother with any other reading material. I found some of her notes online in August 2017 and spent a couple of months reading through them (Paper I and Paper II Part A) by devoting 2-3 hours a day. I had also ordered Pax Indica by Shashi Tharoor (read once, never picked up again) and Does the Elephant Dance by David Malone (used to prepare notes after prelims but was written in 2010 hence a bit outdated) around the same time to get a sense of Paper II Part B.However, instead of focusing on reading the material of optional along with prelim prep, I decided to go all in for prelims somewhere in early November 2017 (full 7 months before prelims). I had concluded that there’s no mains or optional to study for if I don’t clear prelims. At that point I was also worried that I won’t be able to complete my GS syllabus by February end. I wanted at least 3 months before prelims for full revisions and decided to sarcifice my optional study time. Again, this was a calculated risk as preparing PSIR from ground up after prelims and scoring even 300+ was not unheard of.ResourcesAfter I realised that I will clear prelims in all probability, I ordered the original notes that Shubhra Ranjan madam’s website delivers. (I was later told I could have gotten them at 1/5 price! But I have pirated enough PC games in this lifetime to know when one should pay the developer). I didn’t join her classroom coaching as:(a) I didn’t think I had time and energy to commute to classes (despite living in NCR)(b) The notes are self-explanatory and I could understand basic concepts(c) For everything else there’s internet – plato.standford.edu is great if you can handle the complexity, but only for understanding any thinker’s original ideas. Crash Course Philosophy is informative and fun. Articles from ORF, Indian Express, Foreign Policy cover aspects of dynamic sections of Paper II.(d) I have been a backbencher and usually sleep in classrooms :)I finally ended up preparing the syllabus with the following resources, I also googled whatever I didn’t understand easily:Paper I Part A (Political theory and Indian politics) – Shubhra madam’s notes onlyPaper I Part B (Indian politics) – Shubhra madam’s notes only. Revised relevant chapters of Laxmikant + Spectrum’s Modern India + GS-2 current affairs againPaper II Part A (Comparative Political Analysis and International Politics) – Shubhra madam’s notes only + own notes (Comparative and IP pdf)Paper II Part B (India and the World) – selective Shubhra madam’s notes + Does the Elephant Dance by David Malone + own notes (from Foreign Policy, ORF website (absolutely the best for India’s foreign relations and quoting renowned scholars), the Economist, Indian Express are my favorites). I ended up with extensive notes of my own for this entire part. The entire pdf is here (India and the World pdf)Some topics are not directly in notes (such as UN peacekeeping, nuclear question), I either read madam’s notes or googled it.Reading and revisingI decided that for maximum retention and greater recall value in exam hall, I would need at least 5 revisions. Since this optional would require me to think less on my feet (unlike GS), and more on what I read and remember, I decided to make short notes based on madam’s notes. I did it for entire book notes except Paper II Part B. This is how my readings went after prelims:Mid June to July end 2018 – first reading and scribbling of the notes (image below). This was done in detail and by devoting 4-5 hours to the optional every day. My primary concern was understanding concepts and not trying to retain information.August 2018 – one reading every fortnight; I would read the book notes along with the sticky notes. I actively tried to retain ideas and thinkers/scholars.September 2018 – one reading every ten days; I would read the book notes along with the sticky notes but much faster than I did in August. I challenged myself by randomly trying to remember information/idea/thinker from the sticky notes. I must have finished with these 5 readings a week before the first mains paper, the Essay.Week between GS and optional – I read only from the sticky notes, trying to remember key words for every subtopic. I had color coded the sticky notes by topics, hence over course of 5 readings and final revision, I could locate any topic in my mind (by thinking where it was on the wall – poor man’s mind palace maybe?)These became my dreaded good night notes (as I would revise optional before sleeping) but hey at least they were colourful and bright.Answer writingI had no time for answer writing for the optional as I was spending my other half of the day revising GS and writing GS+Essay mocks. However, I had taken some time out to study answers of past toppers of PSIR; madam’s notes has a dedicated book of sample answer writing. I got the general sense of how to go about writing an answer in the optional:For concept/idea based questions:1. Who theorised it and inspirations behind it if any2. Core points explaining the idea, include diagram/flowchart (rare, only if it helps)3. Arugments for and against the idea, citing scholars4. Relevance in present times / critical analysisFor current affairs based questions:1. A generic opening surrounding the event/news, quotes from scholars if I could remember one2. Core points explaining the situation3. Explain for and against arguments, citing scholars4. Critical analysis / pragmatic opinion or solution, citing scholars if neededThis is the general template I decided to follow, unless the question asked for a one-sided argument. This gave me a sense of structure to follow and I walked into exam hall with zero answer writing practice for optional but some confidence.Quoting scholars and thinkers:For paper I and half of Paper II, I didn’t try finding or reading scholars outside of what were provided in madam’s notes. I tried to remember only a couple of them for every topic (and over multiple revisions) and was in a position to recall them in the exam hall, since I didn’t try to remember 5-7 for every point of view.For Paper II Part B, I googled books involving – India’s, its foreign policy, or bilateral relations – to quote in answers. I found their reviews and added them my notes. I could, then, quote an array of books without actually having ever read them. Building my notes from ORF also meant I could quote Harsh V Pant and Manoj Joshi liberally on any India specific current affairs question.For example, Avinash Paliwal’s My Enemy’s Enemy and Anatol Lieven’s Pakistan: A Hard Country were used to back my arguments in a question about India-Afghanistan-Pakistan. I quoted Schaffer and Schaffer’s India at the Global High Table on a question about India’s foreign policy. Milan Vaishnav’s When Crime Pays found its place in my answer on political personalities. I could quotes views of a few thinkers such as Stephen Walt and Robert Kagan without explicitly adding them to my notes (reading Foreign Policy off my Facebook feed since college). I also defaulted to David Malone’s Does the Elephant Dance as I had based my notes on India and its relations with important countries on this book. And if there was no one else to quote, there was Raja Mandala :)Attaching pdf of my last minute notes I had made for thinkers and scholars, and hot topics from optional perspective (some of this I merged with full fledged notes, pdfs linked earlier, while revising).Exam hallIn the exam hall, the divine principles are:Finish the whole paper (I almost succeeded, but in the second paper I messed up my time management, ended up leaving a ten marker and couldn’t conclude another ten marker). Pick the questions you are going to write the moment you get the paper, it helps you think about what you have to write beforehand.Optional paper requires you to come across as an expert of the field with considerable depth of knowledge. Try to retain names of scholars and thinkers as much as possible. I could cite 2-4 scholars in every answer I wrote, using the techniques mentioned above.Interlink your answers with other concepts in political science/international relations. This can only come by understanding concepts inside out and making a conscious effort to include them in your answers. For example, in Trump-Kim question I talked about how structural realism is the reason behind current geopolitical tensions between the USA-DPRK. In an answer analysing USA-China rivalry, I specifically talked about complex interdependence.Paragraphs over bullet points, you need to come across as an expert. Write as if you are writing an editorial, except your deadline arrives every 7 to 12 minutes.I received 283/500 marks in optional (Paper I - 144, Paper II - 139). It’s not that great considering there are many who got 300+, but I don’t think I should complain :)Only in hindsight, I can call this a “strategy”. Nonetheless, it worked for me. Hope reading this helps you figure out a winning strategy for yourself.

“If you are good at something never do it for free”-Joker, The Dark Knight (2008)Being a Class Representative (CR)Scenario 1:Typing message at the speed of light. I have been the CR of my class for about two years now. What I am supposed to do is act as a bridge between management and students. I get the first copy of notes of every subjects and go give it in the xerox shop in my college, make folder with my class name, put everything in there and instruct the shopkeeper “this is the notes of subject 1 to n for unit 1 to m with respect to n”. How do I convey the message? I write up long message in my class whatsapp group informing -“The following notes are available in *this* xerox shop saved on the computer in folder on the desktop named *this*. Go and get it printed. The notes which are not available will be mailed or given in the xerox shop as soon as possible before the exam. Thank you”. I often end up arranging notes one day before the exam to which I mail them as a pdf copy. After doing all this, I still get messages and calls from some students before one day in fact hours before the exam asking me where are the notes. I forward the same message and notes again to the legends of my class.Scenario 2:Also during any event or placement, I am supposed to get the full details of the event or the company's eligibility criteria, take the required pictures, arrange them and put them in the class group. Gone are the days in my college when we used to go to our department and check the notice board. Thanks whatsapp! In fact my messages are being extensively used as a template for other class CR's and being circulated in their class group so that they don't have to type everything from the scratch. I also need to make sure everyone has got the pass/hall ticket for the event. If there are any issues they are suppose to contact me so that I will convey the message to *concerned authorities*. During the event, if I am not eligible as a participant, I am suppose to be a volunteer and help the event managers. Making sure the process is smooth. Every teacher or staff is the first one to call me before any event to brief me up so that I can brief other CR's too.There was an election for electing CR for the next semester. But no body wanted me to change. People make fun of me that I am being used as a servant. Whatever, I don't mind. I enjoy what I do. So, I guess I am good at this!So,“If you are good at something, do it for free”- Priyanshu, CR(2016- 18)EDIT: Attaching screenshots of my messages.Thank you!