REVISION Techniques , my own as well as suggestions are welcome (senior members required)

KiteRunner

I have been making mindmaps for a while now and have uploaded some of them to my blog revows.wordpress.com
(For offline revision i use the traditional folder system with the notes of newspapers each day and then upgrading my index
everyday)
question for senior member(if extensive offline preparation)
1.how do u incorporate/upgrade all the diverse sources of articles to the original notes?
(i have been making it for a year now ,and it has become just chaos)
2. i want to know about your structure of notes (like u add each paper of notes when the event happens(like a bill) to your consolidated notes
3.please do comment about my blog(especially about the mindmaps,it would be helpful)

Quintessence

For revision purpose, i use mostly microsoft onenote. Its very handy. Can search, edit, copy-paste, change background color,printing particular pages...and so on. Important news and articles from The Hindu (e-paper version) and others like mrunal ,various blogs etc. are pasted on it.

oscarwilde

I suffered from the same problem last year - notes, pdfs all over the place. So this year I decided to stick to evernote.

deusAdeeb

Call me old-fashioned but I don't use any online tools. I make hand-written notes from arc reports/NCERTs/Vaji's important material etc. by jotting down the important points and my own analysis. I make notes from 2 newspapers and news-analysis(AIR) daily. I devote 1 day per week mainly for revision.

Whenever I see a topic in newspaper or Vision's monthly material, I frame a question in my mind. Example: I am reading an article regarding India'a stand on TFA and food subsidies. I will frame a question in my mind "do you support India's stand regarding TFA at WTO meet". I will immediately write down points in favour and against the stand that I can recollect on a rough piece of paper. Then while scanning the article, i will note any new points that i have missed and write them down in my notebook. The more articles I read about the WTO issue, the more revision I get and the more points.

In the exam when i see a similar question, i will just tweak the points that i already know to complete my answer.

Vikooo

My technique is simple.
Use a fluorescent marker and underline the imp points on the book it self.Also write on the side pages in small fonts regarding additional information.Books does not look very neat but it saves the time.When i have to revise i read only underline part and additional information.In this way i have revised books like laxmikant in just two hours.

Vikooo

Regarding the internet material,i have bought a printer.So i take the printout of important articles on a monthly basis.After that i follow the above mentioned policy with them also.

ashutosh_aditya

@vkk
I am also following the revision same way as yours. I differ only in reading as I use to read every line from the chapter. I do not feel good when I skip unhighlited lines and giving stress only on highlited part. It creates tension in my mind. I surprise u can cover entire Laxmikant in just 2 hours. Please elaborate your above methodology. I want to adopt it.

GudduSingh

How do you create those mindmaps? Do you use any software/app?

ss36

When I was preparing for the mains (and there was very little clarity regarding the syllabus) I maintained 4 folders for each paper, saving anything I came across online acc to topic.Then on each Sunday I would review what I had collected over the week and took a printout. I was vigilant to gather sufficient content for each topic.Actually, one saves a lot of extra stuff thinking it might come in use.Delete it, you will never come back to it.

KiteRunner

@guddusingh ji ,, google it u will get lot of softwares ,some premium some free ">