Consistency
This preparation is not a race to win but a marathon to complete. UPSC examination seems complex due to a variety of reasons and its vast syllabus in itself is a good example covering from the topography of the world to the natural resources of India, India's culture to its history, from its plural society to its flexible democracy, its administrative system, its economy, its potential, and many more. The first and foremost principle for this exam is a consistency of efforts in one direction with a legitimate source of study. One day may not seem big enough when it comes to comparing with the quantity of dynamic syllabus that needed to be complete and that sense create a fear of failure and sometimes push to pick a small achievement and live with it because of this sense of satisfaction/relief exhibit from them. Efforts of every single day with timely examining the progress eventually put you in the situation where you will first time meet with the personality which you alw...