Memorizing schemes via Maps

Sir I have problems in doing the schemes and programmes. The ones that have been revised is important I know. But sir would such programmes also come which have been discontinued?

A little guidance regarding them would be of much help! Any memorization tools Sir? :)

See, one effect way to memorise is tag it with maps.

Or pictures or diagrams!!

Like we did the constitutional clock!!!

Or how we learnt to draw the map of India and mark the points

The sites of IVC can be joined and imagined as a tail of a monkey or snake and mark the timeline on that!!

For the programmes, identify the programme with a particular issue. Say; malnutrition. Then make a mark there!! It will be Orissa!

Like that, mark in the Indian map. So you have all the programmes of the govt marked on the map!

e.g.: industrial development: mark on Gujarat.

Women empowerment: mark in Kerala

IT: Karnataka

Like this you can do the tagging!!

Best way to remember: tag the issues geographically!

Mark the maps and keep referring them daily when you have food or relaxing.

You should have one map for each topic.

If you can have 100 such maps, you will clear Prelims easily.

You need to keep on seeing them! They get stored in the brain as a pic. And pic is easy to retrieve.

That’s how you remember the way to your home without much difficulty.

There are schemes pertaining to say all rural areas of India such as National Health mission. How do we trace them?

You need to make an assumption of what is required where in India. Rural for me makes me think of MP, for you it could be Bihar!

This assumption is unique to each of us.               

Eg: for me, forest means, Bastar. For some it could be NE, for some it could be Western Ghats!! Whatever it may be, fix it in your mind.

This shall be your mental picture of the country!! And you apply it when such issues come!!

Once you connect rural with Orissa, then all rural issues will come there.

For me, agri means, UP, Andhra and TN

Sugarcane=UP

Rice=Andhra

Sir, in preparing schemes and programmes of Govt of India, It often happens that some feature is there which I'm not sure about. How to prepare schemes from preliminary test perspective? For mains it is much easy to remember 5-6 main points about it but for prelims I need guidance from you.

For prelims:

1. Remember the salient feature of the scheme.

2. Where did it work? Why is famous?

Only those schemes which were/are famous will be asked.

Always remember that UPSC expects you to be alert!! Means, they will ask what you COULD have come across as a diligent reader!!

They won’t ask anything that NEVER came in news or NEVER could have been a basic issue.

e.g.: basics of science, constitution, law etc. PLUS, what came in news.

How to revise for the locations sir? Do I make list of locations that came in current affairs from Prelims RAG keep them marked in few Maps? Any suggestions on this sir

CA can’t be marked in maps, as it will be too cumbersome. Your brain will get confused.

Locations shall be marked in the map, but subject wise.

Like: Indian space programme. You can mark all locations in the map.

Defence manufacturing: in one map.

S&T: one map

Like this make subject wise maps.

May be 50-60 of them!!