agreed. I tried 1990s polity papers for a week and it ate time I should have spent on CA and environment. maybe a few questions if you're done with the last 10–12 years, not before.

also don't retake the same mock the next morning, that's comfort not practice.

too late almost, but i will not open the extra pdfs.

ok so spectrum stays, and i'll keep a small 'pyq leftover' file. good.

i used to do RC first and then panic. switched the order last month, feels better. also don't try to 'finish' all RC if one passage is a time sink.

ok cool, will not rewind the whole thing.

same yaar. i used to screenshot the score and ruin the week. now I only reopen the paper after sleep. silly mistakes usually look smaller in daylight.

enough if you link it back to the syllabus. otherwise newspaper becomes a habit with no output. I jot one line under GS2/GS3 headings, that's it.

that's already a solid core tbh. don't add more books till you finish these and do some PYQs. people keep collecting pdfs and never finish ncerts.