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0:00 Hello everyone, I hope you all are doing well. My name is Shreya Gupta and I cleared SSC CGL 2024 in my first attempt. I am currently serving as Assistant Section Officer in CSS. In the last video I talked about the strategy that as a beginner you can follow to clear this exam. But in this video, I will be sharing about all the resources that I have followed in my preparation journey. I will link the last video here. So that if anyone wants to check out that video they can watch it. But before starting out this video I would like to thank all of you. I am really grateful for all the love and attention that you all have given me. Like when my training started on 21st July, I put up a reel. And since then so many messages from you guys are coming. Everyone is congratulating me so much.
0:47 It feels so good to read all this that you all are very inspired by seeing all this. So I am really grateful for that. Apart from that, negative comments do come. What can we do about it, it is everywhere. But for the positive ones, thank you from my heart. I am very grateful for all these things. I try to reply to all of you . But there are too many messages. There are too many comments. Plus my training is also going on right now. So it becomes quite hectic to reply to all the messages. But I am trying to answer all the general queries of you people in such videos . So let's start with the video. So let's start with Maths. When I started preparing for Maths for the first time,
1:34 I bought this book of Kiran. But while doing this, I realized that I can solve it by traditional method. Because what happens? Syllabus is up to 10th level. Everyone knows it. So you will solve it in some way or the other . But here the main factor in this exam is that you have to solve it in less time. Because time becomes a big factor here. So I realized that I will have to study from some teacher. I will have to take someone's course. Because the tricks they will teach, the methods they will teach, only then we will start saving time. So I took courses to do that thing. That's why I still suggest that you take a course. You can do it from the book but this issue of time comes up . So I took a course from an e1 coaching center. Both mains and pre batch,
2:19 Bhutesh sir teaches there. So I liked his content a lot. The content was also less. Its duration was comparatively less. Plus it was quite crisp. Notes etc. were all provided. I could understand them well. So now many of you have this doubt that the duration of the course is very long. So there would be some chapters for example in Maths which you would already know or maybe you will understand them quickly. So don't do them from the foundation course, that is don't do them from the Tier One course. Do them from Tier Two. You will still understand them. Tier Two is also a little concise. There is less practice. But all the concepts are there. So you can do this. Plus the course that I did from the e1 coaching centre, in that whatever you used to study in the lectures, such
3:08 MCQs pdf used to be provided. There answers were here, so you can do it like this, generally it is like this in all the courses. So I told you this in the strategy video that how you have to do it. First you have to watch the lecture. Then you have to take a look at this PDF to see what were the steps of each question mentally and then see their answers. Now, you people ask for notes. I cannot provide notes because when I had cleared my exam, I gave the notes to my friends. But I will share some photos of the notes which I had made. Notes were already provided in this course. But these could not be printed out. So then you had to make hand written notes. So here I will paste the screenshots of two-three pages of photos of the notes. So I had made such notes.
3:56 And for calculations I had taken Promocks of The Pundits. So calculation quizzes were available in it. So I had done that . Plus I had also done some quizzes online from here and there. I had done it like this . So this was the maths. Basically I had studied from e1 coaching centre from mains and pre batch. Next we will talk about reasoning. For reasoning too, I had earlier taken this book of Kiran. I had solved this too. But in this too, it was the same thing, you need to know tricks etc. So it is written in it but teacher will explain it better. Then for reasoning also I have taken e1 coaching centre where Kamal sir teaches. I had taken his course. I had not taken the foundation course. I had taken his mains batch. But, I had not completed it. Because he
4:42 has put up very good videos on YouTube itself. He has explained all the concepts chapter wise. Plus he started a batch called QRB. So I had seen that. And I had practiced from that. I had practiced this also from Kiran in the beginning. As for the rest, as this was his mains batch, it was of MCQ type. So it was like, it was in Maths and there would be answers at the back. So what I did was that as I had taken the mains batch, I saw the concepts of the chapters that I knew, but I did not watch them completely. I directly solved MCQs and got the PDF. And he also had a lot of videos online on YouTube, so I had done more of those. There is no dearth of questions in reasoning for practice. You can practice from any book. But I will suggest that Pinnacle is right in this case. In Kiran,
5:31 there will be 20-30 questions of the same pattern. But Pinnacle has fewer questions. There will be more questions of different types. So it will save your time. So I did reasoning like this. And I made notes for reasoning just like I made for Maths. So I will tell you that you can do reasoning from YouTube as well. But do watch its lectures. Don't do it only from the book because reasoning involves a lot of tricks etc. It is necessary in this. Next we move on to English. I had also taken Kiran's book for English. What happened was that in the beginning I did not know much. So I had taken Kiran's books for all the subjects. So in the beginning I did everything from the book only. But gradually I realized that no, I will have to study a little from the teacher as well. Because you can study from books . But it takes a little less time from the teacher. I
6:19 solved this book many times, plus I was from English medium so I did not need much but I realized that there are some rules etc. which we do not use in daily life but are used here in exams, so for that I saw the course. Aman Vashisht Sir has a free YouTube playlist of grammar, so I saw that and he also has provided free notes, so I downloaded it and I used to read the grammar notes from it, this is one part, it has two more parts, so, I used to read from them. I liked these notes a lot. I must have revised it at least five to ten times. So all the concepts were in it. I will attach its link in the description. Whatever I am referring to these books etc., I will attach the link of all of them in the description. You can see from there. So for grammar
7:07 , I studied from here. And I will tell you about the mocks part at the end . For vocab, I did black book. So in this also, I had done more of the starting parts like OWS, Antonyms etc. and in these also, I have marked them, there were some that I used to forget again and again, so I used to repeat them too, so I used to see them first, but just before the exam, you should see all of them, what happens is that just before the exam, if you have not seen them, then there are chances of forgetting them once or twice, so see them too, so I did the vocab from here and for English, I took Aman Sir's mains practice batch . So that was also very helpful. There were a lot of mocks in it. There were a lot of practice questions. Plus, all the questions that came in the previous year, those
7:53 of the last five years were repeated, so all of them were also there. He had made me memorize a lot of things through mnemonics. So that was also good. But I will suggest that if your English is weak. If you need to study from the beginning then you should definitely take a course. Now you people will say that I keep talking about courses. I do that because studying from a teacher is better than studying by yourself. Here the time constraint is very high. You will want to clear the exam in the least time possible. The syllabus is already so vast. So you cannot do anything that will consume more of your time. So that is why I say this. You can study by yourself also if your English is good. But the rest depends on you and I will not say anything. So next we move on to GK. For GK, first of all I bought this Lucent and what is there in this Lucent? You can read from this but
8:40 children who do not read books will find it boring. So I left it. I started watching videos on YouTube. So I followed a channel called Parcham Classes. I studied from there as well. I took their courses. I downloaded their notes. But they were quite vast. Not enough time. But I watched them completely, somehow, but they did not have much retention. Plus they were very vast. So you could not even revise that much. Then I switched to Parmar SSC, his main thing is that he repeats a lot. He will say the same thing so many times that it will get stuck in your mind. So these were some of my notes like these were Parmar Sir's FRB series notes. So these are quite helpful for last minute revision. And
9:26 yes, this is also the same. These are one shot notes. I say that you should definitely watch one shot. All this is also very good for revision. Whatever questions have come in the last years, all those points are covered in it. So there are very high chances that you will solve maximum questions. Like this is one shot of chemistry. You can see from the notes I took of Parcham classes that how big a topic is. So this thing gets a little difficult. But the course is very good. If you have time then you can take this one too. This is also FRB. This is also like that. And these were some questions. These were chapter wise from Pinnacle. And I had also taken this Kiran in GK. I will tell you that whenever you watch any lecture,
10:11 whenever you finish any topic in GK, then definitely solve its MCQs. There is also a Lucent objective book. There are such topic wise MCQs in it, do that. What happens from this is that whatever you have studied will be retained by you on doing MCQs. So whenever you do a topic, solve its MCQs. So this was the one in GK, I had studied from Parmar sir in the last. Earlier I had studied from Parcham but it was quite vast. I needed less content so that I could revise it as much as possible. So I switched to Parmar Sir. And I had also done the rest of the MCQs completely. And as far as current affairs is concerned in GK, I had told you in the last video that you should do it in the last two-three months only. Then you can remember it and you have to do it monthly. Never do it daily. I used to do it daily but it
10:58 was a waste so do it monthly and you will get those pdf of current affairs from Parmar Sir. So next we will talk about mocks. The first mocks I had were from Test Book but I found them quite easy. Easy to moderate. So then I bought the mocks by The Pundits. What about them? They make mocks of every level. Easy, moderate, difficult. So this thing is quite good. Because if you get a hard mock in the real exam, then you can do it. Just because you have practiced hard mocks before, so you can tackle it easily. There will not be as much panic created in the mind as if you are giving a hard mock for the first time. Plus what happens in easy mocks? You can make a lot of silly mistakes in them . So that thing should also be practiced that you give mocks of every level. So
11:46 I liked this thing of The Pundits. And after that I used to give weekly live mocks as well. I have given RBE, Olive Board. So I would suggest that you definitely take two mocks. You should definitely take the mocks of The Pundits because their level is quite good. Plus they also provide video sessions. The teachers are very good, they tell you the solutions. How could you solve this question in the exam. What steps should be there? So that thing is a big plus point of it. And also take another mock from Olive Board or Test Book and give as many quizzes as possible. Like I took mocks of Test Book, I had taken them, there were lots of quizzes in them for every chapter and every subject. So that thing is also very good. And in GK it is very important that you give as many quizzes as possible.
12:34 Because only that is remembered. Many teachers use to give their quizzes on Telegram too. So give as many of those as possible. In GK you can give as much as possible, English ones too. So there is no such problem. And for English I also bought English madhyam mocks, that is very good for comprehension part. Because their level is for comprehension part, especially for what comes in mains, so it gives a lot of good practice. So I took that. And I also used to see Nimisha Bansal's editorials in the beginning. So if want to do your comprehension part, you can do it from there. And I have also taken a paid batch of The Pundits, which also comes for the mains I had also taken it. It is very good. If you can take it, then you must take it. What happens in it is that you will get a daily time table. You will get daily targets. Plus they also provide sources that what you have to do from where. And it
13:22 is very beneficial. Because there is an accountability factor that you do not have to do it yourself. The other person is telling you. Plus you can see that so many aspirants are also doing it. So if you do not do it, then somewhere you will be left behind. Plus the content they provide, whatever sources they provide, is of very good quality. A lot of things get revised in a very short time. So you must take this thing. The time table factor will be solved from here. And even if you cannot join it, then on their public channel of The Pundits, there is also a daily time table with sources for both pre and mains for free. So you can watch that too. For computer, I had seen the lectures of Sachin Arora Sir . The Pundits had provided them in their notes. So that is quite correct. And for typing, if you type for 15 minutes daily after the pre, then
14:08 you will easily develop a speed. 27 is required. But you can take it up to 35 wpm and it will not take much time. If you do it daily, then you will develop that speed. So I have shared all the resources that I followed in my preparation journey. But before ending this video, I would like to share some lines. I get messages from you people that I am feeling scared , I am feeling anxious, there is so much competition, how will it happen? So look, this happens to everyone . When I was in my preparation journey, I also used to think that there are so many people. There is so much competition. I am a fresher. There are so many repeaters too. How will it happen to me? What will happen? So this is normal. Look, it happens to everyone. But the student who studies in the midst of all these things, who remains consistent, he goes ahead . Because everyone will feel fear. But if you are also studying in this, then somewhere or the other you
14:54 get an edge over the other students. Now look, it is not so easy that you will give up this anxiety completely . Fear always remains in the background. But you try not to pay much attention to it. Your work is of studying, do it daily. Revise completely. Give mocks. Do it well. Keep the strategy right. If you keep everything right, then by doing these small points, very good results come later. So you will definitely be afraid. But be consistent. You will feel afraid. There is no problem. Do some meditation but try to give mocks etc. calmly, practice, then it will be done. There is no problem with this. Plus, the next video I am thinking of making is of QnA. Whatever small doubts you have, share them on Insta, on YouTube, in comments, in DMs. So let me reply to all these by making a video.
15:43 This video will be up only after a few days. Because my schedule is a little busy right now. My training is going on right now. I just came back from Lucknow yesterday. That is why my eyes are a little swollen. I did not get enough sleep. And there are classes this week. Next week we have to go to Bangalore for a study tour. So things are a bit busy. But I will try to make videos as quickly as possible and reply to all your messages. Thank you once again for all the love and support that you all have shown me. See you in the next video. Take care. Bye.
