Current Affairs as a Rank Multiplier

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Aditya Chauhan

UPSC CSE

2025

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IAS

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2 Year UPSC CSE Course

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2 Year programme

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Aditya Chauhan struggled to turn hours of newspaper reading into marks. At FIRST IAS INSTITUTE mentors taught him to map every editorial to syllabus headings and potential questions.

His current-affairs binder became a revision tool, not a dumping ground. Monthly consolidation tests checked retention.

Mains answers began citing relevant schemes, committees, and data without clutter. Interview prep reused the same notes for coherent opinions.

IAS selection in the top ranks reflected that disciplined current-affairs method as much as static GS mastery.

Aditya now tells juniors: if a news item cannot be linked to the syllabus in one line, it does not deserve a full page of notes.

“I stopped collecting news and started converting it. Mentors gave me the filter I was missing.”

— Aditya Chauhan

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