Practice, Practice and Practice of solving huge number of MCQs is the key to enhance prelims related skills.
While attempting questions you need to be attentive towards those questions to which you have less knowledge.
- Try to study each statement and use logic to mark it correct or incorrect. Use common sense while attempting the questions
- For example, if a question is based on identifying a national park in a state then you can try to link it with the name of it. Usually the names are helpful in establishing the identity of the areas. You can distinguish easily between names of northern and southern states. Likewise you can relate it with other common factors like geography, common news or any other factor to which you can relate the topic with.
- Secondly while analysing these questions (solution), see to what extent your logic was correct. If you have identified the correct reason then it will boost your confidence and if the actual reason is different then you will be able to align yourself with the correct manner of thinking.
So practicing with an approach of learning the skill as well as knowledge is important
As already said practice around 200-400 questions on daily basis.
You can also read our articles regarding enhancing skills related to Prelims:
https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/05/08/insights-into-upsc-prelims-how-to-avoid-overthinking/
https://www.insightsonindia.com/2018/05/16/intelligent-guessing-upsc-civil-services-prelims/
