Notes before Noise

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Day 93: June 1 2026

Log:

Total study time: 8 hours 45 min

Study items:

1. Geography ncert chapter 1

2. Geography lecture on climate

3. Environment lecture on pollution

4. History optional lecture

5. Current affairs video

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Day 91 and day 92: 30th and 31st May:

Log:

Studied more environment and a bit of polity.

Watched Dhurandar for the first time

Currently travelling

Made the June spreads for my bujo

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Day 84 to Day 90:

Log:

A tough week but I made some progress.

Studied environment and ecology it is very dense. Lots of facts and terms to remember.

Made some more progress on optional.

Started a workout routine, today is the third day in a row I have exercised. Small wins. I feel better already.

Have been religiously reading the newspaper 2 hours a day. Although lately I am wondering if I should make notes as well. Let us see.

24th was the day of Prelims this year. I saw the paper afterwards. I need to lock in and go twice as hard as I am going right now.

Will post more often starting June, May has been a bit meh lol.

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Day 78 - Day 83: 17 May to 22 May

Log:

A slow week overall, but it was my birthday in between so understandable. I decided to take a bit of time to ruminate over the direction I am going in

The dates of the exam I am preparing for have been released. I do not have as much time as I would like. So efforts must be redoubled.

As for the past five days, I have read the newspapers everyday for 2 hours. Additionally I started the modern indian history NCERT and I also continued my progress with Ancient India NCERT

More importantly, I have now a clearer target of things to do so I am hoping to turn that clarity into action.

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Day 76 - 77: 15 and 16 May

Log:

Read 6 chapters from ancient India NCERT. Completed one pager notes of a few.

Its been an interesting couple of days non study wise. That is all.

Read two newspapers a day as an experiment. I think I will stick with it.

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Day 71 - Day 75: 10 May - 14 May

Log:

Been a busy few days, dealing with some unexpected life stuff.

Watched 5 lectures of Ancient medieval and culture, read all of those chapters from NCERT.

Read newspaper everyday for an hour minimum

Also completed a couple of lectures on environment

Health going downhill though, hopefully improves in the coming days. I am tired.

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Day 67 - Day 70: 6 May to 9 May 2026

Log:

More life admin but I managed to watch 6 lectures - 2 on polity, 2 on economics and 2 on environment

Additionally, made one pager notes for NCERT ancient India chapters 1 - 3.

IPL is becoming interesting which is NOT ideal for me. I need to focus on studying.

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Day 63 - 66: 2 May 2026 to 5 May 2026

Travelling. The heat is insane. Also lots of life admin.

But I managed to squeeze in a couple of lectures. Also revised some polity. And newspaper reading has been regular if not exhaustive

I also decided that going for history optional with an engineering background while majority of history toppers have been history graduates means that I cannot just go for it alone. I will need guidance. Lets see how that pans out. I am hopeful.

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Day 62: 1 May 2026

Log:

Completed a lecture on note taking, a lecture on ecology and environment and started Vedic Age in history optional.

Read the newspaper for 1 h 17 min. Studied for 6 hours.

A productive day.

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May bujo spreads

Went with a different layout this time around and quite pleased with how it came out. I have planned major schedule changes and so needed different layout to more efficiently manage my planning.

I have also started a studygram with the same name - notesbeforenoise. You can find the link in my bio.

May my May be productive lol

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Day 61: 30 April 2026

Attended a session on notemaking.

I also completed my May bujo layout. Its gonna be a hectic month. I also created a studygram.

Revised archaeology and sources of history from Upinder Singh.

Gonna have to log 8 hour study sessions in May

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Day 59 and 60: 28 and 29 April 2026

Log:

Completed a couple more lectures on environment. Revised some history.

Made plans for May. So much to do, its going to be a real test.

Might switch newspapers, not sure.

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Day 57 and 58: 26 and 27 April 2026

Log:

Started studying Ecology. Quite interesting.

Also did a bit of revision and read the newspaper.

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Day 54 to Day 56: 23 April to 25 April

Log:

Busy busy busy.

Started environment, continued with Polity.

Completed Chalcolithic age and revision for history optional

Also revised economics - 3 lectures.

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Day 53: 22 April 2026

Log:

Completed an optional lecture. Halfway through Chalcolithic cultures.

Also completed a bit of polity backlog and designed an excel tracker to track optional progress.

I want to make an automated dashboard which just outputs the things to do for the day based on progress so far and targets

I feel as if that is just an elaborate scheme by my brain to procrastinate

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Day 50-52: 19 to 21 April

Log:

Travelling then health issues.

Managed to complete 2 polity lectures and one on history optional. Also set up my study space and bought a huge India map.

Still suffering from health issues but better than before so hopefully I will be more productive from today (22nd)

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Day 49: 18 April 2026

Log:

Completed a lecture on Chalcolithic cultures and read about them from the textbook.

Also read the newspaper for an hour.

Also completed the art for May cover for my journal. Theme: Darkrai, one of my favourite pokemons