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This article is in response to many panic mails that I receive, help! It takes more than 4 hours just to

read The Hindu.

Why is it important to read the newspaper?1.

Cant I just use Chronicle, Civil Service Times or Pratiyogita Darpan?2.

What are prole-based interview questions?

Location-based questions

Academic background based questions.

Hobby

Fireghting

3.

Which newspapers should I read4.

Should I read more than one newspaper?5.

What are the important items in a newspaper?

Administration/ Polity

National News

International News

Economy

FrontPage

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Columns / Editorials

What to prepare from Columns/ Editorials?

Sports / music / life-style/ Bollywood

How to read the newspaper in less than 1 hour?

The beginning

The front-page and second page

Third, fourth and fth page

The 6 to 9 Page

Page 10-11 (Columns and Editorials)

Page 12-13 (International)

Page 14 (TV, Astrology, Cartoon strips)

Page 15-16 (Business and economy)

Page 17-20 (Bollywood, Lifestyle, Sports)

7.

The Review8.

Whether you are preparing for UPSC, GPSC, KPSC, MPPSC, MPSC, UPPSC, IBPS, CAT or any other

exam that involves interview and heavy competition, you have to read newspapers.

Why is it important to read the newspaper?

Because in the government job exams, at all three stages (preliminary, Mains and interview) .

They ask questions related to current aairs.

To write a decent essay, you need facts and viewpoints. For this you need Fodder, and

newspapers are best sources for the fodder material.

Cant I just use Chronicle, Civil Service Times or Pratiyogita Darpan?

Such magazines only serve as supplement and not as substitute of the newspapers.

Why? Because the magazines have the page limit, they cannot give justice to every single topic,

even if they wish to. (and because on every second page, theyve to put big advertisement of

coaching classes, to cover the cost.)

Same goes for the readymade blogs/ websites dealing with current-aairs, theyre only

supplements but not the substitutes of a newspaper.

Secondly, such magazines or websites for competitive exams do not help you in the prole-based

interview questions or role-playing questions.

What are prole-based interview questions?

In the UPSC IAS, IPS or CAT/IIM, Bank or any other job interviews, they ask you questions based


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on your prole.

Your prole is made up of: Your Location + Academic Background + hobbies and Extra-curricular

activities.

Location-based questions

Socio, political, administrative and economic problems of your city, district and state.

And (Sometimes) the role-playing questions about how will you tackle them, if youre an

inspector, tehsildaar, Collector, DSP, Secretary, etc.

Academic background based questions.

For example, if you are an MBBS or Pharmacist, the current aairs relate to TB/HIV/Malaria/Delhi

Superbug related research, etc.

If youre a B.A (English): Whats the latest trend in English literature? What was the controversy in

the Jaipur literature festival? And so on.

Hobby

Tennis, Cricket, Chess, Computer: then you are supposed to know the current aairs related to

that eld.

Fireghting

Most of the people, whether UPSC, State PSC aspirants or MBA aspirants: they dont prepare for

prole-based questions or current aairs until the 11 hour. (i.e. When the interview or group-

discussion (GD) is barely 20-30 days away).

Then They start google searching for GK related to their prole.

In such a short time, you cannot cover all satisfactorily. Therefore, daily reading of newspaper is

essential.

Which newspapers should I read

Even if youre going to write your Mains exam in Hindi/ Gujarati/ Tamil / Telugu medium, still you

should refer to English newspapers because the local newspapers only serve the masala news

of politics, cricket and Bollywood.

Should I read more than one newspaper?

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It depends on your time and energy, otherwise one newspaper is enough.

You might have seen some coaching Sirs advising that you must-read Hindu and Economic

Times (ET). I think, this is an overkill. You dont have to become a share market expert. If there is

some really good columnist in ET (for example, example Bibek Debroy), then following him is

excellent, but you dont have to go through two or three Whole newspaper per day.

What are the important items in a newspaper?

First go through the old question papers of UPSC (at least last three years), that should give you a

rough idea on what questions are asked directly or indirectly from newspaper. And then read the

newspaper keeping that in mind.

Administration/ Polity

Press conference of government, where they announce various policies, administrative reforms

etc. (Im talking about the press conference of union and State government, not the press

conference of Congress and BJP.)

1.

Various bills, minutes of Cabinet meetings.2.

The big full-page advertisements given by ruling party, about their achievements. (This usually

comes before the election and on the birth anniversary of Nehru Gandhi Family). It is important

because, they list out the various developmental schemes and provisions in it. Most important

part is who runs the scheme? for example NREGA thing for under the jurisdiction of rural

development Ministry (and not under Labour Ministry)

3.

Election related items: what will the initiatives taken by the election commission? Any problems or

controversies.

4.

You have to prepare these for both Union as well as your own state Government. (Your state-

Government schemes and Administrative reforms for the prole Based Questions)

5.

What is not important?

Press conferences of political parties and civil society.1.

No need to do Ph.D on every scam. All you have to do is brief highlight of what was the scam,

how was it committed, what is the presence status in investigation or court and how to prevent it

in future. You dont have to go in minute details like on 23 October 2007, Mr XYZ the

accountant of store-dept in Commonwealth games misreported a 50 rupees ball for Rs.5000.

Learn to skip the garbage sentences while you are reading a news item.

2.

Same goes for elections: The XYZ by-elections were conducted on 23th October 2004 in which

Mrs. XYZ wife of ABC belong with JYZ Political party defeated

3.

National News

rd


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Maoists kidnap a collector = name of the collector is not important. But now experts and

politicians say we need a comprehensive hostage-crisis guideline after this incidence= important.

Railway accidents, how many killed =not important. Reason for the rail accident and suggestions

to prevent future accidents = important.

SP says BSP took 50 crores or vice versa = not important.

How many killed in oods, landslides or tsunamis on which date= not important. But the reason

behind those geographical phenomenons = important.

ISRO sends an articial satellite = important. How much does it weigh? = not important.

When and How many men did leopards kill in Maharashtra = not important. Why is leopard

killing men in Maharashtra= important. What is Government doing to stop the leopard? =

important.

International News

Bilateral visits of prime ministers and presidents. What treaties or trade pacts did they sign?1.

What is going on in UN, IMF, World Bank?2.

Elections in the big nations : USA, Russia, China, France, UK.3.

Political or military coup (usually in South America and Africa.)4.

Any major event: the democratic uprising in Middle East, Israel palestine, US vs China / Russia

missile defence, NATO-Afghanistan and so on.

5.

Meetings of organisations such as ASEAN, G20 etc , and particularly what India did in such

conferences and meetings.

6.

Climate change, environment related news.7.

Science and Tech related items for example CERN, Chinas space program, missle tests by

N.Korea, Irans nuke program and so on.

8.

What is not important?

Lady Gaga or Justine Timberlakes world tours.1.

How many people are killed in a car bomb blast in Pakistan or Afghanistan?2.

XYZ researchers found out that eating tomato daily helps preventing tooth ache = not important.3.

Anything small-time, that does not aect future of the World. For example sex-scandles of

Italian PM or marital wooes of Sarkozy.

4.

More on How to prepare India and World topic for General Studies (Mains) Paper II, is explained in a

separate article. Click Me to read it. (http://mrunal.org/2012/06/studyplan-india-and-world.html)

Economy

Press conference or press note by Government, SEBI, RBI, Planning Commission etc.1.


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ASSOCHAM, NASSCOM etc. (they usually complaint or suggest about Government policies that

aect the business houses.)

2.

Columns and Editorials related to Economy.3.

IIP, GDP, WPI, CPI etc. Not the numbers but the reasons behind that number and the future

because of that number.

4.

International: ASEAN, World Bank, EU etc.5.

Those preparing for Bank exams, should also note down the names of Chaimen of various

companies and banks.

6.

What is not important in Economy

Daily Ups and downs of sharemarket.1.

Numbers. Because Economy is not about number but the meaning, history and future related

to that number.

For example, if IIP was 0.13 on Jan-2012. That itself is not important. Whether it was 0.13 or

0.128? that is not important.

a.

Important Questions are : is this IIP good or bad? And why is it good or bad? Whatll be its

impact on future of Indian economy and Government / RBI policies?

b.

2.

FrontPage

There is a narrow column on the left hand side of the front page, most of the time, the yearbook

related information, government schemes etc. appear here.

1.

The main news item on the frontpage: it is usually not-very-important. Reason most of the time

it is the political news. For example, Bihar Mahadalit Land Racket. If you are a candidate from

Bihar, you should read it, for the others, it is not worth it.

2.

Columns / Editorials

Question: What is a column / Editorial?

These are big paragraphs like articles in the centre pages of a newspaper.

Generally each article has photo of the author and usually the author gives a 20 years old photo

when he/she was in college. If you ever happen to see them in actual TV Debate, it turns out

theyre quite older than what they look in the newspapers.

Editorial is written by the editor himself. For example Shekhar Gupta for IndianExpress on

Saturday. While Columns are written by experts (including self-proclaimed experts) on a

particular topic of politics, economy, international events.

What to prepare from Columns/ Editorials?


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Usually columns are made up of 7-8 paragraphs. But not every sentence and line is important;

there are just 3-4 gemstones in it, which you can use in your mains / essay / interview answers.

So just note them down.

Some people use highlighters to mark important lines and then le those newspaper

cuttings. So do whichever method suits you (noting down or ling the cuttings).

But Not every column is worth your time and energy. For example in Indianexpress, there is one

guy writes about Nepals political turomil every week. But in Nepal, the Prime ministers are

changed every week and this guy happens to give ball by ball commentery of everything. Its not

worth the Cost-benet ratio. So skip him.

Similarly there is one Yogindar Alagh in Indianexpress, who pretends to write on rural

Development but just I did this and that when I was a minister=Not important.

Maintain the balance: some column writers have a habit of being totally cynical and

anti-Government. For example Tavleen Singh of Indianexpress, while I do admire her for having

the guts to openly write against Sonia, Mohan and Rahul, but in your answers, You must not

admire or criticize a particular individual (minister / politician) in the mains / interview. And dont

prepare a line that is too leftist or too rightists.

And if you criticise the Government, then you should also oer the reform suggestions.

Sports / music / life-style/ Bollywood

Lifestyle = painting, pottery, music, fashion events etc. most of which cannot be aorded by

middle class people.

The last 3-4 pages of English newspaper are devoted to this. if your hobby is tennis or chess,

then you must follow the related sport-news.

For others, I say just skip it. Anything historic about Sports will get published in the competitive

magazines and or the free blogs/ current-aairs related websites anyways. So daily following

these sports-pages = not worth the time and energy.

Bollywood and cricket related news = not important in any case. Unless something related to

administration or polity for example should BCCI be brought under RTI? And the copyright act vs

Bollywood.

How to read the newspaper in less than 1 hour?

Needs certain tools.

A study-desk or Table1.

A Red colored 0.7mm ballpoint pen and or a red sketch pen.2.

Loose papers, folders, notebooks (http://www.ipkart.com/pens-oce-

supplies?ad=mrunalrugm)

3.


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And last but not the least a newspaper.4.

The beginning

Keep the red pen handy.

Im taking Gujarat Edition of Indian express as reference; just follow the same procedure for your

City /States edition of Indianexpress/ Hindu.

The front-page and second page

Circle down on important lines from the news (which news, that is already explained above).

Third, fourth and fth page

Is usually Gujarat / Ahmedabad news for example

20 people died in car accident in rajkot

xyz girl eloped with a neighbour

A cop was found taking bribes

Stone-pelting and rioting in XYZ part of Ahmedabad after a cricket match.

Keshubhai Patel said XYZ against Narendra Modi.

Sanjay Joshis men have put posters against Modi in Ahmedabad.

^none of above, is important.

Then what is important?

Navjivan Trust of Abad says no to Gujarati version of Lets kill Gandhi written by Tushar Gandhi.

Gujarat Maritime Board and pollution board gives clearance to ship-breaking of Exxon Valdez,

but NGO lobby says it contains dangerous chemicals. (Names are not important, but the

important part is the big environmental issue vs. livelihood of ship-breakers in Alang

Gujarat State Government launches Girl Child education and School enrollment drive.

Ahmedabad Municipal corp will give Rs.250/- to all Government school students who live more

than 3 kms from the school, apart from the mid-day meal, Bicycle distribution and Vidhyalaxmi

scheme.

We are done with 5 pages

The 6 to 9 Page

These are devoted to national news

Only concentrate on important exam oriented news. Underline the important lines using your

red pen.

Page 10-11 (Columns and Editorials)


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Highlight the gemstones and move on.

Page 12-13 (International)

Highlight the important news lines and move on.

Page 14 (TV, Astrology, Cartoon strips)

Highlight the important news lines for example the timing of Balika Vadhu. Haha just kidding,

skip this page.

Page 15-16 (Business and economy)

Most important. Scan through every item, including small box news. Highlight the gemstones, if

there are any important diagrams, cut and le them.

Page 17-20 (Bollywood, Lifestyle, Sports)

Skip it.

We are done highlighting the important newslines. Now it is time for review.

The Review

Go through those red lines and either write them in the relevant notebook / cut and le it.

Your can either keep ve separate full-scape notebooks. OR you can write these in loose papers

and then le it in ve separate folders.

The advantage of loose papers = you can add more pages between, when the follow up news

comes. For example in case of QFIs. Same is not possible in a notebook.

Folder /

NotebookSorting

AdministrationAll the polity, administration, Development related items should be either

written or pasted here.

Economics Same exercise

Your prole

One le or notebook, make three sub-parts in it. First part- write or paste the

state/city related news. Second part- about your academic background

Third part- news related to hobbies.

S&T All the science-tech, environment, climate change related stu.


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International Same exercise

^ you dont have to write the entire sentences highlighted in red-pen but just the keywords or

phrases thatd help you recall the entire issue.

In the beginning, thisd be time-consuming mental torturing exercise.

But with time, youll develop the expertize of weeding out the unimportant news and note down the

gemstones.

Ive seen Maestros who write the summary note of entire The Hindu newspaper on just one side

of an A4 sized paper, without missing even a single important item. They dont read every line of

a newspaper, their eyes are trained to scan through the lines and hand automatically highlights

the keywords. Its an art and can be mastered only by practice Daily writing habit also improves

your handwriting speed, which is again important for the Mains exam.

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I read your article at how to read newspapers eectively which has helped

me a lot.

I just have a doubt regarding the news of other states whic are published in

The Hindu. As i am using the e-version of the paper and feedly suggested

by you, there are lots of news coming in the states section which are of

national importance(e.g : periyar dam etc). As i am from Gujarat, i only

follow Gujarats news, but what to do abt the other states news which are

equally important.

Pls help me out with this matter.

Thanks

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the contents and the way in which you have written is just great sir. Its

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