Step 1: Make up your mind, to appear for the CSE by the end of Final Year. Download and read the previous year’s UPSC CSE notification (freely available on internet). Call and talk to a doctor who had appeared (you will surely find someone near you).
Step 2: Find out that, there is a Prelims test where mostly 15 Geography (11-12th Std level) + 25 Environment (12th Bio level) +25 constitutional (there is a book called Laksmikant- much easier than PG prep guides, will take you one week to finish) + 20 Economy( easy if you know the basics, could be learnt in two weeks) and some other questions to make the number up to 100.
Step 3: Read a decent English News Paper during Internship. Decent usually means The Hindu/ The Indian Express (just like Paracetamol for fever- tried and tested over years). Only have to read editorial pages and national news of importance ( For Prelims and GS 1, 2, 3& 4). These 4 papers and essays could easily be managed by even an average student of Medicine, with the above resource and internet with 25% of energy consumed if she/he was preparing for PG entrance.
Step 4: Appear for a Prelims test series. You could download test series available on internet and test yourself, if you do not want to register for one.
Step 5: Clear Prelims, it’s easier than most people claim.
Step 6: Join Medicine Test series. Study meticulously with a proper plan and time frame.
Step 7: Just study what’s in the syllabus and leave out the rest. Nobody is going to ask you things which are deep and dark. If you check the Q-papers for last two years, this will become very clear.
Step 8: Study like you are preparing for the PG entrance test.
Step 9: Clear Mains
Step 10: Appear for interview, clear it and wait for the Rank list.
By next year the time you had started preparing, you will be IAS/IFS/IPS. You could have a career spanning 30 years in different government departments as decision makers.
