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Hello students,

Here we are coming with our old-faithful DAMP course. It is called as Daily Answer Writing and Mentorship Program

This is the program we have been running for over 4 years since 2020-21, and hundreds of students of History Optional have benefitted. However, in recent months, we had paused it for some time due to introduction of HOT500. Even then, students kept asking for it.

Tbh, I was initially surprised by this consistent requests and tried to avoid them. It is not easy to be a history teacher and updating content all the time with so much explosion of new things around. But after a detailed discussion with Vishal sir, we decided to re-launch it with upgrades.

It's features are simple. Three months program, which gives you schedule for studying/revising optional in a disciplined manner. It also gives daily targets to cover the syllabus properly. There is a 24 hour window for submission of answer, every day, which inculcates habit of regular answer writing. After that you get evaluation, feedback, model answers and video discussion. And then there are 2 full length tests (FLTs) too.

Watching merely the foundation lectures doesn't help if we don't do some regular answer writing practice. Also, directly going to write full tests is a very daunting task. This program is that crucial middle link which makes foundation learning strong, improves answer writing, and makes you ready to write full length tests.

No more delaying your answer writing practice. D in DAMP stands for Daily. It really helps in long term. Initial few days are difficult if you have never done any answer writing. But once you get into habit it, that would the moment of your 'arrival'.

And then both Vishal sir and Me are available for personal mentoring as well. The M in DAMP stands for that Mentorship.


Vishal sir has explained the featurs here:
https://youtu.be/P32NWPuBZ3g?si=fD9UxuChfaDLr0VN

The webpage link for the details is here https://www.levelupias.com/upsc-history-optional-daily-answer-writing-damp

Hope to see many among you there. Every day.

Nikhil

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Late winter night in Delhi and playing childhood game...

This is called as the ashvamedha style finishing. Still after soooo many years I can finish it in under 60 seconds...:)

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These are the Solutions for Day 18.
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This is Week 3 Compilation of practice MCQs of Daily Questions.

For earlier compilations of 2025, click on the following links:
1. Week 1 Ancient India
2. Week 2 Ancient India
3. Week 3 Medieval India

From tomorrow, we will start with Week 4. The schedule for Week 4 is also shared.

For practicing Daily MCQs of History and Culture, join and stay tuned @nikhilhistoryculture

All the best,
Nikhil

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Telegram initiative of Daily MCQ Practice in History, Art and Culture

This is the schedule of Topics for Week 4.

For attempting daily questions, join @nikhilhistoryculture

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The Sources of Ancient India video is now Live on our channel. If you want to ask doubt about any source that I covered or if you want to ask about any other new source which we have not covered, all the comments are most welcome there in YT. I will try to answer them in the comment section.

As old school teachers, we have not yet mastered the art of seeking comments like a seasoned podcaster. So, we still rely on old school style of requesting Like- Comment- Share- Subscribe.

https://youtu.be/IQVb5bu5zXQ

So far, the discussion videos on Ancient, Modern and World are recorded and public. I have not yet recorded the same for Medieval India. Will do it very soon. If you want to suggest any source or if you want to ensure that I include discussion on any specific source that you are interested in, do let me know.

Nikhil