#Sequence and Series Class 11

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Sample Videos of Class 11 Maths Tutorials by Ashish Sir on MathYug

In this blog, we will explore some sample videos that showcase the quality, depth, and teaching methodology employed by Ashish Sir in his MathYug tutorials.

1. Sets

2. Relations and Functions

3. Permutations and Combinations

4. Complex Numbers

5. Straight Lines

6. Sequences and Series

7. Limits and Derivatives

8. Conic Sections

9. Principle of Mathematical Induction

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[kef-meister]

Metroid Prime .... 4!

While they aren't Star Fox or F-Zero fans (I see you), the fans of the Metroid series have had their patience tested multiple times over the series' lifespan. On June 13th 2017, Metroid Prime 4 was announced to the world. Now, June 18th 2024, Metroid Prime 4 has been given a release window: 2025.

It's been seven very long, very interesting years. But instead of dwelling on that, it's time to go frame-by-frame on the release trailer and give some notes on why that particular part stands out to me. I've gotten so hyped I've gotten analytical. This is what it means to go even further Beyond. ________________ 1. "Cosmic Year 20X9 Galactic Federation Research Facility" Metroid (1986)'s manual states that the Galactic Federation was established "in the year 2000 of the history of the cosmos", and that the original story of Metroid starts in 20X5.

Given that the Prime games are allegedly happening in the story-lines between Metroid and Metroid II … there's a continuity error with the main series, which I'm hoping is addressed rather than hand-waved.

Metroid II: Samus Returns (2017) has a trailer claiming it took place "less than a year" since the previous adventure. So that'd be in either 20X5 or 20X6 - the latter of which would place it in the same year as Metroid Prime: Federation Force. If that's the case, then Super Metroid would take place in 20X6/20X7 … but Prime 4 takes place in 20X9???

That this sequence takes place on a Galactic Federation Research Facility is VERY interesting though, especially considering the Big Reveal later on. 2. Samus' Gunship!!! I've watched this frame-by-frame and I'm convinced that the ship which is landing is pre-rendered, whereas the stationary ship allowing Samus out is the actual model. It's an incredibly clever trick to save on resources.

The ship itself is the Hunter-class gunship from Metroid Prime 3! What stands out here is that Samus is leaving the ship from the TOP panel - where she previously would enter and exit this ship from the bottom lift just behind the cockpit. I think it's also missing the Ship Grapple upgrade. Then there's the recreation of Metroid Prime's intro with Samus' space jump; the music; the zoom-in; HUD turning on ... Uuugggh, 11/10. Give it to me now. Put it into my veins and make me a weird hybrid.

3. Samus' Power Suit! It's Metroid Prime 3's Varia Suit, right down to the missile launcher design. This makes me feel VERY certain this story is going to take place very shortly after Prime 3's conclusion - like how Super Metroid follows up almost immediately after Metroid II.

The Morph Ball seems to behave almost exactly like it does in Prime 1 with its wonky physics. Loving this, seems to suggest the Prime 1 Remaster had a very solid engine ready to re-use. Prime 2/3 remaster when? 4. The Heads-up Display The HUD actually matches Samus' actual visor design! After Prime 1, the visor changed shape but the HUD didn't - now it has the extra notch at the top. It's higher contrast; Energy goes into the top notch, and the Map (now all blue!) has directions on it now.

Missiles take up one of the four slots on the left is weird. Maybe there's less Beams. The HUD doesn't seem to react when Samus switches between Beam and Missiles???

The Combat Visor makes a great distinction between which things are friendly, which are hostile and what you're locked onto on its little mini-map in the top-left.

The Scan Visor isn't intrusive with its overlay - and shows 2D images instead of 3D ones. Seems to make a better distinction between things you have and haven't scanned yet.

Going off of Metroid Prime Remastered, I legitimately think there's a team at Retro Studios doing their best in regards to (visual) accessibility. Love that. 5. Space Pirate Action Scenes! These tube-tastic dipshits keep looking more and more like Halo Elites and it bothers me, but they're here and awful! Blowing up a door!

Around 1:05 there are Galactic Federation humanoids wheeling away a thing. We like things here. We also have some friendlies fighting alongside Samus here, but they're most clear on the minimap.

6. The Big Reveal Later On Holy shit it's Sylux MetroidPrimeHunters. Holy shit, it's about time this fucker showed up instead of being a 'secret ending' cameo. I am absolutely loving the guitar riff in the background for the stinger here.

I'm very convinced those floating jellies are Mochtroids - not Metroids. It'd explain why they aren't latching onto anything. The biggest question is whether Sylux used the egg he stole in Federation Force - or this GF facility has been making Metroids. The GF will never learn. 7. To Go Even Further Beyond Samus has left the building. In this shot she's still in the Varia Suit. These avians on-screen have longer necks and brighter plumage than the 'birds' we've seen on Talon IV; there's no other creatures on-screen.

BONUS: The logo looks like the rendering of a black hole. That's probably not important at all.

Okay thank you for reading. See you next mission!

[nonotnolan]

No Not Nolan's Year in Review

Apparently this is a tradition now, so-- here are the stories of 2023, ranked by the number of likes.   It also helps keep me a bit grounded-- it feels rough when recent stories don't pick up stream, but the year as a whole has still gone quite well. It's also nice to see where all of my work falls, note-wise.  And if you're feeling very nostalgic (or horny?) here is a link to 2021, and here is a link to 2022.

I'm leaving the eBook announcement posts out of my year end review, but I'm calling it out for myself so when I revisit this in December 2024, future-me will remember to grab those. I'm not planning to abandon this account anytime soon-- and I'm certainly not shifting to Patreon or PayPal or what have you. I'm not prolific or popular enough for any of that. The vast majority of my work will continue to remain free and open. I just wanted to prove to myself that I'm good enough of a writer to publish something that I can be proud of-- I have, and I am.

Do authors love notes and reblogs? Yes. But they often enjoy hearing direct feedback even more-- I know I sure do. Consider "messaging authors directly" as a New Year's Resolution. (Please note that begging for someone to write you a story is not feedback. Don't be that guy.)

12) Green Grass - 122 notes - December 2023 Two guys learn first hand that not everyone values the same things. Concise and straightforward. 11) Soul Stones: Long Distance - 192 notes - April 2023 A romantic story of two men using the power of body swapping to close the gap on a long distance relationship. Cell phones have nothing on being there in person. 10) Colony Freedom - 197 notes - September 2023 A slime alien attempts to rebuild its colony from the ground up after its overseers have completely vanished. Can it manage to find enough hosts for its family, or will its cover be ruined? 9) Cuerpo Inc: After Hours Perk - 249 notes - July 2023 Ethan tries to pretend to be Jake for the weekend, but he wasn't counting on Jake's nosy neighbor getting But if he can't be Jake, at least he can still have fun in Jake's body. 8) Summer Break Dullahans - 252 notes - June 2023 Eric was not expecting to find Ben's detached head in the dorms. I'm a big fan of detachable limb stories, so I decided to be a part of the change I want to see. (I'm also very rusty at GIMP / photoshop, but it gets the job done.) 7) The Great Gym Shift - 275 notes - August 2023 A version of The Great Shift, but with a limited radius. A gym instructor is stuck babysitting a bunch of grown men who suddenly find themselves in very muscular bodies. 6) Just Another Sunday - 279 notes - October 2023 A Chronovac story with unaware recipients and a retroactive reality shift that ripples through reality. I'm really happy with this one, though I will freely admit that I lucked out on the photos for this one. 5) An Excellent Choice - 291 notes - February 2023 My Valentine's Day story, dedicated to my boyfriend. As such, the emphasis is on a merging transformation sequence. Two men take advantage of new technology to become a new sum of themselves. 4) Group Project - 331 notes - November 2023 Another work set in the Swapper universe, where college students take advantage of body swapping technology for success or pleasure. This piece features Aiden, who has to hire a nerd to take over his body if he wants to pass his classes. 3) Cursing Fate - 337 notes - January 2023 It's an alien possession story with a dark twist. If you're going to align yourself with an extraterrestrial force, make sure you have something valuable to offer them. 2) Soul Stones: The Easy Life - 412 notes - March 2023 Alfie finds himself in the body of Jordan, one of the most popular athletes on the football team-- but he's not the one who plotted for the body swap to happen. It's one of my favorites for the year, and it's a series I could see myself returning to if the inspiration is right. 1) Rookie Mistake - 482 notes - May 2023 A novice magic user tries out an Astral Projection spell without reading all of the instructions. Things do not play out in his favor.

Special Mentions-

Travis Cordin - 382 notes - February 2023 by @mergeman My boyfriend's Valentine's Day story that he dedicated to me. A raw and electric story about a magic user who gives the resident nerd too much magical power.

Stories I Love (Part 1) and Stories I Love (Part 2) I was not expecting so many people to react to these lists, but these have been getting reblogged like crazy. More importantly, a lot of authors have been reaching out to show thanks and start conversations, which I appreciate even more. Like I said-- I'm not always the best at participating in the community, so I really enjoy hearing from people.

Top 5 All Time-

5) Revenge, Reversed - 517 notes - August 2020 4) Overbearing - 538 notes - May 2022 3) Finals Week - 552 notes - May 2021 2) Gym Merchandise - 610 notes - September 2022 1) Soulmate Swap - 659 notes - August 2022

It's always fascinating to see which stories get a second life through reblogs and new discoveries. Soulmate Swap is one of my heavy hitters, but both Gym Merchandise and Overbearing have gained a lot of momentum this year. Finals Week is starting to slip, though I'm still quite fond of it. I'm quite surprised to see Revenge, Reversed on this list given its age, but it's another one of my personal favorites.

[dannyreviews]

Frasier (1993 and 2023)

The 1990s was probably the last great era for the American Sitcom and the majority of television viewers would probably pick "Seinfeld" as their favorite. As much as I love "Seinfeld" and its brand of famous gags, one liners and character quips, "Frasier" is in a class of its own above. For 11 seasons, Frasier maintained its Moliere/Alan Ayckbourn wit and farce without missing a beat. Nearly 20 years after the perfectly written series finale, "Frasier" has been rebooted and things have changed, some for the better and the rest for the worst. Here is the rundown about what made the original series a classic and the reboot (so far) a shadow of its former self.

TV Spinoffs are usually a hit or miss affair. The hits like "Laverne and Shirley" and "The Jeffersons" managed to remove themselves from their origin and create their own brand of humor. Others like "After MASH" and "Phyllis" were tedious affairs that forgot their roots and sailed into the sunset of mediocrity. And then you have "Frasier" which took the spinoff to brand new heights. Having already been an established supporting character in another massively successful series "Cheers", Frasier Crane was engrained in the collective consciousness of the prime time audience, so that was one notch in watching the pilot of the original "Frasier". The first thing was to reinvent Frasier as a radio psychiatrist which becomes the foundation for jokes about the human mind. But then you add supporting characters that are so multi-dimensional that they have to compete with the title character for the most laughs. That came in the form of David Hyde Pierce as Frasier's equally pompous psychiatrist brother Niles and John Mahoney as their blue collar, retired, disabled policeman father Martin. Watching the difference between tasting wine and singing Gilbert and Sullivan operettas to drinking beer and watching the ballgame on TV and you have a dynamic that is another foundation of excellent writing. At the same time, there's Peri Gilpin as Frasier's producer Roz who beds every man (single or married) in town and Jane Leeves as Daphne, Martin's in-house nurse and Niles' crush. When you have several running gags all synchronized in 11 amazing seasons that never jumped the shark, the possibilities are endless. Even recurring jokes like the rivalry between the Crane brothers, the elusive identity of Niles' wife Maris, or the random actions of Martin's dog Eddie, were add ons to an already colorful mosaic of wit and wisdom. Like the Sistine Chapel, or Bach's Goldberg Variations, Frasier is several fine tuned sequences that make up a Leviathan of a presentation. What can possibly go wrong?

The reboot of "Frasier" in hindsight should never have happened because in the series finale, the viewer wanted Frasier to have a happy ending and fine true love with his last girlfriend Charlotte. That hope goes out the window and instead what we get is another chapter in our titular character's hapless life when he becomes a lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard. In the original pilot, we got to know each character's strengths and flaws in only 22 minutes. With the reboot, it takes 2 episodes just to establish each character's back story. Now that Martin is dead and Niles & Daphne are MIA, the majority of the new characters are generic, paint by numbers creations. Frasier's son Frederick (Jack Cutmore-Scott) is blue collar like his grandfather and the deja vu dynamic is not played up for laughs. You have a storyline written in about Frederick's roommate Eve (Jess Salguero) that gets too convoluted and ends up like a subplot in a cheesy soap opera. Most unforgivably, there's Niles and Daphne's son David (Anders Keith) who is supposed to be an amalgam of his parents, but instead of having headstrong principles and acerbic banter, he's just obnoxiously atrocious. This isn't the offspring of a fascinating couple, it's a clone of Screech from "Saved By The Bell". The only thing that somewhat works and has any relevance to the original series is Frasier's scenes with his new colleagues at Harvard which includes his old college friend Alan (Nicholas Lyndhurst) and department head Olivia (Toks Olagundoye). Alan is the new Niles in how he and Frasier exchange intellectual topics and if you can close your eyes, you'd think it was the Crane Brothers. Olivia is tolerable only when she's in the same room as Alan. Otherwise, her scenes with Frasier border on cringeworthy, which goes against the original formula of all the characters mingling with indefinite punchlines. Finally, Kelsey Grammer is at the helm of a rocky boat trying to steer it through choppy waves. He hasn't lost any of his charm but he can only do so much with what's written in the script.

Only three episodes of the reboot have aired as of now (10/22/2023), and the show has a lot to live up to its source material. Roz and Frasier's ex wife Lilith are supposed to make appearances in future episodes. What will they bring to the table and will it rival the classic episodes? I'm not holding my breath, but do hope that the show improves itself.

Original: 10/10

Reboot: 6/10

[felixcloud6288]

Higurashi: Timeline Analysis

One assumption I've made over the series is that events not shown in one arc may have still happened in other arcs. Everything up to about 2 weeks before the Cotton Drifting is more or less set in stone so I wanted to try putting together a parallel timeline of events in each arc.

Some general assumptions:

If the same event happens in multiple timelines, it happened on the same day. This is also true for implied events.

Unless there's evidence to the contrary, there are no skipped days

Unless something definitely happened on a Saturday, all events between school scenes are the same day as the last school scene

Everyone attends classes from Monday through Saturday

Cotton Drifting and Eye Opening have the same sequence and timeline of events with inconsequential differences

Arcs are going to be color-coordinated

Abducted by Demons

Cotton Drifting/Eye Opening

Curse Killing

Atonement

Massacre

Festival Accompanying

Recall that the Cotton Drifting is June 19, 1983. This date will be used as an anchor point throughout this post.

Notes and Dates by chapter

Abducted By Demons:

Cotton Drifting is Chapter 2

The wording before the festival implies several days pass between chapters 1 and two and that several days pass in chapter 2 as well

Keiichi says he's lived in Hinamizawa for three weeks and says it again in Cotton Drifting. We can figure out the date Cotton Drifting starts so the first chapter likely takes place around the same time

Early June: Chapter 1

June 18-19: Chapter 2

June 20: Chapter 3

June 21: Chapter 4

June 22: Chapter 5

June 23: Chapters 5 and 6

June 24: Final Chapter

Cotton Drifting:

Cotton Drifting is Chapters 5 and 6

The events in chapter 1 happen again in Massacre and are explicitly stated to be two weeks before the Cotton Drifting

The confrontation at the end is stated to be June 23rd and Eye Opening states Rika and Satoko were killed on the 22nd.

Chie also comments that Kimiyoshi went missing the day before in chapter 8. I assume that a day passes between then and when Keiichi speaks to Rika

June 4-5: Chapter 1

June 6-7: Chapter 2

June 8: Chapters 2-3

June 9: Chapters 3-4

June 18: Chapter 5

June 19: Chapters 5-6

June 20: Chapter 7

June 21: Chapter 8(?)

June 22: Chapter 8-10

June 23: Chapters 10-11

June 30: Final Chapter

Curse Killing:

The Cotton Drifting is Chapter 10

Keiichi mentions in chapter one that it's been two day so it likely takes place shortly after he moved to Hinamizawa

Keiichi mentions in chapter 4 that it's Saturday and the next day we see is a school day

Three days pass in chapter 6

Early June: Chapter 1

June 8: Chapter 2

June 9-10: Chapters 2-3

June 11: Chapters 4-5

June 13: Chapters 5-6

June 16: Chapters 6-7

June 17: Chapters 7-8

June 18: Chapters 8-9

June 19: Chapter 10

June 20: Chapter 11

June 21: Chapter 12

June 22: Final Chapter

Eye Opening:

The Cotton Drifting is Chapter 10

We enter 1983 starting in chapter 9, but the time frame for chapter 9 is some indeterminate time between Keiichi giving Rena the doll (June 5) and the Cotton Drifting

Shion mentions being part of a youth group looking for Kimiyoshi after he goes missing. Combined with the missing day in Cotton Drifting, that might have happened the day after she kidnapped Kimiyoshi and the next day, she killed Rika.

Timeline is the same for Cotton Drifting. This is primarily to keep records in order.

June 19: Chapters 10-12

June 20: Chapters 13-15

June 22: Chapters 16-19

June 23: Chapter 20

Atonement

The Cotton Drifting is Chapter 6

Several days are skipped over prior to the Cotton Drifting so it's not possible to get definite dates

In Chapter 1, we see a waxing crescent moon and there's a full moon during the Cotton Drifting so that would set Chapter 1 roughly 10 days before the Cotton Drifting

The final chapter is on June 25th and also has a full moon. The full moon is in the nightsky over several chapters across multiple days so we can't fully rely on the moon phases for this.

According to various records I looked up, June 25th, 1983 was a full moon while June 19th was a waxing gibbous. The waxing crescent was around June 14th. The chapters prior to the Cotton Drifting span 5 days (Chapters 1-5 are defintely four consecutive days, while Rena's meeting with Takano is some indeterminate day between events). However, this conflicts with the "a few days passed" line right before the festival so this timeframe is likely not the case.

Chapter 6 mentions a few days pass after the Cotton Drifting. Knowing the arc ends on the 25th and working backward, we can determine that Chapter 6 ends on the 21st.

Day 1: Chapter 1

Day 2: Chapters 2-3

Day 3: Chapters 3-4

Day 4: Chapters 4-5

Day ?: Chapter 6

June 19: Chapter 6

June 21: Chapters 6-7

June 22: Chapters 7-8

June 23: Chapters 8-11

June 24: Chapters 11-12

June 25: Chapters 12-Final

Massacre

The Cotton Drifting is chapter 17.

The arc begins two weeks before the Cotton Drifting.We don't see the entirety of the first week, but I assume the days we see are the first few days of that week.

June 4: Chapter 2

June 5: Chapter 3

June 6: Chapter 4

June 7: Chapter 5

June 12: Chapters 6-7

June 13: Chapter 7

June 14: Chapters 7-8

June 15: Chapters 9-10

June 16: Chapters 10-13

June 17: Chapters 14-15

June 18: Chapters 15-16

June 19: Chapters 17-18

June 20: Chapter 18

June 21: Chapter 19

June 22: Chapters 19-24

June 23: Final Chapter

Festival Accompanying

The Cotton Drifting is the final chapter

Chapter 16 has a scene of Keiichi first visiting the school. He first moved to Hinamizawa three weeks before the start of Onikakushi so that means chapters 16 and 17 likely takes place in late May.

Chapter 18 is the first chapter whose date we can anchor to the Cotton Drifting

June 14: Chapter 18

June 15: Chapters 18-19

June 16: Chapters 20-22

June 17: Chapter 23

June 18: Chapter 24

June 19: Chapters 25-Final

Events by Date

May/Early June:

Keiichi goes with Rena to the trash dump. He meets Tomitake who mentions the 1979 murder.

Keiichi is officially inducted into the club. He goes with Rena to the trash site again and finds some magazines talking about the 1979 murder.

Keiichi is taken to Satoko's trap mountain. He meets Tomitake who tells him about the 1979 murder.

Tokyo decides to end Takano's research in the next three years. She is approached by Nomura who convinces Takano to form Operation Apocalypse

Takano offers a 10 yen coin to Oyashiro and Hanyu rejects her offering as a declaration of war

Akasaka finds documents of Koizumi laundering funds through Irie Clinic and decides to investigate

June 5:

Everyone goes to Okinomiya for a game tournament. Keiichi is given a doll and gives it to Rena.

Keiichi convinces Rika to try a different game during the tournament. He gives the doll to Mion

June 6:

Keiichi's dad takes him to Angel Mort and Keiichi meets Shion

Rika discovers that Keiichi, Rena, and Shion have had dreams about their past lives and are actively working to avoid what happened

June 7:

Mion, disguised as Shion, visits Keiichi and brings him a meal

Rika brings Takano and Tomitake to the Saiguden to ask for their help. Later, she meets Akasaka at the Okinomiya game store

June 8:

Keiichi gets mugged by bikers and Mion, disguised as Shion, helps him. She tells Keiichi about the Dam War. That night, Shion invites Keiichi to participate in the Angel Mort Dessert Festival

Keiichi gets a cold and visits the clinic. Takano tells him about Oyahsiro's curse

June 9:

Rena tells Keiichi about how Mion's feelings were hurt. Keiichi attends the dessert festival and gets the club to help Shion deal with some creeps. After, he learns that Mion and Shion are two different people

Mion challenges the club to a cooking contest. Satoko ends up having to help Keiichi with his cooking. Rika tells Keiichi about Satoshi

June 10:

The club has their cooking contest. Later, Satoko takes Keiichi grocery shopping

June 11:

The Hinamizawa Fighters face the Okinomiya Titans. The Fighters win because Keiichi bribes Kameda with Angel Mort dessert tickets. Keiichi meets Irie. Keiichi later brings up Satoshi to Shion and Rena and they both have bizarre reactions

June 12:

Teppei returns to Hinamizawa and begins abusing Satoko. Rika tries getting Akasaka, Irie, and Takano to help but none of them can do anything

Mid June:

Rena learns that her father is being pulled into a badger game by Teppei and Rina

Rena attempts to get Kasai's help to drive them away but ends up deciding to kill them herself

Keiichi and the others find Rena attempting to dispose of the bodies and after a long discussion, they decide to help her

Takano gives Rena her scrapbook claiming it holds the secrets to Oyashiro

June 13:

Satoko doesn't come to school. Ooishi comes to the school asking for her but he's made to leave by Irie

Everyone learns about Satoko's situation. Shion suggests killing Teppei but Keiichi stops her. Chie calls the Child Consultation Center and is told they will wait and see

June 14:

Keiichi decides they'll go to the Center to appeal their decision. He and his friends speak to a representative but are effectively ignored. Keiichi decides they need to get more people involved

Hanyu manifests in a physical form and becomes a student at Hinamizawa. She asks to join Mion's club

June 15:

Keiichi tells the class about Satoko's situation and they and Chie join Keiichi on his next appeal. After, Keiichi and Shion get Kameda, the Okinomiya Titans, the regulars and staff at Angel Mort, and Irie and his staff to also join their cause. Ooishi approaches Keiichi to warn him about what he's doing

Rika rewinds but doesn't have any memories of the previous timeline. Akasaka meets with Ooishi and reveals that Rika predicted all the past murders

June 16:

Satoko comes back to school for the first time and she goes home without staying for club activities. Keiichi tries convincing Mion to take Satoko into her care but is refused. He later meets Irie and Satoko who was forced to buy alcohol for Teppei

Satoko comes back to school for the first time and has a panic attack when she sees Kaieda. Keiichi leads his next appeal to the Center. The village elders begin putting pressure on Keiichi's group to get them to stop, but Keiichi manages to convince them to support him instead

Rika speaks to Tomitake and Irie about what Takano is plotting. Ooishi and Akasaka get involved. In the end, Irie, Tomitake, and Akasaka decide to work together to stop Takano. Akasaka stays at Rika's house while Rika and Satoko flee to Mion's house

June 17:

Takano suggests to Keiichi that the Sonozakis are behind the series of deaths. He decides to request that Mion make Teppei be killed as part of the curse but is refused

Keiichi asks Oryou to support his cause. She eventually agrees to do so

Rika's friends are told the situation. Mion comes up with Operation 48 hours to lure out Rika's enemies. Ooishi visits the construction manager's grave and meets Shion and Akane. After talking with them, he decides to join Rika's cause

June 18:

Keiichi learns about Satoshi. He helps with preparing for the festival and learns about the Curse from Shion, Takano, and Tomitake

Satoko comes to school and has a panic attack. Keiichi decides that he'll kill Teppei and spends the rest of the day preparing to do that. He call Mion to ask her to look after Satoko but ends up speaking with Shion instead

The entire village comes together to demand the Center take Satoko into protective custody. The center calls Satoko and asks her about her situation. Rika convinces Satoko to to ask for help. Teppei is arrested and Satoko is saved

Takano goes to the lookout plateau and is upset Tomitake isn't there. Ooishi agrees to leak a fake autopsy of Rika

June 19:

The Cotton Drifting Festival.

Keiichi learns from Tomitake and Takano about the series of murders. That night Tomitake is killed and Takano goes missing.

Shion, Keiichi, Takano, and Tomitake sneak into the Saiguden. Takano tells them about the legends of Onigafuchi. Tomitake is found dead later and Takano's burnt corpse is found in the mountains. (Eye Opening) Shion mistakenly thinks her family is going to kill her so she imprisons Mion and accidentally kills Oryou

Keiichi lures out and murders Teppei and buries him in the mountains. On the way home, Takano picks him up and drops him off at his house

After the festival, Rika asks Ooishi and her friends to protect Takano and Tomitake. Takano injects Tomitake with H173. Due to Ooishi's patrols, Takano ends up dumping Tomitake's body in a different spot than she normally would. She and Okonogi begin Operation Apocalypse

Early morning, a fake autopsy of Rika that states she's been dead for over 48 hours is leaked. The Wild Dogs find and capture Tomitake but he is rescued by Irie, Shion, Kasai, and Akasaka. Rika and her friends escape to Satoko's trap mountain to face off against Takano and Okonogi. Tomitake manages to call a watchdog team to apprehend the Wild Dogs and Takano is taken into custody

June 20:

Ooishi talks to Keiichi about Tomitake and Takano's deaths. Keiichi learns about Satoshi's existence. Keiichi starts becoming more confrontational with Rena.

(Eye Opening) Shion begins impersonating Mion. Mion (Shion) confronts Keiichi about seeing Shion during the fesitval. Shion invites Keiichi to meet with her at the library but they're interrupted by Ooishi who asks Keiichi if he saw Shion at the festival. (Eye Opening) Shion attends a meeting with the village elders. After, she kidnaps Kimiyoshi. That night, Shion tells Keiichi about Takano and Tomitake's deaths

Keiichi comes to school and everyone acts as if he was at the festival and Satoko claims Teppei is still alive. He learns that Takano is dead and tells Irie he killed Teppei. He flees the clinic when he overhears Irie planning to sedate him. Keiichi later tries to dig up Teppei's body but cannot find it

Ooishi tells Rika about Takano and Tomitake's deaths but also mentions that Takano's time of death doesn't match up to witness accounts and he suspects she is still alive

June 21:

Keiichi skips school and goes to the clinic. He then goes to lunch with Ooishi who tells him about Rena's past. That night, Mion and Rena bring Keiichi ohagi and Keiichi hallucinates a needle in them.

Keiichi goes to Satoko's house to kill Teppei. He finds Satoko passed out from heat exhaustion. He learns Irie is dead and finds Rika murdered at Furude Shrine. Satoko ends up pushing Keiichi off a bridge

(Eye Opening) The village learns of Kimiyoshi's disappearance. Shion joins a youth group to try finding him

Ooishi tells Rena that Takano and Tomitake are dead. Rena begins to think someone is after her because she has Takano's scrapbook

June 22:

Keiichi writes a note about everything in case he dies

Keiichi tells Rika that he entered the Saiguden. (Eye Opening) Rika attempts to stop Shion but fails. Shion then lures Satoko to the Sonozaki estate and kidnaps her. Ooishi tells Keiichi that Shion has also been missing since yesterday afternoon. (Eye Opening) Shion kills Satoko and Kimiyoshi. When Shion calls Keiichi later, he confronts her about everything and she laughs and hangs up

The Great Hinamizawa Disaster occurs, killing all residents of the village aside from Keiichi

Rena confesses to Keiichi that she thinks she's being followed. That night she tells Keiichi about the contents of the scrapbook

Rika reveals to her friends what is going on. Ooishi tells her that the the burnt corpse is not Takano. The Wild Dogs kill Ooishi and Takano kills Rika's friends before killing her

June 23:

Keiichi nearly gets hit by a van. He finds Satoshi's bat and begins carrying it around wherever he goes. That night, Rena comes over and Keiichi smashes her fingers into the door to make her go away.

Keiichi and Rena go to Mion's house. Shion confesses to everything and tries to kill Keiichi but fails. (Eye Opening) She kills Mion and escapes into protective custody

Rena discovers the bodies have been moved. Mion and Ooishi both make moves to try protecting Rena from each other. Rika approaches Rena initially offering to help but decides to abandon Rena. Keiichi approaches Rena later and Rena drives him off by bringing up his past

With Rika and Irie dead, Tokyo is forced to enact Emergency Manual 34, killing all the villagers with poison gas

June 24:

Keiichi murders Mion and Rena when he thinks they're going to kill him. He then dies by scratching out his throat.

Keiichi admits to his friends what he'd done before coming to Hinamizawa. Suddenly, he remembers killing Rena and Mion in Abducted by Demons. That night, Rena apologizes to Keiichi

June 25:

Rena holds her class hostage to force the police to investigate the Sonozakis. She intends to blow up the school but Keiichi, Rika, and Satoko manage to stop her. Keiichi fights Rena on the rooftop and manages to get her to calm down. Rika is later kidnapped and killed

June 30:

Shion disguises herself as Mion and stabs Keiichi. She falls to her death while trying to sneak back into her apartment

Final thoughts

This took me several days to put together and I think I got most everything correct or close to correct. I'm genuinely surprised how all the non-arc specific events actually fell into place.

In particular, I had mentioned in Massacre chapter 9 that Curse Killing Chapter 4 was canon to that timeline and some early chapters of Cotton Drifting were likely also canon to that timeline as well. I was genuinely surprised at how neatly all those events fit with each other though.

I also mentioned in Atonement Chapter 11 that it and Abducted by Demons were both on the same day, and I'm able to better show how that worked out. I'm still sticking to the idea that Mion said “Hurry up and feel better!” at the exact same time in both timelines as well and that's what caused Keiichi to suddenly remember everything that happened.

This timeline series could imply that Keiichi also knows Shion in Abducted by Demons, but it isn't brought up since it's not relevant to that arc.

I was also quite surprised how little time Rika had in Festival Accompanying. I had to figure out dates by reading the chapters in reverse order and was expecting chapter 18 to end up around June 12th. But no, the 15th is the most likely date she looped on. So Rika had only three days to prepare for her final fight with Takano.

I'm not going to assume that Ryukishi07 planned this extensively to make sure events lined up properly. But it is nice that events line up nicely. It might be a fun to try grafting every potential event that could happen in a timeline into one readthrough the next time I decide to reread this series.

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Yuri Is My Job! Spoiler-Filled Review

Yuri Is My Job!, also known as Schwestern in Liebe! or Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto Desu!, is a yuri comedic anime based on an ongoing manga by Miman. 12 volumes of the manga have been printed, 11 of which have been translated into English. Passione and Studio Lings produced this series. It is directed by Hijiri Sanpei.

Reprinted from Pop Culture Maniacs and Wayback Machine. This was the thirty-seventh article I wrote for Pop Culture Maniacs. This post was originally published on Jun. 28, 2023.

The plot of this series is in line with many yuri manga: a high school girl named Hime Shiraki (voiced by Yui Ogura) cares about her outward image as a sweet and helpful person. In actuality, she is very self-centered. One day, she trips and accidentally injures the manager of Cafe Liebe, Mai Koshiba (voiced by Yukari Tamura). She is guilted into covering shifts at the cafe to keep her image alive. As such, Hime works at an establishment where waitresses pretend they are students at an all-girls boarding school. Each has their own persona. She is drawn to another waitress, Mitsuki Yano (voiced by Sumire Uesaka) who gives her devotion and love. In private, Yano seems to hate her, hence the title of the anime, "yuri is my job!"

The fakery that the waitresses exemplify is shown though characters like Sumika Chibana (voiced by Makoto Koichi). She is calm and collected as a waitress but a gyaru outside work. Kanoko Mamiya (voiced by Minami Tanaka) contrasts this. A shy girl, she is Hime's good friend and knows Hime's true personality. She occasionally helps Hime during their work in the cafe. This fakery is also depicted through Hime, Mai, and Yano, each in a different way.

Show director Hijiri Sanpei is known, in part, as assistant director, storyboarder, and unit director of Citrus, a problematic anime due to sexual assault, non-consensual conduct, and toxicity between the two female protagonists. Apart from a few scenes, and some fan service of Yano, this does not translate over into Yuri Is My Job! In fact, the series has more allusions to other anime. For instance, the first episode alludes to Maria Watches Over Us. The latter series is said to be sweet, witty, unique, difficult, romantic, and have strong characters.

Yuri Is My Job! has similarities in terms of appealing animation, drama, and emotional scenes. The homoerotic themes are also treated respectfully, especially when paired with self-acceptance and self-discovery. Another series that Yuri Is My Job! may be referencing is a classic 2006 anime, Strawberry Panic! It is in the Class S genre, which focuses on romantic or close relationships between girls. While Strawberry Panic! is a romantic yuri based on illustrated short stories, and set at an all-girls school, Yuri Is My Job! takes place primarily at a cafe inside a high school.

The first episode pulls in the viewer, with a poppy and bubbly opening sequence, providing viewers with a sense of the characters. As noted earlier, yuri themes are there from the get-go, in terms of Hime's attraction to Yano, and an in-canon book entitled A Maiden's Heart, which resembles the plot of Maria Watches Over Us. This includes an older "sister" (Yano) putting a cross, on a necklace, around the neck of their younger "sister" (Hime). Adding to the confusion, Sumika appears to flirt with Yano.

At first, Hime appears to be a "gold-digger" only out for herself. As the story goes on, she becomes a more sympathetic character. This is clear from the close friendship between Kanoko and Hime. The latter even results in Kanoko working at the cafe after she follows Hime there. It is easy to be drawn to Hime's side when Yano is harsh against her, especially since Yano can see through Hime's cuteness facade.

Kanoko's character seems unhelpful, possessive, and annoying in earlier episodes. However, her character grows over the course of Yuri Is My Job!. For one, she supports Hime unconditionally. She even wonders why Hime cares about Yano. Kanoko's character might be lampooning the oft-trope, especially in yuri anime (and elsewhere), of the "deranged" cuckoo lesbian who has unrequited love for another woman. She may even be a yandere character.

I liked how the backstory of Hime and Yano provided insights into both characters. From that, it is easy to see both of their perspectives and how each of them could see the other as a "traitor". This all comes to a head when it is revealed, in the fourth episode, that Yano at the cafe is the same as the one she met when she was a young schoolgirl, when they played piano together. Over time, they get over their differences and clear up their misunderstanding.

Fundamentally, Yuri is My Job! has one theme throughout: miscommunication. Characters have different ways of seeing the world. Yano is coded as autistic. Hime is driven by being approved by everyone, thanks to her facade of being "cute". All the while, there is commentary about the yuri and class-s genres, with this series exploring expectations built into existing social interactions.

The 5th and 6th episodes of Yuri is My Job! focus on Yano and Hime being drawn to each other. They also criticize ship wars among yuri fans. In the sixth episode, some "fans" claim that Yano forced Hime to be her "sister". As rumors continue swirling, some even see Yano as a villain. Hime and Yano end up embracing one another in a very emotional scene, leading everyone to believe they are on better terms. In the process, Hime begins catching feelings for Yano. All of this reminds me of a song in The Proud Family about beating rumors, although only tangentially.

Sumika has an even more prominent role, after she learns, at the end of the sixth episode, that Kanoko is obsessed with Hime. As would be expected, Kanoko becomes suspicious of Sumika. She declares that no one will get in her way, even deeming Sumika "dangerous". While they begin to connect, this smashes apart when Sumika states that Kanoko must drop Hime or the cafe will fall apart.

Sumika's statement, cheered on by those who dislike Kanoko, seems harsh. However, it is rooted within interesting in-canon history. First of all, the person Sumika loved, Nene, was taken away by then-waitress Youko Gotou (voiced by Shizuka Itō), who she deems a seductress. Sumika is right to warn Kanoko that if she is too possessive, then Hime will dislike her. Even so, she is still interfering in their lives, almost as bad as the meddler in the 2015 comedy-drama film of the same name. Sumika's thought that romance will destroy the whole cafe is naive. For one, she is totally oblivious to Yano's feelings for Hime.

It is clear, by the eighth episode, of Yuri is My Job!, that Sumika is playing the long game. For instance, she agrees to Kanoko's request to become her sister, in the cafe. She doesn't realize, until later, that Kanoko is possessive of Hime because she is afraid of losing her. Kanoko is socially introverted, unlike Hime, and relies on her to ensure she can navigate social interactions. This is abundantly clear by the 10th episode.

In the apt flashback, in the ninth episode, Hime protects Kanoko from classroom bullies, the students that she deems "good kids". Hime comforted her after classmates were nasty to her, and defended her in class. Is it any shock that Kanoko fell for Hime, her "special person", then and there? Furthermore, Kanoko states she is the only person who knows the "true" Hime, without the facade. Her statement is incorrect, as Yano also knows the "true" Hime.

Apart from the plotlines involving Kanoko's relationship to Hime, one of the best storylines in this anime is the Blume election. The person awarded the most votes is crowned Blume-Sama. This reminds me of the elections for the student council in Maria Watches Over Us and the Etoile election in Strawberry Panic! Like the rest of the series, jealousy and emotions run high, as does blushing. The competition between the waitresses is fierce. It is later revealed that Sumika got the most votes, with Mitsuki in second, Hime in third, and Kanoko in fourth.

The final episodes of Yuri is My Job! wrap up many loose ends. Sumika reveals to Kanoko how Nene fell in love with Youko. All the while, her belief that Kanoko will "destroy" the cafe quickly dissipates. Although Kanoko's plan for the Blume election fails, Sumika's beliefs are fundamentally challenged by Nene. She says that Sumika comes from a place of compassion, but that she shouldn't dictate the love of others. This statement stands against people who position themselves as meddlers. Due to her conversation with Nene, Sumika rethinks how she should approach Kanoko.

By the 11th episode, Kanoko's actions, which might have seemed toxic or obsessive, make more sense. Sumika learns why Kanoko is drawn to Hime. She tells Kanoko that she is hiding too much of herself after she reveals that she will never confess to Hime. This conversation indicates the character development of Kanoko since she reveals all of this to Sumika, a person who understands her concerns. She even cries on her shoulder. Following the announcement that Sumika has been elected the Blume der Liebe, Kanoko even becomes the "sister". This appears surprising, at first. However, considering their mutual support for one another, it makes sense.

The 11th episode of Yuri is My Job! begins, in earnest, the romantic feelings between Sumika and Kanoko. Obviously both characters had feelings, to some extent, before that episode. Even so, it wasn't until that episode that they began their "sister"/Schwestern relationship. This sisterhood is even embraced by Hime. She is glad to hear that Kanoko has another friend, causing Kanoko to blush. This connection is reinforced by the fact that Kanoko and Sumika know something about the other that no one else knows. In the case of Kanoko, she had not said aloud that she loved Hime, until she told Sumika exactly that.

I haven't read the manga, but I have the implication, from the 11th episode, that Hime might be asexual. Kanoko specifically states that Hime has no interest in romance. She adds that Hime never genuinely loves anyone. In fact, she also calls herself Hime's only real friend. If Kanoko's read is correct, it would mean that Hime is possible grey ace. Also known as grey asexuality, it refers to people who are "flexible in their sexual preferences".

Grey asexuality can roughly fall into three categories: those who are sex-repulsed, sex-neutral, or sex-positive. It encompasses a broad spectrum of identities, including demisexuality, and other terms, like semisexual. Grey ace individuals might be rarely attracted to others, only romantically attracted on rare occasions, or be sexually attracted only to certain individuals.

To take this a step further, grey ace people may have any possible romantic orientation. The latter refers to romantic attractions someone has toward other people. A person's romantic identity is not necessarily connected to their sexual desires (i.e. sexual orientation). This can manifest in asexuality, bisexuality, pansexuality, gay identity, lesbian identity, heterosexuality, or any of the other sexual orientations out there.

This nuance is not, necessarily, depicted in this series. Even so, Hime appears to be asexual-coded. I'm not sure about the manga, but it might be the same, from the panels I've read. She is not alone in this. Seiji Maki in Bloom Into You has been described as an aromantic asexual. The same is said about Shōko Tanimoto in The Case Files of Jeweler Richard. In Western animation, Andy Billups in Star Trek: Lower Decks is a coded asexual character.

Other characters have been confirmed as asexual outside of their respective series. The latter includes Lilith Clawthorne in the recently ended The Owl House, SpongeBob SquarePants in the series of the same name, Peridot in Steven Universe, Alastor in Hazbin Hotel, Percival "Percy" King in Epithet Erased, and Perry the Platypus in Phineas and Ferb. Additionally, there are three asexual characters in Bojack Horseman: Todd Chavez, Yolanda Buenaventura, and Maude. Many others appear in other media, such as film, literature, live-action series, video games, comics, podcasts, and elsewhere.

More than anything, Yuri Is My Job! parodies yuri tropes and the Class S genre. The characters perform an idealized girlhood, playing on tropes of affection and intimacy for an eager audience. This is capped off by a strongly ambitious and tricky female protagonist. Unlike other protagonists, she isn't likable in a traditional way.

In the series finale, the characters wear summer uniforms, with the change of seasons. After Yano's uniform is shown to be "too sexy", Hime is embarrassed to tell her the truth, while people are drawn to her breasts. This may be parodying fan service throughout anime, especially yuri anime. Hilariously, the other waitresses suggest Yano wear a cover to solve her "problem". In the cafe, Hime defends Yano, stating she is not being lewd, but mature. She even does tasks for her, to protect her from the prying eyes of patrons. Later, to the expected blushing of Yano, Hime admits that she is jealous of Yano's body, and says that she shouldn't be ashamed of anything. Unsurprisingly, she subsequently chastises Hime for saying something she "doesn't mean", confusing Hime even more.

A growing "sisterly" relationship between Kanoko and Sumika is alluded to in the series finale of Yuri Is My Job!. At one point, Kanoko blushes when Sumika describes the beauty of Kanoko when talking about the tea they recommend for customers. Later, Sumika even encourages Hime to call the Kanoko cute, resulting her in blushing yet again. There is predictable fan service. For instance, Yano brings Hime to her chest, and buries Hime's face in Yano's breasts to keep her quiet. She does this throughout the series. Predictably, this makes Hime fall even more in love with her.

One of the better parts of the episode is how Hime doesn't get her recommendation for tea correct, unlike the other workers. As a result, she leans on Yano. She teases Yano about it, even asking at one point "you must really love me, right, Onee-Sama?". Although Yano denies that she loves Hime romantically, this is clearly a lie. She is blushing while she says she "doesn't" love her.

The Yuri Is My Job! series finale ends happily. Hime notes that employees in the cafe (her and the other protagonists) behave elegantly, like characters from a shojo manga. After that, Yano plays the piano alongside Hime. Understandably, Hime gets the last word, welcoming people to the cafe, standing alongside everyone else.

One of the strengths of this series is the voice talent. Yui Ogura and Minami Tanaka, who voice Hime and Kanoko respectfully, are talented voice actresses. Ogara prominently voiced Kokoro in The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated!, Selena Burke in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, Sanae Tsukimoto in Teasing Master Takagi-san, Sumika Izumino in Yurikuma Arashi, and Kokona Aoba in Encouragement of Climb.

Tanaka voiced Nako Sunao in Hitori Bocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu, Ran-Ran Oneechan in Dropkick on My Devil!, Shalsha in I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level, and Himeno Toyokawa in Let's Make a Mug Too, among others.

Sumuire Uesaka, Makoto Koichi, and Yukari Tamura, who voice Yano, Sumika, and Mai, are known for their variety of voice roles. For Uesaka, this includes characters in Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions, Girls und Panzer, Luck & Logic, Boarding School Juliet, Carole & Tuesday, Lapis Re:Lights, and Spy Classroom.

Koichi has voiced characters in Hakumei and Mikochi, Märchen Mädchen, and My Roommate Is a Cat. Tamura provided her voice for characters in R.O.D the TV, Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl, Ouran High School Host Club, and Kin-iro Mosaic. It truly shows the voice range of Tamura, that she can voice a cafe manager in this series, a golf star in Birdie Wing: Golf Girls' Story (Mizuho Himekawa) and a lustful protagonist of B Gata H Kei (Tetsuki Yamada).

Asami Seto and Shizuka Neto, who voice Nene and Youko, are well-known for their roles in Wandering Son, Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid, Macross Delta, Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai, and Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure. Seto is also recognized for voicing Fena Houtman in Fena: Pirate Princess and Aoi Amawashi in Birdie Wing. The latter finished its run on June 24th.

Otherwise, Neto previously voiced Rei Hasekura in Maria Watches Over Us. This makes her voice selection apt, considering Yuri Is My Job! lampoons that series. She voiced Nadie in the yurish El Cazador de la Bruja, Misa Grandwood in Bodacious Space Pirates, Bellows in Gargantia, Minami Toba in Laid-Back Camp, Yoriko Kichijouji in Oshi no Ko, and many characters in other series.

The show's crew is as talented. Apart from aforementioned work of show director Hijiri Sanpei on Citrus, he also worked on Hinako Note, the ever-controversial Interspecies Reviewers, and the adventure fantasy romance Spice and Wolf. Chief episode director Takahiro Majiima, worked on Citrus and Interspecies Reviewers as well, along with other series like BanG Dream!, Princess Principal, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and Your Lie in April.

As for the character designer, Taisuke Iwasaki, he has worked the gamut in the animation industry, from series such as Fairy Tail, Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl, and No. 6, to movies like Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie and Your Name. Show script writer Naoki Hayashi, worked on all 12 episodes of Citrus, along with the last six episodes of Flip Flappers.

Last but not least, is Yuri Is My Job! music composer Megumi Oohashi. She ensured that amazing openings, like the one in this series by Ogura, and the ending by Ogura and Uesaka, are present, making the series that much more enjoyable. Oohashi is known for music in Blue Dragon, Gundam series, and Yumeiro Pâtissière SP Professional, and work on Petite Princess Yucie.

It is unlikely there will be a second season. Four of the last anime series produced by the studio, from 2020 to present, apart from Higurashi: When They Cry – Gou, only had one season. One (Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World) did have two OVAs.

Of the eight series produced before 2020 by the studio, only two had a second cour: Haitai Nanafa and Z/X Code reunion. A possible second season could focus on the growing romantic feelings between Yano and Hime, Kanoko and Sumika, or pairs between any other characters. There are many manga volumes that could be adapted I hope that this series gets a continuation, either in an OVA or a second season, as I'd love to see these characters again in something apart from the manga.

Yuri Is My Job! is currently airing on Crunchyroll and is available for purchase on Prime Video.

© 2023 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

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So I recently replayed every mission from the I Expect You To Die franchise to rank them subjectively from worst to best based on my own experience playing them, keep in mind I don't think there is a bad level out of all of these and I've enjoyed each to a certain extent and when Cog in the Machine comes out I'll add the levels from that game into this list (I am not including the tutorials or intro sequences in this seeing as there's no actual gameplay in either of those)

13. Operation: Squeaky Clean - I've never really liked this level due to the tediousness of mixing the chemicals together, finding the right combination of said chemicals through diagrams and the absolute nightmare of trying to put the antivirus into the rocket at the end which I find utterly frustrating not in a "Oh this puzzle is hard to figure out" way but just in how jank it is and being forced to restart after that destroys a piece of my soul every time. That being said I enjoy the window washer gags and the setting is cool, I just wish the mechanics were more fun.

12. Operation: Friendly Skies - This level is very fun with a host of great lines from the Handler, Zor's car is fun to poke around in and the bomb defusal is a classic moment for me. I don't have any issues with this level it's just a bit basic which is totally fine seeing as it's the first proper level in the series but as a result it comes up short next to the following 11.

11. Operation: Seat Of Power - Seeing inside a Zoraxis meeting room and having a switch that drops Zor's henchmen into a firey pit is honestly both hilarious and unsettling, I love using the villain's own gadgets against them. The villain lair atheistic is very nice and the method of escape is perhaps one of the most stylish in the series with the flying chair being a nice touch.

10. Operation: Winter Break - There's something so cozy about this one with the fireplace and snow outside it's got a unique vibe and I find the safe puzzle to be satisfying to crack and the gravity crystals with the lasers at the end adds some great tension, whenever I play this level I always wear the fedora and the lasers always set it on fire which results in a laugh from me everytime.

9. Operation: Stage Fright - We open The Spy and the Liar with a bang in a fun opening level that has a great sense of espionage and discovery in it, setting the stage is fun and the little details of hearing people below you react to the stuff you drop is such a charming detail, I also love the Fabricator's commentary over the headphones. The fight with Zoraxis agents at the end is exhilarating and even though it's hard to miss with the crossbow it still feels good getting a shot in. Also "THIS IS NOT PART OF THE SHOW EVERYBODY RUN!" Is so funny to me and I'm not sure why.

8. Vacation: First Class - If I'm ever in a mood for a laid back level I choose First Class, it's so classy and I will always remember how good it felt figuring out the combination of buttons on the wall by noticing the clues in the environment myself, fending off the assassins, car and plane gives the level a thrilling conclusion that I really enjoy. That being said I did always find the violinist surviving with no explanation when you're lead to believe she's shot a bit strange but it's not enough to detract from my enjoyment.

7. Operation: Eaves Drop - I love the sense of mystery and intrigue this level has to offer, I feel like a real spy snooping about the Fabricator's workshop figuring out the evil scheme, the element of the flashlight adds a lot in terms of roleplaying as Pheonix in that scenario. I just find the whole set up a ton of fun, the music is suitably restrained and I love how it gets more fast paced at certain parts almost like it's reflecting Pheonix getting more excited at the discoveries they're making.

6. Operation: Deep Dive - As someone with thalassophobia I find this level terrifying in the best way, the thought of being trapped at the bottom of the ocean in a cramped, claustrophobic pod gives me incentive to get through the level. The puzzles are great in this one with the grenade and code being real highlights for me, I love the sense of panic that comes over you when you hear the glass crack or the voice crackle. It's just a great level with a uniquely terrifying setting.

5. Operation: Safe and Sound - John Juniper. That's all I need to say about why this level is so great, we get a proper face to face with the villain in a way we hadn't until this level with an amazing monologue that I never skip. The fast pace of this level makes replaying it very fun with the music adding a great sense of urgency, it feels the most like a classic Bond film moment and I love it. Also the way Juniper made Pheonix a sandwich to eat while he's busy going on about world domination is both funny and adorable.

4. Operation: Party Crasher - Going undercover as Juniper's butler while using his own defence system against him? Sign me up, indeed this level is both tense and super entertaining and was I the only one who got really nervous trying to figure which glasses were wine glasses? There's so much I enjoy in this one with using the masks to find a way out, gassing the Zoraxis agents and of course hearing Juniper's voice crack when he sees you wearing his mask is worth a whole heap of points just on that alone.

3. Operation: Death Engine - The sheer scale and spectacle of this level is remarkable with the outer space set piece being a real standout with probably the most difficult puzzles in the series, I love how elements from across the first game come back in this level to make it feel like a proper conclusion. Solaris's presence instead of the Handler gives this level another unique trait and her commentary as you fumble through every option is great. The last bit where you deposit the nuclear box into the station is so tricky to pull off but feels so satsifying when you do with the instrumental theme playing.

2. Operation: Jet Set - Oh my god the amount of fun I have with this one is ridiculous, the setting is great, the music is classy and I adore how it ramps up in intensity at the later bits of the mission. The sense of tangible progression and problem solving is the perfect balance between being difficult and rewarding, figuring out you have to break the window to the plane is such a god tier moment to me with how well presented it is with the missle aporoaching. The amount of ways Juniper tries to kill you is hilarious and his commentary is the best part of the whole operation; how he goes from polite to agitated to downright murderous is great, big props to the voice actor.

1. Operation: Rising Pheonix - This level is no joke one of the best experiences I've had in any game, the stakes of the mission are massive and you really feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders ascending in that elevator. There's so many great moments like with the lift being shot up, using the taser you find on the table saw and hearing an instrumental of the main theme play as you finally confront Juniper. Juniper's death is shocking (pun intended) and hearing Zor's distorted voice is genuinely chilling, no joke my palms were sweating when I was defusing the nuke. Then when you realise you have to sacrifice yourself to save the world with the swelling music oh my god peak gaming experience. It's such a masterpiece of a level and it is in my opinion the best part of both games.

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Movies I watched this Week #129 (Year 3/Week 25):

A few months ago I discovered the early films of Alice Guy-Blaché, the first ever female filmmaker, and history's first director of narrative cinema. An enormously important figure, who was erased and forgotten until her recent resurgence.

The documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché shows how central she was to the development of all of cinema. A most fascinating and moving detective story laying open the amazing life of this pioneering heroine, who helped define its crafts and systems.

Narrated by (another prodigy) Jodie Foster. Like 'The Méliès Mystery' biography, these two are a must-see for any film lover.

Best film of the week! 10/10.

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The short film essay Celebration Sequences gives some excellent examples of “Storytelling's Most Useful Type of Scene”: Weddings, funerals, birthdays, parties, balls (and orgies). Celebrations give a story the chance to gather every important character and let them interact for a while under the auspice of important themes such as love and death.

Because of it, I watched Kurosawa's Hamlet-inspired The bad sleep well. Coppola listed The bad sleep well as one of his favorite films, citing the wedding ceremony of the first thirty minutes "as perfect as any film I've ever seen". He then used it as inspiration for the wedding sequence in The Godfather.

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The devil and Miss Jones [Not to be confused with the 1973 'The Devil IN Miss Jones...] was an unusual 1941 Capra'esque comedy, with a pro-labor bent. It dealt with some real labor, wealth inequality and capitalism issues. And, it did not paint them outright as 'communist' agenda!

The 'richest man in the world' goes underground in order to root out 'agitators' and union leaders, who cause trouble at one of his department stores. However, after working as a regular shoe salesman down in the weeds, he learns to sympathize with the cause of his new working class comrades (after falling in love with one of them, of course).

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3 by French director Nicolas Bedos:

🍿 Masquerade is a sleek caper, like Jim Thompson's 'The Grifters' but on the glitzy part of the French riviera. A young gigolo specializing in seducing rich, older woman falls for a beautiful young con-artist and together they devise a long-con to bilk high-maintenance diva Isabelle Adjani and wealthy real estate broker François Cluzet. Lots of erotic twists and thrilling turns. 6/10.

🍿 In his previous, genial comedy La Belle Époque, Daniel Auteuil is allowed to participate in an immersive reenactment of any historical period of his choice. After being kicked out by his wife, he decides to re-live a week in 1974 when he met her, the love of his life, at the La Belle Époque café in Lyon. A mix of Fincher's "The Game', with 'The Truman show' but with an imaginative heart. Better than Charlie Kaufman. 9/10.

🍿 OSS 117 was a French series about a fictional secret agent, a-la-James Bond, featured in 11 films and parodies. OSS 117: From Africa with Love is a stupid spoof of the EuroSpy genre of the 60's and 70's. and the third starring comedian Jean Dujardin (from ”The artist”). He plays a self-important idiot, politically-incorrect who can't get it up, more Peter Sellers than Sean Connery. Tintin was much deeper. 2/10.

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Because I don’t usually watch such low-brow low-budget trashy sub-genres, I enjoyed the crowd-funded Swiss exploitation Mad Heidi much more that I would under normal circumstances. The absurd story deals with a fascist cheese-based dictator, and a zaftig mountain girl who must escape Stalag-type prison in order to save the motherland and prevent a tainted cheese apocalypse.

As Joe Bob Briggs used to write in his early reviews "Cheese Nazis, cheese zombies, edelweiss throwing stars, and goat cheese hustlers. Mustard covered sausages inserted up the ass. About 10 exploding heads and torsos. Every Swiss cliché in the book, from 'Sounds of Music' and Toblerone to Alp horns, cuckoo clocks, cheese fondue, watches, and pocket knives - dialed up to 11. Women's prison-fu. Gladiator-Fu. Lesbo Fu. One Black Goat Peter. Drive-In Academy Award nominations for Casper Van Dien as the megalomaniacal president of Switzerland. Check it out.” 4/10.

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Pierrot le Fou, my 8th New Wave stream of consciousness improvised exploration by JL Godard. Without a screenplay, and Everything Goes attitude, it's one long Pop Art of random allusions, aphorism, literary riddles and intellectual bon mots. Actually, apart from his brilliant debut 'À bout de souffle' (Breathless), I was bored by most of his films.

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The Novice, another remarkable first feature by a young female director (Lauren Hadaway, who doesn't even have a Wikipedia page yet). An obsessive freshman joins her university's rowing team and is so driven to compete that she destroys everything in her path, especially herself.

Hadaway's frantic use of film language is thrilling. Also her blending of music by Brenda Lee and Patsy Klein.

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As a teenager I admired Knut Hamsun, read and collected all his books. My pride and joy, and the oldest book I owned was the rare Hebrew translation of 'Hunger', published in Poland in 1889. So I stopped everything to watch Jan Troell's lionizing drama Hamsun about his final and dying years.

Hamsun was a towering Norwegian hero who later turned Nazi-sympathizer traitor and supported Hitler & Germany even as it occupied Norway. Max von Sydow plays him as a venerable 'Great Man', complex, selfish, stubborn and conflicted, and Danish diva Ghita Nørby plays his wife, who was even more pro-German than him. 3/10

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Another re-watch, Edgar Wright final installment of his Cornetto trilogy, The World’s End. Immature alcoholic Simon Pegg brings his 4 childhood friends back together to recreate the greatest achievement of their youth, a legendary 12-station pub crawl. Massive drinking & mayhem mixed with an alien invasion by blue-blooded androids.

Like the new 'Demon 79' it culminates with an unexpected apocalyptic Götterdämmerung. Yeah, 'The world's end' is not only the name of the last drinking hole. Plus points for the beautiful Rosamund Pike.

With every re-watch of any Edgar Wright movie, I go back to 'Every frame a picture' showing his visual comedy style, or other essays explaining his unique editing techniques.

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Instead of watching Jason Reitman's 'Up in the air' for the 5th time, I picked up his Front Runner. A bland 2018 Political drama about the fall from grace of Senator Gary Hart, caught with his fly open aboard a yacht called 'Monkey Business' while running for president.

I saw Gary Hart at a political rah-rah at UCLA the first week I came to the US in 1984. But the film itself added no new wrinkle to the usual cliches of election campaigns, newspaper editorial rooms, media ethics or the hypocrisies of public figures. 3/10.

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(My complete movie list is here).

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The JEE Main Maths syllabus covers a wide range of topics from Class 11 and 12 NCERT textbooks. Here's a quick glimpse of the major areas you'll encounter:

Algebra: Sets, relations and functions, complex numbers, matrices and determinants, mathematical induction, binomial theorem, sequence and series.

Calculus: Limit, continuity and differentiability, integral calculus, differential equations.

Geometry: Coordinate geometry, three-dimensional geometry, vector algebra.

Other Quantitative Techniques: Statistics and probability, trigonometry, mathematical reasoning.

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Focus on NCERT Textbooks: They form the foundation for the entire syllabus.

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JEE Main 2025 Maths can be aced with the right approach and resources. By leveraging the detailed syllabus and comprehensive learning materials offered by eSaral, you can approach the exam with confidence and a strategic plan. Remember, consistent effort and focused practice are key to achieving your engineering dreams.

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4. What are your top 3 comfort reads?

God, I usually tend to childhood nostalgia for comfort reads! I'll throw one of those in there: Trixie Belden Mysteries (by Julie Campbell Tatham and "Kathryn Kennedy"). Kid detective stories set in the late 50s, aged a little better than I was expecting, but fully fucked up my sense of what a dollar was worth when I was a child 😆 (The various Blyton detective groups did not age nearly as well, but Nancy Drew remains a classic, though one i don't come back to often)

The Odyssey, transl Emily Wilson, which I don't think I have to sell the merits of to you lmao. My first brush with the classics as a teenager, and still my favourite! It's nice to come back to something I love and know how beloved it's been for so long.

The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper. I read. A Lot. of Arthuriana themed YA as a teen, but this one was my Mum's favourite and subsequently became mine. I think I can still recite the prophecy from heart. I would die for Bran.

10. What is your favourite genre read to recommend to someone who isn't a reader of that genre?

I don't have a lot of these, I usually start with the issue and work back! I'll either look for a 'genre straddler' or a 'it's genre x but written like a genre y' vibes based approach. The Stephanie Plum/Numbers series by Janet Evanovich used to be my favourite 'thrillers that don't read like thrillers' to recommend, but I haven't revisited them in a Long while! If anything on this list will have aged poorly it'll be these, but a lot of the focus is on the will they/won't they dual romance (second chance and mystery badass leading men), and they're written like romcoms. The Martian by Andy Weir is a great intro sci fi as well, a shockingly easy read despite a lot of the concepts it's working with.

11. What is something you've recently reread?

...This is going to drive me up the wall because I don't log rereads on Goodreads OR my spreadsheet, and I KNOW I reread something recently argh.

I'm pretty sure it was A House with Good Bones by T Kingfisher, which I yelled about last time I did one of these memes. Rec stands, vultures, bugs, witches, mid century occult bullshit, chefs kiss. I'm also ABOUT to reread some stuff for my one uni class: My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki, who's main character and author I would like to argue with, and Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie, which I Love. It's an adaptation of Antigone set in the context 2010s British antiterrorism crackdowns and relations with Pakistan. Very compelling, Shamsie hit my buy list after reading that and I'm loving her other stuff as well.

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Mastering JEE Main 2024: Tips and Tricks for Acing the Exam and Securing Your Future

If you're a student looking to pursue a career in engineering, then there's no doubt that the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) is one of the most important exams you'll ever take. With the JEE Main 2024 just around the corner, it's time to buckle down and start preparing. But where do you start? How do you ensure that you're fully equipped to ace the exam and secure your future? That's where this guide comes in. In this article, we'll be sharing tips and tricks that will help you master the JEE Main Exam 2024 and get one step closer to your dream of becoming an engineer. From effective study techniques and time management strategies to expert advice on how to approach the exam, we've got you covered. So, let's dive in and get you on the path to success!

Understanding the JEE Main Exam Pattern

JEE Main is a national level entrance exam conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) for admission to undergraduate engineering courses in various colleges and universities across India. The exam is conducted twice a year, in January and April, and is divided into two papers - Paper 1 and Paper 2.

Paper 1 is for admission to B.E/B.Tech courses and is conducted in online mode. It consists of 90 multiple-choice questions from Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics, with 30 questions from each subject. Each question carries 4 marks, and for every incorrect answer, 1 mark is deducted. The total duration of the exam is 3 hours.

Paper 2 is for admission to B.Arch/B.Planning courses and is conducted in both online and offline modes. It consists of three parts - Mathematics, Aptitude Test, and Drawing Test. Mathematics and Aptitude Test are conducted in online mode, while Drawing Test is conducted in offline mode. The total duration of the exam is 3 hours.

Understanding the JEE Main Exam Pattern is the first step towards cracking the JEE Main Exam. It helps you understand the structure of the exam and the number of questions you need to attempt from each subject. Once you have a clear understanding of the exam pattern, you can start preparing for the exam accordingly.

Syllabus for JEE Main 2024

The JEE Main syllabus is based on the NCERT syllabus of Classes 11 and 12. It covers topics from Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics, and it's important to have a thorough understanding of all the topics in the syllabus to crack the exam. Here's a brief overview of the Syllabus for JEE Main 2024:

### Physics

- Kinematics

- Laws of Motion

- Work, Energy, and Power

- Rotational Motion

- Gravitation

- Properties of Solids and Liquids

- Thermodynamics

- Kinetic Theory of Gases

- Oscillations and Waves

- Electrostatics

- Current Electricity

- Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism

- Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents

- Electromagnetic Waves

- Optics

- Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation

- Atoms and Nuclei

- Electronic Devices

### Chemistry

- Basic Concepts of Chemistry

- States of Matter

- Atomic Structure

- Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure

- Chemical Thermodynamics

- Solutions

- Equilibrium

- Redox Reactions and Electrochemistry

- Chemical Kinetics

- Surface Chemistry

- Hydrogen

- s-Block Elements

- p-Block Elements

- d- and f-Block Elements

- Coordination Compounds

- Environmental Chemistry

- Some Basic Principles of Organic Chemistry

- Hydrocarbons

- Organic Compounds Containing Halogens, Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Sulphur

- Polymers

- Biomolecules

- Chemistry in Everyday Life

### Mathematics

- Sets, Relations, and Functions

- Complex Numbers and Quadratic Equations

- Matrices and Determinants

- Permutations and Combinations

- Mathematical Induction

- Binomial Theorem and Its Simple Applications

- Sequences and Series

- Limit, Continuity, and Differentiability

- Integral Calculus

- Differential Equations

- Coordinate Geometry

- Three-Dimensional Geometry

- Vector Algebra

- Statistics and Probability

- Trigonometry

Tips for Effective Time Management during JEE Main Preparation

Effective time management is crucial when it comes to preparing for JEE Main. With a vast syllabus to cover, it's important to make the most of the time you have. Here are some tips for effective time management during JEE Main preparation:

Create a study schedule: Create a study schedule that covers all the topics in the syllabus and allocate time for each topic based on its importance. Make sure to include breaks in your schedule to avoid burnout.

Prioritize topics: Prioritize the topics based on your strengths and weaknesses. Spend more time on the topics you find difficult and less time on the topics you're good at.

Take breaks: Take regular breaks to avoid burnout. Use your break time to relax, exercise or pursue a hobby.

Avoid distractions: Avoid distractions such as social media, TV, and video games during your study time. Keep your phone on silent mode and keep it away from your study area.

Stay organized: Keep your study area clean and organized. Make sure you have all the study material you need within reach.

Effective time management is the key to success when it comes to JEE Main Preparation. By following these tips, you can make the most of the time you have and stay on track with your preparation.

Effective Study Techniques to Ace JEE Main

Studying for JEE Main requires a lot of hard work and dedication. Here are some effective study techniques that can help you ace the exam:

Understand the concepts: Don't just memorize the formulas and equations. Understand the concepts behind them. This will help you solve problems more effectively and efficiently.

Practice regularly: Practice is the key to success when it comes to JEE Main. Solve as many problems as you can from different sources, including previous year question papers and mock tests.

Take short notes: Taking short notes while studying can help you remember important points and formulas. Use diagrams and flowcharts to simplify complex concepts.

Revise regularly: Revision is crucial when it comes to retaining information. Make sure to revise regularly to avoid forgetting what you've learned.

Seek help: Don't be afraid to seek help if you're stuck on a particular topic. Ask your teachers or peers for help, or join an online discussion forum to get your doubts cleared.

Effective study techniques can help you stay focused and motivated during your JEE Main Preparation. By following these techniques, you can improve your understanding of the concepts and increase your chances of acing the exam.

Importance of Solving Previous Year Question Papers

Solving previous year question papers is one of the most effective ways to prepare for JEE Main. Here's why:

Helps you understand the exam pattern: Solving previous year question papers can help you understand the exam pattern and the types of questions asked in the exam.

Helps you identify your strengths and weaknesses: By solving previous year question papers, you can identify the topics you're good at and the topics you need to work on.

Helps you manage time: Solving previous year question papers can help you develop time management skills and learn how to solve problems quickly and accurately.

Helps you build confidence: Solving previous year question papers can help you build confidence and reduce exam anxiety.

Make sure to solve as many previous year question papers as you can during your JEE Main preparation. This will help you get a feel for the exam and increase your chances of success.

Recommended Books and Resources for JEE Main Preparation

Choosing the right books and resources is crucial when it comes to JEE Main preparation. Here are some recommended books and resources that can help you ace the exam:

1. Physics:

- Concepts of Physics by H.C. Verma

- Problems in General Physics by I.E. Irodov

- Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday, Resnick, and Walker

2. Chemistry:

- Organic Chemistry by Morrison and Boyd

- Physical Chemistry by P. Bahadur

- Inorganic Chemistry by J.D. Lee

3. Mathematics:

- Mathematics by R.D. Sharma

- Higher Algebra by Hall and Knight

- Problems Plus in IIT Mathematics by A. Das Gupta

Apart from these books, there are several online resources and coaching institutes that can help you with your JEE Main preparation. Make sure to do your research and choose the resources that work best for you.

Online Coaching and Mock Tests for JEE Main

Online coaching and mock tests can be a great way to supplement your JEE Main preparation. Here's how:

Provides flexibility: Online coaching and mock tests provide flexibility in terms of timing and location. You can access the resources from anywhere and at any time.

Provides personalized learning: Online coaching and mock tests provide personalized learning based on your strengths and weaknesses.

Helps you track your progress: Online coaching and mock tests help you track your progress and identify areas where you need to improve.

Provides expert guidance: Online coaching and mock tests provide expert guidance from experienced teachers and mentors.

There are several online coaching institutes and websites that offer Mock Tests and study materials for JEE Main preparation. Make sure to choose the ones that provide quality resources and have a good track record.

Common Mistakes to Avoid during JEE Main Preparation

Avoiding common mistakes can help you stay on track with your JEE Main preparation and increase your chances of success. Here are some common mistakes to avoid:

Procrastination: Procrastination can lead to poor time management and lack of preparation. Make sure to start your preparation early and stick to your study schedule.

Lack of focus: Lack of focus can lead to poor retention of information. Make sure to avoid distractions and stay focused during your study time.

Lack of practice: Lack of practice can lead to poor problem-solving skills. Make sure to solve as many problems as you can from different sources.

Overconfidence: Overconfidence can lead to complacency and lack of preparation. Make sure to stay humble and avoid underestimating the exam.

By avoiding these common mistakes, you can stay on track with your JEE Main preparation and increase your chances of success.

Exam Day Strategies for JEE Main

Exam day can be stressful, but with the right strategies, you can stay calm and focused. Here are some exam day strategies for JEE Main:

1. Get enough sleep: Make sure to get enough sleep before the exam to avoid fatigue and lack of concentration.

2. Eat a healthy breakfast: Eating a healthy and nutritious breakfast can help you stay alert and focused during the exam.

3. Arrive early: Arrive at the exam centre early to avoid rushing and to familiarize yourself with the surroundings.

4. Read the instructions carefully: Read the instructions carefully before starting the exam to avoid making mistakes.

5. Manage time effectively: Manage your time effectively during the exam. Don't spend too much time on a single question and make sure to attempt all the questions within the given time frame.

6. Stay calm: Stay calm and avoid panicking during the exam. Take deep breaths and stay focused on the task at hand.

By following these strategies, you can stay calm and focused during the JEE Main exam and increase your chances of success.

Conclusion

Preparing for JEE Main can be challenging, but with the right strategies and techniques, you can ace the exam and secure your future as an engineer. Understanding the JEE Main Exam Pattern, covering the syllabus, effective time management, and regular practice are some of the key factors that can help you succeed in the exam. Make sure to follow the tips and advice shared in this article to stay on track with your preparation and increase your chances of success. Good luck!