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Note: This was formerly a post I made on a FIITJEE online student community called myPAT. I'm reposting it here, almost verbatim, for posterity (in the bold assumption that this blog will be read in the future) I have now seen many questions in this community asking for strategies and books for Biology preparation for KVPY. As I faced a similar dilemma during my preparation days, I am sharing what I know (I have cleared both stages of SA, so what worked for me might work for you as well.) First things first;  since this community consists mainly of students preparing for JEE, chances are that you wish to study Bio only for clearing KVPY (if there are people who really enjoy biology, please tell me. It'll be a post for another day). Well, I explain the exam-oriented approach in the following points; First  get yourself all the previous years' papers (they are available on the FIITJEE site, or you could purchase the archive by Arihant publications or any other source; I ha...

( Spoiler Alert: This blog post contains potential spoilers for the 2017 film Get Out.)  So, I just finished watching the 2017 horror/thriller Get Out. At a reasonably well-paced runtime of 104 minutes, funnyman Jordan Peele showcases his film-making forte with a compelling commentary on racial issues. And let me get this very clear right off the bat: this is a movie about racism. This one-dimensional characterization of this film might not be palatable to many, but it is what it is. In fact, the "horror" of the film is itself derived from the protagonist experiencing varied and progressively deeper degrees of racism. The "thriller" element is the constant urge of the protagonist to escape this bind; the need to, quite literally, "get out." Let's discuss how the protagonist faces racial discrimination in various stages, starting from the seemingly harmless "soft racism"; the non-sequitur support of the Obama presidency, the over-friendly ...