How To: finish new reports/12th Five year plan/IYB/Survey/Budget

The best way to finish these reports is to have a group of four people with similar expertise and high level of commitment. Divide the chapter among yourselves and make a schedule.

Each person will be responsible for preparation of notes for his share of chapters. He will drive the discussion and ensure that he explain tit bits of that chapter to other.

It is beneficial for him as the best way to absorb some novel content is to teach it to others. It is beneficial for others because they won't be devoting unnecessary time in reading everything on his own. However one major caveat is that the person who is teaching or driving the discussion should have a complete understanding and should possess teaching prowess. Not to mention, such exercise is beneficial from interview preparation point of view as well.

However, those who are not able to find the like minded guys can choose to do one of the following four things.
First is find a quick summary from the market. Skim through it twice. Then pick the main book and read the main points given in the summary in greater detail.
Second is go for Mrunal or Insights or Iasbaba summary notes.
Third is to find any power point on the specific topics if available on the internet. Go through that and then pick the main book.
Fourth is to find some video lecture on internet and watch it. It is engaging but it takes more time.

Moreover, there is no need to do a PHD on these reports. Just finishing selected topics as told in coaching classes are sufficient.

For 12th plan: The full document is insightful.
For IYB: Just selected topics with a 200 question test paper of any coaching would suffice.
For survey: Summary + detail of selected topics with notes preparation is gud
For reports: Just capture salient points from newspaper or online articles. No need to pursue PHD in this.
For ARC: A very very quick read of some 2 or 3 reports is OK. You will not find anything new. Largely every one know about these things.
For Budget: follow 5 point approach for each sector and remember some figures.

Two more things:

For interview, I forgot to mention visualization technique.
For Emotional Intelligence: I forgot to mention that it keeps increasing and decreasing from time to time. An expert can fail in some situation depending on the mood, time and environmental factor.