How to Read News Paper and Role of Coaching in GS...Reply to Mr Gopal

Mr Gopal:- Dear Manmauji,
I started preparing for civil services and I want to appear in 2013. I started reading The Hindu newspaper daily, but I face one problem. I read news items and I forget quickly. Like yesterday, I read an article on Health Care in India and now I couldn't recollect nothing. I can remember what the article was about and can recollect the important points, but the vocabulary and the English terms I don't remember. So, if this is the case, it will be very difficult for me to do well in Essay writing or comprehensive answering in Mains. I just started reading news like 1 month ago. What should I do, so that I can remember what I read already with the vocabulary and everything and not just the basic idea of the article.
Your help is appreciated...
Regards,
GopaL.
Mr Gopal:-Dear Manumauji,
In the above query I asked about tips of news paper reading and effective way of remembering. Could also tell, how GS coaching is useful. Specifically what do the coaching institutes teach us when it comes to General Studies. The GS syllabus is such that, that it can be learnt and not necessarily taught by anyone. So, then how GS coaching helps us??
Regards,
GopaL.
Manmauji:- Hello Mr Gopal...thanks for your visit on the blog...Sorry for the late response due to my hectic schedule....You have raised a very basic and genuine problem which I feel everyone must have faced during initial days of one's preparation....You need not worry much about the content of an article...Since you have just started reading news paper, it will happen for some more time that you will forget everything, but slowly when you continue reading news items, the ideas,statements,vocabulary etc will slowly settle down in your mind...You need not remember everything about that article, only few important and unique points you need to remember...actually, you have to develop your own writing skills by writing articles by yourself...It will never happen nor even desirable that you can mug full article and can reproduce as it is in Essay...you have to synthesize there itself because the topic will be entirely new...for this you need ideas,vocabulary and statements, which you will get from daily news papers...You need to develop interest in reading news paper...you should not force yourself to read...it should come naturally...Even then if you face problems then you can write down important points on certain topic,make notes, copy some good vocabulary from that article and even you can copy some good statement and can mug them...afterwards you will be used to these words and statements....so no need to worry...just continue reading news paper,make short notes and revise them from time to time...I hope that I am able to clear your doubt...be relax and do your best.....
        Regarding the role of coaching in GS preparation..you rightly said that it can't be taught but coaching can give you overall dimension under which you have to navigate yourself if you are entirely new to the world of GS...but it is not mandatory that you have to attend coaching for GS...in my case I didn't attend any coaching for GS still I got 360 in GS....only thing is you need to have craze for information...you can even take notes of any good coaching institute and prepare from them...News paper reading and previous year question papers can give you good insight about the requirement of CSE exam in GS....further query is welcome....keep on blogging...