Salam to all fellow members.

I am CSS 2013 aspirant. After perusing past year papers i decided to begin with PA. Selected Trek to Pakistan and Pak Affairs by Ikram Rabbani. Now the First problem that grates me is making notes, i am unable to condense the material and its more like a reproduction of the bookish material. While going for the bullet notes it feels that i might not be able to recall suffice details. Second nuisance is that after assimilating a topic (+notes making) 1st time ,if i try to attempt a related question i cant recall enough material to answer that. Thats really bothering me as its making me feel dejected and lose faith in myself. Did you feel the same when preparing for the first time ? Please share your opinions. All this is taking too much time and i am running far behind schedule of preparing rest of the subjects. Please help me out .