This paper was rather closer to what we can expect from UPSC in the actual exam. Fairly well-framed questions and decent difficulty level as well.I agree. Had a higher complexity than the previous test which can perhaps help us attune ourselves to the unpredictability of the real exam.
I think right now the practice of leaving questions and elimination is most important because eventually, we will have to face it in exam no matter how much we mug up facts.
This paper was rather closer to what we can expect from UPSC in the actual exam. Fairly well-framed questions and decent difficulty level as well.I agree. Had a higher complexity than the previous test which can perhaps help us attune ourselves to the unpredictability of the real exam.
I think right now the practice of leaving questions and elimination is most important because eventually, we will have to face it in exam no matter how much we mug up facts.
I agree. We don't find enough good mocks so I'm happy that we had one such mock. Do let me know in case you find other good quality mocks :)
the 4 simulators of batch 2 were also good in my opinion, but slightly on the difficult side. However, one can practice elimination and leaving in such papers.
@KingSlayer23 Damn, should change your name to paperslayer😬.
lmao
Suggestion(personal opinion, people may differ), at this point of time taking too much open mock is also not a very good idea. Take 1 or 2 or maybe at max 3 test, to gauge your overall performance. so that in the give short period of time, you can improve. Rather solving PYQ is always a secured idea and better idea.
+1
if anyone is looking to solve mocks now it should be to condition their brain only for the exam and the way they will have to deal with weird questions.
I wonder what has happened to insights and vision. They seem to have completely lost track of the pattern. They are fixating on the 12 random questions that upsc asks out of a 100 and replicating them to a level of 60/100.@Archand shankar ias mock test 1 was good. it was conducted on 19th sep and 2nd one is today..you can check that in download section of shankar portal. i found paper well crafted and elimination technique could be used well in that.https://www.iasparliament.com/downloads
Thanks a lot!
Will check both Shankar and OpenIAS.
Also,@Voyager will highly recommend not to attempt any Insights test. Questions will be binary and arbitrary. Tests like Insights this close to the exam can unnecessarily demoralise us.Back when I started preparing they used to be the benchmark indicator of preparation. But now they should be the last ones anyone should be attempting especially this near to the exam.
they are useless and completely imbalanced this year
People commenting whether it was easier or tougher than the previous test,Me, who got same marks(~88) in both- ^_^On a serious not can 88 be considered a good and safe score considering mocks are designed differently than actual UPSC papers?
look don’t get disheartened by your performance at this time and instead focus on revision and improvement. If it helps or is of any significance: i was consistently scoring in 88-95 range before my first attempt in 2019 and yet i managed to score 4 marks above cutoff in actual exams.
its really scary.
at 102 the precentile is 71.x
The paper wasnt that easy honestly
Exactly! 68 percentile at 100 marks is seriously unbelievable to me. Can't even digest it lol.
arey don't worry actual exam me aisa nahi hota....lot of people use unfair means in mocks
Yeah, I know but problem here seems more of back-end related. Someone scoring 114 with 750 rank(85percentile) in this paper seems really fishy. Didn't observe this huge difference in any other mocks.
i scored 123.3 and got 400 something rank :P
@KingSlayer23 92.5 really?
go check it on official website
