I could be wrong
But my assumption that it's not world history Qn rather it's more oriented towards Post independence or Modern India is based on the following factors
1) Firstly I have History as my Optional subject ,so writing question on French, German or Italian unification is a default choice if there's any mention of word "Nationalism" which was not mentioned in this Qn
2) Secondly in the question ,the word "states" 'S' was not in capital which is pre-requisite if we're talking about Nation State like France , Germany etc
3) Thirdly the word "continuous ongoing process" is used in question to refer to the events that's been still going on to the events of statehood demands in India, in the context of world there's little to no reorganization going on ,only thing that was in vogue atleast till 90s was decolonisation that's a different aspect altogether
4) Lastly "administrative Reorganisation" is used more likely for Internal classification inside a country ,so it clearly indicates it is asking about provincial reorganization within a country and UPSC unlikely to ask about internal classification of any other country except India
Hindi is not my mother tongue ,so I didn't check the Hindi translation ,if that brings more clarity ,someone pls either add to or refute my assumption
I mentioned what each color means based on general idea that red being severe and green being mild
Also mentioned that warning for place depends how close it lies to the trajectory of cyclone etc
Finally drew a map showing cyclone prone areas.
At th end mentioned that Color coding reaches wider populace easily
I just made these points based on vague idea abt the topic but I did rush up at the social question at end
Net gains matter at end ,so let's not lose hope
Ppl who wrote Scientific man victory over romantic man question ,if possible pls share the dimensions
I wrote on the following lines:
Started with curiosity quote ,defined Scientific and romantic terms
Then started saying how first humans worshipped thunder etc later on became evolved with ideas of fire and wheel in Neolithic revolution and mentioned it as first victory
Continued with ancient period Scientific achievements of charaka , Aryabhatta etc
Then came to Medieval age ,church vs Science Darwin galileo heresy etc as Second victory
Then finally something about Modern age : Industrial revolution, enlightenment
A small para on scientific woman ,how they broke traditional roles
Penultimate para Balancing view by saying EQ is as much important as IQ etc
In conclusion ended with a MLK Jr quote , ethical and sustainable science as way forward
Major Cons :
underlined over excessively ruining presentation at the end
Structure could have been arranged better'
Even I feel disturbed to hear they could give such low marks in History Optional paper 2 which is not a subjective paper like essay ,
Hopefully it was not a question choice combination related error, one of the online peers made that mistake
hopefully everything turns out well this time 🤞
I did something similar due to time paucity and could score around 112 ,not the ideal score but for basic content and poor Historiography , it's fine
For 2022 I worked on quality addition with historiography and quotes for paper 2 ,now I fear for doing that😅
History optional
paper 1 :Qns 2,6,8
Paper 2: Qns 3,4,6
Maps : around 16 identified correct with good description ,
Three Qns most likely wrong
wrote Sannati instead of kanganahalli for ashoka statue , Gupta coin hoard I wrote Tamralipti and for the Metal sculpture hoard I wrote Lohanipur first although added Sultanganj in description atlast
IMO
Ancient was bit more analytic than previous year
Medieval the art based question were bit factual demanding
Modern History : Post independence Qns pattern was bit different
World history : compulsory Qns complex
Earlier I had chosen world over modern and Ancient over Medieval ,this time I have switched the choices
Anyone here who couldn't complete ethics paper ?
I never leave questions blank ,so tried to write atleast some basic terms
I was able to write some basic terms for around 30-40 marks (20 in a case + 2*10m ) but not sure if it yields anything more than 20% of marks of the Qn
Hindsight : I should have optimally utilised time for GS4, never faced this much of time crunch in ethics mocks
