Abhyaas test performance thread
Please update your abhyaas test results here.. so that we can evaluate the individual performances. Also, we can discuss any doubts or level of questions that were asked in the mock. Any suggestions are welcome here. Live long and prosper ?
In Forumsim 2 : I scored 128.sim 1: 89 (I was in sleepy mood)sim 0: 130.67Abyaas Test 1: I scored only 67.5;Rank 1500 out of ~12000.Good score for abyaas: 100+Good score for forum: 140+
Why do youthink this is happening?
Is Forum paper getting predictable or is Abhyas asking random questions which you may not need to know in the first place ?
I am no knight. Do not call me Sir|Philosophy behind ForumIAS
In Forumsim 2 : I scored 128.sim 1: 89 (I was in sleepy mood)sim 0: 130.67Abyaas Test 1: I scored only 67.5;Rank 1500 out of ~12000.Good score for abyaas: 100+Good score for forum: 140+
Why do youthink this is happening?
Is Forum paper getting predictable or is Abhyas asking random questions which you may not need to know in the first place ?
In Forum Simulator Test We can do question by option elimination.
But in Vision Abhyas there was no much scope for it
Gaitonde’s Den: https://forumias.com/post/detail/Gaitondes-Den-1727638216
» hide previous quotesIn Forumsim 2 : I scored 128.sim 1: 89 (I was in sleepy mood)sim 0: 130.67Abyaas Test 1: I scored only 67.5;Rank 1500 out of ~12000.Good score for abyaas: 100+Good score for forum: 140+
Why do youthink this is happening?
Is Forum paper getting predictable or is Abhyas asking random questions which you may not need to know in the first place ?
As mock tests both the papers are good for practicing; By attempting forum and vision, Aspirant can get ataste of papers with different levelof difficulty, randomness.
They have different characteristics. Based on my expreience
Forum
1. good coverage of basic concepts.
2. good coverage of important current affairs.
3. Answers are easily guessable (at least for experienced candidate/ more than 1 year prep).
leading to --->high scores. (CSE 2021 - not easily guessable)
4. Relatively, CSE 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 - they are not as easy as the forum tests. Difficulty level of forum sims could be that of CSE 2016 , with cutoff at ~ 116.
5. Last year forum open tests, I scored always 100 above. Sim X = 117. But scored ~86 in CSE 2021. There is a difference b/w forum sims and real exam paper. Compared to CSE 2018-21 , forum papers are predictable.
6. Having said that, it is not that a person always score 20-30 marks less in real exam. In 2020 (my first attempt immediately after graduation), I scored only 64 in Forum Sim X, but ended up scoring 79.5 in real exam. (plus I got both the removed questions as correct).
I won't say I was lucky during CSE 2020 and unlucky during CSE 2021. I made few silly mistakes both the times. And also got few random guesses correct both the times.
Vision Abyaas 1
1. Decent no of conceptual questions. Decent no of easy questions.
2. Some questions are factual/random which are difficult to answer.
3. Some questions ->are based on the topics that we know ; but details that are asked from the topic are not in standard books that we read.
4. Last year when I attempted vision ->I felt they were too random, difficult andnot UPSC like papers. (when I compared them to CSE 18,19,20)
But after giving CSE 2021, I felt even CSE 2021 is not UPSC like. CSE 2021 is random, unconventional with (I felt) stupid questions, degraded quality.
So, I unlike previously I am also ready to attempt tests with random/unconventional questions - both for knowledge and also to improve guesswork.
I am doing both forum and vision.
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Sim X 2020
Sim X 2021:
In Forumsim 2 : I scored 128.sim 1: 89 (I was in sleepy mood)sim 0: 130.67Abyaas Test 1: I scored only 67.5;Rank 1500 out of ~12000.Good score for abyaas: 100+Good score for forum: 140+
Why do youthink this is happening?
Is Forum paper getting predictable or is Abhyas asking random questions which you may not need to know in the first place ?
Forum is relatively straight forward. By which i mean there is higher number of questions which are from static books. Further, more questions which one can eliminate and reach to the answer.
However, Abhyaas is random in both positive and negative sense.
First the negative part. They are framing questions from some obscure current affair mentioned in PT. Though it helps in the sense that one comes back and revises the PT thoroughly.
The good part is that, they are exploring dimensions in static topics more so in polity and MIH, which the commission too is doing.
The running joke in friends around is that on a good day write a vision mock to get back to ground and on a bad day write a forum mock to regain confidence.
So the mix works perfectly well :)
@GaneshGaitonde Beware bhai , UPSC CSAT is much tougher than Abhyaas . I got 156 in Abhyaas waala CSAT but in UPSC CSAT , it was hard to cross cutoff last year atleast for me as passage were tough and question had jump from previous year
any recommendations on CSAT mocks which are at par with UPSC standards?
Omen,
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