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Hello 2021 aspirants. I thought it would be nice if we can share what we are doing and intend to do with one another here.

This could be a thread for discussing everything prep for 2021. 

No one method fits all but to see the plans and progress made by fellow aspirants might help with the finer details of preparation and also keep one on track. 

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Can anyone please tell how many pages are allotted in each essay? I heard that the word limit is 1200-1500 which means 12 pages ideally
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Can anyone please tell how many pages are allotted in each essay? I heard that the word limit is 1200-1500 which means 12 pages ideally

Check the sample QCAB on upsc website

Dionysus,
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It is a battle of nerves, and nerves are what I am losing.
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Can anyone please tell how many pages are allotted in each essay? I heard that the word limit is 1200-1500 which means 12 pages ideally

I think it's 1000-1200 words. In test series, they give 15 pages per essay so I am guessing they must be influenced by UPSC itself. So we can safely assume the upper limit of pages to be 15.


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Can anyone please tell how many pages are allotted in each essay? I heard that the word limit is 1200-1500 which means 12 pages ideally

yup, 12 it is.  
Technically 11.5 tho

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It is a battle of nerves, and nerves are what I am losing.

Not aloneeeee 

Villanelle,ToyotaQualisand1 otherslike this
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It is a battle of nerves, and nerves are what I am losing.

Hang in there buddy, we’re almost there.

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Anyone else feel excited but nervous, like their insides are on fire??
ToyotaQualis,THE_MECHANIC
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Anyone else feel excited but nervous, like their insides are on fire??

I overslept way too much today.. 

I'm feeling like almost out of the race now.. 

Definitely no fire here... I've gotten way too chill... 😭😭

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@sjerngal That's what happening to me since last one week. Seven days spent sleeping with sporadic padhai. Infact  I am  finding so much sukoon these days in searching the best material for each GS which I will prepare in my next attempt 😀 Friends suggest "stop doing it, just focus and work hard" I don't think it's that simple. And yes, whining come out automatically after reading such resonating posts.😀I am nto my fourth attempt, haven't finished the mains syllabus even once, negligible answer writing practice and doing a very basic mistake of just not preparing. I am standing at a single place since last four years and wishfully expecting to reach the destination!!! I know it's  not gonna happen but putting even average effort has just not happened yet! Bacha le re Deva! 
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@Master Can totally relate with you, your story seems like mine, exactly the same(even the num of attempts).


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Lol I’m feeling a weird mix of both. Sometimes I feel like I’m just being careless and it’s going to cost me. Other times I feel like I’m on the verge of a panic attack. Fun. :’)
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@sjerngal u tend to think a lot. don't know why .just chill dear u will clear this year itself.



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Anyone else feel excited but nervous, like their insides are on fire??

Neither excited, nor nervous 💁🏻‍♀️


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Guys are you all able to revise entire GS paper in one day by now?
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Anyone else feel excited but nervous, like their insides are on fire??

Two more weeks. Let's go!

“Rest at the end, not in the middle!” – Kobe Bryant

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Guys are you all able to revise entire GS paper in one day by now?

I'm trying to. Not reading the entire notes now. Upar upar se highlighted wala part bas.

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Guys are you all able to revise entire GS paper in one day by now?

Definitely not GS-1 :( 

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To all the wonderful folk of this community writing the mains this year.

You have given so much of your time to this. Only 2 weeks left so don't let up now. Pick up your best pens and get ready for the final showdown.  Give your best shot and have faith. You are all destined for great things

Best of luck.

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written by respected newayn sir


#copied

The road to success is lonely.If not the whole of it, at least some stretches.

So learn to make peace with it. And if you have someone, you are just plain lucky. Thats all.

The emptiness, the breathlessness, the strangeness, the unfulfillness, fill it with studies. And books. And Current Affairs. And Answer writing.

You only have that. And they have you.

Believe you me, You have to be, you have to be – a little lonely right now. That is it. There is no other way.

So accept that, and let that not deter you.

As Rastrakavi Dinkar writes in  Rashmirathi,

सच है, विपत्ति जब आती है,
कायर को ही दहलाती है,
शूरमा नहीं विचलित होते,
क्षण एक नहीं धीरज खोते,
विघ्नों को गले लगाते हैं,
काँटों में राह बनाते हैं।

मुख से न कभी उफ कहते हैं,
संकट का चरण न गहते हैं,
जो आ पड़ता सब सहते हैं,
उद्योग-निरत नित रहते हैं,
शूलों का मूल नसाने को,
बढ़ खुद विपत्ति पर छाने को।

है कौन विघ्न ऐसा जग में,
टिक सके वीर नर के मग में
खम ठोंक ठेलता है जब नर,
पर्वत के जाते पाँव उखड़।
मानव जब जोर लगाता है,
पत्थर पानी बन जाता है।

Success is the end result of a relentless pursuit.

In all walks of life.

So keep walking.



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