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Guys, does anybody know where to get the test series from?
Earlier they used to be posted on upscpdf and telegram channels.
If anyone knows, please help in this regard.
really helped me learn all the country names and boundaries. Helps with the lakes, seas, rivers etc.
90 days to go till prelims!
All football is over, haven’t been able to maintain any consistency. Hopefully posting here will make me responsible and hold me accountable :D
Targets:
- Society Notes (1/2)
- Optional: 2.3 + 2.1 & 2.2 Revision
- Newspaper and CA
- Walk + workout
’tis a cold morning. Let’s thaw out the mental ice!
90 days to go till prelims!All football is over, haven’t been able to maintain any consistency. Hopefully posting here will make me responsible and hold me accountable :DTargets:
- Society Notes (1/2)
- Optional: 2.3 + 2.1 & 2.2 Revision
- Newspaper and CA
- Walk + workout
’tis a cold morning. Let’s thaw out the mental ice!
1. Done
2. Done
3. Will do before sleeping
4. Done
I’d say half the day was productive, wasted the other half.
Need to cut down on these short breaks that turn long.
Goodnight guys!
Targets:
- 2.4 & Revise 2.1-2.3
- Society complete
- Newspapers
- Revise Vision test
- Walk and Workout
1. Done
2. Couldn’t complete, made the mistake of reading a comment section regarding the new population control bill. Really need to cut off every social media
3. Half done
4. Half done
5. Done
Wanted to finish but too tired now.
Bad start, good middle, poor end. No reddit at all from tomorrow.
@calvinhobbes : thanks! I did come across his videos earlier but ignored, will give them a listen
@komarambheem3 : I did start with his videos! Only found 1 part of his Ancient History series. Decided to skip it and jumped to Medieval from today. Would do Art & Culture ones instead of Ancient History.
Good night everyone!
@Freakhoto I’d suggest do last year’s Mains 365 and then Vision Monthly magazines starting Oct’2020.
A lot would be covered and then just do value addition on the same themes using the internet. Cover major countries in news and historical happenings, diaspora- grouped for different regions like: Europe and USA, South America, Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Central Asia & Russia, East Asia, South East Asia, Australia. Doing this covers almost everything necessary imo and everything else would just be overkill.
Good morning, another cold morning. Bangalore is weird, I feel it’s colder here in July than it is in December-January.
Targets:
- Newspapers
- Society finish & revise
- Test
- Revise 2.1-2.4
1. Done
2. Done
3. Couldn’t complete
4. Nope
Had to spend some time helping brother make a poster for his college. Ah, good old college days when all you had to do was put on some music and let the creativity flow.
Couldn’t complete the test because of this and also because now I’m very sleepy.
Good night everyone!
adding to this:
-Broke the Asian record in men’s 4x400m relay
-5 Indians featured in various walking events (4 finished, only 1 couldn’t in the 50km event)
-Tajinderpal Singh Toor in shotput
We can only get better!
@sstarrr I agree completely and I’m the same, I don’t follow cricket but make it a point to follow other sports. No hate but I’d just like other sports to also get greater focus and generate more audience.
It ain’t much but it’s honest work
@sstarrr I remember when I was reading about Amiya Mallick (his story is very inspirational, do give it a read if you haven’t), he mentioned in one of his interviews that he once went to visit an Indian athlete who had competed at the 1st Asian games. His house was a mud thatched one and the stand out souvenir was the red Indian blazer. Not in a condition to be worn but just enough to show the Indian emblem.
Our history with sports has been very shoddy but people have finally woken up I feel. Now with several competitive leagues coming up in various sports, I just might dare calling India the rising sun in sports. It’s been a dream since a long time and I just hope I can play a role in this development.
I’d be careful in the future because we might see quite a few sticks flying around over our heads after today’s gold :D
@EiChan it majorly revolves around the ‘unlapping of cars’
when the safety car entered the track after Latifi’s crash, Hamilton was positioned just behind the safety car and behind him were other drivers (who were a lap behind) and then Verstappen (who went for a pit stop when the safety car came in, so lost his track position)
Now, F1 rules say that any lapped cars may be allowed to unlap themselves, which in this case would have meant that the cars take up a formation that reflected their current position in the race. Now since Verstappen had lost quite a few places due to him going for a pit stop, there were 5 (iirc) cars between him and Hamilton.
For them to take their actual position, they needed to overtake the safety car and then join the back of the line.
Initially, this wasn’t allowed but as the safety car was about to go in (means outside the track), the race director suddenly allowed the cars between Hamilton and Verstappen to ‘unlap’ themselves. At the same time, cars behind Verstappen weren’t allowed to do so.
That meant that now Verstappen and Hamilton would go for the final lap side by side.
Mercedes were irked because not all cars were allowed to unlap themselves, only those between Max and Lewis.
Secondly, the safety car going in must be announced a lap beforehand. (Not possible in this case as only 1 lap was left and the director did not want such a ‘boring’ end to the race i.e. behind the safety car)
The argument from the director was ‘we went car racing’ i.e. a dream final lap where the top 2 battle it out for the championship (not at all related to spiking the popularity and revenues)
Also, Mercedes made a tactical decision of sticking to their grip position (top) instead of going to the pit and choosing softer tyres, which incidentally, Verstappen decided to go for.
Now following all this, Verstappen was with better suited tyres (softer, thus more grip and faster cornering) and Hamilton was running on hard tyres which were also worn down quite a bit.
All this resulted in a Mercedes loss in the final lap when they led for whole of the race, thus they feel quite hard done by.
In even simpler words, 1&2 were far, after crash 2 pitted and 1 did not, 1&2 then had 5 cars between them, who were right in the end removed from between them, bringing 1&2 back together with 2 having better equipment now which eventually led to 1 losing a race he was winning the whole time
Basically, considering Mains is very close, I believe Michael Masi provided us a good example of the Doctrine of Double Effect and the Pauline Principle to help our GS4 preparation.
@D503 respectfully, while I see the utility of the article in developing good writing, it’s more relevant for an academic setting than a competitive examination setting.
