Civil Services Mains 2020 Results: In or Out ? Way ahead, gratitude and Pain
The Civils Mains result has been declared. This thread is for sharing your grief , joy , mixed feelings - absolutely anything and everything.
@12432TrivendrumRajdhani if you have time, or you can make time I insist you to watch this video essay, it's by a trans woman Natalie, and she is trying to put both sides.time
Wow, never though I’d see Natalie Wynn here :D she’s amazing.
nerdfighter,Jammu@12432TrivendrumRajdhani thank you for reminding of this speech and sending me on a very refreshing run down memory lane :') I watched it when in school and it was the first time I remember being so completely enthralled by a speech... it was very powerful. I immediately ran to the printer shop and got a printout, a big deal at the time, which is still around somewhere. Then I memorised my favourite parts of it and would quote them randomly.
"If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped change. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better."
"You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default."
There are far more profound parts of it. Those above seem fairly simple now, but to 12 year old me they were mindblowing.
I used to deeply admire her, for a long time as a kid. Her Twitter outbursts were painful for a lot of people I'm sure, because so many people admired her around the world. It's painful to see heroes fall. Wish she'd just stayed the magical Jo Rowling and remembered that first quote before going off.
It's a wonderful work nevertheless, the speech. Leaving the link to the text here.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/06/text-of-j-k-rowling-speech/
My favourite quote from this speech has always been:
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
Any source for preparing philosphical essays or just getting some hang of it?
Initially, I was not comfortable with philosophical essays, then I read few written by selected candidates. I realised there is no philosophy there as well. At times, it is just the few examples and few key words here and there that makes a mark, rest everything including the structure is same for all essays. I remember Mirant Parikh and Vikram Grewal have written good essays in GS Score Test Series
I like Vikash Ranjan Sir’s essay approach. There are two videos on youtube portal, very helpful and enriching. Mudit Gupta is equally great.
I have a question, if everyone is using MAins 365, then how are we supposed to stand out from the crowd?
I know presentation and all matters. But content will largely be the same.
There are few reasons I know
- not everyone is able to ‘revise’ it a day before actual exam
- not everyone is able to ‘recall’ it during actual exam
- not everyone is able to organically write it, at times it looks like super imposed against the demand of question
- not everytime it is useful (beyond 5-6 questions)
Sherkhan1428,SergioRamosWood everywhere is the same. How do some carpenters create art while others cannot even build a box?
kya keh gaye sir aap bhi ! mazaa hi aa gaya !
I have a question, if everyone is using MAins 365, then how are we supposed to stand out from the crowd?
I know presentation and all matters. But content will largely be the same.
Wood everywhere is the same. How do some carpenters create art while others cannot even build a box?
If Ghalib ever wrote in English. . . :P
May Kasahara,
I have a question, if everyone is using MAins 365, then how are we supposed to stand out from the crowd?
I know presentation and all matters. But content will largely be the same.
depends what is ur style of writing answers and how do u substantiate it. I usually focus on examples on every point which i write . for eg: if 5 points are there , i'll have three of them with examples . Moreover create dimensions .... varies with section of syllabus for eg: Paper 2 will have constitution provision + judgements+ best practises+ recent events if any. paper 3 : concepts + diagram + examples + dimensions +linkage if possible
Second : recalling power in real setup is different . Revision is key to fetch good marks what i believe.
EiChan,
guys, any idea about when UPSC will release the schedule for the interviews?
do you see anything getting better outside? All i see is restrictions getting prolonged.
The day we hear restrictions are getting relaxed (unlock), that's when this question will gain relevance.
Till then the suspense game continues. Must be tough for people waiting for their interviews
I don’t know if it’s all the doomsday scrolling, but I somehow don’t feel like the prospect of Prelims on October 10 is real.Optimism / pessimism, what should we call this?
Hopelessness.
It doesn’t feel real at all to me. As if there is no meaning to the press note relating to the postponement. It meant nothing to me. I feel quite numb about it.
Trollhunter,thesleepyhead
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