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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.



jack_Sparrow,musaand60 otherslike this
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Patootie: Hey Insights, which of the 7 papers should I focus most on?

Insights: Yes. 

Aurora,EiChanand22 otherslike this
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Mehuifs : do you love your username more than your real name? 
Patootie : Patootie

PS : just found it a bit funny and cute you referring yourself as patootie. 

Neyawn,Auroraand12 otherslike this
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Aspirant: Hey Insights, how hard should I study?
Insights: Yes.


Aurora,chamomileand9 otherslike this
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Mehuifs : do you love your username more than your real name? 
Patootie : Patootie

PS : just found it a bit funny and cute you referring yourself as patootie. 

Mate, who’s to say my real name isn’t Patootie? :/

Neyawn,
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Patootie: Hey Insights, if I had to save my grandmother from a burning building on a certain day, can I only do like 70% of the revision plan for that day alone?

Insights: No. 

Patootie: Ah fuck this, I’m out. 

Aurora,chamomileand9 otherslike this
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Lastly, look at their approach towards optional. Day 1 you are solving question 1, which might not be a complete topic but only be dealing with a fraction of the topic.

Day 2, you are solving a new question, which in itself will not be completed.

By the end of the week, you have 7 unfinished, half-cooked topics of your optional, rather than having 4 well finished,throw-me-any-decent-question-I-have-level-of-preparationtopics. 

Bizzare. 

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@SergioRamos @Villanelle and others, here is what I think is basically wrong with this Insight plan. And mostly their other plans too.

To me, Insights always seem to misplace priorities. In a gap of 140 days, you can safely leave 40 to 50 days dedicated for prelims. Among the remaining 90 odd days, they want you to stretch Ethics for 50 days, which is too much. 


And are you really not going to read the newspaper at all? How long is the day inInsightland? 28 hours? 
The template goes for most of the insight plans. They somehow assume their students to be akin to Nietzsche'sUbermensch. Alas, we are only human and less efficient.


What you can do is take two things at a time: Ethics And Optional. And then Optional and Some other GS paper. Augment them with your revision of CA.


Watch their videos or see their posts. Man it is like that all the strict teachers ganged up and built this insights platform. The only breather in their schedule is to breathe.

Hence tweaking is a must. For me, first and foremost, their CA magazine goes out. I mean 120-150 page magazine that too as a side study to be done in 4 days! Wowwwwwwww!

EiChan,GaryVeeand3 otherslike this
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Anonymous : Hey Insights Should I take a short nap? jaan lega kya.. Ab hum kare to kare kya, Bole to Bole kya??

Insights : “Smooth seas do not make skillful warriors”



Aurora,EiChanand13 otherslike this
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Me trying to study according to this timetable :

when you're trying to study : memes

Joeyisthebest,MikeWozniakand18 otherslike this
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How do I watch their videos and read their posts efficiently?

I Don't.


GaryVee,Arseneand2 otherslike this
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@Patootie Hey bro, you have law optional na ?


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Mehuifs : do you love your username more than your real name? 
Patootie : Patootie

PS : just found it a bit funny and cute you referring yourself as patootie. 

Made me curious about the meaning of his username 


Aurora,EiChanand13 otherslike this
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@Patootie Hey bro, you have law optional na ?


Always my bro

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@SergioRamos @Villanelle and others, here is what I think is basically wrong with this Insight plan. And mostly their other plans too.

To me, Insights always seem to misplace priorities. In a gap of 140 days, you can safely leave 40 to 50 days dedicated for prelims. Among the remaining 90 odd days, they want you to stretch Ethics for 50 days, which is too much. 


And are you really not going to read the newspaper at all? How long is the day inInsightland? 28 hours? 
The template goes for most of the insight plans. They somehow assume their students to be akin to Nietzsche'sUbermensch. Alas, we are only human and less efficient.


What you can do is take two things at a time: Ethics And Optional. And then Optional and Some other GS paper. Augment them with your revision of CA.


Dude, don’t follow their sources or their timetable to the t. Just do your stuff and write the questions at night. That’s basically how I approach it. :P

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Mehuifs : do you love your username more than your real name? 
Patootie : Patootie

PS : just found it a bit funny and cute you referring yourself as patootie. 

Made me curious about the meaning of his username 


I’m definitely the second one. 

Aurora,chamomileand11 otherslike this
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Mehuifs : do you love your username more than your real name? 
Patootie : Patootie

PS : just found it a bit funny and cute you referring yourself as patootie. 

Made me curious about the meaning of his username 


Yes. Interesting. :D

peterparker,
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@Patootie Me too bro, its so hard to find guys/girls with law optional. You gave CSM 2020 ? If yes, cleared or not ?
Asking since i couldnt find any law optional guy/girl in my vicinity clearing it
everyone seemed to struggle with the tough and unconventional Paper 2 this time 
Could you throw some light on your experience and how you are approaching ahead


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Let's start a Never Have I Ever trend (UPSC Specific):


Never Have I Ever followed Insights timetable.
:D

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Made me curious about the meaning of his username 


"in his mildly frazzled moments, he might refer to one of his staff as a horse's patootie" :P

Weird flex, but okay.

GaryVee,TambourineManand4 otherslike this
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@Patootie Me too bro, its so hard to find guys/girls with law optional. You gave CSM 2020 ? If yes, cleared or not ?
Asking since i couldnt find any law optional guy/girl in my vicinity clearing it
everyone seemed to struggle with the tough and unconventional Paper 2 this time 
Could you throw some light on your experience and how you are approaching ahead


Mate guess what. You just found someone outside your vicinity who didn’t clear with law optional. :P

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