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.
Hi, I have a query which i am not able to find effective solution. My handwriting is poor and in particular letter h,n and u,v,w looks similar when i write fast. I failed this Mains and i believe my presentation has a big role to play in my downfall. I have tried writing problematic alphabets separately, tried writing the lyrics of song while listening, tried those words which donot look legible...but it has been a month and i don't see any improvement on it. When i will write answer time bound, those bad writing comes automatically to me. Do anyone has solution about this. Any idea you have, please suggest me. It will be a lot of help to me. Thank YouI have a similar problem and I would advise buying those four line notebooks that we used to write in school and just writing abcd….xyz everyday. I’ve been doing this for over a month and I have seen a vast improvement. Even I failed my mains, which I suspect is due to illegible handwriting and I can see the marked difference from my answer scripts from last year
Thank You Mate. Did you write the alphabets with speed or slowly?
I initially started slower, making sure to form the letters properly. The priority was on correcting the form and not speed. Then I slowly started to increase the speed. Once I felt decently comfortable with it, I tried writing answers on the standard UPSC sheet without bothering so much about the timing and just concentrating on forming the letters just like how I practiced. Now I’m able to write at a decent speed with good handwriting as well, with probably a minute or so that I can still shave off to get to the proper time. It’s just a matter of building muscle memory and the more you practise, the easier it will get.
Hi, I have a query which i am not able to find effective solution. My handwriting is poor and in particular letter h,n and u,v,w looks similar when i write fast. I failed this Mains and i believe my presentation has a big role to play in my downfall. I have tried writing problematic alphabets separately, tried writing the lyrics of song while listening, tried those words which donot look legible...but it has been a month and i don't see any improvement on it. When i will write answer time bound, those bad writing comes automatically to me. Do anyone has solution about this. Any idea you have, please suggest me. It will be a lot of help to me. Thank YouI have a similar problem and I would advise buying those four line notebooks that we used to write in school and just writing abcd….xyz everyday. I’ve been doing this for over a month and I have seen a vast improvement. Even I failed my mains, which I suspect is due to illegible handwriting and I can see the marked difference from my answer scripts from last year
Thank You Mate. Did you write the alphabets with speed or slowly?
I initially started slower, making sure to form the letters properly. The priority was on correcting the form and not speed. Then I slowly started to increase the speed. Once I felt decently comfortable with it, I tried writing answers on the standard UPSC sheet without bothering so much about the timing and just concentrating on forming the letters just like how I practiced. Now I’m able to write at a decent speed with good handwriting as well, with probably a minute or so that I can still shave off to get to the proper time. It’s just a matter of building muscle memory and the more you practise, the easier it will get.
This is of much help to me. Thank you!
LetsGetThisBread,
Hello all, I've been a (somewhat) regular follower of The Big Picture since the Girish Nikaam days. Have seen the quality dip over the years as novices were brought in and the space for criticism, constructive or otherwise, rapidly shrunk (to a circle of zero radius in today's scenario).
I chanced upon Frank Rausan Pereira's Bharata First yesterday and thought that his version was fairly decent. I'm currently in two minds about switching to the same for good. Since I don't have enough time to cover both, this would involve ditching good old RSTV for good, a slightly unnerving proposition for me.
Wanted to hear others' views on this. Which version do you guys prefer and why?
Anyone appearing for UPSC CAPF, next month?Yo bhai.
I am just going to solve its past 10 years papers. What about you?
Im concerned with the CA part! Thought to do it from state pscs specific magazines for 6 months. Also, do you have the solved pdfs of both papers?
No, I am not doing any specific CA for this exam. I don't think it's required. I am completely banking on my prelims preparation to sail me through.
For PYQs I will purchase a book from market. I don't have any pdf.
@Usain_bolt @balwintejas What about the science and maths part?
Are you guys doing anything separate for that?Lucent for Science which I had studied for my state pscs and PYQs for maths.@Usain_bolt How are you preparing for paper 2?
Paper 2 looks like water down version of our CSE essay paper so I will approach it in that manner. I have a list of topics on which I have collected fodder throughout the year. I will use that. I will also have a quick look at the 10-11 vision VAM essay topics.
Additionally, while preparing for GS and optional we tend to make notes on wide range of issues. Just revising and brainstorming them can help.
Before the exam day I will write 2-3 mocks of paper 2 prepared by myself or friends to give that final stimulation for this paper.
How are you guys going about paper 2?@CaptainPeralta @balwintejas
EiChan,CaptainPeraltaAnyone appearing for UPSC CAPF, next month?Yo bhai.
I am just going to solve its past 10 years papers. What about you?
Im concerned with the CA part! Thought to do it from state pscs specific magazines for 6 months. Also, do you have the solved pdfs of both papers?
No, I am not doing any specific CA for this exam. I don't think it's required. I am completely banking on my prelims preparation to sail me through.
For PYQs I will purchase a book from market. I don't have any pdf.
@Usain_bolt @balwintejas What about the science and maths part?
Are you guys doing anything separate for that?Lucent for Science which I had studied for my state pscs and PYQs for maths.@Usain_bolt How are you preparing for paper 2?
Paper 2 looks like water down version of our CSE essay paper so I will approach it in that manner. I have a list of topics on which I have collected fodder throughout the year. I will use that. I will also have a quick look at the 10-11 vision VAM essay topics.
Additionally, while preparing for GS and optional we tend to make notes on wide range of issues. Just revising and brainstorming them can help.
Before the exam day I will write 2-3 mocks of paper 2 prepared by myself or friends to give that final stimulation for this paper.
How are you guys going about paper 2?@CaptainPeralta @balwintejas
Even I will revise my mains GS notes for Paper 2 and my essays test papers only, and before a day or two of the exam, I will just go through the format of the writing part like reports and precis writing.
And as for mocks, I think the topics of essay questions and reports, etc. overlap with GS so no special prep would be required.
Usain_bolt,Anyone appearing for UPSC CAPF, next month?Yo bhai.
I am just going to solve its past 10 years papers. What about you?
Im concerned with the CA part! Thought to do it from state pscs specific magazines for 6 months. Also, do you have the solved pdfs of both papers?
No, I am not doing any specific CA for this exam. I don't think it's required. I am completely banking on my prelims preparation to sail me through.
For PYQs I will purchase a book from market. I don't have any pdf.
@Usain_bolt @balwintejas What about the science and maths part?
Are you guys doing anything separate for that?Lucent for Science which I had studied for my state pscs and PYQs for maths.@Usain_bolt How are you preparing for paper 2?
Paper 2 looks like water down version of our CSE essay paper so I will approach it in that manner. I have a list of topics on which I have collected fodder throughout the year. I will use that. I will also have a quick look at the 10-11 vision VAM essay topics.
Additionally, while preparing for GS and optional we tend to make notes on wide range of issues. Just revising and brainstorming them can help.
Before the exam day I will write 2-3 mocks of paper 2 prepared by myself or friends to give that final stimulation for this paper.
How are you guys going about paper 2?@CaptainPeralta @balwintejas
Even I will revise my mains GS notes for Paper 2 and my essays test papers only, and before a day or two of the exam, I will just go through the format of the writing part like reports and precis writing.
And as for mocks, I think the topics of essay questions and reports, etc. overlap with GS so no special prep would be required.
Initially I had filled the forms for this exam thinking that it would be a good stimulation for mains exam. Real time exam feeling ayega. As luck would have it, ab prelims stimulation lag raha hai.
Who would have thought that just getting a chance to appear in offline classrooms will be seen as blessing by students one day.
Damn corona!
CaptainPeralta,
How are you guys preparing "locational factors of industries" topic in GS1? Mrunal has some articles on it but it does not cover questions like the one they asked in 2019 about "localisation of agro-based food processing industries of North-West India".
My strategy is to go after the fixed topics( The topics for which content is easily available) first and approach these type of multiple layered topics for studying if time limits. Will try to answer them using latent knowledge.
sbhati,Thanks for your response. If I have to pick one among PMF IAS and Mrunal, which one would you suggest?@sbhati locational factors is a huge topic and it's a little difficult to cover it comprehensively. I did mrunal articles and whatever I came across in test series. Pmf ias is also a good source. Last year Shabbir sir had taken some classes on this topic in his youtube channel, they were good but he covered only few industries. This should be more than enough because this is a generic topic.If you understand the basis on which industries are located in any particular area it becomes easy to answer questions that are not available in regular sources.For ex - the agro based food processing industries in NW region could have been written if one knew the reasons such as nearby availability of raw material, good connectivity, market etc.
Calcutta in 1912, illuminated for the occasion of a British royal visit.Photograph: RCAHMS/PA
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