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.
Hello guys, I hope you all are doing well.
From today, roughly 70 odd days are left for UPSC Prelims 2021. Pressure is high and everybody must be giving it their all. There is something I realised during my first attempt that I would like to share. Clearing UPSC is not a 9-5 job. To further elucidate, if you think you can just study a fixed set of hours per day and clear the paper, the chances are pretty slim. The competition this exam carries and the width of syllabus it boasts, you need to live this exam all the time. We always read in governance answers how policymaking in silos is bad and we should have convergence. Something similar is needed here. We just cannot study for 7-8 odd hours and detach ourselves completely. You have to be ever-present and keen mentally, especially in the last few months. This does not mean that you drown yourself in the books all the time. Instead, keep thinking about the things you learnt, interlink it, bring new points and observe everything around you, with the static portion making sense of your surroundings. Because when Lucky Ali sings Kyun Chalti hai pawan, your answer should not be na tum jano na hum!
Be curious 24*7 and it will reward you.
Secondly, this( Prelims) is a hurdle we must cross. Prelims is a very sadistic phase. It is just like an arena where there is a limited type and way of using a weapon(you have to choose your answer from the given options only) to vanquish your enemy(the exam).
A student's true prowess is reflected in the mains paper, where all his accumulated knowledge comes to use, the way he wants it(his choice of weaponry). UPSC unshackles you from the OMR blocks and lets your knowledge flow. It is such a therapeutic experience. You can interlink farm crisis to 2nd FYP, further link women distress to Green revolution, anything. The paper is your canvas. Writing the mains is the true reward for an aspirant spending year long with issues and developing understanding. You are neither right nor wrong. You are just a vessel of ideas, pouring your thoughts on a piece of paper. I do not think any exam gives you such an opportunity to write your heart out. Those 2-3 months post prelims are literally hell but are so worth it.
It is completely unfair to the knowledge and hard work of a student to not being able to use it in its fullest form. Like Goku without using Kame Hame Haaaaaaaaa!
We have to break the shackles of the OMR bubbles and unleash ourselves, at any cost. This would be a true reward we can give to ourselves, for all the rough times we have been through, our very own FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.
At this crucial juncture, let us promise ourselves that we will do everything in our power to cross the Preliminary hurdle, because my friends, on the other side, there is a battlefield honouring warriors like us, and willing to transform us into Gods, if we sacrifice our sweat and blood.
Let us do it!
SergioRamos,whatonlyHello guys, I hope you all are doing well.
From today, roughly 70 odd days are left for UPSC Prelims 2021. Pressure is high and everybody must be giving it their all. There is something I realised during my first attempt that I would like to share. Clearing UPSC is not a 9-5 job. To further elucidate, if you think you can just study a fixed set of hours per day and clear the paper, the chances are pretty slim. The competition this exam carries and the width of syllabus it boasts, you need to live this exam all the time. We always read in governance answers how policymaking in silos is bad and we should have convergence. Something similar is needed here. We just cannot study for 7-8 odd hours and detach ourselves completely. You have to be ever-present and keen mentally, especially in the last few months. This does not mean that you drown yourself in the books all the time. Instead, keep thinking about the things you learnt, interlink it, bring new points and observe everything around you, with the static portion making sense of your surroundings. Because when Lucky Ali sings Kyun Chalti hai pawan, your answer should not be na tum jano na hum!
Be curious 24*7 and it will reward you.
Secondly, this( Prelims) is a hurdle we must cross. Prelims is a very sadistic phase. It is just like an arena where there is a limited type and way of using a weapon(you have to choose your answer from the given options only) to vanquish your enemy(the exam).
A student's true prowess is reflected in the mains paper, where all his accumulated knowledge comes to use, the way he wants it(his choice of weaponry). UPSC unshackles you from the OMR blocks and lets your knowledge flow. It is such a therapeutic experience. You can interlink farm crisis to 2nd FYP, further link women distress to Green revolution, anything. The paper is your canvas. Writing the mains is the true reward for an aspirant spending year long with issues and developing understanding. You are neither right nor wrong. You are just a vessel of ideas, pouring your thoughts on a piece of paper. I do not think any exam gives you such an opportunity to write your heart out. Those 2-3 months post prelims are literally hell but are so worth it.
It is completely unfair to the knowledge and hard work of a student to not being able to use it in its fullest form. Like Goku without using Kame Hame Haaaaaaaaa!
We have to break the shackles of the OMR bubbles and unleash ourselves, at any cost. This would be a true reward we can give to ourselves, for all the rough times we have been through, our very own FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.
At this crucial juncture, let us promise ourselves that we will do everything in our power to cross the Preliminary hurdle, because my friends, on the other side, there is a battlefield honouring warriors like us, and willing to transform us into Gods, if we sacrifice our sweat and blood.
Let us do it!
Man I was just missing you today thinking kafi din ho gye msg nhi kiya and thought of tagging you somewhere to ask :p
And truly said have to be in preparation mode directly or indirectly ( kya pta kha se mcq eliminate ho jae ) 👍👍
Good to be back bhai! :D
Hello guys, I hope you all are doing well.
From today, roughly 70 odd days are left for UPSC Prelims 2021. Pressure is high and everybody must be giving it their all. There is something I realised during my first attempt that I would like to share. Clearing UPSC is not a 9-5 job. To further elucidate, if you think you can just study a fixed set of hours per day and clear the paper, the chances are pretty slim. The competition this exam carries and the width of syllabus it boasts, you need to live this exam all the time. We always read in governance answers how policymaking in silos is bad and we should have convergence. Something similar is needed here. We just cannot study for 7-8 odd hours and detach ourselves completely. You have to be ever-present and keen mentally, especially in the last few months. This does not mean that you drown yourself in the books all the time. Instead, keep thinking about the things you learnt, interlink it, bring new points and observe everything around you, with the static portion making sense of your surroundings. Because when Lucky Ali sings Kyun Chalti hai pawan, your answer should not be na tum jano na hum!
Be curious 24*7 and it will reward you.
Secondly, this( Prelims) is a hurdle we must cross. Prelims is a very sadistic phase. It is just like an arena where there is a limited type and way of using a weapon(you have to choose your answer from the given options only) to vanquish your enemy(the exam).
A student's true prowess is reflected in the mains paper, where all his accumulated knowledge comes to use, the way he wants it(his choice of weaponry). UPSC unshackles you from the OMR blocks and lets your knowledge flow. It is such a therapeutic experience. You can interlink farm crisis to 2nd FYP, further link women distress to Green revolution, anything. The paper is your canvas. Writing the mains is the true reward for an aspirant spending year long with issues and developing understanding. You are neither right nor wrong. You are just a vessel of ideas, pouring your thoughts on a piece of paper. I do not think any exam gives you such an opportunity to write your heart out. Those 2-3 months post prelims are literally hell but are so worth it.
It is completely unfair to the knowledge and hard work of a student to not being able to use it in its fullest form. Like Goku without using Kame Hame Haaaaaaaaa!
We have to break the shackles of the OMR bubbles and unleash ourselves, at any cost. This would be a true reward we can give to ourselves, for all the rough times we have been through, our very own FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.
At this crucial juncture, let us promise ourselves that we will do everything in our power to cross the Preliminary hurdle, because my friends, on the other side, there is a battlefield honouring warriors like us, and willing to transform us into Gods, if we sacrifice our sweat and blood.
Let us do it!
Much awaited post! Remind me of Sharukh khan speech in Chak de India
Hello guys, I hope you all are doing well.
From today, roughly 70 odd days are left for UPSC Prelims 2021. Pressure is high and everybody must be giving it their all. There is something I realised during my first attempt that I would like to share. Clearing UPSC is not a 9-5 job. To further elucidate, if you think you can just study a fixed set of hours per day and clear the paper, the chances are pretty slim. The competition this exam carries and the width of syllabus it boasts, you need to live this exam all the time. We always read in governance answers how policymaking in silos is bad and we should have convergence. Something similar is needed here. We just cannot study for 7-8 odd hours and detach ourselves completely. You have to be ever-present and keen mentally, especially in the last few months. This does not mean that you drown yourself in the books all the time. Instead, keep thinking about the things you learnt, interlink it, bring new points and observe everything around you, with the static portion making sense of your surroundings. Because when Lucky Ali sings Kyun Chalti hai pawan, your answer should not be na tum jano na hum!
Be curious 24*7 and it will reward you.
Secondly, this( Prelims) is a hurdle we must cross. Prelims is a very sadistic phase. It is just like an arena where there is a limited type and way of using a weapon(you have to choose your answer from the given options only) to vanquish your enemy(the exam).
A student's true prowess is reflected in the mains paper, where all his accumulated knowledge comes to use, the way he wants it(his choice of weaponry). UPSC unshackles you from the OMR blocks and lets your knowledge flow. It is such a therapeutic experience. You can interlink farm crisis to 2nd FYP, further link women distress to Green revolution, anything. The paper is your canvas. Writing the mains is the true reward for an aspirant spending year long with issues and developing understanding. You are neither right nor wrong. You are just a vessel of ideas, pouring your thoughts on a piece of paper. I do not think any exam gives you such an opportunity to write your heart out. Those 2-3 months post prelims are literally hell but are so worth it.
It is completely unfair to the knowledge and hard work of a student to not being able to use it in its fullest form. Like Goku without using Kame Hame Haaaaaaaaa!
We have to break the shackles of the OMR bubbles and unleash ourselves, at any cost. This would be a true reward we can give to ourselves, for all the rough times we have been through, our very own FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.
At this crucial juncture, let us promise ourselves that we will do everything in our power to cross the Preliminary hurdle, because my friends, on the other side, there is a battlefield honouring warriors like us, and willing to transform us into Gods, if we sacrifice our sweat and blood.
Let us do it!
Much awaited post! Remind me of Sharukh khan speech in Chak de India
Only If I could be as charming as him! :(
Only If I could be as charming as him! :(
Lol! Charmness has less to do with beauty and more to personality and that's you are.
@SergioRamos So whats your macro plan bro for the next 70 days? Like how many tests and extra resources/books you will refer to this time?
Will request everyone though to give your macro plans and how you are approaching this 2021 pre this year.
Personally, I will put impetus over static till 8th august and then will try to analyse through UPSC other exams like capf etc about the weightage of CA. 60 mock tests more or less I have planned to write along with PYQs as how@Sherkhan1428 bhai had told before!
This is avery longtext from me, I am really sorry for the length. I thought of writing only about the Olympics but many things I wrote to convey my views. I don’t know whether what I say will make sense to you all or not ( partly due to me sharing about some topic by writing for the first time and also due to my limited knowledge ).
I have felt very bad seeing the unfair reactions from most social media posts after Indian athletes losing in the Olympics, especially from the learned ones. Many have also supported players, but hatred is more widespread. Also this is not only confined to sports but also in other parts of our lives.
I agree that there are problems with respect to sporting bodies, politics in choosing athletes, funding issues, there needs to be a sporting culture from childhood and many more issues. The intention of my text is to tell about themental pressurethe player carries while representing India and the amount of trolling when India loses in a sport is very high. Yes, I understand criticism will definitely be there, and fair criticism is necessary. But many in the last few days on social media kept trolling that some are not capable of representing India. There are many people who know least about the sport and nuances in it and just see the medal tally, then start criticizing. We might forget all these within a month of the Olympics getting over but not the players that represent India in future events.
I might have been the person who has criticized our players losing in big sporting events like the Olympics without knowing much about the sport and things involved in it. After coming to UPSC, I have realized that my understanding about the world is narrow and even today if it has broadened to an extent it is still less only to truly understand things around us.
Before talking about Olympic medals, I want to share something which most of us have experienced.
Among us, some might not have friends or relatives who cleared UPSC and got into IAS, because of lack ofclose referenceswith whom we can relate, we might have thought initially it is very difficult to clear UPSC and it is not for us. But when some friend got into IAS, with whom we studied in primary school and who has got grades lesser or like us, we start getting hopes. If this friend happens to be our graduate classmate who was a normal student, studying before exams like most of us and got lower grades, then our hopes of clearing UPSC are even higher. Thinking if he/she can only get, I can definitely get into the service. This way most of us are in the preparation hoping for the service, like before we know getting into service is difficult, but at the same time having trust in ourselves of clearing, even if it takes more attempts.
And still in this UPSC race, many feel insecurity seeing a comparatively small group of aspirants who are from premier institutes like IITs, IIMs, AIIMs and also many engineering people feel insecurities seeing people from humanities background because of their prior experience in these subjects, ability to write well and articulation skills. Yes, the one major mental edge for people coming from premier institutes is they already have an experience of clearing a competitive exam before. So they have less mental pressure about their capability to perform. But whatever be the skills others have, slowly one can also achieve those with time and effort. This way, I feel slowly over the years, future aspirants will stop having the insecurities some of us have and start focusing on their performance and make this exam process more democratic by having wider representation in the final list from all backgrounds.
I said all this to convey that having someclose referencesto us, having a belief that anyone can clear this exam if we put the right effort and correcting our mistakes will make us perform better by having lesser doubts on our ability to perform. Even Olympics is trying to achieve the same, to bring in the feeling of fraternity, respect for others, equality without discrimination and have a fair competition among athletes from different countries.
From the mental aspect, I feel India performing well at the Olympics and we trying to bring equality among all castes without discrimination and there by allowing everyone to achieve their potential is to an extent related.
Through reservations, the main goal is to bring social equality. Even today, we don't see the equality and we daily read instances of discrimination against SC & ST, some sadly face too.Someof the upper caste people feel it is their only right to enjoy higher positions and they are mostly among the major deciding roles today, some by true merit and some by power. Some say, reservation needs to be removed as it has already been there for 70+ years. I agree it needs to be reformed to make its benefits reach to all the deserved than cornering of benefits by few. But at the same time, I feel reservation should be there until the majority of lower caste people have some close references and start believing that they are equal like any other Indian. When the discrimination goes considerably, competition becomes more fairer. I know there can never be a discrimination less society if not on caste society discriminates other vulnerable. To transform to a near egalitarian society, it takes a considerable amount of time as we all know behavioural attitudes take time to change, especially when it is continuing from centuries.
This is from Abhinav Bindra’s autobiography-- “Uwe Riesterer, a German who was my performance consultant, believes Indians handle expectations differently. His generalization goes like this: Constantly tell an American he's the best, and he will saunter into the arena and say 'Let's kick ass and beat the hell out of everyone.' Tell an Indian he's the best and he tends to be defensive: 'I am the best, I better not make a mistake.' It's a reasonable theory, especially for me and Indian shooters of my generation—the new breed is different, bolder, more certain, like India itself—but that day it didn't apply to me”.
This is mostly the belief that some of the dominant countries have of India. And I too feel this is mostly true in many global competitive sports and this can only be changed until it is proven consistently wrong and there by changing our beliefs. Many of us who watched Indian cricket from the 2000s can't deny the amount of fear we had watching Australians play against India. Looking at Symonds, Hayden, Ponting; we are half dead before the match and we are happy by drawing the series and in case we win( at home not in Australia), it is a big celebration. Slowly our players' capability increased, we started competing well and defeated them in major tournaments. Now for many of us, we are not scared like before, we don't even feel excited when the series is in India, as we know India wins mostly and even in Australia we perform better. I don't think there are drastic differences in terms of skill among the Australian teams, only that we have conquered those fears and are playing more freely. Although I am unable to appreciate this transformed Indian team mainly because of the current trend of weakening cricket teams with only a handful to compete. All this, I said, is to remind us of the change in our mindsets from thinking Australians are hard to beat to the current thinking of we can beat any team in the world.
Similarly, we need to understand the colonial impact on our mindsets even if we don’t recognize it outwardly, they are inside us. Somewhere, making us think that other nations' players can handle pressure well and perform well while we get defeated even after having potential. This gets re-enforced after every Olympics, when foriegn media writes about us, that Indians can't handle pressure well and a nation with a billion plus population is facing difficulty to fetch a medal at Olympics while small countries are able to get golds year after year. The pressure on us is immense compared to many small nation athletes and the western countries try to undermine us by saying that we are inferior compared to them, which they started from colonial time. This will take time to go and I truly believe once India starts winning medals for consecutive Olympics, our performance will drastically improve.
At Least in the sports of shooting and archery, India has the best athletes. I am not taking into account the medals they have won in the last year as many athletes from other nations did not participate in them due to covid. Without them also, Indians have started winning medals in world tournaments with participation of many Indian athletes unlike the earlier times where only few from India used to represent. So the number of players is increasing slowly and results will follow. Also these sports require extreme concentration unlike others where fate is decided by hitting 0.1 mm close, thereby making this more pressure prone. With consistent performance, belief rises and the pressure from false beliefs that others are more capable will go.
I wrote about the caste system because many Indians competing at sports look like a discriminated community and who face the pressure because of some false narratives created over the years. In the Initial years, being a developing country, we have not given adequate attention to sports and we lost because of our lack of skills. Now with increased spending, players are able to compete globally and the tag of “incapable to handle pressure compared to others has to go”, which takes time. I expected many medals from Indian shooting and archery, but was more disappointed to see the reactions of people after losing.
Since we get more exposure about many things during this upsc preparation. We can change the understanding of people around us, related to any matter.I feel our players need our support badly, especially in their losses.We need to support them till we as a country establish globally in a sport, like now in cricket, after every major tournament loss team can be scrutinized based on performance and capitancy issues. And again all this is not restricted to sports only.
This portrayal might look like I am an ideal candidate and giving gyan to others with some statements. I truly believe I am like any other aspirant, who is struggling with consistency in following daily targets and also going to give my 3rd prelims. I had and still have many unfair behaviours related to many aspects, where in some, I am trying to overcome them and in some, I have still not recognized I am discriminating.
Posting this late because of a changed sleeping pattern to wake up and study for sometime and not miss some of our athletes performing at the Olympics. Though there are many promising players who have their contests left, for now, adrenaline high of winning medals in shooting has come down but at the same time feeling optimistic about future performances. Need to concentrate on studies from now on.
And who has come till the end, I amreally sorryfor this long post. It is like I want to speak about the Olympics, many things are still left to say, but too much for now I feel. After seeing Olympic posts, I felt that this is the only forum I can think of where people can understand. I have also learnt many things from the posts of wonderful people in the group. Because of you people only, I texted this and any shortcomings in my understanding is truly welcome.
so much positive changes have happened in past few years that from winning 6 medals way back in 2012 and 3 medals (including 1 gold) in 2008 , we are now probably going to end up with either 1 or 2 medals ..
India won 4 out of those 6 medals in badminton, boxing and wrestling. They're yet to be concluded in current olympic. In fact, wrestling isn't even started yet. So quite premature to declare we might end up with 1 or 2 medals. :)
EiChan,THE_MECHANIC
What about you??
This is avery longtext from me, I am really sorry for the length. I thought of writing only about the Olympics but many things I wrote to convey my views. I don’t know whether what I say will make sense to you all or not ( partly due to me sharing about some topic by writing for the first time and also due to my limited knowledge ).
I have felt very bad seeing the unfair reactions from most social media posts after Indian athletes losing in the Olympics, especially from the learned ones. Many have also supported players, but hatred is more widespread. Also this is not only confined to sports but also in other parts of our lives.
I agree that there are problems with respect to sporting bodies, politics in choosing athletes, funding issues, there needs to be a sporting culture from childhood and many more issues. The intention of my text is to tell about themental pressurethe player carries while representing India and the amount of trolling when India loses in a sport is very high. Yes, I understand criticism will definitely be there, and fair criticism is necessary. But many in the last few days on social media kept trolling that some are not capable of representing India. There are many people who know least about the sport and nuances in it and just see the medal tally, then start criticizing. We might forget all these within a month of the Olympics getting over but not the players that represent India in future events.
I might have been the person who has criticized our players losing in big sporting events like the Olympics without knowing much about the sport and things involved in it. After coming to UPSC, I have realized that my understanding about the world is narrow and even today if it has broadened to an extent it is still less only to truly understand things around us.
Before talking about Olympic medals, I want to share something which most of us have experienced.
Among us, some might not have friends or relatives who cleared UPSC and got into IAS, because of lack ofclose referenceswith whom we can relate, we might have thought initially it is very difficult to clear UPSC and it is not for us. But when some friend got into IAS, with whom we studied in primary school and who has got grades lesser or like us, we start getting hopes. If this friend happens to be our graduate classmate who was a normal student, studying before exams like most of us and got lower grades, then our hopes of clearing UPSC are even higher. Thinking if he/she can only get, I can definitely get into the service. This way most of us are in the preparation hoping for the service, like before we know getting into service is difficult, but at the same time having trust in ourselves of clearing, even if it takes more attempts.
And still in this UPSC race, many feel insecurity seeing a comparatively small group of aspirants who are from premier institutes like IITs, IIMs, AIIMs and also many engineering people feel insecurities seeing people from humanities background because of their prior experience in these subjects, ability to write well and articulation skills. Yes, the one major mental edge for people coming from premier institutes is they already have an experience of clearing a competitive exam before. So they have less mental pressure about their capability to perform. But whatever be the skills others have, slowly one can also achieve those with time and effort. This way, I feel slowly over the years, future aspirants will stop having the insecurities some of us have and start focusing on their performance and make this exam process more democratic by having wider representation in the final list from all backgrounds.
I said all this to convey that having someclose referencesto us, having a belief that anyone can clear this exam if we put the right effort and correcting our mistakes will make us perform better by having lesser doubts on our ability to perform. Even Olympics is trying to achieve the same, to bring in the feeling of fraternity, respect for others, equality without discrimination and have a fair competition among athletes from different countries.
From the mental aspect, I feel India performing well at the Olympics and we trying to bring equality among all castes without discrimination and there by allowing everyone to achieve their potential is to an extent related.
Through reservations, the main goal is to bring social equality. Even today, we don't see the equality and we daily read instances of discrimination against SC & ST, some sadly face too.Someof the upper caste people feel it is their only right to enjoy higher positions and they are mostly among the major deciding roles today, some by true merit and some by power. Some say, reservation needs to be removed as it has already been there for 70+ years. I agree it needs to be reformed to make its benefits reach to all the deserved than cornering of benefits by few. But at the same time, I feel reservation should be there until the majority of lower caste people have some close references and start believing that they are equal like any other Indian. When the discrimination goes considerably, competition becomes more fairer. I know there can never be a discrimination less society if not on caste society discriminates other vulnerable. To transform to a near egalitarian society, it takes a considerable amount of time as we all know behavioural attitudes take time to change, especially when it is continuing from centuries.
This is from Abhinav Bindra’s autobiography-- “Uwe Riesterer, a German who was my performance consultant, believes Indians handle expectations differently. His generalization goes like this: Constantly tell an American he's the best, and he will saunter into the arena and say 'Let's kick ass and beat the hell out of everyone.' Tell an Indian he's the best and he tends to be defensive: 'I am the best, I better not make a mistake.' It's a reasonable theory, especially for me and Indian shooters of my generation—the new breed is different, bolder, more certain, like India itself—but that day it didn't apply to me”.
This is mostly the belief that some of the dominant countries have of India. And I too feel this is mostly true in many global competitive sports and this can only be changed until it is proven consistently wrong and there by changing our beliefs. Many of us who watched Indian cricket from the 2000s can't deny the amount of fear we had watching Australians play against India. Looking at Symonds, Hayden, Ponting; we are half dead before the match and we are happy by drawing the series and in case we win( at home not in Australia), it is a big celebration. Slowly our players' capability increased, we started competing well and defeated them in major tournaments. Now for many of us, we are not scared like before, we don't even feel excited when the series is in India, as we know India wins mostly and even in Australia we perform better. I don't think there are drastic differences in terms of skill among the Australian teams, only that we have conquered those fears and are playing more freely. Although I am unable to appreciate this transformed Indian team mainly because of the current trend of weakening cricket teams with only a handful to compete. All this, I said, is to remind us of the change in our mindsets from thinking Australians are hard to beat to the current thinking of we can beat any team in the world.
Similarly, we need to understand the colonial impact on our mindsets even if we don’t recognize it outwardly, they are inside us. Somewhere, making us think that other nations' players can handle pressure well and perform well while we get defeated even after having potential. This gets re-enforced after every Olympics, when foriegn media writes about us, that Indians can't handle pressure well and a nation with a billion plus population is facing difficulty to fetch a medal at Olympics while small countries are able to get golds year after year. The pressure on us is immense compared to many small nation athletes and the western countries try to undermine us by saying that we are inferior compared to them, which they started from colonial time. This will take time to go and I truly believe once India starts winning medals for consecutive Olympics, our performance will drastically improve.
At Least in the sports of shooting and archery, India has the best athletes. I am not taking into account the medals they have won in the last year as many athletes from other nations did not participate in them due to covid. Without them also, Indians have started winning medals in world tournaments with participation of many Indian athletes unlike the earlier times where only few from India used to represent. So the number of players is increasing slowly and results will follow. Also these sports require extreme concentration unlike others where fate is decided by hitting 0.1 mm close, thereby making this more pressure prone. With consistent performance, belief rises and the pressure from false beliefs that others are more capable will go.
I wrote about the caste system because many Indians competing at sports look like a discriminated community and who face the pressure because of some false narratives created over the years. In the Initial years, being a developing country, we have not given adequate attention to sports and we lost because of our lack of skills. Now with increased spending, players are able to compete globally and the tag of “incapable to handle pressure compared to others has to go”, which takes time. I expected many medals from Indian shooting and archery, but was more disappointed to see the reactions of people after losing.
Since we get more exposure about many things during this upsc preparation. We can change the understanding of people around us, related to any matter.I feel our players need our support badly, especially in their losses.We need to support them till we as a country establish globally in a sport, like now in cricket, after every major tournament loss team can be scrutinized based on performance and capitancy issues. And again all this is not restricted to sports only.
This portrayal might look like I am an ideal candidate and giving gyan to others with some statements. I truly believe I am like any other aspirant, who is struggling with consistency in following daily targets and also going to give my 3rd prelims. I had and still have many unfair behaviours related to many aspects, where in some, I am trying to overcome them and in some, I have still not recognized I am discriminating.
Posting this late because of a changed sleeping pattern to wake up and study for sometime and not miss some of our athletes performing at the Olympics. Though there are many promising players who have their contests left, for now, adrenaline high of winning medals in shooting has come down but at the same time feeling optimistic about future performances. Need to concentrate on studies from now on.
And who has come till the end, I amreally sorryfor this long post. It is like I want to speak about the Olympics, many things are still left to say, but too much for now I feel. After seeing Olympic posts, I felt that this is the only forum I can think of where people can understand. I have also learnt many things from the posts of wonderful people in the group. Because of you people only, I texted this and any shortcomings in my understanding is truly welcome.
Loved reading it! Well put! :)
sjerngal,DreamerOrDoer@balwintejas Bhai 6-12 NCERT, PYQ's with the obvious books(laxmikant, vivek singh/sriram etc.) and Vision PT's will be the base yet again. Test papers limited rakhenge is baari. Not thinking to cross 20. Unnecessary anxiety create kar dete hain mann me!Won't add new sources. Multiple revisions.What about you??
I told my strategy bhai up there only.
I will do the almost same thing, more and more emphasis on PYQ than tests(but still will do 50-55 tests); more emphasis on NCERTs than coaching revision books/mock test answers. Added few things this time like Atlas(haven't read it extensively before but ROI is huge here), TN NCERT for history(last time read only toppers gist of NCERT), Sriram ias own notes.
SergioRamos,THE_MECHANIC
Csat mat bhoolna, many like me didn't get through despite good score in gs.
And rest for gs- pyqs and good content on them is the best bet. Current affairs from PT is fine, just don't overdo every bit of tiny information. You are not expected to know everything, besides you won't. One pt a day should be the target. It will help in building your knowledge base.
Dont rely on coaching mocks, if you are 1-2 attempt old, solve last 7 years full length upsc prelim paper in timed manner. It will help in making you habitual with upsc style. Their way of asking and framing options and questions
Remember you will know answers to only 35-40 questions at the best.
Rest has to be common sensical guess, look for hints in the questions and options. Go into examiners mindset. Try to think from his/her perspective. This is the most important stage for prelim preparation, you have to somehow try and mark that damn option, dont overthink whether its correct or not, just mark it.
And finally, be happy on the day of exam, keep a smile, hold your self high, back straight and head held high. Be confident, if it doesn't come naturally, then just fake it. Make affirmations for yourself, remind you need to clear the whole exam, visualize. Its important as it prepares your mind to take any unforeseen stress in course of the process.
All the best, for the next 70 days.
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