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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.



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@Iknownothing Insights has a lot of tests free on their website this year. 


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Any idea about Iasbaba 60 day plan? Is it going on? Is it worth following?
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This guy has a heart of gold. Kya humare neta, media, society inse kuch seekh skta hai ?

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D503said

This guy has a heart of gold. Kya humare neta, media, society inse kuch seekh skta hai ?

I believe that everyone has a heart of gold. It's just the nurturing, work pressure and sometimes brainwashing that makes it seem different.

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Those of you who attempted today's vision open test, how was it?
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@chamomile I found it tough .wbu 


chamomile,
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@chamomile very tough and frustrating for me


chamomile,
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Those of you who attempted today's vision open test, how was it?

I personally found it easier than their Abhyaas tests. It is still not like what UPSC asks, but it was so so better than the Abhyaas tests( which are the worst mocks to give this year in my opinion). 

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@chamomileseems to me to be out of touch with reality. Bina polity, economics and modern history ke moderate qsns ke russian roulette ho jaata hai test , faltu stuff poocha hai 
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I believe at this moment no test series can rightly gauge the format in which UPSC is setting paper these days. In the name of difficult questions, so many institutes are focusing way too much on factual details and random facts here and there. 
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I personally found it easier than their Abhyaas tests. It is still not like what UPSC asks, but it was so so better than the Abhyaas tests( which are the worst mocks to give this year in my opinion). 

I gave Abhyaas tests last year, comparing this with them I do agree that this was less arbitrary on a relative scale. However, the arbitrariness (and difficulty) on absolute scale is still a lot more than it should be. 


IMO, it is very tough to score well so the focus needs to be on figuring out ways to 'guess' and ensuring we don't lose out on questions from basic books. Seeing the scores will always bring in negativity. 

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Those of you who attempted today's vision open test, how was it?

Decent than their abhyaas test. But few vague questions were there as expected.

chamomile,
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@Archand do they give pdf now post test of question paper and answers ??


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Luffysaid

@Archand do they give pdf now post test of question paper and answers ??


Vision doesn't, not for open mocks. Other institutes might. 

EiChan,
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Does anyone know which agriculture document@Neyawnsir was talking about in the 40 days video?

discoFighter,
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Does anyone know which agriculture document@Neyawnsir was talking about in the 40 days video?

Hello,

That was probably the Red Book for Agriculture the team has been working on. It should be on the Epic Channel. It is usually a foundation material.

Let me look it up for you.

Have managed to solve some problems for beginner in the guides below


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FDI in Digital News is capped at 26% supposedly to prevent "foreign influence" , what about electoral bonds ? is there any limitation on foreign donations ? Aren't the prospects of party system becoming a plaything of foreign interests more threatening than a digital news network coming under foreign influence?
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D503said

FDI in Digital News is capped at 26% supposedly to prevent "foreign influence" , what about electoral bonds ? is there any limitation on foreign donations ? Aren't the prospects of party system becoming a plaything of foreign interests more threatening than a digital news network coming under foreign influence?

FCRA prevents political parties and their office bearers from receiving funds from foriegn sources.

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@sstarrrbut that was amended when electoral bonds were passed
First, it eliminated the cap on corporate donations, previously restricted to 7.5 percent of a firm’s average net profits in the past three years. Second, it dropped the requirement that companies disclose details of their political giving. Instead of issuing a thorough inventory of political donations in their annual statement of accounts, firms would only have to divulge an aggregate figure. Third, the government—with support from the opposition—amended the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA)to expand the definition of a “foreign” firm, with the express intent of widening the ambit of firms that could legally make political donations. The upshot of these changes was as obvious as it was unfortunate. Any individual, firm or special interest group could now give an unlimited sum of money to any political party without disclosing a single rupee and nobody


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