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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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should there be an employment policy committee like monetary policy committee charged with ensuring unemlpoyment rates below 4%? is it feasible?

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/where-are-the-high-productivity-better-quality-jobs-in-india-7516160/ 

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D503said

should there be an employment policy committee like monetary policy committee charged with ensuring unemlpoyment rates below 4%? is it feasible?

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/where-are-the-high-productivity-better-quality-jobs-in-india-7516160/ 

Well there does exist a cabinet committee on emp & sd but have hardly ever heard about it's working. What metric or parameter could be taken to target unemployment rate? For inflation, it is the policy rate, does something like this exist for unemp?

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Well there does exist a cabinet committee on emp & sd but have hardly ever heard about it's working. What metric or parameter could be taken to target unemployment rate? For inflation, it is the policy rate, does something like this exist for unemp?

I don't know I just thought that MPC has done a good job in keeping a leash on inflation so far not withstanding the recent stance to support growth at the cost of inflation. Plus it's periodic deliberations give a good idea about macroeconomic state of the econoomy. And then its meetings are much discussed in newspapers. So I thought maybe If a similar mechanism existed for unemployment , then there would be some inbuilt accountability for unemployment. As for the data CMIE unemployment stats could be used or CSO may be charged with collecting high frequency data on employment thts available on a quarterly basis.

But creating employment is not easy like controlling inflation using qualittative and quantitative monetary tools , we can't goad industries to hire more people if in a quarter the unemployment rate breaches a threshold. That's why I asked if it's feasible.

I am just aghast that for 2 decades we have been witnessing jobless growth yet our policy makers and politicians have failed to come up with any lasting solution to it. Yesterday I read about a book what millenials want, and I could relate with the what the Author describes as 'Timepass kar rhe hai ' phenomenon among youth. The situation is very dire , a young population that's now entered late 20s in the last 2 decades of jobless growth and is expected to take up reigns from their parents and assume responsibility and get married and serve as role model for the young , is sitting at home living on parents money and surrounded by an atmosphere of hate. This makes for an explosive mix. It's during times like these that society starts searching for messiahs and ends up choosing demagogues , populists and tyrants, who instead of redeeming them makes their lives even more miserable.

I don't know if any of what I said makes any sense



Edit-Timepass

https://scroll.in/article/1004225/educated-unemployment-the-crisis-that-defines-millennials-more-than-any-other-demographic

During his fieldwork, Jeffrey “met large numbers of unemployed young men in north India who were engaged in forms of waiting characterised by aimlessness and ennui. Unemployed young men in Meerut commonly spoke of being lost in time and they imagined many of their activities as simply ways to pass the time.”


Caesar,
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Anyone have the timeline of parallel ancient medieval kingdoms of NORTH & SOUTH ,

can you please share it ,

thanks in advance 👍🏻

This is the rough timeline of events as mentioned in NCERTs
  • 4500- 1900 BCE -- Indus valley civilisation 
    • Pre- 4500-3500
    • proto- 3500-2500
    • mature- 2500-1900
    • post- 1900-1200
      • red ware or black and red ware
  • 1500 -- Aryans
  • 1500- 1000 -- rig vedic
    • pastoralist, egalitarian
  • 1000- 500 -- Later vedic
    • sulvasutra- geometry
    • agriculturalist, brahmanic domination, high discrimination
      • painted grey ware
  • 6th century-- mahajanpadas
    • magadha- powerful
  • haranyanka dynasty
    • bimbisar, 544
    • ajatshatru

    • 563 -- Gautam buddha
    • 540 -- mahavir 
  • shishunaga dynasty
  • nandas
  • 500 BCE- 100BCE -- Mauryan empire
    • northern black polished ware
    • chandragupta established with the help of kautilya
    • bindusara
    • ashoka-273 BCE
      • dear to god, devanam piyadasi
  • 2nd century AD- sushruta (surgery), charaka (medicine)
  • successors of mauryan empire-
  • 185 --  Shungas innorth-
    • pushyamitra shunga; brahmana who persecuted buddhists
  • shakas- indo greeks inwest
    • shaka samvat , 57 BC 
  • Parthians
  • 78 AD--Kushans
    • sons of god
    • polished red pottery
    • kanishka, 50 AD
    • emergence of vaishnavism
  • 1st century BC--satvahanasindeccan
    • competed with shakas.
    • first to give land grants to brahmins (and buddhists too)
    • ended in 6th century AD
  • Deep south
    • 1000bc-5th century AD-- magalithic culture
    • sangam in 6th century AD
    • second century AD- chera, chola, pandyas
  • 313-455 AD -- Gupta empire
    •  chandragupta II (380-412)
      • kalidasa (abhijnanshakuntalam), Panini (grammar- ashtadhyayi), amarsimha (amarkosha), bhasa, sudraka (mrichhakatika)
      • compilation of mahabharata and ramayana.
    • Kumaragupta
      • set up nalanda.
    • Fa Hsein- 5th century- hunas invasion, rise of feudatories.
    • aryabhatta - aryabhattiya, varahamihira- brihatsamhita, 
  • 606-647 -- Harshavardhan
    • banabhatta - court poet- harshacharita
    • hsuan tsang- 629
    • I- tsing- 670
  • successors of satvahanas in deccan
    • eastern- ikshvakus
      • Pallavas in kanchipuram
        • till 757
        • mahabalipuram temples
        • bhakti cult- alavars, nayanars.
        • cholas their feudatories; rose to power later
      • eastern gangas
      • chalukyans
    • southern- vakatakas
      • chalukyans of badami (till 757)
      • rashtrakutas
  • 850AD-- cholas
    • rajaraja and rajendra-I greatest leader
      • rajrajeswara - brihadiswara temple
      • dravidian temples
      • marco polo visited
  • North- several rajput branches ruling;
    • nagara architechture develped- 8th- 12th century
    • parmars- malwa; chauhan-ajmer; chandela- bundelkhand, kajuraho temples; chalukyas- gujrat; tomars- delhi
  • 1020-- raids and plunders by mahmud of gaznavi
  • battle of tarrain- prithviraj vs turkish
    • slave dynasty established
  • 1206-1290-- slave dynasty
  • 1290-1320-- Khilji dynasty
  • Tughlaqs
  • Lodi dynasty
  • Mughals 
    • 1526- Babur
    • Humayun & shershah suri
    • akbar
    • jahangir
    • shah jahan
    • auranzeb
  • 1498 - Arrival of Vaso Da Gama(Portuguese)arrived at Calicut (Kerala).- Zamorin welcomed.
  • 1500-portugese factory at calicut
  • 1503- First portugese fort at Cochin
  • 1526- First battle of panipat- Babur vs Ibrahim Lodi
    • laid the foundation of mughals and ended delhi sultanate.
  • 1556-Second battle of panipat- Akbar vs hemu
    • decided on the continuity of mughals.
  • 1605 -Dutchestablished their factory at Masulipatam (A.P.).
  • 1608 - Captain william hawkins (English) arrived in mughal court of Jahangir with request for doing business in India.
  • 1612- loss of surat by portugese to english
  • 1613- english factory at Surat- by permission of jahangir who got impressed by the british abilities at defeating portugese.
  • 1616- english factory at masulipatnam(Andhra)
  • 1632 - Hoogly was seized by Shah Jahan fromPortugueseand prosecution of Christens continued. And the Portuguese dominance was lost completely.
  • 1632-Golden farmans to english by sultan of golconda facilitating free trade from his ports.
  • 1667 - Compromise betweenEnglishandDutchthat British would withdraw from Indonesia and Dutch from India.
  • 1667 -Frenchestablished their factory at Surat.
  • 1707 - Aurangzeb died; mughal empire began to decline;
  • 1715- Farrukhsiyar's (Mughal king) farmans to the English
    • magna carta of the company
    • trade privileges in Bengal, Gujarat and hyderabad


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venkataharish,
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@sjerngal please explain how are you using the Epic magazine esp. for mains. Are you reading it cover to cover, marking the content then and there and revising it month-wise, or extracting info syllabus-wise from each monthly booklet and adding it into your notes.


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Hello dudes/dudettes what's everybody's opinion on Epic? I'm kinda sick of looking at Vision and it's full of random facts and redundant stuff now. I like Focus but they're making it too lengthy. 

I like it.. Using it for a year now..  Very good for mains also.. 

*referring to this.

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So this is where gullu learned that Mughal state stretched merely from Delhi to Agra😆


sstarrr,
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D503said

So this is where gullu learned that Mughal state stretched merely from Delhi to Agra😆


You just bring those memories back! That gullu thing , I can hear in Abhinandan's voice. 

Don't forget to watch Good news today with your dailychai and nashta!They will make your day with their boot-licking of govt and har-har Modi!

Dionysus,
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What is the name of that exam which epfo people were referring ??? They were quoting that its vacancies are going to be announced something on these lines
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@Aazaad Do go for it .It will give you a renewed sense of optimism and hope. I myself have cleared SSC CGL 2018 and it has helped me immensely in building confidence for 2021 CSE attempt.



Civils Mains:2017,2018,2020,2021,Forest Mains:2021.

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Hi! 

I am looking for good CSAT mocks to give. Any suggestions ? 

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Hi! 

I am looking for good CSAT mocks to give. Any suggestions ? 

Don’t go for mocks, give 2019 and 2020 upsc CSAT paper

sjerngal,Voyager
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Hey Guys, i scored 108 in Vision open test 4 but slid down to 80 in vision test 5. Though tests could be tough or easy but the percentile also dipped from 99+ to 89 something. 

the uncertainty is killing, what if the final paper ends up on a low. 

Do u score consistently or the fluctuation is wide?

EiChan,AJ_
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Hey Guys, i scored 108 in Vision open test 4 but slid down to 80 in vision test 5. Though tests could be tough or easy but the percentile also dipped from 99+ to 89 something. 

the uncertainty is killing, what if the final paper ends up on a low. 

Do u score consistently or the fluctuation is wide?

Last I scored 60-80 marks in different open tests(insights,iasbaba,forum,vision abhyas) but in final exam I scored around 120 from different keys.

one of my friend used to get good score in open tests last year but he didn’t qualified prelims.

EiChan,discoFighter
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Hey Guys, i scored 108 in Vision open test 4 but slid down to 80 in vision test 5. Though tests could be tough or easy but the percentile also dipped from 99+ to 89 something. 

the uncertainty is killing, what if the final paper ends up on a low. 

Do u score consistently or the fluctuation is wide?

Last I scored 60-80 marks in different open tests(insights,iasbaba,forum,vision abhyas) but in final exam I scored around 120 from different keys.

one of my friend used to get good score in open tests last year but he didn’t qualified prelims.

That’s even more scary, may be luck is a big factor. 

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Instead of consistency in scores or ranks
 ,I would suggest you to look for consistency or incremental gains in accuracy rate ,that kind of helps 


Omen,
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Hey Guys, i scored 108 in Vision open test 4 but slid down to 80 in vision test 5. Though tests could be tough or easy but the percentile also dipped from 99+ to 89 something. 

the uncertainty is killing, what if the final paper ends up on a low. 

Do u score consistently or the fluctuation is wide?

Last I scored 60-80 marks in different open tests(insights,iasbaba,forum,vision abhyas) but in final exam I scored around 120 from different keys.

one of my friend used to get good score in open tests last year but he didn’t qualified prelims.

That’s even more scary, may be luck is a big factor. 

Definitely luck is big factor since 2018 prelims, but luck only works when u are  confidence about ur preparation and how ur mind works in that 2 hrs 

 

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