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.
Further to earlier post, about over 40% Dholpur House staff being infected, the same source informed that yesterday a meeting was held virtually to decide on the upcoming schedule. As meeting was virtual, only 2-3 participants were present at Dholpur House, with majority of staff still off limits and several in isolation/ quarantine.Silence was observed for recently passed away section staff and admin staff, including for Shri Birendra Nath Nishad, Section Officer, DoPT, liaisoning as important point of contact between UPSC and DoPT since last Nov.Few (among many) of the actionables decided :1. Indefinite defferment of CMS, in light of GoI leveraging several working, final year grads.2. Opinions sought from PMO for way ahead, DoPT for current recruitment cycle & Law Ministry for legal questions.3. No particular discussion on CSE(P) per se, but definite decision taken on realigning the whole calendar for 2021. As reverts from different ministry and PMO comes back, a new calendar will be issued.4. As of now, UPSC is more concerned with safety of its staff and members.And completing the ongoing examinations, especially the interview by Aug-Sept 2020.5. Before conduct of any exam, and esp ones like CDS, CSE(P); a whole process is initiated almost 45-60 days in advance, for selection of centres, allotment of roll numbers, staff requistioning from State Govts etc.As NDA was on 18th Apr, these work for it started in Mar 1st week. Hence, despite rises and almost none lock down back then, exam could be conducted.Right now, none of process for CSE(P) has been started, and all state govts are in limbo, with regards lockdown and resources. Therefore, exam for Prelims 2021 cannot be held before end August, considering peak around end may/ early june.PS: " Please save this message and if UPSC does any better I must quit this space" !to whom else this sounds like farzi insider info?
We should not doubt people for nothing, specially when somebody is trying to think in larger community intrest.
I am saying this because last year also there was a guy called Krantikari and he was predicting things. People were mocking him, but his predictions were spot on! After that the same people were congratulating him also. I didn't say anything, but I felt bad for that guy.
@thesleepyhead Aap jab aisa kuch bol dete hai toh hame kuch samajh nahi aata, Lekin phir bhi hum sun lete agar hamara Head Sleepy nahi hota!!
To each their own :p
How are you guys dividing time between mains prep and prelims prep? The uncertainty has taken a toll on my productivity. How are you all managing it?
Shifted gears to solely prelims last week onwards post a debacle in all india mock.
Have plans to stick with the same till any notification from commission. Hoping it comes out soon.
Starting UPSC prep after watching Aspirants is as same as some of my batchmates pursuing law after watching Suits. :P
Khair, that said, I liked Aspirants. Good stuff. :')
In my first year of college, a group of us friends were sitting around; discussing why we even chose to do engineering.
This was the reason one friend had - "Bhai 3 Idiots ka hostel life dekhke feel aa gayi this."
How are you guys dividing time between mains prep and prelims prep? The uncertainty has taken a toll on my productivity. How are you all managing it?Shifted gears to solely prelims last week onwards post a debacle in all india mock.
Have plans to stick with the same till any notification from commission. Hoping it comes out soon.
Hmmm, sounds like Vision's Abhyaas :P Was it?
In my first year of college, a group of us friends were sitting around; discussing why we even chose to do engineering.
This was the reason one friend had - "Bhai 3 Idiots ka hostel life dekhke feel aa gayi this."
Batao! 😂
Dusri taraf ka ghaas hamesha hara lagta hai! :P
Celeborn,
How are you guys dividing time between mains prep and prelims prep? The uncertainty has taken a toll on my productivity. How are you all managing it?Shifted gears to solely prelims last week onwards post a debacle in all india mock.
Have plans to stick with the same till any notification from commission. Hoping it comes out soon.
Is that mock vision abhyaas by any chance because I swear I can hardly score 75 in those and I feel like those papers are just like trivia at this point. Is that just me or anyone else feels that too.
How are you guys dividing time between mains prep and prelims prep? The uncertainty has taken a toll on my productivity. How are you all managing it?
Prelims till they announce new dates (if they do). Haven't been thinking much about mains as yet. Overthinking, I realised would only make this uncertain situation even more complex. That said, time waste maine bhi kaafi kia. :)
solve pyqs 10 years atleast if you can manage for last 25 years nothing like it, make notes of important terminologies and concept asked. revise the basic books and current affairs. learn how upsc frames options and statements. get hold on these, you will not need any abhyaas and all-unnecessary test series to doom the confidence. have been saying this since last year. i alongwith many other firnds have benefitted from this approach
I'm also going for a similar approach this year. Doing the basic books, notes + all PYQs related to the chapter I do. Hence I've stopped doing any test series for the time being.
Got to say this - the PYQs are much much easier than the random test series questions.
However, a case can be made that this is because when you solve questions right after studying, the concepts and the facts are fresh in your mind. The tough part in the final exams would be recollecting everything from every subject.
Based on this, the best thing to do is to repeatedly revise the essentials so that they stick.
At the same time, you can't neglect full length tests altogether. You do need some practice also. Hence the key is some sort of balance - where you do enough tests to get the 'feel' of solving a paper without relying on tests to affect your confidence levels. It's tricky but doable.
chamomile,nerdslayerIssue is many feel that by solving tons of mocks we try diverse questions and practice for all possible scenarios.
But prelim is designed in a very balanced manner, everyone just keeps on mugging laxmikant and in the exam can't even solve the questions on constitutional government and bureaucracy asked previous year.
There's randomness in the paper, no doubt in that, but it would be foolish to say that anything is asked. There are 20-25 questions of such nature. Rest all are repeated in some or the other way. Just analyse the pyqs you will find it.
When doing the PYQs please also make sure to go through all the options and make notes on them if you haven't already. To give an example:
this was a question last year:
this was a question in 2018:
As you can see, there was a question on IAEA safeguard which was one of the options of a PYQ (it was also the answer in this case).
How are you guys dividing time between mains prep and prelims prep? The uncertainty has taken a toll on my productivity. How are you all managing it?
I'm following a carefully planned regimen of watching TV, scrolling through YouTube, reading manga. Then when I start feeling guilty, I study for a while.
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