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tst35

attpt 68

incorrect 10

score 109.3

did some silly mistakes.. will give dtld expln at night.

(every now and then i used to rant my boss, unfortunately, he got corona. serious situn. if everythg goes well, will discuss at night.) all the best.


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sorry for being very late.

GSSCORE 37

attempt:- 68   correct:-61     score:- 119 . Not bad, but cannot take this score as standard. i should discount it by atleast 12 marks

comments:- actually, i was very lucky today. I blindly guessed six questions ( i should not do this in main exam) and five of them were correct. and though tropic wala question is wrong as per key and took mark for it.  as an extension of luck, i was googling about muskdeer this afternoon (because i read about it in medium) and there is question on muskdeer.   the schemes are relatively less obscure. the outer space mission question was directly lifted from down to earth . so easy strike.. many other questions are also relatively familiar. to be frank, this is a lucky sunday ( hope this luck be with all of us)..



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Mastersaid

@sulawesi Bhai, your accuracy is very high! Any tips?


With regards to this particular test, it's sheer luck. As said in analysis, the questions looked a bit familiar. 

But speaking generally, if I don't know the exact answer, I use relative knowledge and option manipulation to pick up right option. However these tactics don't work always.. eg:- if a question like denisovan or kangsabati is asked, we have no option but to simply leave it.. depends on paper.

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Mastersaid

@sulawesi Bhai, On average I knew about 40 Qs in a paper which fetch me say 70 marks. Now barring few odd Qs,  I think and mark which decides the final score. In mocks this lot of Qs fetch me good marks and I score usually 120 plus but didn't work out when it actually matters( prelims, that too twice, first by 2 marks and second should be even lesser). By looking at your accuracy in this and previous paper,  you must be knowing 60 plus Qs. This time I am looking to score more in Qs which I knew certainly, can't left things on luck/guessing. Is it possible to know 60 plus Qs in Prelims?


in any paper, we cannot answer atleast 25 questions (i think, even the dabis and pradips cannot) . barring them, the rest 75 are those which are from our std books and current affairs. they decide our rank.   if we can revise our sources many times, we can ensure good strike. some other times, we'll have a 'gut feeling' (sort of), about an unknown answer. its a situational decision whether to follow our instincts or not. sometimes my luck went very bad and out of some 6 guesses, 5 were wrong., someother times it is reversed... so, we cannot say what happens on the sacred day. Revise--Revise--Revise.. never mind about the other 25...

These are the targets which i set for myself:-

>>>Aim for 75 bits straight attempt. at present, i am able to attempt 66-69 questions only. i have to improve this

>>>don't make more than 10% (of the attempted 75bits) mistakes   (6-7)..... now, my mistakes are within this range

>>>make a min 3 guesses and max of 5 guesses .... normally, I make 2 guess based answers. seldom i touch 5

>>>Don't cry over spilt milk (i.e. the other 25 azeeb' bits) .... since, I just need 110-115 score, i will never think about the 25 bizarre bits.
(I am only into CSE, this strategy may not work for IFoS cutoffs)

>>>don't take test series scores too seriously.... because they can be insanely difficult or easy. just use them to enhance knowledge base. (some coaching centres deliberately give unheard bits, just to showoff that , they are teaching all this stuff for their classroom students and the "test series only-students" (or the telegram/xerox centre students)   are missing something by not joining their classes.. this fomo is very dangerous trick. it helps them in advt. but it destroys our confidence.)     I know people who never exceeded 80 in vision/vajiram, but got selected at pre. similarly,people who consistently scored a triple digit score fumbled on d-day... so, nothing can be taken for granted. ** Every exam is unique in itself**  

>>>  if you feel that your basics are good, then don't take scores too seriously, and to put it in  the arnub style : ' "never ever ever ever ... look at scores.." focus on the content . for eg: immediately after solving tropics bit, look for countries on capricorn, cancer, equator, indian states on tropics. rivers on tropics ..... that's how test series should be used... so, in a way, a single bit leads to a 5 min revision.. it's immaterial whether you answered it right or not, what's imp. is whether you revised it again or not...    (this is what i personally feel,  once i become a dabi or a pradeep, i will make these as 10commandments and implement them strictly in my jurisdiction.!!!.)

all the best.


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