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Doubt Clearance Thread: UPSC 2021

"When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions."

Created this thread as a one stop solution for all members so that all the doubts wherein any conceptual clarification is required can be solved here. 

jack_Sparrow,curious_kidand122 otherslike this
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Anyone here who has done capf, cds pyq? Was there any repetition of concepts or facts wrt CSE 



@sjerngal  any inputs? 

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Were the Indo-Greeks the first to introduce gold coins or Kushanas? NCERT says Kushanas were 'amongst' the first to introduce them, seeing conflicting answers online.
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@Dalinar  

Lo, ncert hi h 


Dalinar,
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Were the Indo-Greeks the first to introduce gold coins or Kushanas? NCERT says Kushanas were 'amongst' the first to introduce them, seeing conflicting answers online.

New NCERT does say that. 

But then…it also says first English factory was in 1651 on banks of Hooghly at one place. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Dalinar,
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Anyone here who has done capf, cds pyq? Was there any repetition of concepts or facts wrt CSE 



@sjerngal  any inputs? 

Hey, I did solve past two years capf papers. I did not focus on any pattern per se, but I did realise that there are quite a decent no. of questions on poets and books in ancient and Medieval which is a very scoring area if one has done it well. 


Purplesunbird,
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Which of the following functions as an automatic stabilizer in the context of fiscal and monetary policies of an economy ?

A. Personal income tax

B.Reverse repo rate of bank

C.Open market operations

D.Bond price

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@Villanelle The Hooghly stuff still gives me PTSD. 


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@Moonmoon no such question would be asked IMO


Sukirti,
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Just revise the basics now, refer pyqs and do only those topics which you are not clear with me. Don't keep on solving mcqs in haste, nothing will be as counter productive than it

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Anyone here who has done capf, cds pyq? Was there any repetition of concepts or facts wrt CSE 



@sjerngal  any inputs? 

Hey, I did solve past two years capf papers. I did not focus on any pattern per se, but I did realise that there are quite a decent no. of questions on poets and books in ancient and Medieval which is a very scoring area if one has done it well. 


Randomness is so high in here that I believe its not worth spending time. 

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@Dalinar  

Lo, ncert hi h 


Also NCERT (12th) :( . Probably not worth the hairsplittery though. Dekh lenge.

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@Dalinar  

Lo, ncert hi h 


Also NCERT (12th) :( . Probably not worth the hairsplittery though. Dekh lenge.

I had history in undergraduate level , so read some other authors as well. They say Indo - greeks were the first one to issue. Largest number was issued under Guptas. 

Dalinar,
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I had history in undergraduate level , so read some other authors as well. They say Indo - greeks were the first one to issue. Largest number was issued under Guptas. 

Atish mathur in his polity pyq lecture once said, lawyers get the most polity questions wrong, economists get the most economics question wrong and same goes for historians.  Such is this exam. 



Don't refer any undergrad material, stick to ncert imo. 

Aurora,Tk17
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@Dalinar will go by the need of the question then. Chills


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I had history in undergraduate level , so read some other authors as well. They say Indo - greeks were the first one to issue. Largest number was issued under Guptas. 

Atish mathur in his polity pyq lecture once said, lawyers get the most polity questions wrong, economists get the most economics question wrong and same goes for historians.  Such is this exam. 



Don't refer any undergrad material, stick to ncert imo. 

Did not refer. Remember reading it. As there was debate going on so thought maybe this might solve the debate. 

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@Dalinar I think this question has been asked earlier in UPSC and they gave Indo-Greeks as the answer.


Aurora,sstarrrand1 otherslike this
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Please have a look and point out if there is any wrong info in the list. Thank you.

Leading producers of agri products.pdf

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Largest producer
Sugar India not Brazil
Wheat UP, MP, Punjab. In terms of procurement Punjab(again got 1 position) and MP


TheNotorious,
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