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Mains 2019 Preparation and Discussion Thread

Now that 1 week is over, it is time to shift focus to Mains. With barely 103 days left there is no time to waste.

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@Yes_I_am_inbhai on upsc website, they are asking for representation regarding any question asked in Mains 2019

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@Sultaanya....Lekin iska matlab mujhe samjh nhi aaya

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@Yes_I_am_inmujhe bhi nhi samajh aaya, isiliye to yahan gyani logon se pooch rha hoon??

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@Vikayes bro. These are principles for deciding which legislative subject falls under whose ambit.

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@Caesarthanks.. certainly no way anyone would have written them. Good improvisers are the winners here

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@Akkkui attempted iy in the last moment
Just wrote examples

  1. Sifi sites like AJMER SHARIF- conglomeration of diversity within india
  2. Migration and small hamlets like chitranjan park in delhi
  3. Hamlets of jews and syrians in kerala
    Filled up 2 pages
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@Hermione_Granger thanx a lot ..☺☺

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I'm in major dilemma. An acquaintance of mine said his GS 2 went very good and GS1 was avg. It was surprising because I found GS 1 doable compared to last year. So we discussed few questions. He said he divided questions into parts and addressed each part. So was able to write all parts. For instance, in Q on The need for cooperation among various service sector....., He said he first defined service sector as major contributor to gdp and related it to development.
There is growing divergence between poverty and hunger question, he said he defined each, wrote about various forms of malnutrition etc etc.
In AG question, he said he gave brief facts (laxmikanth) and wrote positives of AG, negatives of AG etc.
Aisa karna hota Hai Kya? I didn't follow this approach... Problem is he is extremely confident about mains being very good and started for interview full fleged with technical subject revision. This is getting me more nervous!

Khud ka average gaya. Static questions were good...above questions average. Optional paper 2 went bad esp 10 marks questions.

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Nhi bhai write what is directly asked....log jabardasti ka complex kar dete hain....

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@DipQuestion ka sabse achha answer wo hota hai jo question ka answer hota hai (The best answer of the question is-which answers the question asked)...write it down.?

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@Losttrue. Log ka confidence se apna confidence down ho raha Hai.

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@Diphe has understood wrong meaning of service sector
Here service sector meant ngo, govt and private sector and not services like It Healthcare etc hence rest assured he is getting less marks in this question?

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@Kira0705yeah ...governance me service sector means role of ngo

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@Dipjust leaving a comment here to remember to ask you after results how much this acquaintance of yours scored.

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@Kira0705maine bhi economics wala service sector samjha..seeing the discussion here I feel so dumb..haha.

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@Dipforms of malnutrition can be for intro...lekin main answer is declining govt spending on health n edu and even in food sector..leading to increasing dependennce on markets threby affecting their non food budget... even one can emntion write about catastrophic health expenditure where person becomes poor owing too high health expenditure.... good to write splitting into parts but main demand of question must be addressed

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@Dipi dont think ques were of such a type that they could be easily divided into sub-parts.. Found it very difficult to do so in the exam

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@Lostdon't worry.....yahan Ghani BC ho rhi hai.....jo mahan gyata ban the hai ...wo khud nhi jante ki sahi hai ya galat.
Service sector ka kya matlab hoga ..ye sirf UPSC Janta hai ...so chill bro?
And more thing ambiguous questions hai...kisi Ko nhi pta sahi aur Galt ka .....ho Sakta hai tumhara sahi ho ...aur Gyani logo ka galat....kbhi kbhi over smartness ke chakkar me bhi logo ki lag jati hai?.
So keep it simple and short...

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Kisi socio wale ne representation bheja hai deviant subculture pe ???

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