Hello everyone! How was mains this time? I remember having discussions on Quest portal after 2019 Mains. Activity here this year is pretty low, have people moved to other platforms?
Anyways, I found GS 1 toughest out of all papers. GS 2 was good though I think my Law Optional background helped me in several questions (the same would be the case for Geo Optional students in GS-1, so i guess such advantages get evened out). GS-3 was more straightforward than previous years and I hope checking is in consonance with the level of questions.
For GS 4, I wonder if commission considers students as stakeholders while setting such a paper. While giving lengthy case studies may be justified, if you give five subparts (no creativity whatsoever from Commission in the way they set the paper) to each case study, all the gyaan about creativity/innovation/making answer distinct goes out of the window and one is just concerned about completing the paper.
My personal opinion. What do you guys think?
The organisers of oylmpics should be first tested in various sports to see if they could compete. organisers of world chess championship should be first made to compete against carslen to see if they could win under timed conditions. that should be the parameter to see if they could organise the tournament or not.
We get it dude that you don't agree. No need to be so salty about it. Take it easy. :)
Formulaic approach can backfire in essay at times. In 2018 my score dropped from 139 to 108 even though I thought I wrote pretty relevant content.
First essay was on poverty and prosperity and second on customary morality. Started both with anecdotes (slumdog millionaire in first and navtej johar in second) and tried to tie them in the conclusion.
Aaj tak samajh nahi aaya ki anecdote ki khunnas thi ya quotes wagarah se chidh gaya examiner. But at the end of the day, you can't be too harsh on yourself. Just try and make the essay as natural and flowing as possible and leave rest to the powers that be.
