i wrote last to last year
i love you bro
@mvp leaving 70 marks sounds a little too much.. however you never know...optionals are normalized..i hope things turn out good for you.
@Capedcrusader1 i may be 100% wrong about this but this mad craze about finishing the paper costed me my two previous mains...this time i decided i am gonna do 18 questions per gs paper but i will write quality stuff..make structure..draw diagrams etc...i left 6-8 questions in all papers combined but i wrote very nicely (or so do i think).. let's see if this costs me again or works in my favour.
@Capedcrusader1 that is correct...but if you are able to increase 1.5 marks per question in say 15-16 questions...that is an increase of 24 marks then that's good too...baki it is all speculation...let's see.
@Iknownothing i wrote like that as well...coz i thought we have to write merits and demerits of the options just below the option only no ! so my answers of all subparts were fused too in case studies...but idk if marks will be deducted for that.
@Capedcrusader1 that is correct... but in the exam hall, i thought listing options before the person 1st, then writing merits and demerits would make checker look back and forth and turn pages... so i thought i should evaluate each option there only...your approach is better now i think.
@masteroptimist assert toh ni kar skte ...but 20 marks me thoda bhara bhara lage aisa socha ...plus only two options look like there is one bad way and one good way.. whereas there can be multiple creative alternatives...although case studies bharne ke chakkar me i had to leave 2 part a questions
@morty more generous than gs... i scored 250 last time in psir though my answers lacked depth i felt in paper 2
@Panchayat people toh saying papers were easy this time...forum pe hi many are elaborating their gs answers and all.
@mounikamouni24_h944 i was able to attempt all...but one 10 marker i wrote wrong ( that revolution in permanence) and another 10 marker in paper 2 (public diplomacy one) i just wrote few lines...rest it was good i think
@masteroptimist i also wrote iron law of oligarchy (the elitist theory and shit) , economic bases (Marxist view on power), unconventional power by Foucault and and Arendt etc ...some other bases i can not remember.... Shubhra Ranjan mam on youtube was saying the same thing so i think we did not need to write that French concept you are mentioning or may be mam was wrong..idk
@masteroptimist whatever i wrote was wrong coz it was i think specific question about Trotsky who i never heard of
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10 markers toh mere bhi chhoote hain coz i attempted case studies first....what i thought was in the test series they used to give 10-12 marks for descent answers in 20 markers so i thought ROI in these is better..in 10 markers what i got in test series was 4/4.5 at best...so 1 cs worth 3 10 markers...i wish it works here too..or may be they will butcher me for this...we never know with certainty.
@Darvey78 like@Capedcrusader1 said, few questions are out of competetion...but i wrote some tangential stuff...like expectations of donor agencies to open up the market, environmental degradation, decreased labour protection etc etc...did not exactly meet the demand of the question i think..but might get some marks i think
@AyehshaS i did that way too
@ishantipnis23947 109 was good...did you clear mains ?
@AyehshaS i wrote the same essay but i interpreted that we are supposed to be proactive...started from covid 19, how we should have made arrangements before 2nd wave and all...i cannot even remember what i wrote after that.
@Street_lamp started with quote of martin luther king junior "our scientific power now has over taken our spiritual power. we have guided missiles and misguided men " (because i planned to invert the topic in the later half and i did)
then began with how thousands years ago we associated lightening and thunder with god's act, cut to 2022 world leaders discussing artificial intelligence.
then gave examples how Indians were obsessed about religion but Europeans due to renaissance had scientific temper and over powered us..then some literal interpretation how battles were won by people had artillery than who fought with bows and swords etc etc.. how then industrial revolution brought changes ....
then i inverted it the topic and highlighted how scientific revolution brought with it atom bombs and inequalities and social upheaval and all...how it is important to not part with romanticism, spiritualism totally..to conclude i wrote about how scientists have also romanticized their scientific victories ..Oppenheimer said about atomic bomb "now i am bcm death , the destroyer of the world" romanticizing the godly power ( bhagavat geeta. )
one topper was saying in an interview that in gs1 he wrote 3 answers wrongly under 3 different questions so he had to strike it off..he felt like crying and all ... then in marksheet he got actually one of the highest in gs 1...so expect the unexpected...neither 58 can be explained nor sometimes marks shooting up beyond expectations...very unpredictable
@Panchayat mere 57 bhi aa chuke hain.. gs 3
@Fighterlegend6 how so ?
@Panchayat but do we reflect everyone here ? guys who are not in forum...from down south etc...they may have killed it...who knows !
@krishna96 you are top 10 bro
@nalin_pandey78066 main hu wo nasamajh manushya
@MC Cullum test series ke marks ke ulat aate hain bohot baar real exam me...us hisab se u r right
@nalin_pandey78066 how was your paper ?
@GaneshGaitonde how was the paper acc to you this year ? how much could you write satisfactorily ?
@Capedcrusader1 gs 1 cut off girana chahiye or seats badhi hain thodi wo bhi
@Capedcrusader1 i blv aapne agar 90% questions kiye hain achhe se out of 118, u have good probability...what do u say ?
@Capedcrusader1 u mean 45 % me chances ban jaate hain ? ni yaar !!
@Capedcrusader1 bhai mera toh waise bhi km chance hain..maine attempt hi approx. 91-92% kiye hain...baaki blank..although baaki ache se kiye hain ...i am anyways looking forward to next attempt
@paranthapijja then did they consider ?
time to repair the roof is when sun is shining means preparing in advanced for emergency...e.g. preparing vaccines before another wave etc etc... this is the precise meaning of this topic.. philosophically and literally... Having said that i cannot claim that they deduct marks for different interpretation. But i also think that if we are free to interpret essays the way we want, that would make essay a very easy paper.. interpret anything and write.
@BattingBaba your interpretation is quite different. But i have no idea about what examiner in expecting...the real one or subjective one !
@Capedcrusader1 selected candidates ke essay marks 101s se lekar 150+ tak bhi hote.. why this gigantic variation ?
i blv it is the matter of interpretation only
essay is a really underestimated paper... i was checking out the marksheets of previous year.. there is 40-50 marks difference as well.. what i want to say is... after optional essay is the biggest difference maker.. we should prepare more thoroughly for essay next year if at all we give the exam next year i mean.
@Truthseeker9 sabse zada crowd ?? i thought that was anthro !
is psir most crowded ?? kya psir ki butchering hogi ??@nalin_pandey78066 fine...completed...1 10 marker wrong (permanent revolution)...not satisfied with 1 20 marker and 1 15 marker..rest fine...overall good i think.
@nalin_pandey78066 mat yaad dilao yaar... but ant shant likha...how was urs ?
@Panchayat gs 1 ne bhi jindagi bardbaad kar di
@Kenshein in this forum only...yesterday
@Kenshein kal ki chat dekh lo bhai...koi bol toh raha tha
@Capedcrusader1 could u attempt imd , primary rock and deccan and sect question satisfactorily in gs 1 ? French president vs Indian president in gs 2 ? u left 2 in gs 4 last year or this year ?
@Capedcrusader1 i did not give last year...why scores of almost everyone was in 70s and 80s in gs 3 last year ? was the paper that hard ?
@Capedcrusader1 what were your scores in all papers ? if u can share.. and what were your learnings?
@Capedcrusader1 marks toh bata do guruji
@Capedcrusader1 mne ni diya last year..jaane do mat batao
@Capedcrusader1 well every year there are plethora of candidates who feel they did exceptionally well...finished the paper...good handwritting..data..presentation and everything but cud not clear mains... god knows y...even i felt so last to last year
@Capedcrusader1 in 2019 mains 150+ bhi the bohot logon ke gs4 me..although that year may have been exceptional
@tedmosby u r this year's rank 1 bro
@Stormtroper how many marks r u expecting in that q then ?
@nalin_pandey78066 m toh hopeless hun
case studies 1st...wrote very nicely (imo)...but fused subparts like option and merits and demerits below the options only...wrote 3 options in every cs....lot of time consumed...so left 3.5 10 markers...so i am pretty much out of the race people say..so ready for next attempt
@tedmosby lengthy made it difficult.... but i pretty much followed the same approach in all gs papers...left few questions in all of them to be able to write A1 quality answers bcoz in my previous 2 mains i was so happy about completing the paper and stuff but i have even achieved 66 marks despite that...was able to write very nice answers this year to a great extent...but i am regretting it i gave up quantity...i am pretty much out i think!
i did not give last year..but yes i have mentioned it before...even i attempted 16.5 in gs 2 in 2020 got 105...completed all questions in gs 4...got 66... that made me think on those lines
@Capedcrusader1 why can't we ? are marking schemes different...anyways actually it was applicable in my other gs too
@Capedcrusader1 bhai read again...talking about last to last year
@tmblnd1325194 ghee shakkar bro...if i make it despite that, i'll give u dinner at Taj.
@tmblnd1325194 just read about him...he left 50 marks blank in psir also ...total 150 something overall...he must have written amazingly as his written total was 805 despite all that
@Darvey78 don't even ask
@Darvey78 real marks are many a times way different than our expectations... u will see plenty of people saying after the exam smiling that they managed to finish the paper...made diagrams...structure...presentation etc etc.. But when they see their results obviously most of them could not even clear mains...happened with me too... even quora is full of these experiences...i suggest you to read some answers on people's upsc mains experience on quora, they have testified it... i feel those who work hard are more likely to clear, but their is a lot of subjectivity in the checking process... u can never be sure about anything.. coz even the other way round is true.. many times people who were hopeless and ready to give next attempt made it to top ranks.
@Dreadnought kon dekhe itta bada...koi summary bata do kya bole ye ?
@kohliwag so which all factors made u expect ? and what do u think the reasons could have been for not getting success in mains ?
@mvp y r u sure ?
@abc123 what are your hopes this time and based on what factors ? how was ur exam this time?
@shubham_bhargava2711491 i toh definitely wrote 15+ above avg answers in every gs and optional...but it came with the price of not being able to finish the paper in gs...so god knows what is it gonna be
@shubham_bhargava2711491 i left only obviously hard questions... primary rocks, imd color, french president etc.
@masteroptimist aap top karenge guruji jo bhi optional raha ho aapka
