Mains 2023 - In or out?

Planning to give ifos @ 24

Anyone here who has cleared its cutoff (for UR) this year and last , kindly render info on following:

- how many questions attempted ?

- any specific source referred for it?

- in how many rounds is the paper tackled?

-how many mocks given and revised ?

TIA

Was reading the thread. Could not help but reflect upon my journey as well. Failure hurts, and it hurts deep.

The pain, the sting of the failure though diminishes, never perishes. You only live to learn with it. 

To all the comrades who are yet to find success : you shall find the light soom. Godspeed. 

Perseverance is rewarded. Sooner or later. Keep faith. Destiny has a place for everyone. 

out with psir .5th attempt,3rd mains .Feel i betrayed my parents hard work,money and hope

Can you tell me what issues have you been facing with PSIR?

I was making up my mind to change mine to this 

Brother,from what I understood from PSIR preparation.

Though it has fair overlap with GS2.But getting good marks is more difficult ,as you hv to write in language of political science.Mention keywords ,quote relevant scholars.Major difficulty comes in consolidating the subject knowledge. As study material is vast,have to stick to your basic resouces,do value addition.Having good peer discussion group is also major factor in subject like psir.Everyone's writing style approach is uniue, sharing and discussing divese perspectives can help to retain more hold & interest in the subject.

My advice would be- Have look at syllabus and PYQs of PSIR

See how toppers copy are written,you will get idea of preparation level needed 

If you still wish to go -Can Join trending institute for subject

I hope my views helps you somehow.

All the best bro!! 

thank you for the detailed analysis about the subject ,it will help me in taking apt decision

hello bro, i wanted to know whether you are planning to keep socio as your optional or changing it. also, could you tell me what issues you have been facing with this optional? Is the level of questions becoming too tough to answer them accurately, or is the demand of questions too difficult to decipher. As you said, what makes you think that your paper 1 was not as per your expectations?

Since 2024 is your last, what changes are you planning to incorporate now? Your self analysis if shared here will be highly valuable.

I actually wanted conceptual clarity in the Ring Theory part because the material currently available in the market is not sufficient for that purpose. But yes looking back, I feel that doing Gallian was unnecessary and I shouldn't have done it. I should have stuck to revising PYQs multiple times. Honestly, I should have just concentrated on the High Yielding areas. 

I guess too much emphasis on clarity of concepts made that saying became true- "Gaon bachane ke chakkar mai purra sheher jala diya" :D because I overemphasised on doing tough topics that I forgot to do High yielding areas properly. I could not revise CP & NA and I thought that since I am a CS Grad, I will manage them in examination hall (and boy, oversight would have been an understatement for what happened in P2). After post-mains rant got over, I strictly analysed and found that overemphasis on tough topics made me lose crucial marks in easy topics *sigh* (I got all the CP & NA questions wrong in Sec B and got the MA, FD & Mech Qs correctly). Also not to forget, I had my PG midsem exams on 20th Sept so I had to travel back from the exam centre to the college (in another city) to give that. 

 Lesson learnt: Don't worry about "getting the edge". First consolidate what you have. Target the High Yielding areas more and in case if there's something tough with low RoI, just leave it. [The amount of wisdom you get after failing for the 4th time is unparalleled xD]

as you seem seasoned player in business , any idea what should be correct attempt in P1 and P2 separate to have around 300-310 range marks ?

400+Rawscore is required to clear Mains with zero doubt.