I am new to Forum threads. I have a question regarding personality tests. Are questions asked from entire DAF or only from the summary sheet? I wonder if the entire DAF is visible to the board members at all? The DAF contains information regarding caste and categories and I read somewhere that the board is not aware about the reservation of the candidate. If this is the case, then the board must be having limited access to the DAF.
Someone please shed some light on how the process works. The youtube topper mocks have confused me; there the panel has access to the DAF in its entirety.
I am new to Forum threads. I have a question regarding personality tests. Are questions asked from entire DAF or only from the summary sheet? I wonder if the entire DAF is visible to the board members at all? The DAF contains information regarding caste and categories and I read somewhere that the board is not aware about the reservation of the candidate. If this is the case, then the board must be having limited access to the DAF.
Someone please shed some light on how the process works. The youtube topper mocks have confused me; there the panel has access to the DAF in its entirety.
Are you afraid that your category may affect your marks??
I am a general category candidate. I am just curious to know how the process works. I was super confused after looking at youtube mock interviews.
I am new to Forum threads. I have a question regarding personality tests. Are questions asked from entire DAF or only from the summary sheet? I wonder if the entire DAF is visible to the board members at all? The DAF contains information regarding caste and categories and I read somewhere that the board is not aware about the reservation of the candidate. If this is the case, then the board must be having limited access to the DAF.
Someone please shed some light on how the process works. The youtube topper mocks have confused me; there the panel has access to the DAF in its entirety.
There is ambiguity regarding access to DAF, some say they only get to have summary sheet, but it would correct to assume they have access to your entire DAF.
Iam not aware of the process in recent years but I believe candidates were called in such a way that gen cat competed the interview process first and later others, this i had read on quora.
Thanks for sharing this. So I did a bit of analysis; went through some of the interview transcripts available on the forum platform and almost always found questions from areas mentioned in the summary sheet only. It might be a coincidence that I only referred to such transcripts but I am safely assuming that summary sheet is all they (board) have. I am rooting my preparation based on this assumption for now.
I am new to Forum threads. I have a question regarding personality tests. Are questions asked from entire DAF or only from the summary sheet? I wonder if the entire DAF is visible to the board members at all? The DAF contains information regarding caste and categories and I read somewhere that the board is not aware about the reservation of the candidate. If this is the case, then the board must be having limited access to the DAF.
Someone please shed some light on how the process works. The youtube topper mocks have confused me; there the panel has access to the DAF in its entirety.
There is ambiguity regarding access to DAF, some say they only get to have summary sheet, but it would correct to assume they have access to your entire DAF.
Iam not aware of the process in recent years but I believe candidates were called in such a way that gen cat competed the interview process first and later others, this i had read on quora.
Thanks for sharing this. So I did a bit of analysis; went through some of the interview transcripts available on the forum platform and almost always found questions from areas mentioned in the summary sheet only. It might be a coincidence that I only referred to such transcripts but I am safely assuming that summary sheet is all they (board) have. I am rooting my preparation based on this assumption for now.
i had a doubt. i saw in a youtube video of BYJUs that ,in DAF 2 they ask only about current job and not past job experience (in DAF 1, they asked about past job experience).. so during interview, do they have access to information of only DAF 2 or both DAF1 and DAF 2??
Not sure about their access to DAF 1 or 2 but if they have access to summary sheet then they will have access to past work experience too. The summary sheet has details of both current and past work.
A burning question for Humanities optional candidates..especially for Socio, PSIR and history ones....Did you write optional answer in paragraphs or in GS type methodology of points. I am confused till nowPSIR optional. Wrote everything in paragraph- all 10,15, 20 markers.
Same here. Did Shubra Maam suggest only to write in paras ?
I didn't take any formal coaching or test series for PSIR. This was my second mains. In my first mains, I got good marks( 141, 148) in both papers, and so decided to replicate my efforts from last time. It was all paragraph last time; so this time too, I stuck with it. Paragraph seemed the right way to go as none of the articles that I referred by academics during my preparation were written in points. I therefore decided to mimic the writing style of academics to the best of my abilities.
A burning question for Humanities optional candidates..especially for Socio, PSIR and history ones....Did you write optional answer in paragraphs or in GS type methodology of points. I am confused till nowPSIR optional. Wrote everything in paragraph- all 10,15, 20 markers.
Same here. Did Shubra Maam suggest only to write in paras ?
I didn't take any formal coaching or test series for PSIR. This was my second mains. In my first mains, I got good marks( 141, 148) in both papers, and so decided to replicate my efforts from last time. It was all paragraph last time; so this time too, I stuck with it. Paragraph seemed the right way to go as none of the articles that I referred by academics during my preparation were written in points. I therefore decided to mimic the writing style of academics to the best of my abilities.
Your first mains was what year?
2018
@WindyDay What different you did ?
In 2018, I was not expecting a Mains call; I had messed up my prelims. So I did not prepare much after the prelims exam. I was working back then. So the prelims result came as both a surprise and shock. I was lacking in terms of GS content and messed all my GS papers; I scored well in essay and optional.
So this time I focused a lot on getting my GS game right with a special focus on ethics as I feel it is a low hanging fruit. In terms of essay and optional did not do anything different.
@WindyDay what's the secret for scoring 280 in 1st attempt
In hindsight I can say it is pure interest in the subject. I love International Relations and keep reading stuff. I imagine that could have helped me. In addition, PSIR gives lot of leverage to use current event examples to substantiate claims in both the papers. This really helps with the quality of answer.
@WindyDay how was this time?
GS was much better; best was ethics. Optional I tried to maintain the same level as last time. I will be happy if I can replicate last time's optional score; not really expecting more than that.
@WindyDay bhai page bharna kitna imp he optional me?
I don't know. I can only share my experience. My strategy was to first do the three 20 markers; then the six 15 markers and then the ten 10 markers. So ofcourse some of the 10 markers I could only write 1.5 pages because of paucity of time.
Interestingly UPSC has removed the mains result update notification from the website. I wonder what this means. The result might be delayed further.
hai to sahi
