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[ Official ] How was the Prelims 2021 paper?

How was the paper guys ? 

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@Sopranos Even though I agree with you on principle, that possibility of litigation arises due to vague, not well thought out questions most of the time! What's more nauseating is that for the same language they would sometimes consider the edge cases and sometimes not. If you are going to recruit all officers of the topmost bureaucracy of the country through a single exam, better be neat! You would almost never see this kind of ambiguity in IIT JEE because they take great care in setting the questions. Everybody has the right to know where they went wrong. It's ridiculous to have to wait for 1 year to get closure. This time I used whitener, and my case is pretty borderline, if I don't make it, I have to wait almost 1 year to know what actually went wrong!
MaeveWiley,sic_mundus_creatus_est
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@Vishnugupta will write to upsc for sure. But you can just Google led filament lamp/led filament bulb


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Is anyone planning to start with mains after a day or two considering only 80 days are left?

I am planning to start from tomorrow itself. Somehow I feel so lonely right now.. Need some study buddies... I want to post daily targets for mains etc. etc... 

Let's revive the 2021 daily thread in the coming days.... Whenever we start...

I will hopefully post my daily targets from tomorrow onwards. Really looking forward to see some crowd there.. People on forum have been a huge source of motivation for me.. 
Otherwise, I will have to barge in the 2022 thread.. Can't do without my peers here. 

THE_MECHANIC,captainhaddock
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2019 ( Graduated that year)

1st Attempt  

Prelims: 96

Missed cut off by 2 marks


2020

2nd attempt


Prelims: 96.80

Didn't qualify mains


2021

After giving Prelims

Me to upsc: Chahte kya ho yrr

Lottery bana ke rakh diya sb iss baar sala...



Is bar Kitna aaraha according to keys? I am scoring 15 less than the previous year! Are you still scoring above the 90 range?

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@drlokeshyadav761665 Dekha bhai maine kal hi but you need academic evidence jo mujhe nahin mila. Agar aap ko mile to definitely karo. Mera bhi bhala ho jaaega.I anyway cannot file because main already representation submit kar chuka hoon.


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@bhuvanamalar1015412 lmao why did u say that?


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2019 ( Graduated that year)

1st Attempt  

Prelims: 96

Missed cut off by 2 marks


2020

2nd attempt


Prelims: 96.80

Didn't qualify mains


2021

After giving Prelims

Me to upsc: Chahte kya ho yrr

Lottery bana ke rakh diya sb iss baar sala...



Is bar Kitna aaraha according to keys? I am scoring 15 less than the previous year! Are you still scoring above the 90 range?

Not even crossing 80 this time:(

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Is anyone planning to start with mains after a day or two considering only 80 days are left?

I am planning to start from tomorrow itself. Somehow I feel so lonely right now.. Need some study buddies... I want to post daily targets for mains etc. etc... 

Let's revive the 2021 daily thread in the coming days.... Whenever we start...

I will hopefully post my daily targets from tomorrow onwards. Really looking forward to see some crowd there.. People on forum have been a huge source of motivation for me.. 
Otherwise, I will have to barge in the 2022 thread.. Can't do without my peers here. 

Irrespective of the result, I would suggest you to barge into 2022 thread, imo half the crowd here and half there would break the group we have created, you could post your stuff there and talk about general things. 

And irrespective of the result many of us might get , we might all prepare for mains only till dec/jan. 

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Is anyone planning to start with mains after a day or two considering only 80 days are left?

I am planning to start from tomorrow itself. Somehow I feel so lonely right now.. Need some study buddies... I want to post daily targets for mains etc. etc... 

Let's revive the 2021 daily thread in the coming days.... Whenever we start...

I will hopefully post my daily targets from tomorrow onwards. Really looking forward to see some crowd there.. People on forum have been a huge source of motivation for me.. 
Otherwise, I will have to barge in the 2022 thread.. Can't do without my peers here. 

Irrespective of the result, I would suggest you to barge into 2022 thread, imo half the crowd here and half there would break the group we have created, you could post your stuff there and talk about general things. 

And irrespective of the result many of us might get , we might all prepare for mains only till dec/jan. 

Perfect!!
Exactly what I wanted to hear :) 

sstarrr,THE_MECHANIC
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Me to myself after i mark the wrong option "Right to Equality" in "Concentration of wealth"  question, even after a year of through preperation

इतना गलत कैसे हो सकता है 

WelcomeHomeFrank,
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@sjerngal Same here....preparing from home...not sure of clearing pre...but need motivation to start preparing for mains.


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virus can be cultured in synthetic media -https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/5760882/

copper smelters release carbon monoxide (questions anyway says MAY RELEASE) - http://chm.pops.int/Portals/0/Repository/batbep_guidelines/UNEP-POPS-BATBEP-GUIDE-08-EN-5.English.PDF


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Am I imagining things, or is it that a lot of people are scoring more than 100? 
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@atulji but many coaching institute have explained depending on *lethal* word .of CO .may be that was the catch


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@atulji also led 360 light lamps are being sold in the market


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@Sedate but it says "may"


coolpratyush232064,shaanu4595684
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Magnetite answer is 1,2 and 4 only. I can counter the the cse toppers key from their reference link in the solutions lol. 
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@atulji hey you should send it to upsc regarding virus synthesized.. many coaching institutes are telling virus cannot be synthesized


Vesuvius,PICERAS
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ok just one question. That magnetite pollution question.

Which type of Power Plant it is actually talking about?
Sab me hota hai kya?
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Btw, do you guys have any idea on how many questions were removed from consideration in last year's paper? People are saying the low cutoff is due to that.
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