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[ Official ] How was the Prelims 2021 paper?

How was the paper guys ? 

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@Aurang_mirasudar last year also were settled🤣🤣🤣but then scores revealed something else 


What was not settled..let key come and then decide

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EPF , all casual workers  might be wrong .  Depends on UPSC . 

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Officer ias academy ..claims cut off to be 98 and paper being easy 😱
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@Aurang_mirasudar byjus cutoff prediction 100+/–2


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Forum key says Chaunsath yogini temple built to promote Vaishnava cult???
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Question paper apart most disappointing is answer keys when insitutes themselves are not able to reach consensus on answer in all comfort how can we in all types of pressures (family,career,expectations) can do that .Surely this is the indicator of toughness of paper 

Best science faculties in Delhi still nobody able to provide answers this makes us much more anxious 

Remember in 2019 itself newspapers claimed paper was easy and coachings gave 105 can be the cut off similarly last year 100+ was prediction 

It makes us doubt our whole preparation

If such was the scenario how cut off reached 92.5 historically low and even lowest than seen in any other year (means median and mode of marks was around this )

Hope to get some insights on how accurate is vision IAS key 

I think a lot of people have said this and it's a very obvious thing to say. 

But, it's ridiculous how coaching institutes and subject matter experts can't come to consensus on answers after a week with all the resources in the world at their disposal. And yet everybody expects candidates to get them correct in a pressure cooker(😛) situation in less than 90 seconds 

Even if the exam was open book, people would mark different answers for these questions.. speaks a lot about the ambiguity at play here.. 



shaanu4595684,Muffinand1 otherslike this
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Question paper apart most disappointing is answer keys when insitutes themselves are not able to reach consensus on answer in all comfort how can we in all types of pressures (family,career,expectations) can do that .Surely this is the indicator of toughness of paper 

Best science faculties in Delhi still nobody able to provide answers this makes us much more anxious 

Remember in 2019 itself newspapers claimed paper was easy and coachings gave 105 can be the cut off similarly last year 100+ was prediction 

It makes us doubt our whole preparation

If such was the scenario how cut off reached 92.5 historically low and even lowest than seen in any other year (means median and mode of marks was around this )

Hope to get some insights on how accurate is vision IAS key 

I think a lot of people have said this and it's a very obvious thing to say. 

But, it's ridiculous how coaching institutes and subject matter experts can't come to consensus on answers after a week with all the resources in the world at their disposal. And yet everybody expects candidates to get them correct in a pressure cooker(😛) situation in less than 90 seconds 

Even if the exam was open book, people would mark different answers for these questions.. speaks a lot about the ambiguity at play here.. 



That speaks a lot about so called experts too...


1 person solve 100 in 2 hrs


15 + people experts solve 100 in 2 days and still cant answer correctly 😏🙄


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The coachings and UPSC are complete polar opposite of each other now. Byjus, Kyunacademy, Bhizon (sorry I am myopic with weak vision), Vajiram (Hey Ram) go high on branding and marketing. Flowery materials, colored walls, "toppers talks", UHD videos, nice apps hahaha...These things have attract the noobs since 2016, coz 2016 Prelims was like a carbon copy of Vision material.   


But then UPSC learnt it, and changed their game. It changed a bit in 2017, then in 2018, hell 2019, oh no 2020, ab dekha nahi za raha 2021. So peeps, you to have to change. Sorry and Thanks for reading this long.

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plmokn25688524,
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@Neyawn Hi sir.  Im getting 105 around.  Prolly outta ifos race. Arent i? 

Brother is scoring 95 around. Border case i guess.

When is the remaining part of awfg gonna commence sir?



plmokn25688524,Muffin
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@Neyawn Hi sir.  Im getting 105 around.  Prolly outta ifos race. Arent i? 

Brother is scoring 95 around. Border case i guess.

When is the remaining part of awfg gonna commence sir?



105 frm which key?or is it after deducting doubtful ones?what is the expected cutoff for ifos pre?

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hi..getting 98.66 with all keys.. OBC...can someone tell what my chances are...

seeing here that byjus, officers and all are saying cutoff will cross 100..

thanks

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Getting 82 in GM category , any chances ?as its my last attempt.
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@GN  above 105 

@OBC above 98 .. 

Still here will not qulfi this year . You should work for next year . 

All the best . 

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@Aurang_mirasudar  and sutlej seems correct, haina? xD 

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@root @Neyawn why forumias score calculator has not updated visionias, shankar ias and toppers keys?

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@Aurang_mirasudar bro ur csat key?..if not tell me some key which can be relied?

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atuljisaid

@zombieland bhai what happened in ur interview ?


Was not able to clear. Got 780 in written but only 154 in interview. Missed by 10 marks

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jack_Sparrow,
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Hi


I have few doubt / query about this year prelim paper. Please have a glance at it if you have time.



1. Regarding the All casual workers being entitled to epf coverage, almost all answer keys say yes. But the upper age limit for epf is 58 years... 

So would a casual worker aged 62 will entitled to epf?

If no then doesn't it means that option A which says all workers entitled to epf is wrong.?




2. This regarding led lamps and the angle of light they give, classic led bulbs give light at 180 degree but the led filament bulb are made to mimic the normal bulbs and sodium lamps and they give 360 degree light just like normal bulbs. So which option would be correct.

I'm attaching image of led filament bulbs.



3.  This is regarding culturing virus in synthetic medium, it is directly not possible.... But in an artificial medium bacteria and fungi can be cultured, and in this artificially prepared culture of bacteria or fungus, virus can be cultivated. This means virus can indirectly be cultured in artificial medium. So again which answer could be  correct?
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