Personally i don't like it when some coaching institutes say there were 45 odd easy question and thus cutoff would be around 90 ... This is very similar to saying that the poverty line is at 20 odd Rs/day simply because they can by rice and dal within 20 rs. Easy/Difficult/Moderate is a bit more nuanced. Anyways this is just a vent, maybe as i feel out of my depth to confidently say i can score >100 in this kind of a paper regardless of my preparation.
#Rant
The more i keep think about what i could i have done differently in the prelims exam the more i feel that nothing much could have been done. 3-4 silly mistakes which could be avoided, but ye toh sabhi ka hota hain and exam mein mostly unavoidable. Rest 7-8 questions that i could answer correctly were those where i was confused with 2 options, in fact in most cases everyone is. Just that on the given day i chose one option and if i had chosen the other i would have 4-5 marks greater than the supposed predicted cut-off . Yaar i just don't get the exam. Most of all i get irritated when i hear topper's talks saying the same things which i have mostly practiced. I know that even if i had my best day i would only be hovering around 96-98 which gives me no confidence w.r.t what needs to be prepared.
@GOT8 since 2018, UPSC has a sole motive of killing coaching wallas. i wont be surprised if in next notification, it clearly states in "bold": "ORN ke aspas bhi dikh gaye toh tumhari shamat pakki samajhna"
not sure that is the right approach anyways. Making it arbitrary is more dangerous to people with limited means. Rather if you want to make it simple make people realize that you can get good marks w/o coaching itself, but purely relying on NCERT & Newspaper. This randomness only creates panic and students actually go more towards coaching for some guidance. Cut-off Zyada hua toh kya hoga bhai .... The quality of any examination is good if it can pick roughly the same set of people who are well prepared every time, ensuring consistency, but idhar toh people are scoring 120 once and bowing out of the process in the next. For Eg : Let's say you have JEE/CAT ... I am pretty sure even if they conduct the exam multiple times in the same year around 75% of the top rankers would remain more or less the same. DOn't think the same can be said about UPSC.
@kohliwag even then you would end up around 95-100 in this kind of paper .. assuming u have an above average tukka rate .... Surely that is not a sure shot to pass given in the uncertainty in so many question.
the uncertainty is mostly due to aspirants piling on their own confusions in forums like this. there are only 2 questions that have possibility of genuine confusion this year - cooker and devi lal. rest is just mass hysteria
Don't completely agree. There definitely are more than 2 questions which seem to have some confusion b/n 2 options and the fact that there are some faculty supporting an alternate answer gives some credence to the students marking those options in the exam (although they might be in the minority). Jab teacher log khud argue kar rhe hain toh bhala student exam pressure mein confidently kaise mark karega. I am pretty sure there are many getting above the so called predicted cut-off have been lucky to get 5-6 questions right when they were confused b/n options. On any other day they could so easily have marked the wrong answer in this kind of paper. This i consider as uncertainty which is almost impossible to overlook in the process.
On each comment--->it shows around 2-3k views. But only 10-15 ppl are active.
Means--->They feel sharminda in telling score ( So they comfortably Below 85...Love those ppl )
Or they might be in Chill ZONE (which is hardly the case-->S/he could not be that frequent in reading commnets with in few minutes (if scoring 92+)-->More Power to them.
Anyways--Just few observations
NO offence, but Thoda over analysis types lag rha hain.. Don't think we can predict score based on this observation.
@monisha27 A C D
Not debating .. but i sincerely think we are overthinking w.r.t the Virus question. NCERT mein diya hain ki Virus can't grow in synthetic medium toh i think UPSC will stick by it.
PS - I have marked D too. I desperately want u to be right too.
@toooldtodieyoung why will i under report my score. and easily the cutoff will be around 75-80 questions.
oh bhai .. galti meri hain ... i did not realize that the cut-off discussion was regarding UPPSC.
@toooldtodieyoung plz send the link of youtube video where the papers is being claimed as easy. kafi easy tha. tabhi 80-100 wale sabki neend ud gayi h shayad.
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@PICERAS https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/role-of-animal-serum-in-making-of-vaccines-cronavirus-covaxin-bharat-biotech-7363978/Don't know why virus is not given as the answer by many keys but I found this to be supporting this
I assume u are referring to the below line in the article
"These nutrients, like specific sugar and salt molecules, are extracted from tissues of suitable animals like horses, cow, goat or sheep.The virus grows in these nutrient-rich solutions."
The extracts are not artificial/synthetic right as there are from horses, cow etc. Thus idon't think this might be thearticle to substantiate your (actually our as i have also marked D) argument.
2020 was a great exception in my opinion. otherwise for tough papers cutoff of 2018 abd 2019 i.e. 98, for ur may apply for 2021 too. I have begun to got those vibes don't know why. Feeling nervous at 100 obc
Possible.. Magar just for info. Did you give the earlier attempts and wondering whether you felt this year was easier/at same level?
