@Neyawn indeed sir, I am...
Hey bro ! Didn't you migrate to the US ?
Mr_wayne here from the old Bakar days
Bhai upsc ka latt opium se bhi jyada addictive h. Ya toh bhai select hoga ya attempt exhaust krega. Tbhi america ya england jayega
@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
@Neyawn Hello, I am hopeful of clearing prelims. I am attaching my marksheet. Please, suggest me
from where I should start to improve my marks. I am not able to think.
Those posting the fake screenshots are the shittiest persons, playing with anxiety of aspirants and taking sadistic pleasure in thinking that at least someone is taking their posts seriously. Screw you guys.
and by the way, UPSC does not just pick up question out of thin air and make a paper out of them. There is whole examination wing dedicated to selection of topics, preparation of questions, setting the options, and answer keys, thereby setting the question's difficulty to desired level. Afaik, UPSC has never revised its keys in its history of conducting examinations. This might happen often in state PCS exams but not in UPSC. UPSC is cunning,it is shrewd, it is unpredictable, butwhat it is not isWrong.
You watch "The walking dead"?
How are we hoping for a drop in cut-off if the number of students they will take for Mains is going to fall by nearly 1200-1400 on account of nearly 100 seat reduction this year. I mean, yes the questions were tough but last time they took 10.5k, this time probably 9000, so it in a way offsets any scope of reduction.
Around 1000 less students this time for mains. Around 400 from general category. Just consider this factor only, ignoring difficulty of question. Even then cut off will not increase by even 1 marks. Number of seats have least impact on cutoff due to very high convergence near cut off.
There is something hidden as well. I have observed many of my friends marks. I noted that in all papers for particular candidate is more or less on parity. For example my general studies marks last year were almost similar in all gs papers 82,84,83. I have observed the same trend in many aspirants marks
bro this is because more than content (beyond a certain level) how we are attempting the paper matters the most. For example, I got marks around 80s in 2019 mains. I changed the approach of attempting questions and marks increased to 95 to 100. So, I believe that since we have particular kind of approach which is same for all papers so we get similar marks.
However, you can find if someone is extremely good in any paper then this trend gets violated.
first you read monthly current affairs, then make notes out of it, then you attend curreant affairs classes and make notes, then you read mains 365 and make notes, then you attend test series and make notes.And if you have PSIR then you also join the yearly crash course and make even more notes. Where is the time to study, to learn to articulate? At the end of 4-5 years you only have a pile of notes to show.@Capedcrusader1khel khela hai is bar UPSC ne... sari prelims tricks ke sath... jo market me thi.... these tricks/methods/70 days rev plan/ etc are making aspirant's life difficult...
I doubt if these youngsters who are getting in in their first attempts do this much of note making and value addition. Their approach must be very simple , the approach being followed by others is not sustainable. And maybe upsc too is moving away from this resource intense approach which is reflected in low weightage given to current affairs in recent years in both pre and mains. Due to the abundance of coachings, test series, current affairs expert, it seems as if UPSC has become a game of how much you can splurge. Should people who dont have money to join a 20k test series for GS, 20k for optional, 20k for current affairs, plus rent every year simply give up on upsc?Share your thoughts.
I remember doing all this for 2016 attempt to improve GS marks! I subscribed to Byjus current affairs, vision GS test series in MN center, vision model answers and elaborate current affairs, Chokkalingam current affairs plus spending 12K on rent in Mukherjee Nagar:-(, 3K for electricity bill plus other expenses (total 25 to 30K) but the improvement was not big enough! But there are other ends as well, i remember reading in forum after mains 2020 result, there are people who wrote 120 tests and still coudn't make it, bad luck or we still miss something when it comes to approach of a topper! more thoughts and insights are welcome...
Writing 120 tests or 12 tests does not matter. In any paper grip over basics matters the most. In any paper 35 to 40 are known questions. How easily someone sails through prelims depends upon number of correct attempts from these questions. In rest questions role of luck becomes significant.
was accidently binging on student responses after the UPSC exam (mainly GS1) due to stupid youtube recc. But i noticed most students felt the paper was easy or at best moderate and definitely easier than last year. Personally, I was blank after the exam as i thought it all depends on how my guesses went and definitely would not classify the paper as easy just because 5-10 questions were easy/repeated from last year. Just wondering how others felt immediately after the exam. I know it does not matter now anyways, but i have time to kill.
paper is easy for only those candidates who are under prepared or giving exam just to get exam wala feel. They just see some words and come to conclusion that paper was easy. They think that had they prepared they must have qualified. Ex They will just see definition of state has been asked .. OMG so easy. Direct from NCERT. They will just see words like mitochondria virus national park etc and say that paper was easy as they have heard few words. So don't take review of such candidates seriously.
Classroom classes ✅
Optional classes ✅
Current affair classes ✅
Writing practice ✅
Diagrams and presentation ✅
First attempt ✅
Is it really knowledge that most people who keep writing mains after mains unsuccessfully lack? I don't believe that a fresher knows so much more than a veteran that the fresher gets an under 100 rank while the veteran can't get his name in the list. What are your views. On one hand you( veterans) are spending your time on content enrichment , reading research papers, books, magazines, on the other hand the other guy(fresher) is attending 2 coaching classes in a day and spending the rest on just revising that and writing answers, barely having any time left to go for content hunting and gaining the supposed deep knowledge, which most veteran seem to blame for their failure
Firstly, after a certain basic level of knowledge time management, presentation and interlinking matters the most. Content enrichment beyond a point is futile.
Secondly, many vetrans understand it after few attempts while some freshers understand it clearly in first attempt itself.
Third, is good guidance. People without support keep on learning with attempts while some freshers have good mentor support.
Fourth, not all aspirants at the same level. Some have good writing skill from school days. (50 percent problem solved). Many have not written any essay after 10th or 12th. They have never read a book after 12th. Relied on farra in college. They have hard time reading and understanding ethics and laxmikanth. They will read one para and sleep 1 hour.
So everyone has unique journey. One must not compare two aspirants. They are not on equal level while starting the journey.
