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[Results] Prelims 2020 Over - Gearing for 2021

Because of the corona virus issue? If it does not happen then worst affected will be people whose interview is stuck, around 600-700 such people I think are yet to appear for their interview.


@neyawn sir and others, what is your take?

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In follow up to my demand
Besides ir and polity of 2019

Requirement
Contemporary issues and QIP GS SCORE
2019,18,17

WILL PAY


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For so great exam people had, forum this season has garnered prolly the least traction in the last 5 years. Those who have been in forum since they started taking baby steps for upsc would know. Also for the first time I am seeing people so concerned about paper 2 , literally on every page we are seeing paper 2 discussion


*High quality bakar ek khwab hai*

Maybe sabka gs paper 1 achcha gaya ho... In insights poll it is showing 2k people getting 110+

Good luck believing those polls. 

If you were here, you would have known how jostling the forum used to be in 2016 2017 when 110 scores were commonplace. In 2018 19 too when 100s were common forum used to be far far more active. 

Bilkul sahi.. Even the toughest of papers kept the forum active and that too till the result day almost. 

Iss baar don't know what has happened.. 

And yaa Insights polls are fraud. This is a well known fact now

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For so great exam people had, forum this season has garnered prolly the least traction in the last 5 years. Those who have been in forum since they started taking baby steps for upsc would know. Also for the first time I am seeing people so concerned about paper 2 , literally on every page we are seeing paper 2 discussion


*High quality bakar ek khwab hai*

Maybe sabka gs paper 1 achcha gaya ho... In insights poll it is showing 2k people getting 110+

Good luck believing those polls. 

If you were here, you would have known how jostling the forum used to be in 2016 2017 when 110 scores were commonplace. In 2018 19 too when 100s were common forum used to be far far more active. 

So why are people discussing less then....dauration for mains is less maybe the reason

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For so great exam people had, forum this season has garnered prolly the least traction in the last 5 years. Those who have been in forum since they started taking baby steps for upsc would know. Also for the first time I am seeing people so concerned about paper 2 , literally on every page we are seeing paper 2 discussion


*High quality bakar ek khwab hai*

Maybe sabka gs paper 1 achcha gaya ho... In insights poll it is showing 2k people getting 110+

Good luck believing those polls. 

If you were here, you would have known how jostling the forum used to be in 2016 2017 when 110 scores were commonplace. In 2018 19 too when 100s were common forum used to be far far more active. 

So why are people discussing less then....dauration for mains is less maybe the reason

Both that, and the 100 102 wala guy doesn't want to rethink answers like desher katha or rakhmabai or even the fault in gandhi irwin. His 100 102 becomes 92 94. 

Percival,rishi258and1 otherslike this
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For so great exam people had, forum this season has garnered prolly the least traction in the last 5 years. Those who have been in forum since they started taking baby steps for upsc would know. Also for the first time I am seeing people so concerned about paper 2 , literally on every page we are seeing paper 2 discussion


*High quality bakar ek khwab hai*

Maybe sabka gs paper 1 achcha gaya ho... In insights poll it is showing 2k people getting 110+

Good luck believing those polls. 

If you were here, you would have known how jostling the forum used to be in 2016 2017 when 110 scores were commonplace. In 2018 19 too when 100s were common forum used to be far far more active. 

So why are people discussing less then....dauration for mains is less maybe the reason

Both that, and the 100 102 wala guy doesn't want to rethink answers like desher katha or rakhmabai or even the fault in gandhi irwin. His 100 102 becomes 92 94. 

Can't agree more!!

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Any have mk yadav QEP 2020
Masum_Ladka,
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For so great exam people had, forum this season has garnered prolly the least traction in the last 5 years. Those who have been in forum since they started taking baby steps for upsc would know. Also for the first time I am seeing people so concerned about paper 2 , literally on every page we are seeing paper 2 discussion


*High quality bakar ek khwab hai*

Maybe sabka gs paper 1 achcha gaya ho... In insights poll it is showing 2k people getting 110+

Good luck believing those polls. 

If you were here, you would have known how jostling the forum used to be in 2016 2017 when 110 scores were commonplace. In 2018 19 too when 100s were common forum used to be far far more active. 

So why are people discussing less then....dauration for mains is less maybe the reason

Both that, and the 100 102 wala guy doesn't want to rethink answers like desher katha or rakhmabai or even the fault in gandhi irwin. His 100 102 becomes 92 94. 

What u marked in chronology question in history regarding pallava, chola, pala, pratihara. I think coachings are getting it wrong.

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@Daarubaaj I’ve not written CAT or GRE but this is my take on why finding RC answers by looking at the whole article and not just the passage given in the paper is right. 

Administrators are overloaded with info and one of their major work involves distilling final conclusions/assumptions/implications by just glancing through the main ideas in the doc. Hence, UPSC gives strategically those paragraphs from a newspaper article from which we can deduce the entire article’s assumptions/deductions etc. That’s what they expect us to do when we pass the exam. 

If this isn’t the case and we have to go strictly only by the passage given, it becomes like a school English paper. 

Guys correct me if my reasoning is faulty and I’ve made wrong inferences 

PS even I’m on borderline in CSAT! 
Mikhail,Aurang_mirasudar
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@Daarubaaj I’ve not written CAT or GRE but this is my take on why finding RC answers by looking at the whole article and not just the passage given in the paper is right. 

Administrators are overloaded with info and one of their major work involves distilling final conclusions/assumptions/implications by just glancing through the main ideas in the doc. Hence, UPSC gives strategically those paragraphs from a newspaper article from which we can deduce the entire article’s assumptions/deductions etc. That’s what they expect us to do when we pass the exam. 

If this isn’t the case and we have to go strictly only by the passage given, it becomes like a school English paper. 

Guys correct me if my reasoning is faulty and I’ve made wrong inferences 

PS even I’m on borderline in CSAT! 

Bro during exam u have no access to those articles so obviously u should rely only on the paragraph given there. If u read whole article it's essence may change.

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3 din se post kar raha hoo..kisine reply nai dia


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@Equalizer that’s what I’m saying. It does not change. 

UPSC ‘strategically’ gives only those paragraphs that capture the entire essence of the article. 

One more reason why UPSC relies on the whole article for RC answers is because it wants to avoid students contesting their answers. If UPSC itself decides the answers to RCs, there’ll be no uniformity and its too much discretion in their hands. But if UPSC shifts the burden to the article author, it’s much easier. 

And we all know how conservative UPSC is. It does not take chances. In 2018, UPSC said Aadhaar could be connected to ‘any electronic device.’ We all know that’s patently wrong but since Nandan Nilekani himself said it in an article, it’s right for UPSC! 


Equalizer,Aurang_mirasudar
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For so great exam people had, forum this season has garnered prolly the least traction in the last 5 years. Those who have been in forum since they started taking baby steps for upsc would know. Also for the first time I am seeing people so concerned about paper 2 , literally on every page we are seeing paper 2 discussion


*High quality bakar ek khwab hai*

Maybe sabka gs paper 1 achcha gaya ho... In insights poll it is showing 2k people getting 110+

Good luck believing those polls. 

If you were here, you would have known how jostling the forum used to be in 2016 2017 when 110 scores were commonplace. In 2018 19 too when 100s were common forum used to be far far more active. 

So why are people discussing less then....dauration for mains is less maybe the reason

Both that, and the 100 102 wala guy doesn't want to rethink answers like desher katha or rakhmabai or even the fault in gandhi irwin. His 100 102 becomes 92 94. 

What u marked in chronology question in history regarding pallava, chola, pala, pratihara. I think coachings are getting it wrong.

No no its correct. 

Equalizer,
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Is that a telegram group ?

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rafaelsaid

Is that a telegram group ?

S

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@Masum_Ladka  bro give ur telegram ID or email ID


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RC me sab apna apna sahi karne me lage hai,badhiya hai
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@Equalizer that’s what I’m saying. It does not change. 

UPSC ‘strategically’ gives only those paragraphs that capture the entire essence of the article. 

One more reason why UPSC relies on the whole article for RC answers is because it wants to avoid students contesting their answers. If UPSC itself decides the answers to RCs, there’ll be no uniformity and its too much discretion in their hands. But if UPSC shifts the burden to the article author, it’s much easier. 

And we all know how conservative UPSC is. It does not take chances. In 2018, UPSC said Aadhaar could be connected to ‘any electronic device.’ We all know that’s patently wrong but since Nandan Nilekani himself said it in an article, it’s right for UPSC! 


Han bhai ...that is y aurang_mirasadar key is most apt 

Devanapiyam,Aurang_mirasudarand1 otherslike this
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@Equalizer Bro instead of claiming this,you could have gone through last year RC and I find what UPSC has given in the answer, they are verbatim from the whole article though based on assumptions and rational inference.


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