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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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@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.


Bhai ...this is how I also checked....last year ek question tha on monosaccharide soemthing...uska answer D hai as per upsc and everyone has given C in their key 

Devanapiyam,Aurang_mirasudarand1 otherslike this
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@Equalizer  ab isme Kya galat hai


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@Tokyo Logically also why would UPSC make its own answers when it can directly pick it from the article, as we are seeing they are word to word same, just that they have proof if anyone starts claiming their answer is correct, because in RC everyone can have a different inference.


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@Tokyo Logically also why would UPSC make its own answers when it can directly pick it from the article, as we are seeing they are word to word same, just that they have proof if anyone starts claiming their answer is correct, because in RC everyone can have a different inference.


Han bhai .closest to aurang key is ksg . Fir shankar 

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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. 

I don't want to contradict u. Just wanna have a healthy discussion on this.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.iasabhiyan.com/gurjara-pratiharas/

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/ancient_indian_history/ancient_indian_history_gurjara_pratiharas.htm


What appears to me is that there were 3 king bhoj.

First was the bhoj in 7th century. 2nd was bhoj 1, he was most famous. They are confusing bhoj with this one. 3rd was bhoj 2.

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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! 


If indeed essence does not change, no need to look at the whole article. We can still arrive at the answer by reading only the comprehension.

Sankoza,
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lo..here we go again with RC passages 🤯😩😜@Rakhmabai 

Kuch kuch hota hai@Aurang_mirasudar tum nahi samjhoge. Ek question ki keemat 🤣🤣🤣

Kraijen,Aurang_mirasudar
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@Rakhmabai Before appearing for Prelims exam, I was like dude work hard and don't be on border line, then start for mains from the very next day.
After Prelims- 
GS1- 113-117
GS2- Pakistan wala border line jo change hota rehta hai,
Jo socha tha wo to hua but jo nahi socha tha wo bhi hua


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@Equalizer u r right galat ans Diya hai coachings walo ne 


Equalizer,
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@Rakhmabai Before appearing for Prelims exam, I was like dude work hard and don't be on border line, then start for mains from the very next day.
After Prelims- 
GS1- 113-117
GS2- Pakistan wala border line jo change hota rehta hai,
Jo socha tha wo to hua but jo nahi socha tha wo bhi hua


That is the case with most of us 

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@Sankoza Such is the aura created by this exam that people will go to any length to justify UPSC. Whether you are writing CAT, GRE or CSAT, it sounds laughable that people need to go beyond the passage given and assume (don't know how) what's written in the original article and then answer on the basis of those assumptions. Please remember that every RC question has only one correct answer, any kind of assumption involved will make it a subjective paper which clearly it is not


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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! 


If indeed essence does not change, no need to look at the whole article. We can still arrive at the answer by reading only the comprehension.

Yes bhai...article se sirf we get to know the right answer ...no doubt u can arrive only by reading the passage....jo question theek hua hai..woh passage parh kar he hua hai

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@Equalizer  ab isme Kya galat hai


Bhai mai galat nahi keh Raha hn. Just having some doubt. I have shared link u can decide urself.

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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.


Bro u people may be correct.

Sankoza,
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Tokyosaid

@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! 


If indeed essence does not change, no need to look at the whole article. We can still arrive at the answer by reading only the comprehension.

Yes bhai...article se sirf we get to know the right answer ...no doubt u can arrive only by reading the passage....jo question theek hua hai..woh passage parh kar he hua hai

Bhai now they are giving difficult options to choose between either 2/3 options. I have cleared csat in all my previous attempts by relying on RC and some Quant. From 2019 onwards choosing RC  answers is way more difficult now. Now that I knew that they pick verbatim from articles and we need to know the essence of that article based  on that I m feeling scared for the next attempt as well. 

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@Equalizer Bro I just hope those who are on border do clear it because the amount of hard work we did in paper 1 should not go in vain


Sankoza,Equalizer
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@Equalizer u r right galat ans Diya hai coachings walo ne 


Question has asked rise of pratihara. So I think it should be first bhoj of 7th century.

But all these I noted only after exam.

Chalukya,
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@Equalizer bro I can empathise with you! Even I’m on the border with CSAT. It’s damn disheartening but what can we do 


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Question yaha see frame Kiya hai representation bhej dete to much baat banti

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