[Results] Prelims 2020 Over - Gearing for 2021

rafaelsaid

Having tiredness , sneezing and mild fever from yesterday . No breathing issues . I have nt tested it and not planning to test it till prelim ends ...  Stay safe everyone . 

SergioRamossaid

So while we are on the topic of last week jitters, let me share what I think about UPSC. 
See, I believe, what UPSC recruits via IAS are thinkers and planners. The most important job of a thinker/planner/executioner is to connect the dots and chart out the best course of action. A CEO of a company if you will. A CEO need not know everything, he just needs to take decisions in presence of available data. IAS plays a pretty similar role. So wouldn't UPSC try to hire someone who is better at connecting the dots or a person who knows everything? Now correlate my point with prelims. How many questions in UPSC prelims you can point out to be pure fact-based? Even if they are, they can be solved by connecting the dots in the options.  We remember all these random revolts, congress sessions, international bodies and all, how many do we actually solve using them? Even if a three-part question has 2 facts, the trick lies in the 3rd one. Same with other papers. There are 15 odd questions in the paper to which the answer nobody knows. They are not there to test your knowledge, but to test your temperament and composure. 
We should always be mindful about what job profile does UPSC provide after clearing this exam because of the paper tests only those skills. If there are multiple famines in Bundelkhand, UPSC does not want you to remember dates and years and casualties, UPSC wants someone who can understand the complexity of the issue using a cross-discipline approach, and bring out a feasible solution. Same is tested in prelims. 
This is the reason why as you go from group A to D, GS starts to get extremely factual. Because the people down the administration are not recruited to be thinkers or planners. To follow orders line by line, you do not need to be a thinker and planner, but for giving out instructions, you need to be. And thinking does not come with knowing everything, it comes with the skill of taking proper decisions with your available knowledge and inputs provided.
For example, you will be in a much better position to answer a question regarding a malnutrition scheme if you know malnutrition and the issues related to it. Not by simply mugging as there is a limit to the latter.
Therefore, if one has studied diligently for the entire year, understanding the issues and pondering over them, one is much likely to clear this exam. 
You are not going to fail for something you did not do last week. Your result will be a mirror of your last 12-14 month preparation. So just relax and wait for the glorious day, when you will walk into the battle arena, to conquer this exam. 
YOU WILL DO GREAT. :)

Equalizersaid

vikhcu2073said

Universal Declaration of Human Rights —->D) 1,2,3 

+1

Equalizersaid

SandyMatashsaid

Equalizersaid

vikhcu2073said

Universal Declaration of Human Rights —->D) 1,2,3 

+1

Common Man those are rights these are duties....how can they relate?

[(k) who is a parent or guardian to provide opportunities for education to his child or, as the case may be, ward between the age of six and fourteen

Article 51A. May be this way.

Tokyosaid

SandyMatashsaid

Getting 120 in GS1 from shanker key but only 65 in paper II....any positive words for me??

Key of csat?

Disney_Princesssaid

@SandyMatash Yaa There is always 3-4 comprehensions passages which are wrong in coaching wala answer keys vis a vis UPSC keys...  Start your prep for mains right away...