My opinion on cutoff speculations-
This was my 6th attempt.
Have written mains in all the earlier attempts and given interview thrice.
The 1st time I wrote pre was in 2013 and the last time I wrote pre was in 2017, could not write in 2018 & 2019.
I would say that I had a decent level of preparation, not as great as 2016/17 but not bad as well.
I found the paper to be extremely tough, nowhere in comparison to papers that used to come till 2017.
I have heard that papers were tough in 2018 & 2019 as well but I don't believe that they could be this tough.
It is almost like how many flukes you can get right, because to attempt in excess of 70 you had to guess and guess only.
My opinion is as under-
1. The cutoff would fall by around 5 marks (if not more).
2. The high marks we are seeing being posted here and there are bcoz mostly people getting good scores only post their scores (just like mocks).
3. There have been and always will be people who will score way above the cutoff. people had scored in excess of 150-155 also in 2016-17, so don't bother about that. And in that era also people used to say that cutoff would be this much that much seeing those scores, but in the end cutoff used to be lower than predictions. (Except for 2016 which was due to extremely easy paper)
4. There is always a scope of difference in marks calculated by institutes and upsc, so if you believe you are getting 87-88+ (after discounting for the tricky ones) then you should start studying for mains (after chilling for 2-3 days).
5. Those who aren't even close to the expected cutoff, don't dishearten yourself and don't blame your sources of studying. The main aim of sources and test series is to give you confidence that you are preparing well. So take it that way only. Upsc has always been far ahead ( or behind you can say) of what these coaching institutes could prepare you for.
Thank you.
P.S.- I am scoring around 100.
More than 5k people are already above 100 in a small sample of 19k people . Therr ll be more . That defy all logic as only around 4k gen ll be selected if u minus EWS...
ill get a heart attack i feel...........
This is crazy.
2000 people are scoring above 110..
I think they should put 125+ as well to give forest people a good idea..
Maybe that fetches more than 1000-1200 people and rest can chillax.
@rahulgandhi yaa I also marked D bit I think the coaching walas are correct. Had the statement mentioned 'defines' instead of 'provides' than the answer would have been D. But several articles of constitution explicitly provide for the judicial review.
This is what these test series' do to us.
Looking for statement to be wrong all the time.
I have also marked it as D thinking that judicial review is nowhere mentioned in the constitution.
But I know it is wrong.
