Aren't they are mostly a market strategy to induce inferiority complex so the products will be sold more, just like the rest of the market appears to do so?
@Neyawn @Yo_Yo_Choti_Singh @Jack__Sparrow Sir any insights?
- how will this help in preparation of the exam
- how relevant it is from the examination perspective
- does it add enough value that someone will pay for it?
- (a) a test series experience, where you find difficult questions, and often complicated. This makes you wonder,
- (b) is the objective of this test series to create a inferiority complex or fear of missing out such that you end up
- (c) subscribing to the product?
- "Obvious Reason" to scare students for subscriptions.
- X may run out of new questions, or of of imagination to produce new questions.
- Students may be clamouring for solving new questions and there could be "market" for something like this.
- "X" feels that the paper must be tougher than the actual examination.
- Read Basic Books as Many times as possible - and Revise them - Priority #1
- Solve previous Years Papers - and Revise them till you know them - Priority #2
- Take anyone Test Series and do it religiously and an additional one from the market - And at least know those questions 100% - Priority #3
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Having said that, Most people I know do solve at least one Test Series and it is something that we have to do for correct assessment and sometimes to develop problem solving skills. So you do not have to be a complete nihilist at this. In the end since you alone will have to bear the consequences of your decisions ( we all do ) , you must make an individual choice as to what you want to do. No one can make that decision for you.
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Sir, the generally poor condition of Roads in Eastern UP and Bihar can be attributed to the following reason
Lack of Socio-Economic Development of the region.
I think all reasons like strong monsoon zone and softer soil and other environmental reasons do not hold. Neither do a political will or lack of industrialisation are very solid reasons. They are very legit issues but the very crux is the human resource of these areas has not been transformed into human capital. Take Japan, for example, a land devoid of natural resources and prone to earthquakes but is a leader in world affairs. Only due to high HDI index.
There is no coincidence that eastern UP and Bihar are at the bottom in many Human Development rankings and also have bad roads. With high levels of human development, other things follow I believe.
I have attended the classes of pavneet sir, and he didn't mean to say that one should not attempt test series. In his last class he had told us to solve a test series, but only after being thorough with the subject.
The point he wants to make in the Quora answer is that there is a tendency with students to leave certain subjects. The point of solving PYQ is to find out the important areas from the subject and atleast prepare them well. UPSC has this habit of allotting more number of questions/marks to a some subject, leaving others. They surprise students.
For example, there is a perception that UPSC doesn't ask questions from Medieval history, but it can happen that in one particular year it may ask more questions from that subject.
So, the point here is, that one cannot read everything, but can read important areas from every subject, and PYQs helps in identifying those areas.
I have attended the classes of pavneet sir, and he didn't mean to say that one should not attempt test series. In his last class he had told us to solve a test series, but only after being thorough with the subject.
The point he wants to make in the Quora answer is that there is a tendency with students to leave certain subjects. The point of solving PYQ is to find out the important areas from the subject and atleast prepare them well. UPSC has this habit of allotting more number of questions/marks to a some subject, leaving others. They surprise students.
For example, there is a perception that UPSC doesn't ask questions from Medieval history, but it can happen that in one particular year it may ask more questions from that subject.
So, the point here is, that one cannot read everything, but can read important areas from every subject, and PYQs helps in identifying those areas.
Actually, Civils Prep has a very wide level of subjectivity. Unlike the Sciences and Maths, there is a huge variation in preparation strategy for everyone. So it becomes really difficult for one advice to work on another, given that different people have different levels of preparation and often assessment is also not very objective.
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