Which is the best pen for UPSC Mains?

Refilling, spilling, spluttering, the list goes on.

#feelinglikeapainter with 29 others 😂

Easily lasts more than one GS paper. I used them to give my GS mocks, haven't got the opportunity to write mains. 

Everyone's a Gangsta until this legend arrives XD

@AJ_ The Schneider 0.6mm was a fail. The pen is light and the writing is the smoothest ever but very thick and dark, and so may appear on the page behind it. As you can see from the squiggles below, the writing is thicker than all the pens I have (Air micro, Teramax, Eye fine, V5, V7) even the 0.7mm ones

Trimax. 

(After all this time? Always! :D)

Tried many. To replace trimax. From pilot, uniball, gel pen. But nothing did better than trimax for me (on basis of this combination "how it looks on paper + speed"). If some other pen was providing better speed than it lacked presentation aspect. And if some pen looked even better (uniball), then my speed got compromised. So, each time when I tried to replace trimax, I ended up coming back to it.

Maybe I am attached to it. Using it since school days when having pen like trimax, pilot etc used to be cool, and luxury to many like me.

Never thought pens have such high importance in mains. I used cello bling ball pen. It was all different on UPSC paper. Did not give the darkness that it gave during test series . Finally practicing with pilot v5 as my many friends who cleared multiple mains suggested this.

Go for elimination method. It will work. 

What's wrong with V5 except these two shortcomings?

1. Delicate nib - breaks often, specially for people with tight grip. 

2. Not waterproof. 

No rubber grip, fingers ache after 3 hour exams (for people with tight grip). V5 RT and V5 Grip solve this problem but they often die prematurely (even without the nib breaking).