Doubt Clearance Thread: UPSC 2021
"When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions."
Created this thread as a one stop solution for all members so that all the doubts wherein any conceptual clarification is required can be solved here.
What is your strategy to deal with such questions...leave or guess? Could you explain with an example by solving these.
1. Selecting items from an uncountable list
2. Arranging states
3. Arranging dates
For The agriculture cess question my logic was, we put cess over the items which are either luxury or sin goods. Apples are consumed by common man and hence it won't be put here. As it had option 1 I might have gone for it.
For GST question : I would have excluded canned fish and cooked egg(restaurant) So would have gone with 1. Newspaper with advertising - I knew would not be exempted.
For GSDP questions, it is a tough question, reason being - UP is large state and Maha is financial hub - I would have choose Maha - for port etc + is is one of largest exporting state + financial hub and we know how UP is termed one of the poor states. B/w West bengal and MP - I would have chooses WB, based on similar logic- it is more developed, size is more or less similar to MP (MP>WB) , but still trade etc would have lead me to choose WB.
Essential commodities act - Here I would have kept fodder seed out of bound, I didn't find it worth an essentail commodity and not all people actually need that. Drugs I knew, fertiliser I knew. So elimination would have worked.
The forest areas, would have been a knowledge based - right now I don't remember but these are major states wrt forest cover I would have had remembered them. But if logic was to be used, I would have gone for chattisgarh to be highest, seeing its size and forest (General knowledge - no specific one) and maharastra to be lowest (as MP has the highest forest area)
Edit : Answer bata dijiye. I want to know kahan tak sahi hoti mei.
Super explanation. I will have to check the key from respective tests. Will surely get back with the answers by 9.
Until then, can we have some more logical approach for answering them?
@LetsGetThisBread @sstarrr @Asmita_101
Answers in sequence
D
D
C
C
C
C
Cess qn : i applied the same logic as@sstarrr . Turns out GOI doesn't think on similar lines.
Gst qn : some kind of logic can be applied here as@Asmita_101 did. Cooked items can invite gst. There was controversy over parotta vs roti and all. So my sunday bfast of bread and boiled eggs me se bread wont invite gst and eggs will. Logic : fail.
Gsdp qn : correctly pointed out@LetsGetThisBread . MH >UP. Altho up was also in news having overtaken GUJ AND TN. but MP vs WB is tricky. We can apply some logic about coastal vs non coastal. Logic of@sstarrr : works.
Essential commodities : turns out seed is imp. There are 7 ECs.
Forest qn : everyone got this right.
History qn : no attempts?
Pray that our logic is along govt lines. Aise qns na karte bante hain na skip karte.
sstarrr,
@LetsGetThisBread @sstarrr @Asmita_101
Answers in sequence
D
D
C
C
C
C
Cess qn : i applied the same logic as@sstarrr . Turns out GOI doesn't think on similar lines.
Gst qn : some kind of logic can be applied here as@Asmita_101 did. Cooked items can invite gst. There was controversy over parotta vs roti and all. So my sunday bfast of bread and boiled eggs me se bread wont invite gst and eggs will. Logic : fail.
Gsdp qn : correctly pointed out@LetsGetThisBread . MH >UP. Altho up was also in news having overtaken GUJ AND TN. but MP vs WB is tricky. We can apply some logic about coastal vs non coastal. Logic of@sstarrr : works.
Essential commodities : turns out seed is imp. There are 7 ECs.
Forest qn : everyone got this right.
History qn : no attempts?
Pray that our logic is along govt lines. Aise qns na karte bante hain na skip karte.
.
What is your strategy to deal with such questions...leave or guess? Could you explain with an example by solving these.
1. Selecting items from an uncountable list
2. Arranging states
3. Arranging dates
For The agriculture cess question my logic was, we put cess over the items which are either luxury or sin goods. Apples are consumed by common man and hence it won't be put here. As it had option 1 I might have gone for it.
For GST question : I would have excluded canned fish and cooked egg(restaurant) So would have gone with 1. Newspaper with advertising - I knew would not be exempted.
For GSDP questions, it is a tough question, reason being - UP is large state and Maha is financial hub - I would have choose Maha - for port etc + is is one of largest exporting state + financial hub and we know how UP is termed one of the poor states. B/w West bengal and MP - I would have chooses WB, based on similar logic- it is more developed, size is more or less similar to MP (MP>WB) , but still trade etc would have lead me to choose WB.
Essential commodities act - Here I would have kept fodder seed out of bound, I didn't find it worth an essentail commodity and not all people actually need that. Drugs I knew, fertiliser I knew. So elimination would have worked.
The forest areas, would have been a knowledge based - right now I don't remember but these are major states wrt forest cover I would have had remembered them. But if logic was to be used, I would have gone for chattisgarh to be highest, seeing its size and forest (General knowledge - no specific one) and maharastra to be lowest (as MP has the highest forest area)
Edit : Answer bata dijiye. I want to know kahan tak sahi hoti mei.
Super explanation. I will have to check the key from respective tests. Will surely get back with the answers by 9.
Until then, can we have some more logical approach for answering them?
@LetsGetThisBread @sstarrr @Asmita_101
Answers in sequence
D
D
C
C
C
C
Cess qn : i applied the same logic as@sstarrr . Turns out GOI doesn't think on similar lines.
Gst qn : some kind of logic can be applied here as@Asmita_101 did. Cooked items can invite gst. There was controversy over parotta vs roti and all. So my sunday bfast of bread and boiled eggs me se bread wont invite gst and eggs will. Logic : fail.
Gsdp qn : correctly pointed out@LetsGetThisBread . MH >UP. Altho up was also in news having overtaken GUJ AND TN. but MP vs WB is tricky. We can apply some logic about coastal vs non coastal. Logic of@sstarrr : works.
Essential commodities : turns out seed is imp. There are 7 ECs.
Forest qn : everyone got this right.
History qn : no attempts?
Pray that our logic is along govt lines. Aise qns na karte bante hain na skip karte.
You know, I should have gone with my gut, I kinda knew the answers for the others, but I wasn’t really sure about them. The cess one I figured apples would be charged on import because usually we import apples from the US and they are the first casualty when India-US relations go bad, if apples can be charged then gold and silver and petroleum would also be charged anyway (that’s my logic anyway).
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