Mains 2022 - All Papers PDF + R**** Rona + Paper Discussion
Guys, Essay Paper is over. How was it?
@GaneshGaitonde so this is my first mains attempt. I had followed Nikhil sirs TS at insights (pretty helpful since I'm from Engg background, and had studied PSIR on my own), I had also started off with SR, and then understood that isse kaam nahin chalega, and then painstakingly using her notes as a guidance, made my own notes and revised etc etc etc.But the last week, I just had so much anxiety, that everyone else has had looked at Ma'am notes and attended her classes and would be pretty much thorough with everything. Nikhil sir was quite a help, but even then, I was feeling ki whether I made a mistake of not enrolling for a second test series etc etc etc.Ma'am notes seriously seem inadequate, but there is this TINA factor wrt PSIR optional...
Do share your experience once the marks are released. I personally believe you'll have fresh content to offer due to the Test series.
Even Rank 5 Utkarsh (300 plus in PSIR last year) had joined Vision Test series & claimed it to be a major factor in enriching his content.
But the TINA factor is real with respect to PSIR😅
Not very sure what extra content enrichment all other content has. except for random scholars which appear out of nowhere in their answer I could not find any thing which upgrades content made from SR CC or test series and her classroom.
There is a clear difference in the way student approach answers. I can quote a small example. Yesterday I was checking answers on Fascism
All students somehow mentioned it as Hodge podge of ideologies & Same Mussolini quote of nothing above beyond... state (Mam's Notes)
However, one of students instead talked of Mussolini saying - "Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's". Further he went on to say that fascism tries to replace materialism by a mystical idealism etc
This at least to me was fresh & forced me to award greater marks
There is a clear difference in the way student approach answers. I can quote a small example. Yesterday I was checking answers on Fascism
All students somehow mentioned it as Hodge podge of ideologies & Same Mussolini quote of nothing above beyond... state (Mam's Notes)
However, one of students instead talked of Mussolini saying - "Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's". Further he went on to say that fascism tries to replace materialism by a mystical idealism etc
This at least to me was fresh & forced me to award greater marks
That is something already Hannah said.. ending the conviction to think and in my notes as well which are from Maam's material only. Not sure what is unique here.
@GaneshGaitonde so this is my first mains attempt. I had followed Nikhil sirs TS at insights (pretty helpful since I'm from Engg background, and had studied PSIR on my own), I had also started off with SR, and then understood that isse kaam nahin chalega, and then painstakingly using her notes as a guidance, made my own notes and revised etc etc etc.But the last week, I just had so much anxiety, that everyone else has had looked at Ma'am notes and attended her classes and would be pretty much thorough with everything. Nikhil sir was quite a help, but even then, I was feeling ki whether I made a mistake of not enrolling for a second test series etc etc etc.Ma'am notes seriously seem inadequate, but there is this TINA factor wrt PSIR optional...
Do share your experience once the marks are released. I personally believe you'll have fresh content to offer due to the Test series.
Even Rank 5 Utkarsh (300 plus in PSIR last year) had joined Vision Test series & claimed it to be a major factor in enriching his content.
But the TINA factor is real with respect to PSIR😅
Not very sure what extra content enrichment all other content has. except for random scholars which appear out of nowhere in their answer I could not find any thing which upgrades content made from SR CC or test series and her classroom.
There is a clear difference in the way student approach answers. I can quote a small example. Yesterday I was checking answers on Fascism
All students somehow mentioned it as Hodge podge of ideologies & Same Mussolini quote of nothing above beyond... state (Mam's Notes)
However, one of students instead talked of Mussolini saying - "Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's". Further he went on to say that fascism tries to replace materialism by a mystical idealism etc
This at least to me was fresh & forced me to award greater marks
Where are you evaluating copies btw ? Any openings there ?
@GaneshGaitonde so this is my first mains attempt. I had followed Nikhil sirs TS at insights (pretty helpful since I'm from Engg background, and had studied PSIR on my own), I had also started off with SR, and then understood that isse kaam nahin chalega, and then painstakingly using her notes as a guidance, made my own notes and revised etc etc etc.But the last week, I just had so much anxiety, that everyone else has had looked at Ma'am notes and attended her classes and would be pretty much thorough with everything. Nikhil sir was quite a help, but even then, I was feeling ki whether I made a mistake of not enrolling for a second test series etc etc etc.Ma'am notes seriously seem inadequate, but there is this TINA factor wrt PSIR optional...
Do share your experience once the marks are released. I personally believe you'll have fresh content to offer due to the Test series.
Even Rank 5 Utkarsh (300 plus in PSIR last year) had joined Vision Test series & claimed it to be a major factor in enriching his content.
But the TINA factor is real with respect to PSIR😅
Not very sure what extra content enrichment all other content has. except for random scholars which appear out of nowhere in their answer I could not find any thing which upgrades content made from SR CC or test series and her classroom.
There is a clear difference in the way student approach answers. I can quote a small example. Yesterday I was checking answers on Fascism
All students somehow mentioned it as Hodge podge of ideologies & Same Mussolini quote of nothing above beyond... state (Mam's Notes)
However, one of students instead talked of Mussolini saying - "Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's". Further he went on to say that fascism tries to replace materialism by a mystical idealism etc
This at least to me was fresh & forced me to award greater marks
That is something already Hannah said.. ending the conviction to think
Bhai, kaha sabne same hi hai almost. It's all about expression. That's the central idea of differentiating.
I am not trying to convince you. Just stating my opinion and my perspective of freshness in answers.
@Truthseeker9 my experience with Insights Nikhil gowda sir has been the following: Sir doesn't outright give a model answer or anything. He adds on to what I've already written. And, sir gives relevant CA articles in his telegram group. He also discusses with us in a way, and somehow I used to understand how to interlink stuff. I have tried in this mains.They also release a monthly magazine from relevant articles, but I have not really religiously looked at it. I prefer newspapers and my own notes. However I did show Nikhil sir a couple of my notes, just to get it checked, if I'm moving in the right direction.
Seems very much a paid comment. Nobody asked for your experience :). Nobody asked if Sir has any tg group or not. Nobody asked for Monthly magazine.
Anyway good for you if SIR things work for you. Good luck.
DancingMaster,SurgicalstrikeHi, This is my personal opinion. I have never got good marks in PSIR (105~110 in mocks, 240 in Mains). So, my opinion might be misleading too.@brownianMotion is ma'am videos something different from model answer content and pdf she uploads ? Never found time to watch her videos in any of my attempts. Not very sure how people manage to find time to watch her videos.
Does it help wrt paper 2 ? Paper 2 is my concern as it is more random. In paper 1 people score good despite crash course or no crash course.
You practiced psir from ma'am test series only or done anything along with it like pyq or topper copies ?
I found only very few qn from ma'am test series this time ! Which one are you talking about ?
1. Videos content are very much different from model answers. In discussions, she talks about structuring and line of thinking. This might help in augmenting subject knowledge with questions. I have faced issues in writing answer in language of the subject. One or two keywords here and there in discussion gets recalled in exam.You can watch the videos at 2x at home or increase to more speed from 'inspect element' in browser2. Last crash course, she started with paper 2. It was more comprehensive coverage. It helped me to some extent as I had very less content in paper 2. Infact marks in paper 2 >paper 1 for me as paper 1 was disaster :p3. I watched lectures and attempted sectional test of each part this time. Many PYQs were covered in class by mam. Considering, my historical low marks - something more needs to be done from my side !! :)4. I did not cross check. It just felt lot of questions were from test series or some discussion from mamHere they provide the source of question from test series.Baaki questions ache the iss baar I felt. Rest UPSC will tell. Whether history of low marks repeats or ....
Why they remove the videos after crash course completion i wanted to watch for paper 2 as well but could not. :(
Did you cover pyq separately else from videos ?
So SR content of CC and normal classes and sectional test is what you did this time ? Attempted FLT as well ?
Any tips for paper 2 and if you could share your copies it would be great :) Paper 2 is something I am very confident about but my performances missing the trick and not able to score. :(
Lectures are there till 15th October !!Why they remove the videos after crash course completion i wanted to watch for paper 2 as well but could not. :(
Did you cover pyq separately else from videos ?
So SR content of CC and normal classes and sectional test is what you did this time ? Attempted FLT as well ?
Any tips for paper 2 and if you could share your copies it would be great :) Paper 2 is something I am very confident about but my performances missing the trick and not able to score. :(
Truthseeker9,@GaneshGaitonde so this is my first mains attempt. I had followed Nikhil sirs TS at insights (pretty helpful since I'm from Engg background, and had studied PSIR on my own), I had also started off with SR, and then understood that isse kaam nahin chalega, and then painstakingly using her notes as a guidance, made my own notes and revised etc etc etc.But the last week, I just had so much anxiety, that everyone else has had looked at Ma'am notes and attended her classes and would be pretty much thorough with everything. Nikhil sir was quite a help, but even then, I was feeling ki whether I made a mistake of not enrolling for a second test series etc etc etc.Ma'am notes seriously seem inadequate, but there is this TINA factor wrt PSIR optional...
Do share your experience once the marks are released. I personally believe you'll have fresh content to offer due to the Test series.
Even Rank 5 Utkarsh (300 plus in PSIR last year) had joined Vision Test series & claimed it to be a major factor in enriching his content.
But the TINA factor is real with respect to PSIR😅
Not very sure what extra content enrichment all other content has. except for random scholars which appear out of nowhere in their answer I could not find any thing which upgrades content made from SR CC or test series and her classroom.
There is a clear difference in the way student approach answers. I can quote a small example. Yesterday I was checking answers on Fascism
All students somehow mentioned it as Hodge podge of ideologies & Same Mussolini quote of nothing above beyond... state (Mam's Notes)
However, one of students instead talked of Mussolini saying - "Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's". Further he went on to say that fascism tries to replace materialism by a mystical idealism etc
This at least to me was fresh & forced me to award greater marks
That is something already Hannah said.. ending the conviction to think
Bhai, kaha sabne same hi hai almost. It's all about expression. That's the central idea of differentiating.
I am not trying to convince you. Just stating my opinion and my perspective of freshness in answers.
Yeah cool. Some people are bliss no doubt about the expression thing. And some despite good content struggle. That is why there are people like me who fails in their 4th 5th and this last time may be may be not. Khair anyway lets see how thing rolls when winter arrives.
brownianMotion,@GaneshGaitondeDid you write this years mains ?? How have been your previous experiences of mains ?? Any pattern you saw in your approach vis-a-vis marks ?
Hey, No man, No idea ! This was my 2nd mains.
brownianMotion,@GaneshGaitonde so this is my first mains attempt. I had followed Nikhil sirs TS at insights (pretty helpful since I'm from Engg background, and had studied PSIR on my own), I had also started off with SR, and then understood that isse kaam nahin chalega, and then painstakingly using her notes as a guidance, made my own notes and revised etc etc etc.But the last week, I just had so much anxiety, that everyone else has had looked at Ma'am notes and attended her classes and would be pretty much thorough with everything. Nikhil sir was quite a help, but even then, I was feeling ki whether I made a mistake of not enrolling for a second test series etc etc etc.Ma'am notes seriously seem inadequate, but there is this TINA factor wrt PSIR optional...
Do share your experience once the marks are released. I personally believe you'll have fresh content to offer due to the Test series.
Even Rank 5 Utkarsh (300 plus in PSIR last year) had joined Vision Test series & claimed it to be a major factor in enriching his content.
But the TINA factor is real with respect to PSIR😅
Not very sure what extra content enrichment all other content has. except for random scholars which appear out of nowhere in their answer I could not find any thing which upgrades content made from SR CC or test series and her classroom.
There is a clear difference in the way student approach answers. I can quote a small example. Yesterday I was checking answers on Fascism
All students somehow mentioned it as Hodge podge of ideologies & Same Mussolini quote of nothing above beyond... state (Mam's Notes)
However, one of students instead talked of Mussolini saying - "Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's". Further he went on to say that fascism tries to replace materialism by a mystical idealism etc
This at least to me was fresh & forced me to award greater marks
That is something already Hannah said.. ending the conviction to think
Bhai, kaha sabne same hi hai almost. It's all about expression. That's the central idea of differentiating.
I am not trying to convince you. Just stating my opinion and my perspective of freshness in answers.
Yeah cool. Some people are bliss no doubt about the expression thing. And some despite good content struggle. That is why there are people like me who fails in their 4th 5th and this last time may be may be not. Khair anyway lets see how thing rolls when winter arrives.
Bhai, stay strong 💪. Utmost respect for your journey of grit & determination. Let this negativity roll out instead. May the force be with you !
Ann2410,@GaneshGaitonde how was the paper acc to you this year ? how much could you write satisfactorily ?
Yaar I personally found 1A relatively tougher. I was forced to attempt 3 questions from 1B
Paper 2 I found okay and on expected lines. I won't call it easy at all. Nothing seems easy during the Mains :P
I am not in a position to evaluate myself clearly. But I believe I couldn't do justice to few 10 markers in each section. 15 or 20 markers went fine
Regardless, I was just happy to finish the paper.
Ann2410,
MC Cullum,
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