[ Official ] How was the Prelims 2021 paper?

Yes and more than studying those boring current affairs data I m on forum

if this is how everyone gets 80s then i wont be surprised if cutoff goes upto 95 .

आपके मुंह में घी शक्कर और चॉकलेट केक

I m getting 88 considering all of these as wrongs 

हौले हौले हो जाएगी 

Just revising my notes of monthly current affairs from study for civil services GYAN channel ,,, past two years only lack of current affairs drags me out , 40+ are current in uppsc which are tooo different from upsc 

u would easily reach close to 100 if u added them in negative marks ,atleast 4 r right.

😂😂😂 लखनऊ आइए best मक्खन मलाई मिश्री 

Let's see fingers are crossed 😐😐😐

ya,i am preparing my mind for results then.looks everyone attempted close to 100.

that's what I inferred from reading your original post, G translate at times creates confusions! 

Taking a break from mains prep to catch up on the debates.  

Cut-off prediction is difficult when your previous anchor point is unreliable, e.g.  2017->2018 (difficulty jump, first time below 100), 2018->2019 (EWS ka introduction), and 2019->2020 (pandemic year, new paper style, difficult CSAT paper, etc). But  anyone who's given several of these attempts and has cleared somewhat consistently will have a good estimate of the main parameter that sets the cut-off, which is the difficulty. All the other factors - size of competition, number of seats, etc , exam attendance, are all secondary factors which mostly cancel each other out.  There's no way to objectively definitively 100% state that paper was easier or harder, but if you've written multiple attempts and have cleared or gotten close to, you should trust your gut. 

I can 100% say that to my eye, both papers were harder than last year. I've never had any CSAT issues and even this year will not have any CSAT issues, but even while reading the paper I could tell that it was going to be difficult for people. Usually I attempt >70 questions, but last year could only manage 65 and this year only around 60 questions. CSAT was vague, had confusing conflicting passages, had tricky math questions that could easily eat up your time, etc etc. This is more so than last year. And GS paper was definitely tougher - new topic areas, hard questions ,vague questions, bad translations, etc. This idea that there are enough easy questions to push the cut-off up is laughable - everyone who wrote the paper knows the kind of mental pressure that occurs while writing and how easy it is to slip up on those sitters. I for e.g. skipped the Bethune question because it was right after the Gandhi question and I didn't have the nerve to tick the right answer, even though I'd circled it. The only point at which the paper would seem easier is in the few days afterwards, when you sit with the paper and curse yourself or watch the coaching centres gaslight you into thinking that your brain was wrong.

There are many questions which are considered doubtful but are not, and those marks won't change. So it doesn't matter if people are taking 10 questions as wrong and dropping to 80s or 70s, because no one ever gets all 10 questions correct in the final result. And most likely 8 out of 10 of those are actually not doubtful but you've convinced yourself somehow that there's some chance (like many of us did with the AI question last year) either way.

It's a combination of anchoring effect, desire for risk mitigation, insecurity, etc etc. 

Anyway, longwinded way of saying that I can definitely believe the assessment that the cut-off would drop by 2.5 questions (i.e. 5 marks) due to the GS paper, and another 1 question (i.e. 2 marks) because of  the CSAT. I don't think the impact from reduced seats will be felt - some 500 lost places will hardly account for more than half a mark at the border and will be more than compensated for by the fewer number of people who would have written the exam with a decent level of preparation (I don't know about you guys but I know that the 2nd wave definitely impacted my own preparation). 

Am taking Shankar, Hardworking Human, Kaptaan and Vision's rough benchmarks and trusting my own gut and have moved accordingly. 

gopalswamy aiyyanger 1 only

mitochondrial 2 only

state defination B

casual workers 2,3

magnetite 12345

right to city 1 and 2

copper smelting 1,2,3

How many of them can be correct???