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[ Official ] How was the Prelims 2021 paper?

How was the paper guys ? 

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@Capedcrusader1 then how so many toppers this year are from classroom coaching program of vision and vajiram. Rank 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, etc. 


Your forgetting the ratio of failures πŸ˜•. These toppers are negligible percentage when compared to failures of these institutes 

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guys it’s applicable and also those are eligible. But they are not entitled. SC judgement talks about the establishments with 20 or more workers only. Not everyone 


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@kohliwag haha true 500 bacche in one class, how can I forget


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@kohliwag haha true 500 bacche in one class, how can I forget


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keephustling,
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@WayneRooney classroom coaching for one year is the herd mentality at play which you see post 12th std when all sheep flock to kota in a mistaken belief that kota is gateway to IIT. sachhai koi kyun batayega bhai?


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@Capedcrusader1khel khela hai is bar UPSC ne... sari prelims tricks ke sath... jo market me thi.... these tricks/methods/70 days rev plan/ etc are making aspirant's life difficult...


first you read monthly current affairs, then make notes out of it, then you attend curreant affairs classes and make notes, then you read mains 365 and make notes, then you attend test series and make notes.And if you have PSIR then you also join the yearly crash course and make even more notes. Where is the time to study, to learn to articulate? At the end of 4-5 years you only have a pile of notes to show.
I doubt if these youngsters who are getting in in their first attempts do this much of note making and value addition. Their approach must be very simple , the approach being followed by others is not sustainable. And maybe upsc too is moving away from this resource intense approach which is reflected in low weightage given to current affairs in recent years in both pre and mains. Due to the abundance of coachings, test series, current affairs expert, it seems as if UPSC has become a game of how much you can splurge. Should people who dont have money to join a 20k test series for GS, 20k for optional, 20k for current affairs, plus rent every year simply give up on upsc?
Share your thoughts.


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Anyone pls share the invite link of bakar group" Ifos/csp 2021 result countdown "wala
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Is that only me who choose concept of welfare as answer for concentration of wealth? 😐

yes. only you could do such a horrendous act.

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@Capedcrusader1 then how so many toppers this year are from classroom coaching program of vision and vajiram. Rank 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, etc. 


Your forgetting the ratio of failures πŸ˜•. These toppers are negligible percentage when compared to failures of these institutes 

according to this Quora page there were 12000 students 2017 accommodated in 24 batches in Vajiram!

https://www.quora.com/How-many-students-are-studying-in-Vajiram-and-Ravi-Institute-for-a-single-batch 

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@GOT8 since 2018, UPSC has a sole motive of killing coaching wallas. i wont be surprised if in next notification, it clearly states in "bold": "ORN ke aspas bhi dikh gaye toh tumhari shamat pakki samajhna"


not sure that is the right approach anyways. Making it arbitrary is more dangerous to people with limited means. Rather if you want to make it simple make people realize that you can get good marks w/o coaching itself, but purely relying on NCERT & Newspaper. This randomness only creates panic and students actually go more towards coaching for some guidance. Cut-off Zyada hua toh kya hoga bhai .... The quality of any examination is good if it can pick roughly the same set of people who are well prepared every time, ensuring consistency, but idhar toh people are scoring 120 once and bowing out of the process in the next. For Eg : Let's say you have JEE/CAT ... I am pretty sure even if they conduct the exam multiple times in the same year around 75% of the top rankers would remain more or less the same. DOn't think the same can be said about UPSC. 

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GOT8said

@Capedcrusader1khel khela hai is bar UPSC ne... sari prelims tricks ke sath... jo market me thi.... these tricks/methods/70 days rev plan/ etc are making aspirant's life difficult...


first you read monthly current affairs, then make notes out of it, then you attend curreant affairs classes and make notes, then you read mains 365 and make notes, then you attend test series and make notes.And if you have PSIR then you also join the yearly crash course and make even more notes. Where is the time to study, to learn to articulate? At the end of 4-5 years you only have a pile of notes to show.
I doubt if these youngsters who are getting in in their first attempts do this much of note making and value addition. Their approach must be very simple , the approach being followed by others is not sustainable. And maybe upsc too is moving away from this resource intense approach which is reflected in low weightage given to current affairs in recent years in both pre and mains. Due to the abundance of coachings, test series, current affairs expert, it seems as if UPSC has become a game of how much you can splurge. Should people who dont have money to join a 20k test series for GS, 20k for optional, 20k for current affairs, plus rent every year simply give up on upsc?
Share your thoughts.


I remember doing all this for 2016 attempt to improve GS marks! I subscribed to Byjus current affairs, vision GS test series in MN center, vision model answers and elaborate current affairs, Chokkalingam current affairs plus spending 12K on rent in Mukherjee Nagar:-(, 3K for electricity bill plus other expenses (total 25 to 30K) but the improvement was not big enough! But there are other ends as well, i remember reading in forum after mains 2020 result, there are people who wrote 120 tests and still coudn't make it, bad luck or we still miss something when it comes to approach of a topper! more thoughts and insights are welcome... 

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@Capedcrusader1 then how so many toppers this year are from classroom coaching program of vision and vajiram. Rank 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, etc. 


Your forgetting the ratio of failures πŸ˜•. These toppers are negligible percentage when compared to failures of these institutes 

according to this Quora page there were 12000 students 2017 accommodated in 24 batches in Vajiram!

https://www.quora.com/How-many-students-are-studying-in-Vajiram-and-Ravi-Institute-for-a-single-batch 

I was one of them πŸ˜‚πŸ€£

sleeplessnights89,WayneRooney
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@Capedcrusader1 then how so many toppers this year are from classroom coaching program of vision and vajiram. Rank 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, etc. 


Your forgetting the ratio of failures πŸ˜•. These toppers are negligible percentage when compared to failures of these institutes 

according to this Quora page there were 12000 students 2017 accommodated in 24 batches in Vajiram!

https://www.quora.com/How-many-students-are-studying-in-Vajiram-and-Ravi-Institute-for-a-single-batch 

I was one of them πŸ˜‚πŸ€£

arey wah kohliwag:-

kohliwag,
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@toooldtodieyoung my point was that all the material that you read by kicking aside the newspapers and ncerts is a sureshot way to flunk pre and i include myself in this too. UPSC is a great leveller. They obviously know that there is a section of people who have access to resources are having an easy time retrieving it by paying money. But what about a candidate who lives in a far flung area and cant buy all these materials. all he has is a newspaper and ncert. so his first priority will be get these right. 
and the worst part is this: Coachings my friend dont learn, they dont adapt when UPSC hides in plain sight and kills coachings on blank range. They (coachings) just dont get it do they. Coachings are simply too slow to realize that how they are supposed to change their material. wahi ghisa pita factual tareeke se info dena. why is that post 2016, UPSC has changed pre paper drastically while we are reading the same material? why do we have to research on our own to clear pre now? Because what we are reading for pre is redundant. mains is a different ball game.

I cant draw a comparision between IIT JEE and UPSC. ye dono me koi comparision nai h. na preparation me na guidance me

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@balwintejas share link again.. This link has been expired


SaurabhP,
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@sleeplessnights89 One of the faculty of Vajiram use to say only 10% of students will benefit from these coaching classes rest are treated as part of the economy.


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@Capedcrusader1 Give your insights on mains also. Somehow mains 365 seem to be in sync with paper esp last year


plmokn25688524,
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@Capedcrusader1 then how so many toppers this year are from classroom coaching program of vision and vajiram. Rank 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, etc. 


Your forgetting the ratio of failures πŸ˜•. These toppers are negligible percentage when compared to failures of these institutes 

according to this Quora page there were 12000 students 2017 accommodated in 24 batches in Vajiram!

https://www.quora.com/How-many-students-are-studying-in-Vajiram-and-Ravi-Institute-for-a-single-batch 

Even I was one of them πŸ˜†

plmokn25688524,sleeplessnights89
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@EiChan bro i just said mains is a different ball game. you dont read rules of procedure of lok sabha in mains do you? but questions of the same do arise in prelims. mains is a bird eye view and you need coachings here. But pre nikle tab na!


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