[ Official ] How was the Prelims 2021 paper?
How was the paper guys ?
assistant,
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.@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...
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...
Writing 120 tests or 12 tests does not matter. In any paper grip over basics matters the most. In any paper 35 to 40 are known questions. How easily someone sails through prelims depends upon number of correct attempts from these questions. In rest questions role of luck becomes significant.
@Dead Man absolutely. its the aspirants who have to take a call. I also feel that truckload of info is not really needed inUPSC
Right. Strong in basics to score that 30-40 questions and capacity to get the remaining 25-30 questions right through tukke.
Antineutrino ,keephustling
Writing 120 tests or 12 tests does not matter. In any paper grip over basics matters the most. In any paper 35 to 40 are known questions. How easily someone sails through prelims depends upon number of correct attempts from these questions. In rest questions role of luck becomes significant.
nice point for prelims perspective bhai, but this discussion is for mains test series (that 120 tests bhi for mains gs), share your opinion for mains bhai:-
2 qsn galat ho gye mere bhi gole ke chakkar me :(@Capedcrusader1Tabhi answer galat ho jate hai... itni mehanat krne ke bad bhi... Kai bar to esa hota hai ki... omr me circle fill krne ke bad yad aata hai... are iska answer to d tha... lekin confusion me galat wala fill kar dia (this year happened with ICC Q) and last year happned with FDI Q...
@kohliwag even then you would end up around 95-100 in this kind of paper .. assuming u have an above average tukka rate .... Surely that is not a sure shot to pass given in the uncertainty in so many question.
the uncertainty is mostly due to aspirants piling on their own confusions in forums like this. there are only 2 questions that have possibility of genuine confusion this year - cooker and devi lal. rest is just mass hysteria
what does review revision mean. If it's true, does it mean it was more ambiguous than 2020 and that they have to deliberate with their might and mind.
sjerngal,
monisha27,
plmokn25688524,@kohliwag even then you would end up around 95-100 in this kind of paper .. assuming u have an above average tukka rate .... Surely that is not a sure shot to pass given in the uncertainty in so many question.
the uncertainty is mostly due to aspirants piling on their own confusions in forums like this. there are only 2 questions that have possibility of genuine confusion this year - cooker and devi lal. rest is just mass hysteria
Don't completely agree. There definitely are more than 2 questions which seem to have some confusion b/n 2 options and the fact that there are some faculty supporting an alternate answer gives some credence to the students marking those options in the exam (although they might be in the minority). Jab teacher log khud argue kar rhe hain toh bhala student exam pressure mein confidently kaise mark karega. I am pretty sure there are many getting above the so called predicted cut-off have been lucky to get 5-6 questions right when they were confused b/n options. On any other day they could so easily have marked the wrong answer in this kind of paper. This i consider as uncertainty which is almost impossible to overlook in the process.
For federalism Q, I think answer should be B. Union legislature has elected representatives from constituent units. Federalism is essentially about distribution of powers. Union legislature has Rajya Sabha where states are represented. This gives them a say in policy matters, protects their rights and maintains the federal structure. Independence of judiciary is not unique to federations.
Federalism is definitely the devolution of power between the union and state but without having an independent judiciary true spirit of federalism won’t be ensured as union or states can encroach the power of state and union respectively.
shashi_rane786589,Musafir25
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