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[Results] Prelims 2020 Over - Gearing for 2021

Because of the corona virus issue? If it does not happen then worst affected will be people whose interview is stuck, around 600-700 such people I think are yet to appear for their interview.


@neyawn sir and others, what is your take?

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Regarding the Trade Deficit question:

It seems highly likely that this paper is the same as the one set for May 31st, which would have been finalised by April end. The answers/references would have been finalised at that point as well.

At that time there was a CAD and a Merchandise export deficit, which gels with what coaching keys are showing.

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@vikhcu2073 Thanks for guiding yaar. Best of luck.


Emerald24,
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@Biradar  In constitution of india voting criteria is not mentioned, this statement is incorrect. Voting as a criteria is mentioned in ROPA 1951.


The option seems incorrect even by the age fact. That 18 years thing. 



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Regarding the Trade Deficit question:

It seems highly likely that this paper is the same as the one set for May 31st, which would have been finalised by April end. The answers/references would have been finalised at that point as well.

At that time there was a CAD and a Merchandise export deficit, which gels with what coaching keys are showing.

No there wasn't a CAD DEFICIT in last 2 quarters.https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.economictimes.com/news/economy/finance/indias-current-account-surplus-rises-to-19-8-billion-in-june-quarter/amp_articleshow/78403248.cms

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I have been silently following this forum for quite sometime now. Being one of those people who started off with a lot of energy and enthusiasm, yet been failing even on the last stage, in various examinations- I have seen them all. I am not passing cse prelims 2020 though. I had a belief that I will make things different this time, but that didn't work out. And so here I am. 

This is just a little reminder for those people who are in various years of struggle, that 'this too, shall pass'. I know it sounds quite hollow, but for your inner sanity, and for the beautiful thing called 'hope', you need to remember this. Things don't work out sometimes despite the best of our plans. What it makes us do is alienate ourselves from trusting our capabilities. We might be not-so-competent, but we aren't incompetent. Having said that, accept that being hopeful doesn't always lead to success, but not being hopeful and not trying again will definitely eat you up from within. In our 20s and 30s, we are a bunch of young people, and these string of failures makes us feel dead inside. I don't see any light at the end of my tunnel. But it may be possible that my tunnel is not straight, and I haven't even travelled a significant distance to have the end in sight. But if I sit for too long to brood over what I lost, I may get decomposed in the dark. 

As I write this, I am blank inside. 5 years of rejection has left me feeling more pathetic about even trying to think anything. While getting educated, this was never in my plan. But it is what it is, and I am thankful to@Neyawn and several other good souls here to keep alive the truth that to win a battle, you have to sustain yourself in the battlefield. Prelims was bad for a lot of people. But don't let it ruin you. Prepare for it again. Its a blessing in disguise sometimes to fail in the first stage than to get rejected after the final stage. Prepare for mains as if you would have attempted mains this year. Its tough to keep the spark alive. But you all deserve to be happy. Take a break. Cry your hearts out. Stay away from blaming anyone. And in a few days, do get back to sharpening your axes. 

It is just an exam. 

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@Howzthejosh ignore. Apart from this one, they have marked 2-3 more questions wrong from Quant section. 


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127/99 = 1.282828283

14/11 = 1.27272723

in Shankar they given 127/99

shankar has got a lot wrong in CSAT


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@sarat_bose What's the answer for that 2/3 fraction qs bro? Which one of the following will have minimum change in its value if 5 is added to both numberator and the denominator of the fractions 2/3, 3/4, 4/5 and 5/6?


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@kobemamba shuru ho jao bhai. Clear ho jayega tumahara.


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@Tyler Durden Thanks yaar it will be my first mains. Any golden advice?


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@sarat_bose  Really stupid key it is. 


oopsie,
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@sarat_bose What's the answer for that 2/3 fraction qs bro? 


D. General rule is that as we proceed further like 6/7, 7/8 and all, the successive difference keeps coming down

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@Tenacious yaar career launcher ki theek hai kya?


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@sarat_bose What's the answer for that 2/3 fraction qs bro? Which one of the following will have minimum change in its value if 5 is added to both numberator and the denominator of the fractions 2/3, 3/4, 4/5 and 5/6?


I used calculator 

got 5/6

Sevpuri,
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@sarat_bose Exactly ! Shankar says 2/3 for that. How can they get maths ones wrong. Anyways thanks.


oopsie,
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Shankar ki CSAT key mein bahut mistakes .....please if anyone can confirm the answer of recurring decimal wala , numerator denominator mein 5 add karne wale ka and R is greater than P as well as Q wale ka.Mujhe teeno galat lag rahe h Shankar ke 
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Shankar IAS has actually given Interlinking of Rivers as a practical solution to the issue highlighted in one of the questions. I had actually eliminated that option the moment I saw that. 
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@sarat_bose Exactly ! Shankar says 2/3 for that. How can they get maths ones wrong. Anyways thanks.


Don't use shankar key. Seems they got mistakes in both passages and math 

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@sarat_bose i thought I was only scoring low 😂


Aurora,oopsie
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