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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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TH14said

What's the deal with the minister question?

I'm not going back to see where's the doubt. D hoga uska answer. What's the doubt

Dear I have also marked D. But as per English version A appears more convincing. A person does not mean all the person. Like u r eligible to vote in ur state, u can be made a minister in ur state, nothing prevents the governor unless u r barred by other provision like conviction etc.

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Negansaid

This year, Shankar is gonna be so wrong. .. Cutoff will be 

Gen =92-95

EWS= 89-92

OBC= 90-93

SC= 78-82

ST= 73-78

actually it will be higher than shankar's prediction.  they have seriously underestimated how high people are scoring this year

There are always some people, who score way higher .. I am an ST candidate, serving in State services , giving prelims since 2012, cleared prelims 5 times, appeared in PT 3 times. You must have been undergrad, or in high school by then. Trust me when I say, the cutoff won’t go higher this year than what i quoted earlier

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@Rakhmabai I have marked A. 


I attempted 39 questions from CL and shankar getting 26 correct in both. To qualify I need 4 more passages to get correct. Kuch question CL ke alag Hain shankar se. 

I relied on right 2 privacy(d) ,asset allocation(a), fdi volatile(a), pds(d),dam(c), gas based economy 2nd part (a)

I need 4 in my favor in these questions 

Asset allocation is A.....refer to@Aurang_mirasudar  articles ...

Outercore,
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@Rakhmabai I have marked A. 


I attempted 39 questions from CL and shankar getting 26 correct in both. To qualify I need 4 more passages to get correct. Kuch question CL ke alag Hain shankar se. 

I relied on right 2 privacy(d) ,asset allocation(a), fdi volatile(a), pds(d),dam(c), gas based economy 2nd part (a)

I need 4 in my favor in these questions 

Asset allocation is A.....refer to@Aurang_mirasudar  articles ...

Right to privacy is A 

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@Negan What is ur take on cutoff?Can it go down to 96?


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@Rakhmabai I have marked A. 


I attempted 39 questions from CL and shankar getting 26 correct in both. To qualify I need 4 more passages to get correct. Kuch question CL ke alag Hain shankar se. 

I relied on right 2 privacy(d) ,asset allocation(a), fdi volatile(a), pds(d),dam(c), gas based economy 2nd part (a)

I need 4 in my favor in these questions 

Asset allocation is A.....refer to@Aurang_mirasudar  articles ...

Right to privacy is A 

Refer to links he provided.. I also checked today very useful...verbatim uthaya hai bhai

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@Negan What is ur take on cutoff?Can it go down to 96?


Please Refer to my earlier comments.

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@Biradar  question mentions  According to the constitution so one has to be specific here. In Art 164(4) it is mentioned that a minister who is not a member of state legislature for 6 consecutive months shall cease to be a minister after expiration of that period. Here voter criteria is not mentioned, voter as a qualification to be member of legislature is mentioned in ROPA 1951. Answer to this question is D in all probability.


As per ur explanation it's A. If there is no voter criteria than of course it's A.

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@Equalizer  Bhai Article me ye kahan likha hai ki person who is eligible to vote can be made minister for 6 months.


TH14,Equalizer
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@Equalizer I think if it mentioned -Any eligible voter can _____ then it would be D for sure but Since it wrote as general statement,it could also be A.


Equalizer,
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@Rakhmabai I have marked A. 


I attempted 39 questions from CL and shankar getting 26 correct in both. To qualify I need 4 more passages to get correct. Kuch question CL ke alag Hain shankar se. 

I relied on right 2 privacy(d) ,asset allocation(a), fdi volatile(a), pds(d),dam(c), gas based economy 2nd part (a)

I need 4 in my favor in these questions 

Asset allocation is A.....refer to@Aurang_mirasudar  articles ...

Right to privacy is A 

Refer to links he provided.. I also checked today very useful...verbatim uthaya hai bhai

Bhai Pura 1000 words k articles me or only 50 words k passages me answer change nahi hote Kya. I mean in newspapers articles context we can understand by reading 1000 words but it us very difficult to have same context in 50 word passage. 

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Shankar has ended all speculation....

Aaj se m back to war mode for mains


Signing off...take care and best of luck friends

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Negansaid

Negansaid

This year, Shankar is gonna be so wrong. .. Cutoff will be 

Gen =92-95

EWS= 89-92

OBC= 90-93

SC= 78-82

ST= 73-78

actually it will be higher than shankar's prediction.  they have seriously underestimated how high people are scoring this year

There are always some people, who score way higher .. I am an ST candidate, serving in State services , giving prelims since 2012, cleared prelims 5 times, appeared in PT 3 times. You must have been undergrad, or in high school by then. Trust me when I say, the cutoff won’t go higher this year than what i quoted earlier

ignoring your condescending tone, why dont you check out some of the polls? there are not just "some" people scoring high, its way too many.  This year's options were set up in such a manner that anyone taking so called obvious guesses (typical prelims tricks) is scoring high.

For proof, u can check out polls. Even polls of reputed institutes like insights say almost 4-5k  people above 105 in a sample of 20k, so you can do the math.

Now an experienced candidate like you will argue that polls are filled with fake scores, or insights is not a reputed institute, so go ahead believe what you want.

Also, coaching institutes 1. have an achor bias to previous year cutoffs, they are particularly scared to go higher.  they may go lower when papeer is more difficult, but they tend to not go higher as seen in 2016 (compared to 2015). 2. lower cutoffs= more test series sold.

obviously above points are disputed. But this is the most objective way to look at it

TH14,
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@Rakhmabai Please don't rely on CL answer keys. Even I got panicky when I checked. I cross-checked their previous Csat answerkeys (2018 and 2019) with the UPSC answer key. They mostly get 5-6 RCs wrong. 

For, Asset allocation- have marked B( though now I believe that the answer is A)
FDI-B
Dam: D 

Didn't attempt the question on gas based economy.


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TH14said

TH14said

What's the deal with the minister question?

I'm not going back to see where's the doubt. D hoga uska answer. What's the doubt

People are saying the wording is of a generalist nature. Last time upsc did one with rules followed are same as loksabha , it went with general option while coachings did a lot of hair splitting on obscure rules. So some coaching centres are just saying that it was based on art 164(4). 


Wait. Now I understand. 

That's like a super broad interpretation of art 164(4).

On that note, a 10 year old can be made a minister for less than 6 months, and constitutionally it'll be valid?

Bhai legislature ka criteria hi fulfil nahi karana to kisi ko bhi bana do. 

Again, I marked D so whom are ye preaching, monsieur 😂😆🤣

TH14,
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Negansaid

Folks, Shankar's Cut-off is out? Please share any screenshot or link. 


Revise least me kya change kya hai in gs1

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TH14said

What's the deal with the minister question?

I'm not going back to see where's the doubt. D hoga uska answer. What's the doubt

Dear I have also marked D. But as per English version A appears more convincing. A person does not mean all the person. Like u r eligible to vote in ur state, u can be made a minister in ur state, nothing prevents the governor unless u r barred by other provision like conviction etc.

Read this two statement 

1 constitution does nt prohibit eligible voter frm becoming minister for 6month 

2 according to constitution a eligible voter can become minister .


Equalizer,
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@Rakhmabai I have marked A. 


I attempted 39 questions from CL and shankar getting 26 correct in both. To qualify I need 4 more passages to get correct. Kuch question CL ke alag Hain shankar se. 

I relied on right 2 privacy(d) ,asset allocation(a), fdi volatile(a), pds(d),dam(c), gas based economy 2nd part (a)

I need 4 in my favor in these questions 

Asset allocation is A.....refer to@Aurang_mirasudar  articles ...

Right to privacy is A 

Refer to links he provided.. I also checked today very useful...verbatim uthaya hai bhai

Bhai Pura 1000 words k articles me or only 50 words k passages me answer change nahi hote Kya. I mean in newspapers articles context we can understand by reading 1000 words but it us very difficult to have same context in 50 word passage. 

Bhai u can cross check with last year papers and Google the articles


Blueberry,
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@jagteshwar_sohal25614 Shankar sits with the UPSC chairman and decides  what the cut off should be every year 


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Tokyosaid

@Rakhmabai I have marked A. 


I attempted 39 questions from CL and shankar getting 26 correct in both. To qualify I need 4 more passages to get correct. Kuch question CL ke alag Hain shankar se. 

I relied on right 2 privacy(d) ,asset allocation(a), fdi volatile(a), pds(d),dam(c), gas based economy 2nd part (a)

I need 4 in my favor in these questions 

Asset allocation is A.....refer to@Aurang_mirasudar  articles ...

Right to privacy is A 

Refer to links he provided.. I also checked today very useful...verbatim uthaya hai bhai

Bhai Pura 1000 words k articles me or only 50 words k passages me answer change nahi hote Kya. I mean in newspapers articles context we can understand by reading 1000 words but it us very difficult to have same context in 50 word passage. 

Bhai u can cross check with last year papers and Google the articles


Generally the line below the image is assumption ...which is given as option is considered the answer..verbatim hai....I also had same doubt 2 days back...then I saw 2019 wala paper and my answers ...u can check and c 

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