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Prelim-2018's IR/Diplomacy section was more comfortable for senior players, because mostly it was contemporary affairs. There were no cliched current affairs IR questions like “What was the theme / venue of 2017’s xyz high profile summit?” Nothing from India’s own defense development or joint military exercise. Read More...

Although nowadays geography occupies barely single digit space in the Prelims GS Paper-1, But its significance at the main stage cannot be overlooked- it occupies nearly 50% of GSM1 each year since last five years. Read More...

Ever since the merger of forest service prelims with Indian civil services prelims, UPSC had been devoting about 1/5th of the Prelim paper-1 to environment, biodiversity, agriculture related topics. However, both in 2017 and 2018 Prelims there is continous drop in the Read More...

In UPSC Prelims-2018, 13 MCQs came from Polity and out of them 6 Easy, 5 Medium and 2 tough. While the number of medium / tough questions is almost unchanged than 2017, but Easy MCQs from Polity have declined considerably & consequent vacuum filled by questions from History, Science and International Relations Read More...

Some Arm-Chair Generals looked at the Prelims-2018 paper superficially and are passing hasty & cynical judgements that “ye sab RANDOM-GK Hai, So for Prelims-2019, you should read LucentGK and StatePCS GK type books.” Well, it’s not true atleast for Science. Read More...