[Full Length Mock] UPSC Mains GS2: Set#2- US Senate vs Rajya Sabha, Modi’s De-hyphenated Policy vs Nehru’s NAM
Here is a mock question paper for GS2 for the upcoming UPSC Civil Services IAS/IPS Mains exam.Time: 3 hours, Max. Marks: 250 Read More...
[Full Length Mock] UPSC Mains GS4: Set#3- Ethics case study on Sridevi, Shah Faisal & Burhan Wani
As the Collector of a militancy-ridden Pulwama district in Kashmir, how will you counter this 'Burhan Wani' effect? (250 words x 20 marks) UPSC Mains GS4 Read More...
[T25] UPSC Mock Round#22: Current Affairs July-Aug-2018: Glyphosate Penalty, Oxytocin Ban, NCBC, NRI’s Proxy Voting, n-SIPI Index, Ease of Living
Q. Find correct statements about the Oxytocin drug on which Government of India has proposed ban on from September 1, 2018. Read More...
[T25] UPSC Mock Round#20: Current Affairs from June-July 2018: Hima Das, Cauvery Authority, Bru Refugees & More
Q. In 2018-July, Home ministry officials were trying to work out peace and rehabilitation deal for the Bru (Reang) refugees. Who are these refugees? Read More...
[Webinar] Art of Answer Writing for UPSC Mains GSM2/IR by Pavneet Singh (Vajiram Faculty for International Relation)
McGraw Hill education in partnership with Mrunal.org is pleased to announce a webinar on Mains answer writing for UPSC civil services IAS/IPS exam. TOPIC: The art of Answer writing for UPSC Mains GS Paper2: International relations (IR) SPEAKER: Pavneet Singh, Faculty (International Relations) at Vajiram and Ravi, Delhi Read More...
[Answerkey] UPSC Prelim-2018: Economy & Yearbook- Sanskritized Schemes gone for DI-Diwaangi, Obscure Org. Prem continued
Unique feature of Prelim-2018’s Economy MCQs is that quite a few statements required “DATA INTERPRETATION (D.I.)” of random Government reports- whether we imported more edible oil than we produced, whether 60%+ Kerala agro households receive max. income from non-agro source? Read More...
[Answerkey] UPSC Prelim-2018: History, Art & Culture is SADISTICALLY Tough & Unjustifiable through “SAPNA-Theory”
UPSC examiner has firmly made up his mind: “I’ll ask so tough question from”Buddhism-Jainism“, that no ordinary aspirant can solve”. Prelims 2016-2017-2018 all are same in this regard. 2018: He asked about Sthanakvasi (Jain) and Maitrya (Future Buddha) Read More...
[Answerkey] UPSC Prelim-2018: International Relations (IR) / Diplomacy: Senior player friendly section?
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...
[Answerkey] UPSC Prelim-2018: Geography- Single digit drought continues for third consecutive year
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...
[Answerkey] UPSC Prelim-2018: Environment & Agriculture is Tough & Cynicism Inspiring, But don’t dry-up before Lake Baikal
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...
[Answerkey] UPSC Prelim-2018: Polity Answerkey- Meaning of Liberty & futility of Guessmaster-giri
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...
[Answerkey] UPSC Prelim-2018: Science MCQs solved with Explanation & Guessmaster-giri applicable in 4 out of 13 MCQs
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...
[T25] UPSC Mock Round#19: Comprehension Passages, Reasoning & Maths for Prelims Paper-2 (CSAT)
Some people make strategy that "I'll solve all passages at once" in the UPSC Prelims Aptitude Paper-II. But if you look @Prelim-2017, most of the passages were followed by 1 Para = 2-3 MCQs nahi but 1 Para = 1 MCQ only. And they too were complex 'assumption / inference' type MCQs Read More...