UPDATE: 10 Feb 2014: Central Government approved TWO Extra attempts. Click me for more Old information below: Prologue Personnel Ministry on Anti-UPSC protests Government did receive petitions Minister’s reply in Rajya Sabha= We’ll change nothing No new Committee about [...]
Minimum Passing marks in English & Language papers Principle used to fix minimum passing marks in Mains? Candidates selected for Mains (Categorywise) Attendance in Mains-2013 Tentative Result dates for Mains-2013 Re-evaluation of Mains answersheet? Absence in one of the [...]
Nothing much important here. Just for public record. Matter #1: Income and Expenditure of UPSC Matter #2: RTI applications & fines by CIC Matter #1: Income and Expenditure of UPSC For the financial year 2012-13 (i.e. 1 April to [...]
(Article not important as such) but posting for the archive record, because government site arbitrarily remove files from their servers. Earlier UPSC had released the list of marks for 2012’s Toppers. Click me. But that list did not contain [...]
Update: question papers have been uploaded on the official Page of UPSC http://www.upsc.gov.in/questionpaper/2013.htm#PageTop Prologue RTI question UPSC replies Prologue @to all those inquiring about engineering/literature/ any other question papers of Mains-2013 which are not available online, Long story cut [...]
This is courtesy of Mr.Alok Singh who appeared in this year’s IFoS mains exam and filed an RTI. Some interesting facts: (perhaps you already know) From CSAT 2013 (common prelims), 1061 candidates had qualified for the IFoS (Forest services) [...]
APFC/EPFO 2012 cutoffs LIC AAO 2013 cutoffs CAPF-2012 related RTI RBI Grade “B” 2013 Cutoffs APFC/EPFO 2012 cutoffs Mr.Mukul Goyal had filled RTI via the newly launched portal http://rtionline.gov.in/, and received this information: Cutoffs for Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner [...]
This year UPSC had combined the prelims for Civil Service Exam (CSE) and Indian Forest service exam (IFoS). But their mains were kept separate. IFoS has a combined question paper cum answer sheet (like UPSC plans to do for [...]
Those who had appeared in Assistant provident Fund commissioner Exam (APFC/EPFO) exam of UPSC: recall the Jim Yong Kim question. All four answer choices were set wrong. Finally UPSC admits (indirectly) in R.T.I that it was a wrong MCQ. [...]
Prologue UPSC’s petition in Delhi HC UPSC's grounds for seeking Relief against CIC’s order UPSC’s Prayer to Delhi HC Prologue Those who have been in this competition business long enough, know that whenever you file RTI to UPSC seeking [...]
Today Manikandan Soundararajan will throw some light on how medical tests are actually conducted for IAS/IPS exam and share his UPSC interview experience with us. By the way, medical-standards are given in this PDF file click me Medical Checkup [...]
Let's recap the previous episodes: I had asked for CSAT 2012 answerkeys via R.T.I, but UPSC did not give it saying “examination process is not over.” (June 2012). I then appealed to CIC, and CIC ordered UPSC to give [...]
Those of you, who’ve been preparing for last one or two years know the R.T.I stonewallingTM move of UPSC = whenever you ask UPSC to give official answerkey for IAS prelims or CDS or NDA or APFC or any [...]