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CSE 2022: Plan/ Strategy/ Daily Routine

This is an everything thread for all stuff 2022. You can post your daily goals, end-of-the-day updates, weekly targets or any weird thing you use to measure your progress. You can put into words & post the soul-sucking sadness that is threatening to devour you & your productivity. You can write what made your day & let others experience the happiness too, at least vicariously. This is a thread to pick each other up. This is a thread to keep each other accountable. This is a no-judgement zone.

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“This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.”

— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood


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Finally 😀🍫🥂🍾
Learner1913,
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Again this year UPSC prooved it's unpredictability...
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 UPSC CSE 2022 Prelims ExaminationDetailed Answer Key 
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How was the paper? Anyone? Was it difficult than previous year?
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@Saint_ Tough as usual. Modern history RIP, Ancient and mediaeval history - Lucent is the new king many history question came from it. Tricks unfortunately didn't worked.


Saint_1,
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Getting 67 in csat seems difficult this time...or is it just me jo csat ni krr paya
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@Jurgen_klopp which key? Can’t seem to find it any key on the internet 


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GS - Felt tougher than last year (which is the new benchmark).

For once my strategy has left me far away from the likely cut-off so i don't have to waste a month: attempted only 73 and mostly getting between 58 and 60 right as of now.

Taking the day off tomorrow to catch up on work and then get started!


1. Static, factual polity; felt straightforward even if answers were written in a lengthy manner.

2. Tough Econ  (and I just submitted my Econ mphil!) - you had to really stop and think on the questions. So even if you got the questions eventually right, it would eat into time.


3. IR very current heavy, and the option choices didn't help at all. I had to sit and visualise the map + draw on World history to answer the turkey/Afghanistan questions, didn't even bother with Chad wala.

4. Environment a mixed bag - good if you memorised wetlands and stuff from 2020, bad if you skimmed or were hoping on answer options to save you. Pollution stuff was straightforward though!

5. Modern history RIP. 

6. Ancient/mediaeval/current was just gross, and now Lucent etc will come back sigh. I have a feeling they'll scrap the Arthashastra question because of the content of it, but who knows.


7. Sci tech a saving grace, mostly applied stuff. But again - have to keep a calm mind while answering.


Csat:


Quant was tougher - lengthy if you don't know the tricks and then easy to make a small mistake.


Reasoning questions were easier but presentation of the answers was trickier, and also interspersed between tougher quant questions so it becomes tricky.

Verbal again - questions were easier in the sense that more answers were right in the passages. But the passages were lengthy, and it isn't always straightforward (especially when giving in the exam hall).

Attempting more than 50 is not easy for people who don't have a good mix of quant and verbal ability or haven't practiced.




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Not just you. It was tougher under exam conditions. Without knowing the math tricks you can still get to the answers, but at the cost of time. That has an impact.

tryingtryingtrying,H_Bhardwaj
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Went through ias baba & chahal academy answer keys, i am getting 98 - 102 (58-60 right).
Can someone tell if these answer keys are somewhat authentic ?
Any senior player, anyone.


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@Sankoza just my intuition...no key


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jack_Sparrow,Jurgen_kloppand7 otherslike this
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@Jurgen_klopp itna bhi difficult nhi tha jahan tak mujhe lagta hai.
Kafi janta milegi joh 100 + hi score kr rhi hogi.
Abhi answer key nhi milai pr shayad mere bhi 100 wali range mein hi ho.
Did attempt around 45 questions (mostly maths)


Saint_1,Jurgen_klopp
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@Xiodyn8261 This is true, for these csat papers you should have gone through RC, Maths & mostly all the concepts. Then only is can be a little easy.
Last day padhkr end sem dene jaisa nhi rha hai ye.


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Way tougher than last year.. both the papers for sure. Completely hanging on the likely cut off. Let’s see
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@Jurgen_klopp Bro! I think CSAT will kill me twice..once in 2020..then this year. 


Vesuvius,
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Toilet pe baithe baithe PBS Eons ke ek video pe stumble ho gaya... 


Question aa gaya Bhai uspe...


">Ants Domesticated Fungus

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@H_Bhardwaj 2020 Mera bhi gaya tha CSAT... In Prelims I scored 106 that year.


Subtle_Art,
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Expected cutoff? 

Above 100 ? 

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@Shikhar_Mogha all the keys I've checked so far have clear mistakes (Insights, Toppers, iasbaba). I would say wait for Shankar, Forum and revised Toppers key to have a better handle, then cross-check (For your own sanity) with Mrunal once he posts, and if you are really concerned google yourself to check all the answers. 
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