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I guess many people completed GS4. The quality was of course compromised in the process.
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PubAd review? 


Did anyone else feel like they were writing generic answers for some question in P2?

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What happens if you don't strike off pages for unattempted questions in optional ?
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Same question how are people spending their time right now?


Any movie/series suggestions are also welcome.

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I left one 15m in GS2 and one 10m in Optional, rest completed all with some average and some good answers.


Not sure how to interpret the performance this being my first mains.  

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Post mains TG group ?
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Was everyone able to decipher the donor agencies question of GS2?
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What are some non fiction books to read till the mains results are out? That may be helpful for preparation in general.
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Donor agencies wala question kya tha exactly in GS2?
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I found GS2 also on the tougher side specially the 15 markers. Infact the first question itself felt tough.
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PubAd ka level kaisa laga iss baar?
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On a lighter note, the Constitution itself talks about the promotion of Hindi language :P 
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Did anyone write the essay on the smile topic? If yes then what all did you cover?
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smile wala solution mahilaon ke lie uchit hai, meri smile se toh problem bhad jati h ulta. creepy ho jata h maamla

😂😂😂

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Insider group 

Kon sa?kaptaan jack sparrow  wala?

Ha yar 

26 nov result 

Bhai, group ka Telegram link do. Please.

link nai h

Delete nhi krra tha woh group kuchh din pehle ?

delete nai inactivate. abhi kal hi aya wapas

link?

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Is there any place to find DAF 2 of toppers than searching for them indivicdually?
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Is there any place to find DAF 2 of toppers than searching for them indivicdually?

Telegram channels are there 

I found channels for interview transcripts but not for DAFs. Could you please share the link of any of them?

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People who have written mains earlier how was your experience wrt the expected vs real marks given in mains? Like did the expected mains performance translate into marks?
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@Darvey78 don't even ask


Its that random? :/

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There is a section in DAF about Prizes , Medals and Scholarships. Experienced people please guide if the events from school are also included here or just the university level ones? 
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The link isn't working. Can someone share imp points?
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Any Mechanical Engineering Graduate for UPSC Interview CSE preparation?? Any telegram channel related to that?? Please inform or tell me how to get hold that subject which i studied many years back??

Same question

Need to brush up on Mech Engg. Kuch yaad nahi hai. 

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Result on 29/30 november.(source kaptaan)

Merko to esa dhak dhak horela hai - Indian Meme Templates

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Anyone from M.P. who is preparing for the interview?
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Once the results are out in a week, let's make a group for interview preparation of those from M.P. 
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Kya aa rahi hai approx date result ki?
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Kaptaan said Saturday the results might be announced. 

Bahut anxiety ho rahi hai. Kya kia jaaye?

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26 and now 30th. :cry:

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Insiders khud roz info badal rahe hain
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Saturday result ke chakkar mein I postponed a trip like an idiot because of anxiety. 
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Arun Kumar saxena new date of declaration: first week of dec ( paltikhor)

Vs

Kaptaan 29/ 30 november.

Satta time.

My bet on saxena 😔 

Atish Mathur sir bhi game mein aa gaye with 2nd or 5th December 


Meanwhile aspirants 


Meme Templates From Akshay Kumar Movies - Indian Meme Templates

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Kaptaan 29/30 Dec

Saxena Sir - First week of december

Atish Mathur sir - 2nd/5th December


Hum kya karein :pensive:

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@Darvey78 saxena ne toh  technical issue battya hai. Yeh technical issue ho kya sakta hai?

(Internet nahi aa raha)

Kisi ne kaha tha saara kaam ho gaya par Chairman sir chutti pe hain hence the delay.

Source - Telegram 

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@Darvey78 saxena ne toh  technical issue battya hai. Yeh technical issue ho kya sakta hai?

(Internet nahi aa raha)

Kisi ne kaha tha saara kaam ho gaya par Chairman sir chutti pe hain hence the delay.

Source - Telegram 

Telegram galat source hi hai. Har koi insider hai and kuch na kuch keh hi raha hai.

Haan wo toh hai hi. No one knows kab result ayega.

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#Saare_insiders_farzi_hai.

Dono hi satta lagane layak nahin hai. Paise barbaad na karo inke upar 😂 

But seriously, I have so many grudges against these so called insiders, faltu ka mahol banate hai and then we aspirants just keep waiting and bracing ourselves for the result. I know so many people who thought results saturday ko aayegen and pura mentally prepare hoke bethe the for the results. They just make those waiting for the results more anxious and waste their precious time and fu*k their mental health. 

Baaki only UPSC knows when results would be out, others are just speculating.



Ye wala post hua tha telegram pe

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I guess the best insider is the noticeboard outside UPSC Bhavan. They start cleaning it before releasing results. That's when you know for sure that the result will be announced within few hours/minutes 

Can some aspirant hack a nearby CCTV and stream it live ? :P

Jo aisa kar paaya wo banega asli insider 

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Next week bola UPSC walon ne as per a recording on Kaptaan's page.
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Result Kab ayega :pensive:

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Jab upsc ko call karke hi date pata karna hai toh insiders kya bas mahaul banane ke liye hain?


26 Nov, 29 /30, Dec 1st week.....This week/Next week....:unamused:



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there was a message by a so-called insider on the group. i would sit all day on the group because the info would get deleted in seconds. in that particular message, the info was about checking of gs papers and optional trends. if they cant predict dates, how can they predict optional and gs marks trends and checking leniency

?

So true. 

And this fake info does nothing but increase anxiety and play with our mental health. 

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Ek aur afwah telegram se 



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Ek aur afwah telegram se 



LooooooooooL! Theek hai agar average scores yeh hai toh bhi, yeh scaling se pehle pata chalta, aur uske hisaab se hi scaling ki Jati hai na ? 

Aur yeh UPSC ko alag se History vaalon pe hi pyaar aaya, pub ad aur geography wale bhi toh udar hi hai. 

@Kenshein ek aur milgaya, hold me accountable bolne se credibility badh Jati hai 

Wahi toh, pubad aur geography ke saath ye anyay kyun! (I'm from pubad )

Ye banda waise bhi hai kaun? Roz naye insiders aise aate rahenge toh kaise chalega. #NoMoreFarziInsiders

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Mainsveer to Dayal Sahab 


Bilkul hi time barbaad kiya aapne apna bhi hamara bhi - Indian Meme  Templates

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Tk17said

Ek aur afwah telegram se 



@Kenshein 

Hope this positive news abt History optional is true 

I think Hamara paper koi sadist khusad Buddha check karta hoga.

Pata nahi ki Kushi manau ki Gham.




Bhai history ki marks badhne ki news toh hai

Pubad ki toh wo bhi nahi despite same average as per that info. Kya karein hum? 

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Kaptaan's last second update before the result :


All prepared and all set.

May be out anytime in a couple of days. 

Will give just one last All the best update and then 💥 💥

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@Darvey78 where did kaptaan give this update? I didn’t see it on his tg channel


Its there

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Ab direct 2 ka mahaul ban raha hai 

Par dil chahta hai ki aaj aa jaye 

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Ab direct 2 ka mahaul ban raha hai 

Par dil chahta hai ki aaj aa jaye 

mera ssc cgl tier 1 ho jane do phir bulwa dena result

Kab hai?


Waise all the best


Chalo bhagwan kare ba 5 ko aaye sidhe! Mahadev ke din.

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Seems Vikas Dhayal wasn't wrong afterall? There is a possibility of that being correct.


Ab koi PubAd ka bhi bata do yaar.

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Kaptaan's info :


1. Re-scaling of optionals happening for the 3rd time. Change in evaluation board hence the chaos and change in information everyday. Some optionals like Geo will be scaled tomorrow.

2. Re-scaling not good for Maths, PSIR, Medical Science and Anthro people

3. Date of results not yet confirmed.


P.S. Just posting what was posted on the TG group.



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SMRsaid

@Darvey78  where was this posted, there is nothing posted in Team KJS channel


He posted on the countdown group then deleted the messages 


Date bhi 6th kardi ab

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Kaptaan's info :


1. Re-scaling of optionals happening for the 3rd time. Change in evaluation board hence the chaos and change in information everyday. Some optionals like Geo will be scaled tomorrow.

2. Re-scaling not good for Maths, PSIR, Medical Science and Anthro people

3. Date of results not yet confirmed.


P.S. Just posting what was posted on the TG group.



Insiders ki baat sunn ke aur anxious lagta hai. Maine toh telegram hi uninstall kar diya. xD

Good decision 😂

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@Darvey78  bhai tumse request kar raha hu esi baatein mat share kiya karo, tumhare karan log pareshan hote he yaha pr esi depressing news sun ke. logo ko khush rehne do chahe unke fool's paradise me hi sahi, tum bhi khush raho, harsh realities to results me dekh hi lenge. results ke liye to insiders ke contacts nahi chahiye honge na?

baki sab thik he tumhari freedom of expression and all that bs, lekin insaniyat ki khatir request he apko esi ulti sidhi cheezen (bhale hi sahi ho) yaha share karke khud ko aur doosro ko kyu pareshan karna ,assuming that you aren't sadist, otherwise to kya hi kar skte he. aage tumhari marzi bhai

Nahi hoon sadist yaar , khud ki anxiety se band baji hui hai 

Won't share all this from now on.

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So less seats again from 2023?
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I had postponed my trip because of the 'confirmed' news about results on 26th. 

I completed my trip and returned yesterday yet the results are still not out :P

P.S. Jab bhi aaye result , bas acha aaye 😊

P.P.S. All the best sabko

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Out pubad
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5th attempt , 1st mains 


Out with pubad 


Exhausted. Depressed. No personal and professional growth in the last 6 years. No idea what to do. Life seems to have ended.

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Finally got an interview call after writing 3 consecutive mains. But itna pata hai ki this game is far far from being over.

All the best to everyone who got through. :))




Bhai what changes did you make this time that you qualified mains?

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I still have one attempt to go but I don't have the energy and patience to bank on only UPSC since life has been static for 5 years. 


What could be the possible backup options? People with similar experiences please help.

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Another rant and regret that I wanted to just share. 

Grab a plan B whenever you get one.

This year in June I got into XLRI's Delhi campus MBA program despite a 4 year gap.It was really unexpected. But at the same time I had cleared prelims for the first time and in order to prepare for mains I dropped that option :') 

And today failing at mains I feel probably I should have taken it up. 

I don't know if that decision was right or wrong , don't know if that was meant to be or not , don't know whether it was a stupid decision or not but somewhere the mains failure made me regret that decision. So choose wisely folks :)

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Kisi exam ka registration chalu hai kya abhi?
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In with anthropology. 5th attempt, 3rd mains, 1st interview. Finally mains clear hua. 

Please share how you were able to clear mains finally. Would be really helpful. 

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In with anthropology. 5th attempt, 3rd mains, 1st interview. Finally mains clear hua. 

Please share how you were able to clear mains finally. Would be really helpful. 

I focused heavily on value addition this year. In all the papers. My major focus was to support my points with facts, figures, data. I had this preconceived notion previously that facts etc were only required to be memorized till prelims stage. This time, just rattafied all data, examples, committees etc and used them liberally throughout the paper. 


Thankyou. If possible could you please share some of your final mains mocks the way you wrote the exam.

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hucksaid

Kisi exam ka registration chalu hai kya abhi?

AFCAT

Age limit :')

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@Darvey78 plan B  looks good at first .. but balancing CSE with Plan B is rather a difficult task in itself . All that glitters are not gold :)) 

probably , after failing one might feel little comfort in  having a job in hand , but while preparing curses the same …  grass always look greener on the other side … 


Have  faith in yourself ! 


I know but this failure has left me with zero scope for faith and confidence at the moment. Samajh nahi aa raha kya karoon. I dont have that urge only to get out of bed in the morning, feels so hollow.

Sorry for the rant but this place is the only one where I guess we can freely vent out our feelings.

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You know the failure has hurt you deeply when even pizza and waffles don't make you happy :')
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  • Funny how this is apt for our current sitution.


Next year essay mein kya pata yehi aa jaye 


P.S. Indeed apt for us 

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Kya kar rahe hain sab aajkal ?
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Anyone who has cracked RBI Grade B here ?
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Please Post the Notification link or Details !

https://www.careerpower.in/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/13084911/SIDBI-Grade-A-Recruitment-Notification.pdf

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If someone desparately looking for job quickly and is good in quant and reasoning, notification for SIDBI Grade A officer is out.

Thanks man!

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DMsaid

Anyone who has cracked RBI Grade B here ?

reached till interview

What is needed in addition to the regular upsc prep, quant and reasoning? How much time one needs to prepare the same?

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@Darvey78 cleared this year.


Did you have a background in economics or finance ? 

Also please share your strategy for the exam :)

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People who couldn't qualify mains , we can discuss about the issues faced in gs papers if anyone wishes to here. 
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@Joeyisthebest Thankyou so much :)

And all the best for your tenure at RBI :)


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Choose a different platform
Forum is crashing too much nowadays.

I am ready too. 

@ArchAngel96 @Darvey78 

A private telegram group with only those who attempted Mains 2022

Thanks for the suggestion!

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Deleted

I have not made any telegram group. I was only suggesting others who were talking about having a different platform. If anyone can take the initiative we can create such a group.

Chalo I will create. Telegram ID bata do jinko join karna hai. 

Thanks for taking the initiative. 


Add me too please. Telegram ID - @Darvey_78

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Anyone giving sidbi ?
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Unable to get over the failure of mains. Somehow it keeps coming back to me and its hard to concentrate on what to do now. The focus always goes towards the years lost specially when there were better choices left behind. I don't know how to get over this vicious cycle of negativity and unproductivity. The moment I get on with something, the anxiety kicks in again. It feels like I dont have the energy to do anything now. 


People who have been through this, can someone suggest on how to move ahead? 

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D7said

Unable to get over the failure of mains. Somehow it keeps coming back to me and its hard to concentrate on what to do now. The focus always goes towards the years lost specially when there were better choices left behind. I don't know how to get over this vicious cycle of negativity and unproductivity. The moment I get on with something, the anxiety kicks in again. It feels like I dont have the energy to do anything now. 


People who have been through this, can someone suggest on how to move ahead? 

Been there. Failed Mains. Failed after Interview.

If we start accepting the blame of failure, it will help us focus on what's coming next. I never blamed anyone for my failures but myself. So, when I failed, I had questions in my mind. Questions like- What do I do differently for my next attempt?

When we expect too much and are not able to locate the locus of failure, we remain anxious and confused. The only way to move on is when we acknowledge the fault within us and start working towards identifying and ultimately, eliminating it.

This way of thinking has kept me sane and clear-headed.

Thankyou for this clear approach.


I did think about the shortcomings in my efforts for the exam. The thing is I just have one attempt left. I am not able to decide clearly if I should go for it full time once again (27 years right now) or go for other Grade A exams or try to balance both due to the associated uncertainty. Trying to get the clarity of how and where to move ahead. 

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Anyone giving MPPSC? Pls dm.
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D7said

Another rant and regret that I wanted to just share. 

Grab a plan B whenever you get one.

This year in June I got into XLRI's Delhi campus MBA program despite a 4 year gap.It was really unexpected. But at the same time I had cleared prelims for the first time and in order to prepare for mains I dropped that option :') 

And today failing at mains I feel probably I should have taken it up. 

I don't know if that decision was right or wrong , don't know if that was meant to be or not , don't know whether it was a stupid decision or not but somewhere the mains failure made me regret that decision. So choose wisely folks :)

Hi@D7 
I gave XAT this year. If you are free and open I want to talk to you for a bit about it. 
Thanks for considering. No worries if you can't do it. 

Hey 

Yes, we can talk. Please DM :) 

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